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

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 34 61
Rank change year-on-year -37 +27 +25
Permanent jobs citing Banking 3,649 6,403 9,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.41% 6.82% 5.54%
As % of the General category 5.89% 10.08% 8.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,175 3,989 4,375
10th Percentile £47,338 £46,350 £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 £118,750 £100,000 £94,000
90th Percentile £143,250 £130,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,663 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% +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 61,904 63,539 111,642
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 57.86% 67.69% 65.23%
Number of salaries quoted 40,516 35,387 52,387
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £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 £71,725 £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 6 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 6 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 -39 2,954 £87,500 +16.67% 682
London -4 1,947 £93,750 +10.29% 479
UK excluding London -66 1,624 £66,663 +2.56% 222
Work from Home -52 1,312 £90,000 +27.75% 388
Scotland -29 601 £71,991 +3.66% 36
South West -32 378 £70,576 +12.92% 40
North of England -97 336 £69,447 +15.27% 60
North West -109 151 £68,490 +14.15% 46
Yorkshire -71 135 £70,576 +15.36% 10
South East -83 123 £60,000 -7.94% 44
Midlands -74 120 £55,000 -2.65% 30
West Midlands -76 70 £50,000 -11.11% 15
North East +20 50 £58,500 +112.73% 4
East Midlands -52 49 £70,000 +16.67% 14
East of England -57 42 £50,000 -23.08% 3
Wales -41 26 £69,038 +25.79% 9
Northern Ireland -10 8 £82,500 +32.00% 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
1 452 (12.39%) Apache
2 444 (12.17%) Apache Airflow
3 108 (2.96%) SharePoint
4 93 (2.55%) Confluence
5 74 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 70 (1.92%) SAS
7 52 (1.43%) Apache Spark
8 22 (0.60%) GemFire
9 17 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
10 10 (0.27%) Tomcat
11 8 (0.22%) IIS
11 8 (0.22%) WebSphere
12 7 (0.19%) JBoss
13 6 (0.16%) CMS
13 6 (0.16%) nginx
14 4 (0.11%) Captiva
14 4 (0.11%) FileNet
14 4 (0.11%) WebLogic
15 2 (0.055%) GlassFish
15 2 (0.055%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 213 (5.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 130 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
3 111 (3.04%) 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 1 (0.027%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.027%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.027%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 18 (0.49%) Fidessa
2 15 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 14 (0.38%) SAP BPC
4 13 (0.36%) NetSuite
5 12 (0.33%) Temenos T24
6 11 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
6 11 (0.30%) SAP FI
7 10 (0.27%) SAP CO
7 10 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
7 10 (0.27%) Teamcenter
8 8 (0.22%) Ripple
9 6 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
9 6 (0.16%) ION Anvil
9 6 (0.16%) ION MarketView
9 6 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
10 5 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
11 4 (0.11%) Finacle
12 2 (0.055%) Adaptiv
12 2 (0.055%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 1,048 (28.72%) AWS
2 535 (14.66%) GCP
3 448 (12.28%) Azure
4 353 (9.67%) dbt
5 318 (8.71%) Snowflake
6 155 (4.25%) Power Platform
7 74 (2.03%) Entra ID
8 70 (1.92%) GitHub
9 64 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
9 64 (1.75%) SaaS
10 37 (1.01%) OpenShift
11 34 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
12 32 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
13 31 (0.85%) Serverless
14 30 (0.82%) Amazon EKS
14 30 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
15 29 (0.79%) PaaS
16 27 (0.74%) Power Automate
17 25 (0.69%) Google Play
18 22 (0.60%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 68 (1.86%) Firewall
2 44 (1.21%) DNS
3 38 (1.04%) DHCP
4 37 (1.01%) 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 18 (0.49%) FIX Connectivity
11 15 (0.41%) DSL
