Retail Banking Contracts in Central London

Retail Banking
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 118 141
Rank change year-on-year +13 +23 +43
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 24 18 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.21% 0.76% 0.84%
As % of the General category 1.64% 1.15% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 21
10th Percentile £414 £371 £600
25th Percentile £456 £413 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £625 £750
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £688 £838 £875
90th Percentile - £908 £969
London median daily rate £525 £600 £750
% change year-on-year -12.50% -20.00% +25.00%

All General Skills
Central London

Retail 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,459 1,571 2,334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 73.35% 66.34% 62.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 940 1,085 1,625
10th Percentile £331 £338 £313
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £813 £835
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 14 15
10th Percentile £21.02 £20.01 £14.25
25th Percentile £25.75 £20.92 £14.88
Median hourly rate £34.00 £26.78 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +26.96% +29.34% -51.28%
75th Percentile £50.75 £41.06 £38.66
90th Percentile £70.21 £70.20 £53.35
London median hourly rate £34.00 £30.16 £32.60
% change year-on-year +12.73% -7.47% -8.18%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Retail Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Retail Banking in Central London

Retail Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Retail Banking in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Retail Banking in Central London

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking in Central London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail Banking in Central London

Retail Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Retail Banking in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Retail Banking in Central London

Retail Banking
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail Banking within the Central London region over the 6 months to 3 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +16 24 £538 -14.00% 12
Retail Banking
London

Retail Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 3 (12.50%) CloudFront
2 3 (12.50%) Route 53
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.17%) Figma
3 1 (4.17%) GitHub
3 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.17%) Serverless
3 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (12.50%) DocumentDB
2 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (12.50%) Redis
2 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.17%) Power BI
4 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 23 (95.83%) Banking
2 16 (66.67%) Finance
2 16 (66.67%) Investment Banking
3 14 (58.33%) Corporate Banking
3 14 (58.33%) Retail
4 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
5 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (20.83%) Financial Institution
6 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Developer
2 3 (12.50%) C# Developer
2 3 (12.50%) Compliance Specialist
2 3 (12.50%) Electronic Trading Specialist
2 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack Python Developer
2 3 (12.50%) Gen AI Developer
2 3 (12.50%) MiFID Specialist
2 3 (12.50%) Python Developer
2 3 (12.50%) React Developer
2 3 (12.50%) SQL Developer
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Data Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Data Modeller
3 2 (8.33%) Designer
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Product Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Python Data Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) React
2 3 (12.50%) FastAPI
2 3 (12.50%) Flask
2 3 (12.50%) GraphQL
2 3 (12.50%) HTML
2 3 (12.50%) JSON
2 3 (12.50%) RESTful
2 3 (12.50%) SQLAlchemy
3 2 (8.33%) PySpark
4 1 (4.17%) AWS CDK
4 1 (4.17%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Derivative
1 3 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Android
2 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Wealth Management
2 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (20.83%) Agile
4 4 (16.67%) Internal Audit
4 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 4 (16.67%) User Experience
5 3 (12.50%) Algorithmic Trading
5 3 (12.50%) API Development
5 3 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (12.50%) Asset Management
5 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 3 (12.50%) Electronic Trading
5 3 (12.50%) Fintech
5 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (12.50%) Generative AI
5 3 (12.50%) Secure Coding
5 3 (12.50%) SOLID
5 3 (12.50%) SQL Optimisation
5 3 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Python
1 6 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) C#
2 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) CISA
1 1 (4.17%) CISSP
1 1 (4.17%) CRISC
1 1 (4.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) MiFID
2 2 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.17%) COBIT
3 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.17%) ITGC
3 1 (4.17%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle
2 2 (8.33%) Cisco
2 2 (8.33%) Logitech
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) Citrix