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 19 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 29 53
Rank change year-on-year +14 +24 -25
Contract jobs citing Banking 82 40 15
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 10.55% 6.37% 2.16%
As % of the General category 17.05% 9.50% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 33 12
10th Percentile £463 £426 £378
25th Percentile £492 £525 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £595
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.04% +19.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £656
90th Percentile £892 £773 £743
West Midlands median daily rate £540 £584 £600
% change year-on-year -7.49% -2.71% +20.00%

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 481 421 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 61.90% 67.04% 50.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 282 233
10th Percentile £201 £200 £242
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -1.04%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £588
90th Percentile £650 £738 £679
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 13 19
10th Percentile £15.89 £14.70 £11.95
25th Percentile £17.09 £20.50 £14.34
Median hourly rate £21.01 £30.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.97% -33.33% +260.00%
75th Percentile £23.58 £52.50 £51.88
90th Percentile £26.50 £56.85 £70.58
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.50 £23.82 £22.30
% change year-on-year -18.14% +6.82% +26.56%

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 19 January 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 (8.54%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.44%) Apache
2 2 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.44%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (8.54%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 18 (21.95%) GCP
2 16 (19.51%) AWS
3 9 (10.98%) Serverless
4 4 (4.88%) AWS KMS
5 3 (3.66%) Azure
6 1 (1.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.22%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.22%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 39 (47.56%) DNS
2 28 (34.15%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 28 (34.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 21 (25.61%) DMZ
4 16 (19.51%) BIG-IP
4 16 (19.51%) HTTP
4 16 (19.51%) SSL
4 16 (19.51%) TCP/IP
4 16 (19.51%) Wireshark
5 12 (14.63%) Network Security
6 11 (13.41%) BGP
7 7 (8.54%) Cisco ISE
7 7 (8.54%) Cisco Wireless
7 7 (8.54%) DHCP
7 7 (8.54%) NX-OS
7 7 (8.54%) VXLAN
7 7 (8.54%) Wireless
8 4 (4.88%) Multicast
8 4 (4.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.85%) NoSQL
2 9 (10.98%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.66%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.44%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.22%) Big Data
5 1 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (19.51%) Fiddler
2 14 (17.07%) GitLab
2 14 (17.07%) Jenkins
3 7 (8.54%) Liquibase
4 3 (3.66%) JUnit
5 1 (1.22%) Git
5 1 (1.22%) JIRA
5 1 (1.22%) Postman
5 1 (1.22%) Selenium
General
1 45 (54.88%) Investment Banking
2 28 (34.15%) Finance
3 22 (26.83%) Social Skills
4 9 (10.98%) Financial Institution
5 8 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Legal
7 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (32.93%) Network Engineer
2 12 (14.63%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 12 (14.63%) Cloud Engineer
2 12 (14.63%) IP Network Engineer
2 12 (14.63%) Operations Engineer
2 12 (14.63%) Web Engineer
3 11 (13.41%) Cisco Engineer
3 11 (13.41%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 9 (10.98%) GCP Engineer
5 8 (9.76%) Software Engineer
6 7 (8.54%) Architect
6 7 (8.54%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
6 7 (8.54%) RF Engineer
6 7 (8.54%) Wireless Engineer
6 7 (8.54%) Wireless Network Engineer
7 6 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (7.32%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 6 (7.32%) Data Engineer
7 6 (7.32%) Project Manager
7 6 (7.32%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.41%) REST
2 9 (10.98%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (10.98%) RESTful
3 5 (6.10%) Middleware
4 4 (4.88%) Kafka
5 3 (3.66%) Gherkin
6 2 (2.44%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (2.44%) Spring
7 1 (1.22%) .NET
7 1 (1.22%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 32 (39.02%) Management Information System
2 13 (15.85%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (13.41%) Data Centre
4 9 (10.98%) Public Cloud
5 8 (9.76%) Cloud Native
6 5 (6.10%) Onboarding
7 4 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.22%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.98%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (39.02%) Load Balancing
2 17 (20.73%) Agile
3 16 (19.51%) DevOps
4 14 (17.07%) CI/CD
4 14 (17.07%) Containerisation
4 14 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (15.85%) Design Patterns
5 13 (15.85%) Microservices
5 13 (15.85%) Root Cause Analysis
6 12 (14.63%) Business Strategy
6 12 (14.63%) Data Loss Prevention
6 12 (14.63%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 10 (12.20%) Change Management
7 10 (12.20%) Computer Science
7 10 (12.20%) High Availability
8 9 (10.98%) Continuous Delivery
8 9 (10.98%) Cost Optimisation
8 9 (10.98%) Cryptography
8 9 (10.98%) Data Encryption
8 9 (10.98%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 19 (23.17%) Python
2 11 (13.41%) Go
3 7 (8.54%) Lisp
4 6 (7.32%) Java
4 6 (7.32%) SQL
5 2 (2.44%) Scala
6 1 (1.22%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 10 (12.20%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (12.20%) Degree
1 10 (12.20%) Master's Degree
2 7 (8.54%) CCNP
2 7 (8.54%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (4.88%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.22%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.22%) PMP
5 1 (1.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.88%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.44%) GDPR
2 2 (2.44%) PMO
3 1 (1.22%) QA
System Software
1 24 (29.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (14.63%) Firmware
3 9 (10.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (17.07%) Terraform
2 13 (15.85%) Ansible
3 10 (12.20%) Grafana
3 10 (12.20%) Kubernetes
3 10 (12.20%) Prometheus
4 7 (8.54%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 32 (39.02%) F5
2 25 (30.49%) VMware
3 16 (19.51%) Blue Coat
3 16 (19.51%) McAfee
3 16 (19.51%) NetApp
4 11 (13.41%) Cisco
5 9 (10.98%) Google
5 9 (10.98%) Splunk
6 7 (8.54%) Ekahau
6 7 (8.54%) Remedy
6 7 (8.54%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.44%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.22%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.22%) Cadence
8 1 (1.22%) Genesys