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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 23 24
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,371 1,889 2,349
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.68% 7.93% 6.41%
As % of the General category 10.46% 12.36% 11.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,448 1,271 1,742
10th Percentile £380 £359 £391
25th Percentile £447 £445 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £775
90th Percentile £775 £850 £874
UK median daily rate £526 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.61% -4.17% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 17 25
10th Percentile - £16.76 £12.34
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.51 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £22.27 £19.05
Median % change year-on-year +15.72% +16.90% -9.29%
75th Percentile £95.00 £24.66 £27.00
90th Percentile £97.63 £24.86 £86.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £22.27 £19.05
% change year-on-year +15.72% +16.90% -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 22,668 15,283 21,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.28% 64.13% 57.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,915 9,888 13,661
10th Percentile £313 £284 £281
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,552 678 1,798
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.32 £12.96
25th Percentile £18.32 £16.79 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.78 £27.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.93% -8.82% -5.63%
75th Percentile £61.18 £53.75 £51.91
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £66.74
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.69%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -9 1,642 £575 -11.54% 514
North of England -1 497 £475 +6.26% 78
North West +9 262 £442 +7.87% 44
Yorkshire -6 228 £500 - 33
Midlands +4 186 £505 +18.88% 38
West Midlands +28 133 £575 +2.04% 18
East Midlands -17 53 £465 +19.23% 20
South East -42 36 £540 -6.09% 119
South West -22 35 £500 -2.44% 14
East of England -23 14 £505 -15.83% 9
North East -22 11 £400 -4.76% 1
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
1 169 (7.13%) Confluence
2 47 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.10%) SAS
4 19 (0.80%) IIS
5 17 (0.72%) Apache Spark
6 15 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
7 11 (0.46%) Apache
7 11 (0.46%) CICS
8 9 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.34%) Camunda
10 7 (0.30%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.30%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
12 5 (0.21%) Appian
12 5 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.084%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.084%) CMS
14 2 (0.084%) Jupyter
Applications
1 128 (5.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (2.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 57 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
4 45 (1.90%) MS Visio
5 27 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.34%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.21%) Notion
8 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.13%) Sketch
9 2 (0.084%) InVision
9 2 (0.084%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.084%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 27 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.05%) Oracle Payables
3 23 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
4 19 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
5 17 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
5 17 (0.72%) Temenos T24
6 16 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 15 (0.63%) Loan IQ
8 12 (0.51%) Finacle
9 9 (0.38%) Aladdin
9 9 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
9 9 (0.38%) SAP FI
10 8 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
10 8 (0.34%) SAP CO
10 8 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
10 8 (0.34%) Summit
11 7 (0.30%) Actimize
12 6 (0.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 5 (0.21%) BASE24
13 5 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 364 (15.35%) Azure
2 323 (13.62%) AWS
3 147 (6.20%) GCP
4 122 (5.15%) Power Platform
5 82 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
6 80 (3.37%) GitHub
7 59 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
8 55 (2.32%) SaaS
9 36 (1.52%) Entra ID
9 36 (1.52%) OpenShift
9 36 (1.52%) Snowflake
10 34 (1.43%) Figma
11 31 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
