Retail Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Retail Banking over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 687 619 856
Rank change year-on-year -68 +237 -44
Permanent jobs citing Retail Banking 231 364 397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.37% 0.24%
As % of the General category 0.38% 0.55% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 179 228 260
10th Percentile £56,000 £50,000 £34,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,188 £45,617
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £70,000 £66,140
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% +5.84% -8.04%
75th Percentile £100,000 £89,852 £93,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £103,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £51,320
% change year-on-year +3.85% +26.66% -4.07%

All General Skills
UK

Retail 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 60,283 66,144 108,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.75% 67.94% 64.98%
Number of salaries quoted 39,987 35,943 51,825
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,426 £81,250 £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%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 -44 193 £85,000 +21.43% 45
London +85 173 £85,000 +6.25% 32
UK excluding London -95 54 £67,500 +3.85% 22
Work from Home -72 36 £60,000 -11.11% 26
Scotland -57 34 £72,500 +11.54% 12
East of England -5 10 £62,500 -3.85%
West Midlands +6 5 £60,000 +9.09% 2
South East -3 5 £25,000 -72.22% 2
Midlands -9 5 £60,000 +9.09% 3

Retail 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 7 (3.03%) Apache
1 7 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (3.03%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.87%) Confluence
3 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.43%) nginx
3 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (4.33%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.43%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 98 (42.42%) AWS
2 92 (39.83%) Azure
3 40 (17.32%) GCP
4 27 (11.69%) OpenShift
5 18 (7.79%) GitHub
6 14 (6.06%) Power Platform
7 12 (5.19%) SaaS
8 7 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.03%) Kong
9 5 (2.16%) Azure AKS
9 5 (2.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (1.30%) Collibra
11 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.43%) Route 53
11 1 (0.43%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 1 (0.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.87%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (0.87%) Firewall
1 2 (0.87%) LAN
1 2 (0.87%) VPN
1 2 (0.87%) WAN
2 1 (0.43%) DNS
2 1 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (14.72%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (9.96%) Data Lake
3 20 (8.66%) Metadata
4 16 (6.93%) MongoDB
5 14 (6.06%) Power BI
6 13 (5.63%) Big Data
7 11 (4.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 11 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (3.03%) Apache Hive
8 7 (3.03%) Flink
8 7 (3.03%) Hadoop
8 7 (3.03%) NoSQL
8 7 (3.03%) Parquet
9 1 (0.43%) Ataccama
Development Applications
1 26 (11.26%) JIRA
2 19 (8.23%) Git
3 11 (4.76%) Artifactory
3 11 (4.76%) Snyk
4 9 (3.90%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.03%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.30%) Grunt
6 3 (1.30%) Jasmine
6 3 (1.30%) Mocha
6 3 (1.30%) webpack
7 2 (0.87%) Maven
7 2 (0.87%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.43%) ERwin
General
1 174 (75.32%) Banking
2 140 (60.61%) Finance
3 66 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (15.58%) Social Skills
5 30 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (7.36%) Financial Institution
7 16 (6.93%) Retail
8 4 (1.73%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (41.56%) Architect
2 67 (29.00%) Senior
3 48 (20.78%) Lead
4 30 (12.99%) Data Architect
5 28 (12.12%) Analyst
6 26 (11.26%) Senior Architect
7 22 (9.52%) Cloud Architect
8 18 (7.79%) Solutions Architect
9 17 (7.36%) Azure Architect
9 17 (7.36%) Developer
9 17 (7.36%) Senior Developer
10 16 (6.93%) Middleware Architect
10 16 (6.93%) Senior Data Architect
11 14 (6.06%) Banking Analyst
11 14 (6.06%) Banking Business Analyst
11 14 (6.06%) Business Analyst
11 14 (6.06%) Data Business Analyst
11 14 (6.06%) Process Analyst
12 13 (5.63%) Technical Leader
13 12 (5.19%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (19.48%) Kafka
2 21 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 18 (7.79%) Middleware
4 10 (4.33%) LAMP
4 10 (4.33%) Laravel
4 10 (4.33%) Symfony
4 10 (4.33%) Web Services
5 9 (3.90%) CSS
6 7 (3.03%) Apache Avro
6 7 (3.03%) Apache Beam
6 7 (3.03%) PySpark
6 7 (3.03%) Spark Streaming
7 6 (2.60%) HTML
7 6 (2.60%) jQuery
8 4 (1.73%) Spring
9 3 (1.30%) Ajax
9 3 (1.30%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.30%) OAuth2
9 3 (1.30%) React
9 3 (1.30%) Semantic UI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.33%) Distributed Applications
1 10 (4.33%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.16%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.16%) Mainframe
4 4 (1.73%) Data Centre
5 2 (0.87%) FMCG
5 2 (0.87%) PMI
6 1 (0.43%) Animation
6 1 (0.43%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.43%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.43%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.33%) Windows
2 7 (3.03%) Linux
3 1 (0.43%) Android
3 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (26.41%) CI/CD
2 55 (23.81%) DevOps
3 52 (22.51%) Agile
4 45 (19.48%) Migration
5 44 (19.05%) Data Modelling
6 40 (17.32%) Asset Management
7 39 (16.88%) TDD
8 37 (16.02%) Microservices
9 32 (13.85%) Data Architecture
9 32 (13.85%) SDLC
10 30 (12.99%) Business Development
11 25 (10.82%) Data Migration
12 22 (9.52%) Mentoring
13 19 (8.23%) Logical Data Model
13 19 (8.23%) Platform Engineering
14 18 (7.79%) Data Strategy
14 18 (7.79%) Physical Data Model
15 17 (7.36%) Architectural Design
15 17 (7.36%) Continuous Delivery
15 17 (7.36%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (20.35%) SQL
2 36 (15.58%) Java
3 11 (4.76%) Python
4 10 (4.33%) PHP
5 9 (3.90%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.03%) Scala
7 3 (1.30%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 21 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 16 (6.93%) Azure Certification
3 2 (0.87%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.16%) NIST
2 2 (0.87%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (15.58%) Docker
2 7 (3.03%) HDFS
3 4 (1.73%) KVM
3 4 (1.73%) Xen
Systems Management
1 47 (20.35%) Kubernetes
2 19 (8.23%) Terraform
3 11 (4.76%) Istio
4 2 (0.87%) Ansible
4 2 (0.87%) Rancher
Vendors
1 17 (7.36%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.06%) Red Hat
3 8 (3.46%) Databricks
4 7 (3.03%) Cloudera
5 6 (2.60%) Ab Initio
6 5 (2.16%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.87%) Cisco
7 2 (0.87%) Google
7 2 (0.87%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.87%) SAP
8 1 (0.43%) Adobe
8 1 (0.43%) Apple
8 1 (0.43%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.43%) Confluent
8 1 (0.43%) Fiserv
8 1 (0.43%) Informatica
8 1 (0.43%) Salesforce