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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 35 64
Rank change year-on-year -33 +29 +22
Permanent jobs citing Banking 3,656 7,017 8,394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.69% 6.95% 5.34%
As % of the General category 6.16% 10.19% 8.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,204 4,356 4,042
10th Percentile £46,719 £46,350 £41,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,219 £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 £111,563 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £127,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £64,472 £59,500
% change year-on-year +8.57% +8.36% +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 59,322 68,855 101,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.79% 68.16% 64.21%
Number of salaries quoted 39,670 37,231 50,896
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 £82,000 £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 10 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 10 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 2,886 £85,000 +13.33% 693
London -5 1,799 £90,000 +5.88% 522
UK excluding London -53 1,776 £70,000 +8.57% 213
Work from Home -56 1,256 £82,500 +17.86% 316
Scotland -29 666 £72,246 +4.03% 35
North of England -69 412 £70,576 +17.14% 58
South West -19 390 £70,576 +8.00% 24
Yorkshire -37 192 £70,576 +10.22% 16
North West -78 174 £70,000 +17.60% 38
South East -64 129 £60,000 -7.69% 30
Midlands -86 112 £55,000 -1.79% 36
West Midlands -66 67 £55,000 - 23
North East +28 46 £56,750 +106.36% 4
East Midlands -40 44 £70,000 +16.67% 13
East of England -35 36 £50,000 -20.00% 18
Wales -32 31 £51,528 -6.11% 8
Northern Ireland +1 10 £82,500 +62.56% 6

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
1 329 (9.00%) Apache
2 314 (8.59%) Apache Airflow
3 116 (3.17%) SharePoint
4 97 (2.65%) Confluence
5 91 (2.49%) SAS
6 77 (2.11%) Apache Spark
6 77 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 33 (0.90%) WebSphere
8 28 (0.77%) Captiva
8 28 (0.77%) FileNet
9 22 (0.60%) GemFire
10 17 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
11 11 (0.30%) IIS
12 10 (0.27%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.19%) JBoss
14 6 (0.16%) nginx
15 4 (0.11%) WebLogic
16 3 (0.082%) CMS
17 2 (0.055%) JCAPS
17 2 (0.055%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 250 (6.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 173 (4.73%) Microsoft Office
3 142 (3.88%) 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 6 (0.16%) Adaptiv
7 6 (0.16%) ION Anvil
7 6 (0.16%) ION MarketView
8 5 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
9 4 (0.11%) Finacle
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
10 2 (0.055%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 2 (0.055%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 924 (25.27%) AWS
2 575 (15.73%) GCP
3 489 (13.38%) Azure
4 216 (5.91%) dbt
5 200 (5.47%) Snowflake
6 143 (3.91%) Power Platform
7 119 (3.25%) GitHub
8 82 (2.24%) 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 31 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
15 29 (0.79%) Serverless
16 25 (0.68%) Google Play
16 25 (0.68%) IaaS
17 24 (0.66%) Power Automate
18 23 (0.63%) Entra ID
19 22 (0.60%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 64 (1.75%) Firewall
2 44 (1.20%) DNS
3 38 (1.04%) DHCP
4 36 (0.98%) TCP/IP
5 24 (0.66%) Internet
6 23 (0.63%) VPN
6 23 (0.63%) WAN
7 20 (0.55%) Wireless
8 19 (0.52%) LAN
9 18 (0.49%) DSL
10 16 (0.44%) FIX Connectivity
11 15 (0.41%) VLAN
12 11 (0.30%) Structured Cabling
13 10 (0.27%) SMS
14 9 (0.25%) Extranet
