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 1 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 25 23
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 -5
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,128 2,334 2,883
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.99% 7.63% 7.44%
As % of the General category 11.10% 12.63% 12.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,378 1,549 1,996
10th Percentile £358 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £500 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £610 £620
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% -1.61% -4.62%
75th Percentile £688 £750 £750
90th Percentile £813 £850 £850
UK median daily rate £540 £600 £618
% change year-on-year -10.00% -2.83% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 9 21
10th Percentile £18.69 £14.93 £15.72
25th Percentile £24.45 £15.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £27.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.55% +48.65% -19.57%
75th Percentile - £66.00 £30.00
90th Percentile £56.00 £82.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £27.00 £18.72
% change year-on-year -6.85% +44.27% -18.63%

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 19,174 18,473 23,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 62.95% 60.38% 59.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,187 11,117 15,696
10th Percentile £275 £300 £290
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £626 £650 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £770
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,236 678 1,038
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.24 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.00 £17.47
Median hourly rate £24.00 £30.69 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.79% -5.58% +26.41%
75th Percentile £46.00 £58.75 £59.88
90th Percentile £72.00 £71.63 £70.65
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £28.00 £31.76
% change year-on-year -14.29% -11.84% +27.04%

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 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 December 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 -5 1,500 £600 -6.25% 289
North of England +3 398 £465 -9.93% 38
Yorkshire +1 223 £500 -9.09% 14
North West +1 185 £447 -5.89% 22
Midlands +19 164 £465 -15.45% 41
West Midlands +17 95 £525 -14.98% 20
East Midlands +22 71 £410 -3.24% 20
South East -27 44 £425 -15.00% 182
South West +10 36 £525 -4.98% 12
East of England -6 12 £400 -46.67% 4
North East -6 4 - - 2
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
1 119 (5.59%) Confluence
2 53 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 40 (1.88%) Apache
4 36 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.89%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.80%) CMS
7 16 (0.75%) CICS
8 12 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.42%) SAS
9 9 (0.42%) Tomcat
10 8 (0.38%) IIS
10 8 (0.38%) MQSeries
10 8 (0.38%) Mule
11 7 (0.33%) HCL Notes
12 6 (0.28%) WebSphere
13 5 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.19%) Anypoint
14 4 (0.19%) Camunda
14 4 (0.19%) JBoss
15 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 111 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 80 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
3 56 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (1.74%) MS Visio
5 22 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
6 20 (0.94%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 7 (0.33%) Sketch
9 6 (0.28%) Adobe Captivate
10 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.14%) InVision
10 3 (0.14%) Trello
11 2 (0.094%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.047%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.047%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 22 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
2 21 (0.99%) Oracle Payables
3 19 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
4 13 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
5 12 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
5 12 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
6 11 (0.52%) Oracle Financials
7 10 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
8 9 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
9 8 (0.38%) Aladdin
9 8 (0.38%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 8 (0.38%) Temenos T24
9 8 (0.38%) VisionPLUS
10 6 (0.28%) Fidessa
10 6 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
11 5 (0.23%) Loan IQ
12 4 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
12 4 (0.19%) Oracle BPM
12 4 (0.19%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 337 (15.84%) Azure
2 329 (15.46%) AWS
3 186 (8.74%) GCP
4 135 (6.34%) Power Platform
5 84 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
6 78 (3.67%) GitHub
7 68 (3.20%) Serverless
8 53 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
9 52 (2.44%) Figma
10 42 (1.97%) Snowflake
11 40 (1.88%) SaaS
12 38 (1.79%) PowerApps
13 37 (1.74%) Entra ID
14 32 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
15 30 (1.41%) dbt
15 30 (1.41%) Power Automate
16 25 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
17 23 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
18 22 (1.03%) Azure AKS
19 21 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.30%) Firewall
2 41 (1.93%) DNS
3 36 (1.69%) Network Security
4 30 (1.41%) Wireless
5 25 (1.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 25 (1.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 22 (1.03%) HTTP
7 21 (0.99%) DMZ
7 21 (0.99%) TCP/IP
8 15 (0.70%) Multicast
8 15 (0.70%) SSL
9 13 (0.61%) DHCP
9 13 (0.61%) VPN
9 13 (0.61%) Wireshark
10 12 (0.56%) BIG-IP
11 10 (0.47%) BGP
12 9 (0.42%) NetScaler
13 8 (0.38%) Internet
13 8 (0.38%) LAN
13 8 (0.38%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (5.26%) Power BI
2 93 (4.37%) SQL Server
3 82 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
4 71 (3.34%) NoSQL
5 55 (2.58%) Tableau
6 51 (2.40%) MongoDB
7 43 (2.02%) Data Lake
8 41 (1.93%) Relational Database
9 35 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (1.60%) Metadata
11 31 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
12 30 (1.41%) Apache Arrow
12 30 (1.41%) Apache Iceberg
12 30 (1.41%) Apache Ignite
12 30 (1.41%) Dremio
13 29 (1.36%) DB2
14 28 (1.32%) Oracle Database
15 25 (1.17%) Big Data
16 24 (1.13%) Power Query
17 20 (0.94%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 208 (9.77%) JIRA
2 153 (7.19%) Jenkins
3 113 (5.31%) Git
4 80 (3.76%) GitLab
5 48 (2.26%) JUnit
6 38 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
7 34 (1.60%) Bitbucket
8 33 (1.55%) Selenium
9 26 (1.22%) Liquibase
10 25 (1.17%) Cucumber
11 23 (1.08%) Maven
11 23 (1.08%) SonarQube
12 19 (0.89%) Postman
13 15 (0.70%) Gradle
13 15 (0.70%) TeamCity
14 14 (0.66%) REST Assured
15 11 (0.52%) Cypress.io
15 11 (0.52%) Fiddler
16 10 (0.47%) Mockito
16 10 (0.47%) Xcode
General
1 1,360 (63.91%) Finance
2 779 (36.61%) Social Skills
3 461 (21.66%) Investment Banking
4 287 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
5 203 (9.54%) Front Office
6 137 (6.44%) Financial Institution
7 65 (3.05%) Retail Banking
8 58 (2.73%) Retail
9 49 (2.30%) Legal
10 44 (2.07%) Corporate Banking
11 40 (1.88%) Back Office
12 39 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
13 35 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
13 35 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
14 33 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
15 26 (1.22%) Public Sector
16 24 (1.13%) International Banking
17 22 (1.03%) Private Banking
18 20 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 19 (0.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 426 (20.02%) Developer
2 346 (16.26%) Analyst
3 273 (12.83%) Senior
4 229 (10.76%) Business Analyst
5 184 (8.65%) Architect
6 134 (6.30%) Project Manager
7 118 (5.55%) Java Developer
8 98 (4.61%) Lead
9 86 (4.04%) Senior Developer
10 83 (3.90%) Software Engineer
11 71 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
12 64 (3.01%) Consultant
13 60 (2.82%) Banking Analyst
14 59 (2.77%) Python Engineer
15 57 (2.68%) AWS Engineer
15 57 (2.68%) Designer
16 51 (2.40%) Data Analyst
17 50 (2.35%) DevOps Engineer
18 49 (2.30%) Senior Java Developer
19 48 (2.26%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (5.73%) Kafka
2 118 (5.55%) REST
3 98 (4.61%) .NET
4 86 (4.04%) Spring
5 83 (3.90%) RESTful
6 80 (3.76%) React
7 72 (3.38%) Pandas
7 72 (3.38%) Spring Boot
8 67 (3.15%) NumPy
9 58 (2.73%) AngularJS
10 56 (2.63%) HTML
11 50 (2.35%) SciPy
12 46 (2.16%) CSS
13 39 (1.83%) Elastic Stack
13 39 (1.83%) Node.js
14 37 (1.74%) Middleware
15 35 (1.64%) XML
16 34 (1.60%) FIX Protocol
16 34 (1.60%) gRPC
17 31 (1.46%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 150 (7.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 149 (7.00%) Derivative
3 120 (5.64%) Onboarding
4 106 (4.98%) Cloud Native
5 104 (4.89%) Product Ownership
6 94 (4.42%) Fixed Income
7 91 (4.28%) Equities
8 84 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
9 75 (3.52%) Hedge funds
9 75 (3.52%) Management Information System
10 69 (3.24%) Data Centre
11 62 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
12 55 (2.58%) Mobile App
13 50 (2.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 46 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
15 42 (1.97%) Public Cloud
