Banking Jobs 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 217 267 185
Rank change year-on-year +50 -82 -32
Permanent jobs citing Banking 71 130 277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.84% 0.78% 1.85%
As % of the General category 1.30% 1.38% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 22 88 86
10th Percentile £40,085 £23,250 £42,625
25th Percentile £46,000 £37,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -18.75%
75th Percentile £95,625 £71,250 £80,563
90th Percentile £123,500 £100,000 £98,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £83,577 £75,000
% change year-on-year -13.25% +11.44% -

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 5,456 9,434 9,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 64.46% 56.54% 64.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,561 6,049 4,646
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £32,500 £36,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,249
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.86% +0.42%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Banking in the South East.

Salary trend for Banking in the South East

Banking
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Banking in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Banking in the South East

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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 1 May 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 +39 22 £62,500 +13.64% 30
Hampshire +62 18 £70,000 +16.67% 18
Middlesex - 15 - - 1
Buckinghamshire +31 11 £40,000 -46.67% 8
Kent +25 9 £85,000 +261.70% 6
Oxfordshire +36 6 £62,500 +47.06% 9
Surrey +59 5 £70,000 +16.67% 11
Berkshire +40 5 £160,000 +166.67% 13
West Sussex - 2 £56,782 - 4
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 2 (2.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.41%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Fidessa
1 1 (1.41%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 16 (22.54%) AWS
2 7 (9.86%) Amazon Kinesis
2 7 (9.86%) AWS CloudFormation
2 7 (9.86%) GitHub
3 6 (8.45%) OpenShift
3 6 (8.45%) Snowflake
4 5 (7.04%) Azure
5 3 (4.23%) Datadog
6 2 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.82%) npm
6 2 (2.82%) Yarn
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.41%) Figma
7 1 (1.41%) Serverless
7 1 (1.41%) Smartsheet
7 1 (1.41%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (1.41%) Internet
1 1 (1.41%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.49%) Relational Database
2 6 (8.45%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.23%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.82%) Big Data
4 2 (2.82%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.41%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.41%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.41%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.41%) Impala
5 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.41%) PowerCenter
5 1 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (18.31%) Jenkins
2 7 (9.86%) Artifactory
2 7 (9.86%) Cucumber
2 7 (9.86%) git-flow
2 7 (9.86%) Gradle
3 4 (5.63%) Git
4 3 (4.23%) Gatling
4 3 (4.23%) JUnit
4 3 (4.23%) Mockito
4 3 (4.23%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.82%) Ant
5 2 (2.82%) Babel
5 2 (2.82%) JIRA
5 2 (2.82%) webpack
6 1 (1.41%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.41%) ERwin
6 1 (1.41%) Jasmine
6 1 (1.41%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 47 (66.20%) Finance
2 31 (43.66%) Social Skills
3 19 (26.76%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (22.54%) Law
5 12 (16.90%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (9.86%) Investment Banking
6 7 (9.86%) Retail Banking
7 5 (7.04%) Legal
7 5 (7.04%) Marketing
8 3 (4.23%) Advertising
8 3 (4.23%) Front Office
8 3 (4.23%) Retail
8 3 (4.23%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.82%) Agriculture
9 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.41%) Billing
10 1 (1.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (25.35%) Senior
2 17 (23.94%) Analyst
3 13 (18.31%) Applications Engineer
3 13 (18.31%) Principal Engineer
4 12 (16.90%) Business Manager
5 9 (12.68%) Business Development Manager
5 9 (12.68%) Development Manager
5 9 (12.68%) Senior Analyst
6 7 (9.86%) Developer
7 6 (8.45%) Business Analyst
8 5 (7.04%) Lead
8 5 (7.04%) Lead Software Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Project Manager
8 5 (7.04%) Software Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Applications Support
9 4 (5.63%) Applications Support Analyst
9 4 (5.63%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 4 (5.63%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
9 4 (5.63%) Gen AI Developer
9 4 (5.63%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (25.35%) Kafka
2 10 (14.08%) Spring Boot
3 8 (11.27%) React
3 8 (11.27%) RESTful
4 7 (9.86%) Drools
4 7 (9.86%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (4.23%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.23%) CSS
5 3 (4.23%) GraphQL
5 3 (4.23%) HTML
5 3 (4.23%) HTML5
5 3 (4.23%) Java SE
5 3 (4.23%) Spring
6 2 (2.82%) .NET
6 2 (2.82%) CSS3
6 2 (2.82%) Material-UI
6 2 (2.82%) MobX
6 2 (2.82%) Redux
6 2 (2.82%) Web Services
6 2 (2.82%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.68%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.86%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.63%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (5.63%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.23%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.82%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.82%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.41%) Derivative
6 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.41%) Equities
6 1 (1.41%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.41%) Online Banking
6 1 (1.41%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (29.58%) Digital Banking
2 19 (26.76%) Risk Management
3 18 (25.35%) Computer Science
3 18 (25.35%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (23.94%) Agile
5 15 (21.13%) Business Development
6 14 (19.72%) Collaborative Culture
7 13 (18.31%) CI/CD
7 13 (18.31%) Test Automation
8 12 (16.90%) Analytics
9 11 (15.49%) Coaching
10 10 (14.08%) Time Management
11 8 (11.27%) Design Patterns
11 8 (11.27%) Microservices
11 8 (11.27%) TDD
12 7 (9.86%) Code Coverage
12 7 (9.86%) Information Security
12 7 (9.86%) Performance Monitoring
12 7 (9.86%) Software Engineering
12 7 (9.86%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 24 (33.80%) Java
2 21 (29.58%) Python
3 14 (19.72%) SQL
4 8 (11.27%) C#
5 6 (8.45%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.63%) Go
6 4 (5.63%) Kotlin
7 3 (4.23%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (28.17%) Degree
2 8 (11.27%) AWS Certification
2 8 (11.27%) Master's Degree
2 8 (11.27%) OCP
2 8 (11.27%) Oracle Certification
3 5 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.41%) MCSE
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.90%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.63%) QA
3 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (2.82%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.41%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 18 (25.35%) Kubernetes
2 9 (12.68%) Ansible
3 7 (9.86%) Terraform
4 3 (4.23%) Grafana
4 3 (4.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (7.04%) Databricks
2 3 (4.23%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.82%) Confluent
4 1 (1.41%) Adobe
4 1 (1.41%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.41%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.41%) Canon
4 1 (1.41%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.41%) Google
4 1 (1.41%) Informatica
4 1 (1.41%) NYFIX
4 1 (1.41%) Sun
4 1 (1.41%) Xero