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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,208 1,890 2,367
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.94% 7.73% 6.27%
As % of the General category 10.34% 12.21% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,337 1,247 1,697
10th Percentile £368 £363 £377
25th Percentile £443 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% -6.33%
75th Percentile £652 £738 £750
90th Percentile £775 £858 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 13 24
10th Percentile £17.00 £15.23 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.33 - £18.12
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +14.21% -7.14%
75th Percentile £51.74 £24.66 £32.63
90th Percentile £95.38 £68.85 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.50
% change year-on-year +12.93% +14.21% -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 21,363 15,484 22,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.51% 63.36% 58.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,509 10,022 14,428
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,337 582 1,659
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £19.35 £15.27
Median hourly rate £25.08 £30.62 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +17.75% -25.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £25.75
% change year-on-year -16.67% +16.50% -26.43%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 1,499 £575 -9.80% 343
North of England +5 473 £480 +6.67% 70
North West +15 260 £447 +10.37% 40
Yorkshire -4 218 £500 -7.41% 23
Midlands +13 183 £482 -12.36% 28
West Midlands +9 127 £575 -4.76% 19
East Midlands -12 56 £430 +7.23% 9
South East -41 48 £472 -18.00% 97
South West -17 36 £525 -13.04% 7
East of England -19 11 £400 -33.33% 13
North East -12 5 £400 - 7
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
1 176 (7.97%) Confluence
2 55 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.09%) Apache Spark
4 17 (0.77%) SAS
5 14 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.59%) Apache
7 11 (0.50%) IIS
7 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.41%) CICS
9 7 (0.32%) CMS
10 6 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.23%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.23%) Hyperledger
12 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.14%) MQSeries
14 2 (0.091%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.091%) WebLogic
14 2 (0.091%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 149 (6.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (3.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 67 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
4 51 (2.31%) MS Visio
5 26 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.72%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
9 3 (0.14%) Notion
9 3 (0.14%) Trello
10 2 (0.091%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.045%) InVision
11 1 (0.045%) Sketch
11 1 (0.045%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 32 (1.45%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.13%) Oracle Payables
3 20 (0.91%) Oracle Receivables
4 19 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
5 18 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
5 18 (0.82%) Temenos T24
6 17 (0.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 15 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
8 13 (0.59%) Loan IQ
9 10 (0.45%) SAP FI
10 9 (0.41%) Actimize
11 8 (0.36%) Finacle
11 8 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
11 8 (0.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 8 (0.36%) SAP CO
11 8 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
12 7 (0.32%) Aladdin
12 7 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
12 7 (0.32%) Summit
13 6 (0.27%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 345 (15.63%) Azure
2 327 (14.81%) AWS
3 164 (7.43%) GCP
4 137 (6.20%) Power Platform
5 91 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
6 89 (4.03%) GitHub
7 60 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
8 58 (2.63%) Serverless
9 46 (2.08%) SaaS
10 43 (1.95%) Figma
11 33 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
12 30 (1.36%) Amazon S3
13 29 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
14 28 (1.27%) Entra ID
15 27 (1.22%) OCI
16 26 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
17 25 (1.13%) Snowflake
18 24 (1.09%) OpenShift
18 24 (1.09%) Power Automate