12 27 (1.14%) Amazon S3
12 27 (1.14%) Serverless
13 26 (1.10%) OCI
14 23 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
15 22 (0.93%) PaaS
15 22 (0.93%) Power Automate
16 20 (0.84%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (3.04%) DNS
2 56 (2.36%) VPN
3 54 (2.28%) Firewall
4 44 (1.86%) Network Security
5 37 (1.56%) TCP/IP
6 35 (1.48%) HTTP
7 30 (1.27%) Multicast
8 27 (1.14%) BGP
9 25 (1.05%) SSL
10 24 (1.01%) SAN
11 23 (0.97%) BIG-IP
12 22 (0.93%) DMZ
12 22 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 21 (0.89%) FIX Connectivity
13 21 (0.89%) Wireshark
14 20 (0.84%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 15 (0.63%) DHCP
16 14 (0.59%) NetScaler
17 11 (0.46%) Internet
18 10 (0.42%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (4.47%) SQL Server
2 100 (4.22%) Power BI
3 67 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (2.61%) Metadata
5 55 (2.32%) Tableau
6 51 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
7 46 (1.94%) Relational Database
8 44 (1.86%) Oracle Database
9 34 (1.43%) MongoDB
10 30 (1.27%) NoSQL
11 23 (0.97%) Big Data
12 20 (0.84%) DB2
13 18 (0.76%) BigQuery
14 16 (0.67%) Data Lake
14 16 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 14 (0.59%) Power Query
16 13 (0.55%) Data Vault
16 13 (0.55%) DataStage
16 13 (0.55%) Pinecone
16 13 (0.55%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 260 (10.97%) JIRA
2 99 (4.18%) Jenkins
3 88 (3.71%) Git
4 61 (2.57%) GitLab
5 33 (1.39%) JUnit
6 26 (1.10%) Selenium
7 23 (0.97%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.76%) Fiddler
8 18 (0.76%) Postman
9 17 (0.72%) Bitbucket
9 17 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
9 17 (0.72%) TeamCity
10 14 (0.59%) REST Assured
10 14 (0.59%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.51%) Maven
11 12 (0.51%) Mockito
12 11 (0.46%) ERwin
13 10 (0.42%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.42%) ER Studio
14 8 (0.34%) Appium
General
1 1,442 (60.82%) Finance
2 634 (26.74%) Social Skills
3 493 (20.79%) Investment Banking
4 326 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
5 182 (7.68%) Front Office
6 115 (4.85%) Financial Institution
7 110 (4.64%) Retail Banking
8 89 (3.75%) Retail
9 87 (3.67%) Corporate Banking
10 81 (3.42%) Legal
11 60 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
12 54 (2.28%) Public Sector
13 45 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
14 41 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
15 34 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
16 26 (1.10%) Private Banking
17 25 (1.05%) General Ledger
18 24 (1.01%) Back Office
18 24 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 23 (0.97%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 394 (16.62%) Developer
2 380 (16.03%) Analyst
3 308 (12.99%) Senior
4 275 (11.60%) Architect
5 263 (11.09%) Business Analyst
6 183 (7.72%) Lead
7 133 (5.61%) Solutions Architect
8 121 (5.10%) Java Developer
9 109 (4.60%) Project Manager
10 94 (3.96%) Senior Developer
11 90 (3.80%) Banking Analyst
12 88 (3.71%) Consultant
13 82 (3.46%) Data Engineer
14 63 (2.66%) Banking Business Analyst
15 58 (2.45%) Payments Architect
16 54 (2.28%) Network Engineer
17 53 (2.24%) Payments Solutions Architect
18 50 (2.11%) Data Analyst
19 48 (2.02%) C# Developer
19 48 (2.02%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (4.68%) Kafka
2 109 (4.60%) .NET
3 97 (4.09%) React
4 82 (3.46%) Spring
5 80 (3.37%) Middleware
6 79 (3.33%) REST
7 69 (2.91%) Spring Boot
8 64 (2.70%) RESTful
9 55 (2.32%) HTML
10 46 (1.94%) CSS
11 45 (1.90%) OAuth
12 40 (1.69%) AngularJS
13 38 (1.60%) FIX Protocol
14 37 (1.56%) XML
15 36 (1.52%) JSON
16 34 (1.43%) OAuth2
17 25 (1.05%) HTML5
17 25 (1.05%) Node.js
18 24 (1.01%) Redux
19 23 (0.97%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 177 (7.47%) Product Ownership
2 119 (5.02%) Derivative
3 111 (4.68%) Onboarding
4 108 (4.56%) Cloud Native
5 89 (3.75%) Management Information System
6 87 (3.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 74 (3.12%) Data Protection Act
8 67 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
8 67 (2.83%) Fixed Income
9 65 (2.74%) Data Structures
10 56 (2.36%) Equities
11 47 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
12 45 (1.90%) Data Centre
13 44 (1.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 42 (1.77%) Credit Risk
14 42 (1.77%) Market Risk
15 40 (1.69%) Mainframe
16 32 (1.35%) Algorithms
17 31 (1.31%) Public Cloud
