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 28 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 25 25
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,274 1,894 2,251
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.66% 7.74% 6.09%
As % of the General category 10.27% 12.09% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,376 1,251 1,643
10th Percentile £368 £362 £382
25th Percentile £438 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £775
90th Percentile £784 £863 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £618
% change year-on-year -12.50% -2.83% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 18 23
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.10 £12.17
25th Percentile £18.91 £19.45 £17.99
Median hourly rate £25.77 £23.47 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.82% +20.33% -7.14%
75th Percentile £76.25 £24.66 £35.25
90th Percentile £97.25 £48.98 £81.15
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £22.27 £19.50
% change year-on-year +15.72% +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 22,149 15,663 21,593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.15% 64.04% 58.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,855 10,187 13,921
10th Percentile £305 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,457 674 1,773
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.08 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.28 £17.44 £15.46
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.18 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.46% -6.07% -12.56%
75th Percentile £61.18 £58.71 £51.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £28.17 £29.00
% change year-on-year +2.96% -2.88% -17.14%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 28 April 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 1,562 £575 -11.54% 482
North of England +5 480 £474 +5.22% 346
North West +16 267 £447 +0.45% 287
Yorkshire -9 210 £500 - 47
Midlands +3 177 £468 -14.95% 52
West Midlands +9 123 £565 +1.80% 22
East Midlands -16 54 £430 +8.72% 30
South East -47 41 £500 -13.04% 149
South West -41 33 £500 -11.11% 19
East of England -27 14 £600 - 4
North East -11 10 £400 -4.76% 12
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
1 175 (7.70%) Confluence
2 51 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.10%) SAS
4 20 (0.88%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.70%) IIS
6 13 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.53%) CICS
8 11 (0.48%) Apache
8 11 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.22%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.22%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.18%) CMS
12 3 (0.13%) Camunda
12 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.088%) Appian
13 2 (0.088%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.088%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 144 (6.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (3.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 65 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
4 43 (1.89%) MS Visio
5 30 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (0.57%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.13%) Notion
8 2 (0.088%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.088%) InVision
8 2 (0.088%) Sketch
8 2 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.088%) Trello
8 2 (0.088%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.044%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 31 (1.36%) Payment Gateway
2 24 (1.06%) Oracle Payables
3 22 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
4 21 (0.92%) Temenos T24
5 19 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
6 17 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
7 16 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 15 (0.66%) Loan IQ
9 11 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
9 11 (0.48%) Finacle
10 10 (0.44%) SAP FI
11 9 (0.40%) Aladdin
11 9 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
12 8 (0.35%) Actimize
12 8 (0.35%) SAP CO
12 8 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
12 8 (0.35%) Summit
13 7 (0.31%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
14 6 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
14 6 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 357 (15.70%) Azure
2 310 (13.63%) AWS
3 153 (6.73%) GCP
4 118 (5.19%) Power Platform
5 104 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
6 77 (3.39%) GitHub
7 59 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
