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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,276 1,876 2,323
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.82% 7.71% 6.21%
As % of the General category 10.35% 12.10% 10.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,379 1,253 1,677
10th Percentile £369 £360 £380
25th Percentile £438 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £668 £750 £750
90th Percentile £782 £860 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £618
% change year-on-year -12.50% -2.83% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 19 25
10th Percentile £16.70 £15.15 £12.34
25th Percentile £17.94 £18.31 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +14.21% -7.14%
75th Percentile £57.23 £24.66 £30.00
90th Percentile £96.75 £82.00 £79.30
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £23.23 £19.50
% change year-on-year +8.29% +19.10% -7.14%

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 21,980 15,509 21,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.18% 63.72% 58.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,825 10,109 14,128
10th Percentile £304 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,399 634 1,739
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.13 £15.29
Median hourly rate £27.88 £29.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.86% +5.45% -21.43%
75th Percentile £61.18 £59.69 £50.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £26.61 £28.88 £26.73
% change year-on-year -7.86% +8.02% -23.63%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 11 April 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 1,562 £575 -9.80% 331
North of England +4 476 £472 +4.08% 73
North West +16 264 £447 +4.87% 41
Yorkshire -6 212 £500 -6.98% 25
Midlands +14 180 £468 -15.00% 41
West Midlands +14 126 £565 +1.80% 22
East Midlands -14 54 £436 +8.91% 19
South East -35 49 £475 -15.56% 94
South West -29 29 £500 -15.97% 9
East of England -23 17 £500 -16.67% 13
North East -10 9 £400 - 7
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
1 179 (7.86%) Confluence
2 54 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 22 (0.97%) SAS
5 13 (0.57%) IIS
6 12 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 11 (0.48%) Apache
7 11 (0.48%) CICS
7 11 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.22%) CMS
9 5 (0.22%) Ethereum
9 5 (0.22%) Hyperledger
9 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.13%) Camunda
10 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.088%) Appian
11 2 (0.088%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.088%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 151 (6.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (3.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 65 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
4 47 (2.07%) MS Visio
5 28 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.66%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.13%) Notion
8 2 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.088%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.088%) InVision
8 2 (0.088%) Sketch
8 2 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.088%) Trello
9 1 (0.044%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.044%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 31 (1.36%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
3 21 (0.92%) Temenos T24
4 20 (0.88%) Oracle Receivables
5 19 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
5 19 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
6 17 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 15 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
7 15 (0.66%) Loan IQ
8 10 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
8 10 (0.44%) SAP FI
9 9 (0.40%) Actimize
9 9 (0.40%) Finacle
10 8 (0.35%) Aladdin
10 8 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 8 (0.35%) SAP CO
10 8 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
10 8 (0.35%) Summit
11 7 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
12 5 (0.22%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 355 (15.60%) Azure
2 311 (13.66%) AWS
3 154 (6.77%) GCP
4 137 (6.02%) Power Platform
5 98 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
6 83 (3.65%) GitHub
7 62 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (2.33%) SaaS
9 44 (1.93%) Serverless
10 43 (1.89%) Figma
11 35 (1.54%) Entra ID
12 32 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
13 31 (1.36%) Amazon S3
13 31 (1.36%) OpenShift
14 29 (1.27%) Power Automate
15 27 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (1.19%) OCI
