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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 33 62
Rank change year-on-year -38 +29 +24
Permanent jobs citing Banking 3,625 6,400 9,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.45% 6.76% 5.51%
As % of the General category 5.94% 9.98% 8.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,154 3,999 4,272
10th Percentile £47,311 £46,330 £41,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £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 £94,475
90th Percentile £142,500 £130,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £64,472 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.70% +7.45% +4.35%

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 61,046 64,137 109,886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.17% 67.76% 65.12%
Number of salaries quoted 40,257 35,476 51,779
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,350 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,799 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -37 2,923 £87,500 +16.67% 743
London -3 1,900 £92,500 +8.82% 546
UK excluding London -64 1,647 £67,500 +4.70% 218
Work from Home -54 1,286 £87,500 +25.00% 386
Scotland -28 609 £72,500 +4.40% 36
South West -31 373 £70,576 +12.02% 30
North of England -88 359 £70,000 +16.67% 48
Yorkshire -53 156 £70,576 +15.36% 11
North West -93 153 £68,490 +15.06% 34
South East -80 125 £60,000 -7.94% 54
Midlands -78 117 £55,000 -2.65% 29
West Midlands -70 67 £55,000 -1.79% 13
North East +28 50 £58,500 +112.73% 3
East Midlands -44 49 £70,000 +16.67% 16
East of England -42 41 £50,000 -23.08% 6
Wales -39 25 £69,038 +25.79% 14
Northern Ireland -7 8 £82,500 +37.50% 3

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
1 413 (11.39%) Apache
2 404 (11.14%) Apache Airflow
3 108 (2.98%) SharePoint
4 94 (2.59%) Confluence
5 75 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
6 71 (1.96%) SAS
7 57 (1.57%) Apache Spark
8 22 (0.61%) GemFire
9 17 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
10 10 (0.28%) Tomcat
10 10 (0.28%) WebSphere
11 9 (0.25%) IIS
12 7 (0.19%) JBoss
13 6 (0.17%) Captiva
13 6 (0.17%) CMS
13 6 (0.17%) FileNet
13 6 (0.17%) nginx
14 4 (0.11%) WebLogic
15 2 (0.055%) JCAPS
15 2 (0.055%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 217 (5.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 138 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
3 115 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (0.61%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.17%) UserZoom
7 3 (0.083%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.083%) InVision
7 3 (0.083%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.083%) Sketch
8 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.028%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.028%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 17 (0.47%) Fidessa
2 14 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 14 (0.39%) SAP BPC
2 14 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 11 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 11 (0.30%) SAP FI
4 11 (0.30%) Temenos T24
5 10 (0.28%) SAP CO
5 10 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
5 10 (0.28%) Teamcenter
6 7 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
7 6 (0.17%) ION Anvil
7 6 (0.17%) ION MarketView
8 5 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
8 5 (0.14%) Oracle Cash Management
9 4 (0.11%) Finacle
10 2 (0.055%) Adaptiv
10 2 (0.055%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 2 (0.055%) Ripple
Cloud Services
1 1,001 (27.61%) AWS
2 523 (14.43%) GCP
3 451 (12.44%) Azure
4 310 (8.55%) dbt
5 279 (7.70%) Snowflake
6 150 (4.14%) Power Platform
7 78 (2.15%) GitHub
8 75 (2.07%) Entra ID
9 65 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
10 63 (1.74%) SaaS
11 40 (1.10%) OpenShift
12 34 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
12 34 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
12 34 (0.94%) PaaS
13 31 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
13 31 (0.86%) Serverless
14 26 (0.72%) Power Automate
15 25 (0.69%) Google Play
16 22 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
17 19 (0.52%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 65 (1.79%) Firewall
