Banking Jobs in Scotland

Banking
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Banking over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 6 24
Rank change year-on-year -31 +18 +42
Permanent jobs citing Banking 680 814 519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.13% 17.18% 9.09%
As % of the General category 14.04% 22.86% 14.82%
Number of salaries quoted 191 450 286
10th Percentile £46,306 £42,874 £36,527
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,219 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £69,447 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% +20.13% +0.54%
75th Percentile £91,934 £84,056 £71,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £97,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £73,999
% change year-on-year +6.67% +1.35% -1.33%

All General Skills
Scotland

Banking is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 4,843 3,561 3,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 72.13% 75.17% 61.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,558 1,705 1,917
10th Percentile £27,500 £33,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £59,526 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% +13.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,548 £87,419 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Banking in Scotland

Banking
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Banking in Scotland.

Salary trend for Banking in Scotland

Banking
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Banking in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Banking in Scotland

Banking
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +18 481 £75,000 +13.64% 9
Edinburgh -9 198 £70,576 +1.62% 35
Dundee - 1 £70,576 - 1
Banking
UK

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 34 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.09%) GemFire
3 19 (2.79%) Confluence
4 17 (2.50%) SharePoint
5 14 (2.06%) Cloud Foundry
6 9 (1.32%) SAS
7 7 (1.03%) Apache
7 7 (1.03%) Captiva
7 7 (1.03%) FileNet
7 7 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (1.03%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.74%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) EViews
4 1 (0.15%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 281 (41.32%) AWS
2 80 (11.76%) GCP
3 76 (11.18%) Azure
4 24 (3.53%) Google Play
5 21 (3.09%) BlazeMeter
5 21 (3.09%) GitHub
6 19 (2.79%) Power Platform
7 15 (2.21%) SaaS
8 10 (1.47%) OpenShift
9 9 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (1.03%) PaaS
11 6 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (0.88%) Yammer
12 4 (0.59%) IaaS
12 4 (0.59%) IBM Cloud
13 3 (0.44%) Entra ID
13 3 (0.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (0.44%) Vertex AI
14 2 (0.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 2 (0.29%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.65%) DSL
2 5 (0.74%) Internet
3 2 (0.29%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.29%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.29%) VLAN
3 2 (0.29%) VPN
3 2 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (7.79%) Big Data
2 51 (7.50%) MongoDB
3 44 (6.47%) NoSQL
4 36 (5.29%) Apache Cassandra
5 23 (3.38%) SQL Server
6 22 (3.24%) Data Lake
7 21 (3.09%) CockroachDB
7 21 (3.09%) Elasticsearch
7 21 (3.09%) Hazelcast
7 21 (3.09%) Relational Database
8 19 (2.79%) DB2
8 19 (2.79%) MySQL
8 19 (2.79%) Power BI
9 18 (2.65%) Tableau
10 13 (1.91%) Apache Hive
11 10 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.03%) Redis
13 6 (0.88%) Oracle Database
14 4 (0.59%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 95 (13.97%) JUnit
2 78 (11.47%) Cypress.io
3 75 (11.03%) Jasmine
3 75 (11.03%) Karma Test Runner
4 65 (9.56%) Selenium
5 60 (8.82%) Protractor
5 60 (8.82%) WebDriver
6 48 (7.06%) Git
6 48 (7.06%) JIRA
7 39 (5.74%) Maven
8 38 (5.59%) Jenkins
9 24 (3.53%) Android Studio
10 21 (3.09%) Jaeger
11 17 (2.50%) Cucumber
12 15 (2.21%) Visual Studio Code
13 13 (1.91%) Oracle Forms
14 11 (1.62%) IBM UrbanCode
15 8 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
16 7 (1.03%) Moq
17 4 (0.59%) Artifactory
General
1 628 (92.35%) Finance
2 453 (66.62%) Law
3 451 (66.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 363 (53.38%) Investment Banking
5 93 (13.68%) Financial Institution
6 91 (13.38%) Marketing
6 91 (13.38%) Private Banking
7 70 (10.29%) Social Skills
8 55 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
9 38 (5.59%) Presentation Skills
10 35 (5.15%) Legal
11 27 (3.97%) Retail Banking
12 22 (3.24%) Prime Brokerage
13 20 (2.94%) Games
14 19 (2.79%) Publishing
15 11 (1.62%) Retail
16 10 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
17 2 (0.29%) Front Office
18 1 (0.15%) Manufacturing
18 1 (0.15%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 406 (59.71%) Software Engineer
2 230 (33.82%) Java Engineer
2 230 (33.82%) Java Software Engineer
3 152 (22.35%) Lead
4 133 (19.56%) Lead Software Engineer
5 90 (13.24%) Lead Java Engineer
6 87 (12.79%) Senior
7 73 (10.74%) Full Stack Engineer
8 70 (10.29%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 55 (8.09%) Architect
