Banking Jobs 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 20 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 65 29
Rank change year-on-year +49 -36 +101
Permanent jobs citing Banking 333 373 540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.34% 3.47% 8.40%
As % of the General category 14.46% 6.86% 13.60%
Number of salaries quoted 200 96 337
10th Percentile £25,000 £42,865 £40,454
25th Percentile £25,087 £50,000 £51,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,625 £70,576 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -63.69% +12.92% +2.21%
75th Percentile £70,834 £91,934 £77,715
90th Percentile £94,150 £125,000 £97,290
England median annual salary £70,000 £90,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year -22.22% +19.12% +0.74%

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 common skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,303 5,439 3,972
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 64.58% 50.54% 61.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,304 3,599 2,277
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £34,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -5.45% +4.66%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £67,070
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Banking in the South West

Banking
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Banking in the South West

Banking
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Banking in the South West over the 6 months to 20 June 2025.

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 20 June 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
Bristol +46 136 £66,367 -5.96% 94
Devon +74 87 £25,087 -37.28% 35
Cornwall - 72 £25,087 -
Dorset -24 31 - - 31
Wiltshire +54 5 £62,500 +8.70% 44
Somerset +19 2 £95,000 +90.00% 26
Banking
England

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (2.70%) SAS
2 4 (1.20%) Confluence
3 2 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.60%) CMS
Applications
1 17 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (4.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 43 (12.91%) GCP
2 37 (11.11%) Azure
3 35 (10.51%) AWS
4 16 (4.80%) Power Platform
5 11 (3.30%) npm
6 9 (2.70%) PaaS
7 8 (2.40%) Apigee
8 7 (2.10%) Collibra
9 5 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.20%) Adobe Analytics
10 4 (1.20%) GitHub
10 4 (1.20%) OCI
10 4 (1.20%) SaaS
10 4 (1.20%) Vertex AI
11 2 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.60%) BlazeMeter
11 2 (0.60%) Datadog
11 2 (0.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (0.60%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.60%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 158 (47.45%) Broadband
2 3 (0.90%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.31%) Big Data
2 16 (4.80%) Power BI
3 13 (3.90%) Tableau
4 11 (3.30%) Data Hub
4 11 (3.30%) Metadata
5 9 (2.70%) BigQuery
6 8 (2.40%) Metadata Repository
7 7 (2.10%) Ataccama
7 7 (2.10%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.80%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.50%) Looker
9 5 (1.50%) MySQL
9 5 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.20%) CockroachDB
11 3 (0.90%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.60%) InterSystems Cache
12 2 (0.60%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 28 (8.41%) Git
2 13 (3.90%) Cypress.io
2 13 (3.90%) Sonatype Nexus
3 11 (3.30%) Cucumber
3 11 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.30%) webpack
4 9 (2.70%) JIRA
5 8 (2.40%) JUnit
6 7 (2.10%) GitLab
7 6 (1.80%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (1.50%) Maven
9 4 (1.20%) IBM UrbanCode
10 3 (0.90%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.90%) Mockito
10 3 (0.90%) Xcode
10 3 (0.90%) XCTest
11 2 (0.60%) Selenium
11 2 (0.60%) SonarQube
General
1 156 (46.85%) Games
2 150 (45.05%) Finance
3 55 (16.52%) Social Skills
4 27 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (6.31%) Law
7 14 (4.20%) Retail
8 10 (3.00%) Private Banking
9 8 (2.40%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.50%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.90%) Marketing
12 3 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.90%) Public Speaking
13 2 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.60%) Legal
13 2 (0.60%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 156 (46.85%) Customer Service Advisor
2 42 (12.61%) Software Engineer
3 33 (9.91%) Analyst
4 22 (6.61%) Lead
5 15 (4.50%) Data Analyst
6 14 (4.20%) Java Engineer
7 12 (3.60%) Data Manager
8 11 (3.30%) Senior
9 9 (2.70%) Architect
9 9 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (2.40%) Java Software Engineer
11 7 (2.10%) Service Analyst
11 7 (2.10%) Technical Manager
12 6 (1.80%) Data Engineer
12 6 (1.80%) Data Scientist
12 6 (1.80%) Lead Java Engineer
13 5 (1.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 5 (1.50%) Lead Data Engineer
13 5 (1.50%) Project Manager
13 5 (1.50%) Provisioning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (8.41%) React
2 26 (7.81%) Spring Boot
3 20 (6.01%) Spring
4 17 (5.11%) RESTful
5 16 (4.80%) Kafka
6 15 (4.50%) Node.js
7 13 (3.90%) AngularJS
8 12 (3.60%) Software Packaging
9 11 (3.30%) Jest
9 11 (3.30%) Web Services
10 7 (2.10%) REST
11 6 (1.80%) React Native
12 5 (1.50%) Hibernate
13 4 (1.20%) Pandas
13 4 (1.20%) XGBoost
14 3 (0.90%) gRPC
14 3 (0.90%) Java EE
14 3 (0.90%) JPA
14 3 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
14 3 (0.90%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.61%) Product Ownership
2 19 (5.71%) Public Cloud
3 13 (3.90%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.60%) Data Structures
5 10 (3.00%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.70%) Reference Data
7 6 (1.80%) DataPower
7 6 (1.80%) Distributed Applications
7 6 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.20%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.20%) Robotics
10 3 (0.90%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.90%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.90%) W3C
11 2 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.60%) Replication
12 1 (0.30%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.30%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.00%) Android
1 10 (3.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.90%) Linux
3 2 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (57.36%) Problem-Solving
2 166 (49.85%) Customer Service
3 83 (24.92%) Agile
4 60 (18.02%) Analytics
4 60 (18.02%) Software Engineering
5 43 (12.91%) CI/CD
6 38 (11.41%) Artificial Intelligence
7 33 (9.91%) Visualisation
8 32 (9.61%) Microservices
9 31 (9.31%) DevOps
10 29 (8.71%) Containerisation
10 29 (8.71%) Mathematics
11 27 (8.11%) Test Automation
12 26 (7.81%) Decision-Making
13 25 (7.51%) Event-Driven
13 25 (7.51%) Machine Learning
14 24 (7.21%) Data Analytics
15 23 (6.91%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (6.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 23 (6.91%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 46 (13.81%) Java
2 43 (12.91%) SQL
3 27 (8.11%) Python
4 15 (4.50%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.80%) Bash
6 5 (1.50%) Go
7 4 (1.20%) C#
7 4 (1.20%) Swift
7 4 (1.20%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.90%) R
9 2 (0.60%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.30%) C++
10 1 (0.30%) Rust
Qualifications
1 36 (10.81%) Degree
2 8 (2.40%) AWS Certification
3 5 (1.50%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (0.60%) PhD
5 1 (0.30%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.50%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.30%) QA
3 9 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.10%) SLA
5 3 (0.90%) GDPR
6 1 (0.30%) GRC
System Software
1 32 (9.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (8.41%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.70%) Terraform
3 2 (0.60%) Grafana
3 2 (0.60%) Istio
3 2 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 158 (47.45%) BT
2 26 (7.81%) Google
3 17 (5.11%) Microsoft
4 16 (4.80%) Oracle
5 8 (2.40%) Avaloq
6 6 (1.80%) Adobe
6 6 (1.80%) Apple
6 6 (1.80%) IBM
7 4 (1.20%) Databricks
7 4 (1.20%) F5
8 3 (0.90%) Sybase
9 2 (0.60%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.60%) Fiserv
9 2 (0.60%) SAP
9 2 (0.60%) TSYS
10 1 (0.30%) Hyperion
10 1 (0.30%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.30%) Teradata