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 have cited Banking over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 32 64
Rank change year-on-year -36 +32 +21
Permanent jobs citing Banking 3,636 7,450 8,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.71% 7.12% 5.19%
As % of the General category 6.20% 10.36% 8.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,200 4,612 3,960
10th Percentile £46,125 £47,025 £41,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £56,219 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £73,999
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +1.35% -1.33%
75th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £138,750 £127,375 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £64,721 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.05% +12.56% -

All General Skills
UK

Banking is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 58,670 71,907 98,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.84% 68.71% 63.59%
Number of salaries quoted 39,462 38,624 51,085
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Banking in the UK

Banking
Top 17 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 27 April 2024. 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 -41 2,845 £83,577 +11.44% 759
UK excluding London -46 1,825 £70,576 +9.05% 236
London -7 1,728 £90,000 +5.88% 571
Work from Home -52 1,304 £77,500 +10.71% 278
Scotland -31 680 £70,576 +1.62% 48
North of England -49 450 £70,576 +15.36% 65
South West -24 375 £70,576 +8.00% 26
Yorkshire -29 215 £70,576 +10.22% 17
North West -62 191 £70,000 +16.67% 44
South East -67 130 £60,000 -7.69% 41
Midlands -66 113 £55,000 -1.79% 34
West Midlands -48 69 £55,000 - 22
North East +29 44 £56,750 +106.36% 4
East Midlands -36 43 £70,000 +16.67% 12
East of England -36 38 £60,000 -4.00% 13
Wales -24 35 £70,576 +28.59% 7
Northern Ireland +12 12 £100,000 +97.04% 5

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
1 269 (7.40%) Apache
2 247 (6.79%) Apache Airflow
3 118 (3.25%) SharePoint
4 106 (2.92%) Confluence
5 91 (2.50%) SAS
6 88 (2.42%) Apache Spark
7 72 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
8 33 (0.91%) WebSphere
9 28 (0.77%) Captiva
9 28 (0.77%) FileNet
10 22 (0.61%) GemFire
11 16 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
12 14 (0.39%) IIS
12 14 (0.39%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.19%) JBoss
14 5 (0.14%) nginx
15 4 (0.11%) WebLogic
16 3 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 2 (0.055%) WebSphere Application Server
17 2 (0.055%) WildFly
Applications
1 270 (7.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 197 (5.42%) Microsoft Office
3 161 (4.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.58%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.17%) UserZoom
7 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.083%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.083%) InVision
8 3 (0.083%) Sketch
9 2 (0.055%) EViews
9 2 (0.055%) SPSS
10 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.028%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.028%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 16 (0.44%) Fidessa
2 14 (0.39%) SAP BPC
2 14 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 13 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.33%) Temenos T24
5 11 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
5 11 (0.30%) SAP FI
6 10 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
6 10 (0.28%) SAP CO
6 10 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
6 10 (0.28%) Teamcenter
7 8 (0.22%) Adaptiv
8 6 (0.17%) ION Anvil
8 6 (0.17%) ION MarketView
9 5 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
10 4 (0.11%) Finacle
11 3 (0.083%) Oracle Cash Management
12 2 (0.055%) Carpe Diem
12 2 (0.055%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 860 (23.65%) AWS
2 558 (15.35%) GCP
3 470 (12.93%) Azure
4 170 (4.68%) dbt
5 158 (4.35%) Power Platform
6 149 (4.10%) Snowflake
7 138 (3.80%) GitHub
8 88 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
9 84 (2.31%) SaaS
10 58 (1.60%) PaaS
11 45 (1.24%) OpenShift
12 44 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
13 31 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
13 31 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
14 29 (0.80%) Serverless
15 26 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
15 26 (0.72%) IaaS
