Banking Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Banking
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 81 88
Rank change year-on-year -11 +7 -1
Contract jobs citing Banking 29 8 25
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.28% 0.67% 1.34%
As % of the General category 2.56% 1.15% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 5 15
10th Percentile £356 - £430
25th Percentile £505 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +4.35% +0.88%
75th Percentile £600 - £651
90th Percentile - £690 £675
England median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £86.20
25th Percentile - - £86.50
Median hourly rate - £24.66 £87.50
Median % change year-on-year - -71.82% -2.17%
75th Percentile - - £88.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £24.89 £24.66 £19.50
% change year-on-year +0.91% +26.46% +11.68%

All General Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,135 695 1,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 49.96% 58.01% 59.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 333 388
10th Percentile £185 £195 £225
25th Percentile £323 £325 £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £563
90th Percentile £664 £670 £651
England median daily rate £525 £515 £531
% change year-on-year +1.94% -3.01% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 147 435
10th Percentile £13.72 £15.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.99 £17.33 £16.30
Median hourly rate £21.50 £31.64 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -32.05% -17.00% +108.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.13 £51.88
90th Percentile £73.46 £81.15 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.06 £27.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +22.44% -18.18% +10.00%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Banking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Banking job vacancy trend in the East of England

Banking
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Banking

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in the East of England over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in the East of England

Banking
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Banking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Banking

Banking
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the East of England region over the 6 months to 10 July 2026. 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
Essex - 23 £558 - 3
Hertfordshire -17 2 - -
Norfolk - 2 £600 - 1
Cambridgeshire - 2 £531 -
Banking
England

Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (6.90%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (51.72%) GCP
2 8 (27.59%) AWS
3 6 (20.69%) GitHub
4 5 (17.24%) Azure
5 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (6.90%) Sauce Labs
5 2 (6.90%) TestFlight
6 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (31.03%) VPN
2 7 (24.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.90%) Metadata
3 1 (3.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Android Studio
1 2 (6.90%) Appium
1 2 (6.90%) Cypress.io
1 2 (6.90%) Git
1 2 (6.90%) IntelliJ
1 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
1 2 (6.90%) JUnit
1 2 (6.90%) Postman
1 2 (6.90%) Selenium
1 2 (6.90%) SonarQube
1 2 (6.90%) Sourcetree
1 2 (6.90%) Xcode
General
1 22 (75.86%) Finance
2 11 (37.93%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.45%) Retail
4 1 (3.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Developer
2 13 (44.83%) Java Developer
3 11 (37.93%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 11 (37.93%) IAM Developer
3 11 (37.93%) Software Developer
3 11 (37.93%) Software Engineer
4 9 (31.03%) Backend Developer
4 9 (31.03%) Java Engineer
4 9 (31.03%) Java Software Developer
4 9 (31.03%) Java Software Engineer
5 6 (20.69%) Architect
6 5 (17.24%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (10.34%) GCP Architect
7 3 (10.34%) Java Architect
7 3 (10.34%) Java Software Architect
7 3 (10.34%) Software Architect
8 2 (6.90%) GCP Developer
8 2 (6.90%) GCP DevOps
8 2 (6.90%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 2 (6.90%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) OAuth
1 4 (13.79%) OpenID
2 2 (6.90%) pytest
2 2 (6.90%) React
2 2 (6.90%) Spring
2 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.45%) CSS
3 1 (3.45%) HTML
3 1 (3.45%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
1 4 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.34%) Mainframe
3 2 (6.90%) Private Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) Software Engineering
2 11 (37.93%) CI/CD
3 10 (34.48%) Identity Access Management
4 9 (31.03%) Agile
4 9 (31.03%) DevOps
4 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (24.14%) Identity Management
5 7 (24.14%) Load Balancing
6 6 (20.69%) Microservices
6 6 (20.69%) SDLC
6 6 (20.69%) TDD
6 6 (20.69%) Web Development
7 4 (13.79%) AI
7 4 (13.79%) Architectural Design
7 4 (13.79%) Customer Experience
7 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (10.34%) API Testing
8 3 (10.34%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (10.34%) Test Automation
9 2 (6.90%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 18 (62.07%) Java
2 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.90%) Python
4 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.45%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (6.90%) Ansible
2 2 (6.90%) Argo
2 2 (6.90%) Grafana
2 2 (6.90%) Kibana
2 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.90%) Rundeck
2 2 (6.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Google
2 2 (6.90%) AppDynamics
2 2 (6.90%) Atlassian
2 2 (6.90%) Checkmarx
2 2 (6.90%) Dynatrace
2 2 (6.90%) Moogsoft
3 1 (3.45%) Databricks
3 1 (3.45%) IBM