Banking Jobs in the UK excluding London

Banking
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 108 58
Rank change year-on-year +74 -50 +73
Permanent jobs citing Banking 2,134 1,823 3,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.79% 2.59% 5.23%
As % of the General category 9.00% 4.51% 7.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,152 813 1,684
10th Percentile - £38,591 £41,227
25th Percentile £23,504 £52,500 £51,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,625 £70,576 £64,691
Median % change year-on-year -63.69% +9.10% +11.90%
75th Percentile £73,886 £91,934 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £100,064 £97,328
UK median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -15.15% +10.00% +1.35%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 23,718 40,422 42,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 64.40% 57.49% 69.14%
Number of salaries quoted 11,848 26,416 19,196
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,625 £82,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Banking in the UK excluding London

Banking
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Banking in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Banking in the UK excluding London

Banking
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Banking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Banking in the UK excluding London

Banking
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
North of England +83 913 £25,625 -63.69% 166
North West +82 458 £25,000 -64.29% 111
Scotland +28 446 £45,000 -37.93% 78
Yorkshire +40 286 £60,743 -13.93% 43
South West +29 279 £48,507 -31.27% 56
Wales +89 264 £23,504 -66.70% 36
North East +70 169 £25,087 -55.79% 12
South East +50 71 £70,000 +16.67% 253
East of England +85 65 £32,500 -45.83% 29
Midlands +28 55 £63,750 +15.91% 76
Northern Ireland +52 35 £23,504 -76.50% 15
West Midlands +17 33 £70,000 +27.27% 43
East Midlands +27 20 £30,134 -56.95% 27
Isle of Man - 4 - -
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 -
Banking
UK

