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 have cited Retail Banking over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 679 616 868
Rank change year-on-year -63 +252 -67
Permanent jobs citing Retail Banking 227 394 372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.39% 0.24%
As % of the General category 0.38% 0.57% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 180 249 258
10th Percentile £57,350 £50,600 £34,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £47,773
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +3.70% -6.15%
75th Percentile £100,000 £89,852 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £103,839 £112,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £54,941
% change year-on-year +3.85% +18.31% +2.69%

All General Skills
UK

Retail Banking is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 59,215 69,122 100,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.75% 68.21% 64.16%
Number of salaries quoted 39,629 37,296 50,752
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,162 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 2024. 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 -38 187 £85,000 +20.92% 54
London +22 154 £87,500 +9.38% 45
UK excluding London -60 69 £67,500 +3.85% 18
Work from Home -79 46 £59,778 -11.44% 32
Scotland -68 36 £72,500 +11.54% 8
East of England +15 10 £62,500 -
West Midlands +18 9 £59,556 - 1
Midlands -4 9 £59,556 - 1
South East -5 5 £25,000 -62.96% 3
South West -52 5 £65,066 -3.61%
North of England +29 4 £59,556 +8.52% 2
Yorkshire +74 2 £59,556 +8.52%
North West +6 2 £59,556 +10.29% 2

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 8 (3.52%) Apache
1 8 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (3.52%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.88%) Confluence
3 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.44%) nginx
3 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (4.41%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.44%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 92 (40.53%) AWS
2 86 (37.89%) Azure
3 40 (17.62%) GCP
4 27 (11.89%) OpenShift
5 19 (8.37%) GitHub
6 12 (5.29%) SaaS
7 11 (4.85%) Power Platform
8 8 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.20%) Kong
10 4 (1.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (1.32%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.32%) Collibra
12 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.44%) Route 53
12 1 (0.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 1 (0.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 1 (0.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.88%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (0.88%) Firewall
1 2 (0.88%) LAN
1 2 (0.88%) VPN
1 2 (0.88%) WAN
2 1 (0.44%) DNS
2 1 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (15.86%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (9.69%) Data Lake
3 18 (7.93%) Metadata
4 15 (6.61%) MongoDB
5 14 (6.17%) Big Data
6 11 (4.85%) Power BI
7 8 (3.52%) Apache Hive
7 8 (3.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 8 (3.52%) Flink
7 8 (3.52%) Hadoop
7 8 (3.52%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.52%) Parquet
7 8 (3.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.76%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.32%) OLAP
9 3 (1.32%) OLAP Cube
9 3 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.32%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.44%) Ataccama
Development Applications
1 26 (11.45%) JIRA
2 20 (8.81%) Git
3 14 (6.17%) Jenkins
4 11 (4.85%) Artifactory
4 11 (4.85%) Snyk
5 8 (3.52%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.88%) Maven
6 2 (0.88%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.44%) ERwin
General
1 176 (77.53%) Banking
2 143 (63.00%) Finance
3 57 (25.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 38 (16.74%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (14.10%) Social Skills
6 25 (11.01%) Retail
7 15 (6.61%) Financial Institution
8 12 (5.29%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.76%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 90 (39.65%) Architect
2 63 (27.75%) Senior
3 45 (19.82%) Lead
4 27 (11.89%) Data Architect
5 26 (11.45%) Analyst
6 23 (10.13%) Senior Architect
7 21 (9.25%) Cloud Architect
8 17 (7.49%) Azure Architect
8 17 (7.49%) Developer
8 17 (7.49%) Senior Developer
8 17 (7.49%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (7.05%) Middleware Architect
10 15 (6.61%) Banking Analyst
10 15 (6.61%) Banking Business Analyst
10 15 (6.61%) Business Analyst
10 15 (6.61%) Data Business Analyst
10 15 (6.61%) Process Analyst
11 14 (6.17%) Senior Data Architect
12 13 (5.73%) Technical Leader
13 12 (5.29%) Performance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (19.38%) Kafka
2 19 (8.37%) Spring Boot
3 18 (7.93%) Middleware
4 10 (4.41%) LAMP
4 10 (4.41%) Laravel
4 10 (4.41%) Symfony
4 10 (4.41%) Web Services
5 8 (3.52%) Apache Avro
5 8 (3.52%) Apache Beam
5 8 (3.52%) PySpark
5 8 (3.52%) Spark Streaming
6 6 (2.64%) CSS
6 6 (2.64%) HTML
6 6 (2.64%) jQuery
7 4 (1.76%) Spring
8 3 (1.32%) REST
9 2 (0.88%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.29%) PMI
2 8 (3.52%) Distributed Applications
2 8 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (3.52%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (2.20%) Mainframe
3 5 (2.20%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.76%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.32%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.32%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.88%) FMCG
7 1 (0.44%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.44%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.41%) Windows
2 6 (2.64%) Linux
3 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (25.99%) CI/CD
2 56 (24.67%) Agile
3 54 (23.79%) DevOps
4 46 (20.26%) Data Modelling
5 40 (17.62%) Migration
6 35 (15.42%) Microservices
6 35 (15.42%) TDD
7 33 (14.54%) Asset Management
8 30 (13.22%) Data Architecture
9 26 (11.45%) SDLC
10 25 (11.01%) Business Development
11 23 (10.13%) Data Migration
12 22 (9.69%) Data Analysis
13 21 (9.25%) Analytics
14 19 (8.37%) Mentoring
15 18 (7.93%) Data Analytics
15 18 (7.93%) Platform Engineering
16 17 (7.49%) Architectural Design
16 17 (7.49%) Logical Data Model
17 16 (7.05%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 49 (21.59%) SQL
2 37 (16.30%) Java
3 16 (7.05%) Python
4 10 (4.41%) PHP
5 8 (3.52%) Scala
6 6 (2.64%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (7.49%) AWS Certification
2 14 (6.17%) Azure Certification
3 12 (5.29%) PMI Certification
4 2 (0.88%) Degree
5 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.32%) NIST
2 2 (0.88%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (14.10%) Docker
2 8 (3.52%) HDFS
3 3 (1.32%) KVM
3 3 (1.32%) Xen
Systems Management
1 49 (21.59%) Kubernetes
2 18 (7.93%) Terraform
3 11 (4.85%) Istio
4 2 (0.88%) Ansible
4 2 (0.88%) Rancher
Vendors
1 15 (6.61%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.17%) Red Hat
3 10 (4.41%) Databricks
4 8 (3.52%) Cloudera
5 6 (2.64%) Ab Initio
5 6 (2.64%) Google
6 5 (2.20%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.88%) Cisco
7 2 (0.88%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.88%) SAP
8 1 (0.44%) Adobe
8 1 (0.44%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.44%) Confluent
8 1 (0.44%) Fiserv
8 1 (0.44%) Informatica
8 1 (0.44%) Salesforce