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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 67 32
Rank change year-on-year +40 -35 +32
Permanent jobs citing Banking 3,558 3,668 7,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.89% 3.74% 7.12%
As % of the General category 10.24% 6.24% 10.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,872 2,221 4,638
10th Percentile £23,504 £45,000 £46,422
25th Percentile £25,087 £61,250 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +7.38% +0.68%
75th Percentile £98,855 £105,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £138,750 £125,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £25,625 £70,576 £64,598
% change year-on-year -63.69% +9.25% +12.34%

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 34,738 58,777 72,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.32% 59.87% 68.74%
Number of salaries quoted 18,372 39,592 38,758
10th Percentile £28,013 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £76,840 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £102,500
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 26 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 26 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 +38 2,809 £74,870 -10.42% 2,494
UK excluding London +72 2,098 £25,625 -63.69% 708
Work from Home +63 2,071 £48,507 -37.41% 1,024
London +9 1,432 £95,000 +5.56% 2,041
North of England +71 892 £25,625 -63.69% 174
North West +75 457 £25,000 -64.29% 105
Scotland +28 447 £45,000 -36.24% 138
Yorkshire +38 286 £60,743 -13.93% 58
South West +40 279 £48,507 -35.90% 94
Wales +87 240 £23,504 -66.70% 24
North East +67 149 £25,087 -55.79% 11
South East +59 77 £70,000 +16.67% 156
East of England +86 65 £32,500 -45.83% 23
Midlands +12 55 £63,750 +15.91% 87
Northern Ireland +57 37 £23,504 -76.50% 21
West Midlands +30 33 £70,000 +27.27% 50
East Midlands +34 20 £30,134 -56.95% 33
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
1 137 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 111 (3.12%) Apache
3 62 (1.74%) Confluence
4 57 (1.60%) SAS
5 31 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (0.51%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.42%) SharePoint
8 11 (0.31%) Umbraco
9 8 (0.22%) NetWeaver
9 8 (0.22%) 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
1 447 (12.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 71 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (1.80%) 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 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 7 (0.20%) Orchestrade
4 7 (0.20%) SAP IBP
4 7 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
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%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.028%) Oracle FAH
9 1 (0.028%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.028%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.028%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 513 (14.42%) AWS
2 406 (11.41%) Azure
3 403 (11.33%) GCP
4 138 (3.88%) dbt
5 136 (3.82%) Snowflake
6 78 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
7 72 (2.02%) Amazon ECS
7 72 (2.02%) Power Platform
8 70 (1.97%) GitHub
9 63 (1.77%) SaaS
10 59 (1.66%) Dagster
10 59 (1.66%) Serverless
11 55 (1.55%) Amazon S3
12 53 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
13 49 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
14 47 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
15 45 (1.26%) AWS CloudFormation
16 38 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
17 27 (0.76%) Amazon SQS
18 25 (0.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,014 (28.50%) Broadband
2 59 (1.66%) Firewall
3 54 (1.52%) TCP/IP
4 38 (1.07%) DNS
4 38 (1.07%) VPN
5 37 (1.04%) Network Security
6 34 (0.96%) LAN
7 29 (0.82%) WAN
8 28 (0.79%) DHCP
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 (0.22%) DKIM
14 8 (0.22%) DMARC
14 8 (0.22%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (3.88%) Amazon Athena
2 133 (3.74%) Apache Iceberg
3 132 (3.71%) Dremio
4 126 (3.54%) Data Lake
5 106 (2.98%) Apache Arrow
6 83 (2.33%) Big Data
7 82 (2.30%) NoSQL
8 77 (2.16%) SQL Server
9 74 (2.08%) Apache Ignite
10 69 (1.94%) Power BI
11 54 (1.52%) Relational Database
12 51 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
13 45 (1.26%) Tableau
14 42 (1.18%) BigQuery
15 41 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
15 41 (1.15%) Metadata
16 40 (1.12%) MongoDB
17 39 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
18 38 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
19 36 (1.01%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 172 (4.83%) Git
2 130 (3.65%) Jenkins
3 115 (3.23%) JIRA
4 46 (1.29%) GitLab
5 37 (1.04%) webpack
6 36 (1.01%) SonarQube
7 35 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
8 33 (0.93%) Maven
8 33 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
9 28 (0.79%) Cucumber
10 25 (0.70%) JUnit
11 19 (0.53%) Gradle
12 18 (0.51%) Cypress.io
12 18 (0.51%) TeamCity
13 15 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
14 14 (0.39%) Artifactory
14 14 (0.39%) Selenium
15 13 (0.37%) CircleCI
16 10 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
17 8 (0.22%) git-flow
General
1 2,095 (58.88%) Finance
2 1,018 (28.61%) Social Skills
3 756 (21.25%) Analytical Skills
4 537 (15.09%) Financial Institution
5 535 (15.04%) Games
6 516 (14.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 440 (12.37%) French Language
8 429 (12.06%) German Language
9 289 (8.12%) Investment Banking
10 275 (7.73%) Front Office
