Banking Jobs in the West Midlands

Banking
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in permanent job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 186 129
Rank change year-on-year +44 -57 +28
Permanent jobs citing Banking 55 67 145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.28% 0.91% 2.29%
As % of the General category 2.25% 1.57% 3.01%
Number of salaries quoted 11 46 66
10th Percentile £56,750 £31,000 £40,625
25th Percentile £61,875 £37,500 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £62,156 £66,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £83,467 £76,375
England median annual salary £71,991 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -15.30% +13.33% -

All General Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,449 4,257 4,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 56.86% 57.77% 76.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,063 3,018 2,213
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +9.95%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Banking in the West Midlands

Banking
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Banking in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Banking in the West Midlands

Banking
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Banking in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Banking in the West Midlands

Banking
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 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
Birmingham +10 20 £65,000 +30.39% 41
Staffordshire - 18 - - 27
Wolverhampton +17 6 £77,500 +30.13% 1
Warwickshire - 4 - - 4
Herefordshire - 3 - -
Solihull +8 1 - - 4
Coventry -5 1 - - 2
Banking
England

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 13 (23.64%) Confluence
2 1 (1.82%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.64%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 31 (56.36%) Azure
2 27 (49.09%) AWS
3 16 (29.09%) GCP
4 6 (10.91%) Snowflake
5 3 (5.45%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.64%) Lucidchart
7 1 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.82%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (47.27%) SQL Server
2 5 (9.09%) Big Data
3 4 (7.27%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.45%) Power BI
5 2 (3.64%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.64%) Looker
5 2 (3.64%) Metadata
5 2 (3.64%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.64%) Tableau
6 1 (1.82%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 25 (45.45%) GitLab
2 24 (43.64%) Bitbucket
2 24 (43.64%) Cucumber
2 24 (43.64%) JIRA
2 24 (43.64%) Maven
2 24 (43.64%) Selenium
2 24 (43.64%) SonarQube
2 24 (43.64%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (3.64%) ER Studio
3 2 (3.64%) ERwin
3 2 (3.64%) PowerDesigner
General
1 43 (78.18%) Finance
2 25 (45.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (27.27%) Retail
4 12 (21.82%) Investment Banking
4 12 (21.82%) Social Skills
5 11 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
6 5 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (5.45%) Financial Institution
7 3 (5.45%) Retail Banking
8 2 (3.64%) Advertising
8 2 (3.64%) Games
8 2 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.64%) Legal
8 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.82%) Marketing
9 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (52.73%) Software Engineer
2 7 (12.73%) Analyst
3 6 (10.91%) Senior
4 3 (5.45%) Customer Analyst
4 3 (5.45%) Customer Service Analyst
4 3 (5.45%) Lead
4 3 (5.45%) Lead Software Engineer
4 3 (5.45%) Project Manager
4 3 (5.45%) Senior Manager
4 3 (5.45%) Senior Project Manager
4 3 (5.45%) Service Analyst
5 2 (3.64%) Author
5 2 (3.64%) Customer Service Advisor
5 2 (3.64%) Data Modeller
5 2 (3.64%) Developer
5 2 (3.64%) Operations Analyst
5 2 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (3.64%) Technical Author
5 2 (3.64%) Technical Leader
5 2 (3.64%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (52.73%) Kafka
2 27 (49.09%) React
3 25 (45.45%) HTML
3 25 (45.45%) Spring
4 24 (43.64%) CSS
4 24 (43.64%) JPA
4 24 (43.64%) Redux
4 24 (43.64%) Spring Boot
5 14 (25.45%) Hibernate
6 12 (21.82%) REST
6 12 (21.82%) RESTful
7 11 (20.00%) CSS3
7 11 (20.00%) HTML5
7 11 (20.00%) Jest
7 11 (20.00%) Sass
8 2 (3.64%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.64%) gRPC
9 1 (1.82%) Flask
9 1 (1.82%) Pandas
9 1 (1.82%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 26 (47.27%) Product Ownership
2 24 (43.64%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.45%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.64%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.64%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.64%) Reference Data
4 2 (3.64%) Replication
5 1 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (54.55%) Agile
2 29 (52.73%) Software Engineering
3 28 (50.91%) Microservices
4 26 (47.27%) Full-Stack Development
4 26 (47.27%) Test Automation
5 24 (43.64%) CI/CD
5 24 (43.64%) Containerisation
5 24 (43.64%) DevOps
5 24 (43.64%) Front End Development
5 24 (43.64%) Performance Optimisation
5 24 (43.64%) SDLC
6 16 (29.09%) TDD
7 15 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (25.45%) Migration
8 14 (25.45%) Strategic Thinking
8 14 (25.45%) User Experience
9 13 (23.64%) Clean Code
9 13 (23.64%) Mentoring
10 11 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
11 9 (16.36%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 30 (54.55%) Java
2 29 (52.73%) SQL
3 24 (43.64%) JavaScript
4 11 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 5 (9.09%) C#
5 5 (9.09%) Python
6 1 (1.82%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (5.45%) Degree
1 3 (5.45%) PMP
2 2 (3.64%) CISA
2 2 (3.64%) CISM
2 2 (3.64%) CRISC
2 2 (3.64%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (45.45%) QA
2 11 (20.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.45%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.64%) GRC
5 1 (1.82%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (43.64%) Docker
2 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (49.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.64%) Terraform
3 1 (1.82%) Grafana
3 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (43.64%) Solace
2 6 (10.91%) Databricks
3 3 (5.45%) Oracle
4 2 (3.64%) BT
4 2 (3.64%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.82%) SAP