18 24 (1.09%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 68 (3.08%) DNS
2 46 (2.08%) Firewall
3 40 (1.81%) VPN
4 38 (1.72%) HTTP
5 36 (1.63%) TCP/IP
6 34 (1.54%) Network Security
7 29 (1.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 27 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 25 (1.13%) BGP
9 25 (1.13%) Multicast
9 25 (1.13%) SSL
10 23 (1.04%) DMZ
11 21 (0.95%) BIG-IP
12 20 (0.91%) Wireshark
13 19 (0.86%) NetScaler
14 18 (0.82%) SAN
14 18 (0.82%) Wireless
15 16 (0.72%) FIX Connectivity
16 15 (0.68%) DHCP
17 14 (0.63%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (5.03%) Power BI
2 92 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 70 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
3 70 (3.17%) Tableau
4 52 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (2.36%) NoSQL
5 46 (2.08%) Metadata
6 41 (1.86%) Oracle Database
7 39 (1.77%) MongoDB
8 36 (1.63%) Relational Database
9 30 (1.36%) Big Data
10 22 (1.00%) BigQuery
11 16 (0.72%) DB2
11 16 (0.72%) Hadoop
11 16 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 15 (0.68%) Data Lake
13 12 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
14 11 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
14 11 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (0.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 252 (11.41%) JIRA
2 131 (5.93%) Jenkins
3 92 (4.17%) Git
4 91 (4.12%) GitLab
5 30 (1.36%) JUnit
6 26 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
7 23 (1.04%) Bitbucket
7 23 (1.04%) Cucumber
7 23 (1.04%) Selenium
8 20 (0.91%) Postman
9 19 (0.86%) Fiddler
10 16 (0.72%) REST Assured
11 15 (0.68%) Maven
12 14 (0.63%) Liquibase
13 13 (0.59%) Gradle
13 13 (0.59%) TeamCity
14 10 (0.45%) Mockito
15 9 (0.41%) Cypress.io
16 8 (0.36%) SonarQube
17 7 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,403 (63.54%) Finance
2 704 (31.88%) Social Skills
3 440 (19.93%) Investment Banking
4 291 (13.18%) Analytical Skills
5 178 (8.06%) Front Office
6 116 (5.25%) Financial Institution
7 90 (4.08%) Retail Banking
8 65 (2.94%) Retail
9 62 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
10 61 (2.76%) Corporate Banking
11 59 (2.67%) Legal
12 54 (2.45%) Public Sector
13 41 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
14 39 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
15 34 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
16 29 (1.31%) Marketing
17 23 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 22 (1.00%) General Ledger
18 22 (1.00%) International Banking
19 21 (0.95%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 379 (17.16%) Analyst
1 379 (17.16%) Developer
2 281 (12.73%) Senior
3 262 (11.87%) Business Analyst
4 247 (11.19%) Architect
5 144 (6.52%) Lead
6 130 (5.89%) Project Manager
7 129 (5.84%) Solutions Architect
8 99 (4.48%) Java Developer
9 85 (3.85%) Senior Developer
10 78 (3.53%) Consultant
11 75 (3.40%) Banking Analyst
12 61 (2.76%) Data Engineer
13 54 (2.45%) Designer
14 52 (2.36%) Banking Business Analyst
15 51 (2.31%) DevOps Engineer
16 50 (2.26%) Network Engineer
16 50 (2.26%) Payments Architect
17 47 (2.13%) Payments Solutions Architect
18 43 (1.95%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (5.43%) Kafka
2 106 (4.80%) .NET
3 105 (4.76%) REST
4 74 (3.35%) React
5 70 (3.17%) Spring
6 64 (2.90%) RESTful
7 61 (2.76%) Middleware
7 61 (2.76%) Spring Boot
8 58 (2.63%) HTML
9 48 (2.17%) AngularJS
10 40 (1.81%) OAuth
11 39 (1.77%) CSS
12 38 (1.72%) XML
13 36 (1.63%) Pandas
14 34 (1.54%) JSON
15 31 (1.40%) NumPy
16 29 (1.31%) OAuth2
17 28 (1.27%) Node.js
18 27 (1.22%) FIX Protocol
18 27 (1.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 132 (5.98%) Product Ownership
2 110 (4.98%) Derivative
3 101 (4.57%) Onboarding
4 95 (4.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 92 (4.17%) Management Information System
6 89 (4.03%) Cloud Native
7 70 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
8 69 (3.13%) Fixed Income
9 66 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
9 66 (2.99%) Equities
10 47 (2.13%) Data Structures
11 44 (1.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 43 (1.95%) Public Cloud
13 40 (1.81%) Data Centre
13 40 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
13 40 (1.81%) Market Risk
14 39 (1.77%) Credit Risk
15 32 (1.45%) Hedge funds
16 29 (1.31%) Mobile App
16 29 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 131 (5.93%) Windows
2 119 (5.39%) Linux
3 56 (2.54%) Unix
4 36 (1.63%) Windows 10
5 34 (1.54%) Android
6 23 (1.04%) Apple iOS
