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 26 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 237 194
Rank change year-on-year +188 -43 -29
Permanent jobs citing Banking 431 86 75
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.56% 0.76% 1.00%
As % of the General category 7.60% 1.37% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 24 28 43
10th Percentile £46,375 £44,595 £42,500
25th Percentile £64,375 £52,188 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £66,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.32% +10.42% -
75th Percentile £107,813 £93,750 £72,466
90th Percentile £127,500 £101,250 £73,750
England median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £76,383
% change year-on-year -5.56% +17.83% +1.84%

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 5,669 6,280 4,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 59.97% 55.81% 61.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,107 2,734 2,916
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,825 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £37,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,000
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 26 November 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 26 November 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
Surrey +88 228 £77,500 -6.06% 1
Kent +65 104 £106,250 -11.46% 5
Thames Valley +57 57 £65,000 +4.00% 27
Buckinghamshire +43 39 £66,000 -23.08% 6
Middlesex +8 29 - - 1
Berkshire +15 13 - - 15
Hampshire +28 11 £75,000 +50.00% 5
Oxfordshire +33 5 £57,500 -8.00% 6
West Sussex -1 2 £75,000 +23.90%
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 4 (0.93%) Confluence
2 2 (0.46%) SAS
3 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.23%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 382 (88.63%) Cloud Computing
2 7 (1.62%) Azure
3 5 (1.16%) Adobe Analytics
3 5 (1.16%) Figma
4 4 (0.93%) AWS
5 3 (0.70%) Power Platform
6 2 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (0.46%) SaaS
7 1 (0.23%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.23%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.23%) Azure Service Fabric
7 1 (0.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.23%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.23%) GCP
7 1 (0.23%) GitHub
7 1 (0.23%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 382 (88.63%) Internet
2 2 (0.46%) SDH
2 2 (0.46%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.23%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.39%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.46%) Power BI
2 2 (0.46%) Tableau
3 1 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.23%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.23%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (1.16%) JIRA
2 2 (0.46%) Git
2 2 (0.46%) Postman
3 1 (0.23%) Appium
3 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.23%) NUnit
3 1 (0.23%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.23%) Selenium
3 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 395 (91.65%) Social Skills
2 383 (88.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 33 (7.66%) Finance
4 17 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (1.39%) Retail
7 5 (1.16%) Telecoms
8 4 (0.93%) Legal
8 4 (0.93%) Marketing
9 3 (0.70%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.70%) Games
9 3 (0.70%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.46%) Law
10 2 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Advertising
11 1 (0.23%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.23%) Back Office
11 1 (0.23%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.23%) International Banking
11 1 (0.23%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 312 (72.39%) Lecturer
2 8 (1.86%) Senior
3 7 (1.62%) Analyst
4 6 (1.39%) Strategy Manager
5 5 (1.16%) Senior Manager
6 4 (0.93%) Developer
6 4 (0.93%) Head of Engineering
6 4 (0.93%) Senior Strategy Manager
7 3 (0.70%) .NET Developer
7 3 (0.70%) Data Analyst
7 3 (0.70%) Service Manager
8 2 (0.46%) Account Manager
8 2 (0.46%) Banking Analyst
8 2 (0.46%) Business Development Manager
8 2 (0.46%) Business Manager
8 2 (0.46%) C# Developer
8 2 (0.46%) Development Manager
8 2 (0.46%) Sales Manager
8 2 (0.46%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (0.46%) Telecoms Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.16%) .NET
2 4 (0.93%) REST
3 3 (0.70%) Blazor
3 3 (0.70%) WinForms
3 3 (0.70%) WPF
4 2 (0.46%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.46%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.46%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.46%) Kafka
4 2 (0.46%) OAuth
4 2 (0.46%) OAuth2
4 2 (0.46%) OpenID
4 2 (0.46%) React
4 2 (0.46%) Vue
5 1 (0.23%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (0.23%) GraalVM
5 1 (0.23%) HEVC
5 1 (0.23%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.23%) WCF
5 1 (0.23%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 382 (88.63%) IoT
2 4 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (0.70%) Data Centre
3 3 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (0.46%) Driving Licence
4 2 (0.46%) Mobile App
4 2 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.23%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.23%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.23%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (0.23%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.23%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.23%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.23%) Online Banking
5 1 (0.23%) Online Games
5 1 (0.23%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.23%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.23%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (90.26%) AI
2 388 (90.02%) Cybersecurity
2 388 (90.02%) User Experience
3 386 (89.56%) Machine Learning
4 382 (88.63%) Web Development
5 18 (4.18%) Agile
6 14 (3.25%) Decision-Making
6 14 (3.25%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (2.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (2.32%) Analytics
9 9 (2.09%) Business Strategy
9 9 (2.09%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (1.62%) CI/CD
10 7 (1.62%) Customer Experience
10 7 (1.62%) Digital Banking
10 7 (1.62%) Migration
10 7 (1.62%) Strategic Thinking
10 7 (1.62%) Visualisation
11 6 (1.39%) DevOps
11 6 (1.39%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (2.32%) SQL
2 4 (0.93%) C#
2 4 (0.93%) Python
3 2 (0.46%) Java
3 2 (0.46%) JavaScript
3 2 (0.46%) R
3 2 (0.46%) TypeScript
4 1 (0.23%) Delphi
4 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.23%) VB
4 1 (0.23%) VB6
4 1 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 391 (90.72%) Degree
2 383 (88.86%) Master's Degree
3 382 (88.63%) PhD
3 382 (88.63%) Postgraduate
4 5 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.70%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.46%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.23%) CHECK Team Leader
7 1 (0.23%) CHECK Team Member
7 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.23%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.16%) Accessibility
2 4 (0.93%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.70%) QA
4 2 (0.46%) GDPR
5 1 (0.23%) GRC
5 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.23%) PMO
5 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (0.70%) Docker
2 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (1.16%) Terraform
2 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (1.39%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.16%) Adobe
2 5 (1.16%) Qualtrics
3 2 (0.46%) Databricks
3 2 (0.46%) Salesforce
3 2 (0.46%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.23%) Blue Prism
4 1 (0.23%) Google
4 1 (0.23%) IBM
4 1 (0.23%) Pega
4 1 (0.23%) Planview
4 1 (0.23%) Rollbar
4 1 (0.23%) SAP