Banking Job Trends 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 15 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 54 144
Rank change year-on-year -188 +90 -79
Permanent jobs citing Banking 519 1,461 1,352
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.73% 4.32% 1.84%
As % of the General category 1.63% 6.42% 3.35%
Number of salaries quoted 303 569 409
10th Percentile £27,000 £23,504 £31,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £25,087 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -16.00% -3.27%
75th Percentile £75,000 £93,778 £82,958
90th Percentile £97,500 £112,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +20.00%

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 general skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 31,880 22,743 40,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.56% 67.31% 55.02%
Number of salaries quoted 19,551 10,812 25,605
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -3.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £75,772
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Banking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Banking job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Banking
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Banking

Banking
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Banking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

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 15 July 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
North of England -131 167 £75,000 +23.47% 110
North West -73 124 £75,000 +14.18% 64
Midlands -33 112 £62,500 - 50
Scotland -49 93 £31,500 -49.16% 58
South East -9 75 £55,000 -35.29% 95
West Midlands -10 66 £65,000 +1.96% 22
East Midlands -47 46 £50,000 -4.76% 28
East of England -42 33 £50,000 +53.85% 31
South West -154 29 £55,000 -17.13% 32
Yorkshire -130 22 £57,500 -13.36% 37
North East -69 21 £61,250 +144.15% 9
Wales -93 12 £70,000 +179.03% 17
Northern Ireland -61 6 £90,000 +282.91% 9
Banking
UK

Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
1 13 (2.50%) Confluence
2 12 (2.31%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.73%) Apache
4 8 (1.54%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.77%) CMS
5 4 (0.77%) IIS
5 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.39%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.77%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.77%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (0.39%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.39%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 60 (11.56%) AWS
2 40 (7.71%) Azure
3 17 (3.28%) GCP
4 16 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (2.31%) Amazon S3
6 10 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (1.73%) OpenShift
8 7 (1.35%) Entra ID
8 7 (1.35%) GitHub
8 7 (1.35%) Power Platform
9 6 (1.16%) SaaS
10 5 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (0.96%) Serverless
10 5 (0.96%) Snowflake
11 4 (0.77%) Azure AI
11 4 (0.77%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (0.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (0.58%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (0.58%) Figma
12 3 (0.58%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.01%) Broadband
2 9 (1.73%) Cisco ASA
2 9 (1.73%) Cisco Firepower
2 9 (1.73%) Firewall
2 9 (1.73%) LAN
2 9 (1.73%) Unified Communications
2 9 (1.73%) VLAN
2 9 (1.73%) WAN
2 9 (1.73%) WebEx
3 7 (1.35%) Network Security
4 4 (0.77%) ATM
5 3 (0.58%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.39%) SMS
7 1 (0.19%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.89%) Tableau
2 11 (2.12%) SQL Server
3 10 (1.93%) Spark SQL
4 9 (1.73%) Apache Hive
4 9 (1.73%) Impala
4 9 (1.73%) Oracle Database
4 9 (1.73%) Parquet
5 8 (1.54%) MySQL
6 6 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.16%) Power BI
7 5 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.96%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.96%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.77%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.58%) Big Data
9 3 (0.58%) Looker
10 2 (0.39%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.39%) Mixpanel
11 1 (0.19%) Base SAS
Development Applications
1 24 (4.62%) Git
2 17 (3.28%) JIRA
3 9 (1.73%) IBM UrbanCode
4 6 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (1.16%) fastlane
5 4 (0.77%) GitLab
6 2 (0.39%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.39%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.39%) JUnit
7 1 (0.19%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.19%) LSMW
7 1 (0.19%) Maven
7 1 (0.19%) Subversion
General
1 267 (51.45%) Finance
2 143 (27.55%) Social Skills
3 73 (14.07%) Retail
4 64 (12.33%) Legal
5 47 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (7.13%) Presentation Skills
7 31 (5.97%) Games
8 28 (5.39%) Law
9 27 (5.20%) Investment Banking
10 22 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (4.24%) Public Sector
11 18 (3.47%) Marketing
12 12 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (2.31%) Retail Banking
12 12 (2.31%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.73%) Financial Institution
13 9 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.54%) Advertising
15 5 (0.96%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 75 (14.45%) Senior
2 65 (12.52%) Developer
3 59 (11.37%) Analyst
4 33 (6.36%) Business Analyst
5 31 (5.97%) Lead
6 30 (5.78%) Account Manager
7 29 (5.59%) Product Manager
8 28 (5.39%) Senior Developer
9 24 (4.62%) Java Developer
9 24 (4.62%) Senior Manager
10 23 (4.43%) Architect
11 20 (3.85%) Banking Analyst
11 20 (3.85%) Data Scientist
11 20 (3.85%) Software Developer
12 18 (3.47%) Customer Service Advisor
13 17 (3.28%) Digital Product Manager
13 17 (3.28%) Senior Digital Product Manager
13 17 (3.28%) Senior Product Manager
14 16 (3.08%) Service Manager
15 14 (2.70%) Statistician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.66%) Spring
2 17 (3.28%) React
3 16 (3.08%) Spring Boot
4 15 (2.89%) REST
5 14 (2.70%) AngularJS
6 12 (2.31%) PySpark
7 9 (1.73%) XMPP
8 8 (1.54%) AWS CDK
9 6 (1.16%) CSS
9 6 (1.16%) HTML
9 6 (1.16%) JPA
9 6 (1.16%) Kafka
9 6 (1.16%) RESTful
10 5 (0.96%) HTML5
11 4 (0.77%) CSS3
11 4 (0.77%) OAuth
11 4 (0.77%) OAuth2
11 4 (0.77%) Pandas
11 4 (0.77%) PyTorch
11 4 (0.77%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.17%) Podcast
1 32 (6.17%) Web Conferencing
2 24 (4.62%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.05%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.47%) EPoS
6 17 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.93%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.73%) FlexPod
8 9 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (1.73%) Video Conferencing
9 8 (1.54%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.16%) Replication
11 5 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.77%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.77%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.58%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.70%) Windows
2 11 (2.12%) Linux
3 10 (1.93%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.54%) Android
5 6 (1.16%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.58%) Debian
6 3 (0.58%) Gentoo
7 1 (0.19%) AIX
7 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.19%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (21.58%) Problem-Solving
2 91 (17.53%) AI
3 79 (15.22%) Coaching
4 76 (14.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 73 (14.07%) Agile
6 69 (13.29%) Roadmaps
7 58 (11.18%) CI/CD
8 55 (10.60%) Analytics
9 53 (10.21%) DevOps
10 50 (9.63%) Mentoring
11 44 (8.48%) Customer Service
12 40 (7.71%) Risk Management
13 36 (6.94%) Cybersecurity
14 33 (6.36%) Customer Experience
14 33 (6.36%) Statistical Analysis
15 32 (6.17%) Emotional Intelligence
16 30 (5.78%) Test Automation
17 29 (5.59%) Actionable Insight
17 29 (5.59%) Software Engineering
17 29 (5.59%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (11.18%) Python
2 38 (7.32%) Java
3 36 (6.94%) SQL
4 14 (2.70%) C#
5 13 (2.50%) JavaScript
6 11 (2.12%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.16%) Swift
8 5 (0.96%) Bash
9 4 (0.77%) Ruby
10 2 (0.39%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.19%) ABAP
11 1 (0.19%) Delphi
11 1 (0.19%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.19%) PROC SQL
11 1 (0.19%) R
11 1 (0.19%) SAS Macro
11 1 (0.19%) VB
11 1 (0.19%) VB6
11 1 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (5.78%) Degree
2 14 (2.70%) Security Cleared
3 12 (2.31%) CISSP
4 10 (1.93%) DV Cleared
5 9 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 8 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (1.35%) CCSP
7 7 (1.35%) CISM
7 7 (1.35%) ISEB
7 7 (1.35%) ISTQB
7 7 (1.35%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.16%) ACCA
9 5 (0.96%) AAT
9 5 (0.96%) CIMA
10 4 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.58%) OSCP
12 2 (0.39%) CHECK Team Leader
12 2 (0.39%) CHECK Team Member
12 2 (0.39%) Cyber Scheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (9.63%) QA
2 23 (4.43%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.31%) NIST
4 7 (1.35%) GDPR
5 5 (0.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (0.96%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.77%) NCSC
6 4 (0.77%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.58%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.58%) GRC
7 3 (0.58%) PMO
7 3 (0.58%) SEPA
7 3 (0.58%) SLA
8 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.39%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.39%) PSD2
8 2 (0.39%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.19%) COBIT
System Software
1 13 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
2 12 (2.31%) Docker
3 7 (1.35%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.16%) vSphere
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 18 (3.47%) Terraform
2 17 (3.28%) Grafana
3 13 (2.50%) Ansible
4 9 (1.73%) Cisco CUCM
5 7 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.96%) Kubernetes
6 5 (0.96%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.58%) Podman
8 2 (0.39%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 40 (7.71%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.01%) BT
3 16 (3.08%) Splunk
4 11 (2.12%) Oracle
5 10 (1.93%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.73%) Cisco
6 9 (1.73%) Fortinet
6 9 (1.73%) Palo Alto
6 9 (1.73%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.35%) Databricks
7 7 (1.35%) SAP
7 7 (1.35%) SolarWinds
8 6 (1.16%) NetApp
8 6 (1.16%) VMware
9 5 (0.96%) Google
9 5 (0.96%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.77%) Apple
10 4 (0.77%) Workday
11 3 (0.58%) BMC
11 3 (0.58%) TOWER Software