Banking Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Banking
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 32 58
Rank change year-on-year +22 +26 -23
Contract jobs citing Banking 100 31 13
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 11.66% 5.56% 1.74%
As % of the General category 18.48% 8.42% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 27 11
10th Percentile £413 £525 £375
25th Percentile £492 £539 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £688 £678 £594
90th Percentile £892 £775 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £620 £563
% change year-on-year -7.26% +10.22% +12.50%

All General Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 541 368 380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 63.05% 65.95% 50.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 255 261
10th Percentile £250 £213 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -8.16%
75th Percentile £600 £643 £575
90th Percentile £675 £711 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 27
10th Percentile £15.92 £14.00 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.80 £14.70 £13.57
Median hourly rate £21.52 £30.00 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year -28.27% +21.70% +89.62%
75th Percentile £25.00 £52.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £27.53 £56.85 £62.16
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.00 £20.80 £18.25
% change year-on-year -3.82% +13.95% +3.58%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Banking job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Banking
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Banking

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in Birmingham over the 6 months to 25 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in Birmingham

Banking
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Banking

Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 7 (7.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.00%) SAS
3 2 (2.00%) Apache
3 2 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (7.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (19.00%) GCP
2 18 (18.00%) AWS
3 9 (9.00%) Serverless
4 4 (4.00%) AWS KMS
5 3 (3.00%) Azure
6 1 (1.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.00%) dbt
6 1 (1.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.00%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.00%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 43 (43.00%) DNS
2 28 (28.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 28 (28.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 21 (21.00%) DMZ
4 19 (19.00%) BIG-IP
4 19 (19.00%) HTTP
4 19 (19.00%) SSL
4 19 (19.00%) TCP/IP
4 19 (19.00%) Wireshark
5 15 (15.00%) BGP
6 9 (9.00%) Network Security
7 8 (8.00%) Multicast
7 8 (8.00%) VPN
8 7 (7.00%) Cisco ISE
8 7 (7.00%) Cisco Wireless
8 7 (7.00%) DHCP
8 7 (7.00%) NX-OS
8 7 (7.00%) VXLAN
8 7 (7.00%) Wireless
9 2 (2.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.00%) NoSQL
2 9 (9.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.00%) Metadata
4 3 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.00%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.00%) Tableau
5 2 (2.00%) WebFOCUS
6 1 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 19 (19.00%) Fiddler
2 15 (15.00%) GitLab
2 15 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 8 (8.00%) Liquibase
4 3 (3.00%) JUnit
5 1 (1.00%) Git
5 1 (1.00%) JIRA
5 1 (1.00%) Postman
5 1 (1.00%) Selenium
General
1 55 (55.00%) Investment Banking
2 36 (36.00%) Finance
3 24 (24.00%) Social Skills
4 11 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (9.00%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.00%) Marketing
7 1 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Legal
7 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (34.00%) Network Engineer
2 16 (16.00%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 16 (16.00%) IP Network Engineer
2 16 (16.00%) Web Engineer
3 15 (15.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 15 (15.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 13 (13.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (11.00%) Architect
6 10 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 10 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
7 9 (9.00%) Operations Engineer
7 9 (9.00%) Software Engineer
8 8 (8.00%) Analyst
8 8 (8.00%) Cisco Security Engineer
8 8 (8.00%) Data Network Engineer
8 8 (8.00%) Network Security Engineer
8 8 (8.00%) Payments Architect
8 8 (8.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
8 8 (8.00%) Security Engineer
8 8 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.00%) REST
2 10 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (9.00%) Middleware
3 9 (9.00%) RESTful
4 4 (4.00%) Kafka
5 3 (3.00%) Gherkin
6 2 (2.00%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (2.00%) Spring
7 1 (1.00%) .NET
7 1 (1.00%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 36 (36.00%) Management Information System
2 13 (13.00%) Data Centre
2 13 (13.00%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (10.00%) Public Cloud
4 9 (9.00%) Cloud Native
5 6 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (4.00%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.00%) Credit Risk
8 2 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.00%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.00%) EPoS
9 1 (1.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.00%) Linux
2 2 (2.00%) Unix
2 2 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (36.00%) Load Balancing
2 21 (21.00%) Agile
3 17 (17.00%) DevOps
4 16 (16.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 16 (16.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 15 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 15 (15.00%) Containerisation
5 15 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (13.00%) Microservices
6 13 (13.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 13 (13.00%) SDLC
7 12 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (10.00%) Change Management
8 10 (10.00%) Computer Science
8 10 (10.00%) Cost Optimisation
8 10 (10.00%) Design Patterns
8 10 (10.00%) High Availability
9 9 (9.00%) Business Strategy
9 9 (9.00%) Non-Functional Testing
9 9 (9.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.00%) Python
2 12 (12.00%) Go
3 11 (11.00%) SQL
4 7 (7.00%) Lisp
5 6 (6.00%) Java
6 2 (2.00%) Scala
7 1 (1.00%) Groovy
7 1 (1.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (10.00%) Degree
1 10 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 7 (7.00%) CCNP
2 7 (7.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.00%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.00%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.00%) PMP
5 1 (1.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.00%) GDPR
2 2 (2.00%) PMO
3 1 (1.00%) QA
System Software
1 25 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (16.00%) Firmware
3 10 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (15.00%) Terraform
2 13 (13.00%) Ansible
3 11 (11.00%) Grafana
3 11 (11.00%) Kubernetes
3 11 (11.00%) Prometheus
4 7 (7.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 36 (36.00%) F5
2 26 (26.00%) VMware
3 19 (19.00%) Blue Coat
3 19 (19.00%) McAfee
3 19 (19.00%) NetApp
4 15 (15.00%) Cisco
5 11 (11.00%) Splunk
6 10 (10.00%) Google
7 9 (9.00%) Remedy
8 7 (7.00%) Ekahau
8 7 (7.00%) ServiceNow
9 3 (3.00%) Teradata
10 2 (2.00%) Microsoft
11 1 (1.00%) Alteryx
11 1 (1.00%) Cadence
11 1 (1.00%) Cognos