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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 110 58
Rank change year-on-year +80 -52 +65
Permanent jobs citing Banking 2,596 1,763 3,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.58% 2.48% 5.21%
As % of the General category 9.82% 4.33% 7.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,212 749 1,627
10th Percentile - £37,500 £39,931
25th Percentile £23,504 £50,172 £51,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £70,000 £64,598
Median % change year-on-year -64.16% +8.36% +8.57%
75th Percentile £73,886 £91,934 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £100,064 £97,328
UK median annual salary £58,000 £83,577 £75,000
% change year-on-year -30.60% +11.44% +2.95%

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 26,445 40,720 40,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 67.03% 57.39% 68.67%
Number of salaries quoted 12,137 26,411 18,468
10th Percentile £25,250 £26,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £37,418
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -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 16 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 16 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 +89 1,066 £25,087 -64.16% 144
North West +94 574 £23,504 -66.16% 95
Scotland +28 554 £26,968 -62.80% 83
Wales +85 394 £23,504 -54.39% 37
South West +35 288 £44,460 -37.00% 41
Yorkshire +47 277 £48,507 -31.27% 48
North East +67 215 £25,087 -55.79% 4
Midlands +61 117 £65,000 +18.18% 71
East of England +79 74 £32,500 -35.00% 16
South East +40 67 £77,500 +29.17% 324
East Midlands +45 61 £35,000 -50.00% 27
West Midlands +44 54 £70,000 +27.27% 41
Northern Ireland +58 32 £23,504 -71.51% 25
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
1 198 (7.63%) Confluence
2 38 (1.46%) SAS
3 11 (0.42%) Umbraco
4 6 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.19%) CMS
5 5 (0.19%) NetWeaver
6 4 (0.15%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.077%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.039%) Apache
9 1 (0.039%) CICS
9 1 (0.039%) GemFire
9 1 (0.039%) OpenStack
Applications
1 50 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 30 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.039%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (0.15%) Oracle BPM
3 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.039%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.039%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.039%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.039%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.039%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 399 (15.37%) Azure
2 350 (13.48%) GCP
3 340 (13.10%) AWS
4 40 (1.54%) GitHub
4 40 (1.54%) Power Platform
5 29 (1.12%) SaaS
6 18 (0.69%) Apigee
7 17 (0.65%) Snowflake
8 15 (0.58%) OpenShift
9 14 (0.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 13 (0.50%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (0.50%) npm
10 13 (0.50%) PaaS
11 12 (0.46%) Azure Machine Learning
11 12 (0.46%) Cloud Composer
11 12 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (0.35%) Collibra
13 8 (0.31%) Adobe Analytics
13 8 (0.31%) OCI
14 6 (0.23%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1,295 (49.88%) Broadband
2 18 (0.69%) Internet
3 10 (0.39%) Network Security
4 6 (0.23%) DKIM
4 6 (0.23%) DMARC
4 6 (0.23%) DNSSEC
4 6 (0.23%) SMTP
5 5 (0.19%) DHCP
5 5 (0.19%) DNS
5 5 (0.19%) NAS
5 5 (0.19%) SAN
5 5 (0.19%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.19%) VPN
5 5 (0.19%) VSAN
6 4 (0.15%) Firewall
6 4 (0.15%) HTTP
7 3 (0.12%) Skype
8 2 (0.077%) LAN
8 2 (0.077%) SNA
