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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 36 62
Rank change year-on-year -29 +26 +24
Permanent jobs citing Banking 3,701 6,872 8,779
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.70% 6.91% 5.39%
As % of the General category 6.21% 10.13% 8.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,221 4,253 4,123
10th Percentile £47,231 £46,350 £41,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,219 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £130,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £64,750 £59,526
% change year-on-year +8.11% +8.78% +3.52%

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 59,592 67,843 105,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.64% 68.21% 64.61%
Number of salaries quoted 39,690 36,730 51,592
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,125 £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 £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%

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 20 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 20 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 -31 2,946 £85,000 +13.33% 848
London -4 1,853 £92,500 +8.82% 664
UK excluding London -51 1,767 £70,000 +8.11% 313
Work from Home -48 1,302 £83,577 +19.40% 357
Scotland -28 654 £71,991 +3.66% 47
North of England -66 412 £70,000 +16.18% 58
South West -26 388 £70,576 +8.29% 31
Yorkshire -36 188 £70,576 +14.76% 15
North West -77 175 £69,447 +16.67% 38
South East -63 127 £60,000 -7.69% 117
Midlands -70 121 £55,000 -2.65% 36
West Midlands -46 71 £55,000 -1.79% 24
North East +35 49 £56,750 +106.36% 5
East Midlands -44 49 £70,000 +16.67% 12
East of England -46 37 £50,000 -21.57% 12
Wales -33 30 £51,528 -6.25% 8
Northern Ireland +6 8 £82,500 +60.19% 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
1 372 (10.05%) Apache
2 356 (9.62%) Apache Airflow
3 113 (3.05%) SharePoint
4 99 (2.67%) Confluence
5 88 (2.38%) SAS
6 76 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
7 74 (2.00%) Apache Spark
8 26 (0.70%) WebSphere
9 22 (0.59%) GemFire
10 21 (0.57%) Captiva
10 21 (0.57%) FileNet
11 17 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
12 10 (0.27%) IIS
12 10 (0.27%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.19%) JBoss
14 6 (0.16%) nginx
15 4 (0.11%) CMS
15 4 (0.11%) WebLogic
16 2 (0.054%) GlassFish
16 2 (0.054%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 243 (6.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 165 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
3 137 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.16%) UserZoom
7 3 (0.081%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.081%) InVision
7 3 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.081%) Sketch
8 2 (0.054%) EViews
8 2 (0.054%) SPSS
9 1 (0.027%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.027%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.027%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 16 (0.43%) Fidessa
2 14 (0.38%) Aladdin
2 14 (0.38%) SAP BPC
2 14 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.35%) NetSuite
3 13 (0.35%) Temenos T24
4 11 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 11 (0.30%) SAP FI
5 10 (0.27%) SAP CO
5 10 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
5 10 (0.27%) Teamcenter
6 9 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
7 6 (0.16%) ION Anvil
7 6 (0.16%) ION MarketView
8 5 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
9 4 (0.11%) Adaptiv
9 4 (0.11%) Finacle
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
10 2 (0.054%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 2 (0.054%) SAP FI-GL
Cloud Services
1 962 (25.99%) AWS
2 583 (15.75%) GCP
3 487 (13.16%) Azure
4 254 (6.86%) dbt
5 234 (6.32%) Snowflake
6 143 (3.86%) Power Platform
7 111 (3.00%) GitHub
8 81 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
9 78 (2.11%) SaaS
10 51 (1.38%) Entra ID
11 50 (1.35%) PaaS
12 45 (1.22%) OpenShift
13 41 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
14 35 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
15 33 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
16 29 (0.78%) Serverless
17 25 (0.68%) Google Play
17 25 (0.68%) Power Automate
18 22 (0.59%) Collibra
