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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 23 22
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,846 2,130 2,487
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.11% 7.63% 7.78%
As % of the General category 10.79% 11.94% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,780 1,428 1,683
10th Percentile £400 £358 £400
25th Percentile £451 £425 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £610
Median % change year-on-year - -9.84% -2.40%
75th Percentile £677 £705 £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 33 13
10th Percentile £16.56 £18.93 -
25th Percentile £16.83 - £14.50
Median hourly rate £17.00 £25.15 £16.19
Median % change year-on-year -32.41% +55.34% -12.49%
75th Percentile £19.69 - £43.75
90th Percentile £22.03 £66.50 £76.20
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £25.15 £20.17
% change year-on-year -32.41% +24.69% +9.03%

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 26,383 17,845 18,857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.67% 63.93% 58.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,357 11,333 11,308
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 2,466 1,067 808
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.67 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.39 £17.39
Median hourly rate £29.00 £25.08 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.65% -28.36% +16.67%
75th Percentile £56.21 £45.38 £61.60
90th Percentile £78.73 £70.60 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £25.01 £32.14
% change year-on-year +9.98% -22.20% +11.79%

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 13 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 13 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 2,100 £600 -4.00% 1,562
North of England -13 492 £500 +11.11% 213
Yorkshire -8 245 £510 +2.00% 106
North West -10 242 £500 +16.28% 95
Midlands -45 132 £495 +6.45% 61
West Midlands -34 93 £550 +3.58% 33
South West -22 52 £505 -3.81% 61
East of England +15 43 £539 -23.07% 8
South East -52 42 £488 +16.42% 91
East Midlands -31 39 £450 +12.22% 28
North East -40 8 £875 +108.33% 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
1 158 (5.55%) Confluence
2 62 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.12%) Apache
4 29 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (0.95%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.56%) Camunda
7 15 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 15 (0.53%) SAS
8 13 (0.46%) IIS
9 12 (0.42%) CICS
10 9 (0.32%) Appian
11 8 (0.28%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
12 6 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 5 (0.18%) CMS
13 5 (0.18%) MTS
14 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
14 4 (0.14%) WordPress
15 3 (0.11%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 107 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 43 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
4 33 (1.16%) MS Visio
5 22 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.14%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.11%) Trello
8 2 (0.070%) EngageOne
8 2 (0.070%) LaTeX
8 2 (0.070%) Notion
9 1 (0.035%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.035%) Sketch
9 1 (0.035%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 23 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
2 20 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
3 19 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
5 15 (0.53%) Finacle
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
1 468 (16.44%) Azure
2 376 (13.21%) AWS
3 207 (7.27%) GCP
4 149 (5.24%) Power Platform
5 98 (3.44%) GitHub
6 93 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
7 86 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
8 73 (2.57%) Snowflake
9 72 (2.53%) SaaS
10 58 (2.04%) Entra ID
11 42 (1.48%) Amazon S3
12 41 (1.44%) Amazon EKS
12 41 (1.44%) OpenShift
13 40 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
14 38 (1.34%) Serverless
15 31 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
