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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 107 131
Rank change year-on-year +10 +24 +47
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 25 19 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.38% 0.89% 0.88%
As % of the General category 1.87% 1.33% 1.39%
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
Central London median daily rate £538 £625 £750
% change year-on-year -14.00% -16.67% +20.00%

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 common skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,340 1,428 2,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 73.71% 66.95% 63.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 852 972 1,555
10th Percentile £338 £340 £363
25th Percentile £437 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £738
90th Percentile £775 £824 £838
Central London median daily rate £564 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -1.96% -4.17% +4.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 9 13
10th Percentile £17.02 £19.13 -
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £14.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% +50.00% -58.01%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.25 £42.32
90th Percentile £89.88 £92.75 £53.55
Central London median hourly rate £34.24 £26.78 £20.71
% change year-on-year +27.86% +29.34% -51.28%

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 6 July 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 (12.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) AWS
2 3 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (12.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (12.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 3 (12.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (12.00%) CloudFront
2 3 (12.00%) Route 53
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.00%) Figma
3 1 (4.00%) GitHub
3 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.00%) Serverless
3 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (12.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (12.00%) DocumentDB
2 3 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (12.00%) Redis
2 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.00%) Tableau
4 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
General
1 24 (96.00%) Banking
2 17 (68.00%) Investment Banking
3 16 (64.00%) Finance
4 15 (60.00%) Corporate Banking
4 15 (60.00%) Retail
5 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
6 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (20.00%) Financial Institution
7 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (4.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 4 (16.00%) React Developer
3 3 (12.00%) C# Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Compliance Specialist
3 3 (12.00%) Electronic Trading Specialist
3 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Gen AI Developer
3 3 (12.00%) MiFID Specialist
3 3 (12.00%) Python Developer
3 3 (12.00%) SQL Developer
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Data Modeller
4 2 (8.00%) Designer
4 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Product Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) React
2 4 (16.00%) HTML
3 3 (12.00%) FastAPI
3 3 (12.00%) Flask
3 3 (12.00%) GraphQL
3 3 (12.00%) JSON
3 3 (12.00%) RESTful
3 3 (12.00%) SQLAlchemy
4 2 (8.00%) PySpark
5 1 (4.00%) AWS CDK
5 1 (4.00%) CSS
5 1 (4.00%) CSS3
5 1 (4.00%) HTML5
5 1 (4.00%) LESS
5 1 (4.00%) Node.js
5 1 (4.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Derivative
1 3 (12.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Android
2 1 (4.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Wealth Management
2 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (24.00%) Agile
4 5 (20.00%) User Experience
5 4 (16.00%) API Development
5 4 (16.00%) Decision-Making
5 4 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (16.00%) Internal Audit
5 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (12.00%) Asset Management
6 3 (12.00%) Data Modelling
6 3 (12.00%) Generative AI
6 3 (12.00%) Project Management
6 3 (12.00%) Risk Management
6 3 (12.00%) SQL Optimisation
6 3 (12.00%) TDD
6 3 (12.00%) Validation
6 3 (12.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) Python
1 6 (24.00%) SQL
2 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (12.00%) C#
4 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) CISA
1 1 (4.00%) CISSP
1 1 (4.00%) CRISC
1 1 (4.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) MiFID
2 2 (8.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (4.00%) COBIT
3 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.00%) ITGC
3 1 (4.00%) QA
3 1 (4.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco
2 2 (8.00%) Logitech
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) Citrix