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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 35 65
Rank change year-on-year -33 +30 +20
Permanent jobs citing Banking 3,646 7,031 8,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.68% 6.94% 5.31%
As % of the General category 6.16% 10.17% 8.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,198 4,364 4,015
10th Percentile £46,442 £46,381 £41,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,242 £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 £111,250 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £127,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £64,535 £59,500
% change year-on-year +8.47% +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 59,215 69,122 100,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.75% 68.21% 64.16%
Number of salaries quoted 39,629 37,296 50,752
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 £102,000 £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 9 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 9 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 2,876 £85,000 +13.33% 707
London -5 1,790 £90,000 +5.88% 533
UK excluding London -52 1,775 £70,000 +8.47% 213
Work from Home -57 1,252 £83,038 +18.63% 314
Scotland -31 666 £72,246 +4.03% 36
North of England -62 411 £70,576 +17.14% 63
South West -24 390 £70,576 +8.00% 22
Yorkshire -35 192 £70,576 +10.22% 19
North West -75 173 £69,724 +16.21% 39
South East -74 129 £60,000 -7.69% 31
Midlands -81 112 £55,000 - 34
West Midlands -60 67 £55,000 - 23
North East +29 46 £56,750 +106.36% 5
East Midlands -40 44 £70,000 +16.67% 11
East of England -33 36 £50,000 -20.00% 18
Wales -36 31 £51,528 -6.11% 7
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
1 328 (9.00%) Apache
2 314 (8.61%) Apache Airflow
3 117 (3.21%) SharePoint
4 97 (2.66%) Confluence
5 91 (2.50%) SAS
6 77 (2.11%) Apache Spark
6 77 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 33 (0.91%) WebSphere
8 28 (0.77%) Captiva
8 28 (0.77%) FileNet
9 22 (0.60%) GemFire
10 17 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
11 12 (0.33%) IIS
12 10 (0.27%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.19%) JBoss
14 5 (0.14%) nginx
15 4 (0.11%) WebLogic
16 2 (0.055%) CMS
16 2 (0.055%) JCAPS
16 2 (0.055%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 250 (6.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 173 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
3 142 (3.89%) 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 16 (0.44%) 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
10 4 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
11 2 (0.055%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 2 (0.055%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 924 (25.34%) AWS
2 575 (15.77%) GCP
3 488 (13.38%) Azure
4 215 (5.90%) dbt
5 200 (5.49%) Snowflake
6 143 (3.92%) Power Platform
7 119 (3.26%) GitHub
8 82 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
9 81 (2.22%) SaaS
10 57 (1.56%) PaaS
11 45 (1.23%) OpenShift
12 42 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
13 34 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
14 30 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
15 29 (0.80%) Serverless
16 25 (0.69%) Google Play
16 25 (0.69%) IaaS
17 24 (0.66%) Power Automate
18 23 (0.63%) Entra ID
19 22 (0.60%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.70%) Firewall
2 43 (1.18%) DNS
3 37 (1.01%) DHCP
4 35 (0.96%) TCP/IP
5 25 (0.69%) 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 16 (0.44%) FIX Connectivity
10 15 (0.41%) VLAN
11 11 (0.30%) Structured Cabling
12 10 (0.27%) SMS
13 9 (0.25%) Extranet
13 9 (0.25%) Network Security
13 9 (0.25%) Unified Communications