7 21 (0.95%) Windows Server
8 16 (0.72%) Mac OS
9 15 (0.68%) zOS
10 13 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.32%) VMS
12 6 (0.27%) AIX
13 5 (0.23%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
14 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.14%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.091%) Solaris
15 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
16 1 (0.045%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 551 (24.95%) Agile
2 397 (17.98%) Stakeholder Management
3 368 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 326 (14.76%) DevOps
5 316 (14.31%) CI/CD
6 229 (10.37%) Migration
7 211 (9.56%) Analytics
8 198 (8.97%) AI
9 176 (7.97%) Microservices
9 176 (7.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 169 (7.65%) Risk Management
11 166 (7.52%) Data Modelling
12 161 (7.29%) Decision-Making
13 160 (7.25%) Project Management
14 158 (7.16%) Data Analysis
15 157 (7.11%) Roadmaps
16 152 (6.88%) Continuous Improvement
17 147 (6.66%) Business Intelligence
18 146 (6.61%) Validation
19 142 (6.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 394 (17.84%) SQL
2 367 (16.62%) Python
3 296 (13.41%) Java
4 140 (6.34%) C#
5 90 (4.08%) JavaScript
6 61 (2.76%) TypeScript
7 57 (2.58%) PowerShell
8 48 (2.17%) Go
9 36 (1.63%) PL/SQL
10 32 (1.45%) Shell Script
11 29 (1.31%) Bash
11 29 (1.31%) VBA
12 25 (1.13%) C++
13 21 (0.95%) T-SQL
14 18 (0.82%) COBOL
14 18 (0.82%) Kotlin
15 14 (0.63%) Perl
15 14 (0.63%) Scala
16 13 (0.59%) Korn
17 10 (0.45%) JCL
Qualifications
1 230 (10.42%) Degree
2 112 (5.07%) Security Cleared
3 74 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 74 (3.35%) Master's Degree
4 67 (3.03%) SC Cleared
5 55 (2.49%) PMI Certification
6 53 (2.40%) PMP
7 41 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 27 (1.22%) CISSP
9 25 (1.13%) Azure Certification
10 19 (0.86%) AWS Certification
11 18 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (0.77%) MBA
13 15 (0.68%) CISM
13 15 (0.68%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.54%) CBAP
14 12 (0.54%) PhD
15 10 (0.45%) DV Cleared
15 10 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
16 8 (0.36%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (6.07%) QA
2 103 (4.66%) Data Quality
3 56 (2.54%) ISO 20022
4 49 (2.22%) GDPR
5 39 (1.77%) PMO
6 34 (1.54%) PCI DSS
6 34 (1.54%) SLA
7 32 (1.45%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.45%) PSD2
8 30 (1.36%) SEPA
9 27 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 26 (1.18%) NIST
11 24 (1.09%) GRC
12 23 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 22 (1.00%) Basel III
13 22 (1.00%) MiFID
14 14 (0.63%) ISO 8583
15 13 (0.59%) EMIR
16 11 (0.50%) IFRS
17 7 (0.32%) GAAP
System Software
1 146 (6.61%) Docker
2 48 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (1.63%) Active Directory
4 23 (1.04%) Firmware
5 20 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.59%) vSphere
7 11 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.41%) NFS
9 6 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.18%) RACF
10 4 (0.18%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.14%) SRDF
11 3 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
11 3 (0.14%) XenApp
12 2 (0.091%) ACF2
12 2 (0.091%) GridGain
12 2 (0.091%) Varnish
12 2 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.045%) Postfix
13 1 (0.045%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 184 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 101 (4.57%) Terraform
3 82 (3.71%) Ansible
4 48 (2.17%) Grafana
5 38 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.04%) SCCM
7 19 (0.86%) Argo
8 17 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.41%) Puppet
9 9 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.36%) Istio
11 7 (0.32%) Control-M
11 7 (0.32%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.27%) RSA Archer
12 6 (0.27%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
13 5 (0.23%) SnapMirror
14 4 (0.18%) Karpenter
14 4 (0.18%) NetBackup
15 3 (0.14%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 256 (11.59%) Microsoft
2 154 (6.97%) Oracle
3 77 (3.49%) Google
4 72 (3.26%) ServiceNow
5 60 (2.72%) Cisco
6 58 (2.63%) VMware
7 57 (2.58%) Splunk
8 50 (2.26%) SAP
9 49 (2.22%) IBM
10 47 (2.13%) Citrix
11 46 (2.08%) F5
12 31 (1.40%) Remedy
13 30 (1.36%) Murex
14 29 (1.31%) Bloomberg
15 28 (1.27%) Temenos
16 26 (1.18%) HP
17 24 (1.09%) NetApp
17 24 (1.09%) Salesforce
18 23 (1.04%) Apple
18 23 (1.04%) Avaloq