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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 600 677 637
Rank change year-on-year +77 -40 +240
Permanent jobs citing Retail Banking 102 233 353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.22% 0.37%
As % of the General category 0.26% 0.38% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 42 178 223
10th Percentile £25,313 £56,000 £51,833
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,813 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,538 £83,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% +19.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £96,875 £100,000 £89,852
90th Percentile £97,500 £122,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £84,288 £70,576 £65,000
% change year-on-year +19.43% +8.58% +26.66%

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 39,196 60,628 64,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 70.19% 58.48% 67.81%
Number of salaries quoted 18,233 40,093 35,701
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,750 £36,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -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 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail 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 Retail Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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 +71 95 £80,538 -5.25% 64
London +4 71 £75,000 -11.76% 48
UK excluding London +160 29 £84,288 +19.43% 22
Work from Home +102 15 £65,000 +8.33% 36
North of England - 11 £25,625 - 5
Yorkshire - 9 £25,625 - 1
South East +81 8 £90,000 +260.00% 5
Scotland +93 5 - - 3
Midlands +65 3 £95,000 +58.33% 3
West Midlands +56 3 £95,000 +58.33% 2
North West - 2 £65,000 - 4
South West - 2 £95,000 - 1

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 (3.92%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.94%) CMS
2 3 (2.94%) Confluence
2 3 (2.94%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.98%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 48 (47.06%) Azure
2 38 (37.25%) AWS
3 29 (28.43%) GCP
4 13 (12.75%) Snowflake
5 8 (7.84%) Datadog
6 5 (4.90%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (4.90%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 5 (4.90%) Amazon S3
6 5 (4.90%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (4.90%) CloudFront
6 5 (4.90%) GitHub
6 5 (4.90%) Route 53
7 1 (0.98%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (0.98%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (20.59%) Data Lake
1 21 (20.59%) Metadata
2 5 (4.90%) DocumentDB
2 5 (4.90%) NoSQL
2 5 (4.90%) Redis
2 5 (4.90%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.92%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (3.92%) Apache Hive
3 4 (3.92%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.98%) KDB
4 1 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (5.88%) Grunt
1 6 (5.88%) Jasmine
1 6 (5.88%) Mocha
1 6 (5.88%) webpack
2 5 (4.90%) Git
3 3 (2.94%) JIRA
4 2 (1.96%) GitLab
General
1 93 (91.18%) Banking
2 79 (77.45%) Finance
3 44 (43.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (24.51%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (24.51%) Financial Institution
5 11 (10.78%) Retail
6 8 (7.84%) Social Skills
7 6 (5.88%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.92%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (3.92%) Marketing
9 3 (2.94%) Private Banking
10 2 (1.96%) Social Science
11 1 (0.98%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (31.37%) Senior
2 29 (28.43%) Architect
3 26 (25.49%) Lead
4 21 (20.59%) Data Architect
5 14 (13.73%) Software Engineer
6 11 (10.78%) Developer
6 11 (10.78%) Lead Software Engineer
7 9 (8.82%) Technical Leader
8 8 (7.84%) Senior Architect
8 8 (7.84%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (7.84%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 8 (7.84%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (5.88%) Analyst
9 6 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (5.88%) Lead Developer
9 6 (5.88%) React Developer
10 5 (4.90%) .NET Developer
10 5 (4.90%) Banking Analyst
10 5 (4.90%) Senior .NET Developer
10 5 (4.90%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.71%) RESTful
2 14 (13.73%) Kafka
3 13 (12.75%) GraphQL
4 10 (9.80%) AngularJS
4 10 (9.80%) React
5 6 (5.88%) Ajax
5 6 (5.88%) Bootstrap
5 6 (5.88%) Chai
5 6 (5.88%) CSS
5 6 (5.88%) Enzyme
5 6 (5.88%) Jest
5 6 (5.88%) LESS
5 6 (5.88%) Next.js
5 6 (5.88%) OAuth
5 6 (5.88%) OAuth2
5 6 (5.88%) OpenID
5 6 (5.88%) Redux
5 6 (5.88%) Sass
5 6 (5.88%) Semantic UI
5 6 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.86%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.88%) Mainframe
4 5 (4.90%) Distributed Applications
4 5 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.94%) Online Banking
6 1 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.98%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.86%) Windows
2 2 (1.96%) Android
3 1 (0.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (60.78%) Agile
2 44 (43.14%) Asset Management
3 40 (39.22%) Data Management
4 31 (30.39%) Business Development
5 28 (27.45%) Innovative Thinking
6 25 (24.51%) Commercialisation
7 24 (23.53%) Analytics
7 24 (23.53%) Migration
8 22 (21.57%) Coaching
9 21 (20.59%) Cost Management
9 21 (20.59%) Data Architecture
9 21 (20.59%) Data Migration
9 21 (20.59%) Data Modelling
9 21 (20.59%) Data Privacy
9 21 (20.59%) Data Strategy
9 21 (20.59%) Logical Data Model
9 21 (20.59%) Metadata Management
9 21 (20.59%) Physical Data Model
10 20 (19.61%) Artificial Intelligence
11 18 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 22 (21.57%) Java
2 19 (18.63%) Python
3 18 (17.65%) C#
4 10 (9.80%) SQL
5 6 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.88%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.96%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.98%) Bash
7 1 (0.98%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (23.53%) AWS Certification
2 21 (20.59%) Azure Certification
3 17 (16.67%) Degree
4 6 (5.88%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.92%) PhD
6 3 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.94%) CRISC
7 2 (1.96%) MBA
7 2 (1.96%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.96%) PMP
7 2 (1.96%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.90%) QA
2 3 (2.94%) COBIT
2 3 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.94%) ITGC
2 3 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (6.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.98%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (7.84%) Grafana
1 8 (7.84%) Prometheus
2 7 (6.86%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.98%) Ansible
Vendors
1 24 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.75%) Databricks
3 7 (6.86%) Adobe
4 5 (4.90%) Google
5 1 (0.98%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (0.98%) NetApp
5 1 (0.98%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.98%) VMware