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 26 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 29 36
Rank change year-on-year +14 +7 +6
Contract jobs citing Banking 82 37 34
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 8.88% 6.10% 4.73%
As % of the General category 17.71% 9.74% 8.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 20 24
10th Percentile £358 £400 £425
25th Percentile £400 £491 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £606
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -17.53% -1.02%
75th Percentile £623 £644 £725
90th Percentile £625 £742 £775
West Midlands median daily rate £535 £544 £618
% change year-on-year -1.61% -11.94% -1.20%

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 463 380 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 50.16% 62.60% 58.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 269 278
10th Percentile £325 £173 £199
25th Percentile £402 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -1.23%
75th Percentile £578 £575 £647
90th Percentile £688 £650 £741
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £488 £510
% change year-on-year -1.31% -4.41% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 24 10
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.00 £20.05
25th Percentile £24.50 £15.56 £22.33
Median hourly rate £43.96 £22.05 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +99.37% -54.77% +174.65%
75th Percentile £53.75 £26.51 £55.19
90th Percentile £75.00 - £57.53
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.75 £29.00 £23.82
% change year-on-year -14.66% +21.75% +11.83%

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 26 September 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%) SAS
2 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.22%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.22%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.76%) Azure
2 5 (6.10%) Power Platform
3 4 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.66%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.44%) AWS
6 1 (1.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 25 (30.49%) DNS
2 13 (15.85%) BIG-IP
2 13 (15.85%) TCP/IP
3 12 (14.63%) BGP
3 12 (14.63%) DMZ
3 12 (14.63%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 12 (14.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 12 (14.63%) HTTP
3 12 (14.63%) Multicast
3 12 (14.63%) SSL
3 12 (14.63%) VPN
3 12 (14.63%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.22%) DHCP
4 1 (1.22%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.22%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.22%) NAS
4 1 (1.22%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.22%) SAN
4 1 (1.22%) WAN
4 1 (1.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.10%) Power BI
2 4 (4.88%) Base SAS
2 4 (4.88%) Metadata
2 4 (4.88%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 3 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.66%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.22%) Db2
4 1 (1.22%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.22%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.22%) Parquet
4 1 (1.22%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 12 (14.63%) Fiddler
2 3 (3.66%) JIRA
3 1 (1.22%) Git
3 1 (1.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.22%) Maven
3 1 (1.22%) Mockito
3 1 (1.22%) Postman
3 1 (1.22%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (39.02%) Investment Banking
2 19 (23.17%) Finance
3 11 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.20%) Social Skills
5 5 (6.10%) Marketing
6 3 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.66%) Retail
7 2 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Billing
8 1 (1.22%) Legal
8 1 (1.22%) Local Government
8 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (29.27%) Network Engineer
2 15 (18.29%) Data Engineer
3 14 (17.07%) Security Engineer
4 12 (14.63%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 12 (14.63%) Cisco Engineer
4 12 (14.63%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 12 (14.63%) Cisco Security Engineer
4 12 (14.63%) Data Network Engineer
4 12 (14.63%) IP Network Engineer
4 12 (14.63%) Network Security Engineer
4 12 (14.63%) Web Engineer
5 10 (12.20%) Analyst
6 8 (9.76%) Architect
6 8 (9.76%) Lead
7 7 (8.54%) Project Manager
8 6 (7.32%) Data Analyst
8 6 (7.32%) Developer
9 5 (6.10%) Programme Manager
9 5 (6.10%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (6.10%) Transformation Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.10%) Middleware
2 4 (4.88%) JSON
2 4 (4.88%) REST
3 2 (2.44%) Kafka
4 1 (1.22%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (1.22%) Apache Avro
4 1 (1.22%) DAO
4 1 (1.22%) Django
4 1 (1.22%) Flask
4 1 (1.22%) JAX-RS
4 1 (1.22%) JSON Schema
4 1 (1.22%) Node.js
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.22%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (1.22%) SLSA
4 1 (1.22%) Terraform
4 1 (1.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (24.39%) Management Information System
2 8 (9.76%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (6.10%) Credit Risk
4 3 (3.66%) Blog
4 3 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.44%) CMDB
5 2 (2.44%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.44%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.22%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.22%) Replication
6 1 (1.22%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.66%) Windows
2 2 (2.44%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.44%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.22%) Linux
3 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (29.27%) Load Balancing
2 16 (19.51%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (15.85%) Agile
4 12 (14.63%) Data Loss Prevention
4 12 (14.63%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 11 (13.41%) Analytics
6 9 (10.98%) Data Protection
7 8 (9.76%) Architectural Design
7 8 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (9.76%) Migration
7 8 (9.76%) SDLC
8 7 (8.54%) Technology Transformation
9 6 (7.32%) Waterfall
10 5 (6.10%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 5 (6.10%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (6.10%) Change Control
10 5 (6.10%) CI/CD
10 5 (6.10%) DevOps
10 5 (6.10%) Infrastructure Transformation
10 5 (6.10%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.63%) Python
2 5 (6.10%) Java
2 5 (6.10%) SQL
3 3 (3.66%) C#
4 2 (2.44%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.22%) Groovy
5 1 (1.22%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.22%) JCL
5 1 (1.22%) Scala
5 1 (1.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (3.66%) CISSP
2 2 (2.44%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.22%) CBAP
3 1 (1.22%) CISM
3 1 (1.22%) CRISC
3 1 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.66%) Basel III
1 3 (3.66%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.44%) PMO
3 1 (1.22%) GDPR
3 1 (1.22%) PERC
3 1 (1.22%) QA
System Software
1 12 (14.63%) Firmware
1 12 (14.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.22%) NFS
2 1 (1.22%) XenApp
2 1 (1.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (1.22%) Ansible
1 1 (1.22%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (1.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (30.49%) F5
2 13 (15.85%) Cisco
3 12 (14.63%) Blue Coat
3 12 (14.63%) McAfee
3 12 (14.63%) NetApp
3 12 (14.63%) VMware
4 9 (10.98%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.88%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.66%) Teradata
7 2 (2.44%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (2.44%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (2.44%) Pega
7 2 (2.44%) Remedy
7 2 (2.44%) Splunk
8 1 (1.22%) Citrix
8 1 (1.22%) Dell
8 1 (1.22%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.22%) Oracle
8 1 (1.22%) Pure Storage
8 1 (1.22%) Sonatype