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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,201 1,897 2,383
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.98% 7.68% 6.28%
As % of the General category 10.34% 12.15% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,331 1,252 1,707
10th Percentile £368 £363 £377
25th Percentile £445 £482 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -2.04% -9.26%
75th Percentile £674 £738 £750
90th Percentile £775 £850 £838
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 13 24
10th Percentile £17.59 £15.23 £12.84
25th Percentile £22.29 - £18.12
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +14.21% -15.22%
75th Percentile £45.93 £24.66 £32.63
90th Percentile £95.00 £68.85 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £23.23 £19.50
% change year-on-year +8.29% +19.10% -15.22%

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 21,278 15,619 22,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.79% 63.21% 58.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,437 10,022 14,551
10th Percentile £300 £300 £266
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £758
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,333 564 1,662
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.02 £13.05
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.00 £15.38
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.90 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.10% +18.86% -22.39%
75th Percentile £58.65 £62.24 £50.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £76.25 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £24.19 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -19.37% +15.38% -21.21%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 14 March 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 1,498 £575 -9.09% 322
North of England +8 472 £475 +3.26% 68
North West +12 253 £447 +10.37% 38
Yorkshire -1 226 £500 -11.50% 26
Midlands +14 185 £474 -13.82% 28
West Midlands +12 129 £558 -7.66% 19
East Midlands -7 56 £430 +7.50% 9
South East -32 48 £459 -16.55% 96
South West -17 33 £525 -14.29% 8
East of England -25 11 £400 -33.33% 11
North East -12 4 £400 - 4
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
1 170 (7.72%) Confluence
2 52 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.09%) Apache Spark
4 17 (0.77%) SAS
5 14 (0.64%) Apache
5 14 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (0.50%) IIS
6 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.36%) CICS
8 7 (0.32%) CMS
9 6 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.23%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.23%) Hyperledger
11 4 (0.18%) MQSeries
11 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.091%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.091%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.091%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 151 (6.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 80 (3.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 67 (3.04%) Microsoft Office
4 50 (2.27%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
6 19 (0.86%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
9 3 (0.14%) Notion
9 3 (0.14%) Trello
10 2 (0.091%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.091%) Sketch
10 2 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.045%) InVision
11 1 (0.045%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 31 (1.41%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
3 20 (0.91%) Oracle Receivables
4 19 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
5 18 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
6 17 (0.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 17 (0.77%) Temenos T24
7 16 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
8 13 (0.59%) Loan IQ
9 10 (0.45%) SAP FI
10 8 (0.36%) Actimize
10 8 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
10 8 (0.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 8 (0.36%) SAP CO
10 8 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
11 7 (0.32%) Aladdin
11 7 (0.32%) Finacle
12 6 (0.27%) Fidessa
12 6 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
13 5 (0.23%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 347 (15.77%) Azure
2 333 (15.13%) AWS
3 164 (7.45%) GCP
4 136 (6.18%) Power Platform
5 90 (4.09%) GitHub
6 89 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
7 59 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (2.68%) Serverless
8 49 (2.23%) SaaS
9 41 (1.86%) Figma
10 35 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
11 30 (1.36%) Amazon S3