14 9 (0.25%) Network Security
14 9 (0.25%) Unified Communications
15 8 (0.22%) SMTP
16 7 (0.19%) SAN
16 7 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 296 (8.10%) Apache Ignite
2 269 (7.36%) Data Lake
3 218 (5.96%) Amazon Athena
4 215 (5.88%) Apache Arrow
4 215 (5.88%) Dremio
5 142 (3.88%) SQL Server
6 133 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
7 129 (3.53%) Power BI
8 114 (3.12%) Big Data
9 109 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
10 95 (2.60%) NoSQL
11 73 (2.00%) MongoDB
12 63 (1.72%) Tableau
13 51 (1.39%) Metadata
14 49 (1.34%) BigQuery
15 47 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
15 47 (1.29%) Relational Database
16 33 (0.90%) Hadoop
16 33 (0.90%) MySQL
17 31 (0.85%) DB2
Development Applications
1 237 (6.48%) JIRA
2 141 (3.86%) Git
3 133 (3.64%) Cypress.io
4 117 (3.20%) Jenkins
5 115 (3.15%) JUnit
6 87 (2.38%) Selenium
7 76 (2.08%) Jasmine
8 75 (2.05%) Karma Test Runner
9 65 (1.78%) WebDriver
10 60 (1.64%) Maven
10 60 (1.64%) Protractor
11 48 (1.31%) Oracle Forms
12 40 (1.09%) Cucumber
13 31 (0.85%) IBM UrbanCode
14 28 (0.77%) TeamCity
15 25 (0.68%) Android Studio
16 23 (0.63%) GitLab
17 21 (0.57%) Jaeger
18 16 (0.44%) CircleCI
18 16 (0.44%) Spinnaker
General
1 2,924 (79.98%) Finance
2 1,142 (31.24%) Investment Banking
3 896 (24.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 827 (22.62%) Law
5 778 (21.28%) Social Skills
6 563 (15.40%) Front Office
7 428 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
8 324 (8.86%) Legal
9 220 (6.02%) Financial Institution
10 191 (5.22%) Marketing
11 189 (5.17%) Retail
12 177 (4.84%) Retail Banking
13 151 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
14 114 (3.12%) Private Banking
15 86 (2.35%) Back Office
16 68 (1.86%) Publishing
17 46 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
18 44 (1.20%) Games
19 37 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
20 33 (0.90%) French Language
Job Titles
1 721 (19.72%) Software Engineer
2 685 (18.74%) Senior
3 627 (17.15%) Analyst
4 540 (14.77%) Developer
5 503 (13.76%) Lead
6 358 (9.79%) Architect
7 346 (9.46%) Java Engineer
8 319 (8.73%) Java Software Engineer
9 220 (6.02%) Python Engineer
10 215 (5.88%) Python Software Engineer
11 178 (4.87%) Lead Software Engineer
12 172 (4.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 158 (4.32%) Java Developer
14 144 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
15 134 (3.67%) Python Developer
15 134 (3.67%) Senior Analyst
16 128 (3.50%) Lead Java Engineer
17 123 (3.36%) AWS Engineer
18 114 (3.12%) Full Stack Engineer
19 113 (3.09%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 355 (9.71%) React
2 330 (9.03%) Spring
3 306 (8.37%) gRPC
4 303 (8.29%) Protocol Buffers
5 234 (6.40%) Spring Boot
6 227 (6.21%) Kafka
7 224 (6.13%) Pandas
8 203 (5.55%) NumPy
8 203 (5.55%) SciPy
9 198 (5.42%) AngularJS
10 197 (5.39%) HTML
11 191 (5.22%) CSS
12 137 (3.75%) .NET
13 121 (3.31%) Redux
14 107 (2.93%) RESTful
15 101 (2.76%) jQuery
16 100 (2.74%) JSON
17 97 (2.65%) Node.js
18 93 (2.54%) Material-UI
19 88 (2.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 399 (10.91%) Hedge funds
2 383 (10.48%) Fixed Income
3 322 (8.81%) Derivative
4 299 (8.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 288 (7.88%) Equities
6 287 (7.85%) Cloud Native
7 174 (4.76%) Public Cloud
8 157 (4.29%) Algorithms
9 155 (4.24%) Product Ownership
10 130 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
11 122 (3.34%) Data Structures
12 117 (3.20%) Credit Risk
13 76 (2.08%) Management Information System
14 75 (2.05%) Private Cloud
15 69 (1.89%) Onboarding
16 67 (1.83%) Data Centre
