Banking Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 25 21
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Banking 1,890 2,293 4,044
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 7.76% 6.17% 8.02%
As % of the General category 12.12% 10.56% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,247 1,680 2,887
10th Percentile £362 £385 £450
25th Percentile £463 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +1.96%
75th Percentile £750 £775 £798
90th Percentile £875 £863 £888
UK median daily rate £600 £618 £650
% change year-on-year -2.95% -4.88% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 22 6
10th Percentile £14.56 £12.08 £11.33
25th Percentile £18.31 £17.85 £16.24
Median hourly rate £22.27 £19.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.21% -7.14% -10.57%
75th Percentile £24.66 £30.00 -
90th Percentile £42.40 £80.08 £31.38
UK median hourly rate £22.27 £19.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +14.21% -7.14% -18.30%

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 common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 15,588 21,714 29,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.01% 58.38% 59.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,124 13,995 20,957
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 672 1,789 975
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.00 £13.97
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%
75th Percentile £56.25 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.01 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Banking in England

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Banking in England.

Daily rate trend for Banking in England

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in England

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Banking in England.

Hourly rate trend for Banking in England

Banking
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Banking in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 0 1,497 £650 - 1,198
North of England +17 216 £450 -10.00% 164
North West +23 119 £445 -11.00% 105
Yorkshire +15 95 £500 +12.68% 47
Midlands +37 66 £545 +14.44% 78
South West +54 38 £563 -10.00% 57
West Midlands +30 33 £564 +7.33% 45
East Midlands +12 33 £390 -12.85% 26
South East -11 26 £575 +12.20% 286
East of England +19 10 £600 +2.13% 29
North East -3 2 £420 -16.00% 12
Banking
UK

