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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 21 24
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,649 2,249 2,460
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.81% 8.13% 7.38%
As % of the General category 10.50% 12.66% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,611 1,566 1,769
10th Percentile £400 £350 £400
25th Percentile £458 £415 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £572 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -8.44% -0.79%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £788
90th Percentile £810 £825 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £610
% change year-on-year - -9.84% -2.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 30 16
10th Percentile £16.63 £18.10 £14.13
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.14 £14.50
Median hourly rate £18.60 £25.15 £18.89
Median % change year-on-year -26.06% +33.17% +8.16%
75th Percentile £33.70 - £41.31
90th Percentile £96.88 £54.25 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £17.25 £25.15 £18.27
% change year-on-year -31.41% +37.66% -1.24%

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 25,236 17,763 19,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.38% 64.25% 57.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,042 11,313 12,322
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £419 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.12% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £660
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,997 961 1,234
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.25 £14.45
25th Percentile £17.97 £16.50 £18.03
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +38.62%
75th Percentile £63.00 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £70.99
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +27.24% -34.02% +31.45%

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 August 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 13 August 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 13 August 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 1,915 £588 -6.00% 1,192
North of England -5 515 £500 +12.36% 113
North West -4 263 £500 +16.62% 73
Yorkshire -8 242 £500 +8.40% 36
Midlands -22 153 £519 +22.72% 37
West Midlands +20 117 £550 +3.53% 25
East Midlands -38 36 £475 +21.02% 12
South West -45 34 £563 +7.14% 38
South East -57 32 £533 +18.33% 103
East of England +6 30 £580 -22.67% 9
North East -34 13 £875 +108.33% 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
1 154 (5.81%) Confluence
2 57 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.02%) Apache Spark
4 25 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (0.94%) SAS
5 24 (0.91%) Apache
6 17 (0.64%) IIS
7 11 (0.42%) CICS
8 10 (0.38%) Appian
8 10 (0.38%) Camunda
9 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.23%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.15%) WordPress
12 3 (0.11%) Ethereum
12 3 (0.11%) Hyperledger
12 3 (0.11%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.076%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.076%) CMS
13 2 (0.076%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 91 (3.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (1.32%) MS Visio
5 22 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Sketch
8 3 (0.11%) Trello
9 2 (0.076%) EngageOne
9 2 (0.076%) InVision
9 2 (0.076%) Notion
10 1 (0.038%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.038%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 21 (0.79%) Temenos T24
2 20 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
3 18 (0.68%) Finacle
3 18 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
4 14 (0.53%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.49%) Loan IQ
5 13 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
6 11 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
8 8 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
8 8 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (0.26%) Actimize
9 7 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
9 7 (0.26%) OpenText MBPM
9 7 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
10 5 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.19%) Summit
11 4 (0.15%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 407 (15.36%) Azure
2 342 (12.91%) AWS
3 166 (6.27%) GCP
4 133 (5.02%) Power Platform
5 84 (3.17%) GitHub
6 81 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
7 80 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
8 73 (2.76%) SaaS
8 73 (2.76%) Snowflake
