Retail Banking Jobs

Retail Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 605 689 620
Rank change year-on-year +84 -69 +242
Permanent jobs citing Retail Banking 108 235 341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.21% 0.37%
As % of the General category 0.27% 0.37% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 46 173 239
10th Percentile £25,313 £56,000 £51,833
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +6.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £89,852
90th Percentile £97,500 £122,500 £100,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £83,577 £67,500 £68,823
% change year-on-year +23.82% -1.92% +19.69%

All General Skills
UK

Retail 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 39,519 63,308 61,302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 70.20% 56.63% 67.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18,692 41,235 34,752
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £32,205
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £42,814
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,683 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.39% -9.52% +5.00%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Retail Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Retail Banking.

Salary trend for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking over the 6 months to 21 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail 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 Retail Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 21 June 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 +80 102 £82,500 -2.94% 204
London -2 79 £77,500 -8.82% 150
UK excluding London +168 27 £83,577 +23.82% 69
Work from Home +114 16 £75,000 +29.31% 95
North of England - 11 £25,625 - 20
Yorkshire - 9 £25,625 - 9
South East +90 7 £92,500 +270.00% 10
Scotland +82 4 - - 10
Midlands +100 3 £95,000 +58.33% 15
West Midlands +73 2 £95,000 +58.33% 7
South West - 2 £95,000 - 6
North West - 2 £65,000 - 9
East Midlands - 1 £77,500 - 8

Retail 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 4 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.78%) CMS
2 3 (2.78%) Confluence
2 3 (2.78%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.85%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 46 (42.59%) Azure
2 39 (36.11%) AWS
3 29 (26.85%) GCP
4 11 (10.19%) Snowflake
5 6 (5.56%) Datadog
6 5 (4.63%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (4.63%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 5 (4.63%) Amazon S3
6 5 (4.63%) CloudFront
6 5 (4.63%) Route 53
7 3 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.78%) GitHub
8 2 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.85%) Figma
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (0.93%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.44%) Data Lake
1 21 (19.44%) Metadata
2 7 (6.48%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.63%) DocumentDB
3 5 (4.63%) Redis
3 5 (4.63%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (3.70%) Apache Hive
4 4 (3.70%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.93%) KDB
5 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (5.56%) Grunt
1 6 (5.56%) Jasmine
1 6 (5.56%) Mocha
1 6 (5.56%) webpack
2 3 (2.78%) Git
2 3 (2.78%) JIRA
3 2 (1.85%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.85%) GitLab
General
1 98 (90.74%) Banking
2 82 (75.93%) Finance
3 46 (42.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (23.15%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (23.15%) Financial Institution
5 14 (12.96%) Retail
6 7 (6.48%) Corporate Banking
7 6 (5.56%) Social Skills
8 5 (4.63%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.63%) Marketing
9 3 (2.78%) Private Banking
10 2 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 35 (32.41%) Senior
2 29 (26.85%) Architect
3 25 (23.15%) Lead
4 21 (19.44%) Data Architect
5 12 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 11 (10.19%) Developer
7 10 (9.26%) Technical Leader
8 9 (8.33%) Lead Software Engineer
9 8 (7.41%) Senior Architect
9 8 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (7.41%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 8 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (6.48%) Analyst
11 6 (5.56%) Banking Analyst
11 6 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (5.56%) Lead Developer
11 6 (5.56%) React Developer
12 5 (4.63%) .NET Developer
12 5 (4.63%) Senior .NET Developer
12 5 (4.63%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.96%) Kafka
2 13 (12.04%) RESTful
3 11 (10.19%) GraphQL
4 8 (7.41%) AngularJS
4 8 (7.41%) React
5 6 (5.56%) Ajax
5 6 (5.56%) Bootstrap
5 6 (5.56%) Chai
5 6 (5.56%) CSS
5 6 (5.56%) Enzyme
5 6 (5.56%) Jest
5 6 (5.56%) LESS
5 6 (5.56%) Next.js
5 6 (5.56%) OAuth
5 6 (5.56%) OAuth2
5 6 (5.56%) OpenID
5 6 (5.56%) Redux
5 6 (5.56%) Sass
5 6 (5.56%) Semantic UI
5 6 (5.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.41%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.56%) Mainframe
4 5 (4.63%) Distributed Applications
4 5 (4.63%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.78%) Online Banking
6 2 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.85%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.85%) PMI
6 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.48%) Windows
2 2 (1.85%) Android
3 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (62.04%) Agile
2 46 (42.59%) Asset Management
3 37 (34.26%) Data Management
4 31 (28.70%) Business Development
5 28 (25.93%) Innovative Thinking
6 25 (23.15%) Commercialisation
6 25 (23.15%) Migration
7 23 (21.30%) Analytics
8 22 (20.37%) Data Migration
9 21 (19.44%) Cost Management
9 21 (19.44%) Data Architecture
9 21 (19.44%) Data Modelling
9 21 (19.44%) Data Privacy
9 21 (19.44%) Data Strategy
9 21 (19.44%) Logical Data Model
9 21 (19.44%) Metadata Management
9 21 (19.44%) Physical Data Model
10 20 (18.52%) Artificial Intelligence
11 19 (17.59%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (16.67%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 22 (20.37%) Java
2 16 (14.81%) C#
3 15 (13.89%) Python
4 10 (9.26%) SQL
5 6 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.56%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.85%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.93%) Bash
7 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (23.15%) AWS Certification
2 21 (19.44%) Azure Certification
3 14 (12.96%) Degree
4 6 (5.56%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (3.70%) PhD
5 4 (3.70%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.78%) CRISC
7 2 (1.85%) APMP
7 2 (1.85%) MBA
7 2 (1.85%) PMP
7 2 (1.85%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.78%) COBIT
1 3 (2.78%) ITGC
1 3 (2.78%) QA
1 3 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (1.85%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.85%) P3O
2 2 (1.85%) PMO
3 1 (0.93%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 7 (6.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (6.48%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.56%) Grafana
2 6 (5.56%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.93%) Ansible
Vendors
1 24 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.19%) Databricks
3 7 (6.48%) Adobe
4 4 (3.70%) Google
5 1 (0.93%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (0.93%) NetApp
5 1 (0.93%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.93%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (0.93%) VMware