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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 212 205
Rank change year-on-year +184 -7 -11
Permanent jobs citing Banking 619 88 103
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 5.83% 0.98% 1.02%
As % of the General category 10.57% 1.56% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 20 24 69
10th Percentile £46,750 £44,055 £27,000
25th Percentile £64,375 £50,313 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £107,813 £81,450 £72,433
90th Percentile £127,500 £97,125 £86,250
England median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £76,086
% change year-on-year +5.88% +11.72% +1.45%

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 5,855 5,635 5,826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 55.12% 62.86% 57.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,173 2,187 3,817
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £64,000 £71,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £56,914
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.42% -8.94%

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 January 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 22 January 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 +85 330 £77,500 -29.55% 9
Kent +61 151 £95,000 - 8
Thames Valley +53 75 £65,000 +4.00% 68
Buckinghamshire +42 47 £65,000 -24.24% 18
Middlesex +13 36 - -
Berkshire +20 21 - - 47
Hampshire +28 18 £75,000 +50.00% 9
Isle of Wight - 8 - - 6
Oxfordshire +14 7 £67,500 +8.00% 3
West Sussex -5 1 £65,000 -7.14% 6
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 5 (0.81%) Confluence
2 2 (0.32%) IIS
2 2 (0.32%) SAS
3 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 570 (92.08%) Cloud Computing
2 8 (1.29%) Azure
3 5 (0.81%) Adobe Analytics
3 5 (0.81%) Figma
4 3 (0.48%) AWS
4 3 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (0.48%) Power Platform
5 2 (0.32%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (0.32%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (0.32%) Azure Service Fabric
5 2 (0.32%) PaaS
5 2 (0.32%) SaaS
6 1 (0.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.16%) GCP
6 1 (0.16%) GitHub
6 1 (0.16%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 570 (92.08%) Internet
2 4 (0.65%) BGP
2 4 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (0.65%) Firewall
3 2 (0.32%) SDH
3 2 (0.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (0.97%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.32%) Tableau
3 1 (0.16%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.16%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (0.81%) JIRA
2 2 (0.32%) Git
3 1 (0.16%) Appium
3 1 (0.16%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.16%) Postman
3 1 (0.16%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.16%) Selenium
General
1 585 (94.51%) Social Skills
2 570 (92.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 29 (4.68%) Finance
4 11 (1.78%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (1.78%) Retail
5 9 (1.45%) Telecoms
6 8 (1.29%) Public Sector
7 7 (1.13%) Marketing
8 6 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (0.65%) Games
10 2 (0.32%) Legal
11 1 (0.16%) Advertising
11 1 (0.16%) Automotive
11 1 (0.16%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.16%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.16%) International Banking
11 1 (0.16%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.16%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.16%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 469 (75.77%) Lecturer
2 7 (1.13%) Analyst
2 7 (1.13%) Senior
3 5 (0.81%) Strategy Manager
4 4 (0.65%) Developer
4 4 (0.65%) Head of Engineering
4 4 (0.65%) Network Engineer
5 3 (0.48%) Architect
5 3 (0.48%) Data Analyst
5 3 (0.48%) Security Architect
5 3 (0.48%) Senior Manager
5 3 (0.48%) Senior Strategy Manager
6 2 (0.32%) Banking Analyst
6 2 (0.32%) Business Manager
6 2 (0.32%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (0.32%) Junior Penetration Tester
6 2 (0.32%) Service Development Manager
6 2 (0.32%) Telecoms Technician
6 2 (0.32%) Test Technician
6 2 (0.32%) Transformation Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (0.97%) .NET
2 5 (0.81%) REST
3 3 (0.48%) Blazor
3 3 (0.48%) OAuth
3 3 (0.48%) OAuth2
3 3 (0.48%) OpenID
3 3 (0.48%) WinForms
3 3 (0.48%) WPF
4 2 (0.32%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.32%) SOAP
4 2 (0.32%) WCF
4 2 (0.32%) Web Services
5 1 (0.16%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.16%) HEVC
5 1 (0.16%) Kafka
5 1 (0.16%) Playwright
5 1 (0.16%) React
5 1 (0.16%) SAML
5 1 (0.16%) Vue
5 1 (0.16%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 570 (92.08%) IoT
2 7 (1.13%) Data Centre
3 6 (0.97%) Security Posture
4 5 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (0.48%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (0.32%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.32%) Low-Code
6 2 (0.32%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.16%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.16%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.16%) FMCG
7 1 (0.16%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.16%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (0.16%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.16%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.16%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.16%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.16%) Smart Meter
7 1 (0.16%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 583 (94.18%) Cybersecurity
2 575 (92.89%) User Experience
3 574 (92.73%) AI
4 573 (92.57%) Machine Learning
5 570 (92.08%) Web Development
6 15 (2.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (1.94%) Agile
8 10 (1.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (1.45%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (1.45%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (1.29%) Business Strategy
10 8 (1.29%) Data Management
11 7 (1.13%) Analytics
11 7 (1.13%) Customer-Centricity
11 7 (1.13%) Decision-Making
11 7 (1.13%) Migration
11 7 (1.13%) Strategic Thinking
12 6 (0.97%) CI/CD
12 6 (0.97%) DevOps
12 6 (0.97%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (1.29%) SQL
2 3 (0.48%) C#
2 3 (0.48%) Python
3 2 (0.32%) Delphi
3 2 (0.32%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.32%) VB
3 2 (0.32%) VB6
4 1 (0.16%) Java
4 1 (0.16%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.16%) R
4 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
4 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 580 (93.70%) Degree
2 571 (92.25%) Master's Degree
3 570 (92.08%) PhD
3 570 (92.08%) Postgraduate
4 10 (1.62%) Security Cleared
5 6 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (0.65%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.65%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.32%) CHECK Team Leader
7 2 (0.32%) CHECK Team Member
7 2 (0.32%) OSCP
8 1 (0.16%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (0.16%) CISM
8 1 (0.16%) CISSP
8 1 (0.16%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (0.81%) Accessibility
2 3 (0.48%) Data Quality
2 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.32%) GDPR
3 2 (0.32%) GRC
4 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.16%) NCSC
4 1 (0.16%) NIST
4 1 (0.16%) PMO
4 1 (0.16%) QA
4 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (0.65%) VMware NSX
2 3 (0.48%) Docker
2 3 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (0.65%) Terraform
2 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (0.81%) Adobe
1 5 (0.81%) Qualtrics
2 4 (0.65%) CheckPoint
2 4 (0.65%) Cisco
2 4 (0.65%) VMware
3 3 (0.48%) Microsoft
4 2 (0.32%) Databricks
5 1 (0.16%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.16%) IBM
5 1 (0.16%) Pega
5 1 (0.16%) Planview
5 1 (0.16%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.16%) SAP
5 1 (0.16%) ServiceNow