Banking Contracts in London

Banking
England > London

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Banking 1,866 3,494 4,640
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.48% 12.98% 11.92%
As % of the General category 16.62% 20.47% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,405 2,553 3,132
10th Percentile £400 £463 £463
25th Percentile £519 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +10.64%
75th Percentile £788 £800 £763
90th Percentile £875 £900 £838
England median daily rate £625 £650 £638
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.96% +10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 13
10th Percentile - £13.20 £21.00
25th Percentile £18.25 - £23.91
Median hourly rate £19.50 £21.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -25.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £20.75 - £62.50
90th Percentile £23.25 £33.45 £82.90
England median hourly rate £19.50 £21.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -7.14% -12.17% +53.71%

All General Skills
London

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 advertised in London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,225 17,072 23,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.06% 63.41% 59.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,012 12,354 16,781
10th Percentile £335 £375 £381
25th Percentile £450 £479 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £813 £825 £794
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 218 300
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £19.77
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £28.50 £32.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.94% -13.51% +34.55%
75th Percentile £43.75 £57.88 £49.81
90th Percentile £65.02 £70.00 £64.78
England median hourly rate £30.14 £33.39 £21.30
% change year-on-year -9.72% +56.74% -5.33%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Banking in London

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Banking in London

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in London

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Banking in London

Banking
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London -2 248 £588 -12.96% 53
East London -4 22 £540 +9.09% 17
South London -18 7 £575 -32.35% 1
West London - 4 £400 - 10
Banking
England

