Banking Jobs in Scotland

Banking
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 38 10 20
Rank change year-on-year -28 +10 +52
Permanent jobs citing Banking 609 655 610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.91% 15.05% 10.03%
As % of the General category 12.68% 20.12% 16.16%
Number of salaries quoted 129 374 364
10th Percentile £46,306 £42,874 £36,527
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,219 £45,617
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £69,447 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% +15.75% +4.35%
75th Percentile £92,500 £84,056 £77,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £97,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +13.33% +3.45% -3.33%

All General Skills
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 4,802 3,256 3,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.23% 74.83% 62.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,574 1,564 1,975
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £68,275
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Banking in Scotland

Banking
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Banking in Scotland.

Salary trend for Banking in Scotland

Banking
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Banking in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Banking in Scotland

Banking
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the Scotland region 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
Glasgow +13 476 £85,000 +28.79% 17
Edinburgh -17 132 £72,500 +4.40% 16
Dundee - 1 £70,576 -
Banking
UK

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 28 (4.60%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.45%) GemFire
3 15 (2.46%) Cloud Foundry
4 12 (1.97%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.31%) Confluence
6 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.82%) Apache
7 5 (0.82%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.66%) Captiva
8 4 (0.66%) FileNet
8 4 (0.66%) SAS
8 4 (0.66%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.16%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 263 (43.19%) AWS
2 59 (9.69%) Azure
3 55 (9.03%) GCP
4 25 (4.11%) Google Play
5 19 (3.12%) BlazeMeter
6 14 (2.30%) GitHub
7 12 (1.97%) Power Platform
8 9 (1.48%) OpenShift
9 8 (1.31%) Entra ID
10 5 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (0.82%) SaaS
11 3 (0.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (0.49%) Datadog
11 3 (0.49%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (0.49%) PaaS
11 3 (0.49%) Serverless
12 2 (0.33%) Collibra
12 2 (0.33%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.33%) IBM Cloud
12 2 (0.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.63%) DSL
2 6 (0.99%) Internet
3 2 (0.33%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (0.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.33%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.33%) VLAN
3 2 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (7.55%) MongoDB
2 40 (6.57%) Big Data
2 40 (6.57%) NoSQL
3 36 (5.91%) Apache Cassandra
4 21 (3.45%) CockroachDB
4 21 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
4 21 (3.45%) Hazelcast
5 20 (3.28%) SQL Server
6 19 (3.12%) Relational Database
7 17 (2.79%) Data Lake
7 17 (2.79%) DB2
8 16 (2.63%) Tableau
9 15 (2.46%) MySQL
10 12 (1.97%) Power BI
11 11 (1.81%) Apache Hive
12 6 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.99%) Redis
13 2 (0.33%) Data Hub
13 2 (0.33%) DTS
13 2 (0.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 93 (15.27%) JUnit
2 77 (12.64%) Cypress.io
3 73 (11.99%) Jasmine
3 73 (11.99%) Karma Test Runner
4 63 (10.34%) Selenium
5 60 (9.85%) Protractor
5 60 (9.85%) WebDriver
6 40 (6.57%) Git
7 34 (5.58%) Maven
8 33 (5.42%) JIRA
9 27 (4.43%) Jenkins
10 25 (4.11%) Android Studio
11 21 (3.45%) Jaeger
12 15 (2.46%) Cucumber
13 13 (2.13%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (1.15%) webpack
15 6 (0.99%) Moq
15 6 (0.99%) Oracle Forms
16 4 (0.66%) Artifactory
16 4 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 553 (90.80%) Finance
2 441 (72.41%) Law
3 440 (72.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 360 (59.11%) Investment Banking
5 86 (14.12%) Financial Institution
6 85 (13.96%) Marketing
7 82 (13.46%) Private Banking
8 54 (8.87%) Social Skills
9 38 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
10 35 (5.75%) Legal
10 35 (5.75%) Presentation Skills
11 24 (3.94%) Retail Banking
12 22 (3.61%) Prime Brokerage
13 20 (3.28%) Games
14 19 (3.12%) Publishing
15 5 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.82%) Retail
16 2 (0.33%) Front Office
17 1 (0.16%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 380 (62.40%) Software Engineer
2 223 (36.62%) Java Engineer
