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

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 36 63
Rank change year-on-year -30 +27 +22
Permanent jobs citing Banking 3,689 6,874 8,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.69% 6.91% 5.40%
As % of the General category 6.19% 10.13% 8.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,216 4,274 4,107
10th Percentile £46,500 £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 £112,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £130,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £64,691 £59,526
% change year-on-year +8.21% +8.68% +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 59,604 67,868 104,166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.64% 68.20% 64.59%
Number of salaries quoted 39,720 36,787 51,225
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,100 £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 19 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 19 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 -32 2,932 £85,000 +13.33% 851
London -4 1,844 £90,000 +5.88% 676
UK excluding London -53 1,764 £70,000 +8.21% 307
Work from Home -53 1,287 £83,577 +19.40% 352
Scotland -28 655 £71,991 +3.66% 45
North of England -71 410 £70,000 +16.18% 55
South West -23 388 £70,576 +8.58% 29
Yorkshire -39 188 £70,576 +14.76% 15
North West -74 174 £69,447 +16.20% 35
South East -74 127 £60,000 -7.69% 119
Midlands -70 118 £55,000 -2.65% 38
West Midlands -46 69 £55,000 -1.79% 26
North East +33 48 £56,750 +106.36% 5
East Midlands -36 48 £70,000 +16.67% 12
East of England -48 37 £50,000 -21.57% 12
Wales -33 30 £51,528 -6.25% 5
Northern Ireland +1 9 £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
1 360 (9.76%) Apache
2 344 (9.33%) Apache Airflow
3 114 (3.09%) SharePoint
4 99 (2.68%) Confluence
5 88 (2.39%) SAS
6 77 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
7 75 (2.03%) Apache Spark
8 26 (0.70%) WebSphere
9 22 (0.60%) 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%) WebLogic
16 3 (0.081%) CMS
17 2 (0.054%) JCAPS
17 2 (0.054%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 244 (6.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 166 (4.50%) Microsoft Office
3 137 (3.71%) 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%) Adaptiv
8 5 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
9 4 (0.11%) Finacle
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
10 2 (0.054%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 2 (0.054%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 951 (25.78%) AWS
2 572 (15.51%) GCP
3 485 (13.15%) Azure
4 246 (6.67%) dbt
5 226 (6.13%) Snowflake
6 145 (3.93%) Power Platform
7 112 (3.04%) GitHub
8 82 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
9 78 (2.11%) SaaS
10 50 (1.36%) PaaS
11 45 (1.22%) OpenShift
12 43 (1.17%) Entra ID
13 41 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
14 35 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
15 33 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
16 29 (0.79%) Serverless
17 25 (0.68%) Google Play
17 25 (0.68%) Power Automate
18 22 (0.60%) 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 (0.98%) 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%) Network Security
13 9 (0.24%) Unified Communications
14 8 (0.22%) SMTP
15 7 (0.19%) SAN
15 7 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 326 (8.84%) Apache Ignite
2 296 (8.02%) Data Lake
3 245 (6.64%) Apache Arrow
3 245 (6.64%) Dremio
4 244 (6.61%) Amazon Athena
5 144 (3.90%) SQL Server
6 130 (3.52%) Power BI
7 128 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
8 116 (3.14%) Big Data
9 114 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
10 94 (2.55%) NoSQL
11 72 (1.95%) MongoDB
12 66 (1.79%) Tableau
13 52 (1.41%) Metadata
14 50 (1.36%) Relational Database
15 47 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
16 45 (1.22%) BigQuery
17 34 (0.92%) Hadoop
18 32 (0.87%) MySQL
19 31 (0.84%) DB2
Development Applications
1 228 (6.18%) JIRA
2 137 (3.71%) Cypress.io
3 136 (3.69%) Git
4 119 (3.23%) Jenkins
5 115 (3.12%) JUnit
6 87 (2.36%) Selenium
7 77 (2.09%) Jasmine
8 75 (2.03%) Karma Test Runner
9 65 (1.76%) WebDriver
10 60 (1.63%) Protractor
11 59 (1.60%) Maven
12 42 (1.14%) Oracle Forms
13 38 (1.03%) Cucumber
14 32 (0.87%) IBM UrbanCode
15 28 (0.76%) TeamCity
16 25 (0.68%) Android Studio
16 25 (0.68%) GitLab
17 21 (0.57%) Jaeger
18 16 (0.43%) CircleCI
18 16 (0.43%) Spinnaker
General
1 2,949 (79.94%) Finance
2 1,161 (31.47%) Investment Banking
3 906 (24.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 829 (22.47%) Law
5 789 (21.39%) Social Skills
6 594 (16.10%) Front Office
7 422 (11.44%) Analytical Skills
8 339 (9.19%) Legal
9 221 (5.99%) Financial Institution
10 199 (5.39%) Retail
11 194 (5.26%) Marketing
12 181 (4.91%) Retail Banking
13 152 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
14 114 (3.09%) Private Banking
15 87 (2.36%) Back Office
16 68 (1.84%) Publishing
17 46 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
18 44 (1.19%) Games
19 35 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
20 33 (0.89%) French Language
Job Titles
1 729 (19.76%) Software Engineer
2 720 (19.52%) Senior
3 645 (17.48%) Analyst
4 545 (14.77%) Developer
5 511 (13.85%) Lead
6 357 (9.68%) Architect
6 357 (9.68%) Java Engineer
7 330 (8.95%) Java Software Engineer
