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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 242 302
Rank change year-on-year -22 +60 -89
Permanent jobs citing Banking 72 50 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.41% 0.56% 0.30%
As % of the General category 0.91% 0.83% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 41 17 24
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £43,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -3.45% +11.43%
75th Percentile £70,000 £150,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £118,750 £165,000 £97,125
England median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £94,637
% change year-on-year - -10.18% +25.07%

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 7,877 5,997 7,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 44.53% 67.10% 53.38%
Number of salaries quoted 5,198 2,746 3,603
10th Percentile £29,500 £26,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,603 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -1 31 £52,500 -52.27% 22
Hampshire -26 24 £32,500 - 13
Berkshire +23 11 £35,000 -78.13% 6
Oxfordshire -25 11 £55,000 -4.35% 2
Buckinghamshire -10 9 £92,500 +38.06% 14
East Sussex -4 8 £122,500 - 1
Kent -25 5 £27,500 -41.49% 5
Surrey -23 1 £165,000 +450.00% 8
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 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (13.89%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Finacle
1 1 (1.39%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (1.39%) SAP CO
1 1 (1.39%) SAP FI
1 1 (1.39%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.39%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.72%) Azure
2 5 (6.94%) AWS
3 4 (5.56%) Azure AI
3 4 (5.56%) Azure Machine Learning
3 4 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 4 (5.56%) GitHub
3 4 (5.56%) Snowflake
4 2 (2.78%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.78%) Serverless
5 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.39%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.56%) ATM
2 1 (1.39%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.94%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.39%) Metadata
5 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.39%) Power BI
5 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 44 (61.11%) Finance
2 30 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 20 (27.78%) Retail
4 11 (15.28%) Games
5 5 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.94%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.56%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.17%) Billing
8 2 (2.78%) Marketing
9 1 (1.39%) Back Office
9 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.39%) Law
9 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (16.67%) Architect
2 10 (13.89%) Security Architect
3 9 (12.50%) Analyst
4 8 (11.11%) Field Service Technician
4 8 (11.11%) Senior
5 7 (9.72%) Account Manager
5 7 (9.72%) Delivery Manager
6 6 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (6.94%) Head of AI
8 4 (5.56%) Graduate
8 4 (5.56%) Head of Finance
8 4 (5.56%) Product Manager
9 3 (4.17%) Applications Manager
9 3 (4.17%) Data Analyst
9 3 (4.17%) EPoS Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) EPoS Field Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) EPoS Field Service Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Field Service Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Graduate Software Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.39%) Hugging Face
1 1 (1.39%) PyTorch
1 1 (1.39%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.28%) EPoS
2 5 (6.94%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (4.17%) Clustering
4 3 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.17%) Social Media
5 2 (2.78%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.39%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.56%) Linux
2 3 (4.17%) Debian
2 3 (4.17%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (19.44%) Asset Management
3 13 (18.06%) AI
3 13 (18.06%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (18.06%) Roadmaps
4 12 (16.67%) Customer Experience
5 10 (13.89%) Containerisation
5 10 (13.89%) Identity Access Management
5 10 (13.89%) IT Asset Management
5 10 (13.89%) Network Segmentation
5 10 (13.89%) RBAC
5 10 (13.89%) SIEM
5 10 (13.89%) Vulnerability Management
6 9 (12.50%) Agile
6 9 (12.50%) Customer Service
7 8 (11.11%) Migration
7 8 (11.11%) Proactive Maintenance
8 7 (9.72%) Data Governance
8 7 (9.72%) Line Management
8 7 (9.72%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.11%) SQL
2 6 (8.33%) Python
3 4 (5.56%) Bash
3 4 (5.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (18.06%) Security Cleared
2 11 (15.28%) DV Cleared
3 5 (6.94%) Degree
4 3 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.78%) CHECK Team Leader
5 2 (2.78%) CHECK Team Member
5 2 (2.78%) CREST Certified
5 2 (2.78%) Cyber Scheme
5 2 (2.78%) OSCP
6 1 (1.39%) ACCA
6 1 (1.39%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.39%) CIMA
6 1 (1.39%) CISM
6 1 (1.39%) CISSP
6 1 (1.39%) CRISC
6 1 (1.39%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.39%) NVQ Level 4
6 1 (1.39%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) QA
2 3 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.17%) NCSC
3 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.39%) NIST
3 1 (1.39%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.39%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (19.44%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.17%) Ansible
1 3 (4.17%) Podman
Vendors
1 14 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.56%) Databricks
2 4 (5.56%) Xero
3 3 (4.17%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.39%) FIS
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle
4 1 (1.39%) SAP
4 1 (1.39%) Temenos