11 101 (2.84%) Retail Banking
12 91 (2.56%) Legal
13 83 (2.33%) Retail
14 75 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
15 70 (1.97%) Law
16 54 (1.52%) Marketing
17 49 (1.38%) Telecoms
18 41 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
19 37 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
20 34 (0.96%) Billing
Job Titles
1 787 (22.12%) Analyst
2 540 (15.18%) Customer Service Advisor
3 460 (12.93%) Senior
4 438 (12.31%) Credit Analyst
5 425 (11.94%) Research Analyst
6 356 (10.01%) Software Engineer
7 255 (7.17%) Developer
8 226 (6.35%) Lead
9 170 (4.78%) Architect
10 156 (4.38%) AWS Engineer
11 139 (3.91%) Senior Software Engineer
12 137 (3.85%) Python Engineer
13 112 (3.15%) Java Engineer
14 110 (3.09%) AWS Software Engineer
15 103 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
16 86 (2.42%) Java Software Engineer
17 83 (2.33%) Senior Analyst
18 76 (2.14%) Python Software Engineer
19 68 (1.91%) DevOps Engineer
20 65 (1.83%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (4.55%) React
2 146 (4.10%) Spring Boot
3 121 (3.40%) Spring
4 108 (3.04%) Pandas
5 106 (2.98%) NumPy
5 106 (2.98%) RESTful
6 102 (2.87%) PySpark
6 102 (2.87%) SciPy
7 100 (2.81%) Kafka
7 100 (2.81%) Node.js
8 92 (2.59%) gRPC
9 73 (2.05%) Protocol Buffers
10 68 (1.91%) AngularJS
11 66 (1.85%) .NET
12 60 (1.69%) Software Packaging
13 56 (1.57%) CSS
14 51 (1.43%) HTML
14 51 (1.43%) Redux
15 47 (1.32%) FIX Protocol
16 44 (1.24%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 600 (16.86%) Fixed Income
2 488 (13.72%) Credit Risk
3 184 (5.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 164 (4.61%) Equities
5 162 (4.55%) Product Ownership
6 151 (4.24%) Derivative
7 119 (3.34%) Hedge funds
8 111 (3.12%) Cloud Native
9 81 (2.28%) Public Cloud
10 73 (2.05%) Algorithms
11 72 (2.02%) Management Information System
12 54 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
13 47 (1.32%) Mobile App
14 45 (1.26%) Mainframe
15 43 (1.21%) Onboarding
16 40 (1.12%) Pricing Data
17 38 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
18 37 (1.04%) Learning Management System
19 35 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
20 31 (0.87%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 177 (4.97%) Linux
2 130 (3.65%) Windows
3 84 (2.36%) Unix
4 48 (1.35%) Windows Server
5 29 (0.82%) Android
5 29 (0.82%) zOS
6 28 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 22 (0.62%) Windows 10
8 20 (0.56%) CentOS
9 18 (0.51%) Apple iOS
10 13 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
11 12 (0.34%) Rocky
12 11 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
13 10 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
14 7 (0.20%) Ubuntu
15 5 (0.14%) AIX
16 4 (0.11%) Solaris
17 2 (0.056%) CoreOS
18 1 (0.028%) Debian
18 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 886 (24.90%) Problem-Solving
2 853 (23.97%) Agile
3 712 (20.01%) Customer Service
4 680 (19.11%) Asset Management
5 640 (17.99%) Risk Management
6 593 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 580 (16.30%) Software Engineering
8 491 (13.80%) Business Strategy
9 461 (12.96%) Portfolio Management
10 455 (12.79%) Risk Assessment
11 433 (12.17%) Financial Modelling
12 427 (12.00%) Credit Risk Analysis
13 385 (10.82%) Analytics
14 355 (9.98%) DevOps
15 305 (8.57%) CI/CD
16 269 (7.56%) Fintech
17 267 (7.50%) Microservices
18 259 (7.28%) Artificial Intelligence
19 251 (7.05%) Mentoring
20 217 (6.10%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 554 (15.57%) Python
2 530 (14.90%) Java
3 447 (12.56%) SQL
4 289 (8.12%) JavaScript
5 155 (4.36%) TypeScript
6 115 (3.23%) C#
7 85 (2.39%) Bash
8 60 (1.69%) Go
9 59 (1.66%) PowerShell
10 55 (1.55%) C++
11 40 (1.12%) 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 12 (0.34%) Scala
19 10 (0.28%) Swift
19 10 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 787 (22.12%) Degree
2 501 (14.08%) Master's Degree
3 426 (11.97%) CFA
4 51 (1.43%) 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 31 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
10 29 (0.82%) CCNP
11 26 (0.73%) CISA
12 25 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
13 24 (0.67%) 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 80 (2.25%) QA
2 55 (1.55%) Accessibility
3 40 (1.12%) Data Quality
4 30 (0.84%) GDPR
4 30 (0.84%) SLA
5 27 (0.76%) ITGC
6 25 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 15 (0.42%) NIST
8 14 (0.39%) IFRS
8 14 (0.39%) IFRS 9
9 12 (0.34%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.31%) COBIT
11 10 (0.28%) Basel III
12 9 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 8 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
14 7 (0.20%) Basel II
14 7 (0.20%) ISO 20022
15 6 (0.17%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.14%) PMO
17 4 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 249 (7.00%) Docker
2 43 (1.21%) Active Directory
3 35 (0.98%) 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
1 302 (8.49%) Kubernetes
2 163 (4.58%) Terraform
3 70 (1.97%) Ansible
4 37 (1.04%) Grafana
5 31 (0.87%) 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 1,014 (28.50%) BT
2 450 (12.65%) Bloomberg
3 207 (5.82%) Microsoft
4 124 (3.49%) Google
5 106 (2.98%) Oracle
6 71 (2.00%) IBM
7 60 (1.69%) VMware
8 46 (1.29%) Cisco
9 35 (0.98%) SolarWinds
10 32 (0.90%) Databricks
11 31 (0.87%) Red Hat
12 30 (0.84%) ServiceNow
13 26 (0.73%) Sun
14 24 (0.67%) CheckPoint
15 22 (0.62%) Reuters
15 22 (0.62%) SAP
16 20 (0.56%) Fortinet
17 19 (0.53%) Arista
18 17 (0.48%) F5
18 17 (0.48%) Trayport