Retail Banking Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Retail Banking
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 100 107
Rank change year-on-year -18 +7 +24
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 19 18 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.88% 1.05% 0.86%
As % of the General category 1.36% 1.40% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 7
10th Percentile £497 £424 £343
25th Percentile £512 £456 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -30.00%
75th Percentile £716 £594 £600
90th Percentile £825 £650 £615
Central London median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -30.00%

All General Skills
City of 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 general skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,402 1,286 1,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 64.88% 74.85% 68.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 899 865 874
10th Percentile £356 £327 £356
25th Percentile £463 £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% -2.50%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £700
90th Percentile £781 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 17 10
10th Percentile £17.13 £16.85 £13.73
25th Percentile £19.13 £20.18 £18.75
Median hourly rate £23.58 £28.15 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year -16.23% -5.38% +56.58%
75th Percentile £39.38 £43.75 £74.38
90th Percentile £63.25 £64.48 £98.13
Central London median hourly rate £35.82 £28.33 £33.75
% change year-on-year +26.46% -16.07% +50.00%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Retail Banking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Retail Banking job vacancy trend in the City of London

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Retail Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking in the City of London over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Retail Banking in the City of London

Retail Banking
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Retail Banking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (10.53%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (5.26%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Chatbot
1 1 (5.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) AWS
1 2 (10.53%) Azure
1 2 (10.53%) GCP
2 1 (5.26%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (5.26%) Apigee
2 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.26%) Contentsquare
2 1 (5.26%) GitHub
2 1 (5.26%) Miro
2 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.26%) Big Data
2 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) Cypress.io
2 2 (10.53%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) webpack
3 1 (5.26%) Gradle
3 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) Xcode
General
1 18 (94.74%) Banking
2 14 (73.68%) Finance
3 9 (47.37%) Corporate Banking
4 8 (42.11%) Investment Banking
4 8 (42.11%) Retail
5 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (15.79%) Back Office
6 2 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
7 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
7 1 (5.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Analyst
2 5 (26.32%) Business Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Designer
3 3 (15.79%) Product Owner
3 3 (15.79%) Service Designer
3 3 (15.79%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Technical Business Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Business Data Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Business Systems Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Data Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Implementation Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Web Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Business Integration Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Customer Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Integration Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Report Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) GraphQL
1 4 (21.05%) REST
2 3 (15.79%) Kafka
2 3 (15.79%) Node.js
2 3 (15.79%) React
3 2 (10.53%) Apollo GraphQL
3 2 (10.53%) DOM
3 2 (10.53%) Jest
3 2 (10.53%) React Native
3 2 (10.53%) Sass
4 1 (5.26%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.26%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (5.26%) gRPC
4 1 (5.26%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (5.26%) OAuth
4 1 (5.26%) OpenID
4 1 (5.26%) Spring
4 1 (5.26%) SwiftUI
4 1 (5.26%) Terraform
4 1 (5.26%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 12 (63.16%) Product Ownership
2 3 (15.79%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (10.53%) Mobile App
3 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 2 (10.53%) Virtual Team
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.26%) Mainframe
4 1 (5.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Android
1 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Agile
2 9 (47.37%) Wealth Management
3 7 (36.84%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (31.58%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 6 (31.58%) Workshop Facilitation
5 5 (26.32%) Acceptance Criteria
6 4 (21.05%) AI
6 4 (21.05%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 4 (21.05%) Customer Experience
6 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
6 4 (21.05%) Journey Map
6 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (21.05%) User Stories
7 3 (15.79%) Machine Learning
7 3 (15.79%) Product Discovery
7 3 (15.79%) Product Governance
7 3 (15.79%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
7 3 (15.79%) Service Design
7 3 (15.79%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) SQL
2 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
2 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
3 2 (10.53%) Python
4 1 (5.26%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) Kotlin
4 1 (5.26%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
1 2 (10.53%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.26%) PMP
2 1 (5.26%) SAFe Agilist
2 1 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Basel III
2 1 (5.26%) COREP
2 1 (5.26%) FINREP
2 1 (5.26%) GRC
2 1 (5.26%) PSD2
2 1 (5.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Adobe
1 1 (5.26%) Calypso
1 1 (5.26%) FIS
1 1 (5.26%) Google
1 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft
1 1 (5.26%) Murex
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle
1 1 (5.26%) SAP
1 1 (5.26%) Temenos