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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 596 728 643
Rank change year-on-year +132 -85 +87
Permanent jobs citing Digital Banking 53 31 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.098% 0.047% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.055% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 7 11 75
10th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £101,250 £90,801 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £107,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +52.32% +5.20%
75th Percentile £140,000 £119,375 £91,934
90th Percentile - £122,500 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £100,000 £94,819 £70,576
% change year-on-year +5.46% +34.35% +18.61%

All Process and 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 45,730 56,495 47,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.51% 85.27% 93.76%
Number of salaries quoted 27,916 29,477 36,918
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.84% +3.81% -0.94%

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 29 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Digital Banking in the UK

Digital Banking
Top 13 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 29 November 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 +126 51 £110,000 - 9
London +93 31 £140,000 +24.44% 6
UK excluding London +82 23 £100,000 +5.46% 7
North of England +61 9 £100,000 - 2
Work from Home +93 8 - - 4
North West +64 8 £100,000 - 2
South East +41 7 - - 4
Midlands +61 5 - - 1
East Midlands - 4 - - 1
West Midlands +58 1 - -
Scotland +2 1 - -
North East - 1 - -
Channel Islands - 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 8 (15.09%) AWS
3 1 (1.89%) Azure
3 1 (1.89%) GCP
3 1 (1.89%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 9 (16.98%) JIRA
General
1 53 (100.00%) Banking
2 30 (56.60%) Finance
3 26 (49.06%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (49.06%) Influencing Skills
4 16 (30.19%) Social Skills
5 15 (28.30%) Financial Institution
5 15 (28.30%) Legal
6 14 (26.42%) Law
7 7 (13.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (11.32%) Retail
9 1 (1.89%) Back Office
9 1 (1.89%) Games
9 1 (1.89%) Marketing
9 1 (1.89%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (33.96%) Senior
2 17 (32.08%) Strategy Manager
3 9 (16.98%) Senior Manager
3 9 (16.98%) Senior Strategy Manager
4 6 (11.32%) Release Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) Software Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Digital Product Owner
5 5 (9.43%) Product Owner
5 5 (9.43%) Senior Product Owner
6 4 (7.55%) Lead
7 3 (5.66%) Head of Digital
7 3 (5.66%) Lead Software Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (1.89%) Auditor
8 1 (1.89%) Client Services Manager
8 1 (1.89%) Lead Project Manager
8 1 (1.89%) Product Consultant
8 1 (1.89%) Risk Manager
8 1 (1.89%) Senior Auditor
8 1 (1.89%) Technology Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.21%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) Onboarding
2 7 (13.21%) Cloud Native
3 6 (11.32%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (11.32%) Mobile App
3 6 (11.32%) Product Ownership
3 6 (11.32%) Virtual Team
4 3 (5.66%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
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 6 (11.32%) Android
1 6 (11.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (50.94%) Stakeholder Management
2 25 (47.17%) Agile
2 25 (47.17%) Analytics
3 23 (43.40%) Customer Experience
4 22 (41.51%) Customer-Centricity
5 19 (35.85%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (33.96%) Business Strategy
6 18 (33.96%) Continuous Improvement
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 6 (11.32%) Java
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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (33.96%) Accessibility
2 7 (13.21%) PCI DSS
2 7 (13.21%) QA
3 6 (11.32%) 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