VocaLink Job Trends in the UK excluding London

VocaLink
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of VocaLink products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VocaLink over the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within VocaLink Limited.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 648 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing VocaLink 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.022% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median annual salary - - -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

VocaLink falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17,978 14,249 18,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.35% 41.19% 30.88%
Number of salaries quoted 10,923 7,507 11,250
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -9.47% -5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.65% -1.90% -8.70%

VocaLink
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

VocaLink job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

VocaLink
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

VocaLink
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 VocaLink within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
Yorkshire - 4 - - 2
North of England - 4 - - 2
VocaLink
UK

VocaLink
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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) NonStop SQL
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Digital Economy
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (75.00%) EMV
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (100.00%) Information Security
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Product Strategy
1 4 (100.00%) Release Management
1 4 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 4 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 4 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Service Management
1 4 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 4 (100.00%) Time Management
2 3 (75.00%) Cryptography
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) COBOL
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) ISO 8583
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) HP