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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 24 27
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,648 4,536 6,371
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 6.12% 7.58% 7.17%
As % of the General category 10.50% 12.97% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,796 3,139 4,265
10th Percentile £383 £450 £425
25th Percentile £500 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £750 £788 £738
90th Percentile £850 £888 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -5.68% +10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 24
10th Percentile £12.12 £12.66 £12.50
25th Percentile £12.84 £19.41 £17.13
Median hourly rate £19.50 £21.00 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -18.30% +62.07%
75th Percentile £30.00 £47.95 £44.63
90th Percentile £79.30 £67.22 £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.27 £64.38 £16.00
% change year-on-year -71.62% +302.34% +14.04%

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 25,217 34,983 49,764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.24% 58.49% 56.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,921 24,245 34,457
10th Percentile £270 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -0.90% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,927 1,077 1,444
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.46 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.48 £18.13 £14.75
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +62.79% -4.44%
75th Percentile £51.75 £61.25 £46.13
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £58.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.51 £30.54 £18.50
% change year-on-year -9.93% +65.08% -7.50%

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 27 April 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 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Banking in the UK

Banking
Top 17 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 27 April 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 -4 2,251 £625 -3.85% 754
London -3 1,855 £650 -3.70% 568
Work from Home -1 1,168 £625 -3.85% 275
UK excluding London -1 487 £519 -5.68% 233
North of England +2 175 £500 -9.09% 65
Scotland -4 133 £575 +15.00% 47
North West +10 95 £500 -3.47% 44
South East +29 83 £513 -14.58% 39
Yorkshire -9 75 £444 -19.32% 17
Midlands -10 42 £484 -12.05% 34
South West +6 26 £630 +9.57% 26
East Midlands +35 24 £450 +9.09% 12
East of England +30 21 £588 +30.56% 13
West Midlands -4 17 £525 -4.55% 22
Northern Ireland -7 10 £469 +10.29% 5
North East +17 5 £500 -30.56% 4
Isle of Man - 3 - -

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
1 125 (4.72%) Apache
2 124 (4.68%) Apache Airflow
3 64 (2.42%) SharePoint
4 39 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 38 (1.44%) Confluence
6 21 (0.79%) Apache Spark
7 18 (0.68%) SAS
8 11 (0.42%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.30%) CMS
9 8 (0.30%) IBM HTTP Server
9 8 (0.30%) WebSphere Application Server
9 8 (0.30%) WebSphere Portal
10 7 (0.26%) IIS
10 7 (0.26%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.23%) JBoss
11 6 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
12 5 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.19%) Tornado
13 4 (0.15%) Appian
13 4 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 110 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (1.89%) MS Visio
4 46 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.30%) Sketch
8 5 (0.19%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.19%) InVision
9 3 (0.11%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.076%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.076%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.038%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.038%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.038%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.038%) InDesign
11 1 (0.038%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 19 (0.72%) Aladdin
2 17 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.64%) Loan IQ
3 15 (0.57%) ION Anvil
4 13 (0.49%) Temenos T24
5 11 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
6 10 (0.38%) ION MarketView
7 9 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
7 9 (0.34%) IntelliMatch
7 9 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
8 8 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
9 6 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
9 6 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
9 6 (0.23%) SAP CO
9 6 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
10 5 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
10 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