15 27 (1.19%) PowerApps
16 24 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
16 24 (1.05%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 74 (3.25%) DNS
2 50 (2.20%) Firewall
3 48 (2.11%) VPN
4 41 (1.80%) HTTP
5 40 (1.76%) TCP/IP
6 34 (1.49%) Network Security
7 28 (1.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 27 (1.19%) BGP
8 27 (1.19%) Multicast
9 26 (1.14%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 25 (1.10%) BIG-IP
10 25 (1.10%) DMZ
10 25 (1.10%) SSL
11 22 (0.97%) SAN
12 21 (0.92%) Wireshark
13 20 (0.88%) NetScaler
14 19 (0.83%) FIX Connectivity
15 16 (0.70%) DHCP
16 13 (0.57%) Wireless
17 11 (0.48%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (4.61%) Power BI
2 96 (4.22%) SQL Server
3 66 (2.90%) Tableau
4 58 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
5 53 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
6 51 (2.24%) Metadata
7 41 (1.80%) Oracle Database
8 38 (1.67%) MongoDB
9 35 (1.54%) NoSQL
10 34 (1.49%) Relational Database
11 27 (1.19%) Big Data
12 22 (0.97%) BigQuery
13 18 (0.79%) DB2
14 15 (0.66%) Hadoop
14 15 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 14 (0.62%) Power Query
16 13 (0.57%) Data Lake
17 11 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
18 10 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
18 10 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 259 (11.38%) JIRA
2 106 (4.66%) Jenkins
3 89 (3.91%) Git
4 70 (3.08%) GitLab
5 28 (1.23%) JUnit
6 22 (0.97%) Selenium
7 20 (0.88%) Bitbucket
7 20 (0.88%) Fiddler
7 20 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
8 19 (0.83%) Cucumber
9 17 (0.75%) Postman
10 15 (0.66%) REST Assured
11 14 (0.62%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.53%) Maven
13 10 (0.44%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.44%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.40%) Mockito
15 8 (0.35%) Gradle
16 7 (0.31%) Chocolatey
17 6 (0.26%) webpack
General
1 1,423 (62.52%) Finance
2 692 (30.40%) Social Skills
3 450 (19.77%) Investment Banking
4 319 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
5 182 (8.00%) Front Office
6 101 (4.44%) Financial Institution
7 90 (3.95%) Retail Banking
8 74 (3.25%) Legal
9 70 (3.08%) Corporate Banking
10 69 (3.03%) Retail
11 62 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
12 55 (2.42%) Public Sector
13 44 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
15 34 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
16 32 (1.41%) Marketing
17 24 (1.05%) General Ledger
18 22 (0.97%) Back Office
19 21 (0.92%) International Banking
19 21 (0.92%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 379 (16.65%) Analyst
2 377 (16.56%) Developer
3 285 (12.52%) Senior
4 269 (11.82%) Business Analyst
5 267 (11.73%) Architect
6 159 (6.99%) Lead
7 124 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
8 116 (5.10%) Project Manager
9 102 (4.48%) Java Developer
10 88 (3.87%) Consultant
11 86 (3.78%) Senior Developer
12 83 (3.65%) Banking Analyst
13 72 (3.16%) Data Engineer
14 59 (2.59%) Banking Business Analyst
15 56 (2.46%) Payments Architect
16 55 (2.42%) Network Engineer
17 52 (2.28%) Designer
18 50 (2.20%) DevOps Engineer
18 50 (2.20%) Payments Solutions Architect
19 44 (1.93%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (5.14%) Kafka
2 109 (4.79%) .NET
3 84 (3.69%) React
3 84 (3.69%) REST
4 68 (2.99%) Middleware
4 68 (2.99%) Spring
5 61 (2.68%) HTML
5 61 (2.68%) Spring Boot
6 56 (2.46%) RESTful
7 46 (2.02%) CSS
8 42 (1.85%) AngularJS
8 42 (1.85%) OAuth
9 39 (1.71%) JSON
10 35 (1.54%) XML
11 31 (1.36%) OAuth2
11 31 (1.36%) Pandas
12 30 (1.32%) FIX Protocol
13 29 (1.27%) Node.js
14 26 (1.14%) NumPy
14 26 (1.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 134 (5.89%) Product Ownership
2 112 (4.92%) Onboarding
3 110 (4.83%) Derivative
4 98 (4.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 97 (4.26%) Management Information System
6 91 (4.00%) Cloud Native
7 75 (3.30%) Data Protection Act
8 73 (3.21%) Fixed Income
9 63 (2.77%) Equities
10 57 (2.50%) Data Structures
10 57 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
11 45 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
12 44 (1.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 42 (1.85%) Data Centre
14 41 (1.80%) Market Risk
15 38 (1.67%) Credit Risk
16 33 (1.45%) Mainframe
17 30 (1.32%) Public Cloud
18 28 (1.23%) Algorithms
19 26 (1.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 144 (6.33%) Windows
2 108 (4.75%) Linux
3 65 (2.86%) Unix
4 37 (1.63%) Windows 10
5 28 (1.23%) Android