8 52 (2.29%) SaaS
9 40 (1.76%) Figma
10 38 (1.67%) Serverless
11 32 (1.41%) Entra ID
12 30 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
12 30 (1.32%) OpenShift
13 27 (1.19%) Amazon S3
13 27 (1.19%) Power Automate
13 27 (1.19%) Snowflake
14 25 (1.10%) OCI
15 23 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
15 23 (1.01%) PowerApps
16 21 (0.92%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.12%) DNS
2 52 (2.29%) Firewall
2 52 (2.29%) VPN
3 41 (1.80%) HTTP
3 41 (1.80%) TCP/IP
4 36 (1.58%) Network Security
5 26 (1.14%) BGP
5 26 (1.14%) Multicast
6 25 (1.10%) DMZ
6 25 (1.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 24 (1.06%) BIG-IP
7 24 (1.06%) SSL
8 23 (1.01%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 22 (0.97%) SAN
10 21 (0.92%) Wireshark
11 20 (0.88%) FIX Connectivity
11 20 (0.88%) NetScaler
12 15 (0.66%) DHCP
13 12 (0.53%) Wireless
14 11 (0.48%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (4.22%) SQL Server
2 93 (4.09%) Power BI
3 58 (2.55%) Tableau
4 52 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (2.29%) Metadata
5 47 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
6 42 (1.85%) Oracle Database
7 36 (1.58%) Relational Database
8 35 (1.54%) MongoDB
9 32 (1.41%) NoSQL
10 24 (1.06%) Big Data
11 22 (0.97%) DB2
12 20 (0.88%) BigQuery
13 16 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 14 (0.62%) Hadoop
15 13 (0.57%) Data Lake
16 12 (0.53%) Power Query
16 12 (0.53%) RDBMS
17 11 (0.48%) Pinecone
17 11 (0.48%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 260 (11.43%) JIRA
2 96 (4.22%) Jenkins
3 88 (3.87%) Git
4 61 (2.68%) GitLab
5 28 (1.23%) JUnit
6 24 (1.06%) Selenium
7 21 (0.92%) Bitbucket
8 19 (0.84%) Fiddler
9 18 (0.79%) Cucumber
10 17 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
11 16 (0.70%) TeamCity
12 15 (0.66%) Postman
13 13 (0.57%) REST Assured
14 12 (0.53%) Maven
15 11 (0.48%) Cypress.io
16 10 (0.44%) SonarQube
17 9 (0.40%) Mockito
18 8 (0.35%) Gradle
18 8 (0.35%) MLflow
18 8 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,415 (62.23%) Finance
2 670 (29.46%) Social Skills
3 448 (19.70%) Investment Banking
4 323 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
5 176 (7.74%) Front Office
6 105 (4.62%) Financial Institution
7 93 (4.09%) Retail Banking
8 76 (3.34%) Corporate Banking
9 73 (3.21%) Retail
10 69 (3.03%) Legal
11 61 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
12 54 (2.37%) Public Sector
13 41 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
15 35 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
16 30 (1.32%) Marketing
17 26 (1.14%) General Ledger
18 23 (1.01%) Back Office
19 21 (0.92%) Private Banking
20 20 (0.88%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 383 (16.84%) Analyst
2 379 (16.67%) Developer
3 287 (12.62%) Senior
4 272 (11.96%) Architect
5 268 (11.79%) Business Analyst
6 161 (7.08%) Lead
7 129 (5.67%) Solutions Architect
8 110 (4.84%) Project Manager
9 102 (4.49%) Java Developer
10 92 (4.05%) Banking Analyst
11 86 (3.78%) Senior Developer
12 79 (3.47%) Consultant
13 78 (3.43%) Data Engineer
14 64 (2.81%) Banking Business Analyst
15 59 (2.59%) Payments Architect
16 54 (2.37%) Network Engineer
17 53 (2.33%) Payments Solutions Architect
18 50 (2.20%) C# Developer
18 50 (2.20%) Designer
19 45 (1.98%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (4.84%) .NET
2 108 (4.75%) Kafka
3 83 (3.65%) React
4 71 (3.12%) REST
5 70 (3.08%) Middleware
6 69 (3.03%) Spring
7 62 (2.73%) HTML
8 61 (2.68%) Spring Boot
9 55 (2.42%) RESTful
10 46 (2.02%) CSS
11 44 (1.93%) OAuth
12 41 (1.80%) AngularJS
13 37 (1.63%) JSON
14 36 (1.58%) XML
15 33 (1.45%) OAuth2
16 29 (1.28%) FIX Protocol
17 27 (1.19%) Node.js
18 24 (1.06%) SOAP
19 23 (1.01%) HTML5
19 23 (1.01%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 149 (6.55%) Product Ownership
2 111 (4.88%) Derivative
3 109 (4.79%) Onboarding
4 99 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 95 (4.18%) Cloud Native
6 88 (3.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 79 (3.47%) Data Protection Act
8 68 (2.99%) Fixed Income
9 58 (2.55%) Data Structures
10 57 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
11 56 (2.46%) Equities
12 47 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
13 45 (1.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 43 (1.89%) Data Centre
15 41 (1.80%) Credit Risk
15 41 (1.80%) Market Risk
16 36 (1.58%) Mainframe
17 32 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
18 28 (1.23%) Algorithms
18 28 (1.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 147 (6.46%) Windows
