Banking Job Trends

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 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 62 38
Rank change year-on-year +49 -24 0
Permanent jobs citing Banking 5,537 2,251 3,208
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 9.18% 4.20% 5.78%
As % of the General category 15.67% 6.31% 9.34%
Number of salaries quoted 764 1,188 2,431
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% -
75th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £96,539
90th Percentile £136,250 £128,750 £125,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £66,367 £70,576
% change year-on-year -2.06% -5.96% +8.58%

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 general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 35,326 35,665 34,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.59% 66.54% 61.95%
Number of salaries quoted 19,174 16,260 25,067
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,725 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,375 £103,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -4.76%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Banking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Banking job vacancy trend in the UK

Banking
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Banking

Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Banking over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Banking in the UK

Banking
Top 18 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 15 January 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
England +50 5,406 £90,000 +5.88% 672
UK excluding London +110 4,002 £65,000 -2.06% 530
North of England +65 1,731 £67,500 +11.12% 105
North West +74 1,552 £75,000 +10.00% 43
London +4 1,479 £97,500 +8.33% 250
Midlands +181 1,116 £67,500 +22.73% 75
West Midlands +146 955 £75,000 +36.36% 36
South East +176 615 £67,500 +8.00% 201
Work from Home -9 563 £90,000 +5.57% 247
East of England +126 369 £52,500 +56.87% 51
East Midlands +91 172 £62,500 +38.12% 39
Yorkshire +18 170 £25,087 -60.49% 51
South West -12 83 £25,087 -64.66% 58
Scotland -63 52 £72,250 +3.21% 26
Wales +38 39 £25,087 -40.27% 18
North East -1 9 £25,087 -49.83% 11
Channel Islands - 9 - -
Northern Ireland -39 1 - - 8

Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 49 (0.88%) Confluence
2 32 (0.58%) Apache
2 32 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (0.38%) SAS
4 17 (0.31%) SharePoint
4 17 (0.31%) WebSphere
5 16 (0.29%) Tomcat
5 16 (0.29%) WebSphere Application Server
6 12 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.13%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.11%) Mule
9 5 (0.090%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.054%) IIS
10 3 (0.054%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.054%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.036%) CMS
11 2 (0.036%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.036%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.018%) CICS
Applications
1 40 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.31%) Maya
4 17 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.018%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 19 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 7 (0.13%) Fidessa
5 7 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
5 7 (0.13%) SAP CO
5 7 (0.13%) SAP FI
5 7 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
5 7 (0.13%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.090%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.072%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.072%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.054%) Loan IQ
8 3 (0.054%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.054%) SAP PS
8 3 (0.054%) Temenos T24
9 2 (0.036%) Adaptiv
9 2 (0.036%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.036%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 4,098 (74.01%) Cloud Computing
2 319 (5.76%) AWS
3 215 (3.88%) Azure
4 117 (2.11%) GCP
5 99 (1.79%) SaaS
6 60 (1.08%) Snowflake
7 52 (0.94%) GitHub
8 50 (0.90%) Power Platform
9 41 (0.74%) Amazon EKS
10 39 (0.70%) dbt
11 31 (0.56%) Microsoft 365
12 22 (0.40%) Azure AI
13 21 (0.38%) Amazon SageMaker
13 21 (0.38%) Vertex AI
14 20 (0.36%) Figma
14 20 (0.36%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (0.34%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (0.33%) Amazon EC2
17 17 (0.31%) Adobe Analytics
17 17 (0.31%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 4,045 (73.05%) Internet
2 46 (0.83%) Broadband
3 39 (0.70%) Firewall
4 33 (0.60%) TCP/IP
5 26 (0.47%) Multicast
6 20 (0.36%) SSL
7 19 (0.34%) DNS
8 18 (0.33%) VPN
9 16 (0.29%) DHCP
10 15 (0.27%) Network Security
11 14 (0.25%) CHAP
11 14 (0.25%) HTTP
11 14 (0.25%) LAN
11 14 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (0.20%) VLAN
12 11 (0.20%) WAN
13 10 (0.18%) BGP
13 10 (0.18%) Cisco ASA
14 7 (0.13%) SAN
15 6 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (1.43%) SQL Server
2 71 (1.28%) Data Lake
3 62 (1.12%) Tableau
4 48 (0.87%) Power BI
5 46 (0.83%) Metadata
6 37 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
7 34 (0.61%) DB2
8 30 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
9 29 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
9 29 (0.52%) Apache Arrow
9 29 (0.52%) Apache Iceberg
9 29 (0.52%) Apache Ignite
9 29 (0.52%) Dremio
10 25 (0.45%) Big Data
11 18 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
12 17 (0.31%) Relational Database
13 12 (0.22%) NoSQL
14 10 (0.18%) Flink
15 8 (0.14%) SAP BW
16 7 (0.13%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 78 (1.41%) JIRA
2 49 (0.88%) Jenkins
3 39 (0.70%) TeamCity
4 34 (0.61%) Git
5 21 (0.38%) GitLab
6 19 (0.34%) Selenium
7 17 (0.31%) Cucumber
8 13 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.13%) Chocolatey
10 5 (0.090%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.090%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.090%) ER Studio
10 5 (0.090%) ERwin
11 4 (0.072%) PowerDesigner
11 4 (0.072%) webpack
12 2 (0.036%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.036%) JConsole
12 2 (0.036%) Postman
12 2 (0.036%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.036%) VisualVM
General
1 4,523 (81.69%) Social Skills
2 4,209 (76.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,074 (19.40%) Finance
4 251 (4.53%) Analytical Skills
5 212 (3.83%) Financial Institution
6 208 (3.76%) Retail
7 185 (3.34%) Investment Banking
8 100 (1.81%) Law
9 96 (1.73%) Front Office
10 90 (1.63%) Marketing
11 85 (1.54%) Legal
12 61 (1.10%) Back Office
13 60 (1.08%) Games
14 47 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
14 47 (0.85%) Retail Banking
15 36 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
16 35 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
17 30 (0.54%) Telecoms
18 27 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
19 25 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3,159 (57.05%) Lecturer
2 266 (4.80%) Senior
3 185 (3.34%) Analyst
4 167 (3.02%) Developer
5 158 (2.85%) Lead
6 146 (2.64%) Architect
7 98 (1.77%) Software Engineer
8 69 (1.25%) Solutions Architect
9 67 (1.21%) Senior Software Engineer
10 57 (1.03%) Business Analyst
10 57 (1.03%) Java Developer
11 52 (0.94%) Python Engineer
12 49 (0.88%) AWS Engineer
12 49 (0.88%) Java Engineer
13 48 (0.87%) Data Analyst
14 44 (0.79%) Java Software Engineer
14 44 (0.79%) Python Software Engineer
14 44 (0.79%) Senior Manager
15 36 (0.65%) QA Analyst
15 36 (0.65%) Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (1.05%) React
2 55 (0.99%) REST
3 48 (0.87%) .NET
3 48 (0.87%) Middleware
4 38 (0.69%) Kafka
5 36 (0.65%) gRPC