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 140 (7.50%) Apache
2 137 (7.34%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (2.52%) SharePoint
4 35 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (1.45%) Confluence
6 13 (0.70%) SAS
7 12 (0.64%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.43%) CMS
9 7 (0.38%) IIS
10 6 (0.32%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.27%) JBoss
11 5 (0.27%) nginx
11 5 (0.27%) Tornado
12 4 (0.21%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.21%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.16%) Appian
13 3 (0.16%) GemFire
14 2 (0.11%) IBM Notes
14 2 (0.11%) MQSeries
Applications
1 68 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.34%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.32%) Sketch
7 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.16%) InVision
7 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.054%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.054%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.054%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.054%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.054%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 20 (1.07%) Aladdin
2 15 (0.80%) ION Anvil
2 15 (0.80%) Loan IQ
3 14 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.54%) ION MarketView
5 9 (0.48%) FLEXCUBE
6 8 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
6 8 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (0.43%) Temenos T24
7 7 (0.38%) IntelliMatch
8 6 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
9 5 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
9 5 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.21%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 3 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle FAH
11 3 (0.16%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 256 (13.72%) Azure
2 249 (13.34%) AWS
3 145 (7.77%) GCP
4 84 (4.50%) dbt
5 69 (3.70%) Snowflake
6 66 (3.54%) Power Platform
7 47 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
8 29 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (1.50%) GitHub
10 21 (1.13%) SaaS
10 21 (1.13%) Serverless
11 17 (0.91%) Power Automate
12 16 (0.86%) Entra ID
12 16 (0.86%) Microsoft Purview
13 15 (0.80%) PowerApps
14 14 (0.75%) Azure Key Vault
14 14 (0.75%) Collibra
15 13 (0.70%) PaaS
16 12 (0.64%) IaaS
17 11 (0.59%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 54 (2.89%) Firewall
2 18 (0.96%) Network Security
3 15 (0.80%) Internet
3 15 (0.80%) SAN
4 12 (0.64%) VPN
4 12 (0.64%) WAN
5 10 (0.54%) DNS
6 9 (0.48%) LAN
7 8 (0.43%) HTTP
7 8 (0.43%) SSH
8 7 (0.38%) DMZ
9 5 (0.27%) FTP
9 5 (0.27%) MPLS
9 5 (0.27%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.27%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.21%) BGP
10 4 (0.21%) FIX Connectivity
10 4 (0.21%) POP3
10 4 (0.21%) SMTP
10 4 (0.21%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (6.97%) Apache Ignite
2 110 (5.89%) SQL Server
3 85 (4.56%) Amazon Athena
4 84 (4.50%) Apache Arrow
4 84 (4.50%) Dremio
5 81 (4.34%) Data Lake
6 71 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
7 57 (3.05%) Power BI
8 50 (2.68%) Relational Database
9 36 (1.93%) NoSQL
10 30 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
11 29 (1.55%) Oracle Database
12 26 (1.39%) MySQL
12 26 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 24 (1.29%) Big Data
14 20 (1.07%) Metadata
14 20 (1.07%) MongoDB
15 19 (1.02%) Tableau
16 17 (0.91%) KDB
17 14 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 77 (4.13%) JIRA
2 45 (2.41%) Git
3 40 (2.14%) Cypress.io
4 39 (2.09%) Jenkins
5 36 (1.93%) TeamCity
6 35 (1.88%) Selenium
7 32 (1.71%) Cucumber
8 22 (1.18%) GitLab
9 14 (0.75%) Postman
10 13 (0.70%) Maven
10 13 (0.70%) Visual Studio
11 10 (0.54%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.48%) SpecFlow
13 8 (0.43%) JUnit
14 7 (0.38%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.38%) ERwin
14 7 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 7 (0.38%) TestRail
15 6 (0.32%) JMeter
15 6 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,258 (67.42%) Finance
2 531 (28.46%) Investment Banking
3 358 (19.19%) Social Skills
4 346 (18.54%) Front Office
5 159 (8.52%) Analytical Skills
6 80 (4.29%) Back Office
7 60 (3.22%) Retail Banking
8 55 (2.95%) Retail
9 50 (2.68%) Financial Institution
10 37 (1.98%) Corporate Banking
11 35 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
12 32 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
13 25 (1.34%) Public Sector
14 23 (1.23%) Legal
15 22 (1.18%) Wholesale Banking
16 21 (1.13%) Prime Brokerage
17 17 (0.91%) International Banking
17 17 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
18 15 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 12 (0.64%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 455 (24.38%) Developer
2 366 (19.61%) Analyst
3 208 (11.15%) Business Analyst
4 198 (10.61%) Senior
5 151 (8.09%) Architect
6 126 (6.75%) Software Engineer
7 122 (6.54%) Banking Analyst
8 117 (6.27%) Lead
9 114 (6.11%) Java Developer
10 111 (5.95%) Project Manager
11 98 (5.25%) Python Developer
12 83 (4.45%) Python Engineer
13 82 (4.39%) Financial Analyst
14 79 (4.23%) Python Software Engineer
15 78 (4.18%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 72 (3.86%) React Developer
17 66 (3.54%) C# Developer
17 66 (3.54%) Consultant
18 59 (3.16%) Senior Developer
19 57 (3.05%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (7.29%) gRPC
2 134 (7.18%) Protocol Buffers
3 118 (6.32%) React
4 94 (5.04%) .NET
5 89 (4.77%) Pandas
6 82 (4.39%) NumPy
7 80 (4.29%) SciPy
8 66 (3.54%) Redux
9 61 (3.27%) FIX Protocol
10 51 (2.73%) Material-UI
11 48 (2.57%) HTML
12 45 (2.41%) CSS
13 43 (2.30%) Spring
14 41 (2.20%) WPF
15 38 (2.04%) AngularJS
16 37 (1.98%) Kafka
17 31 (1.66%) Node.js
18 30 (1.61%) REST
19 27 (1.45%) Middleware
20 25 (1.34%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 245 (13.13%) Derivative
2 239 (12.81%) Fixed Income
3 197 (10.56%) Hedge funds
4 177 (9.49%) Equities
5 163 (8.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 76 (4.07%) Product Ownership
7 47 (2.52%) Management Information System
8 46 (2.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 30 (1.61%) Market Risk
10 29 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
11 25 (1.34%) Data Centre
11 25 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
12 24 (1.29%) Equity Derivative
13 22 (1.18%) Credit Risk
14 20 (1.07%) Onboarding
15 19 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
16 18 (0.96%) Algorithms
17 17 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
18 16 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
18 16 (0.86%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 126 (6.75%) Windows
2 97 (5.20%) Linux
3 74 (3.97%) Unix
4 18 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (0.64%) Apple iOS
5 12 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
5 12 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (0.59%) Windows 10
6 11 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.54%) Android
8 6 (0.32%) VMS
9 4 (0.21%) zOS
10 3 (0.16%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.16%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.054%) AIX
12 1 (0.054%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.054%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 492 (26.37%) Agile
2 231 (12.38%) Software Engineering
3 218 (11.68%) Asset Management
4 185 (9.91%) Investment Management
5 183 (9.81%) Change Management
6 172 (9.22%) DevOps
7 166 (8.90%) Problem-Solving
8 135 (7.23%) Stakeholder Management
9 127 (6.81%) Migration
10 115 (6.16%) Project Management
11 113 (6.06%) CI/CD
12 98 (5.25%) Test Automation
13 97 (5.20%) Analytics
14 90 (4.82%) Full Stack Development
15 88 (4.72%) SDLC
16 83 (4.45%) Risk Management
16 83 (4.45%) Scrum
17 81 (4.34%) Artificial Intelligence
17 81 (4.34%) Machine Learning
18 80 (4.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 386 (20.69%) Python
2 364 (19.51%) SQL
3 333 (17.85%) Java
4 225 (12.06%) C#
5 177 (9.49%) TypeScript
6 159 (8.52%) JavaScript
7 63 (3.38%) PowerShell
8 54 (2.89%) C++
9 39 (2.09%) Scala
10 23 (1.23%) PL/SQL
11 21 (1.13%) Shell Script
12 14 (0.75%) T-SQL
13 13 (0.70%) Perl
13 13 (0.70%) Ruby
14 12 (0.64%) Go
15 11 (0.59%) VBA
16 10 (0.54%) Bash
17 9 (0.48%) Groovy
17 9 (0.48%) R
18 8 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 137 (7.34%) Degree
2 49 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (2.14%) SC Cleared
3 40 (2.14%) Security Cleared
4 23 (1.23%) Master's Degree
5 21 (1.13%) CISSP
6 17 (0.91%) CISM
6 17 (0.91%) Numerate Degree
6 17 (0.91%) PMI Certification
6 17 (0.91%) PMP
7 16 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.59%) CCNP
8 11 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (0.54%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 10 (0.54%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 9 (0.48%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.38%) CISA
12 5 (0.27%) MCSE
12 5 (0.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (3.54%) QA
2 54 (2.89%) Data Quality
3 50 (2.68%) PMO
4 30 (1.61%) EMIR
5 28 (1.50%) MiFID
6 19 (1.02%) SLA
7 17 (0.91%) NIST
8 15 (0.80%) SEPA
9 14 (0.75%) GDPR
10 13 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 12 (0.64%) Dodd-Frank
12 8 (0.43%) GRC
12 8 (0.43%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.38%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.32%) Basel III
14 6 (0.32%) GAAP
14 6 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.27%) IFRS
15 5 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 4 (0.21%) Accessibility
System Software
1 61 (3.27%) Active Directory
2 35 (1.88%) Docker
3 9 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.32%) vSphere
6 5 (0.27%) ACF2
6 5 (0.27%) IAG
6 5 (0.27%) RACF
7 3 (0.16%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.11%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.054%) Cronacle
9 1 (0.054%) GridGain
9 1 (0.054%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 51 (2.73%) Kubernetes
2 28 (1.50%) Ansible
3 26 (1.39%) Terraform
4 21 (1.13%) SCCM
5 16 (0.86%) Grafana
6 14 (0.75%) Puppet
7 13 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
8 9 (0.48%) Control-M
8 9 (0.48%) Kibana
9 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.43%) PingFederate
9 8 (0.43%) Prometheus
10 7 (0.38%) Data Guard
10 7 (0.38%) logstash
11 4 (0.21%) QRadar
12 3 (0.16%) Nessus
12 3 (0.16%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.16%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.11%) Netcool
13 2 (0.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 164 (8.79%) Microsoft
2 121 (6.48%) Oracle
3 91 (4.88%) Google
4 49 (2.63%) Cisco
5 47 (2.52%) Bloomberg
6 33 (1.77%) ServiceNow
7 29 (1.55%) Databricks
8 27 (1.45%) IBM
9 25 (1.34%) Citrix
10 21 (1.13%) ION Trading
11 17 (0.91%) EMC
11 17 (0.91%) Red Hat
11 17 (0.91%) SAP
11 17 (0.91%) Splunk
11 17 (0.91%) VMware
12 16 (0.86%) CheckPoint
12 16 (0.86%) HP
13 15 (0.80%) Avaya
13 15 (0.80%) Refinitiv
14 13 (0.70%) Adobe