9 51 (1.93%) Entra ID
10 40 (1.51%) Amazon S3
10 40 (1.51%) OpenShift
11 39 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
12 37 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
13 33 (1.25%) Serverless
14 28 (1.06%) Figma
15 26 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
15 26 (0.98%) Power Automate
16 24 (0.91%) PaaS
16 24 (0.91%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 77 (2.91%) Firewall
2 69 (2.60%) DNS
3 65 (2.45%) VPN
4 56 (2.11%) Network Security
5 42 (1.59%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.25%) SSL
7 31 (1.17%) Multicast
8 30 (1.13%) BGP
9 25 (0.94%) HTTP
10 23 (0.87%) SAN
11 22 (0.83%) DMZ
12 21 (0.79%) BIG-IP
13 19 (0.72%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 19 (0.72%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 18 (0.68%) DHCP
14 18 (0.68%) Wireshark
15 17 (0.64%) FIX Connectivity
16 16 (0.60%) LAN
17 15 (0.57%) WAN
18 11 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (4.87%) SQL Server
2 109 (4.11%) Power BI
3 86 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
4 69 (2.60%) Metadata
5 64 (2.42%) Relational Database
6 47 (1.77%) Oracle Database
7 46 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (1.40%) Data Lake
9 34 (1.28%) MongoDB
9 34 (1.28%) Tableau
10 28 (1.06%) Big Data
11 23 (0.87%) Db2
12 20 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
12 20 (0.76%) RDBMS
12 20 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 17 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (0.64%) Data Vault
14 16 (0.60%) NoSQL
15 15 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
15 15 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 267 (10.08%) JIRA
2 119 (4.49%) Git
3 103 (3.89%) Jenkins
4 61 (2.30%) GitLab
5 36 (1.36%) JUnit
6 32 (1.21%) Selenium
7 24 (0.91%) Cucumber
8 17 (0.64%) Bitbucket
8 17 (0.64%) TeamCity
9 16 (0.60%) ERwin
9 16 (0.60%) Fiddler
10 15 (0.57%) ER Studio
10 15 (0.57%) Gradle
10 15 (0.57%) Maven
10 15 (0.57%) Mockito
10 15 (0.57%) Postman
10 15 (0.57%) SonarQube
10 15 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
11 14 (0.53%) REST Assured
12 11 (0.42%) Zephyr
General
1 1,703 (64.29%) Finance
2 720 (27.18%) Social Skills
3 535 (20.20%) Investment Banking
4 387 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
5 240 (9.06%) Front Office
6 137 (5.17%) Financial Institution
7 115 (4.34%) Retail
8 108 (4.08%) Retail Banking
9 89 (3.36%) Corporate Banking
10 84 (3.17%) Legal
11 65 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
12 64 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
13 58 (2.19%) Private Banking
14 53 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
15 42 (1.59%) Back Office
16 38 (1.43%) Public Sector
17 30 (1.13%) Marketing
18 27 (1.02%) General Ledger
19 25 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
20 22 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 439 (16.57%) Developer
2 392 (14.80%) Analyst
3 349 (13.17%) Senior
4 295 (11.14%) Architect
5 252 (9.51%) Lead
6 240 (9.06%) Business Analyst
7 144 (5.44%) Java Developer
8 130 (4.91%) Project Manager
9 103 (3.89%) Senior Developer
10 102 (3.85%) Data Engineer
11 97 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
12 90 (3.40%) Consultant
13 86 (3.25%) Banking Analyst
14 67 (2.53%) Software Engineer
15 63 (2.38%) Data Analyst
16 58 (2.19%) Designer
16 58 (2.19%) Network Engineer
17 55 (2.08%) Senior Java Developer
18 51 (1.93%) Java Engineer
19 50 (1.89%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (5.21%) React
2 127 (4.79%) .NET
3 124 (4.68%) Kafka
4 105 (3.96%) REST
5 90 (3.40%) Middleware
5 90 (3.40%) Spring
6 78 (2.94%) Spring Boot
7 55 (2.08%) Redux
8 49 (1.85%) RESTful
9 42 (1.59%) HTML
10 40 (1.51%) FIX Protocol
10 40 (1.51%) PySpark
11 39 (1.47%) CSS
12 35 (1.32%) AngularJS
12 35 (1.32%) JSON
13 34 (1.28%) OAuth
14 31 (1.17%) XML
15 25 (0.94%) LangChain
15 25 (0.94%) Node.js
16 24 (0.91%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 203 (7.66%) Product Ownership
2 170 (6.42%) Onboarding
3 152 (5.74%) Cloud Native
4 138 (5.21%) Derivative
5 126 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 101 (3.81%) Fixed Income
7 84 (3.17%) Equities
8 82 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
9 79 (2.98%) Data Protection Act
10 74 (2.79%) Management Information System
11 73 (2.76%) Data Structures
12 60 (2.27%) AI Agents
13 59 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
14 53 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
14 53 (2.00%) Mainframe
15 52 (1.96%) Credit Risk
16 51 (1.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 48 (1.81%) Data Centre