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 46 (2.16%) SAS
2 45 (2.11%) Confluence
3 11 (0.52%) Umbraco
4 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.37%) NetWeaver
5 6 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.23%) CMS
6 5 (0.23%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.23%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.19%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.14%) CICS
8 3 (0.14%) Mule
9 2 (0.094%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.047%) Apache
10 1 (0.047%) GemFire
10 1 (0.047%) OpenStack
Applications
1 57 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 33 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.047%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (0.19%) Oracle BPM
3 3 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.094%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.047%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.047%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.047%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 212 (9.93%) GCP
2 169 (7.92%) Azure
3 112 (5.25%) AWS
4 52 (2.44%) GitHub
5 42 (1.97%) Power Platform
6 36 (1.69%) SaaS
7 19 (0.89%) Apigee
8 17 (0.80%) OpenShift
9 16 (0.75%) npm
9 16 (0.75%) PaaS
9 16 (0.75%) Snowflake
10 15 (0.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 15 (0.70%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (0.56%) Azure Machine Learning
11 12 (0.56%) Cloud Composer
11 12 (0.56%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (0.42%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (0.42%) Collibra
13 8 (0.37%) Adobe Analytics
13 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1,060 (49.67%) Broadband
2 20 (0.94%) Internet
3 10 (0.47%) Network Security
4 8 (0.37%) DKIM
4 8 (0.37%) DMARC
4 8 (0.37%) DNSSEC
4 8 (0.37%) HTTP
4 8 (0.37%) SMTP
5 7 (0.33%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.33%) VPN
6 6 (0.28%) Firewall
7 5 (0.23%) DHCP
7 5 (0.23%) DNS
7 5 (0.23%) NAS
7 5 (0.23%) SAN
7 5 (0.23%) VSAN
8 4 (0.19%) LAN
8 4 (0.19%) WAN
9 3 (0.14%) Skype
10 2 (0.094%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (3.19%) Big Data
2 52 (2.44%) NoSQL
3 42 (1.97%) Power BI
4 36 (1.69%) BigQuery
5 33 (1.55%) Tableau
6 31 (1.45%) MongoDB
7 27 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
8 24 (1.12%) Relational Database
9 21 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
9 21 (0.98%) SQL Server
10 15 (0.70%) Metadata
11 14 (0.66%) Data Hub
12 13 (0.61%) Cloud Spanner
13 9 (0.42%) Ataccama
13 9 (0.42%) Data Lake
13 9 (0.42%) DB2
13 9 (0.42%) Looker
14 8 (0.37%) Metadata Repository
14 8 (0.37%) SAP HANA
15 6 (0.28%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 96 (4.50%) Git
2 89 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 64 (3.00%) JIRA
4 29 (1.36%) Oracle Forms
4 29 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
5 26 (1.22%) Cucumber
6 25 (1.17%) SonarQube
7 23 (1.08%) Maven
7 23 (1.08%) webpack
8 19 (0.89%) GitLab
9 15 (0.70%) Cypress.io
9 15 (0.70%) IBM UrbanCode
9 15 (0.70%) JUnit
10 9 (0.42%) Gradle
11 7 (0.33%) Artifactory
11 7 (0.33%) git-flow
12 6 (0.28%) Selenium
12 6 (0.28%) Xcode
12 6 (0.28%) XCTest
13 5 (0.23%) Spinnaker
General
1 910 (42.64%) Finance
2 556 (26.05%) Games
3 361 (16.92%) Social Skills
4 214 (10.03%) Analytical Skills
5 79 (3.70%) Legal
6 61 (2.86%) Financial Institution
7 56 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 55 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
8 55 (2.58%) Retail
9 44 (2.06%) French Language
10 40 (1.87%) German Language
11 34 (1.59%) Billing
12 32 (1.50%) Retail Banking
13 30 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
14 27 (1.27%) Marketing
15 26 (1.22%) Law
16 25 (1.17%) Investment Banking
17 21 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
18 13 (0.61%) Wholesale Banking
19 11 (0.52%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 585 (27.41%) Customer Service Advisor
2 261 (12.23%) Analyst
3 189 (8.86%) Senior
4 154 (7.22%) Software Engineer
5 140 (6.56%) Lead
6 74 (3.47%) Architect
7 59 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
8 54 (2.53%) Customer Service Representative
9 53 (2.48%) Senior Analyst
9 53 (2.48%) Senior Software Engineer
10 52 (2.44%) Credit Analyst
10 52 (2.44%) Developer
11 46 (2.16%) Data Analyst
11 46 (2.16%) Sales Representative
12 40 (1.87%) Research Analyst
13 37 (1.73%) Graduate
14 35 (1.64%) Operations Analyst
15 34 (1.59%) Service Analyst
16 32 (1.50%) Data Manager
17 29 (1.36%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (4.22%) Spring Boot
2 73 (3.42%) React
3 67 (3.14%) Spring
4 63 (2.95%) RESTful
5 60 (2.81%) Software Packaging
6 51 (2.39%) Kafka
7 47 (2.20%) Node.js
8 26 (1.22%) CSS
8 26 (1.22%) HTML
8 26 (1.22%) Web Services
