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 3 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 93 81
Rank change year-on-year -24 -12 +32
Contract jobs citing Banking 5 3 28
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.27% 0.25% 1.69%
As % of the General category 0.49% 0.40% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 9
10th Percentile £436 £386 £491
25th Percentile £453 £405 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -12.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £516 £474 £600
90th Percentile £530 £497 £746
South East median daily rate £500 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.50
Median hourly rate - - £15.00
75th Percentile - - £15.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £16.83 £19.85 £15.00
% change year-on-year -15.19% +32.30% -

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 general skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,024 756 901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 56.26% 61.82% 54.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 482 427
10th Percentile £359 £267 £254
25th Percentile £450 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £738 £664 £696
South East median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 41 55
10th Percentile £16.38 £14.75 £19.88
25th Percentile £23.75 £17.30 £42.69
Median hourly rate £75.25 £32.31 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +132.90% -47.46% +12.89%
75th Percentile £91.31 £58.00 £68.84
90th Percentile £104.45 £87.25 £86.08
South East median hourly rate £33.00 £20.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +65.00% -65.13% +9.24%

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
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 3 October 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
Reading -27 4 £505 -0.49% 4
Wokingham - 1 £450 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) IBM UrbanCode
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) General Ledger
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) SAP Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) SAP Financial Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ISPF
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) API Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Interpretation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (20.00%) Data Science
2 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Database Security
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) MLOps
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) COBOL
2 1 (20.00%) JCL
2 1 (20.00%) R
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) RACF
1 1 (20.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Broadcom
2 1 (20.00%) IBM