6 33 (0.60%) HTML
6 33 (0.60%) RESTful
7 32 (0.58%) CSS
7 32 (0.58%) FIX Protocol
8 30 (0.54%) NumPy
8 30 (0.54%) Pandas
9 29 (0.52%) Protocol Buffers
9 29 (0.52%) SciPy
10 22 (0.40%) WebSockets
11 18 (0.33%) LDAP
11 18 (0.33%) Spring
12 17 (0.31%) WebSphere MQ
13 16 (0.29%) LAPP Stack
13 16 (0.29%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4,069 (73.49%) IoT
2 80 (1.44%) Product Ownership
3 75 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 74 (1.34%) Management Information System
5 73 (1.32%) Derivative
6 71 (1.28%) Fixed Income
7 69 (1.25%) Equities
8 64 (1.16%) Cloud Native
9 59 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
10 48 (0.87%) Hedge funds
11 46 (0.83%) Data Centre
12 41 (0.74%) Public Cloud
13 39 (0.70%) Onboarding
14 37 (0.67%) Credit Risk
14 37 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
15 32 (0.58%) Pricing Data
16 31 (0.56%) Algorithms
16 31 (0.56%) Blockchain
17 28 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
18 27 (0.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 114 (2.06%) Linux
2 78 (1.41%) Windows
3 34 (0.61%) Unix
4 21 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (0.27%) Android
6 13 (0.23%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.20%) Mac OS
7 11 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.16%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.072%) Solaris
10 3 (0.054%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.054%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.054%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.036%) AIX
12 1 (0.018%) CentOS
12 1 (0.018%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,215 (76.12%) AI
2 4,209 (76.02%) Cybersecurity
3 4,114 (74.30%) User Experience
4 4,106 (74.16%) Machine Learning
5 4,065 (73.42%) Web Development
6 378 (6.83%) Agile
7 310 (5.60%) Problem-Solving
8 211 (3.81%) Analytics
9 208 (3.76%) Risk Management
10 205 (3.70%) Roadmaps
11 185 (3.34%) Software Engineering
12 180 (3.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 170 (3.07%) Stakeholder Management
14 159 (2.87%) Asset Management
15 153 (2.76%) CI/CD
16 149 (2.69%) DevOps
16 149 (2.69%) Migration
17 124 (2.24%) Business Strategy
18 123 (2.22%) Computer Science
19 120 (2.17%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 251 (4.53%) Python
2 237 (4.28%) Java
3 144 (2.60%) SQL
4 84 (1.52%) TypeScript
5 76 (1.37%) JavaScript
6 50 (0.90%) C++
7 40 (0.72%) C#
7 40 (0.72%) PowerShell
8 34 (0.61%) Go
9 19 (0.34%) C
10 18 (0.33%) Bash
11 12 (0.22%) VBA
12 11 (0.20%) Kotlin
13 8 (0.14%) RPG
14 7 (0.13%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.13%) R
14 7 (0.13%) Rust
15 5 (0.090%) ANSI SQL
16 4 (0.072%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.072%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4,313 (77.89%) Degree
2 4,136 (74.70%) Master's Degree
3 4,059 (73.31%) PhD
4 4,044 (73.04%) Postgraduate
5 107 (1.93%) CISSP
6 81 (1.46%) CISA
7 79 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 61 (1.10%) AWS Certification
9 59 (1.07%) CRISC
10 47 (0.85%) Azure Certification
11 46 (0.83%) CISM
12 31 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
13 26 (0.47%) PMI Certification
14 22 (0.40%) HND
15 21 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
16 18 (0.33%) ACCA
16 18 (0.33%) FFIEC
17 16 (0.29%) SANS
18 15 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
19 14 (0.25%) CGEIT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (1.68%) NIST
1 93 (1.68%) QA
2 80 (1.44%) PCI DSS
3 70 (1.26%) GDPR
4 69 (1.25%) Data Quality
5 40 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 35 (0.63%) SLA
7 33 (0.60%) PSD2
8 28 (0.51%) Accessibility
9 26 (0.47%) EU AI Act
10 25 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 23 (0.42%) HIPAA
12 22 (0.40%) GRC
13 21 (0.38%) ISO 20022
13 21 (0.38%) Solvency II
14 20 (0.36%) SEPA
15 19 (0.34%) COBIT
16 14 (0.25%) IFRS
17 12 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 11 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 45 (0.81%) Docker
2 31 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.072%) BitLocker
5 4 (0.072%) Firmware
5 4 (0.072%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.054%) KVM
6 3 (0.054%) QEMU
7 1 (0.018%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.018%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 81 (1.46%) Kubernetes
2 77 (1.39%) Terraform
3 35 (0.63%) Ansible
4 27 (0.49%) Grafana
5 16 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.23%) SCCM
7 11 (0.20%) Argo
8 8 (0.14%) Nagios
8 8 (0.14%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.072%) Cilium
10 4 (0.072%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.054%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 3 (0.054%) Control-M
11 3 (0.054%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.036%) logstash
12 2 (0.036%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.036%) Suricata
13 1 (0.018%) CSIRT
13 1 (0.018%) Puppet
Vendors
1 119 (2.15%) Microsoft
2 61 (1.10%) ServiceNow
3 48 (0.87%) Google
4 46 (0.83%) BT
5 38 (0.69%) Oracle
6 36 (0.65%) Bloomberg
6 36 (0.65%) Salesforce
7 32 (0.58%) Alteryx
8 30 (0.54%) IBM
9 23 (0.42%) Cisco
9 23 (0.42%) Red Hat
10 22 (0.40%) Databricks
10 22 (0.40%) VMware
11 19 (0.34%) BMC
11 19 (0.34%) Remedy
12 18 (0.33%) SAP
13 17 (0.31%) Adobe
13 17 (0.31%) Qualtrics
14 13 (0.23%) Informatica
14 13 (0.23%) Software AG