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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 35 65
Rank change year-on-year -33 +30 +19
Permanent jobs citing Banking 3,657 7,062 8,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.69% 6.95% 5.31%
As % of the General category 6.17% 10.19% 8.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,213 4,375 4,030
10th Percentile £46,646 £46,350 £41,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,219 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,577 £75,000 £73,449
Median % change year-on-year +11.44% +2.11% -2.07%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £127,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £64,535 £59,500
% change year-on-year +9.36% +8.46% +3.48%

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 59,289 69,287 100,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.78% 68.22% 64.09%
Number of salaries quoted 39,672 37,345 51,003
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,162 £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 £101,250 £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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -36 2,881 £85,000 +13.33% 733
UK excluding London -53 1,790 £70,576 +9.36% 215
London -5 1,785 £90,000 +5.88% 560
Work from Home -58 1,255 £80,000 +14.29% 329
Scotland -30 670 £73,750 +6.20% 35
North of England -64 417 £70,576 +17.14% 62
South West -23 395 £70,576 +8.00% 23
Yorkshire -31 198 £70,576 +10.22% 19
North West -77 174 £70,000 +16.67% 39
South East -70 129 £60,000 -7.69% 32
Midlands -72 112 £55,000 - 34
West Midlands -54 67 £55,000 - 23
North East +30 45 £56,750 +106.36% 4
East Midlands -37 44 £70,000 +16.67% 11
East of England -43 35 £55,000 -12.00% 18
Wales -30 32 £51,528 -6.11% 9
Northern Ireland +6 10 £82,500 +62.56% 4

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
1 318 (8.70%) Apache
2 304 (8.31%) Apache Airflow
3 118 (3.23%) SharePoint
4 100 (2.73%) Confluence
5 91 (2.49%) SAS
6 77 (2.11%) Apache Spark
7 74 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
8 33 (0.90%) WebSphere
9 28 (0.77%) Captiva
9 28 (0.77%) FileNet
10 22 (0.60%) GemFire
11 17 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
12 12 (0.33%) IIS
13 10 (0.27%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.19%) JBoss
15 5 (0.14%) nginx
16 4 (0.11%) WebLogic
17 3 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
18 2 (0.055%) WebSphere Application Server
18 2 (0.055%) WildFly
Applications
1 252 (6.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 175 (4.79%) Microsoft Office
3 144 (3.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.16%) UserZoom
7 3 (0.082%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.082%) InVision
7 3 (0.082%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.082%) Sketch
8 2 (0.055%) EViews
8 2 (0.055%) SPSS
9 1 (0.027%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.027%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.027%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 15 (0.41%) Fidessa
2 14 (0.38%) Aladdin
2 14 (0.38%) SAP BPC
2 14 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.33%) Temenos T24
5 11 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
5 11 (0.30%) SAP FI
6 10 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
6 10 (0.27%) SAP CO
6 10 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
6 10 (0.27%) Teamcenter
7 7 (0.19%) Adaptiv
8 6 (0.16%) ION Anvil
8 6 (0.16%) ION MarketView
9 5 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
10 4 (0.11%) Finacle
11 3 (0.082%) Oracle Cash Management
12 2 (0.055%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 2 (0.055%) SAP FI-GL
Cloud Services
1 920 (25.16%) AWS
2 575 (15.72%) GCP
3 492 (13.45%) Azure
4 205 (5.61%) dbt
5 190 (5.20%) Snowflake
6 142 (3.88%) Power Platform
7 121 (3.31%) GitHub
8 82 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
8 82 (2.24%) SaaS
9 59 (1.61%) PaaS
10 45 (1.23%) OpenShift
11 42 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
12 33 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
13 30 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
14 29 (0.79%) Serverless
15 26 (0.71%) IaaS
16 25 (0.68%) Google Play
17 23 (0.63%) Entra ID
