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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 369 396
Rank change year-on-year +5 +27 +125
Contract jobs citing Digital Banking 20 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.14% 0.027% 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.030% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 0
10th Percentile £410 £560 -
25th Percentile £430 £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - -
75th Percentile £600 £625 -
90th Percentile £787 £640 -
England median daily rate £414 £650 -
% change year-on-year -36.38% - -

All Process and 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 13,161 13,523 16,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.38% 90.14% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,663 8,690 11,795
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £763 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 165 236
10th Percentile £18.06 £18.04 £18.42
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £21.38
Median hourly rate £30.25 £36.50 £33.35
Median % change year-on-year -17.12% +9.46% -13.52%
75th Percentile £52.66 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.20 £80.75 £74.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +24.47%

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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 2025. 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 -3 2 £752 +36.64% 3
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 (5.00%) CICS
1 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.00%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) GCP
1 8 (40.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (10.00%) Figma
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Tableau
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (5.00%) DB2
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (45.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (40.00%) SonarQube
2 8 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 20 (100.00%) Banking
2 9 (45.00%) Finance
3 5 (25.00%) Publishing
4 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Retail Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Arabic Language
6 1 (5.00%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) GCP Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) GCP DevOps
2 5 (25.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Designer
3 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Principal DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Python Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) UI Designer
4 2 (10.00%) UI/UX Designer
4 2 (10.00%) UX Designer
5 1 (5.00%) Digital Designer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Designer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) CSS
1 1 (5.00%) HTML
1 1 (5.00%) JWT
1 1 (5.00%) OAuth
1 1 (5.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (5.00%) Spring
1 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (5.00%) Web Services
1 1 (5.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (15.00%) AI Agents
3 3 (15.00%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.00%) DataPower
4 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
4 1 (5.00%) Online Banking
4 1 (5.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (45.00%) DevOps
2 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (40.00%) Migration
3 5 (25.00%) Agile
4 4 (20.00%) AI
4 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (15.00%) Analytics
5 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (15.00%) Event-Driven
5 3 (15.00%) Fintech
5 3 (15.00%) Logistics
5 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (15.00%) Prototyping
5 3 (15.00%) Software Delivery
5 3 (15.00%) Usability Testing
5 3 (15.00%) User Experience
5 3 (15.00%) User Research
5 3 (15.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (5.00%) Assembly Language
3 1 (5.00%) COBOL
3 1 (5.00%) JCL
3 1 (5.00%) Korn
3 1 (5.00%) Kotlin
3 1 (5.00%) REXX
3 1 (5.00%) Rust
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) CBAP
1 1 (5.00%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) ISO 20022
2 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Google
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Adobe
3 1 (5.00%) IBM
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow