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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 77 89
Rank change year-on-year -13 +12 +36
Contract jobs citing Banking 12 9 25
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.68% 0.86% 1.32%
As % of the General category 1.18% 1.43% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 17
10th Percentile £300 - £313
25th Percentile £350 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £600 £508
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +18.23% +12.78%
75th Percentile £463 - £653
90th Percentile £595 £705 £675
England median daily rate £534 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -11.00% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £58.20
25th Percentile - - £68.63
Median hourly rate - £24.66 £87.00
Median % change year-on-year - -71.66% -
75th Percentile - - £88.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.50
% change year-on-year +12.93% +14.21% -7.14%

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 1,018 628 1,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 57.97% 60.10% 61.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 304 563
10th Percentile £185 £248 £206
25th Percentile £293 £374 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £561
90th Percentile £681 £688 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 366 91 337
10th Percentile £13.50 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £27.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.48% +28.57% +4.84%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £22.85 £30.31 £25.25
% change year-on-year -24.60% +20.02% -6.48%

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 February 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 February 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
Hertfordshire -14 7 £400 - 2
Essex +2 5 £300 - 1
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 5 (41.67%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (25.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
1 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (25.00%) PowerApps
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) GitHub
2 2 (16.67%) Sauce Labs
2 2 (16.67%) TestFlight
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) Android Studio
2 2 (16.67%) Appium
2 2 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) Postman
2 2 (16.67%) Selenium
2 2 (16.67%) Sourcetree
2 2 (16.67%) Xcode
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (58.33%) Finance
3 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Applications Tester
1 3 (25.00%) Lead
1 3 (25.00%) Manual Tester
1 3 (25.00%) Tester
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Risk Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) QA Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) R Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Risk Manager
3 1 (8.33%) SAS Developer
3 1 (8.33%) SAS Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) UAT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (8.33%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (41.67%) Business Analysis
3 5 (41.67%) Manual Testing
3 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Project Delivery
4 3 (25.00%) Analytics
4 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (25.00%) CRM
4 3 (25.00%) Project Management
4 3 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Test Scripting
5 2 (16.67%) API Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Black-Box Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (16.67%) People Management
5 2 (16.67%) SDLC
5 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) R
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Grafana
1 2 (16.67%) Kibana
1 2 (16.67%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 2 (16.67%) SAP