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 74 (3.92%) Confluence
2 64 (3.39%) Apache
3 59 (3.12%) Apache Airflow
4 51 (2.70%) Apache Spark
5 39 (2.06%) SharePoint
6 32 (1.69%) SAS
7 15 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.69%) WebSphere
9 11 (0.58%) CICS
10 8 (0.42%) WebLogic
11 7 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
12 6 (0.32%) JBoss
13 5 (0.26%) MQSeries
13 5 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
14 4 (0.21%) CMS
14 4 (0.21%) Tomcat
15 3 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.16%) Jupyter
16 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 2 (0.11%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 74 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
2 70 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.48%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.21%) Sketch
8 3 (0.16%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.053%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.053%) Notepad++
9 1 (0.053%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.053%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.90%) Oracle General Ledger
3 15 (0.79%) Oracle Assets
3 15 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
4 13 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (0.63%) Kondor
6 10 (0.53%) FLEXCUBE
7 9 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
7 9 (0.48%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 9 (0.48%) Oracle Financials
8 8 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
8 8 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
9 6 (0.32%) Misys Midas
9 6 (0.32%) Oracle BPM
9 6 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.21%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.21%) Finacle
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
10 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 304 (16.08%) AWS
2 242 (12.80%) Azure
3 130 (6.88%) GCP
4 63 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
5 59 (3.12%) Snowflake
6 58 (3.07%) dbt
7 55 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
8 52 (2.75%) Power Platform
9 39 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
10 34 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
10 34 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
11 32 (1.69%) Amazon S3
11 32 (1.69%) GitHub
11 32 (1.69%) Serverless
12 26 (1.38%) Dagster
13 23 (1.22%) Entra ID
14 22 (1.16%) Figma
14 22 (1.16%) SaaS
15 20 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.17%) Firewall
2 27 (1.43%) DNS
3 25 (1.32%) Network Security
4 21 (1.11%) VPN
5 18 (0.95%) HTTP
6 15 (0.79%) SSL
6 15 (0.79%) TCP/IP
7 14 (0.74%) DHCP
7 14 (0.74%) FIX Connectivity
7 14 (0.74%) WAN
8 12 (0.63%) BGP
8 12 (0.63%) OSPF
9 11 (0.58%) LAN
10 10 (0.53%) Multicast
11 7 (0.37%) HSRP
11 7 (0.37%) IGMP
11 7 (0.37%) SAN
11 7 (0.37%) VRRP
11 7 (0.37%) Wireless
12 6 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (5.19%) SQL Server
2 68 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (3.07%) Apache Iceberg
4 56 (2.96%) Amazon Athena
4 56 (2.96%) Dremio
5 53 (2.80%) Data Lake
6 46 (2.43%) NoSQL
7 45 (2.38%) Apache Arrow
8 43 (2.28%) MongoDB
9 42 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
10 40 (2.12%) Redis
11 39 (2.06%) Power BI
12 37 (1.96%) Tableau
13 35 (1.85%) Relational Database
14 34 (1.80%) Hadoop
15 32 (1.69%) Big Data
16 30 (1.59%) DB2
17 29 (1.53%) Apache Ignite
18 25 (1.32%) Oracle Database
19 18 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 125 (6.61%) JIRA
2 99 (5.24%) Jenkins
3 79 (4.18%) Git
4 29 (1.53%) TeamCity
5 27 (1.43%) Bitbucket
6 25 (1.32%) GitLab
7 19 (1.01%) Selenium
8 16 (0.85%) webpack
9 15 (0.79%) JUnit
10 14 (0.74%) Maven
11 12 (0.63%) Cucumber
11 12 (0.63%) JMeter
12 11 (0.58%) LoadRunner
12 11 (0.58%) Visual Studio
13 10 (0.53%) REST Assured
14 9 (0.48%) Postman
15 8 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
15 8 (0.42%) Subversion
16 7 (0.37%) Ant
17 6 (0.32%) Artifactory
General
1 1,214 (64.23%) Finance
2 545 (28.84%) Social Skills
3 504 (26.67%) Investment Banking
4 323 (17.09%) Analytical Skills
5 240 (12.70%) Front Office
6 102 (5.40%) Retail Banking
7 84 (4.44%) Financial Institution
8 54 (2.86%) Retail
9 50 (2.65%) Corporate Banking
10 48 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
11 37 (1.96%) Legal
12 33 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
13 26 (1.38%) General Ledger
14 20 (1.06%) Marketing
15 19 (1.01%) Back Office
15 19 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
15 19 (1.01%) Public Sector
16 17 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
17 15 (0.79%) International Banking
18 13 (0.69%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 455 (24.07%) Developer
2 306 (16.19%) Analyst
3 217 (11.48%) Senior
4 169 (8.94%) Architect
5 139 (7.35%) Business Analyst
6 120 (6.35%) Project Manager
7 101 (5.34%) Lead
8 97 (5.13%) Software Engineer
9 93 (4.92%) Java Developer
10 86 (4.55%) Python Developer
11 81 (4.29%) Consultant
12 79 (4.18%) Senior Developer
13 68 (3.60%) AWS Engineer
14 66 (3.49%) Banking Analyst
15 61 (3.23%) Python Engineer
16 60 (3.17%) C# Developer
17 54 (2.86%) Data Analyst
18 53 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
19 50 (2.65%) Data Engineer
20 47 (2.49%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (6.93%) React
2 109 (5.77%) .NET
3 89 (4.71%) Kafka
4 61 (3.23%) PySpark
5 58 (3.07%) Spring
6 56 (2.96%) AngularJS
7 55 (2.91%) HTML