18 30 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 143 (6.03%) Windows
2 113 (4.77%) Linux
3 76 (3.21%) Unix
4 28 (1.18%) Windows 10
5 24 (1.01%) Android
6 23 (0.97%) Apple iOS
7 22 (0.93%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.93%) zOS
8 20 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.46%) AIX
10 7 (0.30%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.30%) Solaris
11 6 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
11 6 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (0.25%) VMS
11 6 (0.25%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.21%) CoreOS
13 4 (0.17%) HPUX
13 4 (0.17%) SUSE
14 3 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (23.37%) Agile
2 429 (18.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 344 (14.51%) Problem-Solving
4 329 (13.88%) CI/CD
5 307 (12.95%) DevOps
6 277 (11.68%) Migration
7 263 (11.09%) AI
8 210 (8.86%) Analytics
9 204 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 201 (8.48%) Data Modelling
11 191 (8.06%) Roadmaps
12 177 (7.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 175 (7.38%) Decision-Making
13 175 (7.38%) Microservices
14 172 (7.25%) Validation
15 160 (6.75%) User Acceptance Testing
16 153 (6.45%) Risk Management
16 153 (6.45%) Test Automation
17 139 (5.86%) Project Management
18 136 (5.74%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 386 (16.28%) SQL
2 332 (14.00%) Python
3 306 (12.91%) Java
4 142 (5.99%) C#
5 98 (4.13%) JavaScript
6 76 (3.21%) TypeScript
7 66 (2.78%) PowerShell
8 51 (2.15%) PL/SQL
9 37 (1.56%) Shell Script
10 36 (1.52%) Bash
11 34 (1.43%) T-SQL
12 27 (1.14%) Kotlin
13 24 (1.01%) C++
13 24 (1.01%) Go
14 21 (0.89%) VBA
15 20 (0.84%) Korn
16 16 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 15 (0.63%) Scala
18 14 (0.59%) COBOL
19 13 (0.55%) JCL
Qualifications
1 197 (8.31%) Degree
2 114 (4.81%) Security Cleared
3 75 (3.16%) SC Cleared
4 64 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (1.98%) Master's Degree
5 47 (1.98%) PMP
6 44 (1.86%) PMI Certification
7 42 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 33 (1.39%) CISSP
9 30 (1.27%) Azure Certification
10 23 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (0.72%) AWS Certification
12 16 (0.67%) MBA
13 15 (0.63%) CISM
14 13 (0.55%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.51%) CBAP
16 11 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
17 10 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 9 (0.38%) ACCA
18 9 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (5.69%) QA
2 134 (5.65%) Data Quality
3 53 (2.24%) PMO
4 49 (2.07%) GDPR
5 48 (2.02%) ISO 20022
6 37 (1.56%) SLA
7 34 (1.43%) PSD2
8 33 (1.39%) NIST
9 30 (1.27%) SEPA
10 29 (1.22%) PCI DSS
11 27 (1.14%) GRC
11 27 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 24 (1.01%) Accessibility
13 22 (0.93%) MiFID
13 22 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 15 (0.63%) Basel III
14 15 (0.63%) ISO 8583
15 9 (0.38%) EMIR
15 9 (0.38%) IFRS
16 8 (0.34%) COREP
System Software
1 125 (5.27%) Docker
2 52 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.76%) Firmware
5 16 (0.67%) NFS
6 14 (0.59%) vSphere
7 12 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (0.34%) RACF
10 6 (0.25%) Varnish
11 5 (0.21%) Postfix
12 4 (0.17%) Sendmail
12 4 (0.17%) SRDF
12 4 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.17%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.13%) ACF2
13 3 (0.13%) XenApp
14 2 (0.084%) GridGain
14 2 (0.084%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 165 (6.96%) Kubernetes
2 91 (3.84%) Terraform
3 71 (2.99%) Ansible
4 36 (1.52%) Grafana
5 28 (1.18%) Prometheus
6 21 (0.89%) SCCM
7 19 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (0.72%) Argo
9 11 (0.46%) Control-M
10 10 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.38%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.38%) Istio
12 8 (0.34%) Puppet
13 6 (0.25%) SnapMirror
14 5 (0.21%) HAProxy
14 5 (0.21%) NetBackup
14 5 (0.21%) OMEGAMON
14 5 (0.21%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.21%) vRealize
14 5 (0.21%) WSUS
Vendors
1 276 (11.64%) Microsoft
2 180 (7.59%) Oracle
3 82 (3.46%) ServiceNow
4 61 (2.57%) Google
5 57 (2.40%) IBM
6 56 (2.36%) SAP
7 55 (2.32%) Cisco
8 50 (2.11%) F5
9 48 (2.02%) Citrix
10 46 (1.94%) VMware
11 44 (1.86%) Databricks
11 44 (1.86%) Splunk
12 28 (1.18%) Temenos
13 27 (1.14%) Avaloq
14 25 (1.05%) Murex
14 25 (1.05%) NetApp
14 25 (1.05%) Pega
15 22 (0.93%) Bloomberg
15 22 (0.93%) Workday
16 21 (0.89%) Remedy