Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 67 34
Rank change year-on-year +42 -33 +31
Permanent jobs citing Banking 3,904 3,664 7,195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.23% 3.71% 7.01%
As % of the General category 10.50% 6.20% 10.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,911 2,217 4,452
10th Percentile £23,504 £46,500 £46,360
25th Percentile £25,087 £62,500 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,367 £83,577 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% +11.44% +1.35%
75th Percentile £98,474 £110,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £132,500 £142,500 £127,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £25,267 £70,576 £64,598
% change year-on-year -64.20% +9.25% +8.57%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 37,181 59,113 70,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 68.85% 59.80% 68.30%
Number of salaries quoted 18,455 39,631 37,788
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £43,165
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,500 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +5.00%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Banking in the UK

Banking
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Banking in the UK

Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Banking over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Banking in the UK

Banking
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
England +43 2,981 £72,500 -14.71% 1,689
UK excluding London +80 2,475 £25,267 -64.20% 733
Work from Home +73 2,449 £45,000 -43.75% 1,481
London +7 1,399 £97,500 +8.33% 1,335
North of England +89 1,027 £25,625 -63.69% 155
North West +88 547 £25,000 -64.29% 117
Scotland +28 537 £45,000 -40.00% 80
Wales +82 327 £23,504 -54.39% 19
Yorkshire +42 289 £60,743 -13.93% 32
South West +31 278 £48,507 -31.27% 41
North East +70 191 £25,087 -55.79% 8
Midlands +48 117 £65,000 +18.18% 75
East of England +90 80 £32,500 -40.91% 15
South East +48 72 £70,000 +16.67% 331
East Midlands +55 60 £35,000 -50.00% 31
West Midlands +35 55 £70,000 +27.27% 41
Northern Ireland +54 33 £23,504 -76.50% 23
Isle of Man - 4 - -
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 -

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
1 220 (5.64%) Confluence
2 130 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
3 110 (2.82%) Apache
4 57 (1.46%) SAS
5 28 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (0.46%) Apache Spark
7 14 (0.36%) SharePoint
8 11 (0.28%) Umbraco
9 8 (0.20%) NetWeaver
9 8 (0.20%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.18%) CMS
11 5 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.10%) Mule
12 4 (0.10%) WordPress
13 3 (0.077%) CICS
13 3 (0.077%) nginx
14 2 (0.051%) OpenStack
15 1 (0.026%) Camunda
15 1 (0.026%) GemFire
Applications
1 436 (11.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 72 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (0.46%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.41%) Maya
6 9 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.18%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.026%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.026%) Sketch
9 1 (0.026%) Stata
Business Applications
1 14 (0.36%) Fidessa
2 11 (0.28%) Postilion
3 8 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 7 (0.18%) Orchestrade
4 7 (0.18%) SAP IBP
4 7 (0.18%) Temenos T24
5 5 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
7 3 (0.077%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.077%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.051%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.051%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 2 (0.051%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
9 1 (0.026%) Finacle
9 1 (0.026%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.026%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.026%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.026%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 702 (17.98%) AWS
2 616 (15.78%) Azure
3 560 (14.34%) GCP
4 136 (3.48%) Snowflake
5 131 (3.36%) dbt
6 72 (1.84%) Power Platform
7 70 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
8 65 (1.66%) Amazon ECS
8 65 (1.66%) SaaS
9 64 (1.64%) GitHub
10 54 (1.38%) Dagster
10 54 (1.38%) Serverless
11 52 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
12 47 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