2 43 (1.19%) DNS
3 37 (1.02%) DHCP
4 36 (0.99%) TCP/IP
5 27 (0.74%) WAN
6 24 (0.66%) Internet
7 23 (0.63%) LAN
8 20 (0.55%) Wireless
9 19 (0.52%) VPN
10 17 (0.47%) FIX Connectivity
11 16 (0.44%) DSL
12 14 (0.39%) VLAN
13 11 (0.30%) Structured Cabling
14 10 (0.28%) SMS
15 9 (0.25%) Extranet
16 8 (0.22%) Network Security
16 8 (0.22%) SMTP
17 7 (0.19%) VoIP
18 6 (0.17%) SNMP
18 6 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 381 (10.51%) Apache Ignite
2 353 (9.74%) Data Lake
3 310 (8.55%) Dremio
4 304 (8.39%) Apache Arrow
5 301 (8.30%) Amazon Athena
6 137 (3.78%) SQL Server
7 134 (3.70%) Power BI
8 118 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
9 116 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
10 112 (3.09%) Big Data
11 79 (2.18%) NoSQL
12 75 (2.07%) Tableau
13 70 (1.93%) MongoDB
14 54 (1.49%) Metadata
15 48 (1.32%) Relational Database
16 47 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
16 47 (1.30%) BigQuery
17 33 (0.91%) MySQL
18 32 (0.88%) Hadoop
19 29 (0.80%) DB2
Development Applications
1 208 (5.74%) JIRA
2 142 (3.92%) Cypress.io
3 119 (3.28%) Git
4 114 (3.14%) JUnit
5 97 (2.68%) Jenkins
6 84 (2.32%) Selenium
7 77 (2.12%) Jasmine
8 73 (2.01%) Karma Test Runner
9 65 (1.79%) WebDriver
10 60 (1.66%) Protractor
11 52 (1.43%) Maven
12 38 (1.05%) Cucumber
13 29 (0.80%) GitLab
14 26 (0.72%) TeamCity
15 25 (0.69%) Android Studio
16 22 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
17 21 (0.58%) IBM UrbanCode
17 21 (0.58%) Jaeger
18 15 (0.41%) CircleCI
19 13 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 2,887 (79.64%) Finance
2 1,185 (32.69%) Investment Banking
3 900 (24.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 816 (22.51%) Law
5 748 (20.63%) Social Skills
6 652 (17.99%) Front Office
7 391 (10.79%) Analytical Skills
8 373 (10.29%) Legal
9 214 (5.90%) Financial Institution
10 195 (5.38%) Marketing
11 176 (4.86%) Retail Banking
12 170 (4.69%) Retail
13 127 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
14 104 (2.87%) Private Banking
15 83 (2.29%) Back Office
16 69 (1.90%) Publishing
17 45 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
18 37 (1.02%) Games
19 35 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
20 32 (0.88%) French Language
Job Titles
1 751 (20.72%) Senior
2 725 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 630 (17.38%) Analyst
4 540 (14.90%) Developer
5 522 (14.40%) Lead
6 370 (10.21%) Java Engineer
7 347 (9.57%) Architect
8 343 (9.46%) Java Software Engineer
9 266 (7.34%) Python Engineer
10 254 (7.01%) Python Software Engineer
11 187 (5.16%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 184 (5.08%) Lead Software Engineer
13 174 (4.80%) Senior Analyst
14 155 (4.28%) AWS Engineer
15 154 (4.25%) Java Developer
16 148 (4.08%) Python Developer
16 148 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
17 146 (4.03%) AWS Software Engineer
18 131 (3.61%) Lead Java Engineer
19 119 (3.28%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 391 (10.79%) gRPC
2 388 (10.70%) Protocol Buffers
3 358 (9.88%) React
4 313 (8.63%) Spring
5 306 (8.44%) Pandas
6 286 (7.89%) NumPy
6 286 (7.89%) SciPy
7 213 (5.88%) Spring Boot
8 212 (5.85%) Kafka
9 190 (5.24%) AngularJS
10 189 (5.21%) HTML
11 187 (5.16%) CSS
12 132 (3.64%) Redux
13 130 (3.59%) .NET
14 104 (2.87%) Material-UI
15 96 (2.65%) jQuery
16 95 (2.62%) RESTful
17 90 (2.48%) JSON
17 90 (2.48%) Node.js
18 79 (2.18%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 485 (13.38%) Hedge funds
2 478 (13.19%) Fixed Income
3 406 (11.20%) Derivative
4 389 (10.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 385 (10.62%) Equities
6 264 (7.28%) Cloud Native
7 152 (4.19%) Algorithms
8 148 (4.08%) Product Ownership
9 147 (4.06%) Public Cloud
10 127 (3.50%) Management Information System
11 117 (3.23%) Data Structures
12 107 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
13 92 (2.54%) Credit Risk
14 76 (2.10%) Onboarding
15 74 (2.04%) Data Centre
16 52 (1.43%) Mobile App
17 42 (1.16%) Pricing Data
17 42 (1.16%) Private Cloud
18 40 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
19 38 (1.05%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 236 (6.51%) Windows
2 220 (6.07%) Linux
3 104 (2.87%) Unix
4 61 (1.68%) Android
5 57 (1.57%) Windows Server