8 53 (2.80%) CSS
8 53 (2.80%) Pandas
9 51 (2.70%) NumPy
10 48 (2.54%) Node.js
10 48 (2.54%) SciPy
11 45 (2.38%) REST
12 42 (2.22%) Redux
13 40 (2.12%) gRPC
14 39 (2.06%) RESTful
15 38 (2.01%) FastAPI
15 38 (2.01%) XML
16 36 (1.90%) Protocol Buffers
16 36 (1.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 158 (8.36%) Derivative
2 135 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 119 (6.30%) Equities
4 110 (5.82%) Fixed Income
5 71 (3.76%) Hedge funds
6 61 (3.23%) Product Ownership
7 46 (2.43%) Onboarding
8 42 (2.22%) Market Risk
9 36 (1.90%) Credit Risk
9 36 (1.90%) Data Centre
9 36 (1.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 35 (1.85%) Data Structures
10 35 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
11 31 (1.64%) Management Information System
12 30 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
13 29 (1.53%) Mainframe
13 29 (1.53%) Reference Data
14 28 (1.48%) Algorithms
15 27 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
16 21 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 148 (7.83%) Windows
2 123 (6.51%) Linux
3 60 (3.17%) Unix
4 27 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (1.38%) Windows Server
6 22 (1.16%) Apple iOS
6 22 (1.16%) Windows 10
7 11 (0.58%) Android
8 8 (0.42%) zOS
9 7 (0.37%) Solaris
10 6 (0.32%) CentOS
11 5 (0.26%) AIX
11 5 (0.26%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.16%) Rocky
13 3 (0.16%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.11%) HPUX
14 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.053%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.053%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 474 (25.08%) Agile
2 326 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
3 219 (11.59%) DevOps
4 198 (10.48%) Risk Management
5 188 (9.95%) CI/CD
6 184 (9.74%) Analytics
6 184 (9.74%) Stakeholder Management
7 181 (9.58%) Migration
8 166 (8.78%) Software Engineering
9 141 (7.46%) Project Management
10 138 (7.30%) Change Management
11 129 (6.83%) SDLC
12 125 (6.61%) Asset Management
13 111 (5.87%) Microservices
14 105 (5.56%) Fintech
15 97 (5.13%) Data Analysis
16 96 (5.08%) Decision-Making
17 95 (5.03%) Test Automation
18 86 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence
19 81 (4.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 405 (21.43%) Python
2 382 (20.21%) SQL
3 335 (17.72%) Java
4 158 (8.36%) JavaScript
5 150 (7.94%) C#
6 140 (7.41%) TypeScript
7 53 (2.80%) C++
8 46 (2.43%) PowerShell
9 37 (1.96%) PL/SQL
10 33 (1.75%) Scala
11 28 (1.48%) Bash
11 28 (1.48%) Shell Script
12 18 (0.95%) Perl
13 16 (0.85%) Bicep
14 15 (0.79%) R
15 14 (0.74%) VBA
16 13 (0.69%) COBOL
17 12 (0.63%) Kotlin
17 12 (0.63%) T-SQL
18 11 (0.58%) JCL
Qualifications
1 142 (7.51%) Degree
2 33 (1.75%) Security Cleared
3 27 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (1.32%) Master's Degree
5 21 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
5 21 (1.11%) SC Cleared
6 20 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (1.06%) CISSP
7 17 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (0.85%) AWS Certification
8 16 (0.85%) PMI Certification
8 16 (0.85%) PMP
9 13 (0.69%) Azure Certification
10 12 (0.63%) CISM
11 11 (0.58%) CCNP
12 10 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
13 9 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (0.42%) CEH
14 8 (0.42%) PhD
14 8 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (3.60%) QA
2 57 (3.02%) Data Quality
3 44 (2.33%) PMO
4 38 (2.01%) GDPR
5 28 (1.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 25 (1.32%) PCI DSS
7 20 (1.06%) MiFID
7 20 (1.06%) NIST
8 17 (0.90%) IFRS
9 16 (0.85%) IFRS 9
9 16 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 15 (0.79%) Basel III
10 15 (0.79%) SEPA
10 15 (0.79%) SLA
11 13 (0.69%) Accessibility
12 12 (0.63%) ISO 20022
12 12 (0.63%) PSD2
13 10 (0.53%) COBIT
14 9 (0.48%) EMIR
14 9 (0.48%) GRC
System Software
1 103 (5.45%) Docker
2 41 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.21%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 3 (0.16%) HDFS
9 3 (0.16%) Lustre
9 3 (0.16%) NFS
9 3 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
9 3 (0.16%) XenDesktop
10 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.11%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.11%) Veritas File System
10 2 (0.11%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 1 (0.053%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 138 (7.30%) Kubernetes
2 96 (5.08%) Ansible
3 69 (3.65%) Terraform
4 36 (1.90%) Grafana
5 24 (1.27%) SCCM
6 18 (0.95%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (0.74%) Puppet
8 13 (0.69%) Argo
9 9 (0.48%) Control-M
10 8 (0.42%) Istio
11 6 (0.32%) Rundeck
12 5 (0.26%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.26%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.26%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.26%) ZABBIX
13 4 (0.21%) Podman
13 4 (0.21%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.16%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.16%) QRadar
Vendors
1 187 (9.89%) Microsoft
2 153 (8.10%) Oracle
3 58 (3.07%) ServiceNow
4 47 (2.49%) IBM
5 46 (2.43%) Google
6 43 (2.28%) Databricks
7 42 (2.22%) Cisco
8 40 (2.12%) Splunk
9 39 (2.06%) SAP
10 32 (1.69%) Citrix
11 26 (1.38%) Red Hat
12 21 (1.11%) VMware
13 18 (0.95%) Sybase
14 17 (0.90%) CyberArk
15 16 (0.85%) Arista
15 16 (0.85%) ION Trading
15 16 (0.85%) Murex
16 15 (0.79%) Adobe
16 15 (0.79%) Apple
16 15 (0.79%) HP