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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 61 30
Rank change year-on-year +39 -31 +109
Permanent jobs citing Banking 290 371 532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.18% 3.79% 8.02%
As % of the General category 12.61% 7.23% 12.74%
Number of salaries quoted 183 102 331
10th Percentile £25,000 £43,592 £41,227
25th Percentile £25,087 £53,750 £53,595
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,235 £70,576 £64,750
Median % change year-on-year -57.16% +9.00% +6.89%
75th Percentile £73,886 £96,539 £77,715
90th Percentile £97,500 £125,000 £101,185
England median annual salary £71,991 £86,600 £75,000
% change year-on-year -16.87% +15.47% -

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 2,300 5,133 4,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 64.84% 52.40% 63.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,265 3,475 2,300
10th Percentile £25,267 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £36,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -5.45% +2.79%
75th Percentile £63,908 £60,174 £67,070
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,565 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.84% -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 31 May 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 31 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
Bristol +41 135 £66,367 -5.96% 22
Devon +64 69 £25,087 -37.28% 5
Cornwall - 58 £25,087 -
Dorset -34 20 - - 3
Wiltshire +50 6 £58,750 +4.44% 4
Somerset +11 2 £95,000 +90.00% 6
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 (3.10%) SAS
2 2 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (0.69%) CMS
2 2 (0.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 43 (14.83%) GCP
2 37 (12.76%) Azure
3 30 (10.34%) AWS
4 15 (5.17%) Power Platform
5 11 (3.79%) npm
6 9 (3.10%) PaaS
7 8 (2.76%) Apigee
8 7 (2.41%) Collibra
9 5 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.38%) Adobe Analytics
10 4 (1.38%) GitHub
10 4 (1.38%) OCI
10 4 (1.38%) SaaS
10 4 (1.38%) Vertex AI
11 2 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.69%) BlazeMeter
11 2 (0.69%) Datadog
11 2 (0.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (0.69%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.69%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 126 (43.45%) Broadband
2 3 (1.03%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.24%) Big Data
2 15 (5.17%) Power BI
3 13 (4.48%) Tableau
4 11 (3.79%) Data Hub
4 11 (3.79%) Metadata
5 9 (3.10%) BigQuery
6 8 (2.76%) Metadata Repository
7 7 (2.41%) Ataccama
8 6 (2.07%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.72%) Looker
9 5 (1.72%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.38%) MySQL
10 4 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.69%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.69%) CockroachDB
11 2 (0.69%) InterSystems Cache
11 2 (0.69%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 27 (9.31%) Git
2 13 (4.48%) Cypress.io
2 13 (4.48%) Sonatype Nexus
3 11 (3.79%) Cucumber
3 11 (3.79%) webpack
4 10 (3.45%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.41%) GitLab
6 6 (2.07%) JIRA
6 6 (2.07%) JUnit
7 5 (1.72%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (1.38%) IBM UrbanCode
8 4 (1.38%) Maven
9 3 (1.03%) Xcode
9 3 (1.03%) XCTest
10 2 (0.69%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.69%) Mockito
10 2 (0.69%) Selenium
10 2 (0.69%) SonarQube
General
1 140 (48.28%) Finance
2 124 (42.76%) Games
3 48 (16.55%) Social Skills
4 23 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (5.17%) Law
6 15 (5.17%) Retail
7 10 (3.45%) Private Banking
8 6 (2.07%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.38%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.03%) Marketing
10 3 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.03%) Public Speaking
11 2 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.69%) Legal
11 2 (0.69%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 124 (42.76%) Customer Service Advisor
2 38 (13.10%) Software Engineer
3 31 (10.69%) Analyst
4 21 (7.24%) Lead
5 15 (5.17%) Data Analyst
6 12 (4.14%) Data Manager
6 12 (4.14%) Java Engineer
7 11 (3.79%) Senior
8 9 (3.10%) Architect
8 9 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (2.41%) Data Scientist
9 7 (2.41%) Service Analyst
10 6 (2.07%) Data Engineer
10 6 (2.07%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (2.07%) Lead Java Engineer
11 5 (1.72%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 5 (1.72%) Lead Data Engineer
11 5 (1.72%) Provisioning Engineer
12 4 (1.38%) Quality Manager
12 4 (1.38%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.28%) Spring Boot
2 23 (7.93%) React
3 17 (5.86%) RESTful
4 15 (5.17%) Spring
5 13 (4.48%) AngularJS
5 13 (4.48%) Node.js
6 12 (4.14%) Kafka
6 12 (4.14%) Software Packaging
7 11 (3.79%) Jest
7 11 (3.79%) Web Services
8 6 (2.07%) React Native
9 5 (1.72%) REST
10 4 (1.38%) Hibernate
10 4 (1.38%) Pandas
10 4 (1.38%) XGBoost
11 3 (1.03%) JPA
11 3 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
11 3 (1.03%) SwiftUI
12 2 (0.69%) HTML5
12 2 (0.69%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 17 (5.86%) Public Cloud
3 12 (4.14%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 10 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.41%) Reference Data
6 6 (2.07%) DataPower
6 6 (2.07%) Distributed Applications
6 6 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.38%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.38%) Robotics
7 4 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.03%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.03%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.03%) W3C
9 2 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.69%) Replication
10 1 (0.34%) Online Banking
10 1 (0.34%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.45%) Android
1 10 (3.45%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.69%) Linux
2 2 (0.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (53.10%) Problem-Solving
2 134 (46.21%) Customer Service
3 74 (25.52%) Agile
4 57 (19.66%) Analytics
5 55 (18.97%) Software Engineering
6 40 (13.79%) CI/CD
7 35 (12.07%) Artificial Intelligence
8 31 (10.69%) DevOps
8 31 (10.69%) Visualisation
9 30 (10.34%) Microservices
10 29 (10.00%) Containerisation
10 29 (10.00%) Mathematics
11 26 (8.97%) Test Automation
12 23 (7.93%) Data Analytics
12 23 (7.93%) Event-Driven
12 23 (7.93%) Mentoring
13 21 (7.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 21 (7.24%) Machine Learning
14 20 (6.90%) Decision-Making
15 19 (6.55%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 41 (14.14%) Java
2 40 (13.79%) SQL
3 26 (8.97%) Python
4 13 (4.48%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.07%) Bash
6 4 (1.38%) C#
6 4 (1.38%) Go
6 4 (1.38%) Swift
6 4 (1.38%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.69%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.69%) R
Qualifications
1 35 (12.07%) Degree
2 6 (2.07%) AWS Certification
2 6 (2.07%) Master's Degree
3 3 (1.03%) PhD
4 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.34%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.17%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.79%) QA
3 9 (3.10%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.41%) SLA
5 3 (1.03%) GDPR
6 1 (0.34%) GRC
System Software
1 31 (10.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (8.97%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.76%) Terraform
3 2 (0.69%) Grafana
3 2 (0.69%) Istio
3 2 (0.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 126 (43.45%) BT
2 25 (8.62%) Google
3 16 (5.52%) Microsoft
4 13 (4.48%) Oracle
5 8 (2.76%) Avaloq
6 6 (2.07%) Adobe
6 6 (2.07%) Apple
6 6 (2.07%) IBM
7 4 (1.38%) Databricks
7 4 (1.38%) F5
8 2 (0.69%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.69%) Fiserv
8 2 (0.69%) Sybase
8 2 (0.69%) TSYS
9 1 (0.34%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.34%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.34%) SAP
9 1 (0.34%) Teradata