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 18 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 165 155
Rank change year-on-year +153 -10 +16
Permanent jobs citing Banking 956 30 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 16.10% 0.76% 1.04%
As % of the General category 28.93% 1.20% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 27 8 41
10th Percentile £49,400 £27,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £38,625 £44,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.53% -2.27% -2.22%
75th Percentile £88,688 £68,750 £64,500
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 3,305 2,505 3,280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 55.66% 63.84% 60.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,497 1,086 2,626
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,625 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £53,300 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.94% +12.21% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,886 £63,088
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,050 £75,772
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 - 253 - -
Warwickshire - 221 £150,000 - 3
Worcestershire - 157 £52,500 -
Birmingham +57 73 £58,750 -2.08% 8
Shropshire - 41 - -
Wolverhampton +8 23 £125,000 +47.06%
Sutton Coldfield - 14 - -
Coventry 0 9 - - 1
Brierley Hill - 9 - -
Halesowen - 9 - -
Tipton - 9 - -
Solihull - 9 - -
Stourbridge - 9 - -
Walsall - 8 - -
Wednesbury - 8 - -
Kingswinford - 8 - -
Bilston - 8 - -
Smethwick - 8 - -
Dudley - 8 - -
Rowley Regis - 7 - -
West Bromwich - 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%) Confluence
2 1 (0.10%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 915 (95.71%) Cloud Computing
2 12 (1.26%) AWS
3 8 (0.84%) Azure
4 3 (0.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (0.31%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (0.31%) Amazon S3
4 3 (0.31%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (0.31%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (0.31%) Serverless
4 3 (0.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (0.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (0.10%) GCP
5 1 (0.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 915 (95.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.52%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.21%) Metadata
4 1 (0.10%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Git
1 3 (0.31%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.10%) JIRA
General
1 925 (96.76%) Social Skills
2 918 (96.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 27 (2.82%) Finance
4 12 (1.26%) Investment Banking
4 12 (1.26%) Retail
5 11 (1.15%) Legal
6 7 (0.73%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.31%) Advertising
8 3 (0.31%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (0.31%) Financial Institution
8 3 (0.31%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.10%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 681 (71.23%) Lecturer
2 11 (1.15%) Lead
3 9 (0.94%) AWS Engineer
3 9 (0.94%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (0.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (0.73%) Senior
5 6 (0.63%) Analyst
6 5 (0.52%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (0.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (0.52%) Head of Engineering
7 3 (0.31%) Business Analyst
7 3 (0.31%) Lead DevOps
7 3 (0.31%) Senior Manager
8 2 (0.21%) Architect
8 2 (0.21%) Configuration Manager
8 2 (0.21%) Consultant
8 2 (0.21%) Lead Designer
8 2 (0.21%) Project Manager
8 2 (0.21%) Solutions Designer
8 2 (0.21%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.21%) Middleware
2 1 (0.10%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 916 (95.82%) IoT
2 4 (0.42%) Product Ownership
3 3 (0.31%) Data Centre
3 3 (0.31%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (0.31%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (0.21%) Cloud Native
4 2 (0.21%) CMDB
4 2 (0.21%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.21%) Linux
1 2 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 921 (96.34%) Cybersecurity
2 917 (95.92%) AI
2 917 (95.92%) User Experience
3 915 (95.71%) Machine Learning
3 915 (95.71%) Web Development
4 11 (1.15%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (1.15%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (0.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (0.84%) Agile
7 7 (0.73%) Migration
8 6 (0.63%) DevOps
8 6 (0.63%) Risk Management
8 6 (0.63%) Strategic Thinking
9 5 (0.52%) Asset Management
9 5 (0.52%) Data Engineering
9 5 (0.52%) Decision-Making
9 5 (0.52%) ETL
9 5 (0.52%) ITIL
9 5 (0.52%) Mentoring
10 4 (0.42%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (0.73%) SQL
2 2 (0.21%) Java
2 2 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 917 (95.92%) Degree
2 915 (95.71%) Master's Degree
2 915 (95.71%) PhD
2 915 (95.71%) Postgraduate
3 3 (0.31%) AWS Certification
3 3 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (0.31%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 2 (0.21%) CISM
4 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
2 1 (0.10%) COBIT
System Software
1 3 (0.31%) Docker
2 2 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.31%) Ansible
1 3 (0.31%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.31%) 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%) Dynatrace
2 1 (0.10%) Google
2 1 (0.10%) New Relic
2 1 (0.10%) Salesforce
2 1 (0.10%) Splunk