Digital Banking Contract Job Trends in London

Digital Banking
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Digital Banking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 364 384
Rank change year-on-year +5 +20 +120
Contract jobs citing Digital Banking 18 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.13% 0.021% 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.023% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £408 £560 -
25th Percentile £421 £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - -
75th Percentile £682 £625 -
90th Percentile £809 £640 -
England median daily rate £380 £600 -
% change year-on-year -36.67% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Digital Banking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,101 12,867 15,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.42% 90.25% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,660 8,239 11,384
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -5.30%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 159 245
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.08 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.58 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.48 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.21% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.28 £54.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £69.18 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

Digital Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Digital Banking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Digital Banking job vacancy trend in London

Digital Banking
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Digital Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Digital Banking

Digital Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Banking in London over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Banking in London

Digital 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 Digital Banking within the London region over the 6 months to 8 January 2026. 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 +1 2 £752 +36.64% 2
Digital Banking
England

Digital Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) CICS
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.56%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) GCP
1 8 (44.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.56%) Figma
2 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Tableau
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (5.56%) DB2
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (44.44%) SonarQube
2 8 (44.44%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 18 (100.00%) Banking
2 8 (44.44%) Finance
3 5 (27.78%) Publishing
4 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Retail Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Arabic Language
6 1 (5.56%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) GCP Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) GCP DevOps
2 5 (27.78%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Principal DevOps Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Python Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Designer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) UI Designer
4 2 (11.11%) UI/UX Designer
4 2 (11.11%) UX Designer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Designer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior UI/UX Designer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) CSS
1 1 (5.56%) HTML
1 1 (5.56%) JWT
1 1 (5.56%) OAuth
1 1 (5.56%) OAuth2
1 1 (5.56%) Spring
1 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
1 1 (5.56%) Web Services
1 1 (5.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Cloud Native
1 5 (27.78%) Data Centre
2 3 (16.67%) AI Agents
2 3 (16.67%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.56%) DataPower
3 1 (5.56%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.56%) Online Banking
3 1 (5.56%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (50.00%) DevOps
2 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (44.44%) Migration
3 4 (22.22%) Agile
3 4 (22.22%) AI
3 4 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 3 (16.67%) Analytics
4 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (16.67%) Event-Driven
4 3 (16.67%) Logistics
4 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Prototyping
4 3 (16.67%) Software Delivery
4 3 (16.67%) Usability Testing
4 3 (16.67%) User Experience
4 3 (16.67%) User Research
4 3 (16.67%) UX Design
5 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) Assembly Language
2 1 (5.56%) COBOL
2 1 (5.56%) Java
2 1 (5.56%) JCL
2 1 (5.56%) Korn
2 1 (5.56%) REXX
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) CBAP
1 1 (5.56%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) ISO 20022
2 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) IBM
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow