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 22 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 266 193
Rank change year-on-year +41 -73 -23
Permanent jobs citing Banking 59 53 97
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.66% 0.46% 1.20%
As % of the General category 0.97% 0.86% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 24 22 54
10th Percentile £39,375 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £64,375 £51,563 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £76,250 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year +1.64% +17.19% +8.44%
75th Percentile £124,688 £93,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £160,500 £97,375 £91,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £75,669
% change year-on-year -5.56% +18.94% +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 6,058 6,158 4,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 67.54% 53.64% 61.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,918 2,758 3,125
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £31,750 £41,024 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,818 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.38% +2.51% -4.55%
75th Percentile £63,938 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Banking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Banking job vacancy trend 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 22 October 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 22 October 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 +14 31 £67,000 -21.91% 117
Buckinghamshire +5 20 £65,000 -24.24% 6
Middlesex -13 11 - -
Kent +14 8 £87,500 -27.08%
Berkshire -2 7 £160,000 +72.97% 107
Oxfordshire +25 4 £57,500 -8.00% 4
Hampshire +40 3 £95,000 +91.92% 3
Surrey +13 3 £77,500 +19.23% 6
West Sussex -1 2 £75,000 +1.69%
East Sussex +9 1 - -
Banking
England

Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (16.95%) Confluence
2 2 (3.39%) SAS
3 1 (1.69%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.73%) Azure
2 11 (18.64%) AWS
3 9 (15.25%) GCP
4 4 (6.78%) Adobe Analytics
4 4 (6.78%) Figma
5 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.39%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.39%) SaaS
7 1 (1.69%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.69%) GitHub
7 1 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) SDH
1 2 (3.39%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.69%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.64%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.39%) Power BI
3 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.69%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.69%) MySQL
3 1 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (22.03%) JIRA
2 9 (15.25%) Selenium
3 8 (13.56%) Bitbucket
3 8 (13.56%) Cucumber
3 8 (13.56%) GitLab
3 8 (13.56%) Maven
3 8 (13.56%) SonarQube
3 8 (13.56%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (3.39%) Postman
5 1 (1.69%) Appium
5 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.69%) Git
5 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.69%) NUnit
5 1 (1.69%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.69%) TeamCity
General
1 43 (72.88%) Finance
2 23 (38.98%) Social Skills
3 20 (33.90%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (15.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (15.25%) Legal
5 8 (13.56%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (10.17%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (10.17%) Telecoms
7 5 (8.47%) Retail
8 4 (6.78%) Marketing
9 3 (5.08%) Financial Institution
9 3 (5.08%) Law
10 2 (3.39%) Games
10 2 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.69%) Advertising
11 1 (1.69%) Agriculture
11 1 (1.69%) Back Office
11 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.69%) International Banking
11 1 (1.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (13.56%) Software Engineer
2 6 (10.17%) Analyst
2 6 (10.17%) Senior
3 5 (8.47%) Business Development Manager
3 5 (8.47%) Business Manager
3 5 (8.47%) Development Manager
3 5 (8.47%) Strategy Manager
4 4 (6.78%) Senior Manager
5 3 (5.08%) .NET Developer
5 3 (5.08%) Architect
5 3 (5.08%) Developer
5 3 (5.08%) Senior Strategy Manager
5 3 (5.08%) Service Manager
5 3 (5.08%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (3.39%) Banking Analyst
6 2 (3.39%) C# Developer
6 2 (3.39%) Head of Engineering
6 2 (3.39%) Sales Manager
6 2 (3.39%) Technical Leader
6 2 (3.39%) Telecoms Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.95%) React
2 9 (15.25%) CSS
2 9 (15.25%) HTML
2 9 (15.25%) Kafka
2 9 (15.25%) Spring
2 9 (15.25%) Spring Boot
3 8 (13.56%) Hibernate
3 8 (13.56%) JPA
3 8 (13.56%) Redux
4 4 (6.78%) .NET
5 3 (5.08%) Blazor
5 3 (5.08%) REST
5 3 (5.08%) WinForms
5 3 (5.08%) WPF
6 2 (3.39%) .NET Framework
6 2 (3.39%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.39%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (3.39%) Vue
7 1 (1.69%) SAML
7 1 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.25%) Product Ownership
2 8 (13.56%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.08%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.39%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.39%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.39%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.69%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.69%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.69%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.69%) Online Games
5 1 (1.69%) Smart Meter
5 1 (1.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (44.07%) Agile
2 18 (30.51%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (25.42%) Decision-Making
3 15 (25.42%) DevOps
4 14 (23.73%) CI/CD
4 14 (23.73%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (20.34%) Microservices
5 12 (20.34%) Software Engineering
5 12 (20.34%) Test Automation
6 11 (18.64%) AI
7 10 (16.95%) Analytics
7 10 (16.95%) Digital Banking
7 10 (16.95%) Fintech
7 10 (16.95%) Front End Development
7 10 (16.95%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (15.25%) Clean Code
8 9 (15.25%) Containerisation
8 9 (15.25%) Strategic Thinking
8 9 (15.25%) TDD
9 8 (13.56%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (25.42%) SQL
2 11 (18.64%) Java
3 10 (16.95%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.78%) C#
5 3 (5.08%) Python
6 2 (3.39%) Apex Code
6 2 (3.39%) SOQL
6 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.69%) R
7 1 (1.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (18.64%) Degree
2 4 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (6.78%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.69%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.64%) QA
2 4 (6.78%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.39%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.69%) GDPR
4 1 (1.69%) PMO
4 1 (1.69%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (18.64%) Docker
2 2 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (13.56%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.47%) Terraform
3 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (13.56%) Solace
2 6 (10.17%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.78%) Adobe
3 4 (6.78%) Qualtrics
3 4 (6.78%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.69%) Blue Prism
4 1 (1.69%) Canon
4 1 (1.69%) Databricks
4 1 (1.69%) Google
4 1 (1.69%) IBM
4 1 (1.69%) Pega
4 1 (1.69%) Planview
4 1 (1.69%) Rollbar
4 1 (1.69%) SAP
4 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow