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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,102 2,007 2,426
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.49% 7.48% 6.62%
As % of the General category 10.76% 11.99% 11.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,315 1,288 1,693
10th Percentile £360 £371 £394
25th Percentile £438 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.04% -5.77%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £750
90th Percentile £800 £838 £838
UK median daily rate £537 £600 £610
% change year-on-year -10.50% -1.64% -6.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 12 19
10th Percentile £18.87 £14.80 £12.84
25th Percentile - £15.24 £15.52
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.05
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +16.90% -9.29%
75th Percentile £35.31 £25.81 £27.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £73.80 £34.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £24.15 £19.05
% change year-on-year +4.14% +26.77% -9.29%

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 19,538 16,743 21,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 60.34% 62.40% 58.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,460 10,106 14,375
10th Percentile £288 £300 £270
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% -3.09% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,219 560 1,261
10th Percentile £14.11 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.59 £19.29 £15.25
Median hourly rate £23.00 £30.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +9.09% +6.96%
75th Percentile £46.50 £57.53 £56.40
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.88 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £22.99 £27.84 £27.50
% change year-on-year -17.41% +1.22% +10.00%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 1,439 £600 -4.00% 241
North of England +7 444 £465 +2.93% 109
North West +9 228 £447 +11.75% 51
Yorkshire +3 225 £500 -8.05% 42
Midlands +19 173 £475 -13.64% 64
West Midlands +16 112 £545 -6.64% 25
East Midlands +13 61 £410 -7.87% 37
South East -29 48 £419 -23.86% 204
South West -6 31 £525 -14.29% 52
East of England -12 10 £400 -46.67% 59
North East -11 5 £400 - 16
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
1 152 (7.23%) Confluence
2 53 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.09%) Apache
4 21 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (0.95%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.52%) CICS
6 11 (0.52%) CMS
7 9 (0.43%) IIS
7 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.43%) SAS
8 8 (0.38%) Mule
9 7 (0.33%) MQSeries
10 6 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.19%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.19%) HCL Notes
12 4 (0.19%) Hyperledger
12 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 144 (6.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (3.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 67 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
4 46 (2.19%) MS Visio
5 27 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
6 20 (0.95%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.24%) 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%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 26 (1.24%) Oracle Payables
2 25 (1.19%) Payment Gateway
3 19 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
5 16 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
6 14 (0.67%) 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 EBS
9 9 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
9 9 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 8 (0.38%) Finacle
10 8 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
11 7 (0.33%) Fidessa
12 6 (0.29%) Loan IQ
12 6 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
12 6 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
12 6 (0.29%) SAP FI
12 6 (0.29%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 320 (15.22%) Azure
2 313 (14.89%) AWS
3 172 (8.18%) GCP
4 144 (6.85%) Power Platform
5 87 (4.14%) GitHub
6 80 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
7 63 (3.00%) Serverless
8 51 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
9 48 (2.28%) Figma
10 38 (1.81%) SaaS
