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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 22 25
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,617 2,178 2,491
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.84% 7.98% 6.79%
As % of the General category 10.56% 12.51% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,586 1,492 1,822
10th Percentile £400 £358 £400
25th Percentile £450 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £620
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% -4.62%
75th Percentile £688 £743 £788
90th Percentile £800 £838 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £553 £600
% change year-on-year -0.54% -7.83% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 26 24
10th Percentile - £18.10 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.00 £19.38 £14.50
Median hourly rate £24.89 £24.91 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.08% +27.72% +8.45%
75th Percentile £66.88 £25.15 £41.31
90th Percentile £96.38 £61.25 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £21.85 £24.66 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.42% +26.46% +5.41%

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 24,783 17,415 21,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.27% 63.81% 57.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,939 11,170 13,429
10th Percentile £313 £285 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £534
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -3.70% -2.96%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,810 895 1,709
10th Percentile £14.35 £13.25 £13.23
25th Percentile £19.00 £16.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £33.06 £27.28 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year +21.19% -19.60% +11.10%
75th Percentile £63.75 £52.00 £56.49
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.22 £32.90
% change year-on-year +19.42% -17.27% +7.71%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 1,848 £583 -9.51% 740
North of England -3 526 £500 +12.11% 93
North West -1 272 £473 +17.46% 57
Yorkshire -6 245 £512 +2.40% 33
Midlands -8 175 £525 +22.09% 43
West Midlands +20 131 £565 +2.73% 21
East Midlands -25 43 £519 +32.61% 22
South East -66 34 £550 +6.54% 80
South West -38 33 £515 -1.90% 22
East of England +1 30 £580 -3.33% 10
North East -26 13 £875 +108.33% 3
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
1 165 (6.30%) Confluence
2 55 (2.10%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.07%) SAS
4 19 (0.73%) IIS
5 18 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.69%) Apache Spark
6 13 (0.50%) Apache
7 10 (0.38%) Camunda
7 10 (0.38%) CICS
8 8 (0.31%) Appian
8 8 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
9 7 (0.27%) Ethereum
9 7 (0.27%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.15%) WordPress
12 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.076%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.076%) CMS
13 2 (0.076%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.076%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 103 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (1.34%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.11%) Sketch
8 2 (0.076%) EngageOne
8 2 (0.076%) InVision
8 2 (0.076%) Notion
8 2 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.076%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.038%) Trello
Business Applications
1 25 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
2 23 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
2 23 (0.88%) Oracle Receivables
3 19 (0.73%) Temenos T24
4 18 (0.69%) Finacle
5 16 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
6 14 (0.53%) Loan IQ
7 11 (0.42%) Aladdin
7 11 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 10 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
9 9 (0.34%) Actimize
10 8 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
11 7 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
11 7 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
11 7 (0.27%) Summit
12 6 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
12 6 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
12 6 (0.23%) OpenText MBPM
13 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
13 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 398 (15.21%) Azure
2 352 (13.45%) AWS
3 170 (6.50%) GCP
4 133 (5.08%) Power Platform
5 84 (3.21%) GitHub
6 79 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
7 68 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
8 62 (2.37%) SaaS
9 60 (2.29%) Snowflake
10 44 (1.68%) Entra ID
11 43 (1.64%) OpenShift
12 36 (1.38%) Amazon S3
13 32 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
