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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 31 53
Rank change year-on-year +16 +22 -19
Contract jobs citing Banking 78 40 15
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 10.50% 5.81% 2.10%
As % of the General category 16.99% 8.85% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 33 13
10th Percentile £424 £426 £367
25th Percentile £494 £525 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £688 £678 £675
90th Percentile £875 £773 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £540 £618 £600
% change year-on-year -12.55% +2.92% +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 common skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 459 452 370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 61.78% 65.60% 51.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 304 256
10th Percentile £200 £200 £256
25th Percentile £365 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £496
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +3.27% +4.47%
75th Percentile £586 £638 £600
90th Percentile £644 £738 £689
West Midlands median daily rate £494 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -3.54% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 13
10th Percentile £15.77 £14.70 £12.10
25th Percentile £17.25 £20.88 £13.25
Median hourly rate £22.01 £30.23 £15.12
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% +99.90% +8.97%
75th Percentile £24.29 £51.88 £47.50
90th Percentile £28.00 £56.65 £66.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.00 £23.82 £18.00
% change year-on-year -7.64% +32.33% +2.16%

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 December 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 7 (8.97%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.56%) Apache
2 2 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (8.97%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (21.79%) GCP
2 15 (19.23%) AWS
3 9 (11.54%) Serverless
4 4 (5.13%) AWS KMS
5 2 (2.56%) Azure
6 1 (1.28%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.28%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.28%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (47.44%) DNS
2 28 (35.90%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 28 (35.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 21 (26.92%) DMZ
4 14 (17.95%) BIG-IP
4 14 (17.95%) HTTP
4 14 (17.95%) Network Security
4 14 (17.95%) SSL
4 14 (17.95%) TCP/IP
4 14 (17.95%) Wireshark
5 9 (11.54%) BGP
6 7 (8.97%) Cisco ISE
6 7 (8.97%) Cisco Wireless
6 7 (8.97%) DHCP
6 7 (8.97%) NX-OS
6 7 (8.97%) VXLAN
6 7 (8.97%) Wireless
7 2 (2.56%) Multicast
7 2 (2.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.95%) NoSQL
2 9 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.13%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.28%) Big Data
5 1 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (17.95%) Fiddler
1 14 (17.95%) GitLab
2 13 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 7 (8.97%) Liquibase
4 4 (5.13%) JUnit
5 1 (1.28%) JIRA
5 1 (1.28%) Postman
5 1 (1.28%) Selenium
General
1 41 (52.56%) Investment Banking
2 23 (29.49%) Finance
3 21 (26.92%) Social Skills
4 9 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.54%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.56%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.28%) Legal
6 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.28%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (29.49%) Network Engineer
2 14 (17.95%) Operations Engineer
3 11 (14.10%) Cloud Engineer
4 10 (12.82%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 10 (12.82%) IP Network Engineer
4 10 (12.82%) Web Engineer
5 9 (11.54%) Cisco Engineer
5 9 (11.54%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 9 (11.54%) GCP Engineer
6 7 (8.97%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
6 7 (8.97%) RF Engineer
6 7 (8.97%) Software Engineer
6 7 (8.97%) Wireless Engineer
6 7 (8.97%) Wireless Network Engineer
7 6 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (7.69%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 6 (7.69%) Senior
8 5 (6.41%) AWS Software Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) Developer
8 5 (6.41%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.10%) REST
2 9 (11.54%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (11.54%) RESTful
3 5 (6.41%) Kafka
4 4 (5.13%) Gherkin
5 3 (3.85%) Middleware
6 2 (2.56%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (2.56%) Spring
7 1 (1.28%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 30 (38.46%) Management Information System
2 13 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (12.82%) Data Centre
4 9 (11.54%) Public Cloud
5 8 (10.26%) Cloud Native
6 5 (6.41%) Onboarding
7 4 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.28%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (38.46%) Load Balancing
2 15 (19.23%) Design Patterns
3 14 (17.95%) Agile
3 14 (17.95%) Business Strategy
3 14 (17.95%) DevOps
3 14 (17.95%) Microservices
4 13 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 13 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 13 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
6 10 (12.82%) Change Management
6 10 (12.82%) Computer Science
6 10 (12.82%) Data Loss Prevention
6 10 (12.82%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 9 (11.54%) Cost Optimisation
7 9 (11.54%) Cryptography
7 9 (11.54%) Data Encryption
7 9 (11.54%) High Availability
7 9 (11.54%) Non-Functional Testing
8 8 (10.26%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (23.08%) Python
2 11 (14.10%) Go
3 7 (8.97%) Java
3 7 (8.97%) Lisp
4 6 (7.69%) SQL
5 2 (2.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (12.82%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (12.82%) Degree
1 10 (12.82%) Master's Degree
2 7 (8.97%) CCNP
2 7 (8.97%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (5.13%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.56%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.28%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.28%) PMP
5 1 (1.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.13%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.56%) GDPR
2 2 (2.56%) PMO
3 1 (1.28%) QA
System Software
1 24 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (12.82%) Firmware
3 8 (10.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (16.67%) Ansible
1 13 (16.67%) Terraform
2 9 (11.54%) Grafana
2 9 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.54%) Prometheus
3 7 (8.97%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 30 (38.46%) F5
2 25 (32.05%) VMware
3 14 (17.95%) Blue Coat
3 14 (17.95%) McAfee
3 14 (17.95%) NetApp
4 9 (11.54%) Cisco
4 9 (11.54%) Google
4 9 (11.54%) Splunk
5 7 (8.97%) Ekahau
5 7 (8.97%) Remedy
5 7 (8.97%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.85%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.28%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.28%) Genesys