Banking Job Trends 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 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 159 121
Rank change year-on-year +147 -38 +68
Permanent jobs citing Banking 955 40 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 18.07% 0.97% 1.54%
As % of the General category 30.27% 1.51% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 25 10 42
10th Percentile £47,900 £27,000 £37,875
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -7.65% +8.28%
75th Percentile £84,875 £62,188 £72,433
90th Percentile £127,500 £87,500 £91,934
England median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% +9.68% +3.33%

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 general skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 3,155 2,649 2,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 59.69% 63.95% 60.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,430 1,159 1,899
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £32,291
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £52,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% +6.06% -5.71%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,943 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,680 £75,818
England median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% - -4.00%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Banking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Banking job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Banking
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Banking

Banking
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Banking in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 2026. 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
Staffordshire - 254 £26,968 - 5
Warwickshire - 221 £150,000 -
Worcestershire - 157 £52,500 - 3
Birmingham +54 72 £67,500 +20.00% 11
Shropshire - 41 - - 5
Wolverhampton +10 20 £125,000 +47.06% 2
Sutton Coldfield - 14 - -
Coventry +9 10 - - 3
Solihull - 10 - - 1
Stourbridge - 9 - -
Tipton - 9 - -
Brierley Hill - 9 - -
Halesowen - 9 - -
Kingswinford - 8 - -
Bilston - 8 - -
Smethwick - 8 - -
Dudley - 8 - -
Walsall - 8 - -
Wednesbury - 8 - -
West Bromwich - 7 - -
Rowley Regis - 7 - -
Willenhall - 6 - -
Banking
England

Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.21%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.10%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 915 (95.81%) Cloud Computing
2 10 (1.05%) AWS
3 8 (0.84%) Azure
4 2 (0.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (0.21%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (0.21%) Amazon S3
4 2 (0.21%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (0.21%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (0.21%) Serverless
4 2 (0.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (0.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (0.10%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 915 (95.81%) Internet
2 1 (0.10%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.52%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.21%) Metadata
3 1 (0.10%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (0.21%) Git
1 2 (0.21%) Jenkins
General
1 924 (96.75%) Social Skills
2 915 (95.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (2.72%) Finance
4 12 (1.26%) Retail
5 11 (1.15%) Legal
6 10 (1.05%) Investment Banking
7 7 (0.73%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.31%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (0.31%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.31%) Private Banking
10 2 (0.21%) Advertising
11 1 (0.10%) Games
11 1 (0.10%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 681 (71.31%) Lecturer
2 9 (0.94%) Lead
3 8 (0.84%) Senior
4 7 (0.73%) Analyst
4 7 (0.73%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (0.73%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (0.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (0.52%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (0.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (0.52%) Head of Engineering
6 3 (0.31%) Business Analyst
6 3 (0.31%) Lead DevOps
6 3 (0.31%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (0.31%) Senior Manager
7 2 (0.21%) Architect
7 2 (0.21%) Configuration Manager
7 2 (0.21%) Consultant
7 2 (0.21%) Lead Designer
7 2 (0.21%) Solutions Designer
7 2 (0.21%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.21%) Middleware
2 1 (0.10%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 916 (95.92%) IoT
2 3 (0.31%) Data Centre
2 3 (0.31%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (0.21%) CMDB
3 2 (0.21%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (0.21%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.10%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.21%) Linux
1 2 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 922 (96.54%) Cybersecurity
2 917 (96.02%) AI
2 917 (96.02%) User Experience
3 915 (95.81%) Machine Learning
3 915 (95.81%) Web Development
4 11 (1.15%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (0.84%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (0.73%) Agile
6 7 (0.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (0.73%) Migration
6 7 (0.73%) Risk Management
7 6 (0.63%) Strategic Thinking
8 5 (0.52%) Asset Management
8 5 (0.52%) Data Engineering
8 5 (0.52%) Decision-Making
8 5 (0.52%) DevOps
8 5 (0.52%) ETL
8 5 (0.52%) ITIL
9 4 (0.42%) Analytics
9 4 (0.42%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (0.73%) SQL
2 2 (0.21%) Java
2 2 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 915 (95.81%) Degree
1 915 (95.81%) Master's Degree
1 915 (95.81%) PhD
1 915 (95.81%) Postgraduate
2 2 (0.21%) AWS Certification
2 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 2 (0.21%) CISM
2 2 (0.21%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.21%) Data Quality
1 2 (0.21%) GDPR
1 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 19770
1 2 (0.21%) PMO
2 1 (0.10%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.10%) COBIT
System Software
1 2 (0.21%) Docker
1 2 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.21%) Ansible
1 2 (0.21%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.21%) Terraform
2 1 (0.10%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (0.21%) Blue Prism
1 2 (0.21%) Databricks
1 2 (0.21%) Pega
1 2 (0.21%) ServiceNow
2 1 (0.10%) BT
2 1 (0.10%) Dynatrace
2 1 (0.10%) Google
2 1 (0.10%) New Relic
2 1 (0.10%) Salesforce
2 1 (0.10%) Splunk