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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 6 20
Rank change year-on-year -30 +14 +44
Permanent jobs citing Banking 666 753 533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.96% 16.26% 9.22%
As % of the General category 13.75% 21.63% 15.02%
Number of salaries quoted 171 419 296
10th Percentile £46,306 £43,453 £36,527
25th Percentile £60,822 £56,219 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,669 £69,447 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +8.96% +16.67% +3.52%
75th Percentile £92,217 £84,056 £71,250
90th Percentile £121,023 £97,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £83,577 £75,000 £73,449
% change year-on-year +11.44% +2.11% -2.07%

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 4,844 3,482 3,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 72.44% 75.17% 61.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,542 1,677 1,946
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,650 £31,133
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,606
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £57,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +5.50% +9.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,630 £85,000 £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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +13 488 £75,000 +12.78% 12
Edinburgh -12 177 £75,669 +8.96% 20
Dundee - 1 £70,576 -
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 (5.11%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.15%) GemFire
3 15 (2.25%) Cloud Foundry
4 14 (2.10%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.95%) Confluence
6 9 (1.35%) SAS
7 7 (1.05%) Apache
7 7 (1.05%) Captiva
7 7 (1.05%) FileNet
7 7 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (1.05%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.75%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) EViews
4 1 (0.15%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 285 (42.79%) AWS
2 80 (12.01%) GCP
3 75 (11.26%) Azure
4 25 (3.75%) Google Play
5 21 (3.15%) BlazeMeter
6 20 (3.00%) GitHub
7 16 (2.40%) Power Platform
8 12 (1.80%) SaaS
9 10 (1.50%) OpenShift
10 7 (1.05%) PaaS
11 6 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (0.60%) IaaS
12 4 (0.60%) IBM Cloud
13 3 (0.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (0.45%) Datadog
13 3 (0.45%) Entra ID
13 3 (0.45%) Serverless
13 3 (0.45%) Vertex AI
13 3 (0.45%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.70%) DSL
2 5 (0.75%) Internet
3 2 (0.30%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (0.30%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.30%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.30%) VLAN
3 2 (0.30%) VPN
3 2 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (7.36%) MongoDB
2 48 (7.21%) Big Data
3 44 (6.61%) NoSQL
4 36 (5.41%) Apache Cassandra
5 23 (3.45%) SQL Server
6 22 (3.30%) Data Lake
6 22 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
7 21 (3.15%) CockroachDB
7 21 (3.15%) Hazelcast
7 21 (3.15%) Relational Database
8 19 (2.85%) DB2
9 18 (2.70%) Tableau
10 16 (2.40%) MySQL
10 16 (2.40%) Power BI
11 13 (1.95%) Apache Hive
12 10 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (1.05%) Redis
14 6 (0.90%) Oracle Database
15 2 (0.30%) BigQuery
15 2 (0.30%) DTS
Development Applications
1 95 (14.26%) JUnit
2 77 (11.56%) Cypress.io
3 75 (11.26%) Jasmine
3 75 (11.26%) Karma Test Runner
4 64 (9.61%) Selenium
5 60 (9.01%) Protractor
5 60 (9.01%) WebDriver
6 44 (6.61%) Git
7 41 (6.16%) JIRA
8 37 (5.56%) Maven
9 32 (4.80%) Jenkins
10 25 (3.75%) Android Studio
11 21 (3.15%) Jaeger
12 15 (2.25%) Cucumber
12 15 (2.25%) Visual Studio Code
13 13 (1.95%) Oracle Forms
14 10 (1.50%) IBM UrbanCode
15 7 (1.05%) Moq
16 5 (0.75%) webpack
17 4 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 611 (91.74%) Finance
2 459 (68.92%) Law
3 457 (68.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 368 (55.26%) Investment Banking
5 93 (13.96%) Financial Institution
6 92 (13.81%) Private Banking
7 91 (13.66%) Marketing
8 67 (10.06%) Social Skills
9 47 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
10 38 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
11 31 (4.65%) Legal
12 27 (4.05%) Retail Banking
13 22 (3.30%) Prime Brokerage
14 20 (3.00%) Games
15 19 (2.85%) Publishing
16 10 (1.50%) Retail
17 8 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
18 2 (0.30%) Front Office
19 1 (0.15%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 404 (60.66%) Software Engineer
2 233 (34.98%) Java Engineer
2 233 (34.98%) Java Software Engineer
3 152 (22.82%) Lead
4 133 (19.97%) Lead Software Engineer
5 92 (13.81%) Lead Java Engineer
6 86 (12.91%) Senior
7 71 (10.66%) Full Stack Engineer
8 70 (10.51%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 50 (7.51%) Python Engineer