16 24 (0.66%) Google Play
17 22 (0.61%) Entra ID
17 22 (0.61%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.73%) Firewall
2 50 (1.38%) DNS
3 39 (1.07%) DHCP
4 38 (1.05%) TCP/IP
5 22 (0.61%) VPN
6 21 (0.58%) Internet
6 21 (0.58%) WAN
7 19 (0.52%) Wireless
8 18 (0.50%) DSL
9 17 (0.47%) FIX Connectivity
9 17 (0.47%) LAN
10 15 (0.41%) VLAN
11 11 (0.30%) SSL
11 11 (0.30%) Structured Cabling
12 10 (0.28%) SMS
13 9 (0.25%) Network Security
13 9 (0.25%) Unified Communications
14 8 (0.22%) Extranet
15 7 (0.19%) SMTP
15 7 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (6.30%) Apache Ignite
2 220 (6.05%) Data Lake
3 173 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
4 170 (4.68%) Apache Arrow
4 170 (4.68%) Dremio
5 149 (4.10%) SQL Server
6 147 (4.04%) Power BI
7 132 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
8 126 (3.47%) Big Data
9 109 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
10 105 (2.89%) NoSQL
11 82 (2.26%) MongoDB
12 66 (1.82%) Tableau
13 63 (1.73%) BigQuery
14 58 (1.60%) MySQL
15 55 (1.51%) Relational Database
16 49 (1.35%) Metadata
17 47 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
18 37 (1.02%) Data Hub
19 34 (0.94%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 250 (6.88%) JIRA
2 161 (4.43%) Git
3 132 (3.63%) Jenkins
4 120 (3.30%) Cypress.io
5 116 (3.19%) JUnit
6 90 (2.48%) Selenium
7 75 (2.06%) Jasmine
7 75 (2.06%) Karma Test Runner
8 67 (1.84%) WebDriver
9 63 (1.73%) Maven
10 60 (1.65%) Protractor
11 48 (1.32%) Oracle Forms
12 42 (1.16%) Cucumber
13 38 (1.05%) IBM UrbanCode
14 30 (0.83%) TeamCity
15 28 (0.77%) GitLab
16 24 (0.66%) Android Studio
17 21 (0.58%) Jaeger
17 21 (0.58%) Spinnaker
18 17 (0.47%) CircleCI
General
1 2,918 (80.25%) Finance
2 1,090 (29.98%) Investment Banking
3 849 (23.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 789 (21.70%) Law
5 765 (21.04%) Social Skills
6 483 (13.28%) Front Office
7 444 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
8 315 (8.66%) Legal
9 215 (5.91%) Financial Institution
10 203 (5.58%) Retail
11 192 (5.28%) Marketing
12 174 (4.79%) Retail Banking
13 146 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
14 116 (3.19%) Private Banking
15 85 (2.34%) Back Office
16 68 (1.87%) Publishing
17 50 (1.38%) Games
18 45 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
19 43 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
20 32 (0.88%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 703 (19.33%) Software Engineer
2 640 (17.60%) Senior
3 609 (16.75%) Analyst
4 522 (14.36%) Developer
5 493 (13.56%) Lead
6 359 (9.87%) Architect
7 321 (8.83%) Java Engineer
8 297 (8.17%) Java Software Engineer
9 178 (4.90%) Python Engineer
10 173 (4.76%) Python Software Engineer
11 171 (4.70%) Lead Software Engineer
12 162 (4.46%) Java Developer
13 149 (4.10%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 149 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
14 121 (3.33%) Lead Java Engineer
15 117 (3.22%) Full Stack Engineer
16 115 (3.16%) Senior Developer
17 112 (3.08%) Python Developer
17 112 (3.08%) Senior Analyst
18 109 (3.00%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 346 (9.52%) React
2 338 (9.30%) Spring
3 252 (6.93%) Kafka
4 245 (6.74%) Spring Boot
5 239 (6.57%) gRPC
6 236 (6.49%) Protocol Buffers
7 219 (6.02%) HTML
8 211 (5.80%) AngularJS
9 200 (5.50%) CSS
10 179 (4.92%) Pandas
11 158 (4.35%) NumPy
11 158 (4.35%) SciPy
12 142 (3.91%) .NET
13 123 (3.38%) RESTful
14 115 (3.16%) Node.js
15 105 (2.89%) JSON
16 101 (2.78%) jQuery
17 95 (2.61%) Redux
18 91 (2.50%) REST
19 83 (2.28%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 323 (8.88%) Hedge funds
2 305 (8.39%) Fixed Income
3 284 (7.81%) Cloud Native
4 266 (7.32%) Derivative
5 244 (6.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 219 (6.02%) Equities
7 179 (4.92%) Public Cloud
8 161 (4.43%) Product Ownership
9 154 (4.24%) Algorithms
10 148 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
11 123 (3.38%) Data Structures
12 122 (3.36%) Credit Risk
13 76 (2.09%) Management Information System
14 74 (2.04%) Private Cloud
15 68 (1.87%) Onboarding
16 64 (1.76%) Data Centre
17 47 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
18 45 (1.24%) Mobile App
19 42 (1.16%) Blockchain
20 38 (1.05%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 255 (7.01%) Windows
2 253 (6.96%) Linux
3 142 (3.91%) Unix
4 67 (1.84%) Android
5 58 (1.60%) Windows Server