14 8 (0.22%) SMTP
15 7 (0.19%) VoIP
16 6 (0.16%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 296 (8.12%) Apache Ignite
2 269 (7.38%) Data Lake
3 218 (5.98%) Amazon Athena
4 215 (5.90%) Apache Arrow
4 215 (5.90%) Dremio
5 142 (3.89%) SQL Server
6 133 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
7 129 (3.54%) Power BI
8 114 (3.13%) Big Data
9 109 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
10 95 (2.61%) NoSQL
11 72 (1.97%) MongoDB
12 63 (1.73%) Tableau
13 51 (1.40%) Metadata
14 49 (1.34%) BigQuery
15 47 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
15 47 (1.29%) Relational Database
16 33 (0.91%) Hadoop
16 33 (0.91%) MySQL
17 31 (0.85%) DB2
Development Applications
1 236 (6.47%) JIRA
2 142 (3.89%) Git
3 133 (3.65%) Cypress.io
4 116 (3.18%) Jenkins
5 115 (3.15%) JUnit
6 88 (2.41%) Selenium
7 75 (2.06%) Jasmine
7 75 (2.06%) Karma Test Runner
8 66 (1.81%) WebDriver
9 60 (1.65%) Maven
9 60 (1.65%) Protractor
10 48 (1.32%) Oracle Forms
11 40 (1.10%) Cucumber
12 30 (0.82%) IBM UrbanCode
13 29 (0.80%) TeamCity
14 25 (0.69%) Android Studio
15 24 (0.66%) GitLab
16 21 (0.58%) Jaeger
17 16 (0.44%) CircleCI
17 16 (0.44%) Spinnaker
General
1 2,918 (80.03%) Finance
2 1,142 (31.32%) Investment Banking
3 893 (24.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 826 (22.65%) Law
5 775 (21.26%) Social Skills
6 562 (15.41%) Front Office
7 428 (11.74%) Analytical Skills
8 325 (8.91%) Legal
9 220 (6.03%) Financial Institution
10 191 (5.24%) Marketing
11 189 (5.18%) Retail
12 176 (4.83%) Retail Banking
13 150 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
14 115 (3.15%) Private Banking
15 85 (2.33%) Back Office
16 68 (1.87%) Publishing
17 46 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
18 44 (1.21%) Games
19 37 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
20 33 (0.91%) French Language
Job Titles
1 720 (19.75%) Software Engineer
2 682 (18.71%) Senior
3 628 (17.22%) Analyst
4 541 (14.84%) Developer
5 503 (13.80%) Lead
6 357 (9.79%) Architect
7 346 (9.49%) Java Engineer
8 319 (8.75%) Java Software Engineer
9 220 (6.03%) Python Engineer
10 215 (5.90%) Python Software Engineer
11 178 (4.88%) Lead Software Engineer
12 172 (4.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 158 (4.33%) Java Developer
14 144 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
15 134 (3.68%) Python Developer
15 134 (3.68%) Senior Analyst
16 128 (3.51%) Lead Java Engineer
17 123 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
18 114 (3.13%) Full Stack Engineer
19 113 (3.10%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 354 (9.71%) React
2 330 (9.05%) Spring
3 306 (8.39%) gRPC
4 303 (8.31%) Protocol Buffers
5 234 (6.42%) Spring Boot
6 227 (6.23%) Kafka
7 224 (6.14%) Pandas
8 203 (5.57%) NumPy
8 203 (5.57%) SciPy
9 198 (5.43%) AngularJS
10 196 (5.38%) HTML
11 189 (5.18%) CSS
12 138 (3.78%) .NET
13 120 (3.29%) Redux
14 107 (2.93%) RESTful
15 101 (2.77%) jQuery
16 100 (2.74%) JSON
17 96 (2.63%) Node.js
18 92 (2.52%) Material-UI
19 88 (2.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 400 (10.97%) Hedge funds
2 383 (10.50%) Fixed Income
3 322 (8.83%) Derivative
4 298 (8.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 288 (7.90%) Equities
6 287 (7.87%) Cloud Native
7 173 (4.74%) Public Cloud
8 157 (4.31%) Algorithms
9 154 (4.22%) Product Ownership
10 129 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
11 121 (3.32%) Data Structures
12 118 (3.24%) Credit Risk
13 76 (2.08%) Management Information System
14 75 (2.06%) Private Cloud
15 69 (1.89%) Onboarding
16 67 (1.84%) Data Centre
17 48 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
18 46 (1.26%) Mobile App
19 38 (1.04%) Blog
