Banking Contract Job Trends in England

Banking
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,182 1,894 2,378
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.99% 7.69% 6.25%
As % of the General category 10.35% 12.15% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,327 1,244 1,695
10th Percentile £368 £363 £377
25th Percentile £445 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -2.04% -8.58%
75th Percentile £674 £738 £750
90th Percentile £775 £850 £838
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 13 23
10th Percentile £17.39 £15.23 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.82 - £17.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +14.21% -7.14%
75th Percentile £28.75 £24.66 £35.25
90th Percentile £79.78 £68.85 £81.15
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £23.23 £19.50
% change year-on-year +8.29% +19.10% -7.14%

All General Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 21,084 15,592 22,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.88% 63.27% 58.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,326 10,001 14,558
10th Percentile £300 £300 £265
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £758
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,319 558 1,672
10th Percentile £14.22 £15.00 £13.05
25th Percentile £17.60 £20.00 £15.29
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.90% +17.12% -20.00%
75th Percentile £57.75 £61.31 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.35 £75.08 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £24.09 £30.00 £25.71
% change year-on-year -19.70% +16.69% -20.89%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Banking job vacancy trend in England

Banking
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Banking

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in England over the 6 months to 12 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in England

Banking
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Banking

Banking
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Banking in England over the 6 months to 12 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Banking in England

Banking
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 12 March 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
London -10 1,488 £575 -9.80% 323
North of England +6 465 £475 +4.40% 80
North West +13 245 £445 +11.31% 51
Yorkshire +1 227 £500 -11.50% 25
Midlands +13 183 £474 -13.82% 38
West Midlands +9 126 £558 -11.33% 20
East Midlands -7 57 £430 +7.50% 18
South East -28 48 £459 -16.55% 108
South West -11 33 £525 -14.29% 9
East of England -24 11 £400 -33.33% 11
North East -12 4 £400 - 4
Banking
UK

Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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
1 167 (7.65%) Confluence
2 52 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.10%) Apache Spark
4 17 (0.78%) SAS
5 14 (0.64%) Apache
5 14 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (0.50%) IIS
6 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.37%) CICS
8 7 (0.32%) CMS
9 6 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.23%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.23%) Hyperledger
11 4 (0.18%) MQSeries
11 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.092%) Camunda
12 2 (0.092%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.092%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 150 (6.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (3.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 66 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
4 49 (2.25%) MS Visio
5 24 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
6 19 (0.87%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
9 3 (0.14%) Notion
9 3 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.14%) Trello
10 2 (0.092%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.092%) Sketch
11 1 (0.046%) InVision
11 1 (0.046%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 31 (1.42%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.15%) Oracle Payables
3 20 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
4 18 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
4 18 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
5 17 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 16 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
7 15 (0.69%) Temenos T24
8 13 (0.60%) Loan IQ
9 10 (0.46%) SAP FI
10 8 (0.37%) Actimize
10 8 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
10 8 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 8 (0.37%) SAP CO
10 8 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
11 7 (0.32%) Aladdin
11 7 (0.32%) Finacle
12 6 (0.27%) Fidessa
12 6 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
13 5 (0.23%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 342 (15.67%) Azure
2 332 (15.22%) AWS
3 165 (7.56%) GCP
4 136 (6.23%) Power Platform
5 90 (4.12%) GitHub
6 89 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
7 58 (2.66%) Serverless
8 56 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
9 49 (2.25%) SaaS
10 41 (1.88%) Figma
11 36 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
12 28 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
12 28 (1.28%) Amazon S3
13 27 (1.24%) OCI
14 26 (1.19%) Entra ID
15 25 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
16 24 (1.10%) PowerApps
16 24 (1.10%) Snowflake
17 23 (1.05%) Power Automate
18 22 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 69 (3.16%) DNS
2 47 (2.15%) Firewall
3 38 (1.74%) HTTP
4 37 (1.70%) TCP/IP
4 37 (1.70%) VPN
5 32 (1.47%) Network Security
6 31 (1.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 29 (1.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 26 (1.19%) SSL
9 25 (1.15%) BGP
9 25 (1.15%) DMZ
10 23 (1.05%) Multicast
11 22 (1.01%) BIG-IP
11 22 (1.01%) Wireshark
12 19 (0.87%) Wireless
13 18 (0.82%) NetScaler
14 17 (0.78%) SAN
15 16 (0.73%) DHCP
16 15 (0.69%) FIX Connectivity
17 14 (0.64%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (5.09%) Power BI
2 96 (4.40%) SQL Server
3 75 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
4 67 (3.07%) Tableau
5 54 (2.47%) NoSQL
6 50 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
7 43 (1.97%) Metadata
7 43 (1.97%) Oracle Database
8 40 (1.83%) MongoDB
9 37 (1.70%) Relational Database
10 29 (1.33%) Big Data
11 22 (1.01%) BigQuery
12 17 (0.78%) Data Lake
12 17 (0.78%) DB2
12 17 (0.78%) Hadoop
12 17 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
13 11 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (0.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 244 (11.18%) JIRA
2 127 (5.82%) Jenkins
3 95 (4.35%) Git
4 88 (4.03%) GitLab
5 31 (1.42%) JUnit
6 25 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
7 23 (1.05%) Cucumber
8 22 (1.01%) Bitbucket
8 22 (1.01%) Selenium
9 20 (0.92%) Fiddler
10 19 (0.87%) Postman
11 16 (0.73%) REST Assured
12 15 (0.69%) Liquibase
13 14 (0.64%) Gradle
13 14 (0.64%) Maven
14 13 (0.60%) TeamCity
15 9 (0.41%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.41%) SonarQube
16 8 (0.37%) Mockito
16 8 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,386 (63.52%) Finance
2 704 (32.26%) Social Skills
3 444 (20.35%) Investment Banking
4 293 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
5 172 (7.88%) Front Office
6 121 (5.55%) Financial Institution
7 88 (4.03%) Retail Banking
8 60 (2.75%) Retail
9 59 (2.70%) Legal
10 58 (2.66%) Corporate Banking
10 58 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
11 52 (2.38%) Public Sector
12 41 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
13 39 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
14 35 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
15 28 (1.28%) Marketing
16 22 (1.01%) International Banking
17 21 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 21 (0.96%) Private Banking
18 20 (0.92%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 384 (17.60%) Developer
2 378 (17.32%) Analyst
3 282 (12.92%) Senior
4 258 (11.82%) Business Analyst
5 235 (10.77%) Architect
6 137 (6.28%) Lead
7 129 (5.91%) Project Manager
8 128 (5.87%) Solutions Architect
9 100 (4.58%) Java Developer
10 85 (3.90%) Senior Developer
11 75 (3.44%) Banking Analyst
11 75 (3.44%) Consultant
12 60 (2.75%) Data Engineer
13 52 (2.38%) Banking Business Analyst
14 50 (2.29%) Designer
14 50 (2.29%) Network Engineer
15 49 (2.25%) DevOps Engineer
16 47 (2.15%) Payments Architect
17 45 (2.06%) C# Developer
