Banking Job Trends in the South East

Banking
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 296 219
Rank change year-on-year +65 -77 -57
Permanent jobs citing Banking 54 40 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.60% 0.31% 1.07%
As % of the General category 0.89% 0.58% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 20 22 46
10th Percentile £29,875 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,125 £55,000 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +15.27% +0.10%
75th Percentile £133,125 £93,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £165,000 £97,375 £92,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £92,500 £75,669
% change year-on-year -8.11% +22.24% +0.89%

All General Skills
South East

Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,067 6,857 5,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 67.64% 53.15% 61.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,778 3,259 3,389
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £39,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,242 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.18% -2.40% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Banking in the South East

Banking
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Banking

Banking
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Banking in the South East over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Banking in the South East

Banking
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. 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
Thames Valley +20 35 £68,500 -22.82% 68
Buckinghamshire +1 20 £65,000 -10.34% 8
Berkshire -3 9 £160,000 +72.97% 58
Kent +14 8 £87,500 -27.08% 1
Oxfordshire - 6 £57,500 - 2
Hampshire +61 4 £95,000 +111.11% 8
Middlesex - 4 - - 2
Surrey +21 1 £30,000 -40.00% 8
East Sussex +13 1 - -
West Sussex +1 1 £85,000 +9.68% 3
Banking
England

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (14.81%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 13 (24.07%) Azure
2 11 (20.37%) AWS
3 9 (16.67%) GCP
4 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.70%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.70%) SaaS
5 1 (1.85%) Cloudflare
5 1 (1.85%) Smartsheet
5 1 (1.85%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.37%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.70%) Power BI
3 1 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.85%) MySQL
3 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (20.37%) JIRA
2 8 (14.81%) Bitbucket
2 8 (14.81%) Cucumber
2 8 (14.81%) GitLab
2 8 (14.81%) Maven
2 8 (14.81%) Selenium
2 8 (14.81%) SonarQube
2 8 (14.81%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.85%) Git
3 1 (1.85%) NUnit
3 1 (1.85%) Postman
3 1 (1.85%) TeamCity
General
1 39 (72.22%) Finance
2 27 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 15 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (24.07%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (16.67%) Legal
6 5 (9.26%) Marketing
6 5 (9.26%) Telecoms
7 4 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (7.41%) Law
8 3 (5.56%) Financial Institution
8 3 (5.56%) Retail
9 2 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (3.70%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.85%) Agriculture
10 1 (1.85%) Back Office
10 1 (1.85%) Billing
10 1 (1.85%) Games
10 1 (1.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (20.37%) Business Development Manager
1 11 (20.37%) Business Manager
1 11 (20.37%) Development Manager
2 8 (14.81%) Software Engineer
3 5 (9.26%) Analyst
4 4 (7.41%) Senior
4 4 (7.41%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (5.56%) Architect
5 3 (5.56%) Banking Analyst
5 3 (5.56%) Senior Manager
5 3 (5.56%) Service Manager
6 2 (3.70%) Account Manager
6 2 (3.70%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Head of Engineering
6 2 (3.70%) Sales Account Manager
6 2 (3.70%) Sales Manager
6 2 (3.70%) Salesforce Architect
6 2 (3.70%) Service Development Manager
7 1 (1.85%) Head of Delivery
7 1 (1.85%) Smart Metering Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.67%) CSS
1 9 (16.67%) HTML
1 9 (16.67%) Kafka
1 9 (16.67%) React
1 9 (16.67%) Spring
1 9 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 8 (14.81%) Hibernate
2 8 (14.81%) JPA
2 8 (14.81%) Redux
3 2 (3.70%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.85%) .NET
4 1 (1.85%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (1.85%) CSS3
4 1 (1.85%) GraalVM
4 1 (1.85%) HTML5
4 1 (1.85%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.85%) Quarkus
4 1 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 8 (14.81%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.70%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.85%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.85%) Online Games
5 1 (1.85%) Smart Meter
5 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (35.19%) Agile
2 15 (27.78%) Business Development
3 11 (20.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (20.37%) DevOps
3 11 (20.37%) Fintech
4 10 (18.52%) CI/CD
4 10 (18.52%) Microservices
4 10 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (18.52%) Test Automation
5 9 (16.67%) Coaching
5 9 (16.67%) Front End Development
5 9 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (16.67%) SDLC
5 9 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 9 (16.67%) Time Management
6 8 (14.81%) Artificial Intelligence
6 8 (14.81%) Decision-Making
6 8 (14.81%) Performance Optimisation
6 8 (14.81%) Project Management
6 8 (14.81%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (24.07%) SQL
2 10 (18.52%) Java
3 9 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.70%) Apex Code
4 2 (3.70%) SOQL
5 1 (1.85%) C#
5 1 (1.85%) Python
5 1 (1.85%) R
5 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (12.96%) Degree
2 4 (7.41%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.85%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (1.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.52%) QA
2 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.85%) GDPR
2 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.85%) PMO
2 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (14.81%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Firmware
2 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (14.81%) Solace
2 5 (9.26%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.41%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.85%) Canon
4 1 (1.85%) Google
4 1 (1.85%) Planview
4 1 (1.85%) Rollbar
4 1 (1.85%) SAP
4 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.85%) Xero