17 48 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
18 46 (1.26%) Mobile App
19 38 (1.04%) Blog
20 37 (1.01%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 242 (6.62%) Linux
2 241 (6.59%) Windows
3 134 (3.67%) Unix
4 65 (1.78%) Android
5 54 (1.48%) Windows Server
6 37 (1.01%) Apple iOS
7 36 (0.98%) Windows 10
8 35 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 32 (0.88%) 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 4 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
15 2 (0.055%) Mac OS
15 2 (0.055%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.027%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,636 (44.75%) Agile
2 971 (26.56%) Software Engineering
3 752 (20.57%) Asset Management
4 588 (16.08%) CI/CD
5 529 (14.47%) Machine Learning
6 526 (14.39%) Artificial Intelligence
7 489 (13.38%) SDLC
8 452 (12.36%) Investment Management
9 409 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
10 389 (10.64%) Analytics
11 375 (10.26%) Operational Stability
12 373 (10.20%) DevOps
13 356 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 333 (9.11%) Coaching
15 295 (8.07%) Microservices
16 293 (8.01%) Data Management
17 290 (7.93%) Full Stack Development
18 269 (7.36%) Community of Practice
19 268 (7.33%) Risk Management
20 265 (7.25%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 942 (25.77%) Java
2 800 (21.88%) Python
3 660 (18.05%) SQL
4 538 (14.72%) JavaScript
5 436 (11.93%) TypeScript
6 214 (5.85%) C#
7 108 (2.95%) PowerShell
8 67 (1.83%) Kotlin
9 63 (1.72%) Bash
10 58 (1.59%) T-SQL
11 57 (1.56%) Groovy
12 56 (1.53%) Scala
13 51 (1.39%) R
14 38 (1.04%) Go
14 38 (1.04%) Ruby
15 37 (1.01%) Perl
16 26 (0.71%) Shell Script
17 24 (0.66%) PL/SQL
18 22 (0.60%) C++
19 18 (0.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 369 (10.09%) Degree
2 56 (1.53%) Master's Degree
3 54 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 41 (1.12%) ACCA
5 32 (0.88%) PMI Certification
6 31 (0.85%) CISSP
7 30 (0.82%) Security Cleared
8 28 (0.77%) AWS Certification
9 25 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 18 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (0.49%) PMP
11 17 (0.46%) CISA
11 17 (0.46%) CISM
12 16 (0.44%) MBA
13 15 (0.41%) CIMA
14 12 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.27%) MCP
15 10 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
16 9 (0.25%) OCP
16 9 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (5.96%) Data Quality
2 195 (5.33%) GDPR
3 99 (2.71%) 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 17 (0.46%) 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 (3.83%) Docker
2 90 (2.46%) 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
1 251 (6.87%) Kubernetes
2 142 (3.88%) Terraform
3 76 (2.08%) Ansible
4 69 (1.89%) Grafana
5 41 (1.12%) SCCM
6 32 (0.88%) 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 (0.57%) HAProxy
10 21 (0.57%) Zipkin
11 20 (0.55%) Puppet
12 13 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
13 12 (0.33%) Graphite
13 12 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
14 10 (0.27%) Control-M
15 9 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
16 5 (0.14%) Argo
16 5 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 387 (10.59%) Microsoft
2 276 (7.55%) Google
3 216 (5.91%) Oracle
4 117 (3.20%) ServiceNow
5 98 (2.68%) IBM
6 81 (2.22%) SAP
7 80 (2.19%) Splunk
8 59 (1.61%) VMware
9 58 (1.59%) Red Hat
10 54 (1.48%) Alteryx
11 52 (1.42%) Bloomberg
11 52 (1.42%) Citrix
12 46 (1.26%) Databricks
13 44 (1.20%) Dynatrace
14 39 (1.07%) ION Trading
15 36 (0.98%) Pega
16 34 (0.93%) Cisco
17 31 (0.85%) Salesforce
18 29 (0.79%) Kofax
19 26 (0.71%) CA