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 2 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 247 279
Rank change year-on-year -23 +32 -75
Permanent jobs citing Banking 81 55 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.43% 0.61% 0.37%
As % of the General category 0.93% 0.91% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 48 21 22
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £43,785
25th Percentile £28,500 £56,250 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -6.67% +15.27%
75th Percentile £68,125 £127,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £88,375 £165,000 £97,375
England median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year - -5.56% +19.03%

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 8,677 6,068 6,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 45.81% 67.63% 53.96%
Number of salaries quoted 5,738 2,817 3,051
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,733 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,250 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,200 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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
Thames Valley -3 37 £47,500 -30.66% 64
Hampshire -28 26 £32,500 -65.79% 14
Berkshire +10 15 £42,500 -73.44% 38
Buckinghamshire -8 11 £72,500 +11.54% 22
Oxfordshire -29 11 £55,000 -4.35% 4
East Sussex 0 6 £122,500 - 1
Kent -21 5 £27,500 -68.57% 4
Surrey -24 1 £165,000 +450.00% 4
West Sussex -24 1 £85,000 +13.33% 5
Sussex - 1 - - 2
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 6 (7.41%) Confluence
2 3 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (12.35%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.23%) Finacle
2 1 (1.23%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.23%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.23%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.23%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.64%) AWS
2 5 (6.17%) Azure
3 4 (4.94%) GitHub
3 4 (4.94%) Serverless
4 2 (2.47%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.47%) Azure AI
4 2 (2.47%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (2.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (2.47%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.23%) GCP
5 1 (1.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (1.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.94%) ATM
2 1 (1.23%) DNS
2 1 (1.23%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (3.70%) Relational Database
1 3 (3.70%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.47%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.23%) Metadata
3 1 (1.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (8.64%) JIRA
General
1 50 (61.73%) Finance
2 38 (46.91%) Social Skills
3 20 (24.69%) Retail
4 11 (13.58%) Games
5 5 (6.17%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.94%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.94%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.70%) Billing
8 2 (2.47%) Law
8 2 (2.47%) Marketing
9 1 (1.23%) Advertising
9 1 (1.23%) Back Office
9 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.23%) Legal
9 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (17.28%) Analyst
2 13 (16.05%) Architect
3 10 (12.35%) Security Architect
4 8 (9.88%) Business Analyst
4 8 (9.88%) Field Service Technician
4 8 (9.88%) Senior
5 7 (8.64%) Account Manager
6 5 (6.17%) Business IT Analyst
6 5 (6.17%) Delivery Manager
6 5 (6.17%) IT Analyst
6 5 (6.17%) IT Business Analyst
6 5 (6.17%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (6.17%) Software Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Graduate
8 3 (3.70%) Applications Manager
8 3 (3.70%) Business Manager
8 3 (3.70%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.70%) Field Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Field Service Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.47%) Next.js
1 2 (2.47%) Node.js
2 1 (1.23%) Hugging Face
2 1 (1.23%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.23%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.23%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.58%) EPoS
2 5 (6.17%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.17%) Social Media
3 4 (4.94%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.70%) Clustering
4 3 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.47%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.23%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.94%) Linux
2 3 (3.70%) Debian
2 3 (3.70%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (16.05%) AI
2 13 (16.05%) Customer Experience
2 13 (16.05%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (14.81%) Agile
3 12 (14.81%) Asset Management
3 12 (14.81%) Roadmaps
4 11 (13.58%) Containerisation
4 11 (13.58%) Customer Service
4 11 (13.58%) Identity Access Management
4 11 (13.58%) RBAC
5 10 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (12.35%) IT Asset Management
5 10 (12.35%) Network Segmentation
5 10 (12.35%) SIEM
5 10 (12.35%) Vulnerability Management
6 9 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 8 (9.88%) Proactive Maintenance
8 7 (8.64%) Requirements Gathering
8 7 (8.64%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.41%) Python
1 6 (7.41%) SQL
2 4 (4.94%) Bash
2 4 (4.94%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (16.05%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.58%) DV Cleared
3 5 (6.17%) Degree
4 3 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.47%) CHECK Team Leader
5 2 (2.47%) CHECK Team Member
5 2 (2.47%) CREST Certified
5 2 (2.47%) Cyber Scheme
5 2 (2.47%) OSCP
6 1 (1.23%) ACCA
6 1 (1.23%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.23%) CIMA
6 1 (1.23%) CISM
6 1 (1.23%) CISSP
6 1 (1.23%) CRISC
6 1 (1.23%) CSPO
6 1 (1.23%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.23%) NVQ Level 4
6 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.35%) QA
2 3 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.70%) NCSC
3 1 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.23%) NIST
3 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.23%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (14.81%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.70%) Ansible
1 3 (3.70%) Podman
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (16.05%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.94%) Xero
3 3 (3.70%) HubSpot
4 2 (2.47%) Databricks
5 1 (1.23%) Arqiva
5 1 (1.23%) FIS
5 1 (1.23%) Google
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle
5 1 (1.23%) SAP
5 1 (1.23%) Temenos