Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 20 September 2020

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Banking over the 6 months to 20 September 2020 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Banking
UK
6 months to
20 Sep 2020		 Same period 2019 Same period 2018
Rank 61 57 43
Rank change year-on-year -4 -14 -22
Permanent jobs citing Banking 2,193 6,837 9,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.47% 4.84% 5.59%
As % of the General category 11.54% 12.22% 12.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,857 5,385 6,512
Median annual salary £76,650 £67,500 £65,000
Median salary % change year-on-year +13.56% +3.85% +4.00%
10th Percentile £47,300 £37,500 £37,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,068 £50,500
% change year-on-year +1.72% +7.07% +1.00%

Banking is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

All General Skills
UK
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 19,011 55,932 72,157
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.74% 39.59% 43.14%
Number of salaries quoted 14,841 41,891 55,181
Median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median salary % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,000 £29,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £46,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +7.53% +3.33% +3.45%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Banking in the UK

Banking
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Banking in the UK

Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Banking over the 6 months to 20 September 2020.

Salary histogram for Banking in the UK

Banking
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 20 September 2020. 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
Job
Vacancies
England -8 2,075 £77,500 +11.51% 378
London -1 1,781 £80,000 +10.34% 282
UK excluding London -66 383 £55,000 +1.72% 117
Work from Home 0 159 £70,000 +7.69% 74
South East +30 104 £62,500 +9.65% 16
North of England -94 94 £52,500 -4.55% 59
Scotland -1 79 £45,000 -16.77% 14
North West -72 71 £51,880 -5.67% 16
South West -45 38 £57,361 +6.82% 1
Midlands +48 37 £50,000 +21.95% 13
West Midlands +51 28 £50,000 +21.95% 9
Yorkshire -6 19 £55,000 +1.85% 27
East of England +98 17 £99,250 +47.04% 6
Northern Ireland +14 10 £50,000 - 3
East Midlands +59 9 £58,750 +30.56% 4
North East +29 4 £65,000 +0.75% 16
Wales +18 4 £52,500 +61.54% 5

For the 6 months to 20 September 2020, IT jobs citing Banking also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Banking.

1 1,561 (71.18%) Finance
2 819 (37.35%) Agile Software Development
3 798 (36.39%) Java
4 635 (28.96%) AWS
5 530 (24.17%) Python
6 512 (23.35%) SQL
7 489 (22.30%) Azure
8 486 (22.16%) DevOps
9 443 (20.20%) Asset Management
10 440 (20.06%) Investment Banking
11 374 (17.05%) JavaScript
12 365 (16.64%) Software Engineering
13 362 (16.51%) Fintech
14 325 (14.82%) Microservices
15 318 (14.50%) Web Services
16 302 (13.77%) Investment Management
16 302 (13.77%) Hedge funds
17 301 (13.73%) GCP
18 289 (13.18%) Front Office
19 269 (12.27%) Kubernetes
20 257 (11.72%) SQL Server
21 245 (11.17%) Docker
22 240 (10.94%) C#
23 238 (10.85%) Fixed Income
24 236 (10.76%) .NET
25 233 (10.62%) Derivative
26 231 (10.53%) Degree
27 228 (10.40%) Mentoring
28 224 (10.21%) AngularJS
29 223 (10.17%) React