11 4 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 322 (12.16%) Azure
2 307 (11.59%) AWS
3 159 (6.00%) GCP
4 78 (2.95%) Power Platform
5 77 (2.91%) dbt
6 65 (2.45%) Snowflake
7 50 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
8 34 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (1.28%) Entra ID
9 32 (1.21%) GitHub
10 28 (1.06%) Serverless
11 23 (0.87%) OpenShift
11 23 (0.87%) SaaS
12 20 (0.76%) IaaS
13 18 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
14 17 (0.64%) PaaS
15 16 (0.60%) Power Automate
16 15 (0.57%) Azure Key Vault
16 15 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 80 (3.02%) Firewall
2 46 (1.74%) DMZ
3 25 (0.94%) SAN
4 24 (0.91%) DNS
5 23 (0.87%) VPN
6 20 (0.76%) Internet
6 20 (0.76%) Network Security
7 18 (0.68%) HTTP
8 16 (0.60%) DHCP
9 15 (0.57%) Intranet
10 13 (0.49%) Cisco Nexus
10 13 (0.49%) WAN
11 12 (0.45%) TCP/IP
12 11 (0.42%) SSL
13 10 (0.38%) LAN
13 10 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (0.34%) SD-WAN
15 8 (0.30%) ATM
15 8 (0.30%) SSH
15 8 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 115 (4.34%) Apache Ignite
3 83 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
4 77 (2.91%) Apache Arrow
4 77 (2.91%) Dremio
5 76 (2.87%) Data Lake
6 67 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
6 67 (2.53%) Power BI
7 59 (2.23%) Relational Database
8 44 (1.66%) NoSQL
9 35 (1.32%) Big Data
9 35 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
10 30 (1.13%) MongoDB
10 30 (1.13%) MySQL
10 30 (1.13%) Oracle Database
11 28 (1.06%) Tableau
12 26 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 22 (0.83%) Metadata
14 21 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
15 17 (0.64%) KDB
Development Applications
1 124 (4.68%) JIRA
2 70 (2.64%) Git
3 61 (2.30%) Jenkins
4 48 (1.81%) Cucumber
5 44 (1.66%) TeamCity
6 38 (1.44%) Selenium
7 33 (1.25%) Cypress.io
8 26 (0.98%) GitLab
9 17 (0.64%) Maven
10 15 (0.57%) Postman
11 13 (0.49%) Bitbucket
11 13 (0.49%) Visual Studio
12 10 (0.38%) SonarQube
13 9 (0.34%) Artifactory
13 9 (0.34%) SpecFlow
14 8 (0.30%) JUnit
14 8 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
14 8 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 8 (0.30%) TestRail
15 7 (0.26%) ERwin
General
1 1,761 (66.50%) Finance
2 597 (22.55%) Investment Banking
3 519 (19.60%) Social Skills
4 335 (12.65%) Front Office
5 234 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
6 86 (3.25%) Retail Banking
7 82 (3.10%) Back Office
8 76 (2.87%) Retail
9 55 (2.08%) Financial Institution
10 50 (1.89%) Corporate Banking
11 41 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
12 40 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
13 33 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
14 31 (1.17%) Legal
15 30 (1.13%) Wholesale Banking
16 27 (1.02%) Public Sector
17 22 (0.83%) Billing
17 22 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 22 (0.83%) Telecoms
18 21 (0.79%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 529 (19.98%) Developer
2 486 (18.35%) Analyst
3 307 (11.59%) Architect
4 254 (9.59%) Business Analyst
5 252 (9.52%) Senior
6 156 (5.89%) Banking Analyst
6 156 (5.89%) Lead
7 152 (5.74%) Project Manager
8 135 (5.10%) Java Developer
9 119 (4.49%) Software Engineer
10 100 (3.78%) Python Developer
10 100 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
11 91 (3.44%) Consultant
12 88 (3.32%) Financial Analyst
13 86 (3.25%) Data Analyst
14 85 (3.21%) Python Engineer
15 70 (2.64%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 69 (2.61%) C# Developer
17 68 (2.57%) Network Engineer
17 68 (2.57%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (4.65%) gRPC
2 119 (4.49%) Protocol Buffers
3 116 (4.38%) React
4 99 (3.74%) .NET
5 82 (3.10%) Pandas
6 75 (2.83%) NumPy
7 73 (2.76%) SciPy
8 69 (2.61%) HTML
9 66 (2.49%) Spring
10 65 (2.45%) CSS
11 63 (2.38%) FIX Protocol
12 62 (2.34%) Kafka
13 61 (2.30%) Redux
14 47 (1.77%) REST
15 45 (1.70%) Middleware
16 44 (1.66%) AngularJS
16 44 (1.66%) Spring Boot
17 43 (1.62%) Material-UI
18 42 (1.59%) WPF
19 36 (1.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 246 (9.29%) Derivative
2 222 (8.38%) Fixed Income
3 180 (6.80%) Hedge funds
4 165 (6.23%) Equities
5 159 (6.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 91 (3.44%) Product Ownership
7 62 (2.34%) Management Information System
8 61 (2.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 39 (1.47%) Data Centre
10 37 (1.40%) Public Cloud
11 35 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
12 34 (1.28%) Onboarding
13 30 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
14 29 (1.10%) Market Risk
15 25 (0.94%) Mobile App
16 23 (0.87%) Equity Derivative
16 23 (0.87%) Security Posture