8 2 (0.077%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 263 (10.13%) SQL Server
2 69 (2.66%) Big Data
3 42 (1.62%) NoSQL
4 40 (1.54%) Power BI
5 36 (1.39%) BigQuery
6 30 (1.16%) Tableau
7 28 (1.08%) MongoDB
8 23 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (0.58%) Metadata
10 15 (0.58%) Relational Database
11 14 (0.54%) Data Hub
12 13 (0.50%) Cloud Spanner
13 9 (0.35%) Ataccama
13 9 (0.35%) Data Lake
13 9 (0.35%) Looker
14 8 (0.31%) Metadata Repository
15 7 (0.27%) DB2
16 6 (0.23%) Hadoop
17 5 (0.19%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 307 (11.83%) JIRA
2 272 (10.48%) Sonatype Nexus
3 270 (10.40%) SonarQube
4 266 (10.25%) Maven
5 265 (10.21%) Cucumber
6 264 (10.17%) GitLab
7 250 (9.63%) Selenium
8 246 (9.48%) Bitbucket
9 83 (3.20%) Git
10 73 (2.81%) Jenkins
11 25 (0.96%) Oracle Forms
12 18 (0.69%) webpack
13 13 (0.50%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.50%) IBM UrbanCode
14 12 (0.46%) JUnit
15 6 (0.23%) Xcode
15 6 (0.23%) XCTest
16 4 (0.15%) Gradle
16 4 (0.15%) Visual Studio
17 3 (0.12%) Spinnaker
General
1 1,142 (43.99%) Finance
2 764 (29.43%) Games
3 335 (12.90%) Social Skills
4 296 (11.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 176 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
6 147 (5.66%) Retail
7 109 (4.20%) Investment Banking
8 91 (3.51%) Corporate Banking
9 58 (2.23%) Legal
10 55 (2.12%) Financial Institution
11 47 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
12 38 (1.46%) French Language
13 36 (1.39%) Billing
14 34 (1.31%) German Language
15 30 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
16 29 (1.12%) Marketing
17 28 (1.08%) Retail Banking
18 25 (0.96%) Law
19 21 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
20 14 (0.54%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 795 (30.62%) Customer Service Advisor
2 375 (14.45%) Software Engineer
3 243 (9.36%) Senior
4 239 (9.21%) Analyst
5 136 (5.24%) Lead
6 83 (3.20%) Designer
7 79 (3.04%) Senior Designer
7 79 (3.04%) Senior UX Designer
7 79 (3.04%) UX Designer
8 73 (2.81%) Architect
9 56 (2.16%) Solutions Architect
10 54 (2.08%) Customer Service Representative
11 49 (1.89%) Developer
11 49 (1.89%) Senior Analyst
12 47 (1.81%) Sales Representative
13 44 (1.69%) Data Analyst
13 44 (1.69%) Senior Software Engineer
14 41 (1.58%) Credit Analyst
15 36 (1.39%) Data Manager
15 36 (1.39%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 313 (12.06%) React
2 311 (11.98%) Spring Boot
3 297 (11.44%) Spring
4 288 (11.09%) Kafka
5 265 (10.21%) CSS
6 263 (10.13%) HTML
7 254 (9.78%) Redux
8 249 (9.59%) JPA
9 169 (6.51%) Hibernate
10 146 (5.62%) RESTful
11 106 (4.08%) Jest
12 96 (3.70%) REST
13 92 (3.54%) HTML5
14 91 (3.51%) CSS3
15 90 (3.47%) Sass
16 60 (2.31%) Software Packaging
17 43 (1.66%) Node.js
18 20 (0.77%) OAuth
18 20 (0.77%) Web Services
19 18 (0.69%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 362 (13.94%) Product Ownership
2 250 (9.63%) Enterprise Software
3 73 (2.81%) Credit Risk
4 66 (2.54%) Public Cloud
5 52 (2.00%) Cloud Native
6 45 (1.73%) Management Information System
7 34 (1.31%) Fixed Income
8 33 (1.27%) Algorithms
9 31 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
10 25 (0.96%) Mainframe
11 24 (0.92%) Mobile App
12 23 (0.89%) Private Cloud
13 20 (0.77%) Virtual Team
14 19 (0.73%) Learning Management System
15 18 (0.69%) Data Structures
16 16 (0.62%) Online Banking
17 15 (0.58%) Hackathon
17 15 (0.58%) Market Risk
17 15 (0.58%) Onboarding
18 14 (0.54%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 39 (1.50%) Windows
2 37 (1.43%) Linux
3 24 (0.92%) Android
3 24 (0.92%) Unix
4 16 (0.62%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.42%) zOS
