Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Banking over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 24 27
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,754 4,255 6,350
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 6.42% 7.58% 7.25%
As % of the General category 11.14% 12.94% 12.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,890 3,004 4,153
10th Percentile £385 £450 £425
25th Percentile £500 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £762 £788 £750
90th Percentile £850 £888 £830
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -7.32% +10.00% +16.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 8 27
10th Percentile £12.18 £12.66 £12.51
25th Percentile £13.67 £15.45 £21.00
Median hourly rate £19.05 £36.75 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.16% +41.35% +85.32%
75th Percentile £23.88 £67.11 £40.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.13 £55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £64.38 £19.53
% change year-on-year -76.70% +229.66% +39.18%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,727 32,883 49,686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.62% 58.56% 56.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,561 22,792 34,447
10th Percentile £275 £313 £324
25th Percentile £413 £440 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,973 991 1,415
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.56 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.25
90th Percentile £66.74 £72.50 £59.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £27.84 £19.50
% change year-on-year +0.57% +42.77% +0.31%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Banking.

Daily rate trend for Banking in the UK

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in the UK

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Banking.

Hourly rate trend for Banking in the UK

Banking
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Banking over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Banking in the UK

Banking
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -3 2,358 £625 -3.85% 764
London -3 1,899 £650 -3.70% 556
Work from Home +3 1,206 £625 -3.85% 323
UK excluding London +10 542 £510 -7.32% 236
North of England +5 196 £475 -13.64% 64
Scotland +1 130 £550 +10.00% 38
North West +27 109 £470 -14.55% 44
South East +24 94 £513 -12.77% 47
Yorkshire -9 84 £475 -13.64% 16
Midlands +7 67 £450 -25.00% 35
East Midlands +41 45 £445 -1.11% 17
South West -6 32 £613 +2.08% 35
East of England +21 27 £575 +15.00% 9
West Midlands -17 20 £525 -12.50% 18
Northern Ireland -2 8 £443 +14.19% 4
North East +6 3 £463 -35.99% 4
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Wales +18 1 £550 - 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
1 196 (7.12%) Apache
2 186 (6.75%) Apache Airflow
3 69 (2.51%) SharePoint
4 50 (1.82%) Confluence
5 40 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 28 (1.02%) Apache Spark
7 16 (0.58%) SAS
8 11 (0.40%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.29%) IBM HTTP Server
9 8 (0.29%) WebSphere Application Server
9 8 (0.29%) WebSphere Portal
10 7 (0.25%) CMS
10 7 (0.25%) JBoss
10 7 (0.25%) nginx
10 7 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.22%) IIS
11 6 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.18%) MQSeries
12 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.15%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 100 (3.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (1.82%) MS Visio
4 40 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.25%) Sketch
8 5 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.18%) CPLEX
8 5 (0.18%) InVision
9 2 (0.073%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.073%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.073%) Gliffy
9 2 (0.073%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.036%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.036%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.036%) InDesign
10 1 (0.036%) Trello
10 1 (0.036%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 25 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.87%) Aladdin
3 18 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.54%) ION Anvil
5 14 (0.51%) Temenos T24
6 13 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
7 11 (0.40%) ION MarketView
7 11 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
7 11 (0.40%) SAP CO
8 10 (0.36%) SAP FI
8 10 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
8 10 (0.36%) SimCorp Dimension
9 9 (0.33%) FLEXCUBE
10 8 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
11 7 (0.25%) Oracle BPM
12 6 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
12 6 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
13 5 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
