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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 576 676 615
Rank change year-on-year +100 -61 +256
Permanent jobs citing Retail Banking 116 220 404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.22% 0.39%
As % of the General category 0.33% 0.37% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 48 179 253
10th Percentile £25,313 £57,988 £51,833
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,577 £83,577 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +19.40% -2.78%
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £89,852
90th Percentile £98,474 £122,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £70,288 £65,000
% change year-on-year +20.93% +8.14% +13.04%

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 35,150 58,962 71,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.54% 59.87% 68.57%
Number of salaries quoted 18,382 39,636 38,356
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +102 106 £83,577 -1.67% 49
London +53 79 £75,000 -14.29% 41
UK excluding London +167 35 £85,000 +20.93% 16
Work from Home +166 17 £75,000 +25.00% 23
North of England +89 13 £25,625 -66.28% 3
Yorkshire +79 9 £25,625 -67.88% 2
Scotland +104 8 - - 3
South East +111 7 £90,000 +260.00% 5
Midlands +77 4 £95,000 +59.52% 3
West Midlands +45 4 £95,000 +59.52% 1
North West +33 4 £94,637 +58.91%
South West +102 2 £95,000 +34.61% 2
East of England +47 1 £70,000 +12.00%

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 7 (6.03%) SAS
2 4 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.45%) Mule
3 3 (2.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (2.59%) CMS
3 3 (2.59%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 52 (44.83%) Azure
2 40 (34.48%) AWS
3 31 (26.72%) GCP
4 15 (12.93%) Snowflake
5 11 (9.48%) GitHub
6 8 (6.90%) Datadog
7 5 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (4.31%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 5 (4.31%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.31%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (4.31%) CloudFront
7 5 (4.31%) Route 53
8 2 (1.72%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.86%) Amazon Bedrock
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (19.83%) Data Lake
1 23 (19.83%) Metadata
2 5 (4.31%) DocumentDB
2 5 (4.31%) NoSQL
2 5 (4.31%) Redis
2 5 (4.31%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (3.45%) Apache Hive
3 4 (3.45%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.72%) Power BI
6 1 (0.86%) KDB
Development Applications
1 9 (7.76%) Git
2 6 (5.17%) GitLab
2 6 (5.17%) Grunt
2 6 (5.17%) Jasmine
2 6 (5.17%) Mocha
2 6 (5.17%) webpack
3 3 (2.59%) JIRA
General
1 100 (86.21%) Banking
2 86 (74.14%) Finance
3 46 (39.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 30 (25.86%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (23.28%) Financial Institution
6 15 (12.93%) Social Skills
7 9 (7.76%) Retail
8 6 (5.17%) Social Science
9 5 (4.31%) Investment Banking
10 4 (3.45%) Legal
10 4 (3.45%) Marketing
11 3 (2.59%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (2.59%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.86%) Automotive
12 1 (0.86%) Publishing
12 1 (0.86%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 36 (31.03%) Senior
2 33 (28.45%) Lead
3 31 (26.72%) Architect
4 23 (19.83%) Data Architect
5 14 (12.07%) Software Engineer
6 12 (10.34%) Developer
7 11 (9.48%) Lead Software Engineer
8 10 (8.62%) Technical Leader
9 9 (7.76%) Analyst
10 8 (6.90%) Senior Architect
10 8 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (6.90%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 8 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (5.17%) Audit Manager
11 6 (5.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (5.17%) Lead Developer
11 6 (5.17%) React Developer
11 6 (5.17%) Risk Manager
11 6 (5.17%) Senior Developer
12 5 (4.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.79%) Kafka
2 15 (12.93%) RESTful
3 14 (12.07%) AngularJS
3 14 (12.07%) React
4 13 (11.21%) GraphQL
5 6 (5.17%) Bootstrap
5 6 (5.17%) Chai
5 6 (5.17%) Enzyme
5 6 (5.17%) Jest
5 6 (5.17%) JWT
5 6 (5.17%) LESS
5 6 (5.17%) Material-UI
5 6 (5.17%) MobX
5 6 (5.17%) Next.js
5 6 (5.17%) OAuth
5 6 (5.17%) OAuth2
5 6 (5.17%) Redux
5 6 (5.17%) Sass
5 6 (5.17%) Semantic UI
5 6 (5.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.52%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.17%) Mainframe
2 6 (5.17%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.31%) Distributed Applications
3 5 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.59%) Online Banking
6 1 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.76%) Windows
2 2 (1.72%) Android
2 2 (1.72%) CoreOS
2 2 (1.72%) Linux
2 2 (1.72%) Unix
2 2 (1.72%) zOS
3 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (56.90%) Agile
2 46 (39.66%) Asset Management
3 41 (35.34%) Data Management
4 33 (28.45%) Business Development
5 30 (25.86%) Innovative Thinking
6 28 (24.14%) Analytics
7 27 (23.28%) Coaching
7 27 (23.28%) Commercialisation
8 26 (22.41%) Migration
9 23 (19.83%) Cost Management
9 23 (19.83%) Data Architecture
9 23 (19.83%) Data Migration
9 23 (19.83%) Data Modelling
9 23 (19.83%) Data Privacy
9 23 (19.83%) Data Strategy
9 23 (19.83%) Logical Data Model
9 23 (19.83%) Metadata Management
9 23 (19.83%) Physical Data Model
10 21 (18.10%) Mentoring
11 20 (17.24%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 27 (23.28%) Java
2 25 (21.55%) Python
3 18 (15.52%) C#
3 18 (15.52%) SQL
4 6 (5.17%) JavaScript
4 6 (5.17%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.72%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.86%) Bash
6 1 (0.86%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.86%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (22.41%) AWS Certification
2 23 (19.83%) Azure Certification
3 21 (18.10%) Degree
4 6 (5.17%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.45%) PhD
6 3 (2.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.59%) CRISC
7 2 (1.72%) MBA
7 2 (1.72%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.72%) PMP
7 2 (1.72%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.76%) QA
2 3 (2.59%) COBIT
2 3 (2.59%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.59%) ITGC
2 3 (2.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (7.76%) Docker
2 1 (0.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (7.76%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.90%) Grafana
2 8 (6.90%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.59%) Ansible
4 2 (1.72%) CA Endevor
4 2 (1.72%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.72%) Puppet
4 2 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.93%) Databricks
3 7 (6.03%) Adobe
4 5 (4.31%) Google
5 2 (1.72%) Teradata
6 1 (0.86%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.86%) NetApp
6 1 (0.86%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.86%) VMware