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 30 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 37 48
Rank change year-on-year +20 +11 -9
Contract jobs citing Banking 64 34 26
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 9.82% 4.84% 3.38%
As % of the General category 15.50% 8.00% 7.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 27 18
10th Percentile £402 £426 £372
25th Percentile £500 £513 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +2.04% +11.36%
75th Percentile £583 £695 £698
90th Percentile £892 £775 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £618 £650
% change year-on-year -14.98% -5.00% +18.18%

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 common skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 413 425 368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 63.34% 60.54% 47.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 275 249
10th Percentile £243 £198 £283
25th Percentile £398 £345 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £571 £644 £650
90th Percentile £639 £738 £745
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 12
10th Percentile £16.30 £15.60 £14.18
25th Percentile £20.25 £20.69 £14.98
Median hourly rate £24.34 £24.31 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +15.77% +10.53%
75th Percentile £26.51 £53.94 £33.44
90th Percentile - £57.53 £66.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £26.61 £23.82 £20.00
% change year-on-year +11.69% +19.10% +13.51%

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 30 October 2025.

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 6 (9.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.13%) Apache
2 2 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (9.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (23.44%) AWS
2 14 (21.88%) GCP
3 9 (14.06%) Serverless
4 4 (6.25%) AWS KMS
5 2 (3.13%) Azure
6 1 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.56%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (42.19%) DNS
2 21 (32.81%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 21 (32.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 17 (26.56%) DMZ
4 12 (18.75%) Network Security
5 9 (14.06%) BIG-IP
5 9 (14.06%) HTTP
5 9 (14.06%) SSL
5 9 (14.06%) TCP/IP
5 9 (14.06%) Wireshark
6 6 (9.38%) BGP
6 6 (9.38%) Cisco ISE
6 6 (9.38%) Cisco Wireless
6 6 (9.38%) DHCP
6 6 (9.38%) NX-OS
6 6 (9.38%) VXLAN
6 6 (9.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 9 (14.06%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (12.50%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.13%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.13%) Tableau
5 1 (1.56%) Big Data
5 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 16 (25.00%) GitLab
2 13 (20.31%) Jenkins
3 9 (14.06%) Fiddler
4 8 (12.50%) JUnit
5 7 (10.94%) Liquibase
6 1 (1.56%) JIRA
6 1 (1.56%) Postman
6 1 (1.56%) Selenium
General
1 29 (45.31%) Investment Banking
2 19 (29.69%) Finance
3 18 (28.13%) Social Skills
4 11 (17.19%) Financial Institution
5 9 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.25%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Legal
7 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (23.44%) Network Engineer
2 12 (18.75%) Operations Engineer
3 11 (17.19%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (14.06%) Developer
4 9 (14.06%) GCP Engineer
4 9 (14.06%) Java Developer
5 7 (10.94%) Software Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Cisco Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) RF Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Senior
6 6 (9.38%) Wireless Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Wireless Network Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) AWS Software Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Blue Coat Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) IP Network Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.19%) REST
2 9 (14.06%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (14.06%) Kafka
2 9 (14.06%) RESTful
3 8 (12.50%) Gherkin
4 4 (6.25%) Spring
5 2 (3.13%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.56%) Middleware
6 1 (1.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (32.81%) Management Information System
2 13 (20.31%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (14.06%) Public Cloud
4 8 (12.50%) Cloud Native
4 8 (12.50%) Data Centre
4 8 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (7.81%) Onboarding
6 4 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (32.81%) Load Balancing
2 18 (28.13%) Microservices
3 14 (21.88%) DevOps
4 13 (20.31%) CI/CD
4 13 (20.31%) Containerisation
4 13 (20.31%) Design Patterns
4 13 (20.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (18.75%) Agile
5 12 (18.75%) Business Strategy
6 11 (17.19%) Root Cause Analysis
7 10 (15.63%) Change Management
7 10 (15.63%) Computer Science
8 9 (14.06%) Cost Optimisation
8 9 (14.06%) Cryptography
8 9 (14.06%) Data Encryption
8 9 (14.06%) High Availability
8 9 (14.06%) Non-Functional Testing
8 9 (14.06%) SDLC
9 8 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
9 8 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (28.13%) Python
2 11 (17.19%) Go
2 11 (17.19%) Java
3 6 (9.38%) Lisp
3 6 (9.38%) SQL
4 2 (3.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (15.63%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (15.63%) Degree
1 10 (15.63%) Master's Degree
2 6 (9.38%) CCNP
2 6 (9.38%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.13%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (3.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.13%) PMO
3 1 (1.56%) GDPR
3 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 17 (26.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (12.50%) Docker
3 5 (7.81%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (20.31%) Ansible
1 13 (20.31%) Terraform
2 9 (14.06%) Grafana
2 9 (14.06%) Kubernetes
2 9 (14.06%) Prometheus
3 6 (9.38%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 21 (32.81%) F5
2 18 (28.13%) VMware
3 9 (14.06%) Blue Coat
3 9 (14.06%) McAfee
3 9 (14.06%) NetApp
3 9 (14.06%) Splunk
4 6 (9.38%) Cisco
4 6 (9.38%) Ekahau
4 6 (9.38%) Google
4 6 (9.38%) Remedy
4 6 (9.38%) ServiceNow
5 5 (7.81%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.56%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.56%) Genesys