17 23 (0.63%) Power Automate
18 22 (0.60%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.67%) Firewall
2 41 (1.12%) DNS
3 35 (0.96%) DHCP
4 33 (0.90%) TCP/IP
5 25 (0.68%) Internet
6 22 (0.60%) VPN
6 22 (0.60%) WAN
7 20 (0.55%) Wireless
8 18 (0.49%) DSL
8 18 (0.49%) LAN
9 15 (0.41%) FIX Connectivity
9 15 (0.41%) VLAN
10 11 (0.30%) Structured Cabling
11 10 (0.27%) SMS
12 9 (0.25%) Extranet
12 9 (0.25%) Network Security
12 9 (0.25%) Unified Communications
13 7 (0.19%) SMTP
13 7 (0.19%) VoIP
14 6 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 286 (7.82%) Apache Ignite
2 257 (7.03%) Data Lake
3 208 (5.69%) Amazon Athena
4 205 (5.61%) Apache Arrow
4 205 (5.61%) Dremio
5 142 (3.88%) SQL Server
6 132 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
7 129 (3.53%) Power BI
8 114 (3.12%) Big Data
9 109 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
10 96 (2.63%) NoSQL
11 72 (1.97%) MongoDB
12 63 (1.72%) Tableau
13 52 (1.42%) Metadata
14 51 (1.39%) BigQuery
15 48 (1.31%) Relational Database
16 47 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
17 35 (0.96%) Hadoop
18 33 (0.90%) MySQL
19 31 (0.85%) DB2
Development Applications
1 239 (6.54%) JIRA
2 144 (3.94%) Git
3 133 (3.64%) Cypress.io
4 116 (3.17%) Jenkins
5 115 (3.14%) JUnit
6 88 (2.41%) Selenium
7 75 (2.05%) Jasmine
7 75 (2.05%) Karma Test Runner
8 66 (1.80%) WebDriver
9 60 (1.64%) Maven
9 60 (1.64%) Protractor
10 49 (1.34%) Oracle Forms
11 40 (1.09%) Cucumber
12 38 (1.04%) IBM UrbanCode
13 29 (0.79%) TeamCity
14 25 (0.68%) Android Studio
15 24 (0.66%) GitLab
16 21 (0.57%) Jaeger
17 16 (0.44%) CircleCI
17 16 (0.44%) Spinnaker
General
1 2,925 (79.98%) Finance
2 1,134 (31.01%) Investment Banking
3 889 (24.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 826 (22.59%) Law
5 778 (21.27%) Social Skills
6 553 (15.12%) Front Office
7 429 (11.73%) Analytical Skills
8 315 (8.61%) Legal
9 218 (5.96%) Financial Institution
10 192 (5.25%) Marketing
11 191 (5.22%) Retail
12 183 (5.00%) Retail Banking
13 152 (4.16%) Presentation Skills
14 115 (3.14%) Private Banking
15 83 (2.27%) Back Office
16 68 (1.86%) Publishing
17 50 (1.37%) Games
18 46 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
19 39 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
20 33 (0.90%) French Language
Job Titles
1 716 (19.58%) Software Engineer
2 661 (18.07%) Senior
3 621 (16.98%) Analyst
4 545 (14.90%) Developer
5 507 (13.86%) Lead
6 364 (9.95%) Architect
7 339 (9.27%) Java Engineer
8 312 (8.53%) Java Software Engineer
9 213 (5.82%) Python Engineer
10 208 (5.69%) Python Software Engineer
11 178 (4.87%) Lead Software Engineer
12 172 (4.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 160 (4.38%) Java Developer
14 144 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
15 134 (3.66%) Python Developer
16 128 (3.50%) Lead Java Engineer
17 123 (3.36%) Senior Analyst
18 115 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
18 115 (3.14%) Full Stack Engineer
19 113 (3.09%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 357 (9.76%) React
2 331 (9.05%) Spring
3 296 (8.09%) gRPC
4 293 (8.01%) Protocol Buffers
5 234 (6.40%) Spring Boot
6 227 (6.21%) Kafka
7 214 (5.85%) Pandas
8 198 (5.41%) AngularJS
8 198 (5.41%) HTML
9 193 (5.28%) NumPy
9 193 (5.28%) SciPy
10 190 (5.20%) CSS
11 139 (3.80%) .NET
12 120 (3.28%) Redux
13 108 (2.95%) RESTful
14 101 (2.76%) jQuery
15 100 (2.73%) JSON
16 98 (2.68%) Node.js
17 92 (2.52%) Material-UI
18 88 (2.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 390 (10.66%) Hedge funds
2 373 (10.20%) Fixed Income
3 312 (8.53%) Derivative
4 289 (7.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 286 (7.82%) Cloud Native
6 278 (7.60%) Equities
7 174 (4.76%) Public Cloud
8 157 (4.29%) Algorithms
9 155 (4.24%) Product Ownership
10 131 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
11 123 (3.36%) Data Structures
12 119 (3.25%) Credit Risk
13 76 (2.08%) Management Information System
14 75 (2.05%) Private Cloud
15 69 (1.89%) Onboarding
16 66 (1.80%) Data Centre
17 48 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
18 46 (1.26%) Mobile App
19 38 (1.04%) Blog
20 37 (1.01%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 248 (6.78%) Linux
2 245 (6.70%) Windows