11 30 (1.36%) Entra ID
12 29 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
13 27 (1.23%) OCI
14 26 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
15 25 (1.14%) Snowflake
16 24 (1.09%) PowerApps
17 23 (1.04%) Power Automate
18 22 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.23%) DNS
2 47 (2.14%) Firewall
3 39 (1.77%) HTTP
4 38 (1.73%) TCP/IP
4 38 (1.73%) VPN
5 34 (1.54%) Network Security
6 32 (1.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 30 (1.36%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 27 (1.23%) SSL
9 26 (1.18%) BGP
9 26 (1.18%) DMZ
10 24 (1.09%) Multicast
11 23 (1.04%) BIG-IP
12 22 (1.00%) Wireshark
13 19 (0.86%) Wireless
14 18 (0.82%) NetScaler
15 17 (0.77%) SAN
16 16 (0.73%) DHCP
16 16 (0.73%) FIX Connectivity
17 14 (0.64%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (5.04%) Power BI
2 95 (4.32%) SQL Server
3 76 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 68 (3.09%) Tableau
5 53 (2.41%) NoSQL
6 51 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
7 44 (2.00%) Metadata
8 43 (1.95%) Oracle Database
9 40 (1.82%) MongoDB
10 36 (1.64%) Relational Database
11 29 (1.32%) Big Data
12 23 (1.04%) BigQuery
13 17 (0.77%) Data Lake
13 17 (0.77%) DB2
13 17 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 16 (0.73%) Hadoop
15 12 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
15 12 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
16 11 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 249 (11.31%) JIRA
2 129 (5.86%) Jenkins
3 95 (4.32%) Git
4 90 (4.09%) GitLab
5 31 (1.41%) JUnit
6 25 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 24 (1.09%) Cucumber
8 23 (1.04%) Selenium
9 22 (1.00%) Bitbucket
10 21 (0.95%) Fiddler
11 20 (0.91%) Postman
12 16 (0.73%) REST Assured
13 15 (0.68%) Liquibase
14 13 (0.59%) Gradle
14 13 (0.59%) Maven
14 13 (0.59%) TeamCity
15 9 (0.41%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.41%) Mockito
15 9 (0.41%) SonarQube
16 8 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,397 (63.47%) Finance
2 704 (31.99%) Social Skills
3 448 (20.35%) Investment Banking
4 296 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
5 174 (7.91%) Front Office
6 119 (5.41%) Financial Institution
7 91 (4.13%) Retail Banking
8 63 (2.86%) Retail
9 61 (2.77%) Corporate Banking
10 59 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
10 59 (2.68%) Legal
11 53 (2.41%) Public Sector
12 41 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
13 40 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
14 35 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
15 28 (1.27%) Marketing
16 22 (1.00%) International Banking
17 21 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 21 (0.95%) Private Banking
18 20 (0.91%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 386 (17.54%) Developer
2 377 (17.13%) Analyst
3 283 (12.86%) Senior
4 258 (11.72%) Business Analyst
5 241 (10.95%) Architect
6 144 (6.54%) Lead
7 129 (5.86%) Project Manager
7 129 (5.86%) Solutions Architect
8 100 (4.54%) Java Developer
9 84 (3.82%) Senior Developer
10 75 (3.41%) Banking Analyst
10 75 (3.41%) Consultant
11 61 (2.77%) Data Engineer
12 52 (2.36%) Banking Business Analyst
12 52 (2.36%) Network Engineer
13 50 (2.27%) Designer
13 50 (2.27%) DevOps Engineer
14 48 (2.18%) Payments Architect
15 45 (2.04%) C# Developer
15 45 (2.04%) Payments Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (5.63%) Kafka
2 110 (5.00%) .NET
3 107 (4.86%) REST
4 73 (3.32%) Spring
5 72 (3.27%) React
6 65 (2.95%) RESTful
7 63 (2.86%) Middleware
8 62 (2.82%) Spring Boot
9 59 (2.68%) HTML
10 50 (2.27%) AngularJS
11 42 (1.91%) OAuth
12 38 (1.73%) CSS
12 38 (1.73%) Pandas
12 38 (1.73%) XML
13 36 (1.64%) JSON
14 33 (1.50%) NumPy
15 30 (1.36%) OAuth2
16 28 (1.27%) Node.js
17 27 (1.23%) SOAP
18 25 (1.14%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 135 (6.13%) Product Ownership
2 112 (5.09%) Derivative
3 98 (4.45%) Onboarding
4 96 (4.36%) Management Information System
5 95 (4.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 88 (4.00%) Cloud Native
7 69 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
8 67 (3.04%) Equities
9 66 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
10 65 (2.95%) Fixed Income
11 46 (2.09%) Public Cloud
12 45 (2.04%) Data Structures
13 42 (1.91%) Data Centre
13 42 (1.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 40 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
15 39 (1.77%) Market Risk
16 37 (1.68%) Credit Risk
17 34 (1.54%) Hedge funds
18 32 (1.45%) Mobile App
19 29 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 133 (6.04%) Windows
