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 9 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 92 82
Rank change year-on-year +12 -10 +2
Contract jobs citing Banking 43 3 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.79% 0.22% 0.68%
As % of the General category 3.42% 0.38% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 1 6
10th Percentile £411 - £488
25th Percentile £495 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £600 - £650
90th Percentile - - £713
England median daily rate £550 £551 £613
% change year-on-year -0.18% -10.04% -2.00%

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 1,259 797 837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 52.48% 59.26% 56.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 312 305
10th Percentile £185 £187 £208
25th Percentile £295 £363 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £502 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.27% +5.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £601 £563
90th Percentile £638 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £500 £527
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.03% -4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 421 241 218
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.38 £16.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £27.96 £22.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.09% -12.00% +41.08%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.00 £53.29
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £25.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.65% -28.36% +16.67%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +8 29 £534 -23.68% 1
Hertfordshire -16 4 - - 11
Bedfordshire - 4 £555 -
Cambridgeshire - 4 £375 - 7
Norfolk - 2 £600 - 4
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:

Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 22 (51.16%) GCP
2 14 (32.56%) AWS
3 12 (27.91%) Azure
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.33%) GitHub
4 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.33%) SaaS
4 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (25.58%) VPN
2 10 (23.26%) Firewall
3 1 (2.33%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.26%) Relational Database
2 4 (9.30%) Metadata
3 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.33%) Power BI
4 1 (2.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) JIRA
2 1 (2.33%) Git
General
1 36 (83.72%) Finance
2 13 (30.23%) Manufacturing
3 5 (11.63%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (11.63%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Retail
5 2 (4.65%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.65%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (53.49%) Developer
1 23 (53.49%) Java Developer
2 16 (37.21%) IAM Developer
2 16 (37.21%) Java Engineer
3 14 (32.56%) Java Software Engineer
3 14 (32.56%) Software Engineer
4 13 (30.23%) Backend Developer
4 13 (30.23%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 13 (30.23%) Java Software Developer
4 13 (30.23%) Software Developer
5 6 (13.95%) GCP Developer
6 5 (11.63%) Architect
6 5 (11.63%) Lead
7 4 (9.30%) Senior
8 3 (6.98%) Analyst
8 3 (6.98%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (6.98%) Senior Java Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Data Architect
9 2 (4.65%) Security Architect
9 2 (4.65%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.26%) OAuth
1 10 (23.26%) OpenID
2 1 (2.33%) CSS
2 1 (2.33%) Kafka
2 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.26%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.98%) Mainframe
3 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.65%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.33%) EMV
4 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.33%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (58.14%) Software Engineering
2 20 (46.51%) Identity Access Management
3 13 (30.23%) Microservices
4 12 (27.91%) Agile
5 11 (25.58%) CI/CD
5 11 (25.58%) DevOps
5 11 (25.58%) TDD
6 10 (23.26%) Customer Experience
6 10 (23.26%) Identity Management
6 10 (23.26%) Load Balancing
6 10 (23.26%) SDLC
7 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (20.93%) Web Development
8 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (9.30%) AI
9 4 (9.30%) Analytics
9 4 (9.30%) Data Transformation
9 4 (9.30%) Migration
9 4 (9.30%) Roadmaps
9 4 (9.30%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 27 (62.79%) Java
2 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.33%) ACCA
2 1 (2.33%) CIMA
2 1 (2.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.33%) ISO 8583
2 1 (2.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 10 (23.26%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.33%) Ansible
2 1 (2.33%) Argo
2 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (4.65%) AppDynamics
1 2 (4.65%) Dynatrace
1 2 (4.65%) Google
1 2 (4.65%) Moogsoft
2 1 (2.33%) Databricks
2 1 (2.33%) IBM
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.33%) Xero