Banking
UK

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 cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 66 33
Rank change year-on-year +38 -33 +32
Permanent jobs citing Banking 3,554 3,634 7,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.81% 3.70% 7.07%
As % of the General category 10.10% 6.17% 10.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,868 2,198 4,530
10th Percentile £23,504 £46,306 £46,720
25th Percentile £25,087 £62,500 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +10.00% +1.35%
75th Percentile £98,474 £106,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £138,750 £127,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £25,625 £70,576 £64,691
% change year-on-year -63.69% +9.10% +12.51%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 35,192 58,854 71,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.47% 59.84% 68.59%
Number of salaries quoted 18,374 39,596 38,382
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +5.00%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Banking in the UK

Banking
Top 19 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 30 April 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 +44 2,784 £74,870 -10.42% 1,276
UK excluding London +72 2,116 £25,625 -63.69% 408
Work from Home +70 2,083 £48,507 -39.37% 626
London +9 1,410 £95,000 +5.56% 962
North of England +83 892 £25,625 -63.69% 132
North West +83 457 £25,000 -64.29% 90
Scotland +28 446 £45,000 -37.93% 67
Yorkshire +40 286 £60,743 -13.93% 33
South West +32 279 £48,507 -31.27% 41
Wales +84 264 £23,504 -66.70% 24
North East +68 149 £25,087 -55.79% 9
South East +57 74 £70,000 +16.67% 62
East of England +85 65 £32,500 -45.83% 10
Midlands +8 55 £63,750 +15.91% 59
Northern Ireland +53 35 £23,504 -76.50% 15
West Midlands +18 33 £70,000 +27.27% 36
East Midlands +26 20 £30,134 -56.95% 21
Isle of Man - 4 - -
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 -

Banking
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
1 135 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
2 111 (3.12%) Apache
3 62 (1.74%) Confluence
4 57 (1.60%) SAS
5 30 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (0.51%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.42%) SharePoint
8 11 (0.31%) Umbraco
9 8 (0.23%) NetWeaver
9 8 (0.23%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.20%) CMS
11 4 (0.11%) Mule
11 4 (0.11%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.11%) WordPress
12 3 (0.084%) CICS
12 3 (0.084%) nginx
13 2 (0.056%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.028%) GemFire
14 1 (0.028%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 444 (12.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 72 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.45%) Maya
6 9 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.028%) Sketch
9 1 (0.028%) Stata
Business Applications
1 16 (0.45%) Fidessa
2 13 (0.37%) Postilion
3 8 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 7 (0.20%) Orchestrade
4 7 (0.20%) SAP IBP
4 7 (0.20%) Temenos T24
5 5 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
7 3 (0.084%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.056%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.056%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 2 (0.056%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.056%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
9 1 (0.028%) Finacle
9 1 (0.028%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.028%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.028%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.028%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 507 (14.27%) AWS
2 402 (11.31%) GCP
3 399 (11.23%) Azure
4 136 (3.83%) dbt
4 136 (3.83%) Snowflake
5 78 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
6 72 (2.03%) Amazon ECS
6 72 (2.03%) Power Platform
7 70 (1.97%) GitHub
8 63 (1.77%) SaaS
9 59 (1.66%) Serverless
10 57 (1.60%) Dagster
11 54 (1.52%) Amazon S3
12 53 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
13 47 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
13 47 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
14 45 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
15 39 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
16 27 (0.76%) Amazon SQS
17 26 (0.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,039 (29.23%) Broadband
2 58 (1.63%) Firewall
