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

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 39 40
Rank change year-on-year +9 +1 +9
Contract jobs citing Banking 34 30 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 5.62% 4.17% 3.82%
As % of the General category 8.95% 7.18% 7.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 20 20
10th Percentile £400 £425 £374
25th Percentile £491 £433 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +9.59%
75th Percentile £644 £754 £711
90th Percentile £742 £775 £733
West Midlands median daily rate £544 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -9.38% - +10.09%

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 380 418 413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 62.81% 58.14% 49.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 278 268
10th Percentile £164 £199 £285
25th Percentile £350 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +8.53%
75th Percentile £561 £638 £650
90th Percentile £639 £750 £745
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -7.32% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 18
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.25 £20.88 £14.24
Median hourly rate £22.05 £47.50 £17.75
Median % change year-on-year -53.58% +167.61% -1.39%
75th Percentile £26.51 £55.13 £27.81
90th Percentile £28.78 £57.25 £53.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £29.33 £23.82 £20.25
% change year-on-year +23.13% +17.63% +23.63%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Banking 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 September 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 and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.94%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.88%) AWS
1 2 (5.88%) GCP
1 2 (5.88%) Serverless
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (32.35%) DMZ
1 11 (32.35%) DNS
1 11 (32.35%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 11 (32.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 7 (20.59%) Network Security
3 4 (11.76%) BIG-IP
3 4 (11.76%) HTTP
3 4 (11.76%) SSL
3 4 (11.76%) TCP/IP
3 4 (11.76%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) MongoDB
2 6 (17.65%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) JUnit
2 5 (14.71%) GitLab
3 4 (11.76%) Fiddler
4 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.88%) Liquibase
General
1 13 (38.24%) Investment Banking
2 10 (29.41%) Finance
3 8 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
5 4 (11.76%) Financial Institution
6 3 (8.82%) Retail Banking
7 2 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.94%) Legal
8 1 (2.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Developer
1 8 (23.53%) Java Developer
2 7 (20.59%) Operations Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Project Manager
4 4 (11.76%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Network Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Python Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) Junior
5 3 (8.82%) Junior Network Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Senior
5 3 (8.82%) Technical Manager
5 3 (8.82%) Technical Project Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Transformation Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) Kafka
2 7 (20.59%) Gherkin
3 4 (11.76%) Spring
4 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (5.88%) REST
4 2 (5.88%) RESTful
5 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (32.35%) Management Information System
2 7 (20.59%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (11.76%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.88%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.94%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) Load Balancing
2 10 (29.41%) Microservices
3 8 (23.53%) SDLC
4 7 (20.59%) Business Strategy
4 7 (20.59%) Design Patterns
5 6 (17.65%) Migration
6 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (14.71%) Test Automation
7 4 (11.76%) Agile
7 4 (11.76%) Change Management
7 4 (11.76%) Data Protection
7 4 (11.76%) Network Segmentation
7 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (11.76%) Project Delivery
7 4 (11.76%) Project Management
7 4 (11.76%) TDD
8 3 (8.82%) Time Management
9 2 (5.88%) Computer Science
9 2 (5.88%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (5.88%) Cryptography
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) Java
2 7 (20.59%) Python
3 3 (8.82%) SQL
4 2 (5.88%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (5.88%) Degree
1 2 (5.88%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.94%) GDPR
1 1 (2.94%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (20.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) Ansible
2 2 (5.88%) Grafana
2 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
2 2 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) F5
2 8 (23.53%) VMware
3 4 (11.76%) Blue Coat
3 4 (11.76%) McAfee
3 4 (11.76%) NetApp
4 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.88%) Splunk
6 1 (2.94%) Genesys
6 1 (2.94%) Google