2 106 (4.66%) Linux
3 71 (3.12%) Unix
4 38 (1.67%) Windows 10
5 26 (1.14%) Android
6 24 (1.06%) Windows Server
7 20 (0.88%) zOS
8 19 (0.84%) Apple iOS
9 17 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (0.53%) Mac OS
11 11 (0.48%) AIX
12 7 (0.31%) VMS
13 6 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
13 6 (0.26%) Solaris
13 6 (0.26%) Windows 7
14 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
14 5 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
15 4 (0.18%) HPUX
15 4 (0.18%) SUSE
15 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 552 (24.27%) Agile
2 414 (18.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 361 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
4 307 (13.50%) CI/CD
5 306 (13.46%) DevOps
6 251 (11.04%) Migration
7 239 (10.51%) AI
8 190 (8.36%) Analytics
9 185 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 185 (8.14%) Roadmaps
10 183 (8.05%) Decision-Making
11 178 (7.83%) Data Modelling
12 173 (7.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 172 (7.56%) Risk Management
14 166 (7.30%) Microservices
15 165 (7.26%) Validation
16 158 (6.95%) User Acceptance Testing
17 150 (6.60%) Data Analysis
18 148 (6.51%) Project Management
19 144 (6.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 381 (16.75%) SQL
2 325 (14.29%) Python
3 290 (12.75%) Java
4 143 (6.29%) C#
5 98 (4.31%) JavaScript
6 65 (2.86%) TypeScript
7 61 (2.68%) PowerShell
8 43 (1.89%) PL/SQL
9 35 (1.54%) Shell Script
10 30 (1.32%) VBA
11 28 (1.23%) Go
11 28 (1.23%) T-SQL
12 24 (1.06%) Bash
13 22 (0.97%) Kotlin
14 18 (0.79%) C++
15 17 (0.75%) COBOL
15 17 (0.75%) Korn
16 14 (0.62%) Scala
17 13 (0.57%) JCL
17 13 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 212 (9.32%) Degree
2 110 (4.84%) Security Cleared
3 69 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 66 (2.90%) SC Cleared
5 57 (2.51%) Master's Degree
6 55 (2.42%) PMI Certification
6 55 (2.42%) PMP
7 43 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 35 (1.54%) CISSP
9 29 (1.28%) Azure Certification
10 20 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (0.79%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.75%) MBA
13 16 (0.70%) ISTQB
14 15 (0.66%) CISM
15 13 (0.57%) CBAP
16 12 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
17 10 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
18 9 (0.40%) ACCA
18 9 (0.40%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (5.94%) QA
2 118 (5.19%) Data Quality
3 54 (2.37%) GDPR
4 51 (2.24%) ISO 20022
5 43 (1.89%) PMO
6 35 (1.54%) PSD2
7 34 (1.50%) SLA
8 32 (1.41%) NIST
8 32 (1.41%) PCI DSS
9 31 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 30 (1.32%) SEPA
11 28 (1.23%) GRC
12 25 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 21 (0.92%) Accessibility
14 19 (0.84%) Basel III
15 18 (0.79%) MiFID
16 15 (0.66%) ISO 8583
17 12 (0.53%) IFRS
18 8 (0.35%) EMIR
19 7 (0.31%) COREP
System Software
1 126 (5.54%) Docker
2 46 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 45 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.88%) Firmware
4 20 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.62%) vSphere
6 13 (0.57%) NFS
7 9 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.26%) RACF
9 5 (0.22%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.18%) Varnish
10 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.18%) XenApp
11 3 (0.13%) ACF2
11 3 (0.13%) Postfix
11 3 (0.13%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.13%) SRDF
11 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.088%) GPFS
12 2 (0.088%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 168 (7.39%) Kubernetes
2 85 (3.74%) Terraform
3 66 (2.90%) Ansible
4 33 (1.45%) Grafana
5 27 (1.19%) SCCM
6 24 (1.06%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (0.79%) Argo
9 10 (0.44%) Control-M
10 8 (0.35%) Istio
10 8 (0.35%) Puppet
10 8 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.31%) WSUS
12 6 (0.26%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
12 6 (0.26%) RSA Archer
12 6 (0.26%) SnapMirror
12 6 (0.26%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.18%) NetBackup
13 4 (0.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 282 (12.40%) Microsoft
2 165 (7.26%) Oracle
3 81 (3.56%) ServiceNow
4 70 (3.08%) Google
5 62 (2.73%) IBM
6 61 (2.68%) Cisco
7 55 (2.42%) SAP
8 54 (2.37%) VMware
9 52 (2.29%) F5
10 51 (2.24%) Citrix
11 44 (1.93%) Splunk
12 30 (1.32%) Bloomberg
13 29 (1.28%) Temenos
14 28 (1.23%) HP
15 27 (1.19%) Databricks
15 27 (1.19%) Murex
15 27 (1.19%) Remedy
16 26 (1.14%) Pega
17 25 (1.10%) Avaloq
17 25 (1.10%) NetApp