3 54 (1.52%) TCP/IP
4 38 (1.07%) DNS
5 37 (1.04%) VPN
6 36 (1.01%) Network Security
7 34 (0.96%) LAN
8 28 (0.79%) DHCP
8 28 (0.79%) WAN
9 25 (0.70%) Internet
10 16 (0.45%) BGP
10 16 (0.45%) Multicast
10 16 (0.45%) OSPF
11 13 (0.37%) ATM
11 13 (0.37%) MPLS
12 12 (0.34%) FIX Connectivity
13 10 (0.28%) HTTP
14 8 (0.23%) DKIM
14 8 (0.23%) DMARC
14 8 (0.23%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (3.83%) Amazon Athena
2 131 (3.69%) Apache Iceberg
3 130 (3.66%) Dremio
4 124 (3.49%) Data Lake
5 106 (2.98%) Apache Arrow
6 83 (2.34%) Big Data
7 80 (2.25%) NoSQL
8 75 (2.11%) SQL Server
9 74 (2.08%) Apache Ignite
10 69 (1.94%) Power BI
11 53 (1.49%) Relational Database
12 51 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
13 45 (1.27%) Tableau
14 42 (1.18%) BigQuery
15 41 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
15 41 (1.15%) Metadata
16 38 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
16 38 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
16 38 (1.07%) MongoDB
17 36 (1.01%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 171 (4.81%) Git
2 126 (3.55%) Jenkins
3 114 (3.21%) JIRA
4 46 (1.29%) GitLab
5 36 (1.01%) SonarQube
6 35 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
6 35 (0.98%) webpack
7 33 (0.93%) Maven
7 33 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
8 28 (0.79%) Cucumber
9 25 (0.70%) JUnit
10 19 (0.53%) Gradle
11 18 (0.51%) Cypress.io
12 16 (0.45%) TeamCity
13 15 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
14 14 (0.39%) Artifactory
15 13 (0.37%) CircleCI
15 13 (0.37%) Selenium
16 10 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
17 8 (0.23%) git-flow
General
1 2,073 (58.33%) Finance
2 1,010 (28.42%) Social Skills
3 747 (21.02%) Analytical Skills
4 559 (15.73%) Games
5 536 (15.08%) Financial Institution
6 513 (14.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 439 (12.35%) French Language
8 427 (12.01%) German Language
9 284 (7.99%) Investment Banking
10 270 (7.60%) Front Office
11 101 (2.84%) Retail Banking
12 93 (2.62%) Legal
13 85 (2.39%) Retail
14 72 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
15 67 (1.89%) Law
16 54 (1.52%) Marketing
17 48 (1.35%) Telecoms
18 37 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
19 35 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
20 34 (0.96%) Billing
Job Titles
1 776 (21.83%) Analyst
2 565 (15.90%) Customer Service Advisor
3 455 (12.80%) Senior
4 434 (12.21%) Credit Analyst
5 422 (11.87%) Research Analyst
6 355 (9.99%) Software Engineer
7 250 (7.03%) Developer
8 226 (6.36%) Lead
9 168 (4.73%) Architect
10 156 (4.39%) AWS Engineer
11 137 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
12 135 (3.80%) Python Engineer
13 113 (3.18%) Java Engineer
14 110 (3.10%) AWS Software Engineer
15 102 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
16 87 (2.45%) Java Software Engineer
17 82 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
18 76 (2.14%) Python Software Engineer
19 68 (1.91%) DevOps Engineer
20 60 (1.69%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (4.45%) React
2 145 (4.08%) Spring Boot
3 120 (3.38%) Spring
4 106 (2.98%) Pandas
5 104 (2.93%) NumPy
6 103 (2.90%) RESTful
7 100 (2.81%) Kafka
7 100 (2.81%) PySpark
7 100 (2.81%) SciPy
8 99 (2.79%) Node.js
9 92 (2.59%) gRPC
10 73 (2.05%) Protocol Buffers
11 68 (1.91%) AngularJS
12 61 (1.72%) .NET
13 60 (1.69%) Software Packaging
14 54 (1.52%) CSS
15 49 (1.38%) HTML
15 49 (1.38%) Redux
16 47 (1.32%) FIX Protocol
17 42 (1.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 597 (16.80%) Fixed Income
2 484 (13.62%) Credit Risk
3 183 (5.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 164 (4.61%) Equities
5 162 (4.56%) Product Ownership
6 149 (4.19%) Derivative
7 119 (3.35%) Hedge funds
8 110 (3.10%) Cloud Native
9 80 (2.25%) Public Cloud
10 73 (2.05%) Algorithms
11 72 (2.03%) Management Information System
12 54 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
13 46 (1.29%) Mobile App
14 45 (1.27%) Mainframe
15 41 (1.15%) Onboarding
16 40 (1.13%) Pricing Data
17 37 (1.04%) Learning Management System
17 37 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
18 35 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
19 31 (0.87%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 175 (4.92%) Linux
2 127 (3.57%) Windows
3 83 (2.34%) Unix
4 46 (1.29%) Windows Server
5 29 (0.82%) Android
5 29 (0.82%) zOS