6 36 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 32 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 32 (0.88%) CentOS
8 29 (0.80%) Windows 10
9 26 (0.72%) zOS
10 25 (0.69%) 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 4 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
14 4 (0.11%) Windows XP
15 3 (0.083%) Mac OS
16 2 (0.055%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,629 (44.94%) Agile
2 1,010 (27.86%) Software Engineering
3 811 (22.37%) Asset Management
4 565 (15.59%) CI/CD
5 516 (14.23%) Investment Management
6 507 (13.99%) Artificial Intelligence
6 507 (13.99%) Machine Learning
7 469 (12.94%) SDLC
8 402 (11.09%) Problem-Solving
9 384 (10.59%) Analytics
10 361 (9.96%) Operational Stability
11 349 (9.63%) Coaching
12 339 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 326 (8.99%) DevOps
14 287 (7.92%) Full Stack Development
15 285 (7.86%) Data Management
16 272 (7.50%) Fintech
16 272 (7.50%) Microservices
17 260 (7.17%) Community of Practice
18 251 (6.92%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 967 (26.68%) Java
2 864 (23.83%) Python
3 669 (18.46%) SQL
4 608 (16.77%) JavaScript
5 519 (14.32%) TypeScript
6 201 (5.54%) C#
7 160 (4.41%) PowerShell
8 66 (1.82%) Kotlin
9 63 (1.74%) Bash
10 51 (1.41%) Groovy
11 50 (1.38%) Scala
11 50 (1.38%) T-SQL
12 42 (1.16%) Perl
13 40 (1.10%) Ruby
14 36 (0.99%) R
15 35 (0.97%) Go
16 29 (0.80%) Shell Script
17 27 (0.74%) C++
18 21 (0.58%) PL/SQL
19 18 (0.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 359 (9.90%) Degree
2 61 (1.68%) Master's Degree
3 57 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 43 (1.19%) ACCA
5 35 (0.97%) CISSP
6 33 (0.91%) AWS Certification
7 30 (0.83%) Security Cleared
8 28 (0.77%) Azure Certification
9 21 (0.58%) PMI Certification
10 18 (0.50%) PMP
11 17 (0.47%) CIMA
11 17 (0.47%) CISA
11 17 (0.47%) CISM
11 17 (0.47%) MBA
11 17 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (0.36%) SC Cleared
13 12 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (0.28%) MCP
14 10 (0.28%) PhD
15 9 (0.25%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 259 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 173 (4.77%) GDPR
3 90 (2.48%) SLA
4 77 (2.12%) QA
5 67 (1.85%) Accessibility
6 60 (1.66%) IFRS
6 60 (1.66%) IFRS 9
7 30 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 23 (0.63%) NIST
9 15 (0.41%) PMO
10 13 (0.36%) WAI
11 12 (0.33%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.33%) PSD2
11 12 (0.33%) SEPA
12 11 (0.30%) MiFID
13 7 (0.19%) GRC
13 7 (0.19%) UCITS
14 6 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.17%) COBIT
14 6 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 132 (3.64%) Docker
2 127 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 50 (1.38%) RACF
4 43 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.50%) XenApp
7 17 (0.47%) XenDesktop
8 10 (0.28%) HDFS
9 8 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.22%) vSphere
10 4 (0.11%) KVM
10 4 (0.11%) Xen
11 3 (0.083%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.083%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.055%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.055%) NFS
13 1 (0.028%) Ceph
13 1 (0.028%) GridGain
13 1 (0.028%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 220 (6.07%) Kubernetes
2 135 (3.72%) Terraform
3 76 (2.10%) Ansible
4 66 (1.82%) Grafana
5 33 (0.91%) Prometheus
5 33 (0.91%) SCCM
6 23 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
6 23 (0.63%) Kibana
7 22 (0.61%) Progress Chef
8 21 (0.58%) HAProxy
8 21 (0.58%) Zipkin
9 20 (0.55%) Puppet
10 17 (0.47%) Istio
11 15 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (0.33%) Graphite
12 12 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 11 (0.30%) Red Hat Satellite
14 7 (0.19%) Control-M
15 5 (0.14%) logstash
16 4 (0.11%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 402 (11.09%) Microsoft
2 247 (6.81%) Google
3 188 (5.19%) Oracle
4 88 (2.43%) ServiceNow
5 72 (1.99%) Splunk
6 67 (1.85%) CyberArk
7 66 (1.82%) IBM
8 63 (1.74%) Red Hat
9 58 (1.60%) SAP
9 58 (1.60%) VMware
10 57 (1.57%) Citrix
11 52 (1.43%) Alteryx
11 52 (1.43%) Bloomberg
12 41 (1.13%) Dynatrace
13 40 (1.10%) Databricks
13 40 (1.10%) ION Trading
13 40 (1.10%) Salesforce
14 27 (0.74%) Cisco
15 26 (0.72%) CA
16 22 (0.61%) F5