16 40 (1.88%) Data Structures
17 36 (1.69%) Market Risk
18 34 (1.60%) Credit Risk
19 31 (1.46%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 158 (7.42%) Linux
2 126 (5.92%) Windows
3 53 (2.49%) Android
4 47 (2.21%) Unix
5 28 (1.32%) Mac OS
6 27 (1.27%) Windows 10
7 24 (1.13%) Apple iOS
8 21 (0.99%) Windows Server
9 10 (0.47%) zOS
10 5 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.19%) AIX
12 2 (0.094%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.094%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.047%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.047%) Solaris
13 1 (0.047%) VMS
13 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 598 (28.10%) Agile
2 386 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
3 322 (15.13%) DevOps
4 309 (14.52%) CI/CD
5 294 (13.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 210 (9.87%) Analytics
7 208 (9.77%) Microservices
8 181 (8.51%) Risk Management
9 167 (7.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 165 (7.75%) Project Management
11 154 (7.24%) Migration
11 154 (7.24%) Software Engineering
12 145 (6.81%) Change Management
13 144 (6.77%) Decision-Making
14 139 (6.53%) Containerisation
15 134 (6.30%) Scrum
16 131 (6.16%) Business Intelligence
16 131 (6.16%) Roadmaps
17 123 (5.78%) Data Analysis
18 122 (5.73%) AI
Programming Languages
1 416 (19.55%) Python
2 367 (17.25%) SQL
3 338 (15.88%) Java
4 149 (7.00%) C#
5 122 (5.73%) JavaScript
6 74 (3.48%) TypeScript
7 56 (2.63%) PowerShell
8 54 (2.54%) Go
9 52 (2.44%) C++
10 32 (1.50%) Shell Script
11 27 (1.27%) Bash
11 27 (1.27%) PL/SQL
12 24 (1.13%) VBA
13 23 (1.08%) Kotlin
14 19 (0.89%) Rust
15 17 (0.80%) COBOL
16 15 (0.70%) Scala
16 15 (0.70%) T-SQL
17 14 (0.66%) Bicep
18 13 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 242 (11.37%) Degree
2 87 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 84 (3.95%) Security Cleared
4 62 (2.91%) Master's Degree
5 47 (2.21%) PMI Certification
6 44 (2.07%) PMP
7 40 (1.88%) SC Cleared
8 31 (1.46%) CISSP
9 28 (1.32%) AWS Certification
9 28 (1.32%) Azure Certification
10 25 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (0.99%) DV Cleared
12 20 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (0.66%) CISM
14 12 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 12 (0.56%) BC Cleared
15 10 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.47%) PhD
16 8 (0.38%) CCNP
16 8 (0.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (6.20%) QA
2 74 (3.48%) Data Quality
3 55 (2.58%) GDPR
4 44 (2.07%) PMO
5 42 (1.97%) Accessibility
5 42 (1.97%) ISO 20022
6 31 (1.46%) SEPA
7 29 (1.36%) SLA
8 28 (1.32%) NIST
9 25 (1.17%) MiFID
10 24 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 23 (1.08%) PSD2
12 21 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 20 (0.94%) PCI DSS
14 19 (0.89%) GRC
15 16 (0.75%) EMIR
16 15 (0.70%) Basel III
17 12 (0.56%) IFRS
18 7 (0.33%) SOC 2
19 6 (0.28%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 172 (8.08%) Docker
2 44 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (1.93%) Active Directory
4 14 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.56%) Firmware
6 6 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.23%) RACF
7 5 (0.23%) Time Sharing Option
7 5 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.094%) ACF2
9 2 (0.094%) GridGain
9 2 (0.094%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.094%) NFS
9 2 (0.094%) vSphere
9 2 (0.094%) XenApp
9 2 (0.094%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.047%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.047%) KVM
10 1 (0.047%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 201 (9.45%) Kubernetes
2 115 (5.40%) Terraform
3 82 (3.85%) Ansible
4 46 (2.16%) Grafana
5 44 (2.07%) Prometheus
6 19 (0.89%) SCCM
7 13 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
8 12 (0.56%) NetBackup
9 11 (0.52%) Argo
9 11 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
10 9 (0.42%) Control-M
10 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.38%) CA Endevor
11 8 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.33%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.28%) Kibana
13 6 (0.28%) RSA Archer
14 5 (0.23%) OMEGAMON
14 5 (0.23%) QRadar
14 5 (0.23%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 245 (11.51%) Microsoft
2 134 (6.30%) Oracle
3 99 (4.65%) Google
4 62 (2.91%) Splunk
5 52 (2.44%) VMware
6 50 (2.35%) IBM
7 44 (2.07%) ServiceNow
8 40 (1.88%) Cisco
9 38 (1.79%) F5
10 37 (1.74%) HP
10 37 (1.74%) Salesforce
11 33 (1.55%) Apple
11 33 (1.55%) Dell
12 31 (1.46%) CyberArk
13 30 (1.41%) SAP
14 26 (1.22%) Citrix
14 26 (1.22%) Databricks
15 25 (1.17%) Bloomberg
15 25 (1.17%) Dynatrace
16 21 (0.99%) Remedy