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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 -7
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,103 1,991 2,431
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.40% 7.48% 6.53%
As % of the General category 10.68% 11.97% 11.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,301 1,270 1,697
10th Percentile £363 £375 £395
25th Percentile £447 £490 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £600 £610
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% -1.64% -6.15%
75th Percentile £679 £738 £750
90th Percentile £800 £838 £838
UK median daily rate £540 £600 £610
% change year-on-year -10.00% -1.64% -6.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 12 24
10th Percentile £18.78 £14.80 £12.84
25th Percentile - £15.24 £16.18
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +14.21% -7.14%
75th Percentile £38.59 £25.81 £30.00
90th Percentile £80.38 £73.80 £67.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £23.21 £19.50
% change year-on-year +8.36% +19.03% -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 19,695 16,635 21,918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 59.93% 62.53% 58.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,540 10,022 14,558
10th Percentile £290 £300 £263
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £541
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.91% -1.68%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,212 542 1,356
10th Percentile £14.05 £15.62 £13.30
25th Percentile £16.50 £19.26 £15.17
Median hourly rate £22.85 £29.90 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.58% +15.00% +1.13%
75th Percentile £47.99 £57.50 £55.04
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.99 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £22.85 £27.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -16.91% +5.77% +4.00%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 29 January 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 -5 1,445 £600 -4.00% 244
North of England +7 443 £465 +2.54% 78
North West +10 227 £447 +11.75% 38
Yorkshire +3 225 £500 -11.50% 31
Midlands +14 173 £491 -10.73% 34
West Midlands +22 117 £563 -3.64% 20
East Midlands +5 56 £422 -5.20% 14
South East -22 49 £438 -22.22% 170
South West -10 29 £525 -15.15% 19
East of England -11 10 £400 -33.33% 29
North East -13 5 £400 - 9
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
1 157 (7.47%) Confluence
2 54 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 20 (0.95%) Apache Spark
4 19 (0.90%) Apache
5 18 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.48%) CICS
6 10 (0.48%) CMS
7 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.43%) SAS
8 8 (0.38%) IIS
9 7 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.33%) MQSeries
10 5 (0.24%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.24%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.19%) Mule
11 4 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 145 (6.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (3.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 64 (3.04%) Microsoft Office
4 45 (2.14%) MS Visio
5 26 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
6 19 (0.90%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.19%) Adobe Captivate
9 3 (0.14%) Notion
9 3 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.14%) Trello
10 2 (0.095%) Sketch
11 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.048%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.048%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 27 (1.28%) Payment Gateway
2 26 (1.24%) Oracle Payables
3 20 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
5 16 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
6 13 (0.62%) Oracle General Ledger
7 12 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
8 11 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 11 (0.52%) Temenos T24
9 9 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
9 9 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 8 (0.38%) Finacle
10 8 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
11 7 (0.33%) Fidessa
11 7 (0.33%) Loan IQ
11 7 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
11 7 (0.33%) SAP FI
12 6 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
13 5 (0.24%) Oracle E-Business Tax
13 5 (0.24%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 326 (15.50%) Azure
2 315 (14.98%) AWS
3 166 (7.89%) GCP
4 141 (6.70%) Power Platform
5 87 (4.14%) GitHub
6 79 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
7 67 (3.19%) Serverless