6 23 (1.01%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.97%) Apple iOS
8 17 (0.75%) zOS
9 15 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (0.48%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.35%) AIX
12 7 (0.31%) VMS
13 6 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
13 6 (0.26%) Windows 7
14 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
15 4 (0.18%) Solaris
15 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
16 3 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (0.13%) Ubuntu
16 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 547 (24.03%) Agile
2 415 (18.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 371 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
4 317 (13.93%) CI/CD
5 314 (13.80%) DevOps
6 247 (10.85%) Migration
7 229 (10.06%) AI
8 208 (9.14%) Analytics
9 181 (7.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 177 (7.78%) Data Modelling
11 175 (7.69%) Decision-Making
12 173 (7.60%) Continuous Improvement
13 171 (7.51%) Risk Management
14 169 (7.43%) Roadmaps
15 165 (7.25%) Microservices
16 161 (7.07%) Project Management
17 160 (7.03%) Data Analysis
18 156 (6.85%) Validation
19 153 (6.72%) User Acceptance Testing
20 143 (6.28%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 399 (17.53%) SQL
2 341 (14.98%) Python
3 289 (12.70%) Java
4 141 (6.20%) C#
5 98 (4.31%) JavaScript
6 64 (2.81%) TypeScript
7 62 (2.72%) PowerShell
8 42 (1.85%) PL/SQL
9 35 (1.54%) VBA
10 34 (1.49%) Shell Script
11 31 (1.36%) Go
12 27 (1.19%) Bash
12 27 (1.19%) T-SQL
13 21 (0.92%) C++
14 18 (0.79%) COBOL
14 18 (0.79%) Kotlin
15 13 (0.57%) Korn
15 13 (0.57%) Perl
15 13 (0.57%) Scala
16 12 (0.53%) JCL
Qualifications
1 218 (9.58%) Degree
2 114 (5.01%) Security Cleared
3 69 (3.03%) SC Cleared
4 67 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 61 (2.68%) Master's Degree
6 53 (2.33%) PMP
7 52 (2.28%) PMI Certification
8 44 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (1.36%) CISSP
10 27 (1.19%) Azure Certification
11 18 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (0.75%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.75%) MBA
13 16 (0.70%) CISM
14 15 (0.66%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.53%) CBAP
15 12 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (0.48%) PhD
17 9 (0.40%) ACCA
17 9 (0.40%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (6.06%) QA
2 115 (5.05%) Data Quality
3 53 (2.33%) GDPR
3 53 (2.33%) ISO 20022
4 43 (1.89%) PMO
5 35 (1.54%) SLA
6 33 (1.45%) PCI DSS
7 32 (1.41%) NIST
7 32 (1.41%) PSD2
8 29 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 29 (1.27%) SEPA
9 28 (1.23%) GRC
10 25 (1.10%) Accessibility
11 24 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 21 (0.92%) MiFID
13 19 (0.83%) Basel III
14 15 (0.66%) ISO 8583
15 12 (0.53%) IFRS
16 9 (0.40%) EMIR
17 7 (0.31%) GAAP
System Software
1 133 (5.84%) Docker
2 49 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (2.02%) Active Directory
4 21 (0.92%) Firmware
4 21 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.62%) vSphere
6 13 (0.57%) NFS
7 9 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.26%) RACF
9 5 (0.22%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.18%) Varnish
10 4 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.18%) XenApp
11 3 (0.13%) ACF2
11 3 (0.13%) Postfix
11 3 (0.13%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.13%) SRDF
11 3 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
11 3 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.088%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 176 (7.73%) Kubernetes
2 92 (4.04%) Terraform
3 70 (3.08%) Ansible
4 36 (1.58%) Grafana
5 26 (1.14%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.10%) SCCM
7 20 (0.88%) Argo
7 20 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.40%) Istio
8 9 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.35%) Control-M
9 8 (0.35%) Puppet
10 7 (0.31%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.31%) vCenter Server
11 6 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
11 6 (0.26%) RSA Archer
11 6 (0.26%) SnapMirror
11 6 (0.26%) WSUS
12 4 (0.18%) Karpenter
12 4 (0.18%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 282 (12.39%) Microsoft
2 163 (7.16%) Oracle
3 83 (3.65%) ServiceNow
4 73 (3.21%) Google
5 62 (2.72%) Cisco
6 59 (2.59%) VMware
7 57 (2.50%) SAP
8 55 (2.42%) IBM
9 53 (2.33%) F5
10 50 (2.20%) Citrix
11 46 (2.02%) Splunk
12 30 (1.32%) Remedy
13 29 (1.27%) Temenos
14 28 (1.23%) Bloomberg
14 28 (1.23%) Murex
15 26 (1.14%) NetApp
16 25 (1.10%) Avaloq
16 25 (1.10%) HP
17 23 (1.01%) Pega
17 23 (1.01%) Salesforce