Banking
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 148 (6.75%) Apache
2 84 (3.83%) Apache Spark
3 65 (2.96%) Confluence
4 37 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
5 29 (1.32%) SharePoint
5 29 (1.32%) WebSphere
6 20 (0.91%) Tomcat
7 19 (0.87%) SAS
8 18 (0.82%) MS Exchange
9 12 (0.55%) SharePoint 2013
10 11 (0.50%) IIS
11 9 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
12 8 (0.36%) WebLogic
13 6 (0.27%) MTS
14 5 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
14 5 (0.23%) JBoss
14 5 (0.23%) Oracle Coherence
14 5 (0.23%) Skype for Business
15 4 (0.18%) nginx
15 4 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 41 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.37%) MS Visio
4 20 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (0.82%) Sketch
6 13 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 11 (0.50%) InVision
8 9 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.18%) Marvel
10 3 (0.14%) Figma
11 2 (0.091%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.091%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.091%) Zeplin
12 1 (0.046%) Chatbot
12 1 (0.046%) InfoPath
12 1 (0.046%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 27 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (1.14%) FINCAD Analytics
3 9 (0.41%) Temenos T24
4 8 (0.36%) BASE24
4 8 (0.36%) Sentinel
5 6 (0.27%) IntelliMatch
5 6 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 4 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.18%) Salesforce.com CRM
6 4 (0.18%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.18%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
7 3 (0.14%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.14%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.091%) Misys Opics
8 2 (0.091%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 635 (28.96%) AWS
2 489 (22.30%) Azure
3 301 (13.73%) GCP
4 176 (8.03%) Serverless
5 159 (7.25%) AWS Lambda
6 109 (4.97%) Amazon ECS
7 82 (3.74%) Apigee
8 65 (2.96%) Office 365
9 54 (2.46%) Power Platform
10 52 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 50 (2.28%) SaaS
12 38 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
12 38 (1.73%) Amazon S3
13 34 (1.55%) Azure Active Directory
14 30 (1.37%) IaaS
15 26 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
16 25 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
17 21 (0.96%) GitHub
18 14 (0.64%) Azure Data Factory
19 13 (0.59%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 82 (3.74%) Firewall
2 46 (2.10%) Network Security
3 36 (1.64%) TCP/IP
4 29 (1.32%) BGP
5 27 (1.23%) VPN
6 25 (1.14%) LAN
7 22 (1.00%) DNS
8 20 (0.91%) WAN
9 19 (0.87%) OSPF
10 17 (0.78%) Internet
11 15 (0.68%) SAN
12 13 (0.59%) FIX Connectivity
12 13 (0.59%) MPLS
13 12 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
13 12 (0.55%) Multicast
14 11 (0.50%) EIGRP
14 11 (0.50%) HTTP
15 10 (0.46%) ATM
15 10 (0.46%) SSL
15 10 (0.46%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (11.72%) SQL Server
2 156 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
3 152 (6.93%) Data Warehouse
4 143 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 120 (5.47%) MySQL
5 120 (5.47%) NoSQL
6 86 (3.92%) Big Data
7 78 (3.56%) Hadoop
8 64 (2.92%) Amazon DynamoDB
9 60 (2.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 60 (2.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 59 (2.69%) MongoDB
11 43 (1.96%) Relational Database
12 37 (1.69%) Data Lake
13 36 (1.64%) Blockchain
13 36 (1.64%) Power BI
14 29 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
15 24 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
15 24 (1.09%) Apache Hive
16 21 (0.96%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 165 (7.52%) Jenkins
2 126 (5.75%) Git (software)
