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 2 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 25 59
Rank change year-on-year +13 +34 -17
Contract jobs citing Banking 91 39 14
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 11.33% 6.12% 1.86%
As % of the General category 18.35% 9.15% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 32 12
10th Percentile £441 £426 £389
25th Percentile £492 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £584 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.04% +11.19% +5.00%
75th Percentile £688 £678 £639
90th Percentile £836 £765 £673
West Midlands median daily rate £588 £555 £525
% change year-on-year +5.86% +5.71% +5.00%

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 496 426 373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 61.77% 66.88% 49.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 286 247
10th Percentile £210 £203 £200
25th Percentile £400 £389 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +13.51% -2.63%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £575
90th Percentile £675 £725 £653
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 27
10th Percentile £15.85 £14.70 £11.50
25th Percentile £17.09 £20.50 £14.01
Median hourly rate £21.52 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.27% +15.38% +103.92%
75th Percentile £23.58 £52.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £27.00 £56.85 £71.16
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.00 £23.82 £22.30
% change year-on-year -20.24% +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 2 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 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.20%) Apache
2 2 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.20%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.20%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (7.69%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 18 (19.78%) GCP
2 17 (18.68%) AWS
3 9 (9.89%) Serverless
4 4 (4.40%) AWS KMS
5 3 (3.30%) Azure
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.10%) dbt
6 1 (1.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.10%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.10%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 40 (43.96%) DNS
2 28 (30.77%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 28 (30.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 21 (23.08%) DMZ
4 17 (18.68%) BIG-IP
4 17 (18.68%) HTTP
4 17 (18.68%) SSL
4 17 (18.68%) TCP/IP
4 17 (18.68%) Wireshark
5 12 (13.19%) BGP
6 11 (12.09%) Network Security
7 7 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
7 7 (7.69%) Cisco Wireless
7 7 (7.69%) DHCP
7 7 (7.69%) NX-OS
7 7 (7.69%) VXLAN
7 7 (7.69%) Wireless
8 5 (5.49%) Multicast
8 5 (5.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.48%) NoSQL
2 9 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.30%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.20%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.20%) Metadata
5 1 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.10%) Big Data
5 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (18.68%) Fiddler
2 14 (15.38%) GitLab
2 14 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.69%) Liquibase
4 3 (3.30%) JUnit
5 1 (1.10%) Git
5 1 (1.10%) JIRA
5 1 (1.10%) Postman
5 1 (1.10%) Selenium
General
1 47 (51.65%) Investment Banking
2 32 (35.16%) Finance
3 23 (25.27%) Social Skills
4 11 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (9.89%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.20%) Marketing
7 1 (1.10%) Legal
7 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.10%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (31.87%) Network Engineer
2 13 (14.29%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 13 (14.29%) IP Network Engineer
2 13 (14.29%) Web Engineer
3 12 (13.19%) Cisco Engineer
3 12 (13.19%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 12 (13.19%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (12.09%) Operations Engineer
5 9 (9.89%) GCP Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) Architect
6 8 (8.79%) Software Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Data Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) RF Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Wireless Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Wireless Network Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Python Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.09%) REST
2 9 (9.89%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (9.89%) RESTful
3 6 (6.59%) Middleware
4 4 (4.40%) Kafka
5 3 (3.30%) Gherkin
6 2 (2.20%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (2.20%) Spring
7 1 (1.10%) .NET
7 1 (1.10%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.10%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 33 (36.26%) Management Information System
2 13 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (12.09%) Data Centre
4 9 (9.89%) Public Cloud
5 8 (8.79%) Cloud Native
6 5 (5.49%) Onboarding
6 5 (5.49%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (4.40%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (4.40%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.20%) Credit Risk
9 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.10%) EPoS
9 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (36.26%) Load Balancing
2 19 (20.88%) Agile
3 16 (17.58%) DevOps
4 14 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 14 (15.38%) Containerisation
4 14 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
5 13 (14.29%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 13 (14.29%) Microservices
5 13 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
6 12 (13.19%) Design Patterns
7 11 (12.09%) Business Strategy
8 10 (10.99%) Change Management
8 10 (10.99%) Computer Science
8 10 (10.99%) High Availability
8 10 (10.99%) SDLC
9 9 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (9.89%) Cost Optimisation
9 9 (9.89%) Cryptography
9 9 (9.89%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.08%) Python
2 11 (12.09%) Go
3 9 (9.89%) SQL
4 7 (7.69%) Lisp
5 6 (6.59%) Java
6 2 (2.20%) Scala
7 1 (1.10%) Groovy
7 1 (1.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (10.99%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (10.99%) Degree
1 10 (10.99%) Master's Degree
2 7 (7.69%) CCNP
2 7 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (4.40%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.20%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (2.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.10%) PMP
5 1 (1.10%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.49%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.20%) GDPR
2 2 (2.20%) PMO
3 1 (1.10%) QA
System Software
1 24 (26.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (14.29%) Firmware
3 9 (9.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (15.38%) Terraform
2 13 (14.29%) Ansible
3 10 (10.99%) Grafana
3 10 (10.99%) Kubernetes
3 10 (10.99%) Prometheus
4 7 (7.69%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 33 (36.26%) F5
2 25 (27.47%) VMware
3 17 (18.68%) Blue Coat
3 17 (18.68%) McAfee
3 17 (18.68%) NetApp
4 12 (13.19%) Cisco
5 9 (9.89%) Google
5 9 (9.89%) Splunk
6 7 (7.69%) Ekahau
6 7 (7.69%) Remedy
6 7 (7.69%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.20%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.20%) Teradata
8 1 (1.10%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.10%) Cadence
8 1 (1.10%) Cognos
8 1 (1.10%) Genesys