13 5 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
13 5 (0.18%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 432 (15.69%) AWS
2 380 (13.80%) Azure
3 228 (8.28%) GCP
4 120 (4.36%) dbt
5 107 (3.89%) Snowflake
6 90 (3.27%) Power Platform
7 57 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
8 39 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (1.42%) GitHub
9 37 (1.34%) Entra ID
10 35 (1.27%) SaaS
11 31 (1.13%) Serverless
12 26 (0.94%) OpenShift
13 22 (0.80%) Power Automate
14 20 (0.73%) PowerApps
15 19 (0.69%) Microsoft Purview
16 18 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (0.65%) PaaS
17 17 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
17 17 (0.62%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 93 (3.38%) Firewall
2 47 (1.71%) DMZ
3 27 (0.98%) Internet
4 24 (0.87%) VPN
5 23 (0.84%) Cisco Nexus
5 23 (0.84%) SAN
6 20 (0.73%) Network Security
7 19 (0.69%) DNS
8 17 (0.62%) Intranet
9 14 (0.51%) HTTP
10 13 (0.47%) WAN
11 10 (0.36%) DHCP
11 10 (0.36%) LAN
11 10 (0.36%) SSH
11 10 (0.36%) Wireless
12 9 (0.33%) SD-WAN
12 9 (0.33%) SSL
13 8 (0.29%) ATM
14 7 (0.25%) NAS
14 7 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (6.39%) Apache Ignite
2 135 (4.90%) Data Lake
3 123 (4.47%) Amazon Athena
4 122 (4.43%) SQL Server
5 120 (4.36%) Dremio
6 118 (4.28%) Apache Arrow
7 92 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
8 78 (2.83%) Power BI
9 59 (2.14%) Relational Database
10 52 (1.89%) NoSQL
11 38 (1.38%) Big Data
12 37 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
13 33 (1.20%) MySQL
14 32 (1.16%) MongoDB
15 25 (0.91%) Oracle Database
15 25 (0.91%) Tableau
16 24 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
16 24 (0.87%) Metadata
17 21 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 18 (0.65%) KDB
Development Applications
1 150 (5.45%) JIRA
2 85 (3.09%) Jenkins
3 84 (3.05%) Git
4 57 (2.07%) Cypress.io
5 53 (1.92%) Selenium
6 52 (1.89%) Cucumber
7 36 (1.31%) TeamCity
8 33 (1.20%) GitLab
9 20 (0.73%) Postman
10 19 (0.69%) Maven
11 16 (0.58%) Visual Studio
12 15 (0.54%) JUnit
13 14 (0.51%) Bitbucket
14 13 (0.47%) SonarQube
14 13 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
14 13 (0.47%) SpecFlow
15 11 (0.40%) Artifactory
16 10 (0.36%) JMeter
17 8 (0.29%) Appium
17 8 (0.29%) ERwin
General
1 1,835 (66.63%) Finance
2 597 (21.68%) Investment Banking
3 542 (19.68%) Social Skills
4 396 (14.38%) Front Office
5 241 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
6 91 (3.30%) Retail Banking
7 76 (2.76%) Retail
8 69 (2.51%) Back Office
9 55 (2.00%) Financial Institution
10 53 (1.92%) Corporate Banking
11 44 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
12 40 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
13 31 (1.13%) Public Sector
14 30 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
14 30 (1.09%) Wholesale Banking
15 26 (0.94%) Legal
16 24 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 22 (0.80%) Telecoms
18 20 (0.73%) Marketing
19 17 (0.62%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 559 (20.30%) Developer
2 483 (17.54%) Analyst
3 348 (12.64%) Architect
4 280 (10.17%) Senior
5 245 (8.90%) Business Analyst
6 170 (6.17%) Lead
7 164 (5.95%) Software Engineer
8 140 (5.08%) Java Developer
9 139 (5.05%) Banking Analyst
10 138 (5.01%) Project Manager
11 130 (4.72%) Python Developer
12 127 (4.61%) Solutions Architect
13 124 (4.50%) Python Engineer
14 109 (3.96%) Consultant
14 109 (3.96%) Python Software Engineer
15 98 (3.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 97 (3.52%) React Developer
17 83 (3.01%) Financial Analyst
18 80 (2.90%) Network Engineer
19 75 (2.72%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (6.75%) gRPC
2 178 (6.46%) Protocol Buffers
3 151 (5.48%) React
4 120 (4.36%) Pandas
5 114 (4.14%) NumPy
6 112 (4.07%) SciPy
7 96 (3.49%) .NET
8 80 (2.90%) Redux
9 79 (2.87%) HTML
10 78 (2.83%) Kafka
11 75 (2.72%) Spring
12 74 (2.69%) CSS
13 67 (2.43%) Material-UI
14 62 (2.25%) FIX Protocol
15 49 (1.78%) AngularJS
15 49 (1.78%) Spring Boot
16 47 (1.71%) REST
16 47 (1.71%) Web Services
17 44 (1.60%) Middleware
18 41 (1.49%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 283 (10.28%) Fixed Income
2 277 (10.06%) Derivative
3 255 (9.26%) Hedge funds
4 223 (8.10%) Equities
5 217 (7.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 93 (3.38%) Product Ownership
7 62 (2.25%) Management Information System
8 55 (2.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 38 (1.38%) Data Centre
10 34 (1.23%) Onboarding
11 31 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
12 30 (1.09%) Credit Risk
13 29 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
13 29 (1.05%) Mobile App
14 27 (0.98%) Mainframe
14 27 (0.98%) Public Cloud
15 26 (0.94%) Security Posture
16 25 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
16 25 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
17 24 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 161 (5.85%) Windows
2 138 (5.01%) Linux
3 106 (3.85%) Unix
4 26 (0.94%) Android
5 23 (0.84%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.84%) Windows Server
6 18 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (0.65%) zOS
7 17 (0.62%) Windows 10
8 15 (0.54%) MVS
9 13 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
10 12 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.29%) VMS
11 8 (0.29%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.11%) Kali Linux
13 3 (0.11%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.073%) AIX
15 1 (0.036%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.036%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 696 (25.27%) Agile
2 366 (13.29%) Change Management
3 302 (10.97%) Software Engineering
4 300 (10.89%) DevOps
5 277 (10.06%) Asset Management
6 257 (9.33%) Problem-Solving
7 237 (8.61%) Stakeholder Management
8 223 (8.10%) Investment Management
9 221 (8.02%) Migration
10 167 (6.06%) CI/CD
11 153 (5.56%) Project Management
12 150 (5.45%) Microservices
13 148 (5.37%) Test Automation
14 127 (4.61%) Analytics
14 127 (4.61%) SDLC
15 121 (4.39%) Roadmaps
16 119 (4.32%) Full Stack Development
17 118 (4.28%) Scrum
18 115 (4.18%) Risk Management
19 113 (4.10%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 516 (18.74%) Python
2 463 (16.81%) Java
3 422 (15.32%) SQL
4 227 (8.24%) TypeScript
5 224 (8.13%) JavaScript
6 210 (7.63%) C#
7 81 (2.94%) PowerShell
8 66 (2.40%) C++
9 61 (2.21%) Scala
10 32 (1.16%) Shell Script
11 24 (0.87%) Perl
11 24 (0.87%) PL/SQL
12 21 (0.76%) Kotlin
13 19 (0.69%) Go
14 18 (0.65%) Bash
15 17 (0.62%) Groovy
16 16 (0.58%) T-SQL
17 12 (0.44%) R
18 11 (0.40%) C
18 11 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 189 (6.86%) Degree
2 69 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 57 (2.07%) Security Cleared
4 47 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
4 47 (1.71%) SC Cleared
5 31 (1.13%) Master's Degree
6 29 (1.05%) CISSP
7 24 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (0.87%) PMP
8 22 (0.80%) CISM
9 21 (0.76%) PMI Certification
10 17 (0.62%) AWS Certification
11 16 (0.58%) CCNP
11 16 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
12 12 (0.44%) CISA
13 11 (0.40%) Azure Certification
13 11 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
14 10 (0.36%) Six Sigma Black Belt
14 10 (0.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 8 (0.29%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (3.85%) QA
2 76 (2.76%) Data Quality
3 69 (2.51%) PMO
4 30 (1.09%) EMIR
5 29 (1.05%) NIST
6 28 (1.02%) MiFID
7 26 (0.94%) GDPR
7 26 (0.94%) SLA
8 25 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 16 (0.58%) SEPA
10 15 (0.54%) PCI DSS
11 14 (0.51%) Dodd-Frank
12 10 (0.36%) GRC
12 10 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 8 (0.29%) Basel III
13 8 (0.29%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.25%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.25%) IFRS
15 6 (0.22%) GAAP
16 5 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 93 (3.38%) Active Directory
2 74 (2.69%) Docker
3 18 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.44%) vSphere
5 8 (0.29%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.18%) ACF2
6 5 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.18%) IAG
6 5 (0.18%) RACF
7 4 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
8 3 (0.11%) HDFS
9 2 (0.073%) KVM
9 2 (0.073%) NFS
9 2 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.073%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.073%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.036%) Cronacle
10 1 (0.036%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 90 (3.27%) Kubernetes
2 72 (2.61%) Ansible
3 40 (1.45%) Terraform
4 27 (0.98%) Grafana
5 23 (0.84%) SCCM
6 18 (0.65%) Puppet
7 16 (0.58%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.47%) Control-M
8 13 (0.47%) Progress Chef
9 10 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
9 10 (0.36%) Kibana
9 10 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.29%) logstash
10 8 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.29%) PingFederate
11 7 (0.25%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.18%) Nessus
12 5 (0.18%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.15%) HP Quality Center
14 3 (0.11%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 257 (9.33%) Microsoft
2 153 (5.56%) Oracle
3 135 (4.90%) Google
4 107 (3.89%) Cisco
5 84 (3.05%) ServiceNow
6 61 (2.21%) CheckPoint
7 53 (1.92%) IBM
8 49 (1.78%) Bloomberg
8 49 (1.78%) SAP
8 49 (1.78%) Splunk
9 31 (1.13%) Arista
9 31 (1.13%) VMware
10 29 (1.05%) Citrix
10 29 (1.05%) Databricks
11 28 (1.02%) F5
12 27 (0.98%) Fortinet
13 22 (0.80%) CyberArk
13 22 (0.80%) ION Trading
14 20 (0.73%) Salesforce
15 19 (0.69%) EMC