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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 23 22
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,832 2,142 2,495
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.12% 7.64% 7.72%
As % of the General category 10.82% 11.94% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,768 1,438 1,688
10th Percentile £400 £357 £400
25th Percentile £451 £425 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £552 £610
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -9.51% -2.40%
75th Percentile £680 £713 £775
90th Percentile £800 £825 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 31 12
10th Percentile £16.56 £19.18 -
25th Percentile £16.83 - £14.50
Median hourly rate £17.00 £25.15 £16.10
Median % change year-on-year -32.41% +56.26% -13.00%
75th Percentile £19.69 - £31.19
90th Percentile £22.03 £70.00 £63.78
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £25.15 £16.10
% change year-on-year -32.41% +56.26% -13.00%

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 26,169 17,939 19,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.57% 63.95% 58.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,233 11,374 11,440
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,065 835
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.69 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.32 £17.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £25.08 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.65% -28.36% +16.67%
75th Percentile £56.21 £45.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £78.51 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% +18.18%

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 10 October 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
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 10 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
London -5 2,088 £600 -4.00% 2,624
North of England -11 490 £500 +11.11% 265
North West -8 243 £500 +16.28% 126
Yorkshire -8 242 £511 +2.20% 118
Midlands -45 133 £488 +7.85% 92
West Midlands -26 94 £550 +3.58% 42
South West -19 52 £505 -3.81% 93
East of England +5 42 £544 -22.25% 19
South East -53 42 £488 +16.42% 152
East Midlands -34 39 £450 +13.21% 50
North East -41 8 £875 +108.33% 21
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
1 154 (5.44%) Confluence
2 63 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.13%) Apache
4 29 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (0.95%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.56%) Camunda
7 15 (0.53%) SAS
8 14 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
9 13 (0.46%) IIS
10 12 (0.42%) CICS
11 9 (0.32%) Appian
12 8 (0.28%) Jupyter
12 8 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
13 6 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 5 (0.18%) CMS
14 5 (0.18%) MTS
15 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
15 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
15 4 (0.14%) WordPress
16 3 (0.11%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 107 (3.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 31 (1.09%) MS Visio
4 20 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.14%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.14%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.11%) Trello
7 2 (0.071%) EngageOne
7 2 (0.071%) LaTeX
7 2 (0.071%) Notion
8 1 (0.035%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.035%) Sketch
8 1 (0.035%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 23 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
2 20 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
3 19 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.56%) Finacle
4 16 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
5 15 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
6 14 (0.49%) Temenos T24
7 12 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
8 10 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
8 10 (0.35%) FLEXCUBE
8 10 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
9 9 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
10 8 (0.28%) Aladdin
10 8 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
11 7 (0.25%) OpenText MBPM
11 7 (0.25%) Oracle BPM
11 7 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
12 6 (0.21%) Loan IQ
12 6 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
12 6 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 464 (16.38%) Azure
2 374 (13.21%) AWS
3 206 (7.27%) GCP
4 150 (5.30%) Power Platform
5 97 (3.43%) GitHub
6 89 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
7 87 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
8 73 (2.58%) SaaS
8 73 (2.58%) Snowflake
9 58 (2.05%) Entra ID
10 41 (1.45%) Amazon S3
10 41 (1.45%) OpenShift
11 40 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
12 39 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
13 37 (1.31%) Serverless
14 30 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
15 28 (0.99%) dbt
16 27 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
17 26 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
18 24 (0.85%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 94 (3.32%) Firewall
2 70 (2.47%) VPN
3 66 (2.33%) Network Security
4 52 (1.84%) DNS
5 37 (1.31%) TCP/IP
6 34 (1.20%) BGP
7 33 (1.17%) Multicast
8 30 (1.06%) WAN
9 27 (0.95%) SSL
10 19 (0.67%) LAN
10 19 (0.67%) MPLS
11 18 (0.64%) HTTP
12 17 (0.60%) DMZ
13 16 (0.56%) BIG-IP
13 16 (0.56%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 16 (0.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 15 (0.53%) Cisco IOS
14 15 (0.53%) Wireshark
15 14 (0.49%) DHCP
15 14 (0.49%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (4.56%) SQL Server
2 126 (4.45%) Power BI
3 102 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
4 76 (2.68%) Relational Database
5 73 (2.58%) Metadata
6 57 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
7 56 (1.98%) Oracle Database
8 44 (1.55%) Data Lake
9 34 (1.20%) MongoDB
10 33 (1.17%) Tableau
11 24 (0.85%) NoSQL
12 23 (0.81%) Db2
13 21 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
14 20 (0.71%) Apache Cassandra
14 20 (0.71%) BigQuery
15 19 (0.67%) Big Data
15 19 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 17 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
16 17 (0.60%) RDBMS
17 16 (0.56%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 282 (9.96%) JIRA
2 164 (5.79%) Git
3 120 (4.24%) Jenkins
4 65 (2.30%) GitLab
5 50 (1.77%) Selenium
6 39 (1.38%) JUnit
7 27 (0.95%) Gradle
8 26 (0.92%) Cucumber
8 26 (0.92%) Maven
9 24 (0.85%) Bitbucket
10 23 (0.81%) REST Assured
11 22 (0.78%) SonarQube
12 20 (0.71%) Mockito
12 20 (0.71%) Postman
13 18 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
14 17 (0.60%) Cypress.io
15 16 (0.56%) TeamCity
16 13 (0.46%) ER Studio
17 12 (0.42%) ERwin
17 12 (0.42%) JMeter
General
1 1,932 (68.22%) Finance
2 842 (29.73%) Social Skills
3 535 (18.89%) Investment Banking
4 443 (15.64%) Analytical Skills
5 249 (8.79%) Front Office
6 155 (5.47%) Financial Institution
7 110 (3.88%) Retail Banking
8 105 (3.71%) Retail
9 79 (2.79%) Corporate Banking
9 79 (2.79%) Legal
10 77 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
11 65 (2.30%) Private Banking
12 63 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
13 55 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
14 54 (1.91%) Back Office
15 36 (1.27%) General Ledger
15 36 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
16 34 (1.20%) Public Sector
17 32 (1.13%) Marketing
18 29 (1.02%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 475 (16.77%) Developer
2 418 (14.76%) Senior
3 405 (14.30%) Analyst
4 279 (9.85%) Lead
5 271 (9.57%) Architect
6 239 (8.44%) Business Analyst
7 150 (5.30%) Java Developer
8 146 (5.16%) Project Manager
9 107 (3.78%) Data Engineer
10 102 (3.60%) Senior Developer
11 99 (3.50%) Consultant
12 88 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
13 71 (2.51%) Banking Analyst
13 71 (2.51%) Network Engineer
14 68 (2.40%) Software Engineer
15 58 (2.05%) Data Analyst
16 56 (1.98%) Java Engineer
16 56 (1.98%) Python Developer
17 54 (1.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 50 (1.77%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (5.76%) Kafka
2 150 (5.30%) REST
3 139 (4.91%) React
4 126 (4.45%) Terraform
5 116 (4.10%) .NET
6 111 (3.92%) Spring
7 107 (3.78%) Spring Boot
8 81 (2.86%) Middleware
9 59 (2.08%) Redux
10 57 (2.01%) HTML
11 54 (1.91%) RESTful
12 48 (1.69%) CSS
13 47 (1.66%) PySpark
14 44 (1.55%) OAuth
15 36 (1.27%) JSON
16 34 (1.20%) AngularJS
17 33 (1.17%) LangChain
18 32 (1.13%) XML
19 31 (1.09%) FIX Protocol
20 29 (1.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 239 (8.44%) Product Ownership
2 199 (7.03%) Onboarding
3 181 (6.39%) Cloud Native
4 132 (4.66%) Derivative
5 122 (4.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 99 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
6 99 (3.50%) Fixed Income
7 87 (3.07%) Management Information System
8 85 (3.00%) AI Agents
9 81 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
10 77 (2.72%) Equities
11 64 (2.26%) Data Structures
11 64 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
12 63 (2.22%) Credit Risk
13 60 (2.12%) Data Centre
13 60 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
13 60 (2.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 57 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