3 138 (3.77%) Unix
4 64 (1.75%) Android
5 54 (1.48%) Windows Server
6 37 (1.01%) Apple iOS
7 35 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 35 (0.96%) Windows 10
8 33 (0.90%) zOS
9 30 (0.82%) CentOS
10 23 (0.63%) Solaris
10 23 (0.63%) Ubuntu
11 12 (0.33%) AIX
12 7 (0.19%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.082%) Oracle Linux
15 2 (0.055%) Mac OS
15 2 (0.055%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,646 (45.01%) Agile
2 964 (26.36%) Software Engineering
3 744 (20.34%) Asset Management
4 589 (16.11%) CI/CD
5 531 (14.52%) Machine Learning
6 526 (14.38%) Artificial Intelligence
7 491 (13.43%) SDLC
8 443 (12.11%) Investment Management
9 411 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
10 390 (10.66%) Analytics
11 386 (10.56%) DevOps
12 375 (10.25%) Operational Stability
13 355 (9.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 340 (9.30%) Coaching
15 297 (8.12%) Microservices
16 291 (7.96%) Full Stack Development
17 280 (7.66%) Data Management
18 270 (7.38%) Risk Management
19 269 (7.36%) Community of Practice
20 266 (7.27%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 936 (25.59%) Java
2 787 (21.52%) Python
3 663 (18.13%) SQL
4 529 (14.47%) JavaScript
5 427 (11.68%) TypeScript
6 215 (5.88%) C#
7 108 (2.95%) PowerShell
8 67 (1.83%) Kotlin
9 62 (1.70%) Bash
10 58 (1.59%) T-SQL
11 57 (1.56%) Groovy
12 56 (1.53%) Scala
13 51 (1.39%) R
14 38 (1.04%) Ruby
15 37 (1.01%) Go
16 35 (0.96%) Perl
17 26 (0.71%) Shell Script
18 24 (0.66%) PL/SQL
19 21 (0.57%) C++
20 18 (0.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 370 (10.12%) Degree
2 56 (1.53%) Master's Degree
3 55 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 41 (1.12%) ACCA
5 34 (0.93%) Security Cleared
6 33 (0.90%) PMI Certification
7 30 (0.82%) CISSP
8 26 (0.71%) AWS Certification
9 24 (0.66%) Azure Certification
10 18 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (0.49%) PMP
11 17 (0.46%) CISA
11 17 (0.46%) CISM
12 16 (0.44%) MBA
13 15 (0.41%) CIMA
14 11 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.27%) MCP
15 10 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
16 9 (0.25%) OCP
16 9 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 216 (5.91%) Data Quality
2 184 (5.03%) GDPR
3 99 (2.71%) SLA
4 73 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 73 (2.00%) IFRS
4 73 (2.00%) IFRS 9
5 72 (1.97%) QA
6 27 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (0.49%) CRD IV
8 15 (0.41%) NIST
8 15 (0.41%) PMO
8 15 (0.41%) WAI
9 14 (0.38%) SEPA
10 12 (0.33%) PSD2
11 11 (0.30%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.19%) GRC
13 7 (0.19%) MiFID
14 6 (0.16%) COBIT
14 6 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 146 (3.99%) Docker
2 89 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 42 (1.15%) 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 (0.082%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.082%) KVM
9 3 (0.082%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.082%) Xen
10 2 (0.055%) Apache Flume
10 2 (0.055%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.055%) NFS
11 1 (0.027%) GridGain
11 1 (0.027%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.027%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 258 (7.05%) Kubernetes
2 142 (3.88%) Terraform
3 75 (2.05%) Ansible
4 69 (1.89%) Grafana
5 40 (1.09%) SCCM
6 31 (0.85%) Prometheus
7 28 (0.77%) Progress Chef
8 24 (0.66%) ITRS Geneos
9 23 (0.63%) Istio
9 23 (0.63%) Kibana
10 21 (0.57%) HAProxy
10 21 (0.57%) Zipkin
11 20 (0.55%) Puppet
12 12 (0.33%) Control-M
12 12 (0.33%) Graphite
12 12 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
13 10 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
14 8 (0.22%) CA Endevor
15 6 (0.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 389 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 286 (7.82%) Google
3 217 (5.93%) Oracle
4 119 (3.25%) ServiceNow
5 99 (2.71%) IBM
6 81 (2.21%) SAP
7 80 (2.19%) Splunk
8 59 (1.61%) VMware
9 56 (1.53%) Red Hat
10 54 (1.48%) Alteryx
11 52 (1.42%) Citrix
12 50 (1.37%) Bloomberg
13 46 (1.26%) Databricks
14 44 (1.20%) Dynatrace
15 38 (1.04%) ION Trading
16 36 (0.98%) Pega
17 34 (0.93%) Cisco
18 30 (0.82%) Salesforce
19 29 (0.79%) Kofax
20 26 (0.71%) CA