Digital Banking Job Trends

Digital Banking
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Digital Banking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 590 672 634
Rank change year-on-year +82 -38 +101
Permanent jobs citing Digital Banking 53 32 73
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.089% 0.058% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.064% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 20 11 69
10th Percentile - £82,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £100,000 £86,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £107,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +52.32% +5.20%
75th Percentile £114,063 £117,500 £91,934
90th Percentile £140,000 £122,500 £99,231
UK excluding London median annual salary £100,000 £89,819 £70,576
% change year-on-year +11.34% +27.27% +18.61%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Digital Banking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,914 49,911 47,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.01% 89.84% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 28,739 24,946 36,141
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,552
25th Percentile £36,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.34%

Digital Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Digital Banking job vacancy trend in the UK

Digital Banking
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Digital Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Digital Banking

Digital Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Digital Banking over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Digital Banking in the UK

Digital Banking
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 28 December 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 +99 51 £102,500 -4.65% 73
London +90 29 £108,750 -3.33% 21
UK excluding London +50 25 £100,000 +11.34% 66
North of England +36 17 £100,000 - 17
North West +36 16 £100,000 - 10
South East +18 5 - - 14
Work from Home +69 1 - - 57
West Midlands +33 1 - - 5
Midlands +23 1 - - 9
Scotland +3 1 - - 13
Channel Islands - 1 - -
North East - 1 - -

Digital 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 9 (16.98%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.08%) Adobe Analytics
1 17 (32.08%) Figma
2 2 (3.77%) AWS
2 2 (3.77%) SaaS
3 1 (1.89%) Azure
3 1 (1.89%) GCP
Development Applications
1 9 (16.98%) JIRA
General
1 53 (100.00%) Banking
2 27 (50.94%) Finance
3 20 (37.74%) Influencing Skills
4 19 (35.85%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (11.32%) Legal
5 6 (11.32%) Retail
6 5 (9.43%) Social Skills
7 3 (5.66%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.77%) Marketing
9 1 (1.89%) Back Office
9 1 (1.89%) Games
9 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.89%) Law
9 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.89%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (32.08%) Strategy Manager
2 15 (28.30%) Senior
3 9 (16.98%) Senior Manager
3 9 (16.98%) Senior Strategy Manager
4 5 (9.43%) Digital Product Owner
4 5 (9.43%) Lead
4 5 (9.43%) Product Owner
4 5 (9.43%) Release Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) Senior Product Owner
5 4 (7.55%) Android Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Head of Digital
7 1 (1.89%) Auditor
7 1 (1.89%) Client Services Manager
7 1 (1.89%) Lead Project Manager
7 1 (1.89%) Product Consultant
7 1 (1.89%) Risk Manager
7 1 (1.89%) Senior Auditor
7 1 (1.89%) Support Specialist
7 1 (1.89%) Technology Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.55%) Android Jetpack
1 4 (7.55%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (1.89%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Product Ownership
2 5 (9.43%) Mobile App
3 4 (7.55%) Mobile Banking
4 3 (5.66%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.89%) Digital Currency
5 1 (1.89%) Digital Wallet
5 1 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.89%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.98%) Android
2 5 (9.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (56.60%) Agile
2 23 (43.40%) Customer Experience
3 22 (41.51%) Customer-Centricity
4 20 (37.74%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (35.85%) Business Strategy
5 19 (35.85%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (35.85%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (33.96%) Analytics
6 18 (33.96%) Strategic Thinking
6 18 (33.96%) User Experience
7 17 (32.08%) Creative Problem-Solving
7 17 (32.08%) Customer Journey Map
7 17 (32.08%) Design Thinking
7 17 (32.08%) Journey Map
7 17 (32.08%) Matrix Organization
7 17 (32.08%) Prototyping
7 17 (32.08%) Storytelling
7 17 (32.08%) UX Design
7 17 (32.08%) Visualisation
7 17 (32.08%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.55%) Java
1 4 (7.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
1 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (1.89%) CCSP
1 1 (1.89%) CISA
1 1 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (1.89%) CISSP
1 1 (1.89%) Degree
1 1 (1.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (33.96%) Accessibility
2 6 (11.32%) PCI DSS
2 6 (11.32%) QA
3 5 (9.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.89%) GDPR
4 1 (1.89%) NIST
4 1 (1.89%) SEPA
Vendors
1 17 (32.08%) Adobe
1 17 (32.08%) Qualtrics
2 1 (1.89%) Google