Banking Analyst Jobs

Banking Analyst
UK

The median Banking Analyst salary in the UK is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 665 820 880
Rank change year-on-year +155 +60 +291
Permanent jobs requiring a Banking Analyst 37 87 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.084% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.089% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 23 77 84
10th Percentile £34,000 £48,083 £48,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £75,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £85,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -41.18% +51.79% -10.40%
75th Percentile £70,000 £112,500 £75,313
90th Percentile £73,750 £138,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £42,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year -22.62% -18.05% +16.48%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 50,444 98,297 87,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.33% 94.81% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 26,384 69,991 55,965
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,748 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.49%

Banking Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Banking Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Banking Analyst in the UK

Banking Analyst
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Banking Analyst.

Salary trend for Banking Analyst in the UK

Banking Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Banking Analyst over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Banking Analyst in the UK

Banking Analyst
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Banking Analyst within the UK 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
England +119 34 £57,500 -32.35% 18
London +51 27 £65,000 -23.53% 16
Work from Home +85 13 £36,000 -57.65% 5
UK excluding London +186 9 £32,500 -22.62% 5
North of England +41 4 £32,500 - 1
North West +4 3 £32,500 - 1
Scotland +123 2 - -
South East +76 2 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - - 1

Banking Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, Banking Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Banking Analyst in the job title.

1 37 (100.00%) Banking
2 27 (72.97%) Finance
3 15 (40.54%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (35.14%) SQL
4 13 (35.14%) Microsoft
4 13 (35.14%) Social Skills
5 12 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (32.43%) Investment Banking
6 11 (29.73%) Unix
6 11 (29.73%) Linux
6 11 (29.73%) Microsoft Excel
6 11 (29.73%) Relational Database
7 10 (27.03%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (21.62%) Change Management
8 8 (21.62%) ITSM
8 8 (21.62%) Windows
8 8 (21.62%) Python
8 8 (21.62%) JIRA
8 8 (21.62%) Computer Science
9 7 (18.92%) FIX Protocol
9 7 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (18.92%) Customer Service
10 6 (16.22%) Degree
10 6 (16.22%) Git
10 6 (16.22%) Bash
10 6 (16.22%) Confluence
11 5 (13.51%) Reference Data
11 5 (13.51%) Remedy ITSM
11 5 (13.51%) Release Management
11 5 (13.51%) SCCM

Banking Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (16.22%) Confluence
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.70%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (40.54%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (29.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (5.41%) SaaS
3 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (29.73%) Relational Database
2 5 (13.51%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (13.51%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.70%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.70%) KDB
3 1 (2.70%) Metadata
3 1 (2.70%) Power BI
3 1 (2.70%) QlikView
3 1 (2.70%) SAS EBI
3 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (21.62%) JIRA
2 6 (16.22%) Git
General
1 37 (100.00%) Banking
2 27 (72.97%) Finance
3 13 (35.14%) Social Skills
4 12 (32.43%) Investment Banking
5 7 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (13.51%) Retail Banking
7 4 (10.81%) Front Office
8 2 (5.41%) Retail
9 1 (2.70%) Advertising
9 1 (2.70%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (2.70%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Blackberry
1 5 (13.51%) Management Information System
1 5 (13.51%) Reference Data
1 5 (13.51%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (10.81%) Data Centre
2 4 (10.81%) Equities
3 3 (8.11%) Fixed Income
3 3 (8.11%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.41%) Derivative
4 2 (5.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.70%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.70%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 11 (29.73%) Linux
1 11 (29.73%) Unix
2 8 (21.62%) Windows
3 5 (13.51%) Windows 10
4 3 (8.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (8.11%) Rocky
4 3 (8.11%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.70%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (27.03%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (21.62%) Change Management
3 8 (21.62%) Computer Science
3 8 (21.62%) ITSM
4 7 (18.92%) Customer Service
5 5 (13.51%) Agile
5 5 (13.51%) Data Governance
5 5 (13.51%) Process Improvement
5 5 (13.51%) Release Management
6 4 (10.81%) CRM
6 4 (10.81%) Data Analysis
6 4 (10.81%) Internal Audit
6 4 (10.81%) ITIL
6 4 (10.81%) Wealth Management
7 3 (8.11%) Analytical Thinking
7 3 (8.11%) Business Case
7 3 (8.11%) Client Onboarding
7 3 (8.11%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 13 (35.14%) SQL
2 8 (21.62%) Python
3 6 (16.22%) Bash
4 5 (13.51%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.70%) Java
5 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) Degree
2 3 (8.11%) A+ Certification
2 3 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (8.11%) DBS Check
2 3 (8.11%) MOS
3 2 (5.41%) PMI Certification
3 2 (5.41%) PMP
4 1 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.70%) MBA
4 1 (2.70%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) SLA
2 1 (2.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) SCCM
2 3 (8.11%) Grafana
3 1 (2.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (35.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.51%) Oracle
2 5 (13.51%) Remedy
3 3 (8.11%) Atlassian
3 3 (8.11%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.70%) Bloomberg