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 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 111 90 117
Rank change year-on-year -21 +27 +36
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 21 28 13
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.95% 1.61% 0.57%
As % of the General category 1.61% 2.29% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 6
10th Percentile £569 £496 £513
25th Percentile £597 £663 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £825
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -18.18% +33.06%
75th Percentile £741 £688 £866
90th Percentile £836 - £956
Central London median daily rate £650 £675 £825
% change year-on-year -3.70% -18.18% +33.06%

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 1,302 1,224 1,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 58.97% 70.30% 65.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 835 775 1,055
10th Percentile £356 £338 £338
25th Percentile £451 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £706 £688 £688
90th Percentile £813 £775 £806
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 9
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £19.33
25th Percentile £19.05 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £31.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +29.17% -36.42%
75th Percentile £45.08 £63.75 £27.50
90th Percentile £53.50 £117.50 £54.95
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £31.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -15.77% +24.00% -28.57%

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 9 April 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 1 (4.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (4.76%) Appian
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (61.90%) Oracle Payables
1 13 (61.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 13 (61.90%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 13 (61.90%) OCI
2 1 (4.76%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Contentsquare
2 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Big Data
1 1 (4.76%) Neo4j
1 1 (4.76%) Tableau
General
1 20 (95.24%) Banking
2 17 (80.95%) Finance
2 17 (80.95%) Investment Banking
3 4 (19.05%) Corporate Banking
3 4 (19.05%) Retail
4 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Legal
5 1 (4.76%) Marketing
5 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (4.76%) Analyst
1 1 (4.76%) Applications Consultant
1 1 (4.76%) Architect
1 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
1 1 (4.76%) Charles River Consultant
1 1 (4.76%) Consultant
1 1 (4.76%) Customer Analyst
1 1 (4.76%) Data Scientist
1 1 (4.76%) Designer
1 1 (4.76%) Digital Product Owner
1 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (4.76%) Procurement Manager
1 1 (4.76%) Product Owner
1 1 (4.76%) Programme Manager
1 1 (4.76%) Senior
1 1 (4.76%) Senior Designer
1 1 (4.76%) Senior Service Designer
1 1 (4.76%) Service Designer
1 1 (4.76%) Transformation Manager
1 1 (4.76%) Transformation Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) GraphX
1 1 (4.76%) NetworkX
1 1 (4.76%) PySpark
1 1 (4.76%) PyTorch
1 1 (4.76%) scikit-learn
1 1 (4.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
1 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Accounts Payable
1 13 (61.90%) Accounts Receivable
1 13 (61.90%) Asset Management
1 13 (61.90%) Procure-to-Pay
1 13 (61.90%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (19.05%) Roadmaps
2 4 (19.05%) Wealth Management
3 3 (14.29%) Analytics
4 2 (9.52%) Agile
4 2 (9.52%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 2 (9.52%) Customer Experience
4 2 (9.52%) Data Analysis
4 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (9.52%) Workflow
4 2 (9.52%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (4.76%) Architectural Design
5 1 (4.76%) Conversational UI
5 1 (4.76%) Digital Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) ISO 20022
1 1 (4.76%) SEPA
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) Adobe
2 1 (4.76%) Charles River