8 235 (6.37%) Python Engineer
9 230 (6.23%) Python Software Engineer
10 181 (4.91%) Lead Software Engineer
11 180 (4.88%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 155 (4.20%) Java Developer
13 153 (4.15%) Senior Analyst
14 144 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
15 140 (3.80%) Python Developer
16 134 (3.63%) AWS Engineer
17 130 (3.52%) Lead Java Engineer
18 125 (3.39%) AWS Software Engineer
19 115 (3.12%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 357 (9.68%) React
2 336 (9.11%) gRPC
3 333 (9.03%) Protocol Buffers
4 327 (8.86%) Spring
5 249 (6.75%) Pandas
6 229 (6.21%) NumPy
6 229 (6.21%) SciPy
6 229 (6.21%) Spring Boot
7 224 (6.07%) Kafka
8 199 (5.39%) AngularJS
9 197 (5.34%) HTML
10 192 (5.20%) CSS
11 141 (3.82%) .NET
12 126 (3.42%) Redux
13 103 (2.79%) RESTful
14 101 (2.74%) jQuery
15 98 (2.66%) Material-UI
16 97 (2.63%) JSON
17 93 (2.52%) Node.js
18 88 (2.39%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 433 (11.74%) Hedge funds
2 416 (11.28%) Fixed Income
3 353 (9.57%) Derivative
4 329 (8.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 322 (8.73%) Equities
6 288 (7.81%) Cloud Native
7 174 (4.72%) Public Cloud
8 156 (4.23%) Product Ownership
9 154 (4.17%) Algorithms
10 128 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
11 120 (3.25%) Data Structures
12 109 (2.95%) Credit Risk
13 98 (2.66%) Management Information System
14 71 (1.92%) Onboarding
15 69 (1.87%) 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
1 242 (6.56%) Windows
2 237 (6.42%) Linux
3 124 (3.36%) Unix
4 63 (1.71%) Android
5 54 (1.46%) Windows Server
6 35 (0.95%) Apple iOS
6 35 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 35 (0.95%) Windows 10
7 32 (0.87%) CentOS
8 26 (0.70%) zOS
9 24 (0.65%) Solaris
9 24 (0.65%) Ubuntu
10 12 (0.33%) AIX
11 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.081%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.054%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.054%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,660 (45.00%) Agile
2 988 (26.78%) Software Engineering
3 786 (21.31%) Asset Management
4 585 (15.86%) CI/CD
5 527 (14.29%) Machine Learning
6 525 (14.23%) Artificial Intelligence
7 490 (13.28%) SDLC
8 477 (12.93%) Investment Management
9 416 (11.28%) Problem-Solving
10 392 (10.63%) Analytics
11 375 (10.17%) Operational Stability
12 369 (10.00%) DevOps
13 359 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 346 (9.38%) Coaching
15 296 (8.02%) Data Management
16 293 (7.94%) Full Stack Development
17 288 (7.81%) Microservices
18 269 (7.29%) Community of Practice
19 266 (7.21%) Fintech
20 263 (7.13%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 956 (25.91%) Java
2 828 (22.45%) Python
3 674 (18.27%) SQL
4 566 (15.34%) JavaScript
5 466 (12.63%) TypeScript
6 216 (5.86%) C#
7 129 (3.50%) PowerShell
8 67 (1.82%) Kotlin
9 62 (1.68%) Bash
10 58 (1.57%) Groovy
11 57 (1.55%) T-SQL
12 56 (1.52%) Scala
13 47 (1.27%) R
14 38 (1.03%) Perl
14 38 (1.03%) Ruby
15 37 (1.00%) Go
16 29 (0.79%) Shell Script
17 27 (0.73%) C++
18 24 (0.65%) PL/SQL
19 18 (0.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 375 (10.17%) Degree
2 57 (1.55%) Master's Degree
3 55 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 43 (1.17%) 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 (0.52%) 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 (6.29%) Data Quality
2 188 (5.10%) GDPR
3 99 (2.68%) SLA
4 73 (1.98%) Accessibility
5 70 (1.90%) IFRS
5 70 (1.90%) IFRS 9
5 70 (1.90%) QA
6 28 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (0.52%) NIST
8 15 (0.41%) CRD IV
8 15 (0.41%) PMO
8 15 (0.41%) WAI
9 14 (0.38%) SEPA
10 12 (0.33%) 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 (3.85%) Docker
2 108 (2.93%) Active Directory
3 43 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (0.54%) RACF
6 14 (0.38%) XenApp
7 13 (0.35%) XenDesktop
8 11 (0.30%) HDFS
9 9 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (0.24%) vSphere
10 4 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.081%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.081%) KVM
11 3 (0.081%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.081%) Xen
12 2 (0.054%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.054%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.054%) NFS
13 1 (0.027%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.027%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 244 (6.61%) Kubernetes
2 142 (3.85%) Terraform
3 78 (2.11%) Ansible
4 68 (1.84%) Grafana
5 40 (1.08%) SCCM
6 32 (0.87%) 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 20 (0.54%) Puppet
12 15 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
13 13 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
14 12 (0.33%) Graphite
15 9 (0.24%) Control-M
15 9 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
16 5 (0.14%) Argo
16 5 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 409 (11.09%) Microsoft
2 280 (7.59%) Google
3 212 (5.75%) Oracle
4 107 (2.90%) ServiceNow
5 91 (2.47%) IBM
6 79 (2.14%) Splunk
7 74 (2.01%) SAP
8 60 (1.63%) VMware
9 59 (1.60%) Red Hat
10 54 (1.46%) Alteryx
10 54 (1.46%) Citrix
11 52 (1.41%) Bloomberg
12 46 (1.25%) Databricks
13 44 (1.19%) Dynatrace
14 39 (1.06%) ION Trading
15 38 (1.03%) Salesforce
16 35 (0.95%) CyberArk
17 34 (0.92%) Cisco
18 29 (0.79%) Pega
19 26 (0.70%) CA