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 11 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 200 260
Rank change year-on-year +113 +60 -37
Permanent jobs citing Banking 280 71 129
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.95% 0.92% 0.78%
As % of the General category 4.30% 1.33% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 28 21 87
10th Percentile £50,500 £39,845 £23,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £118,750 £97,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £135,375 £165,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% - +13.33%

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 general skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 6,514 5,357 9,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 45.35% 69.33% 56.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,858 2,114 6,035
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,913 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,563 £33,125 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,670 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.63% +9.85% -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 11 May 2026.

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 11 May 2026. 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
Surrey +67 122 £165,000 +450.00% 3
Kent +12 63 £90,000 +5.88%
Thames Valley +26 45 £53,000 -52.36% 17
Buckinghamshire -2 23 £92,500 +131.25% 2
Hampshire -15 22 £75,000 +7.14% 1
Berkshire +13 16 £52,750 -67.03% 13
Middlesex +35 11 - - 2
East Sussex -10 8 £122,500 -
Isle of Wight - 8 - -
Oxfordshire +2 6 £55,000 -12.00% 2
Sussex - 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 3 (1.07%) Confluence
2 2 (0.71%) Apache
2 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.71%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.71%) IIS
2 2 (0.71%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) SAP CO
1 1 (0.36%) SAP FI
1 1 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 217 (77.50%) Cloud Computing
2 8 (2.86%) Azure
3 5 (1.79%) AWS
3 5 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (1.43%) Azure AI
4 4 (1.43%) Azure Machine Learning
4 4 (1.43%) Snowflake
5 3 (1.07%) Power Platform
6 2 (0.71%) Amazon S3
6 2 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (0.71%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (0.71%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (0.71%) Azure Service Fabric
6 2 (0.71%) GCP
6 2 (0.71%) OpenShift
6 2 (0.71%) PaaS
7 1 (0.36%) GitHub
7 1 (0.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 217 (77.50%) Internet
2 4 (1.43%) BGP
2 4 (1.43%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (1.43%) Firewall
3 1 (0.36%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.21%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.07%) Tableau
4 2 (0.71%) Apache Hive
4 2 (0.71%) Impala
4 2 (0.71%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.71%) Parquet
4 2 (0.71%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.36%) Base SAS
5 1 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.36%) Metadata
5 1 (0.36%) Power BI
5 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.36%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 4 (1.43%) Git
2 3 (1.07%) JIRA
3 2 (0.71%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 231 (82.50%) Social Skills
2 226 (80.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 42 (15.00%) Finance
4 16 (5.71%) Retail
5 12 (4.29%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.50%) Marketing
6 7 (2.50%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.43%) Games
7 4 (1.43%) Legal
8 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.71%) Law
9 1 (0.36%) Automotive
9 1 (0.36%) Back Office
9 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.36%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 157 (56.07%) Lecturer
2 12 (4.29%) Analyst
3 8 (2.86%) Delivery Manager
3 8 (2.86%) Senior
4 6 (2.14%) Product Manager
5 5 (1.79%) Head of AI
5 5 (1.79%) Product Delivery Manager
5 5 (1.79%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (1.43%) Head of Finance
6 4 (1.43%) Network Engineer
7 3 (1.07%) Architect
7 3 (1.07%) Business Analyst
7 3 (1.07%) Junior
7 3 (1.07%) Junior Penetration Tester
7 3 (1.07%) Junior Tester
7 3 (1.07%) Lead
7 3 (1.07%) Penetration Tester
7 3 (1.07%) Security Architect
7 3 (1.07%) Tester
8 2 (0.71%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.07%) .NET
2 2 (0.71%) ASP.NET
2 2 (0.71%) OAuth
2 2 (0.71%) OAuth2
2 2 (0.71%) OpenID
2 2 (0.71%) PySpark
2 2 (0.71%) REST
2 2 (0.71%) SOAP
2 2 (0.71%) WCF
2 2 (0.71%) Web Services
3 1 (0.36%) HEVC
3 1 (0.36%) Hugging Face
3 1 (0.36%) Kafka
3 1 (0.36%) Middleware
3 1 (0.36%) Pandas
3 1 (0.36%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.36%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 217 (77.50%) IoT
2 7 (2.50%) Data Centre
3 5 (1.79%) Security Posture
4 4 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.07%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.71%) Low-Code
6 2 (0.71%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.36%) CCTV
7 1 (0.36%) FMCG
7 1 (0.36%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.36%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (83.21%) Cybersecurity
2 231 (82.50%) AI
3 222 (79.29%) Machine Learning
4 218 (77.86%) Web Development
5 217 (77.50%) User Experience
6 12 (4.29%) Roadmaps
7 10 (3.57%) Migration
7 10 (3.57%) Risk Management
8 9 (3.21%) Agile
9 8 (2.86%) Asset Management
9 8 (2.86%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (2.50%) Data Engineering
10 7 (2.50%) Data Governance
10 7 (2.50%) Data Management
10 7 (2.50%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (2.14%) Line Management
11 6 (2.14%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (1.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (1.79%) ETL
12 5 (1.79%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 12 (4.29%) SQL
2 5 (1.79%) Python
3 2 (0.71%) Delphi
3 2 (0.71%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.71%) VB
3 2 (0.71%) VB6
4 1 (0.36%) Bash
4 1 (0.36%) PROC SQL
4 1 (0.36%) Ruby
4 1 (0.36%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 224 (80.00%) Degree
2 217 (77.50%) Master's Degree
2 217 (77.50%) PhD
2 217 (77.50%) Postgraduate
3 11 (3.93%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.43%) DV Cleared
4 4 (1.43%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.07%) CHECK Team Leader
5 3 (1.07%) CHECK Team Member
5 3 (1.07%) OSCP
6 2 (0.71%) CISSP
6 2 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.71%) CREST Certified
6 2 (0.71%) Cyber Scheme
7 1 (0.36%) ACCA
7 1 (0.36%) CESG Certified Professional
7 1 (0.36%) CIMA
7 1 (0.36%) CISA
7 1 (0.36%) CISM
7 1 (0.36%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.43%) Data Quality
1 4 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.07%) NCSC
2 3 (1.07%) NIST
3 2 (0.71%) GDPR
3 2 (0.71%) GRC
3 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.71%) QA
3 2 (0.71%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.36%) ITGC
4 1 (0.36%) PMO
4 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.43%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 7 (2.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.79%) Databricks
3 4 (1.43%) CheckPoint
3 4 (1.43%) Cisco
3 4 (1.43%) VMware
4 3 (1.07%) Oracle
5 2 (0.71%) Red Hat
5 2 (0.71%) SAP
6 1 (0.36%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.36%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.36%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.36%) Teradata
6 1 (0.36%) Xero