2 223 (36.62%) Java Software Engineer
3 144 (23.65%) Lead
4 127 (20.85%) Lead Software Engineer
5 90 (14.78%) Lead Java Engineer
6 84 (13.79%) Senior
7 64 (10.51%) Full Stack Engineer
7 64 (10.51%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 48 (7.88%) Python Engineer
8 48 (7.88%) Python Software Engineer
9 41 (6.73%) Developer
10 40 (6.57%) AWS Engineer
10 40 (6.57%) AWS Software Engineer
11 36 (5.91%) Analyst
12 34 (5.58%) Architect
12 34 (5.58%) Cloud Engineer
13 32 (5.25%) Cloud Software Engineer
14 31 (5.09%) Engineering Manager
14 31 (5.09%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (37.60%) Spring
2 164 (26.93%) React
3 151 (24.79%) Spring Boot
4 130 (21.35%) AngularJS
5 110 (18.06%) CSS
5 110 (18.06%) HTML
5 110 (18.06%) Kafka
6 79 (12.97%) jQuery
7 69 (11.33%) JSON
8 66 (10.84%) Node.js
9 63 (10.34%) Jest
10 60 (9.85%) Hibernate
10 60 (9.85%) J2EE
10 60 (9.85%) JMS
10 60 (9.85%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 55 (9.03%) RESTful
12 43 (7.06%) REST
13 32 (5.25%) JPA
14 28 (4.60%) Android Jetpack
14 28 (4.60%) Jetpack Compose
Miscellaneous
1 211 (34.65%) Cloud Native
2 119 (19.54%) Algorithms
3 80 (13.14%) Public Cloud
4 77 (12.64%) Data Structures
5 31 (5.09%) Private Cloud
6 29 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 25 (4.11%) Product Ownership
8 22 (3.61%) Management Information System
9 21 (3.45%) Replication
10 16 (2.63%) Distributed Applications
11 10 (1.64%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.31%) Reference Data
13 7 (1.15%) Credit Derivative
13 7 (1.15%) Derivative
13 7 (1.15%) Fixed Income
13 7 (1.15%) Hedge funds
13 7 (1.15%) Interest Rate Derivative
14 6 (0.99%) Mainframe
14 6 (0.99%) Online Banking
15 5 (0.82%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 30 (4.93%) Android
2 21 (3.45%) Linux
3 10 (1.64%) Windows
4 5 (0.82%) Unix
5 3 (0.49%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 501 (82.27%) Agile
2 438 (71.92%) Software Engineering
3 356 (58.46%) SDLC
4 353 (57.96%) CI/CD
5 341 (55.99%) Operational Stability
6 281 (46.14%) Machine Learning
7 278 (45.65%) Artificial Intelligence
8 242 (39.74%) Community of Practice
9 158 (25.94%) Asset Management
10 155 (25.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 129 (21.18%) Visualisation
12 113 (18.56%) Coaching
13 112 (18.39%) Architectural Design
13 112 (18.39%) Information Architecture
14 102 (16.75%) TDD
15 100 (16.42%) Decision-Making
16 86 (14.12%) Full Stack Development
17 84 (13.79%) Computer Science
18 83 (13.63%) BDD
19 82 (13.46%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 336 (55.17%) Java
2 153 (25.12%) JavaScript
3 146 (23.97%) SQL
4 106 (17.41%) Python
5 102 (16.75%) TypeScript
6 39 (6.40%) C#
7 38 (6.24%) Groovy
8 34 (5.58%) T-SQL
9 30 (4.93%) Kotlin
10 17 (2.79%) Scala
11 16 (2.63%) PL/SQL
12 13 (2.13%) PowerShell
13 7 (1.15%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.33%) Bash
14 2 (0.33%) R
15 1 (0.16%) COBOL
15 1 (0.16%) JCL
Qualifications
1 35 (5.75%) Degree
2 6 (0.99%) Master's Degree
3 5 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (0.33%) CCSP
4 2 (0.33%) CISA
4 2 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (0.33%) CISSP
4 2 (0.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (7.88%) Accessibility
2 40 (6.57%) SLA
3 22 (3.61%) GDPR
4 13 (2.13%) WAI
5 8 (1.31%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.66%) IFRS
6 4 (0.66%) IFRS 9
6 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.33%) COBIT
7 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.33%) NIST
7 2 (0.33%) SEPA
8 1 (0.16%) Basel III
8 1 (0.16%) FINRA
8 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.16%) MiFID
8 1 (0.16%) QA
System Software
1 30 (4.93%) Docker
2 7 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.82%) RACF
4 2 (0.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.33%) KVM
4 2 (0.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 50 (8.21%) Grafana
2 48 (7.88%) Kubernetes
3 45 (7.39%) Terraform
4 26 (4.27%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.45%) HAProxy
5 21 (3.45%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (3.45%) Kibana
5 21 (3.45%) Zipkin
6 13 (2.13%) Ansible
7 7 (1.15%) Graphite
8 6 (0.99%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.66%) Istio
10 2 (0.33%) Rancher
10 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 53 (8.70%) Oracle
2 51 (8.37%) Google
2 51 (8.37%) Splunk
3 40 (6.57%) Dynatrace
4 20 (3.28%) Microsoft
5 18 (2.96%) Databricks
6 17 (2.79%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.63%) Alteryx
7 16 (2.63%) Cognos
7 16 (2.63%) Sybase
8 13 (2.13%) IBM
9 5 (0.82%) BiZZdesign
9 5 (0.82%) CyberArk
10 4 (0.66%) Kofax
10 4 (0.66%) Pega
10 4 (0.66%) SAP
11 3 (0.49%) Citrix
11 3 (0.49%) ForgeRock
12 2 (0.33%) Polycom
13 1 (0.16%) Atlassian