6 28 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (0.59%) Windows 10
8 20 (0.56%) CentOS
9 18 (0.51%) Apple iOS
10 12 (0.34%) Rocky
10 12 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 10 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (0.20%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.14%) AIX
15 4 (0.11%) Solaris
16 2 (0.056%) CoreOS
17 1 (0.028%) Debian
17 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 896 (25.21%) Problem-Solving
2 838 (23.58%) Agile
3 738 (20.77%) Customer Service
4 674 (18.96%) Asset Management
5 635 (17.87%) Risk Management
6 583 (16.40%) Decision-Making
7 576 (16.21%) Software Engineering
8 488 (13.73%) Business Strategy
9 458 (12.89%) Portfolio Management
10 452 (12.72%) Risk Assessment
11 430 (12.10%) Financial Modelling
12 424 (11.93%) Credit Risk Analysis
13 381 (10.72%) Analytics
14 354 (9.96%) DevOps
15 302 (8.50%) CI/CD
16 262 (7.37%) Microservices
17 258 (7.26%) Fintech
18 253 (7.12%) Artificial Intelligence
19 250 (7.03%) Mentoring
20 215 (6.05%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 547 (15.39%) Python
2 526 (14.80%) Java
3 443 (12.46%) SQL
4 285 (8.02%) JavaScript
5 153 (4.31%) TypeScript
6 113 (3.18%) C#
7 85 (2.39%) Bash
8 59 (1.66%) Go
9 58 (1.63%) PowerShell
10 53 (1.49%) C++
11 39 (1.10%) Kotlin
12 25 (0.70%) C
13 19 (0.53%) T-SQL
14 18 (0.51%) Perl
15 17 (0.48%) PL/SQL
16 15 (0.42%) R
17 14 (0.39%) JCL
18 11 (0.31%) Scala
19 10 (0.28%) Swift
19 10 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 779 (21.92%) Degree
2 494 (13.90%) Master's Degree
3 423 (11.90%) CFA
4 51 (1.44%) Azure Certification
5 46 (1.29%) PhD
6 42 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
7 41 (1.15%) AWS Certification
8 35 (0.98%) CISSP
9 29 (0.82%) CCNP
10 27 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
11 26 (0.73%) CISA
12 25 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
13 24 (0.68%) PMP
14 21 (0.59%) CCNA
14 21 (0.59%) PMI Certification
15 17 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
16 16 (0.45%) CCIE
17 14 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 13 (0.37%) OCP
19 12 (0.34%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (2.03%) QA
2 52 (1.46%) Accessibility
3 40 (1.13%) Data Quality
4 30 (0.84%) SLA
5 28 (0.79%) GDPR
6 27 (0.76%) ITGC
7 25 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 14 (0.39%) IFRS
8 14 (0.39%) IFRS 9
8 14 (0.39%) NIST
9 11 (0.31%) COBIT
9 11 (0.31%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.28%) Basel III
11 9 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 8 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
13 7 (0.20%) Basel II
13 7 (0.20%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.14%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.14%) PMO
15 4 (0.11%) CRD IV
System Software
1 248 (6.98%) Docker
2 42 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 34 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.65%) Hyper-V
6 14 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.17%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.14%) Apache Flume
9 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.11%) vSphere
10 3 (0.084%) Firmware
11 2 (0.056%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.028%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.028%) HDFS
12 1 (0.028%) KVM
12 1 (0.028%) NFS
12 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 304 (8.55%) Kubernetes
2 162 (4.56%) Terraform
3 69 (1.94%) Ansible
4 37 (1.04%) Grafana
5 29 (0.82%) SCCM
6 27 (0.76%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.70%) Istio
8 23 (0.65%) Nagios
9 17 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (0.42%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (0.28%) NetBackup
12 10 (0.28%) Puppet
12 10 (0.28%) SCOM
13 9 (0.25%) CA Endevor
14 7 (0.20%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 6 (0.17%) Argo
16 5 (0.14%) Oozie
17 4 (0.11%) HP Fortify
18 3 (0.084%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 1,039 (29.23%) BT
2 447 (12.58%) Bloomberg
3 206 (5.80%) Microsoft
4 124 (3.49%) Google
5 106 (2.98%) Oracle
6 71 (2.00%) IBM
7 59 (1.66%) VMware
8 46 (1.29%) Cisco
9 35 (0.98%) SolarWinds
10 32 (0.90%) Databricks
11 31 (0.87%) Red Hat
11 31 (0.87%) ServiceNow
12 26 (0.73%) Sun
13 24 (0.68%) CheckPoint
14 23 (0.65%) SAP
15 22 (0.62%) Reuters
16 20 (0.56%) Fortinet
17 19 (0.53%) Arista
18 17 (0.48%) F5
18 17 (0.48%) Trayport