9 50 (7.51%) Python Software Engineer
10 49 (7.36%) Architect
11 45 (6.76%) Developer
12 42 (6.31%) AWS Engineer
12 42 (6.31%) AWS Software Engineer
13 39 (5.86%) Cloud Engineer
14 36 (5.41%) Analyst
14 36 (5.41%) Cloud Software Engineer
15 33 (4.95%) Engineering Manager
15 33 (4.95%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (36.64%) Spring
2 167 (25.08%) React
3 166 (24.92%) Spring Boot
4 140 (21.02%) AngularJS
5 118 (17.72%) Kafka
6 116 (17.42%) CSS
6 116 (17.42%) HTML
7 82 (12.31%) jQuery
8 72 (10.81%) JSON
9 69 (10.36%) Node.js
10 64 (9.61%) RESTful
11 61 (9.16%) Jest
12 60 (9.01%) Hibernate
12 60 (9.01%) J2EE
12 60 (9.01%) JMS
12 60 (9.01%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 51 (7.66%) REST
14 34 (5.11%) JPA
15 31 (4.65%) .NET
16 28 (4.20%) Android Jetpack
Miscellaneous
1 227 (34.08%) Cloud Native
2 122 (18.32%) Algorithms
3 91 (13.66%) Public Cloud
4 79 (11.86%) Data Structures
5 38 (5.71%) Private Cloud
6 31 (4.65%) Product Ownership
7 29 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 21 (3.15%) Replication
9 19 (2.85%) Management Information System
10 16 (2.40%) Distributed Applications
11 10 (1.50%) Mainframe
11 10 (1.50%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 9 (1.35%) Blockchain
12 9 (1.35%) Credit Risk
13 8 (1.20%) Reference Data
14 7 (1.05%) Credit Derivative
14 7 (1.05%) Derivative
14 7 (1.05%) Fixed Income
14 7 (1.05%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 30 (4.50%) Android
1 30 (4.50%) Linux
2 12 (1.80%) Unix
2 12 (1.80%) Windows
3 6 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.45%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.30%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.15%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 562 (84.38%) Agile
2 466 (69.97%) Software Engineering
3 376 (56.46%) SDLC
4 367 (55.11%) CI/CD
5 355 (53.30%) Operational Stability
6 298 (44.74%) Machine Learning
7 296 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence
8 250 (37.54%) Community of Practice
9 174 (26.13%) Asset Management
10 163 (24.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 136 (20.42%) Visualisation
12 125 (18.77%) Coaching
13 118 (17.72%) Architectural Design
13 118 (17.72%) Information Architecture
14 112 (16.82%) Decision-Making
15 103 (15.47%) TDD
16 99 (14.86%) Microservices
17 94 (14.11%) Investment Management
18 93 (13.96%) Full Stack Development
19 92 (13.81%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 364 (54.65%) Java
2 161 (24.17%) SQL
3 160 (24.02%) JavaScript
4 123 (18.47%) Python
5 104 (15.62%) TypeScript
6 43 (6.46%) C#
7 41 (6.16%) Groovy
8 37 (5.56%) T-SQL
9 30 (4.50%) Kotlin
10 19 (2.85%) Scala
11 18 (2.70%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.05%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.05%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.75%) R
14 2 (0.30%) Bash
15 1 (0.15%) C++
15 1 (0.15%) COBOL
15 1 (0.15%) JCL
15 1 (0.15%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 42 (6.31%) Degree
2 5 (0.75%) Master's Degree
3 4 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (0.45%) OCP
4 3 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (0.30%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.30%) CCSP
5 2 (0.30%) CISA
5 2 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (0.30%) CISSP
5 2 (0.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (8.11%) Accessibility
2 44 (6.61%) SLA
3 23 (3.45%) GDPR
4 15 (2.25%) WAI
5 8 (1.20%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.90%) IFRS
6 6 (0.90%) IFRS 9
7 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.60%) SEPA
8 3 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.45%) CRD IV
9 2 (0.30%) COBIT
9 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.30%) NIST
10 1 (0.15%) Basel III
10 1 (0.15%) FINRA
10 1 (0.15%) MiFID
10 1 (0.15%) QA
System Software
1 39 (5.86%) Docker
2 2 (0.30%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (0.30%) KVM
2 2 (0.30%) Xen
Systems Management
1 61 (9.16%) Kubernetes
2 52 (7.81%) Grafana
3 50 (7.51%) Terraform
4 26 (3.90%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.15%) HAProxy
5 21 (3.15%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (3.15%) Kibana
5 21 (3.15%) Zipkin
6 14 (2.10%) Ansible
7 7 (1.05%) Graphite
7 7 (1.05%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.90%) Istio
9 2 (0.30%) CA Endevor
9 2 (0.30%) Rancher
9 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (9.31%) Google
1 62 (9.31%) Oracle
2 53 (7.96%) Splunk
3 42 (6.31%) Dynatrace
4 26 (3.90%) ServiceNow
5 23 (3.45%) IBM
6 21 (3.15%) Databricks
7 18 (2.70%) Alteryx
7 18 (2.70%) Cognos
7 18 (2.70%) Sybase
8 17 (2.55%) Microsoft
9 7 (1.05%) Kofax
9 7 (1.05%) Pega
9 7 (1.05%) SAP
10 5 (0.75%) BiZZdesign
11 4 (0.60%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.45%) Citrix
12 3 (0.45%) ForgeRock
13 2 (0.30%) Polycom
14 1 (0.15%) Red Hat