8 51 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
9 45 (2.14%) Figma
10 38 (1.81%) SaaS
11 34 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
12 31 (1.47%) PowerApps
13 26 (1.24%) Entra ID
13 26 (1.24%) Power Automate
13 26 (1.24%) Snowflake
14 25 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
15 24 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
16 23 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
17 22 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
18 21 (1.00%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 54 (2.57%) DNS
2 47 (2.23%) Firewall
3 36 (1.71%) HTTP
4 34 (1.62%) Network Security
5 31 (1.47%) TCP/IP
6 29 (1.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 29 (1.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 26 (1.24%) DMZ
8 24 (1.14%) VPN
9 22 (1.05%) SSL
10 21 (1.00%) Wireless
11 18 (0.86%) BIG-IP
11 18 (0.86%) Wireshark
12 15 (0.71%) NetScaler
13 13 (0.62%) BGP
13 13 (0.62%) Multicast
14 12 (0.57%) DHCP
15 10 (0.48%) FIX Connectivity
15 10 (0.48%) LAN
15 10 (0.48%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (5.52%) Power BI
2 89 (4.23%) SQL Server
3 73 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
4 67 (3.19%) Tableau
5 65 (3.09%) NoSQL
6 44 (2.09%) MongoDB
7 42 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
8 38 (1.81%) Oracle Database
9 37 (1.76%) Relational Database
10 26 (1.24%) Metadata
11 22 (1.05%) Big Data
12 21 (1.00%) Data Lake
13 20 (0.95%) DB2
14 19 (0.90%) BigQuery
15 16 (0.76%) Hadoop
16 15 (0.71%) MySQL
16 15 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 13 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
17 13 (0.62%) Power Query
18 11 (0.52%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 242 (11.51%) JIRA
2 141 (6.70%) Jenkins
3 101 (4.80%) Git
4 86 (4.09%) GitLab
5 37 (1.76%) JUnit
6 36 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
7 27 (1.28%) Bitbucket
8 26 (1.24%) Selenium
9 21 (1.00%) Liquibase
10 20 (0.95%) Cucumber
10 20 (0.95%) Maven
11 17 (0.81%) Fiddler
11 17 (0.81%) Gradle
11 17 (0.81%) Postman
12 16 (0.76%) REST Assured
13 15 (0.71%) SonarQube
14 13 (0.62%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.48%) Cypress.io
16 8 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
17 7 (0.33%) webpack
General
1 1,333 (63.39%) Finance
2 758 (36.04%) Social Skills
3 438 (20.83%) Investment Banking
4 282 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
5 180 (8.56%) Front Office
6 124 (5.90%) Financial Institution
7 73 (3.47%) Retail Banking
8 55 (2.62%) Legal
9 52 (2.47%) Retail
10 48 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
11 47 (2.23%) Corporate Banking
12 36 (1.71%) Public Sector
13 35 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
13 35 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
14 27 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
15 25 (1.19%) General Ledger
15 25 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 24 (1.14%) Back Office
16 24 (1.14%) International Banking
17 23 (1.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 414 (19.69%) Developer
2 345 (16.41%) Analyst
3 280 (13.31%) Senior
4 240 (11.41%) Business Analyst
5 200 (9.51%) Architect
6 134 (6.37%) Project Manager
7 128 (6.09%) Lead
8 113 (5.37%) Java Developer
9 109 (5.18%) Solutions Architect
10 91 (4.33%) Senior Developer
11 73 (3.47%) Consultant
12 68 (3.23%) Banking Analyst
13 51 (2.43%) Banking Business Analyst
13 51 (2.43%) DevOps Engineer
14 50 (2.38%) Designer
14 50 (2.38%) Senior Java Developer
15 46 (2.19%) Software Engineer
16 44 (2.09%) Senior Analyst
17 43 (2.04%) Data Engineer
18 41 (1.95%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (5.47%) Kafka
2 112 (5.33%) REST
3 103 (4.90%) .NET
4 90 (4.28%) Spring
5 77 (3.66%) RESTful
6 75 (3.57%) Spring Boot
7 69 (3.28%) React
8 60 (2.85%) HTML
9 52 (2.47%) AngularJS
9 52 (2.47%) Middleware
9 52 (2.47%) Pandas
10 46 (2.19%) NumPy
11 42 (2.00%) XML
12 41 (1.95%) CSS
13 37 (1.76%) Node.js
14 35 (1.66%) OAuth
15 32 (1.52%) JMS
16 30 (1.43%) JSON
17 29 (1.38%) Elastic Stack
18 25 (1.19%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 133 (6.32%) Product Ownership
2 122 (5.80%) Derivative
3 112 (5.33%) Onboarding
4 102 (4.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 96 (4.56%) Cloud Native
6 90 (4.28%) Management Information System
7 74 (3.52%) Data Protection Act
8 73 (3.47%) Equities
9 69 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
10 65 (3.09%) Fixed Income
11 52 (2.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 45 (2.14%) Hedge funds
12 45 (2.14%) Public Cloud
13 44 (2.09%) Data Centre