3 90 (4.10%) JIRA
4 82 (3.74%) GitLab
5 71 (3.24%) Artifactory
6 53 (2.42%) Selenium
7 51 (2.33%) Maven
8 49 (2.23%) Cucumber
9 31 (1.41%) webpack
10 29 (1.32%) RStudio
11 27 (1.23%) TeamCity
11 27 (1.23%) Visual Studio
12 16 (0.73%) JUnit
12 16 (0.73%) Subversion
13 14 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 13 (0.59%) SoapUI
15 12 (0.55%) Gradle
16 11 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
17 10 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
17 10 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,561 (71.18%) Finance
2 440 (20.06%) Investment Banking
3 289 (13.18%) Front Office
4 134 (6.11%) Back Office
5 112 (5.11%) Retail
6 87 (3.97%) Retail Banking
7 67 (3.06%) Telecoms
8 53 (2.42%) Financial Institution
9 48 (2.19%) Private Banking
10 47 (2.14%) Legal
11 40 (1.82%) Marketing
12 35 (1.60%) Law
13 34 (1.55%) Games
14 31 (1.41%) Public Sector
15 15 (0.68%) Manufacturing
16 14 (0.64%) Wholesale Banking
17 13 (0.59%) Advertising
17 13 (0.59%) French Language
17 13 (0.59%) German Language
18 12 (0.55%) Digital Economy
Job Titles
1 651 (29.69%) Developer
2 227 (10.35%) Java Developer
3 187 (8.53%) Architect
4 183 (8.34%) Analyst
5 135 (6.16%) Software Engineer
6 103 (4.70%) AWS Developer
6 103 (4.70%) AWS Engineer
6 103 (4.70%) Senior Developer
7 99 (4.51%) Python Developer
7 99 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
8 92 (4.20%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 85 (3.88%) Python Engineer
10 84 (3.83%) Java Engineer
11 72 (3.28%) Business Analyst
11 72 (3.28%) Cloud Architect
12 71 (3.24%) AWS Architect
13 69 (3.15%) Network Engineer
14 68 (3.10%) Development Manager
15 66 (3.01%) DevOps Engineer
16 65 (2.96%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 318 (14.50%) Web Services
2 236 (10.76%) .NET
3 224 (10.21%) AngularJS
4 223 (10.17%) React
5 143 (6.52%) Spring
6 135 (6.16%) Vue.js
7 120 (5.47%) gRPC
8 119 (5.43%) Kafka
9 95 (4.33%) Node.js
10 90 (4.10%) HTML
11 84 (3.83%) OAuth
12 78 (3.56%) REST
13 77 (3.51%) Spring Boot
13 77 (3.51%) Swagger
14 76 (3.47%) CSS
15 71 (3.24%) XML
16 67 (3.06%) ASP.NET
17 65 (2.96%) Redux
18 64 (2.92%) RESTful
19 63 (2.87%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 302 (13.77%) Hedge funds
2 238 (10.85%) Fixed Income
3 233 (10.62%) Derivative
4 187 (8.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 130 (5.93%) Equities
6 117 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
7 95 (4.33%) Greenfield Project
8 75 (3.42%) User Experience
9 71 (3.24%) Mobile App
10 62 (2.83%) Management Information System
11 59 (2.69%) SWIFT
12 50 (2.28%) Data Centre
13 46 (2.10%) Data Structures
14 45 (2.05%) Algorithms
15 39 (1.78%) Market Risk
16 35 (1.60%) Mobile Banking
17 33 (1.50%) Social Network
18 32 (1.46%) Cloud Native
18 32 (1.46%) Public Cloud
19 29 (1.32%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 193 (8.80%) Windows
2 160 (7.30%) Linux
3 124 (5.65%) Unix
4 79 (3.60%) Windows Server
5 48 (2.19%) Windows 10
6 41 (1.87%) Android
7 37 (1.69%) Apple iOS
8 26 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 20 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
10 18 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
11 12 (0.55%) Solaris
12 11 (0.50%) CentOS
13 10 (0.46%) Windows 7
14 9 (0.41%) Ubuntu
15 7 (0.32%) AIX
15 7 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
16 6 (0.27%) Windows XP
17 4 (0.18%) SUSE
18 3 (0.14%) Debian
19 2 (0.091%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 819 (37.35%) Agile Software Development
2 486 (22.16%) DevOps
3 443 (20.20%) Asset Management
4 365 (16.64%) Software Engineering
5 362 (16.51%) Fintech
6 325 (14.82%) Microservices
7 302 (13.77%) Investment Management
8 228 (10.40%) Mentoring
9 181 (8.25%) Scrum
10 176 (8.03%) Analytics