11 36 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
12 35 (1.67%) PowerApps
13 29 (1.38%) Snowflake
14 27 (1.28%) Entra ID
14 27 (1.28%) Power Automate
15 24 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
16 23 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
17 22 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
18 21 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
19 20 (0.95%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 52 (2.47%) DNS
2 47 (2.24%) Firewall
3 34 (1.62%) HTTP
4 33 (1.57%) Network Security
5 30 (1.43%) TCP/IP
6 28 (1.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 28 (1.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 25 (1.19%) DMZ
8 22 (1.05%) VPN
8 22 (1.05%) Wireless
9 21 (1.00%) SSL
10 17 (0.81%) BIG-IP
10 17 (0.81%) Wireshark
11 15 (0.71%) NetScaler
12 12 (0.57%) BGP
12 12 (0.57%) DHCP
12 12 (0.57%) Multicast
13 10 (0.48%) LAN
14 9 (0.43%) Internet
14 9 (0.43%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (5.71%) Power BI
2 92 (4.38%) SQL Server
3 73 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
4 68 (3.24%) NoSQL
4 68 (3.24%) Tableau
5 45 (2.14%) MongoDB
6 40 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
7 39 (1.86%) Oracle Database
8 38 (1.81%) Relational Database
9 28 (1.33%) Metadata
10 24 (1.14%) Data Lake
11 22 (1.05%) Big Data
12 21 (1.00%) DB2
13 16 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
13 16 (0.76%) BigQuery
13 16 (0.76%) Hadoop
14 15 (0.71%) MySQL
14 15 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 14 (0.67%) Apache Ignite
15 14 (0.67%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 238 (11.32%) JIRA
2 147 (6.99%) Jenkins
3 101 (4.80%) Git
4 85 (4.04%) GitLab
5 38 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
6 36 (1.71%) JUnit
7 28 (1.33%) Bitbucket
7 28 (1.33%) Selenium
8 22 (1.05%) Cucumber
9 21 (1.00%) Liquibase
10 19 (0.90%) Maven
10 19 (0.90%) SonarQube
11 18 (0.86%) Postman
12 17 (0.81%) REST Assured
13 16 (0.76%) Fiddler
13 16 (0.76%) Gradle
14 14 (0.67%) TeamCity
15 11 (0.52%) Cypress.io
16 9 (0.43%) webpack
17 8 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,345 (63.99%) Finance
2 768 (36.54%) Social Skills
3 438 (20.84%) Investment Banking
4 283 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
5 183 (8.71%) Front Office
6 130 (6.18%) Financial Institution
7 70 (3.33%) Retail Banking
8 57 (2.71%) Legal
9 51 (2.43%) Retail
10 50 (2.38%) Corporate Banking
11 47 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
12 38 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
13 34 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
13 34 (1.62%) Public Sector
14 32 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
15 27 (1.28%) Back Office
16 26 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 25 (1.19%) General Ledger
18 24 (1.14%) International Banking
19 23 (1.09%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 410 (19.51%) Developer
2 341 (16.22%) Analyst
3 278 (13.23%) Senior
4 234 (11.13%) Business Analyst
5 193 (9.18%) Architect
6 136 (6.47%) Project Manager
7 126 (5.99%) Lead
8 108 (5.14%) Java Developer
9 105 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
10 87 (4.14%) Senior Developer
11 72 (3.43%) Consultant
12 68 (3.24%) Banking Analyst
13 54 (2.57%) DevOps Engineer
14 52 (2.47%) Banking Business Analyst
14 52 (2.47%) Designer
15 50 (2.38%) Software Engineer
16 47 (2.24%) Senior Java Developer
17 44 (2.09%) Senior Analyst
18 41 (1.95%) Python Engineer
19 40 (1.90%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (5.57%) Kafka
2 110 (5.23%) REST
3 103 (4.90%) .NET
4 92 (4.38%) Spring
5 81 (3.85%) RESTful
6 77 (3.66%) Spring Boot
7 73 (3.47%) React
8 63 (3.00%) HTML
9 54 (2.57%) Pandas
10 50 (2.38%) AngularJS
11 49 (2.33%) Middleware
11 49 (2.33%) NumPy
12 44 (2.09%) CSS
12 44 (2.09%) XML
13 38 (1.81%) Node.js
14 34 (1.62%) OAuth
15 31 (1.47%) JMS
15 31 (1.47%) JSON
16 30 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
17 28 (1.33%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 128 (6.09%) Product Ownership
2 125 (5.95%) Derivative
3 113 (5.38%) Onboarding
4 105 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 96 (4.57%) Cloud Native
6 87 (4.14%) Management Information System
7 75 (3.57%) Equities
8 73 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