13 46 (1.18%) Amazon S3
14 42 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
15 41 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
16 33 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
17 28 (0.72%) PaaS
18 26 (0.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1,153 (29.53%) Broadband
2 58 (1.49%) Firewall
3 52 (1.33%) TCP/IP
4 41 (1.05%) Network Security
5 38 (0.97%) VPN
6 35 (0.90%) DNS
7 33 (0.85%) LAN
8 26 (0.67%) DHCP
8 26 (0.67%) WAN
9 25 (0.64%) Internet
10 16 (0.41%) BGP
10 16 (0.41%) Multicast
10 16 (0.41%) OSPF
11 13 (0.33%) MPLS
12 11 (0.28%) ATM
13 10 (0.26%) FIX Connectivity
13 10 (0.26%) HTTP
14 8 (0.20%) DKIM
14 8 (0.20%) DMARC
14 8 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 285 (7.30%) SQL Server
2 131 (3.36%) Amazon Athena
3 126 (3.23%) Apache Iceberg
4 125 (3.20%) Dremio
5 122 (3.13%) Data Lake
6 104 (2.66%) Apache Arrow
7 84 (2.15%) Big Data
8 78 (2.00%) NoSQL
9 72 (1.84%) Apache Ignite
10 69 (1.77%) Power BI
11 51 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
12 46 (1.18%) Relational Database
13 45 (1.15%) Tableau
14 42 (1.08%) BigQuery
14 42 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
15 41 (1.05%) Metadata
16 38 (0.97%) DynamoDB
16 38 (0.97%) MongoDB
17 31 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
18 30 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 326 (8.35%) JIRA
2 259 (6.63%) GitLab
3 247 (6.33%) SonarQube
3 247 (6.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 245 (6.28%) Maven
5 234 (5.99%) Cucumber
6 224 (5.74%) Selenium
7 211 (5.40%) Bitbucket
8 171 (4.38%) Git
9 121 (3.10%) Jenkins
10 35 (0.90%) webpack
11 33 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
12 24 (0.61%) JUnit
13 18 (0.46%) Cypress.io
14 16 (0.41%) TeamCity
15 15 (0.38%) IBM UrbanCode
16 14 (0.36%) CircleCI
16 14 (0.36%) Gradle
17 10 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
18 9 (0.23%) Artifactory
General
1 2,311 (59.20%) Finance
2 1,009 (25.85%) Social Skills
3 736 (18.85%) Analytical Skills
4 719 (18.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 671 (17.19%) Games
6 531 (13.60%) Financial Institution
7 432 (11.07%) French Language
8 420 (10.76%) German Language
9 329 (8.43%) Investment Banking
10 257 (6.58%) Front Office
11 140 (3.59%) Retail
12 101 (2.59%) Retail Banking
13 96 (2.46%) Legal
14 70 (1.79%) Law
15 67 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
16 60 (1.54%) Corporate Banking
17 54 (1.38%) Marketing
18 50 (1.28%) Telecoms
19 39 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
20 35 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 758 (19.42%) Analyst
2 677 (17.34%) Customer Service Advisor
3 565 (14.47%) Software Engineer
4 500 (12.81%) Senior
5 423 (10.84%) Credit Analyst
6 414 (10.60%) Research Analyst
7 251 (6.43%) Developer
8 232 (5.94%) Lead
9 167 (4.28%) Architect
10 147 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
11 136 (3.48%) Senior Software Engineer
12 122 (3.13%) Python Engineer
13 110 (2.82%) Java Engineer
14 108 (2.77%) AWS Software Engineer
15 99 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
16 84 (2.15%) Java Software Engineer
17 81 (2.07%) Senior Analyst
18 74 (1.90%) Python Software Engineer
19 61 (1.56%) DevOps Engineer
20 59 (1.51%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 372 (9.53%) React
2 346 (8.86%) Spring Boot
3 328 (8.40%) Spring
4 306 (7.84%) Kafka
5 264 (6.76%) CSS
6 261 (6.69%) Redux
7 259 (6.63%) HTML
8 217 (5.56%) JPA
9 180 (4.61%) Hibernate
10 157 (4.02%) RESTful
11 101 (2.59%) Node.js
11 101 (2.59%) Pandas
12 100 (2.56%) NumPy
13 99 (2.54%) PySpark
14 95 (2.43%) SciPy
15 91 (2.33%) gRPC
16 89 (2.28%) REST
17 88 (2.25%) Jest
18 71 (1.82%) HTML5
18 71 (1.82%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 584 (14.96%) Fixed Income
2 473 (12.12%) Credit Risk
3 373 (9.55%) Product Ownership
4 237 (6.07%) Enterprise Software
5 180 (4.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 160 (4.10%) Equities
7 145 (3.71%) Derivative
8 118 (3.02%) Cloud Native
9 117 (3.00%) Hedge funds
10 82 (2.10%) Public Cloud
11 73 (1.87%) Algorithms
12 67 (1.72%) Management Information System
13 54 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
14 44 (1.13%) Mainframe
14 44 (1.13%) Mobile App
15 39 (1.00%) Onboarding
16 38 (0.97%) Pricing Data
16 38 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
17 37 (0.95%) Learning Management System
