Retail Banking Contracts 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 110 145
Rank change year-on-year +19 +35 +24
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 29 14 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.66% 0.64% 0.76%
As % of the General category 2.33% 0.97% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 20
10th Percentile £435 £513 £559
25th Percentile £506 £663 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £825 £665
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +24.06% +6.40%
75th Percentile £688 £866 £847
90th Percentile - £956 £950
Central London median daily rate £675 £825 £665
% change year-on-year -18.18% +24.06% +6.40%

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 common skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,247 1,450 2,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 71.46% 66.33% 62.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 780 1,024 1,560
10th Percentile £330 £338 £363
25th Percentile £456 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £611
Median % change year-on-year - -5.93% +6.30%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £738
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £553 £600
% change year-on-year +4.07% -7.92% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 13
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.13 £14.40
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £15.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £24.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.23% +14.29% -51.72%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.00 £52.75
90th Percentile £96.38 £32.05 £57.75
Central London median hourly rate £30.04 £24.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +25.15% +14.29% -51.72%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail Banking in the City of London

Retail Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Retail Banking in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Retail Banking in the City of London

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 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail Banking in the City of London

Retail Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Retail Banking in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Retail Banking in the City of London

Retail Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (10.34%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) AWS
2 6 (20.69%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (20.69%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (20.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 6 (20.69%) Amazon S3
2 6 (20.69%) CloudFront
2 6 (20.69%) Route 53
3 2 (6.90%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.45%) GitHub
4 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.45%) Serverless
4 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) NoSQL
2 6 (20.69%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (20.69%) DocumentDB
2 6 (20.69%) Redis
2 6 (20.69%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.34%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.45%) Power BI
4 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) JIRA
General
1 29 (100.00%) Banking
2 19 (65.52%) Finance
3 18 (62.07%) Investment Banking
4 16 (55.17%) Corporate Banking
4 16 (55.17%) Retail
5 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
6 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (13.79%) Financial Institution
8 2 (6.90%) Marketing
9 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Developer
2 6 (20.69%) C# Developer
3 3 (10.34%) AWS Data Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Compliance Specialist
3 3 (10.34%) Data Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Data Modeller
3 3 (10.34%) Designer
3 3 (10.34%) Electronic Trading Specialist
3 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Gen AI Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Manager
3 3 (10.34%) MiFID Specialist
3 3 (10.34%) Product Manager
3 3 (10.34%) Python Data Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Python Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Python Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) React Developer
3 3 (10.34%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) GraphQL
1 6 (20.69%) RESTful
2 4 (13.79%) React
3 3 (10.34%) FastAPI
3 3 (10.34%) Flask
3 3 (10.34%) HTML
3 3 (10.34%) JSON
3 3 (10.34%) PySpark
3 3 (10.34%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (3.45%) AWS CDK
4 1 (3.45%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Derivative
1 6 (20.69%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Public Cloud
2 3 (10.34%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.45%) Digital Media
4 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Android
1 1 (3.45%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) Wealth Management
2 8 (27.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (20.69%) Asset Management
3 6 (20.69%) Secure Coding
3 6 (20.69%) SOLID
3 6 (20.69%) TDD
3 6 (20.69%) Unit Testing
3 6 (20.69%) User Experience
4 5 (17.24%) Project Management
5 4 (13.79%) Agile
5 4 (13.79%) Decision-Making
5 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (13.79%) Software Engineering
6 3 (10.34%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (10.34%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 3 (10.34%) Pricing Strategy
6 3 (10.34%) Product Roadmap
6 3 (10.34%) Product Strategy
6 3 (10.34%) Strategic Roadmap
6 3 (10.34%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) Python
1 7 (24.14%) SQL
2 6 (20.69%) C#
3 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) CRISC
1 1 (3.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) MiFID
2 1 (3.45%) COBIT
2 1 (3.45%) ITGC
2 1 (3.45%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Cisco
2 3 (10.34%) Logitech
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle
3 1 (3.45%) Adobe
3 1 (3.45%) Citrix