16 28 (0.98%) dbt
17 27 (0.95%) Amazon ECS
17 27 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
18 24 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 94 (3.30%) Firewall
2 69 (2.42%) VPN
3 66 (2.32%) Network Security
4 52 (1.83%) DNS
5 37 (1.30%) TCP/IP
6 34 (1.19%) BGP
7 33 (1.16%) Multicast
8 30 (1.05%) WAN
9 27 (0.95%) SSL
10 19 (0.67%) LAN
10 19 (0.67%) MPLS
11 17 (0.60%) DMZ
11 17 (0.60%) HTTP
12 16 (0.56%) BIG-IP
12 16 (0.56%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 16 (0.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 15 (0.53%) Cisco IOS
13 15 (0.53%) Wireshark
14 14 (0.49%) DHCP
14 14 (0.49%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (4.53%) SQL Server
2 126 (4.43%) Power BI
3 102 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
4 75 (2.64%) Relational Database
5 72 (2.53%) Metadata
6 57 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
7 56 (1.97%) Oracle Database
8 44 (1.55%) Data Lake
9 34 (1.19%) MongoDB
10 33 (1.16%) Tableau
11 24 (0.84%) NoSQL
12 23 (0.81%) Db2
13 22 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
14 20 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
14 20 (0.70%) BigQuery
15 19 (0.67%) Big Data
15 19 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 17 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
17 16 (0.56%) Data Vault
17 16 (0.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 287 (10.08%) JIRA
2 165 (5.80%) Git
3 120 (4.22%) Jenkins
4 65 (2.28%) GitLab
5 50 (1.76%) Selenium
6 39 (1.37%) JUnit
7 27 (0.95%) Gradle
8 26 (0.91%) Cucumber
8 26 (0.91%) Maven
9 24 (0.84%) Bitbucket
10 23 (0.81%) REST Assured
11 22 (0.77%) SonarQube
12 20 (0.70%) Mockito
12 20 (0.70%) Postman
13 18 (0.63%) 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 1,945 (68.34%) Finance
2 848 (29.80%) Social Skills
3 539 (18.94%) Investment Banking
4 446 (15.67%) Analytical Skills
5 251 (8.82%) Front Office
6 156 (5.48%) Financial Institution
7 110 (3.87%) Retail Banking
8 107 (3.76%) Retail
9 79 (2.78%) Legal
10 78 (2.74%) Corporate Banking
11 77 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
12 65 (2.28%) Private Banking
13 64 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
14 56 (1.97%) Back Office
14 56 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
15 39 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
16 36 (1.26%) General Ledger
17 34 (1.19%) Public Sector
18 32 (1.12%) Marketing
19 29 (1.02%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 478 (16.80%) Developer
2 421 (14.79%) Senior
3 409 (14.37%) Analyst
4 281 (9.87%) Lead
5 274 (9.63%) Architect
6 243 (8.54%) Business Analyst
7 151 (5.31%) Java Developer
8 147 (5.17%) Project Manager
9 107 (3.76%) Data Engineer
10 103 (3.62%) Senior Developer
11 98 (3.44%) Consultant
12 88 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
13 72 (2.53%) Banking Analyst
14 71 (2.49%) Network Engineer
15 67 (2.35%) Software Engineer
16 58 (2.04%) Data Analyst
17 57 (2.00%) Python Developer
18 56 (1.97%) Java Engineer
19 54 (1.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
20 50 (1.76%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (5.76%) Kafka
2 153 (5.38%) REST
3 138 (4.85%) React
4 126 (4.43%) Terraform
5 117 (4.11%) .NET
6 113 (3.97%) Spring
7 109 (3.83%) Spring Boot
8 82 (2.88%) Middleware
9 59 (2.07%) Redux
10 56 (1.97%) HTML
11 54 (1.90%) RESTful
12 48 (1.69%) PySpark
13 47 (1.65%) CSS
14 44 (1.55%) OAuth
15 36 (1.26%) JSON
16 35 (1.23%) AngularJS
17 33 (1.16%) LangChain
18 32 (1.12%) XML
19 30 (1.05%) FIX Protocol
20 29 (1.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 241 (8.47%) Product Ownership
2 198 (6.96%) Onboarding
3 182 (6.39%) Cloud Native
4 132 (4.64%) Derivative
5 123 (4.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 101 (3.55%) Fixed Income
7 98 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
8 88 (3.09%) Management Information System
9 86 (3.02%) AI Agents
10 81 (2.85%) Data Protection Act
11 77 (2.71%) Equities
12 66 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
13 64 (2.25%) Data Structures