10 50 (7.35%) Python Engineer
10 50 (7.35%) Python Software Engineer
11 46 (6.76%) Developer
12 41 (6.03%) AWS Engineer
12 41 (6.03%) AWS Software Engineer
13 39 (5.74%) Cloud Engineer
14 37 (5.44%) Analyst
15 36 (5.29%) Cloud Software Engineer
16 32 (4.71%) Engineering Manager
16 32 (4.71%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (36.47%) Spring
2 175 (25.74%) Spring Boot
3 173 (25.44%) React
4 146 (21.47%) AngularJS
5 122 (17.94%) Kafka
6 119 (17.50%) HTML
7 118 (17.35%) CSS
8 82 (12.06%) jQuery
9 77 (11.32%) Node.js
10 74 (10.88%) JSON
11 68 (10.00%) RESTful
12 62 (9.12%) Hibernate
12 62 (9.12%) Jest
13 60 (8.82%) J2EE
13 60 (8.82%) JMS
13 60 (8.82%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 53 (7.79%) REST
15 34 (5.00%) JPA
16 33 (4.85%) .NET
17 27 (3.97%) Android Jetpack
Miscellaneous
1 227 (33.38%) Cloud Native
2 120 (17.65%) Algorithms
3 93 (13.68%) Public Cloud
4 79 (11.62%) Data Structures
5 37 (5.44%) Private Cloud
6 33 (4.85%) Product Ownership
7 29 (4.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 21 (3.09%) Replication
9 19 (2.79%) Management Information System
10 16 (2.35%) Distributed Applications
11 14 (2.06%) Blockchain
12 13 (1.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 10 (1.47%) Mainframe
13 10 (1.47%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.47%) Robotics
14 9 (1.32%) Credit Risk
15 8 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
15 8 (1.18%) Reference Data
16 7 (1.03%) DataPower
16 7 (1.03%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.26%) Android
1 29 (4.26%) Linux
2 12 (1.76%) Unix
2 12 (1.76%) Windows
3 6 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.44%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.29%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.15%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 583 (85.74%) Agile
2 467 (68.68%) Software Engineering
3 381 (56.03%) SDLC
4 364 (53.53%) CI/CD
5 352 (51.76%) Operational Stability
6 298 (43.82%) Artificial Intelligence
6 298 (43.82%) Machine Learning
7 247 (36.32%) Community of Practice
8 173 (25.44%) Asset Management
9 168 (24.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 136 (20.00%) Visualisation
11 126 (18.53%) Coaching
12 118 (17.35%) Architectural Design
12 118 (17.35%) Information Architecture
13 115 (16.91%) Decision-Making
14 110 (16.18%) Microservices
15 100 (14.71%) TDD
16 97 (14.26%) Full Stack Development
17 93 (13.68%) Investment Management
18 91 (13.38%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 373 (54.85%) Java
2 165 (24.26%) JavaScript
3 161 (23.68%) SQL
4 121 (17.79%) Python
5 105 (15.44%) TypeScript
6 45 (6.62%) C#
7 41 (6.03%) Groovy
8 37 (5.44%) T-SQL
9 29 (4.26%) Kotlin
10 19 (2.79%) Scala
11 18 (2.65%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.03%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.03%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.74%) R
14 3 (0.44%) VBA
15 2 (0.29%) Bash
16 1 (0.15%) C++
16 1 (0.15%) COBOL
16 1 (0.15%) JCL
16 1 (0.15%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 42 (6.18%) Degree
2 5 (0.74%) Master's Degree
2 5 (0.74%) OCP
2 5 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
3 4 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (0.29%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.29%) CCSP
4 2 (0.29%) CISA
4 2 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (0.29%) CISSP
4 2 (0.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (7.94%) Accessibility
2 44 (6.47%) SLA
3 21 (3.09%) GDPR
4 15 (2.21%) WAI
5 9 (1.32%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.18%) SEPA
7 6 (0.88%) IFRS
7 6 (0.88%) IFRS 9
8 5 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.44%) CRD IV
11 2 (0.29%) COBIT
11 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.29%) NIST
12 1 (0.15%) Basel III
12 1 (0.15%) FINRA
12 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.15%) MiFID
12 1 (0.15%) QA
System Software
1 48 (7.06%) Docker
2 2 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.15%) KVM
3 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 72 (10.59%) Kubernetes
2 53 (7.79%) Terraform
3 51 (7.50%) Grafana
4 26 (3.82%) Prometheus
5 22 (3.24%) Kibana
6 21 (3.09%) HAProxy
6 21 (3.09%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (3.09%) Zipkin
7 14 (2.06%) Ansible
8 7 (1.03%) Graphite
8 7 (1.03%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.88%) Istio
10 2 (0.29%) CA Endevor
10 2 (0.29%) Rancher
10 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.15%) Nagios
11 1 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 62 (9.12%) Google
1 62 (9.12%) Oracle
2 53 (7.79%) Splunk
3 43 (6.32%) Dynatrace
4 29 (4.26%) ServiceNow
5 23 (3.38%) IBM
6 21 (3.09%) Databricks
7 20 (2.94%) Microsoft
8 18 (2.65%) Alteryx
8 18 (2.65%) Cognos
8 18 (2.65%) Sybase
9 7 (1.03%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.03%) Kofax
9 7 (1.03%) Pega
9 7 (1.03%) SAP
10 5 (0.74%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.44%) Citrix
11 3 (0.44%) ForgeRock
12 2 (0.29%) Polycom
13 1 (0.15%) New Relic