17 22 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
17 22 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
18 21 (0.79%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 169 (6.38%) Windows
2 141 (5.32%) Linux
3 103 (3.89%) Unix
4 24 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 21 (0.79%) Android
7 20 (0.76%) Windows 10
8 18 (0.68%) Apple iOS
9 15 (0.57%) MVS
10 14 (0.53%) Windows 7
11 13 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
11 13 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (0.42%) zOS
13 8 (0.30%) VMS
14 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.15%) Mac OS X
15 3 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
15 3 (0.11%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.076%) AIX
17 1 (0.038%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 604 (22.81%) Agile
2 378 (14.27%) Change Management
3 258 (9.74%) Problem-Solving
4 256 (9.67%) DevOps
5 235 (8.87%) Stakeholder Management
6 224 (8.46%) Migration
6 224 (8.46%) Software Engineering
7 210 (7.93%) Asset Management
8 185 (6.99%) Investment Management
9 166 (6.27%) Project Management
10 155 (5.85%) CI/CD
11 133 (5.02%) Test Automation
12 127 (4.80%) SDLC
13 123 (4.65%) Microservices
14 119 (4.49%) Analytics
15 108 (4.08%) Scrum
16 107 (4.04%) Roadmaps
17 104 (3.93%) Risk Management
18 102 (3.85%) Computer Science
19 97 (3.66%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 435 (16.43%) Python
2 424 (16.01%) SQL
3 395 (14.92%) Java
4 239 (9.03%) C#
5 177 (6.68%) JavaScript
6 167 (6.31%) TypeScript
7 71 (2.68%) PowerShell
8 62 (2.34%) Scala
9 55 (2.08%) C++
10 34 (1.28%) Perl
11 28 (1.06%) PL/SQL
12 25 (0.94%) Shell Script
13 20 (0.76%) Go
14 16 (0.60%) Bash
14 16 (0.60%) Kotlin
14 16 (0.60%) Ruby
14 16 (0.60%) T-SQL
15 11 (0.42%) VBA
16 10 (0.38%) R
17 9 (0.34%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 193 (7.29%) Degree
2 73 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 50 (1.89%) Security Cleared
4 45 (1.70%) SC Cleared
5 43 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
6 31 (1.17%) Master's Degree
7 26 (0.98%) CISSP
8 21 (0.79%) CISM
8 21 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (0.76%) PMI Certification
9 20 (0.76%) PMP
10 18 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
11 12 (0.45%) CCNP
12 11 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (0.38%) Azure Certification
13 10 (0.38%) MCSE
13 10 (0.38%) Six Sigma Black Belt
13 10 (0.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 9 (0.34%) AWS Certification
14 9 (0.34%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (3.97%) QA
2 77 (2.91%) PMO
3 57 (2.15%) Data Quality
4 38 (1.44%) SLA
5 33 (1.25%) EMIR
5 33 (1.25%) MiFID
6 28 (1.06%) NIST
7 20 (0.76%) GDPR
8 19 (0.72%) SEPA
9 18 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 13 (0.49%) ISO 20022
10 13 (0.49%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.42%) Dodd-Frank
12 8 (0.30%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.30%) GRC
12 8 (0.30%) IFRS
12 8 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 7 (0.26%) Basel III
13 7 (0.26%) GAAP
14 5 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 89 (3.36%) Active Directory
2 58 (2.19%) Docker
3 24 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.34%) vSphere
6 8 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.30%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.26%) KVM
7 7 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
8 6 (0.23%) RACF
9 5 (0.19%) ACF2
9 5 (0.19%) IAG
9 5 (0.19%) NFS
10 4 (0.15%) Firmware
10 4 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.11%) GPFS
11 3 (0.11%) HDFS
11 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.076%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 74 (2.79%) Kubernetes
2 58 (2.19%) Ansible
3 37 (1.40%) Terraform
4 25 (0.94%) SCCM
5 18 (0.68%) Grafana
6 16 (0.60%) Puppet
7 14 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
8 12 (0.45%) Prometheus
9 10 (0.38%) Control-M
9 10 (0.38%) Kibana
9 10 (0.38%) vCenter Server
10 9 (0.34%) PingFederate
11 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (0.26%) Data Guard
12 7 (0.26%) logstash
12 7 (0.26%) NetBackup
12 7 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.23%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.15%) HP Quality Center
14 4 (0.15%) QRadar
Vendors
1 254 (9.59%) Microsoft
2 151 (5.70%) Oracle
3 102 (3.85%) Google
4 98 (3.70%) Cisco
5 71 (2.68%) ServiceNow
6 53 (2.00%) CheckPoint
7 50 (1.89%) IBM
8 49 (1.85%) Bloomberg
9 39 (1.47%) Splunk
10 35 (1.32%) VMware
11 33 (1.25%) Databricks
12 32 (1.21%) SAP
13 30 (1.13%) Arista
14 28 (1.06%) Citrix
15 24 (0.91%) CyberArk
16 22 (0.83%) EMC
17 21 (0.79%) ION Trading
18 19 (0.72%) HP
18 19 (0.72%) Red Hat
19 18 (0.68%) Salesforce