15 55 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
16 51 (1.80%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 161 (5.69%) Linux
2 146 (5.16%) Windows
3 93 (3.28%) Unix
4 45 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 29 (1.02%) zOS
6 26 (0.92%) Android
7 25 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 23 (0.81%) Apple iOS
9 16 (0.56%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.35%) AIX
11 7 (0.25%) Windows 10
12 6 (0.21%) Solaris
13 5 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
14 4 (0.14%) HPUX
14 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.14%) SUSE
15 3 (0.11%) CentOS
15 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
16 2 (0.071%) MVS
17 1 (0.035%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 801 (28.28%) Stakeholder Management
2 700 (24.72%) Agile
3 484 (17.09%) CI/CD
4 427 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
5 421 (14.87%) AI
6 377 (13.31%) DevOps
7 366 (12.92%) Migration
8 323 (11.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 278 (9.82%) Roadmaps
10 277 (9.78%) Analytics
11 252 (8.90%) Validation
12 239 (8.44%) Data Modelling
13 234 (8.26%) Microservices
14 228 (8.05%) Software Engineering
15 224 (7.91%) Risk Management
16 215 (7.59%) Decision-Making
17 211 (7.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 210 (7.42%) Test Automation
19 204 (7.20%) Scrum
20 202 (7.13%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 556 (19.63%) SQL
2 457 (16.14%) Python
3 385 (13.59%) Java
4 178 (6.29%) C#
5 150 (5.30%) JavaScript
6 114 (4.03%) TypeScript
7 98 (3.46%) PowerShell
8 72 (2.54%) Bash
9 71 (2.51%) PL/SQL
10 51 (1.80%) Shell Script
11 50 (1.77%) Kotlin
12 36 (1.27%) C++
13 35 (1.24%) T-SQL
14 27 (0.95%) Korn
15 20 (0.71%) Go
16 16 (0.56%) VBA
17 14 (0.49%) Bicep
17 14 (0.49%) JCL
18 13 (0.46%) COBOL
19 11 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 197 (6.96%) Degree
2 126 (4.45%) Security Cleared
3 102 (3.60%) SC Cleared
4 69 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (2.22%) PMP
6 59 (2.08%) PMI Certification
7 34 (1.20%) CISSP
8 28 (0.99%) AWS Certification
8 28 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
9 26 (0.92%) ACCA
10 25 (0.88%) Azure Certification
11 24 (0.85%) Master's Degree
12 23 (0.81%) CIMA
13 20 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (0.71%) ISTQB
14 15 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 13 (0.46%) CCNP
15 13 (0.46%) CISM
16 12 (0.42%) CBAP
17 11 (0.39%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 199 (7.03%) Data Quality
2 152 (5.37%) QA
3 54 (1.91%) ISO 20022
4 50 (1.77%) PMO
5 40 (1.41%) SEPA
6 38 (1.34%) GRC
7 31 (1.09%) NIST
8 29 (1.02%) GDPR
9 28 (0.99%) SLA
10 27 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 24 (0.85%) Accessibility
12 19 (0.67%) IFRS
12 19 (0.67%) MiFID
12 19 (0.67%) PSD2
13 13 (0.46%) PCI DSS
14 12 (0.42%) Basel III
14 12 (0.42%) EMIR
15 9 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.28%) COREP
16 8 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 128 (4.52%) Docker
2 68 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.71%) RACF
5 11 (0.39%) Firmware
5 11 (0.39%) vSphere
6 8 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
8 5 (0.18%) NFS
8 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.14%) ACF2
9 4 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.071%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.071%) GPFS
10 2 (0.071%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.071%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.071%) Postfix
10 2 (0.071%) Varnish
10 2 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 188 (6.64%) Kubernetes
2 89 (3.14%) Ansible
3 30 (1.06%) Grafana
4 28 (0.99%) Prometheus
5 20 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.67%) SCCM
7 18 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.56%) Control-M
9 15 (0.53%) OMEGAMON
10 12 (0.42%) Istio
11 10 (0.35%) Argo
11 10 (0.35%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.28%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.21%) Cisco Prime
13 6 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
13 6 (0.21%) Tivoli
14 5 (0.18%) systemd
15 4 (0.14%) HP ALM
16 3 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
16 3 (0.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 303 (10.70%) Microsoft
2 222 (7.84%) Oracle
3 115 (4.06%) IBM
4 108 (3.81%) Databricks
5 91 (3.21%) ServiceNow
6 73 (2.58%) Cisco
7 69 (2.44%) Google
8 66 (2.33%) Salesforce
9 59 (2.08%) Splunk
10 52 (1.84%) SAP
11 41 (1.45%) Citrix
12 40 (1.41%) F5
13 38 (1.34%) CyberArk
13 38 (1.34%) OpenAI
14 35 (1.24%) VMware
15 33 (1.17%) Bloomberg
15 33 (1.17%) Murex
16 32 (1.13%) Dynatrace
17 28 (0.99%) Fortinet
18 24 (0.85%) Avaloq