6 10 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.19%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.12%) AIX
8 3 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 942 (36.29%) Customer Service
2 912 (35.13%) Problem-Solving
3 636 (24.50%) Agile
4 505 (19.45%) Software Engineering
5 417 (16.06%) DevOps
6 392 (15.10%) Microservices
7 379 (14.60%) CI/CD
8 357 (13.75%) Test Automation
9 341 (13.14%) Containerisation
10 284 (10.94%) SDLC
11 278 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
12 253 (9.75%) Performance Optimisation
13 251 (9.67%) Front End Development
14 245 (9.44%) Continuous Improvement
15 232 (8.94%) TDD
16 225 (8.67%) Mentoring
17 219 (8.44%) Analytics
17 219 (8.44%) User Experience
18 189 (7.28%) Stakeholder Management
19 171 (6.59%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 440 (16.95%) SQL
2 422 (16.26%) Java
3 327 (12.60%) JavaScript
4 153 (5.89%) Python
5 120 (4.62%) TypeScript
6 42 (1.62%) C#
7 24 (0.92%) Kotlin
8 23 (0.89%) Go
9 17 (0.65%) Bash
10 10 (0.39%) R
11 9 (0.35%) PL/SQL
12 8 (0.31%) JCL
12 8 (0.31%) Swift
13 6 (0.23%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.23%) VBA
14 5 (0.19%) C
14 5 (0.19%) Groovy
15 4 (0.15%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.12%) Perl
16 3 (0.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 243 (9.36%) Degree
2 71 (2.73%) Master's Degree
3 34 (1.31%) CFA
4 22 (0.85%) PhD
5 13 (0.50%) PMP
6 8 (0.31%) CRISC
6 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
7 6 (0.23%) CISA
7 6 (0.23%) CISM
7 6 (0.23%) CISSP
7 6 (0.23%) OCP
8 5 (0.19%) AAT
8 5 (0.19%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.19%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.19%) CBAP
8 5 (0.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (0.15%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.12%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 283 (10.90%) QA
2 217 (8.36%) Accessibility
3 34 (1.31%) Data Quality
4 17 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (0.46%) GDPR
6 10 (0.39%) IFRS
6 10 (0.39%) IFRS 9
6 10 (0.39%) SLA
7 8 (0.31%) Basel III
7 8 (0.31%) ITGC
7 8 (0.31%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.27%) Basel II
8 7 (0.27%) COBIT
8 7 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
9 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.12%) GMP
9 3 (0.12%) GRC
9 3 (0.12%) GxP
9 3 (0.12%) NIST
9 3 (0.12%) PMO
System Software
1 362 (13.94%) Docker
2 16 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.19%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.15%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.077%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.039%) HDFS
6 1 (0.039%) NFS
6 1 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 390 (15.02%) Kubernetes
2 70 (2.70%) Terraform
3 16 (0.62%) Ansible
4 15 (0.58%) Istio
5 11 (0.42%) Grafana
5 11 (0.42%) Prometheus
5 11 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.31%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.15%) Argo
7 4 (0.15%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 3 (0.12%) CA Endevor
9 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.077%) Tivoli NetView
10 1 (0.039%) CA Service Virtualization
10 1 (0.039%) SCOM
10 1 (0.039%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,295 (49.88%) BT
2 247 (9.51%) Solace
3 102 (3.93%) Google
4 88 (3.39%) Microsoft
5 45 (1.73%) Oracle
6 38 (1.46%) IBM
7 35 (1.35%) Bloomberg
8 28 (1.08%) Sun
9 15 (0.58%) Adobe
10 13 (0.50%) Databricks
10 13 (0.50%) ServiceNow
11 11 (0.42%) Cisco
12 8 (0.31%) Avaloq
13 7 (0.27%) Dynatrace
13 7 (0.27%) SAP
13 7 (0.27%) VMware
14 6 (0.23%) Apple
14 6 (0.23%) IronPort
14 6 (0.23%) Veritas
15 4 (0.15%) Atlassian