Banking Jobs 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 270 199
Rank change year-on-year +40 -71 -59
Permanent jobs citing Banking 67 128 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.70% 0.76% 1.61%
As % of the General category 1.04% 1.34% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 20 87 78
10th Percentile £41,775 £23,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,000 £37,500 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% -7.69% -18.75%
75th Percentile £104,375 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £100,000 £103,000
England median annual salary £71,991 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -15.30% +13.33% -

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 6,419 9,518 9,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 67.29% 56.75% 63.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,718 6,020 4,385
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £32,500 £36,953
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -4.28%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,471 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.47% -12.50% -

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Banking in the South East

Banking
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Banking in the South East.

Salary trend for Banking in the South East

Banking
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Banking in the South East over the 6 months to 16 May 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 16 May 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
Thames Valley +35 30 £160,000 +190.91% 22
Buckinghamshire +28 16 £40,000 -46.67% 7
Middlesex - 14 - - 2
Kent +25 10 £85,000 +261.70% 7
Hampshire +50 7 £82,500 +37.50% 22
Oxfordshire +32 7 £62,500 +47.06% 7
Berkshire +23 7 £160,000 +166.67% 8
Surrey +40 4 £30,000 -50.00% 8
West Sussex +37 1 £70,000 - 2
East Sussex +26 1 - - 2
Banking
England

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (13.43%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.49%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.49%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Fidessa
1 1 (1.49%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.90%) AWS
2 13 (19.40%) Azure
3 8 (11.94%) GCP
4 6 (8.96%) Snowflake
5 4 (5.97%) OpenShift
6 3 (4.48%) Datadog
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.99%) GitHub
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.49%) Figma
8 1 (1.49%) npm
8 1 (1.49%) Serverless
8 1 (1.49%) Smartsheet
8 1 (1.49%) Stripe
8 1 (1.49%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.49%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (1.49%) Internet
1 1 (1.49%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.94%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.96%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.48%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.99%) Big Data
4 2 (2.99%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.49%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.49%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (1.49%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.49%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.49%) Impala
5 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.49%) PowerCenter
5 1 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (14.93%) Cucumber
1 10 (14.93%) JIRA
2 8 (11.94%) Bitbucket
2 8 (11.94%) GitLab
2 8 (11.94%) Maven
2 8 (11.94%) Selenium
2 8 (11.94%) SonarQube
2 8 (11.94%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (7.46%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.99%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.99%) Git
4 2 (2.99%) git-flow
4 2 (2.99%) Gradle
4 2 (2.99%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.49%) Babel
5 1 (1.49%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.49%) Gatling
5 1 (1.49%) Jasmine
5 1 (1.49%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (1.49%) Mockito
General
1 44 (65.67%) Finance
2 28 (41.79%) Social Skills
3 17 (25.37%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (22.39%) Law
5 14 (20.90%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (14.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (11.94%) Retail Banking
8 7 (10.45%) Investment Banking
8 7 (10.45%) Marketing
9 6 (8.96%) Legal
10 5 (7.46%) Telecoms
11 4 (5.97%) Retail
12 3 (4.48%) Advertising
13 2 (2.99%) Front Office
14 1 (1.49%) Agriculture
14 1 (1.49%) Billing
14 1 (1.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (23.88%) Senior
2 15 (22.39%) Analyst
3 13 (19.40%) Software Engineer
4 11 (16.42%) Business Manager
5 9 (13.43%) Business Development Manager
5 9 (13.43%) Development Manager
6 8 (11.94%) Senior Analyst
7 7 (10.45%) Developer
8 6 (8.96%) Lead
9 5 (7.46%) Business Analyst
9 5 (7.46%) Lead Software Engineer
10 4 (5.97%) Applications Support
10 4 (5.97%) Applications Support Analyst
10 4 (5.97%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 4 (5.97%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
10 4 (5.97%) Gen AI Developer
10 4 (5.97%) Project Manager
10 4 (5.97%) Software Developer
10 4 (5.97%) Support Analyst
10 4 (5.97%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (28.36%) Kafka
2 15 (22.39%) React
3 10 (14.93%) CSS
3 10 (14.93%) HTML
3 10 (14.93%) Spring Boot
4 9 (13.43%) Redux
5 8 (11.94%) Hibernate
5 8 (11.94%) JPA
5 8 (11.94%) Spring
6 5 (7.46%) RESTful
7 3 (4.48%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.48%) GraphQL
8 2 (2.99%) Drools
8 2 (2.99%) HTML5
8 2 (2.99%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (1.49%) Ajax
9 1 (1.49%) Bootstrap
9 1 (1.49%) CSS3
9 1 (1.49%) Semantic UI
9 1 (1.49%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.91%) Product Ownership
2 9 (13.43%) Cloud Native
2 9 (13.43%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.97%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.48%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.49%) Derivative
6 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.49%) Equities
6 1 (1.49%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.49%) Online Banking
6 1 (1.49%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (25.37%) Business Development
2 16 (23.88%) Agile
3 15 (22.39%) Software Engineering
4 13 (19.40%) Front End Development
4 13 (19.40%) Microservices
4 13 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (17.91%) CI/CD
5 12 (17.91%) Digital Banking
6 11 (16.42%) Coaching
6 11 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (16.42%) SDLC
6 11 (16.42%) TDD
6 11 (16.42%) Test Automation
7 10 (14.93%) DevOps
7 10 (14.93%) Performance Optimisation
7 10 (14.93%) Time Management
8 9 (13.43%) Clean Code
8 9 (13.43%) Containerisation
8 9 (13.43%) Risk Management
9 8 (11.94%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 25 (37.31%) Java
2 18 (26.87%) SQL
3 16 (23.88%) Python
4 10 (14.93%) JavaScript
5 7 (10.45%) C#
6 5 (7.46%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.97%) Go
7 4 (5.97%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (31.34%) Degree
2 9 (13.43%) Master's Degree
3 5 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.48%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.48%) OCP
4 3 (4.48%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.49%) MCSE
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.42%) Accessibility
1 11 (16.42%) QA
2 1 (1.49%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (14.93%) Docker
2 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.49%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (28.36%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.97%) Ansible
3 3 (4.48%) Grafana
3 3 (4.48%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (11.94%) Solace
2 5 (7.46%) Databricks
3 2 (2.99%) Confluent
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.49%) Adobe
4 1 (1.49%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.49%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.49%) Canon
4 1 (1.49%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.49%) Google
4 1 (1.49%) Informatica
4 1 (1.49%) NYFIX
4 1 (1.49%) Sun
4 1 (1.49%) Xero