9 72 (3.43%) Data Protection Act
10 66 (3.14%) Fixed Income
11 51 (2.43%) Data Centre
12 50 (2.38%) Hedge funds
13 49 (2.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 47 (2.24%) Public Cloud
15 45 (2.14%) Mobile App
16 43 (2.05%) Data Structures
17 40 (1.90%) Credit Risk
18 35 (1.67%) Market Risk
19 32 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
20 29 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 132 (6.28%) Linux
2 118 (5.61%) Windows
3 48 (2.28%) Unix
4 39 (1.86%) Android
5 34 (1.62%) Windows 10
6 23 (1.09%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.95%) Windows Server
8 17 (0.81%) 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
1 589 (28.02%) Agile
2 394 (18.74%) Problem-Solving
3 362 (17.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 330 (15.70%) DevOps
5 328 (15.60%) CI/CD
6 195 (9.28%) Microservices
7 194 (9.23%) Analytics
8 179 (8.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 175 (8.33%) Risk Management
10 173 (8.23%) Migration
11 160 (7.61%) Project Management
12 154 (7.33%) Change Management
13 153 (7.28%) Decision-Making
14 151 (7.18%) AI
15 142 (6.76%) Scrum
16 138 (6.57%) Business Intelligence
17 137 (6.52%) Data Analysis
17 137 (6.52%) Data Modelling
18 136 (6.47%) Containerisation
19 135 (6.42%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 393 (18.70%) SQL
2 359 (17.08%) Python
3 307 (14.61%) Java
4 142 (6.76%) C#
5 97 (4.61%) JavaScript
6 62 (2.95%) TypeScript
7 58 (2.76%) Go
8 56 (2.66%) PowerShell
9 42 (2.00%) C++
10 36 (1.71%) PL/SQL
11 28 (1.33%) VBA
12 27 (1.28%) Shell Script
13 25 (1.19%) Bash
14 21 (1.00%) COBOL
15 19 (0.90%) T-SQL
16 17 (0.81%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.71%) Scala
18 12 (0.57%) Perl
18 12 (0.57%) Rust
19 11 (0.52%) Swift
Qualifications
1 250 (11.89%) Degree
2 89 (4.23%) Security Cleared
3 82 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 78 (3.71%) Master's Degree
5 60 (2.85%) PMI Certification
6 55 (2.62%) PMP
7 45 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 41 (1.95%) SC Cleared
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
12 15 (0.71%) DV Cleared
13 12 (0.57%) BC Cleared
13 12 (0.57%) CISM
13 12 (0.57%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.48%) PhD
15 9 (0.43%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (6.71%) QA
2 84 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 55 (2.62%) GDPR
4 53 (2.52%) ISO 20022
5 47 (2.24%) PMO
6 35 (1.67%) PSD2
7 34 (1.62%) Accessibility
8 31 (1.47%) SEPA
9 29 (1.38%) SLA
10 26 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 25 (1.19%) PCI DSS
12 24 (1.14%) Basel III
12 24 (1.14%) GRC
13 22 (1.05%) MiFID
14 21 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 18 (0.86%) NIST
16 16 (0.76%) ISO 8583
17 15 (0.71%) EMIR
18 13 (0.62%) IFRS
19 8 (0.38%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 180 (8.56%) Docker
2 43 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (1.43%) Active Directory
4 20 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (0.81%) Firmware
6 6 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
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%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.048%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.048%) GPFS
10 1 (0.048%) HDFS
10 1 (0.048%) KVM
10 1 (0.048%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 200 (9.51%) Kubernetes
2 111 (5.28%) Terraform
3 80 (3.81%) Ansible
4 51 (2.43%) Grafana
5 44 (2.09%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.86%) SCCM
7 15 (0.71%) 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 6 (0.29%) CA Endevor
11 6 (0.29%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.19%) Istio
12 4 (0.19%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.14%) Thomson Reuters DACS
13 3 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 233 (11.08%) Microsoft
2 158 (7.52%) Oracle
3 90 (4.28%) Google
4 60 (2.85%) Splunk
5 51 (2.43%) ServiceNow
6 50 (2.38%) IBM
7 49 (2.33%) VMware
8 44 (2.09%) SAP
9 41 (1.95%) Cisco
10 40 (1.90%) F5
11 36 (1.71%) Citrix
12 31 (1.47%) HP
13 29 (1.38%) Dell
13 29 (1.38%) Remedy
14 28 (1.33%) Bloomberg
14 28 (1.33%) Salesforce
15 27 (1.28%) Databricks
16 25 (1.19%) Apple
16 25 (1.19%) CyberArk
17 22 (1.05%) Dynatrace