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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 236 284
Rank change year-on-year -8 +48 -60
Permanent jobs citing Banking 72 60 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.45% 0.70% 0.52%
As % of the General category 1.01% 1.05% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 42 21 56
10th Percentile £27,000 £42,250 £24,125
25th Percentile £28,500 £46,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £85,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +41.67% -8.19%
75th Percentile £75,000 £125,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £165,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £85,253 £90,000
% change year-on-year -0.30% -5.28% +19.12%

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 7,102 5,722 8,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 44.41% 66.75% 54.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4,609 2,550 5,111
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% -7.62%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,700
% change year-on-year - +0.55% -8.83%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 +2 31 £53,000 -51.82% 8
Hampshire -21 21 £70,000 -26.32% 3
Berkshire +24 12 £47,500 -70.31% 1
Oxfordshire -12 11 £55,000 -4.35% 2
East Sussex -5 8 £122,500 -
Kent -25 8 £27,500 -59.11% 1
Buckinghamshire -26 8 £108,500 +61.94% 5
Surrey -21 3 £165,000 +450.00% 1
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 2 (2.78%) Apache
1 2 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.78%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.78%) SAS
2 1 (1.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
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
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.33%) AWS
2 5 (6.94%) Azure
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%) GCP
4 2 (2.78%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.39%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.17%) ATM
2 1 (1.39%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.94%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.78%) Apache Hive
3 2 (2.78%) Impala
3 2 (2.78%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.78%) Parquet
3 2 (2.78%) Spark SQL
3 2 (2.78%) Tableau
4 1 (1.39%) Base SAS
4 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.39%) Metadata
4 1 (1.39%) Power BI
4 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.39%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Git
1 2 (2.78%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (1.39%) JIRA
General
1 40 (55.56%) Finance
2 21 (29.17%) Retail
3 20 (27.78%) Social Skills
4 9 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (11.11%) Games
6 5 (6.94%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.56%) Legal
7 4 (5.56%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.78%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.78%) Law
9 1 (1.39%) Back Office
9 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.39%) Marketing
9 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (15.28%) Analyst
2 9 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
3 8 (11.11%) Architect
3 8 (11.11%) Field Service Technician
4 7 (9.72%) Account Manager
4 7 (9.72%) Security Architect
5 6 (8.33%) Product Manager
5 6 (8.33%) Senior
6 5 (6.94%) Head of AI
6 5 (6.94%) Product Delivery Manager
6 5 (6.94%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) Graduate
7 4 (5.56%) Head of Finance
8 3 (4.17%) Applications Manager
8 3 (4.17%) Business Analyst
8 3 (4.17%) Field Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Field Service Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Lead
8 3 (4.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.78%) PySpark
2 1 (1.39%) Hugging Face
2 1 (1.39%) Pandas
2 1 (1.39%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.39%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.28%) EPoS
2 4 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (4.17%) Clustering
3 3 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.39%) CCTV
5 1 (1.39%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.39%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.56%) Linux
2 3 (4.17%) Debian
2 3 (4.17%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (23.61%) AI
1 17 (23.61%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (18.06%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (15.28%) Asset Management
3 11 (15.28%) Roadmaps
4 10 (13.89%) Customer Experience
4 10 (13.89%) Proactive Maintenance
4 10 (13.89%) Risk Management
5 8 (11.11%) Customer Service
6 7 (9.72%) Agile
6 7 (9.72%) Containerisation
6 7 (9.72%) Identity Access Management
6 7 (9.72%) IT Asset Management
6 7 (9.72%) Migration
6 7 (9.72%) Network Segmentation
6 7 (9.72%) RBAC
6 7 (9.72%) SIEM
6 7 (9.72%) Vulnerability Management
7 6 (8.33%) Line Management
7 6 (8.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.50%) SQL
2 8 (11.11%) Python
3 4 (5.56%) Bash
3 4 (5.56%) Ruby
4 1 (1.39%) PROC SQL
4 1 (1.39%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 10 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 7 (9.72%) 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%) CISSP
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%) CIMA
6 1 (1.39%) CISA
6 1 (1.39%) CISM
6 1 (1.39%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.17%) Data Quality
1 3 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (4.17%) NCSC
1 3 (4.17%) NIST
2 2 (2.78%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.78%) QA
2 2 (2.78%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.39%) GDPR
3 1 (1.39%) GRC
3 1 (1.39%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.39%) ITGC
3 1 (1.39%) PMO
3 1 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (15.28%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.17%) Ansible
1 3 (4.17%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (18.06%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.56%) Databricks
3 3 (4.17%) Oracle
4 2 (2.78%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.39%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.39%) SAP
5 1 (1.39%) Teradata
5 1 (1.39%) Xero