12 14 (0.38%) VLAN
13 11 (0.30%) Structured Cabling
14 10 (0.27%) SMS
15 9 (0.25%) Extranet
16 8 (0.22%) Network Security
16 8 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
16 8 (0.22%) SMTP
17 6 (0.16%) SSL
17 6 (0.16%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 419 (11.48%) Apache Ignite
2 393 (10.77%) Data Lake
3 353 (9.67%) Dremio
4 344 (9.43%) Apache Arrow
5 342 (9.37%) Amazon Athena
6 140 (3.84%) SQL Server
7 139 (3.81%) Power BI
8 118 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
9 112 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
10 109 (2.99%) Big Data
11 78 (2.14%) Tableau
12 73 (2.00%) NoSQL
13 72 (1.97%) MongoDB
14 54 (1.48%) Metadata
15 48 (1.32%) Relational Database
16 47 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
16 47 (1.29%) BigQuery
17 35 (0.96%) MySQL
18 31 (0.85%) Hadoop
19 28 (0.77%) DB2
Development Applications
1 206 (5.65%) JIRA
2 142 (3.89%) Cypress.io
3 114 (3.12%) Git
4 112 (3.07%) JUnit
5 92 (2.52%) Jenkins
6 82 (2.25%) Selenium
7 76 (2.08%) Jasmine
8 72 (1.97%) Karma Test Runner
9 65 (1.78%) WebDriver
10 60 (1.64%) Protractor
11 51 (1.40%) Maven
12 37 (1.01%) Cucumber
13 30 (0.82%) GitLab
14 25 (0.69%) Android Studio
14 25 (0.69%) TeamCity
15 24 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
16 21 (0.58%) Jaeger
17 19 (0.52%) IBM UrbanCode
18 13 (0.36%) CircleCI
18 13 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 2,904 (79.58%) Finance
2 1,214 (33.27%) Investment Banking
3 890 (24.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 810 (22.20%) Law
5 738 (20.22%) Social Skills
6 693 (18.99%) Front Office
7 386 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
8 377 (10.33%) Legal
9 215 (5.89%) Financial Institution
10 190 (5.21%) Marketing
11 178 (4.88%) Retail Banking
12 167 (4.58%) Retail
13 123 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
14 100 (2.74%) Private Banking
15 82 (2.25%) Back Office
16 69 (1.89%) Publishing
17 45 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
18 37 (1.01%) Games
19 33 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
20 32 (0.88%) French Language
Job Titles
1 759 (20.80%) Senior
2 745 (20.42%) Software Engineer
3 627 (17.18%) Analyst
4 549 (15.05%) Developer
5 533 (14.61%) Lead
6 378 (10.36%) Java Engineer
7 354 (9.70%) Architect
8 352 (9.65%) Java Software Engineer
9 282 (7.73%) Python Engineer
10 267 (7.32%) Python Software Engineer
11 196 (5.37%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 192 (5.26%) Lead Software Engineer
13 174 (4.77%) Senior Analyst
14 172 (4.71%) AWS Engineer
15 163 (4.47%) AWS Software Engineer
16 159 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
17 157 (4.30%) Java Developer
18 152 (4.17%) Python Developer
19 134 (3.67%) Lead Java Engineer
20 133 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 429 (11.76%) gRPC
2 426 (11.67%) Protocol Buffers
3 363 (9.95%) React
4 347 (9.51%) Pandas
5 327 (8.96%) NumPy
5 327 (8.96%) SciPy
6 315 (8.63%) Spring
7 210 (5.76%) Kafka
7 210 (5.76%) Spring Boot
8 189 (5.18%) HTML
9 187 (5.12%) CSS
10 186 (5.10%) AngularJS
11 132 (3.62%) Redux
12 129 (3.54%) .NET
13 104 (2.85%) Material-UI
14 95 (2.60%) jQuery
15 91 (2.49%) RESTful
16 90 (2.47%) Node.js
17 88 (2.41%) JSON
18 78 (2.14%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 523 (14.33%) Hedge funds
2 518 (14.20%) Fixed Income
3 446 (12.22%) Derivative
4 430 (11.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 425 (11.65%) Equities
6 255 (6.99%) Cloud Native
7 151 (4.14%) Algorithms
8 146 (4.00%) Product Ownership
9 138 (3.78%) Public Cloud
10 130 (3.56%) Management Information System
11 116 (3.18%) Data Structures
12 104 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
13 91 (2.49%) Credit Risk
14 79 (2.16%) Data Centre
15 77 (2.11%) Onboarding
16 51 (1.40%) Mobile App
17 48 (1.32%) Pricing Data
18 38 (1.04%) Blog
18 38 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
19 37 (1.01%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 237 (6.49%) Windows
2 224 (6.14%) Linux
3 103 (2.82%) Unix
4 61 (1.67%) Android
5 60 (1.64%) Windows Server
6 37 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 33 (0.90%) CentOS
8 31 (0.85%) Apple iOS