2 120 (5.45%) Linux
3 50 (2.27%) Unix
4 36 (1.64%) Android
4 36 (1.64%) Windows 10
5 22 (1.00%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.91%) Windows Server
7 15 (0.68%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.64%) zOS
9 12 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.32%) VMS
11 6 (0.27%) AIX
12 5 (0.23%) CoreOS
12 5 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
13 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.14%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.045%) Kali Linux
15 1 (0.045%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (25.67%) Agile
2 396 (17.99%) Stakeholder Management
3 374 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
4 323 (14.68%) DevOps
5 319 (14.49%) CI/CD
6 232 (10.54%) Migration
7 208 (9.45%) Analytics
8 189 (8.59%) AI
9 180 (8.18%) Microservices
10 179 (8.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 170 (7.72%) Risk Management
12 163 (7.41%) Data Modelling
12 163 (7.41%) Decision-Making
13 157 (7.13%) Data Analysis
14 156 (7.09%) Project Management
15 151 (6.86%) Roadmaps
16 148 (6.72%) Continuous Improvement
17 145 (6.59%) Validation
18 144 (6.54%) Business Intelligence
19 142 (6.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 395 (17.95%) SQL
2 370 (16.81%) Python
3 300 (13.63%) Java
4 145 (6.59%) C#
5 90 (4.09%) JavaScript
6 61 (2.77%) PowerShell
6 61 (2.77%) TypeScript
7 48 (2.18%) Go
8 36 (1.64%) PL/SQL
9 29 (1.32%) VBA
10 28 (1.27%) Bash
10 28 (1.27%) Shell Script
11 27 (1.23%) C++
12 22 (1.00%) T-SQL
13 18 (0.82%) Kotlin
14 17 (0.77%) COBOL
15 14 (0.64%) Scala
16 13 (0.59%) Perl
17 11 (0.50%) Korn
18 10 (0.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 232 (10.54%) Degree
2 105 (4.77%) Security Cleared
3 77 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 76 (3.45%) Master's Degree
5 61 (2.77%) SC Cleared
6 54 (2.45%) PMI Certification
7 53 (2.41%) PMP
8 41 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (1.32%) Azure Certification
10 28 (1.27%) CISSP
11 24 (1.09%) AWS Certification
12 18 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (0.82%) MBA
13 16 (0.73%) CISM
14 15 (0.68%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.55%) CBAP
15 12 (0.55%) PhD
16 10 (0.45%) DV Cleared
16 10 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
17 8 (0.36%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (6.18%) QA
2 103 (4.68%) Data Quality
3 55 (2.50%) ISO 20022
4 51 (2.32%) GDPR
5 38 (1.73%) PMO
6 34 (1.54%) PCI DSS
6 34 (1.54%) SLA
7 33 (1.50%) Accessibility
8 31 (1.41%) PSD2
9 30 (1.36%) SEPA
10 28 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 27 (1.23%) NIST
12 25 (1.14%) GRC
13 23 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 22 (1.00%) Basel III
14 22 (1.00%) MiFID
15 14 (0.64%) ISO 8583
16 13 (0.59%) EMIR
17 11 (0.50%) IFRS
18 7 (0.32%) GAAP
System Software
1 152 (6.91%) Docker
2 52 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (1.77%) Active Directory
4 23 (1.04%) Firmware
5 20 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.59%) vSphere
7 11 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (0.36%) NFS
9 6 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.18%) RACF
11 3 (0.14%) SRDF
11 3 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
11 3 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.091%) ACF2
12 2 (0.091%) Varnish
12 2 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.091%) XenApp
13 1 (0.045%) Postfix
13 1 (0.045%) PowerHA
13 1 (0.045%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 185 (8.41%) Kubernetes
2 99 (4.50%) Terraform
3 84 (3.82%) Ansible
4 49 (2.23%) Grafana
5 39 (1.77%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.04%) SCCM
7 19 (0.86%) Argo
8 17 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.41%) Control-M
9 9 (0.41%) Puppet
9 9 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.36%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.32%) Istio
12 6 (0.27%) NetBackup
12 6 (0.27%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
13 5 (0.23%) SnapMirror
14 4 (0.18%) Karpenter
14 4 (0.18%) RSA Archer
14 4 (0.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 253 (11.49%) Microsoft
2 151 (6.86%) Oracle
3 80 (3.63%) Google
4 69 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 63 (2.86%) VMware
6 60 (2.73%) Cisco
7 56 (2.54%) Splunk
8 49 (2.23%) F5
8 49 (2.23%) SAP
9 48 (2.18%) IBM
10 46 (2.09%) Citrix
11 32 (1.45%) Remedy
12 29 (1.32%) Bloomberg
13 28 (1.27%) Murex
14 26 (1.18%) HP
14 26 (1.18%) NetApp
14 26 (1.18%) Temenos
15 23 (1.04%) Apple
15 23 (1.04%) Salesforce
16 22 (1.00%) McAfee