18 34 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 171 (4.38%) Linux
2 127 (3.25%) Windows
3 80 (2.05%) Unix
4 45 (1.15%) Windows Server
5 30 (0.77%) Android
5 30 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 28 (0.72%) zOS
7 18 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 18 (0.46%) CentOS
7 18 (0.46%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (0.31%) Rocky
10 10 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.13%) AIX
12 5 (0.13%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.051%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.051%) Solaris
14 1 (0.026%) Debian
14 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,081 (27.69%) Agile
2 1,006 (25.77%) Problem-Solving
3 851 (21.80%) Customer Service
4 776 (19.88%) Software Engineering
5 655 (16.78%) Asset Management
6 622 (15.93%) Risk Management
7 570 (14.60%) Decision-Making
8 564 (14.45%) DevOps
9 498 (12.76%) CI/CD
10 478 (12.24%) Microservices
11 472 (12.09%) Business Strategy
12 448 (11.48%) Portfolio Management
12 448 (11.48%) Risk Assessment
13 422 (10.81%) Financial Modelling
14 416 (10.66%) Credit Risk Analysis
15 397 (10.17%) Containerisation
16 387 (9.91%) Test Automation
17 372 (9.53%) Analytics
18 331 (8.48%) SDLC
19 321 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 727 (18.62%) Java
2 650 (16.65%) SQL
3 531 (13.60%) Python
4 489 (12.53%) JavaScript
5 208 (5.33%) TypeScript
6 113 (2.89%) C#
7 85 (2.18%) Bash
8 61 (1.56%) Go
9 56 (1.43%) PowerShell
10 51 (1.31%) C++
11 40 (1.02%) Kotlin
12 25 (0.64%) C
13 19 (0.49%) PL/SQL
13 19 (0.49%) T-SQL
14 15 (0.38%) JCL
14 15 (0.38%) Perl
14 15 (0.38%) R
15 10 (0.26%) Groovy
15 10 (0.26%) Scala
15 10 (0.26%) Swift
Qualifications
1 767 (19.65%) Degree
2 490 (12.55%) Master's Degree
3 415 (10.63%) CFA
4 51 (1.31%) Azure Certification
5 46 (1.18%) PhD
6 42 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
7 36 (0.92%) AWS Certification
8 35 (0.90%) CISSP
9 29 (0.74%) CISA
10 28 (0.72%) CCNP
11 25 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (0.61%) PMP
13 22 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
14 21 (0.54%) CCNA
14 21 (0.54%) PMI Certification
15 15 (0.38%) CCIE
15 15 (0.38%) CISM
15 15 (0.38%) CRISC
16 14 (0.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 11 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (7.33%) QA
2 149 (3.82%) Accessibility
3 44 (1.13%) Data Quality
4 31 (0.79%) SLA
5 29 (0.74%) ITGC
6 28 (0.72%) GDPR
7 25 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 18 (0.46%) NIST
9 14 (0.36%) IFRS
9 14 (0.36%) IFRS 9
10 13 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 11 (0.28%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.26%) Basel III
12 10 (0.26%) COBIT
13 9 (0.23%) GRC
14 8 (0.20%) Dodd-Frank
15 7 (0.18%) Basel II
15 7 (0.18%) ISO 20022
15 7 (0.18%) NIST 800
15 7 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 451 (11.55%) Docker
2 39 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 34 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (0.61%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.13%) Apache Flume
7 5 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.10%) vSphere
9 3 (0.077%) Firmware
10 2 (0.051%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.026%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.026%) HDFS
11 1 (0.026%) KVM
11 1 (0.026%) NFS
11 1 (0.026%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 504 (12.91%) Kubernetes
2 151 (3.87%) Terraform
3 64 (1.64%) Ansible
4 37 (0.95%) Grafana
5 30 (0.77%) SCCM
6 28 (0.72%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.64%) Istio
8 24 (0.61%) Nagios
9 19 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (0.41%) Progress Chef
11 15 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.28%) SCOM
13 10 (0.26%) NetBackup
13 10 (0.26%) Puppet
14 9 (0.23%) CA Endevor
15 7 (0.18%) Tivoli Storage Manager
16 6 (0.15%) Argo
17 5 (0.13%) HP Fortify
17 5 (0.13%) Oozie
18 4 (0.10%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 1,153 (29.53%) BT
2 437 (11.19%) Bloomberg
3 214 (5.48%) Solace
4 207 (5.30%) Microsoft
5 125 (3.20%) Google
6 103 (2.64%) Oracle
7 69 (1.77%) IBM
8 58 (1.49%) VMware
9 47 (1.20%) Cisco
10 36 (0.92%) SolarWinds
11 34 (0.87%) Databricks
12 31 (0.79%) ServiceNow
13 30 (0.77%) Red Hat
14 26 (0.67%) Sun
15 23 (0.59%) SAP
16 22 (0.56%) CheckPoint
17 21 (0.54%) Fortinet
18 19 (0.49%) Reuters
19 18 (0.46%) Arista
20 17 (0.44%) Adobe