6 41 (1.13%) Apple iOS
7 39 (1.07%) Windows 10
8 38 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 33 (0.91%) zOS
10 31 (0.85%) CentOS
11 25 (0.69%) Solaris
11 25 (0.69%) Ubuntu
12 12 (0.33%) AIX
13 7 (0.19%) CoreOS
14 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.083%) Oracle Linux
17 2 (0.055%) Mac OS
17 2 (0.055%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,663 (45.74%) Agile
2 940 (25.85%) Software Engineering
3 709 (19.50%) Asset Management
4 598 (16.45%) CI/CD
5 513 (14.11%) Artificial Intelligence
5 513 (14.11%) Machine Learning
5 513 (14.11%) SDLC
6 433 (11.91%) Problem-Solving
7 422 (11.61%) Analytics
8 403 (11.08%) DevOps
9 390 (10.73%) Investment Management
10 372 (10.23%) Operational Stability
11 367 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 342 (9.41%) Coaching
13 313 (8.61%) Microservices
14 280 (7.70%) Full Stack Development
15 279 (7.67%) Mentoring
16 268 (7.37%) Risk Management
17 266 (7.32%) Community of Practice
17 266 (7.32%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 928 (25.52%) Java
2 729 (20.05%) Python
3 658 (18.10%) SQL
4 496 (13.64%) JavaScript
5 367 (10.09%) TypeScript
6 217 (5.97%) C#
7 113 (3.11%) PowerShell
8 68 (1.87%) Bash
9 66 (1.82%) Kotlin
10 59 (1.62%) Scala
10 59 (1.62%) T-SQL
11 58 (1.60%) Groovy
12 53 (1.46%) R
13 44 (1.21%) Ruby
14 40 (1.10%) Go
15 38 (1.05%) Perl
16 25 (0.69%) Shell Script
17 23 (0.63%) PL/SQL
18 19 (0.52%) C++
19 18 (0.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 352 (9.68%) Degree
2 53 (1.46%) Master's Degree
3 50 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 39 (1.07%) ACCA
5 32 (0.88%) PMI Certification
6 30 (0.83%) Security Cleared
7 27 (0.74%) CISSP
8 24 (0.66%) AWS Certification
9 23 (0.63%) Azure Certification
10 18 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (0.47%) CISA
11 17 (0.47%) CISM
12 16 (0.44%) MBA
12 16 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
12 16 (0.44%) PMP
13 15 (0.41%) OCP
14 11 (0.30%) CIMA
15 10 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.28%) MCP
16 8 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (5.23%) Data Quality
2 173 (4.76%) GDPR
3 104 (2.86%) SLA
4 73 (2.01%) IFRS
4 73 (2.01%) IFRS 9
5 72 (1.98%) Accessibility
6 70 (1.93%) QA
7 27 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 26 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
9 20 (0.55%) SEPA
10 18 (0.50%) CRD IV
11 15 (0.41%) WAI
12 14 (0.39%) NIST
12 14 (0.39%) PMO
13 12 (0.33%) PSD2
14 11 (0.30%) PCI DSS
15 7 (0.19%) GRC
16 6 (0.17%) COBIT
16 6 (0.17%) ISO 20022
16 6 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 172 (4.73%) Docker
2 94 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 42 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.33%) XenApp
6 11 (0.30%) HDFS
6 11 (0.30%) XenDesktop
7 9 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.25%) vSphere
8 4 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.083%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.083%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.055%) Apache Flume
10 2 (0.055%) NFS
11 1 (0.028%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.028%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.028%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.028%) OpenAM
11 1 (0.028%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.028%) Xen
Systems Management
1 282 (7.76%) Kubernetes
2 154 (4.24%) Terraform
3 78 (2.15%) Ansible
4 69 (1.90%) Grafana
5 40 (1.10%) SCCM
6 32 (0.88%) Prometheus
7 28 (0.77%) Progress Chef
8 24 (0.66%) ITRS Geneos
8 24 (0.66%) Kibana
8 24 (0.66%) Puppet
9 23 (0.63%) Istio
10 21 (0.58%) HAProxy
10 21 (0.58%) Zipkin
11 14 (0.39%) Control-M
12 13 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
13 12 (0.33%) Graphite
13 12 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 12 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.22%) CA Endevor
15 7 (0.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 409 (11.25%) Microsoft
2 270 (7.43%) Google
3 218 (6.00%) Oracle
4 122 (3.36%) ServiceNow
5 105 (2.89%) IBM
6 81 (2.23%) SAP
6 81 (2.23%) Splunk
7 60 (1.65%) Red Hat
7 60 (1.65%) VMware
8 53 (1.46%) Citrix
9 51 (1.40%) Alteryx
10 50 (1.38%) Bloomberg
11 46 (1.27%) Databricks
11 46 (1.27%) Dynatrace
12 39 (1.07%) ION Trading
13 36 (0.99%) Pega
14 34 (0.94%) Cisco
15 31 (0.85%) Salesforce
16 30 (0.83%) Kofax
17 28 (0.77%) CA