9 26 (0.71%) Solaris
9 26 (0.71%) Windows 10
9 26 (0.71%) zOS
10 25 (0.69%) Ubuntu
11 12 (0.33%) 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
13 4 (0.11%) Windows XP
14 3 (0.082%) Mac OS
15 2 (0.055%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,644 (45.05%) Agile
2 1,043 (28.58%) Software Engineering
3 844 (23.13%) Asset Management
4 556 (15.24%) CI/CD
5 535 (14.66%) Investment Management
6 501 (13.73%) Artificial Intelligence
7 497 (13.62%) Machine Learning
8 460 (12.61%) SDLC
9 400 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
10 380 (10.41%) Analytics
11 354 (9.70%) Operational Stability
12 343 (9.40%) Coaching
13 329 (9.02%) Continuous Improvement
14 316 (8.66%) DevOps
15 286 (7.84%) Full Stack Development
16 285 (7.81%) Data Management
17 281 (7.70%) Fintech
18 267 (7.32%) Microservices
19 256 (7.02%) Community of Practice
20 246 (6.74%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1,004 (27.51%) Java
2 905 (24.80%) Python
3 680 (18.64%) SQL
4 654 (17.92%) JavaScript
5 557 (15.26%) TypeScript
6 196 (5.37%) C#
7 162 (4.44%) PowerShell
8 66 (1.81%) Bash
9 65 (1.78%) Kotlin
10 49 (1.34%) Groovy
11 48 (1.32%) Scala
11 48 (1.32%) T-SQL
12 45 (1.23%) Perl
13 42 (1.15%) Ruby
14 35 (0.96%) Go
14 35 (0.96%) R
15 30 (0.82%) Shell Script
16 27 (0.74%) C++
17 20 (0.55%) PL/SQL
18 18 (0.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 360 (9.87%) Degree
2 61 (1.67%) Master's Degree
3 58 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 43 (1.18%) ACCA
5 36 (0.99%) AWS Certification
5 36 (0.99%) CISSP
6 33 (0.90%) Security Cleared
7 28 (0.77%) Azure Certification
8 19 (0.52%) PMI Certification
9 18 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (0.47%) CIMA
10 17 (0.47%) CISA
10 17 (0.47%) CISM
10 17 (0.47%) MBA
11 16 (0.44%) PMP
11 16 (0.44%) SC Cleared
12 12 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (0.27%) MCP
13 10 (0.27%) PhD
14 9 (0.25%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 271 (7.43%) Data Quality
2 170 (4.66%) GDPR
3 91 (2.49%) SLA
4 78 (2.14%) QA
5 64 (1.75%) Accessibility
6 58 (1.59%) IFRS
6 58 (1.59%) IFRS 9
7 34 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 24 (0.66%) NIST
9 13 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.33%) PMO
10 12 (0.33%) SEPA
10 12 (0.33%) WAI
11 11 (0.30%) MiFID
11 11 (0.30%) PSD2
12 7 (0.19%) GRC
12 7 (0.19%) UCITS
13 6 (0.16%) COBIT
13 6 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 6 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 140 (3.84%) Docker
2 123 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 50 (1.37%) RACF
4 48 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (0.55%) XenApp
6 19 (0.52%) XenDesktop
7 9 (0.25%) HDFS
8 8 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.22%) vSphere
9 4 (0.11%) KVM
9 4 (0.11%) Xen
10 3 (0.082%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.082%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.055%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.055%) NFS
12 1 (0.027%) Ceph
12 1 (0.027%) GridGain
12 1 (0.027%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 221 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 134 (3.67%) Terraform
3 76 (2.08%) Ansible
4 65 (1.78%) Grafana
5 33 (0.90%) Prometheus
6 31 (0.85%) SCCM
7 23 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
7 23 (0.63%) Kibana
8 21 (0.58%) HAProxy
8 21 (0.58%) Puppet
8 21 (0.58%) Zipkin
9 20 (0.55%) Progress Chef
10 17 (0.47%) Istio
11 15 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (0.33%) Graphite
12 12 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
13 11 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.19%) Control-M
15 5 (0.14%) logstash
16 4 (0.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 398 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 237 (6.49%) Google
3 191 (5.23%) Oracle
4 85 (2.33%) ServiceNow
5 69 (1.89%) Red Hat
5 69 (1.89%) Splunk
6 68 (1.86%) CyberArk
7 65 (1.78%) Bloomberg
8 63 (1.73%) VMware
9 62 (1.70%) IBM
10 57 (1.56%) Citrix
10 57 (1.56%) SAP
11 51 (1.40%) Alteryx
12 42 (1.15%) Salesforce
13 41 (1.12%) ION Trading
14 40 (1.10%) Dynatrace
15 38 (1.04%) Databricks
16 32 (0.88%) Reuters
17 30 (0.82%) Cisco
18 26 (0.71%) CA