14 63 (2.21%) Credit Risk
15 61 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
16 60 (2.11%) Data Centre
17 59 (2.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
18 57 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
19 55 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
20 51 (1.79%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 162 (5.69%) Linux
2 145 (5.09%) Windows
3 94 (3.30%) Unix
4 44 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 29 (1.02%) zOS
6 27 (0.95%) Android
7 26 (0.91%) Apple iOS
8 25 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 16 (0.56%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.35%) AIX
11 8 (0.28%) Windows 10
12 6 (0.21%) Solaris
13 5 (0.18%) macOS
13 5 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
14 4 (0.14%) HPUX
14 4 (0.14%) SUSE
15 3 (0.11%) CentOS
15 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
16 2 (0.070%) MVS
17 1 (0.035%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 810 (28.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 708 (24.88%) Agile
3 487 (17.11%) CI/CD
4 431 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
5 421 (14.79%) AI
6 385 (13.53%) DevOps
7 368 (12.93%) Migration
8 327 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 285 (10.01%) Roadmaps
10 278 (9.77%) Analytics
11 252 (8.85%) Validation
12 239 (8.40%) Data Modelling
13 235 (8.26%) Microservices
14 229 (8.05%) Software Engineering
15 228 (8.01%) Risk Management
16 217 (7.62%) Decision-Making
17 212 (7.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 211 (7.41%) Test Automation
19 206 (7.24%) Scrum
20 205 (7.20%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 556 (19.54%) SQL
2 457 (16.06%) Python
3 389 (13.67%) Java
4 178 (6.25%) C#
5 149 (5.24%) JavaScript
6 113 (3.97%) TypeScript
7 97 (3.41%) PowerShell
8 72 (2.53%) Bash
9 70 (2.46%) PL/SQL
10 52 (1.83%) Shell Script
11 51 (1.79%) Kotlin
12 35 (1.23%) C++
13 34 (1.19%) T-SQL
14 27 (0.95%) Korn
15 20 (0.70%) 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
1 202 (7.10%) Degree
2 126 (4.43%) Security Cleared
3 102 (3.58%) SC Cleared
4 69 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (2.32%) PMP
6 62 (2.18%) PMI Certification
7 34 (1.19%) CISSP
8 29 (1.02%) AWS Certification
9 28 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (0.91%) ACCA
11 25 (0.88%) Azure Certification
11 25 (0.88%) Master's Degree
12 23 (0.81%) CIMA
13 20 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (0.70%) ISTQB
14 15 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 14 (0.49%) CBAP
16 13 (0.46%) CCNP
16 13 (0.46%) CISM
17 11 (0.39%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (6.96%) Data Quality
2 152 (5.34%) QA
3 54 (1.90%) ISO 20022
4 50 (1.76%) PMO
5 41 (1.44%) SEPA
6 38 (1.34%) GRC
7 31 (1.09%) NIST
8 29 (1.02%) GDPR
9 28 (0.98%) SLA
10 27 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 25 (0.88%) 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
15 9 (0.32%) WCAG
16 8 (0.28%) COREP
System Software
1 128 (4.50%) Docker
2 68 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.70%) 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 (0.070%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.070%) GPFS
10 2 (0.070%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.070%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.070%) Postfix
10 2 (0.070%) Varnish
10 2 (0.070%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 188 (6.61%) Kubernetes
2 89 (3.13%) Ansible
3 30 (1.05%) Grafana
4 28 (0.98%) Prometheus
5 20 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.67%) SCCM
7 18 (0.63%) 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
1 305 (10.72%) Microsoft
2 221 (7.77%) Oracle
3 115 (4.04%) IBM
4 108 (3.79%) Databricks
5 93 (3.27%) ServiceNow
6 73 (2.57%) Cisco
7 70 (2.46%) Google
8 66 (2.32%) Salesforce
9 59 (2.07%) Splunk
10 52 (1.83%) SAP
11 42 (1.48%) Citrix
12 40 (1.41%) F5
13 38 (1.34%) CyberArk
13 38 (1.34%) OpenAI
14 35 (1.23%) VMware
15 34 (1.19%) Bloomberg
16 33 (1.16%) Murex
17 32 (1.12%) Dynatrace
18 28 (0.98%) Fortinet
19 24 (0.84%) Avaloq