Banking Job Trends in the South West

Banking
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 34 57
Rank change year-on-year -147 +23 -29
Permanent jobs citing Banking 27 182 375
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.35% 6.44% 3.62%
As % of the General category 0.80% 9.42% 7.19%
Number of salaries quoted 12 119 99
10th Percentile - £25,000 £43,120
25th Percentile - £25,313 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,443 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -4.25% -18.61% +12.92%
75th Percentile - £78,318 £91,934
90th Percentile £68,500 £98,474 £125,000
England median annual salary £86,250 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +1.47% -5.56% +19.12%

All General Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 3,359 1,933 5,214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 43.03% 68.38% 50.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,995 1,125 3,566
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,250 £31,750 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,525 £61,000
90th Percentile £80,950 £81,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Banking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Banking job vacancy trend in the South West

Banking
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Banking

Banking
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Banking in the South West over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Banking in the South West

Banking
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the South West region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
Wiltshire -10 10 £55,000 -12.00% 1
Gloucestershire - 9 - -
Dorset -26 4 £70,000 - 2
Devon -37 2 - - 4
Somerset -34 1 £95,000 - 5
Bristol -99 1 - - 5
Banking
England

Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (48.15%) AWS
2 9 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (11.11%) Azure
3 3 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
1 9 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
1 9 (33.33%) Firewall
1 9 (33.33%) LAN
1 9 (33.33%) Unified Communications
1 9 (33.33%) VLAN
1 9 (33.33%) WAN
1 9 (33.33%) WebEx
2 2 (7.41%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Big Data
General
1 20 (74.07%) Retail
2 10 (37.04%) Marketing
2 10 (37.04%) Public Sector
2 10 (37.04%) Telecoms
3 4 (14.81%) Finance
4 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Games
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Account Manager
2 6 (22.22%) Collaboration Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Voice Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Voice Network Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Technical Advisor
4 2 (7.41%) Telephony Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Business Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Java Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Portfolio Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Senior
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Portfolio Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) XMPP
2 1 (3.70%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (33.33%) FlexPod
1 9 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 9 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 9 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
2 6 (22.22%) Replication
3 3 (11.11%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Linux
1 6 (22.22%) Windows
1 6 (22.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) Cybersecurity
1 10 (37.04%) Data Management
2 9 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
3 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (11.11%) Analytics
4 3 (11.11%) Cash Management
4 3 (11.11%) Complexity Analysis
4 3 (11.11%) Data Governance
4 3 (11.11%) Data Integration
4 3 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (11.11%) Data Science
4 3 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 3 (11.11%) ETL
4 3 (11.11%) Machine Learning
4 3 (11.11%) Predictive Analytics
4 3 (11.11%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (3.70%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 6 (22.22%) Virtual Servers
1 6 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (22.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (33.33%) Ansible
1 9 (33.33%) Cisco CUCM
1 9 (33.33%) Grafana
2 6 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Cisco
1 9 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 9 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 9 (33.33%) Splunk
2 6 (22.22%) NetApp
2 6 (22.22%) VMware
3 2 (7.41%) BT
4 1 (3.70%) Databricks