14 42 (2.00%) Data Structures
15 41 (1.95%) Credit Risk
15 41 (1.95%) Mobile App
16 36 (1.71%) Market Risk
17 33 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
18 28 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 133 (6.32%) Linux
2 119 (5.66%) Windows
3 50 (2.38%) Unix
4 37 (1.76%) Android
5 33 (1.57%) Windows 10
6 22 (1.05%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.95%) Windows Server
8 16 (0.76%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.57%) zOS
10 5 (0.24%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.19%) AIX
11 4 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.048%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.048%) Solaris
13 1 (0.048%) VMS
13 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 587 (27.91%) Agile
2 390 (18.54%) Problem-Solving
3 359 (17.07%) Stakeholder Management
4 322 (15.31%) CI/CD
5 321 (15.26%) DevOps
6 193 (9.18%) Analytics
7 190 (9.03%) Microservices
8 179 (8.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 178 (8.46%) Migration
10 174 (8.27%) Risk Management
11 159 (7.56%) Project Management
12 152 (7.23%) Decision-Making
13 150 (7.13%) AI
14 145 (6.89%) Change Management
15 143 (6.80%) Scrum
16 139 (6.61%) Data Analysis
17 138 (6.56%) Data Modelling
18 136 (6.47%) Business Intelligence
18 136 (6.47%) Containerisation
19 135 (6.42%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 397 (18.88%) SQL
2 362 (17.21%) Python
3 311 (14.79%) Java
4 142 (6.75%) C#
5 92 (4.37%) JavaScript
6 60 (2.85%) Go
6 60 (2.85%) TypeScript
7 57 (2.71%) PowerShell
8 42 (2.00%) C++
9 34 (1.62%) PL/SQL
10 27 (1.28%) Shell Script
10 27 (1.28%) VBA
11 25 (1.19%) Bash
12 20 (0.95%) COBOL
13 19 (0.90%) T-SQL
14 17 (0.81%) Kotlin
15 14 (0.67%) Scala
16 12 (0.57%) Perl
16 12 (0.57%) Rust
17 11 (0.52%) RPG
Qualifications
1 246 (11.70%) Degree
2 83 (3.95%) Security Cleared
3 82 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 79 (3.76%) Master's Degree
5 57 (2.71%) PMI Certification
6 52 (2.47%) PMP
7 45 (2.14%) SC Cleared
8 35 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.28%) CISSP
10 24 (1.14%) AWS Certification
10 24 (1.14%) Azure Certification
11 16 (0.76%) MBA
12 15 (0.71%) CBAP
13 14 (0.67%) DV Cleared
14 13 (0.62%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.57%) CISM
15 12 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
16 10 (0.48%) PhD
17 8 (0.38%) CCA
17 8 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (6.42%) QA
2 83 (3.95%) Data Quality
3 57 (2.71%) ISO 20022
4 54 (2.57%) GDPR
5 43 (2.04%) PMO
6 37 (1.76%) PSD2
7 34 (1.62%) SEPA
8 32 (1.52%) Accessibility
9 27 (1.28%) SLA
10 25 (1.19%) GRC
10 25 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 24 (1.14%) Basel III
11 24 (1.14%) PCI DSS
12 21 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 21 (1.00%) MiFID
13 19 (0.90%) NIST
14 16 (0.76%) ISO 8583
15 15 (0.71%) EMIR
16 11 (0.52%) IFRS
17 8 (0.38%) COBIT
System Software
1 178 (8.46%) Docker
2 44 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (1.38%) Active Directory
4 20 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (0.86%) Firmware
6 6 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.14%) RACF
8 3 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
8 3 (0.14%) vSphere
9 2 (0.095%) ACF2
9 2 (0.095%) GridGain
9 2 (0.095%) NFS
9 2 (0.095%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.048%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.048%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.048%) GPFS
10 1 (0.048%) KVM
10 1 (0.048%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 195 (9.27%) Kubernetes
2 108 (5.14%) Terraform
3 80 (3.80%) Ansible
4 50 (2.38%) Grafana
5 43 (2.04%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.86%) SCCM
7 16 (0.76%) Argo
8 11 (0.52%) Control-M
9 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.33%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
10 7 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.24%) CA Endevor
11 5 (0.24%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.19%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.14%) Istio
13 3 (0.14%) Thomson Reuters DACS
13 3 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 228 (10.84%) Microsoft
2 157 (7.47%) Oracle
3 85 (4.04%) Google
4 64 (3.04%) Splunk
5 52 (2.47%) ServiceNow
6 50 (2.38%) VMware
7 49 (2.33%) IBM
8 43 (2.04%) Cisco
9 42 (2.00%) F5
9 42 (2.00%) SAP
10 36 (1.71%) Citrix
11 30 (1.43%) Remedy
12 29 (1.38%) HP
13 28 (1.33%) Salesforce
14 27 (1.28%) Dell
15 26 (1.24%) Databricks
16 25 (1.19%) Bloomberg
16 25 (1.19%) CyberArk
17 24 (1.14%) Apple
18 21 (1.00%) Dynatrace