19 21 (0.57%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 65 (1.76%) Firewall
2 44 (1.19%) DNS
3 38 (1.03%) DHCP
4 36 (0.97%) TCP/IP
5 24 (0.65%) Internet
5 24 (0.65%) WAN
6 23 (0.62%) VPN
7 20 (0.54%) LAN
7 20 (0.54%) Wireless
8 18 (0.49%) DSL
9 16 (0.43%) FIX Connectivity
10 15 (0.41%) VLAN
11 11 (0.30%) Structured Cabling
12 10 (0.27%) SMS
13 9 (0.24%) Extranet
13 9 (0.24%) Unified Communications
14 8 (0.22%) Network Security
14 8 (0.22%) SMTP
15 7 (0.19%) VoIP
16 6 (0.16%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 338 (9.13%) Apache Ignite
2 304 (8.21%) Data Lake
3 253 (6.84%) Apache Arrow
3 253 (6.84%) Dremio
4 252 (6.81%) Amazon Athena
5 144 (3.89%) SQL Server
6 128 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
6 128 (3.46%) Power BI
7 118 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
8 115 (3.11%) Big Data
9 94 (2.54%) NoSQL
10 72 (1.95%) MongoDB
11 65 (1.76%) Tableau
12 52 (1.41%) Metadata
13 50 (1.35%) Relational Database
14 47 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
15 45 (1.22%) BigQuery
16 33 (0.89%) Hadoop
17 32 (0.86%) MySQL
18 31 (0.84%) DB2
Development Applications
1 228 (6.16%) JIRA
2 141 (3.81%) Cypress.io
3 135 (3.65%) Git
4 119 (3.22%) Jenkins
5 115 (3.11%) JUnit
6 87 (2.35%) Selenium
7 77 (2.08%) Jasmine
8 75 (2.03%) Karma Test Runner
9 65 (1.76%) WebDriver
10 60 (1.62%) Protractor
11 59 (1.59%) Maven
12 42 (1.13%) Oracle Forms
13 38 (1.03%) Cucumber
14 32 (0.86%) IBM UrbanCode
15 28 (0.76%) TeamCity
16 25 (0.68%) Android Studio
17 24 (0.65%) GitLab
18 21 (0.57%) Jaeger
19 16 (0.43%) CircleCI
19 16 (0.43%) Spinnaker
General
1 2,969 (80.22%) Finance
2 1,162 (31.40%) Investment Banking
3 905 (24.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 828 (22.37%) Law
5 785 (21.21%) Social Skills
6 602 (16.27%) Front Office
7 420 (11.35%) Analytical Skills
8 347 (9.38%) Legal
9 220 (5.94%) Financial Institution
10 199 (5.38%) Retail
11 194 (5.24%) Marketing
12 180 (4.86%) Retail Banking
13 152 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
14 114 (3.08%) Private Banking
15 88 (2.38%) Back Office
16 68 (1.84%) Publishing
17 45 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
18 44 (1.19%) Games
19 35 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
20 33 (0.89%) French Language
Job Titles
1 737 (19.91%) Software Engineer
2 727 (19.64%) Senior
3 652 (17.62%) Analyst
4 545 (14.73%) Developer
5 518 (14.00%) Lead
6 360 (9.73%) Architect
7 359 (9.70%) Java Engineer
8 332 (8.97%) Java Software Engineer
9 241 (6.51%) Python Engineer
10 236 (6.38%) Python Software Engineer
11 188 (5.08%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 185 (5.00%) Lead Software Engineer
13 161 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
14 152 (4.11%) Java Developer
15 148 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
16 145 (3.92%) Python Developer
17 134 (3.62%) AWS Engineer
18 132 (3.57%) Lead Java Engineer
19 125 (3.38%) AWS Software Engineer
20 119 (3.22%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 361 (9.75%) React
2 348 (9.40%) gRPC
3 345 (9.32%) Protocol Buffers
4 327 (8.84%) Spring
5 257 (6.94%) Pandas
6 237 (6.40%) NumPy
6 237 (6.40%) SciPy
7 229 (6.19%) Spring Boot
8 224 (6.05%) Kafka
9 199 (5.38%) AngularJS
10 197 (5.32%) HTML
11 192 (5.19%) CSS
12 141 (3.81%) .NET
13 130 (3.51%) Redux
14 103 (2.78%) RESTful
15 102 (2.76%) Material-UI
16 101 (2.73%) jQuery
17 97 (2.62%) JSON
18 93 (2.51%) Node.js
19 87 (2.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 444 (12.00%) Hedge funds
2 426 (11.51%) Fixed Income
3 361 (9.75%) Derivative
4 336 (9.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 331 (8.94%) Equities
6 288 (7.78%) Cloud Native
7 174 (4.70%) Public Cloud
8 155 (4.19%) Product Ownership
9 154 (4.16%) Algorithms
10 128 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
11 120 (3.24%) Data Structures
12 108 (2.92%) Credit Risk
13 106 (2.86%) Management Information System
14 72 (1.95%) Onboarding
15 69 (1.86%) Data Centre
16 68 (1.84%) Private Cloud
17 47 (1.27%) Mobile App
18 44 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
19 38 (1.03%) Blog
20 35 (0.95%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 241 (6.51%) Windows
2 235 (6.35%) Linux
3 124 (3.35%) Unix
4 63 (1.70%) Android
5 53 (1.43%) Windows Server
6 35 (0.95%) Apple iOS