20 37 (1.01%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 241 (6.61%) Linux
2 240 (6.58%) Windows
3 132 (3.62%) Unix
4 64 (1.76%) Android
5 54 (1.48%) Windows Server
6 37 (1.01%) Apple iOS
7 36 (0.99%) Windows 10
8 34 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 31 (0.85%) CentOS
10 26 (0.71%) zOS
11 24 (0.66%) Solaris
11 24 (0.66%) Ubuntu
12 12 (0.33%) AIX
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
16 1 (0.027%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,634 (44.82%) Agile
2 969 (26.58%) Software Engineering
3 752 (20.63%) Asset Management
4 588 (16.13%) CI/CD
5 529 (14.51%) Machine Learning
6 526 (14.43%) Artificial Intelligence
7 489 (13.41%) SDLC
8 452 (12.40%) Investment Management
9 408 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
10 389 (10.67%) Analytics
11 375 (10.29%) Operational Stability
12 373 (10.23%) DevOps
13 354 (9.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 333 (9.13%) Coaching
15 294 (8.06%) Microservices
16 292 (8.01%) Data Management
17 290 (7.95%) Full Stack Development
18 269 (7.38%) Community of Practice
19 267 (7.32%) Risk Management
20 265 (7.27%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 940 (25.78%) Java
2 797 (21.86%) Python
3 659 (18.07%) SQL
4 536 (14.70%) JavaScript
5 436 (11.96%) TypeScript
6 214 (5.87%) C#
7 108 (2.96%) PowerShell
8 67 (1.84%) Kotlin
9 63 (1.73%) Bash
10 58 (1.59%) T-SQL
11 57 (1.56%) Groovy
12 56 (1.54%) Scala
13 51 (1.40%) R
14 39 (1.07%) Ruby
15 37 (1.01%) Go
16 36 (0.99%) Perl
17 26 (0.71%) Shell Script
18 24 (0.66%) PL/SQL
19 21 (0.58%) C++
20 18 (0.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 368 (10.09%) Degree
2 56 (1.54%) Master's Degree
3 54 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 41 (1.12%) ACCA
5 33 (0.91%) PMI Certification
6 30 (0.82%) CISSP
6 30 (0.82%) Security Cleared
7 28 (0.77%) AWS Certification
8 25 (0.69%) Azure Certification
9 18 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (0.49%) PMP
10 17 (0.47%) CISA
10 17 (0.47%) CISM
11 16 (0.44%) MBA
12 15 (0.41%) CIMA
13 11 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (0.27%) MCP
14 10 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
15 9 (0.25%) OCP
15 9 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (5.98%) Data Quality
2 195 (5.35%) GDPR
3 100 (2.74%) 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 16 (0.44%) NIST
9 15 (0.41%) PMO
9 15 (0.41%) WAI
10 14 (0.38%) SEPA
11 12 (0.33%) PSD2
12 11 (0.30%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (0.22%) MiFID
15 7 (0.19%) GRC
16 6 (0.16%) COBIT
16 6 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 140 (3.84%) Docker
2 91 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 42 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.66%) 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%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.027%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.027%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 250 (6.86%) Kubernetes
2 142 (3.89%) Terraform
3 75 (2.06%) Ansible
4 69 (1.89%) Grafana
5 41 (1.12%) 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 (0.58%) HAProxy
10 21 (0.58%) 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 6 (0.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
15 5 (0.14%) Argo
Vendors
1 387 (10.61%) Microsoft
2 275 (7.54%) Google
3 216 (5.92%) Oracle
4 117 (3.21%) ServiceNow
5 98 (2.69%) IBM
6 81 (2.22%) SAP
7 80 (2.19%) Splunk
8 59 (1.62%) VMware
9 57 (1.56%) Red Hat
10 54 (1.48%) Alteryx
11 52 (1.43%) Bloomberg
11 52 (1.43%) Citrix
12 46 (1.26%) Databricks
13 44 (1.21%) Dynatrace
14 39 (1.07%) ION Trading
15 36 (0.99%) Pega
16 34 (0.93%) Cisco
17 30 (0.82%) Salesforce
18 29 (0.80%) Kofax
19 26 (0.71%) CA