Banking Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Banking
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 82 116
Rank change year-on-year -11 +34 -1
Contract jobs citing Banking 4 28 2
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.32% 1.71% 0.11%
As % of the General category 0.52% 3.14% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 2
10th Percentile £386 £491 £295
25th Percentile £405 - £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +11.11% -16.28%
75th Percentile £474 £600 £569
90th Percentile £497 £746 £625
South East median daily rate £419 £500 £570
% change year-on-year -16.25% -12.28% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £15.00 -
% change year-on-year +67.67% - -

All General Skills
Berkshire

Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 772 892 1,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 62.26% 54.52% 60.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 424 601
10th Percentile £274 £264 £210
25th Percentile £405 £417 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.58% +0.10%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £616
90th Percentile £650 £697 £688
South East median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 49 51
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.14 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.48 £41.25 £44.27
Median hourly rate £34.80 £58.49 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.51% -2.52% +45.65%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.69 £69.12
90th Percentile £77.60 £77.54 £75.25
South East median hourly rate £20.40 £56.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.05% +8.09% +101.92%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Banking job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Banking
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Banking

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in Berkshire over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in Berkshire

Banking
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Banking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Banking

Banking
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Slough +2 2 £416 - 54
Reading +25 1 £508 -25.37% 2
Wokingham - 1 - -
Banking
South East

Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Front Office
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre Technician
1 2 (50.00%) Data Technician
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Change Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Data Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (25.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (25.00%) Preventative Maintenance
2 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Server+ Certification
2 1 (25.00%) BC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (25.00%) CEH
2 1 (25.00%) CISM
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) GCFA
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk
1 1 (25.00%) Tenable