Banking Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Banking
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in permanent job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 16 77
Rank change year-on-year -115 +61 -61
Permanent jobs citing Banking 9 148 81
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.25% 10.82% 2.58%
As % of the General category 0.62% 14.76% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 8 130 52
10th Percentile £29,500 £25,000 £38,832
25th Percentile £45,552 £25,313 £47,231
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,723 £71,991 £70,288
Median % change year-on-year -25.38% +2.42% +14.89%
75th Percentile £59,688 £98,474 £97,022
90th Percentile £65,875 £140,677 £100,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,445 £69,018 £70,576
% change year-on-year -24.01% -2.21% +15.36%

All General Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,453 1,003 1,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 40.59% 73.32% 57.72%
Number of salaries quoted 961 555 1,327
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,313 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% - -8.90%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -6.86%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Banking job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Banking
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Banking

Banking
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Banking in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Banking in West Yorkshire

Banking
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
Leeds -103 8 £53,723 -25.38% 14
Wakefield - 1 - -
Banking
Yorkshire

Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
General
1 7 (77.78%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (33.33%) Financial Institution
4 2 (22.22%) Advertising
4 2 (22.22%) Billing
4 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
4 2 (22.22%) Legal
4 2 (22.22%) Marketing
4 2 (22.22%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
5 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Analyst
2 4 (44.44%) Business Analyst
2 4 (44.44%) Senior
3 3 (33.33%) Banking Analyst
3 3 (33.33%) Banking Business Analyst
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Banking Business Analyst
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (22.22%) Consultant
4 2 (22.22%) Recruitment Consultant
5 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Hedge funds
1 2 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Data Modelling
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Anti-Money Laundering
2 3 (33.33%) BPMN
2 3 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 3 (33.33%) ERP
2 3 (33.33%) KYC
2 3 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
2 3 (33.33%) Migration
2 3 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (33.33%) SDLC
2 3 (33.33%) Use Case
2 3 (33.33%) Waterfall
2 3 (33.33%) Wireframes
2 3 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (22.22%) Change Management
3 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) SAP
2 3 (33.33%) TOWER Software