7 34 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 34 (0.92%) Windows 10
8 32 (0.86%) CentOS
9 26 (0.70%) zOS
10 24 (0.65%) Solaris
10 24 (0.65%) Ubuntu
11 12 (0.32%) AIX
12 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
14 3 (0.081%) Mac OS
15 2 (0.054%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.054%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,676 (45.29%) Agile
2 1,002 (27.07%) Software Engineering
3 797 (21.53%) Asset Management
4 584 (15.78%) CI/CD
5 531 (14.35%) Machine Learning
6 529 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
7 489 (13.21%) SDLC
8 482 (13.02%) Investment Management
9 412 (11.13%) Problem-Solving
10 392 (10.59%) Analytics
11 375 (10.13%) Operational Stability
12 366 (9.89%) DevOps
13 359 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
14 354 (9.56%) Coaching
15 296 (8.00%) Data Management
15 296 (8.00%) Full Stack Development
16 288 (7.78%) Microservices
17 269 (7.27%) Community of Practice
18 266 (7.19%) Fintech
19 263 (7.11%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 960 (25.94%) Java
2 837 (22.62%) Python
3 681 (18.40%) SQL
4 574 (15.51%) JavaScript
5 478 (12.92%) TypeScript
6 216 (5.84%) C#
7 136 (3.67%) PowerShell
8 67 (1.81%) Kotlin
9 61 (1.65%) Bash
10 58 (1.57%) Groovy
11 57 (1.54%) T-SQL
12 55 (1.49%) Scala
13 47 (1.27%) R
14 37 (1.00%) Go
14 37 (1.00%) Perl
14 37 (1.00%) Ruby
15 29 (0.78%) Shell Script
16 28 (0.76%) C++
17 24 (0.65%) PL/SQL
18 18 (0.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 373 (10.08%) Degree
2 57 (1.54%) Master's Degree
3 54 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 43 (1.16%) ACCA
5 33 (0.89%) CISSP
5 33 (0.89%) PMI Certification
6 31 (0.84%) AWS Certification
7 30 (0.81%) Security Cleared
8 26 (0.70%) Azure Certification
9 19 (0.51%) PMP
10 18 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (0.46%) CIMA
11 17 (0.46%) CISA
11 17 (0.46%) CISM
12 16 (0.43%) MBA
13 13 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (0.27%) MCP
15 9 (0.24%) CCNP
15 9 (0.24%) GIAC
15 9 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 232 (6.27%) Data Quality
2 188 (5.08%) GDPR
3 97 (2.62%) SLA
4 73 (1.97%) Accessibility
5 70 (1.89%) IFRS
5 70 (1.89%) IFRS 9
5 70 (1.89%) QA
6 28 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (0.51%) NIST
8 15 (0.41%) CRD IV
8 15 (0.41%) PMO
8 15 (0.41%) WAI
9 14 (0.38%) SEPA
10 12 (0.32%) PSD2
11 11 (0.30%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 9 (0.24%) MiFID
13 7 (0.19%) GRC
14 6 (0.16%) COBIT
14 6 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 142 (3.84%) Docker
2 113 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 41 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.76%) RACF
5 24 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.38%) XenApp
7 13 (0.35%) XenDesktop
8 11 (0.30%) HDFS
9 8 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.22%) vSphere
10 3 (0.081%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.081%) KVM
10 3 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.081%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.081%) Xen
11 2 (0.054%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.054%) NFS
12 1 (0.027%) Apache Flume
12 1 (0.027%) GridGain
12 1 (0.027%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 243 (6.57%) Kubernetes
2 142 (3.84%) Terraform
3 77 (2.08%) Ansible
4 68 (1.84%) Grafana
5 38 (1.03%) SCCM
6 32 (0.86%) Prometheus
7 28 (0.76%) Progress Chef
8 24 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
9 23 (0.62%) Kibana
10 21 (0.57%) HAProxy
10 21 (0.57%) Istio
10 21 (0.57%) Zipkin
11 19 (0.51%) Puppet
12 15 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
13 13 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
14 12 (0.32%) Graphite
15 8 (0.22%) Control-M
15 8 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
16 5 (0.14%) Argo
16 5 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 415 (11.21%) Microsoft
2 283 (7.65%) Google
3 211 (5.70%) Oracle
4 106 (2.86%) ServiceNow
5 91 (2.46%) IBM
6 79 (2.13%) Splunk
7 76 (2.05%) SAP
8 58 (1.57%) Red Hat
8 58 (1.57%) VMware
9 54 (1.46%) Alteryx
9 54 (1.46%) Citrix
10 52 (1.41%) Bloomberg
11 46 (1.24%) Databricks
12 44 (1.19%) Dynatrace
13 43 (1.16%) CyberArk
14 39 (1.05%) ION Trading
15 38 (1.03%) Salesforce
16 34 (0.92%) Cisco
17 29 (0.78%) Pega
18 26 (0.70%) CA