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 16 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 32 45
Rank change year-on-year +26 +13 -9
Contract jobs citing Banking 103 20 16
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 11.15% 3.89% 2.17%
As % of the General category 20.16% 6.01% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 17 9
10th Percentile £394 - £355
25th Percentile £452 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £555 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.96% +5.71% -17.65%
75th Percentile £678 £644 £538
90th Percentile £744 £753 £580
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £555 £525
% change year-on-year +3.60% +5.71% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.50
West Midlands median hourly rate - £13.78 £40.50
% change year-on-year - -65.98% -

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 511 333 383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 55.30% 64.79% 52.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 234 262
10th Percentile £325 £163 £250
25th Percentile £423 £375 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% +3.95% -8.65%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £685 £692 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +1.29% -6.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 23 32
10th Percentile £16.03 - £11.78
25th Percentile £17.17 £14.00 £13.73
Median hourly rate £20.76 £14.70 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year +41.22% -40.37% +41.73%
75th Percentile £28.57 £22.08 £48.75
90th Percentile £67.88 £47.30 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £19.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +57.89% - -7.32%

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 16 May 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 4 (3.88%) SAS
2 2 (1.94%) Confluence
3 1 (0.97%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (5.83%) AWS
2 4 (3.88%) GCP
2 4 (3.88%) Power Platform
3 3 (2.91%) Azure
3 3 (2.91%) OpenShift
4 2 (1.94%) Amazon S3
4 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (1.94%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.97%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (0.97%) dbt
5 1 (0.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 37 (35.92%) DNS
2 19 (18.45%) BIG-IP
2 19 (18.45%) TCP/IP
3 18 (17.48%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 18 (17.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 18 (17.48%) HTTP
3 18 (17.48%) SSL
3 18 (17.48%) Wireshark
4 17 (16.50%) BGP
4 17 (16.50%) DMZ
4 17 (16.50%) Multicast
4 17 (16.50%) VPN
5 3 (2.91%) NAS
5 3 (2.91%) NetScaler
5 3 (2.91%) SAN
6 1 (0.97%) DHCP
6 1 (0.97%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.97%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.83%) Metadata
2 5 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.88%) Power BI
4 3 (2.91%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.94%) Power Query
5 2 (1.94%) WebFOCUS
6 1 (0.97%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.97%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.97%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.97%) Parquet
6 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (17.48%) Fiddler
2 4 (3.88%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.88%) JIRA
3 1 (0.97%) Git
3 1 (0.97%) GitLab
3 1 (0.97%) Liquibase
3 1 (0.97%) Maven
3 1 (0.97%) SonarQube
General
1 56 (54.37%) Investment Banking
2 33 (32.04%) Finance
3 12 (11.65%) Social Skills
4 10 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.91%) Marketing
6 1 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.97%) Legal
Job Titles
1 35 (33.98%) Network Engineer
2 21 (20.39%) Architect
2 21 (20.39%) Data Engineer
3 19 (18.45%) Security Engineer
4 18 (17.48%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 18 (17.48%) IP Network Engineer
4 18 (17.48%) Web Engineer
5 17 (16.50%) Cisco Engineer
5 17 (16.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 17 (16.50%) Cisco Security Engineer
5 17 (16.50%) Data Network Engineer
5 17 (16.50%) Network Security Engineer
5 17 (16.50%) Payments Architect
5 17 (16.50%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 17 (16.50%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (9.71%) Analyst
7 6 (5.83%) Banking Analyst
7 6 (5.83%) Data Analyst
7 6 (5.83%) Developer
7 6 (5.83%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.50%) Middleware
2 3 (2.91%) JSON
3 1 (0.97%) .NET
3 1 (0.97%) Apache Avro
3 1 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.97%) JSON Schema
3 1 (0.97%) Kafka
3 1 (0.97%) Node.js
3 1 (0.97%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (0.97%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (0.97%) PySpark
3 1 (0.97%) REST
3 1 (0.97%) SLSA
3 1 (0.97%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (35.92%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.85%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.91%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.91%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.94%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.97%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.97%) EPoS
6 1 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.97%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.97%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.97%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.83%) Windows
2 2 (1.94%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.94%) Linux
2 2 (1.94%) Mac OS
2 2 (1.94%) Unix
2 2 (1.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (34.95%) Load Balancing
2 22 (21.36%) Agile
3 20 (19.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (17.48%) Data Loss Prevention
4 18 (17.48%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 18 (17.48%) SDLC
4 18 (17.48%) Waterfall
5 17 (16.50%) Architectural Design
5 17 (16.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 10 (9.71%) Analytics
6 10 (9.71%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (6.80%) Migration
8 6 (5.83%) AI
8 6 (5.83%) Validation
9 5 (4.85%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (4.85%) CI/CD
9 5 (4.85%) Data Modelling
9 5 (4.85%) Risk Management
9 5 (4.85%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (3.88%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (11.65%) Python
2 9 (8.74%) SQL
3 3 (2.91%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (1.94%) Groovy
4 2 (1.94%) Scala
4 2 (1.94%) VBA
5 1 (0.97%) Bash
5 1 (0.97%) Go
5 1 (0.97%) Java
5 1 (0.97%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (1.94%) AWS Certification
1 2 (1.94%) CISSP
1 2 (1.94%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (0.97%) PMI Certification
2 1 (0.97%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.94%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.94%) GRC
2 1 (0.97%) GDPR
2 1 (0.97%) PERC
2 1 (0.97%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (17.48%) Firmware
1 18 (17.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.94%) Docker
2 2 (1.94%) XenApp
2 2 (1.94%) XenDesktop
3 1 (0.97%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (4.85%) Terraform
2 4 (3.88%) Ansible
2 4 (3.88%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.91%) Grafana
4 2 (1.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (34.95%) F5
2 18 (17.48%) Blue Coat
2 18 (17.48%) Cisco
2 18 (17.48%) McAfee
2 18 (17.48%) NetApp
2 18 (17.48%) VMware
3 8 (7.77%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.85%) Splunk
5 4 (3.88%) Remedy
5 4 (3.88%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.91%) Citrix
6 3 (2.91%) Google
6 3 (2.91%) Teradata
7 2 (1.94%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.94%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (1.94%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (1.94%) Pega
8 1 (0.97%) Databricks
8 1 (0.97%) Pure Storage
8 1 (0.97%) Sonatype