18 44 (2.02%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (5.68%) Kafka
2 109 (5.00%) .NET
3 107 (4.90%) REST
4 74 (3.39%) React
5 73 (3.35%) Spring
6 66 (3.02%) RESTful
7 62 (2.84%) Middleware
8 61 (2.80%) Spring Boot
9 60 (2.75%) HTML
10 51 (2.34%) AngularJS
11 42 (1.92%) OAuth
12 39 (1.79%) CSS
13 38 (1.74%) Pandas
14 37 (1.70%) XML
15 35 (1.60%) JSON
16 33 (1.51%) NumPy
17 31 (1.42%) OAuth2
18 29 (1.33%) Node.js
19 26 (1.19%) SOAP
20 24 (1.10%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 134 (6.14%) Product Ownership
2 111 (5.09%) Derivative
3 97 (4.45%) Onboarding
4 95 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 94 (4.31%) Management Information System
6 85 (3.90%) Cloud Native
7 69 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
8 66 (3.02%) Distributed Systems
9 65 (2.98%) Equities
10 64 (2.93%) Fixed Income
11 46 (2.11%) Public Cloud
12 44 (2.02%) Data Structures
13 42 (1.92%) Data Centre
14 41 (1.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 40 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
16 39 (1.79%) Market Risk
17 38 (1.74%) Credit Risk
18 33 (1.51%) Hedge funds
19 32 (1.47%) Mobile App
20 29 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 133 (6.10%) Windows
2 120 (5.50%) Linux
3 50 (2.29%) Unix
4 36 (1.65%) Android
4 36 (1.65%) Windows 10
5 22 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.92%) Windows Server
7 15 (0.69%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.64%) zOS
9 12 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.32%) VMS
11 6 (0.27%) AIX
12 5 (0.23%) CoreOS
12 5 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
13 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.14%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.046%) Kali Linux
15 1 (0.046%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 560 (25.66%) Agile
2 392 (17.97%) Stakeholder Management
3 376 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
4 321 (14.71%) DevOps
5 320 (14.67%) CI/CD
6 231 (10.59%) Migration
7 209 (9.58%) Analytics
8 192 (8.80%) AI
9 179 (8.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 178 (8.16%) Microservices
11 170 (7.79%) Risk Management
12 162 (7.42%) Data Modelling
12 162 (7.42%) Decision-Making
13 156 (7.15%) Data Analysis
14 155 (7.10%) Project Management
15 149 (6.83%) Roadmaps
16 146 (6.69%) Continuous Improvement
17 144 (6.60%) Business Intelligence
17 144 (6.60%) Validation
18 139 (6.37%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 394 (18.06%) SQL
2 370 (16.96%) Python
3 299 (13.70%) Java
4 143 (6.55%) C#
5 87 (3.99%) JavaScript
6 64 (2.93%) TypeScript
7 60 (2.75%) PowerShell
8 48 (2.20%) Go
9 36 (1.65%) PL/SQL
10 29 (1.33%) VBA
11 28 (1.28%) Bash
11 28 (1.28%) Shell Script
12 27 (1.24%) C++
13 22 (1.01%) T-SQL
14 18 (0.82%) Kotlin
15 17 (0.78%) COBOL
16 14 (0.64%) Scala
17 13 (0.60%) Perl
18 11 (0.50%) Korn
19 10 (0.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 231 (10.59%) Degree
2 102 (4.67%) Security Cleared
3 76 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 76 (3.48%) Master's Degree
4 59 (2.70%) SC Cleared
5 54 (2.47%) PMI Certification
6 53 (2.43%) PMP
7 41 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 28 (1.28%) Azure Certification
8 28 (1.28%) CISSP
9 24 (1.10%) AWS Certification
10 18 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
10 18 (0.82%) MBA
11 16 (0.73%) CISM
12 15 (0.69%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.55%) CBAP
13 12 (0.55%) PhD
14 10 (0.46%) DV Cleared
14 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (0.37%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (6.14%) QA
2 101 (4.63%) Data Quality
3 55 (2.52%) ISO 20022
4 52 (2.38%) GDPR
5 38 (1.74%) PMO
6 34 (1.56%) PCI DSS
6 34 (1.56%) SLA
7 33 (1.51%) Accessibility
8 31 (1.42%) PSD2
9 30 (1.37%) SEPA
10 28 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 25 (1.15%) GRC
12 24 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 24 (1.10%) NIST
13 22 (1.01%) Basel III
13 22 (1.01%) MiFID
14 14 (0.64%) ISO 8583
15 13 (0.60%) EMIR
16 11 (0.50%) IFRS
17 7 (0.32%) GAAP
System Software
1 155 (7.10%) Docker
2 51 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (1.70%) Active Directory
4 22 (1.01%) Firmware
5 19 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.60%) vSphere
7 11 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (0.37%) NFS
9 6 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.18%) RACF
11 3 (0.14%) SRDF
11 3 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
11 3 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.092%) ACF2
12 2 (0.092%) Varnish
12 2 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.092%) XenApp
13 1 (0.046%) Postfix
13 1 (0.046%) PowerHA
13 1 (0.046%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 187 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 97 (4.45%) Terraform
3 84 (3.85%) Ansible
4 49 (2.25%) Grafana
5 39 (1.79%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.05%) SCCM
7 18 (0.82%) Argo
8 17 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.41%) Control-M
9 9 (0.41%) Puppet
9 9 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.37%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.27%) Istio
11 6 (0.27%) NetBackup
11 6 (0.27%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
12 5 (0.23%) SnapMirror
13 4 (0.18%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.18%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 243 (11.14%) Microsoft
2 150 (6.87%) Oracle
3 81 (3.71%) Google
4 69 (3.16%) ServiceNow
5 62 (2.84%) VMware
6 59 (2.70%) Cisco
7 57 (2.61%) Splunk
8 48 (2.20%) F5
9 47 (2.15%) IBM
9 47 (2.15%) SAP
10 45 (2.06%) Citrix
11 33 (1.51%) Remedy
12 29 (1.33%) Bloomberg
13 28 (1.28%) Murex
14 26 (1.19%) HP
15 25 (1.15%) NetApp
16 24 (1.10%) Temenos
17 23 (1.05%) Apple
17 23 (1.05%) Salesforce
18 22 (1.01%) Dell