9 23 (1.08%) OAuth
10 19 (0.89%) AngularJS
11 18 (0.84%) Jest
12 15 (0.70%) .NET
13 13 (0.61%) Hibernate
14 12 (0.56%) Ajax
14 12 (0.56%) JWT
14 12 (0.56%) Middleware
14 12 (0.56%) OAuth2
15 11 (0.52%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 119 (5.58%) Product Ownership
2 92 (4.31%) Credit Risk
3 70 (3.28%) Public Cloud
4 57 (2.67%) Cloud Native
5 50 (2.34%) Management Information System
6 41 (1.92%) Algorithms
6 41 (1.92%) Fixed Income
7 37 (1.73%) Learning Management System
8 33 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
9 32 (1.50%) Mobile App
10 30 (1.41%) Mainframe
11 25 (1.17%) Private Cloud
12 23 (1.08%) Hackathon
13 20 (0.94%) Virtual Team
14 18 (0.84%) Data Structures
14 18 (0.84%) Onboarding
14 18 (0.84%) Online Banking
15 15 (0.70%) Market Risk
15 15 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
16 14 (0.66%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 48 (2.25%) Linux
2 41 (1.92%) Windows
3 35 (1.64%) Unix
4 23 (1.08%) Android
5 16 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.70%) zOS
7 12 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.28%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.23%) AIX
9 5 (0.23%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.094%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 742 (34.77%) Customer Service
2 735 (34.44%) Problem-Solving
3 361 (16.92%) Agile
4 298 (13.96%) Software Engineering
5 251 (11.76%) Analytics
6 203 (9.51%) DevOps
7 170 (7.97%) Artificial Intelligence
8 166 (7.78%) Microservices
9 157 (7.36%) CI/CD
10 155 (7.26%) Decision-Making
10 155 (7.26%) Risk Management
11 148 (6.94%) Mentoring
12 143 (6.70%) Fintech
12 143 (6.70%) Mathematics
13 140 (6.56%) Coaching
14 135 (6.33%) Test Automation
15 116 (5.44%) Containerisation
15 116 (5.44%) Stakeholder Management
16 115 (5.39%) Cybersecurity
17 107 (5.01%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 223 (10.45%) SQL
2 214 (10.03%) Java
3 180 (8.43%) Python
4 97 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 52 (2.44%) C#
6 33 (1.55%) TypeScript
7 31 (1.45%) Kotlin
8 29 (1.36%) Go
9 25 (1.17%) Bash
10 12 (0.56%) JCL
10 12 (0.56%) R
11 10 (0.47%) PowerShell
12 9 (0.42%) C
13 8 (0.37%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.37%) Swift
14 6 (0.28%) VBA
15 5 (0.23%) Groovy
15 5 (0.23%) Perl
15 5 (0.23%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.19%) Jython
Qualifications
1 272 (12.75%) Degree
2 94 (4.40%) Master's Degree
3 40 (1.87%) CFA
3 40 (1.87%) PhD
4 15 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
5 13 (0.61%) PMP
6 11 (0.52%) OCP
7 10 (0.47%) AWS Certification
8 8 (0.37%) CRISC
9 6 (0.28%) CISA
9 6 (0.28%) CISM
9 6 (0.28%) CISSP
9 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.23%) AAT
10 5 (0.23%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.23%) CBAP
10 5 (0.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (0.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (0.19%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (2.30%) Accessibility
2 32 (1.50%) QA
3 29 (1.36%) Data Quality
4 19 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (0.56%) IFRS
5 12 (0.56%) IFRS 9
6 11 (0.52%) GDPR
7 9 (0.42%) SLA
8 8 (0.37%) Basel III
8 8 (0.37%) ITGC
8 8 (0.37%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.33%) Basel II
9 7 (0.33%) COBIT
9 7 (0.33%) Dodd-Frank
10 4 (0.19%) CRD IV
11 3 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.14%) GMP
11 3 (0.14%) GRC
11 3 (0.14%) GxP
11 3 (0.14%) NIST
System Software
1 134 (6.28%) Docker
2 17 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.23%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.19%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.094%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.047%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.047%) HDFS
6 1 (0.047%) NFS
Systems Management
1 170 (7.97%) Kubernetes
2 80 (3.75%) Terraform
3 22 (1.03%) Ansible
4 16 (0.75%) Istio
5 11 (0.52%) Grafana
5 11 (0.52%) Prometheus
5 11 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.47%) Progress Chef
7 9 (0.42%) CA Endevor
8 6 (0.28%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 4 (0.19%) Argo
10 2 (0.094%) MAINVIEW
10 2 (0.094%) Puppet
10 2 (0.094%) Tivoli NetView
11 1 (0.047%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.047%) CA Service Virtualization
11 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1,060 (49.67%) BT
2 110 (5.15%) Google
3 100 (4.69%) Microsoft
4 50 (2.34%) IBM
5 49 (2.30%) Oracle
6 41 (1.92%) Bloomberg
7 26 (1.22%) Sun
8 15 (0.70%) Adobe
9 14 (0.66%) ServiceNow
10 12 (0.56%) Cisco
10 12 (0.56%) Databricks
11 10 (0.47%) SAP
12 9 (0.42%) Dynatrace
12 9 (0.42%) VMware
13 8 (0.37%) Avaloq
13 8 (0.37%) IronPort
13 8 (0.37%) Veritas
14 6 (0.28%) Apple
15 4 (0.19%) Atlassian
15 4 (0.19%) F5