18 47 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
19 42 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 156 (5.89%) Windows
2 141 (5.32%) Linux
3 87 (3.28%) Unix
4 37 (1.40%) Windows Server
5 29 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 27 (1.02%) zOS
7 23 (0.87%) Apple iOS
8 20 (0.76%) Android
9 15 (0.57%) Ubuntu
10 12 (0.45%) AIX
10 12 (0.45%) Windows 10
11 9 (0.34%) Solaris
12 8 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
13 6 (0.23%) HPUX
13 6 (0.23%) SUSE
14 4 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
14 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.11%) CoreOS
15 3 (0.11%) Windows 7
15 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 624 (23.56%) Agile
2 578 (21.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 402 (15.18%) CI/CD
4 390 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
5 366 (13.82%) AI
6 341 (12.87%) DevOps
7 315 (11.89%) Migration
8 278 (10.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 256 (9.66%) Analytics
10 233 (8.80%) Data Modelling
11 219 (8.27%) Roadmaps
12 196 (7.40%) Decision-Making
13 193 (7.29%) Microservices
14 189 (7.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 188 (7.10%) Software Engineering
16 186 (7.02%) Validation
17 173 (6.53%) User Acceptance Testing
18 168 (6.34%) Test Automation
19 166 (6.27%) Change Management
20 165 (6.23%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 446 (16.84%) SQL
2 379 (14.31%) Python
3 347 (13.10%) Java
4 186 (7.02%) C#
5 133 (5.02%) JavaScript
6 108 (4.08%) TypeScript
7 82 (3.10%) PowerShell
8 68 (2.57%) PL/SQL
9 51 (1.93%) Bash
10 47 (1.77%) Shell Script
11 45 (1.70%) Kotlin
12 40 (1.51%) T-SQL
13 33 (1.25%) C++
14 23 (0.87%) Korn
14 23 (0.87%) VBA
15 15 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 12 (0.45%) Bicep
16 12 (0.45%) Go
16 12 (0.45%) JCL
17 11 (0.42%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 169 (6.38%) Degree
2 132 (4.98%) Security Cleared
3 102 (3.85%) SC Cleared
4 53 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 53 (2.00%) PMP
5 44 (1.66%) PMI Certification
6 36 (1.36%) CISSP
7 28 (1.06%) Azure Certification
7 28 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
8 23 (0.87%) AWS Certification
9 20 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (0.76%) Master's Degree
10 17 (0.64%) CISM
11 15 (0.57%) ISTQB
12 12 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 11 (0.42%) ACCA
14 10 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (0.34%) CCNA
15 9 (0.34%) CCSP
15 9 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (5.66%) Data Quality
2 132 (4.98%) QA
3 58 (2.19%) PMO
4 48 (1.81%) ISO 20022
5 40 (1.51%) GDPR
6 37 (1.40%) GRC
7 36 (1.36%) NIST
8 33 (1.25%) SEPA
9 28 (1.06%) SLA
10 26 (0.98%) PSD2
11 25 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 24 (0.91%) Accessibility
13 21 (0.79%) MiFID
14 16 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 13 (0.49%) IFRS
16 12 (0.45%) PCI DSS
17 10 (0.38%) EMIR
18 7 (0.26%) COREP
18 7 (0.26%) FINREP
19 6 (0.23%) Solvency II
System Software
1 116 (4.38%) Docker
2 70 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.72%) RACF
5 16 (0.60%) Firmware
6 14 (0.53%) NFS
6 14 (0.53%) vSphere
7 10 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.23%) Varnish
9 5 (0.19%) Postfix
10 4 (0.15%) ACF2
10 4 (0.15%) Sendmail
10 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.15%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.11%) SRDF
11 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.11%) XenApp
12 2 (0.076%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.076%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 166 (6.27%) Kubernetes
2 89 (3.36%) Terraform
3 77 (2.91%) Ansible
4 29 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 28 (1.06%) Grafana
6 19 (0.72%) SCCM
7 18 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.60%) Control-M
10 15 (0.57%) OMEGAMON
11 13 (0.49%) Argo
12 11 (0.42%) Istio
13 9 (0.34%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
15 6 (0.23%) Progress Chef
15 6 (0.23%) Puppet
15 6 (0.23%) WSUS
16 5 (0.19%) HAProxy
16 5 (0.19%) RSA Archer
16 5 (0.19%) systemd
Vendors
1 300 (11.33%) Microsoft
2 200 (7.55%) Oracle
3 95 (3.59%) ServiceNow
4 93 (3.51%) IBM
5 80 (3.02%) Databricks
6 61 (2.30%) Cisco
7 54 (2.04%) Google
8 49 (1.85%) Salesforce
8 49 (1.85%) SAP
9 47 (1.77%) Splunk
10 45 (1.70%) F5
10 45 (1.70%) VMware
11 42 (1.59%) Citrix
12 36 (1.36%) CyberArk
13 33 (1.25%) Murex
14 28 (1.06%) OpenAI
15 26 (0.98%) Bloomberg
16 25 (0.94%) NetApp
17 24 (0.91%) Fortinet
17 24 (0.91%) Pega