10 176 (8.03%) TDD
11 159 (7.25%) Problem-Solving
12 130 (5.93%) OO
13 128 (5.84%) Test Automation
14 124 (5.65%) SDLC
15 123 (5.61%) Machine Learning
16 114 (5.20%) Stakeholder Management
17 112 (5.11%) Artificial Intelligence
18 110 (5.02%) BDD
19 107 (4.88%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 798 (36.39%) Java
2 530 (24.17%) Python
3 512 (23.35%) SQL
4 374 (17.05%) JavaScript
5 240 (10.94%) C#
6 134 (6.11%) Kotlin
7 114 (5.20%) Scala
8 112 (5.11%) C++
9 91 (4.15%) PowerShell
10 72 (3.28%) Java 8
11 59 (2.69%) TypeScript
12 49 (2.23%) C
13 48 (2.19%) Go
14 42 (1.92%) T-SQL
15 37 (1.69%) Bash Shell
15 37 (1.69%) Shell Script
16 34 (1.55%) Perl
17 29 (1.32%) R
18 23 (1.05%) PL/SQL
19 18 (0.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 231 (10.53%) Degree
2 61 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 60 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
4 48 (2.19%) Sun Certification
5 39 (1.78%) CISSP
6 35 (1.60%) CCNP
7 29 (1.32%) PhD
8 24 (1.09%) Master's Degree
9 23 (1.05%) CISM
10 17 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
11 16 (0.73%) CCNA
11 16 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 15 (0.68%) CCIE
12 15 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
13 13 (0.59%) AWS Certification
14 11 (0.50%) CCSP
14 11 (0.50%) MCSA
15 10 (0.46%) Security Cleared
16 9 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (2.69%) QA
2 33 (1.50%) Data Quality
3 30 (1.37%) NIST
4 28 (1.28%) SLA
5 25 (1.14%) COBIT
6 21 (0.96%) SEPA
7 20 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 16 (0.73%) PMO
9 15 (0.68%) EMIR
10 13 (0.59%) MiFID
10 13 (0.59%) PSD2
11 11 (0.50%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.46%) GDPR
13 9 (0.41%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.36%) ISO 8583
14 8 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 8 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.27%) ISO 22301
15 6 (0.27%) TARGET2
16 5 (0.23%) IFRS
System Software
1 245 (11.17%) Docker
2 130 (5.93%) Active Directory
3 53 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (1.50%) vSphere
5 21 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (0.87%) XenApp
7 16 (0.73%) XenDesktop
8 13 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.41%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.41%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (0.23%) HDFS
11 5 (0.23%) LXC
12 4 (0.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.091%) Apache Flume
13 2 (0.091%) Firmware
13 2 (0.091%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.091%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
13 2 (0.091%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.046%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 269 (12.27%) Kubernetes
2 94 (4.29%) Terraform
3 83 (3.78%) Ansible
4 54 (2.46%) SCCM
5 46 (2.10%) Puppet
6 39 (1.78%) Opscode Chef
7 38 (1.73%) Istio
8 25 (1.14%) SCOM
9 22 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (0.64%) PowerCLI
10 14 (0.64%) vRealize
11 11 (0.50%) CSIRT
12 9 (0.41%) Tivoli
13 8 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.27%) McAfee ePO
14 6 (0.27%) Prometheus
14 6 (0.27%) Tivoli Monitoring
15 5 (0.23%) Cisco CUCM
15 5 (0.23%) Mesos
16 4 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 210 (9.58%) Microsoft
2 186 (8.48%) Google
3 181 (8.25%) Oracle
4 82 (3.74%) Cisco
5 81 (3.69%) VMware
6 55 (2.51%) Bloomberg
7 41 (1.87%) Citrix
8 38 (1.73%) SAP
9 35 (1.60%) Databricks
10 33 (1.50%) Tableau
11 32 (1.46%) IBM
12 31 (1.41%) Salesforce.com
13 30 (1.37%) CheckPoint
14 22 (1.00%) Palo Alto
15 21 (0.96%) EMC
15 21 (0.96%) Informatica
15 21 (0.96%) Red Hat
16 18 (0.82%) Splunk
17 17 (0.78%) ServiceNow
18 16 (0.73%) F5
410 Banking job vacancies Nationwide