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 9 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 30 50
Rank change year-on-year +23 +20 -16
Contract jobs citing Banking 102 22 14
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 11.47% 4.23% 1.86%
As % of the General category 19.73% 6.49% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 19 10
10th Percentile £391 - £359
25th Percentile £431 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.16% +10.48% -6.67%
75th Percentile £688 £664 £538
90th Percentile £780 £745 £660
West Midlands median daily rate £565 £555 £525
% change year-on-year +1.80% +5.71% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.50
West Midlands median hourly rate - - £40.50
% change year-on-year - - +120.53%

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 517 339 395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 58.16% 65.19% 52.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 240 274
10th Percentile £307 £183 £206
25th Percentile £413 £372 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £604 £575
90th Percentile £673 £700 £656
West Midlands median daily rate £483 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.68% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 31
10th Percentile £16.08 - £11.75
25th Percentile £17.17 £14.00 £13.57
Median hourly rate £21.77 £14.70 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year +48.06% -40.37% +33.24%
75th Percentile £25.84 £28.02 £48.75
90th Percentile £30.75 £37.22 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £17.58 £19.00
% change year-on-year +42.23% -7.49% +5.56%

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 9 April 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 (3.92%) SAS
1 4 (3.92%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.96%) Confluence
3 1 (0.98%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (3.92%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (6.86%) GCP
2 6 (5.88%) AWS
3 3 (2.94%) OpenShift
3 3 (2.94%) Power Automate
4 2 (1.96%) Amazon S3
4 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (1.96%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.98%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (0.98%) Azure
5 1 (0.98%) dbt
5 1 (0.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (0.98%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.98%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 45 (44.12%) DNS
2 25 (24.51%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 25 (24.51%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 21 (20.59%) BIG-IP
3 21 (20.59%) TCP/IP
4 20 (19.61%) HTTP
4 20 (19.61%) SSL
4 20 (19.61%) Wireshark
5 19 (18.63%) DMZ
6 18 (17.65%) BGP
7 14 (13.73%) Multicast
7 14 (13.73%) VPN
8 5 (4.90%) DHCP
8 5 (4.90%) Network Security
9 4 (3.92%) Cisco ISE
9 4 (3.92%) Cisco Wireless
9 4 (3.92%) NX-OS
9 4 (3.92%) VXLAN
9 4 (3.92%) Wireless
10 3 (2.94%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.88%) Metadata
2 5 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.92%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.96%) Power BI
4 2 (1.96%) Power Query
4 2 (1.96%) Tableau
4 2 (1.96%) WebFOCUS
5 1 (0.98%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.98%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.98%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.98%) Parquet
5 1 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (19.61%) Fiddler
2 6 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.92%) JIRA
4 3 (2.94%) GitLab
5 2 (1.96%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.98%) Git
6 1 (0.98%) Maven
6 1 (0.98%) Postman
6 1 (0.98%) Selenium
6 1 (0.98%) SonarQube
General
1 59 (57.84%) Investment Banking
2 32 (31.37%) Finance
3 14 (13.73%) Social Skills
4 11 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.94%) Marketing
6 1 (0.98%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.98%) Legal
Job Titles
1 38 (37.25%) Network Engineer
2 20 (19.61%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 20 (19.61%) IP Network Engineer
2 20 (19.61%) Web Engineer
3 19 (18.63%) Architect
4 18 (17.65%) Cisco Engineer
4 18 (17.65%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 16 (15.69%) Data Engineer
6 14 (13.73%) Cisco Security Engineer
6 14 (13.73%) Data Network Engineer
6 14 (13.73%) Network Security Engineer
6 14 (13.73%) Payments Architect
6 14 (13.73%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 14 (13.73%) Security Engineer
6 14 (13.73%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (7.84%) Analyst
8 5 (4.90%) Developer
8 5 (4.90%) Operations Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.73%) Middleware
2 3 (2.94%) JSON
3 2 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.96%) REST
4 1 (0.98%) .NET
4 1 (0.98%) Apache Avro
4 1 (0.98%) JSON Schema
4 1 (0.98%) Kafka
4 1 (0.98%) Node.js
4 1 (0.98%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.98%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (0.98%) PySpark
4 1 (0.98%) RESTful
4 1 (0.98%) SLSA
4 1 (0.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (38.24%) Management Information System
2 9 (8.82%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.94%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.96%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.98%) EPoS
6 1 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.98%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.92%) Windows
2 3 (2.94%) Linux
3 2 (1.96%) Unix
3 2 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (39.22%) Load Balancing
2 20 (19.61%) Agile
2 20 (19.61%) Data Loss Prevention
2 20 (19.61%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 18 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (14.71%) SDLC
5 14 (13.73%) Architectural Design
5 14 (13.73%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 14 (13.73%) Waterfall
6 9 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (7.84%) Analytics
8 7 (6.86%) AI
8 7 (6.86%) CI/CD
9 6 (5.88%) Containerisation
9 6 (5.88%) DevOps
9 6 (5.88%) Risk Management
9 6 (5.88%) Validation
10 5 (4.90%) Business Strategy
10 5 (4.90%) Data Management
10 5 (4.90%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.78%) Python
2 9 (8.82%) SQL
3 4 (3.92%) Lisp
4 2 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (1.96%) Go
4 2 (1.96%) Groovy
4 2 (1.96%) Scala
4 2 (1.96%) VBA
5 1 (0.98%) Bash
5 1 (0.98%) Java
5 1 (0.98%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.98%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (3.92%) CCNP
1 4 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (0.98%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.98%) Degree
3 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.98%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.98%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.92%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.94%) GDPR
3 2 (1.96%) GRC
4 1 (0.98%) PERC
4 1 (0.98%) PMO
4 1 (0.98%) QA
System Software
1 25 (24.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (19.61%) Firmware
3 3 (2.94%) Docker
4 2 (1.96%) XenApp
4 2 (1.96%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.98%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (6.86%) Terraform
2 5 (4.90%) Ansible
2 5 (4.90%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.92%) FortiGate
3 4 (3.92%) Grafana
4 3 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 40 (39.22%) F5
2 25 (24.51%) VMware
3 20 (19.61%) Blue Coat
3 20 (19.61%) McAfee
3 20 (19.61%) NetApp
4 19 (18.63%) Cisco
5 6 (5.88%) Microsoft
5 6 (5.88%) Remedy
5 6 (5.88%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.92%) Ekahau
6 4 (3.92%) Google
6 4 (3.92%) Splunk
7 3 (2.94%) Citrix
7 3 (2.94%) Teradata
8 2 (1.96%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.98%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.98%) Dell
9 1 (0.98%) Infoblox
9 1 (0.98%) Pega
9 1 (0.98%) Sonatype