14 31 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
15 30 (1.15%) Figma
16 29 (1.11%) Serverless
17 26 (0.99%) Power Automate
18 24 (0.92%) PowerApps
19 22 (0.84%) PaaS
20 21 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 74 (2.83%) Firewall
2 70 (2.67%) DNS
3 65 (2.48%) VPN
4 60 (2.29%) Network Security
5 40 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.26%) Multicast
6 33 (1.26%) SSL
7 32 (1.22%) BGP
8 31 (1.18%) HTTP
9 25 (0.96%) SAN
10 23 (0.88%) BIG-IP
10 23 (0.88%) DMZ
11 22 (0.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 20 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 20 (0.76%) Wireshark
13 19 (0.73%) FIX Connectivity
14 17 (0.65%) DHCP
15 12 (0.46%) LAN
15 12 (0.46%) WAN
16 11 (0.42%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (4.66%) SQL Server
2 109 (4.17%) Power BI
3 73 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
4 69 (2.64%) Metadata
5 67 (2.56%) Relational Database
6 52 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
7 47 (1.80%) Oracle Database
8 41 (1.57%) Tableau
9 37 (1.41%) MongoDB
10 30 (1.15%) Big Data
11 29 (1.11%) Data Lake
12 21 (0.80%) Db2
12 21 (0.80%) NoSQL
12 21 (0.80%) RDBMS
13 19 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
13 19 (0.73%) BigQuery
13 19 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (0.57%) Data Vault
15 14 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
15 14 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 264 (10.09%) JIRA
2 109 (4.17%) Git
3 107 (4.09%) Jenkins
4 66 (2.52%) GitLab
5 40 (1.53%) JUnit
6 26 (0.99%) Selenium
7 23 (0.88%) Cucumber
8 19 (0.73%) TeamCity
9 18 (0.69%) Postman
9 18 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
10 17 (0.65%) Bitbucket
10 17 (0.65%) Fiddler
11 15 (0.57%) Mockito
11 15 (0.57%) REST Assured
12 14 (0.53%) ERwin
12 14 (0.53%) SonarQube
13 13 (0.50%) ER Studio
14 12 (0.46%) Maven
15 11 (0.42%) Cypress.io
15 11 (0.42%) Gradle
General
1 1,616 (61.75%) Finance
2 678 (25.91%) Social Skills
3 547 (20.90%) Investment Banking
4 358 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
5 232 (8.87%) Front Office
6 126 (4.81%) Financial Institution
7 111 (4.24%) Retail Banking
8 107 (4.09%) Retail
9 92 (3.52%) Corporate Banking
10 86 (3.29%) Legal
11 65 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
12 57 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
13 50 (1.91%) Private Banking
13 50 (1.91%) Public Sector
14 45 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
15 31 (1.18%) Back Office
16 30 (1.15%) Marketing
17 26 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
18 22 (0.84%) General Ledger
19 20 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 471 (18.00%) Developer
2 392 (14.98%) Analyst
3 325 (12.42%) Senior
4 307 (11.73%) Architect
5 260 (9.94%) Business Analyst
6 223 (8.52%) Lead
7 166 (6.34%) Java Developer
8 125 (4.78%) Solutions Architect
9 111 (4.24%) Senior Developer
10 108 (4.13%) Project Manager
11 96 (3.67%) Data Engineer
12 86 (3.29%) Banking Analyst
13 80 (3.06%) Consultant
14 69 (2.64%) Senior Java Developer
15 62 (2.37%) Network Engineer
16 57 (2.18%) Data Analyst
16 57 (2.18%) Software Engineer
17 55 (2.10%) C# Developer
18 53 (2.03%) Banking Business Analyst
19 50 (1.91%) Payments Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (5.43%) React
2 122 (4.66%) .NET
3 119 (4.55%) Kafka
4 101 (3.86%) REST
5 95 (3.63%) Middleware
6 94 (3.59%) Spring
7 77 (2.94%) Spring Boot
8 67 (2.56%) RESTful
9 54 (2.06%) Redux
10 50 (1.91%) HTML
11 46 (1.76%) CSS
11 46 (1.76%) OAuth
12 42 (1.60%) AngularJS
13 39 (1.49%) FIX Protocol
14 36 (1.38%) JSON
15 32 (1.22%) Node.js
16 31 (1.18%) OAuth2
17 30 (1.15%) XML
18 26 (0.99%) PySpark
19 25 (0.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 174 (6.65%) Product Ownership
2 142 (5.43%) Cloud Native
3 141 (5.39%) Onboarding
4 133 (5.08%) Derivative
5 127 (4.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 103 (3.94%) Fixed Income
7 87 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
8 84 (3.21%) Management Information System
9 78 (2.98%) Data Protection Act
9 78 (2.98%) Equities
10 67 (2.56%) Data Structures
11 57 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
11 57 (2.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 52 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
13 51 (1.95%) Mainframe
14 47 (1.80%) AI Agents
15 46 (1.76%) Credit Risk
16 43 (1.64%) Data Centre
16 43 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
17 40 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 153 (5.85%) Windows
2 133 (5.08%) Linux
3 88 (3.36%) Unix
4 32 (1.22%) Windows Server
5 30 (1.15%) zOS
6 25 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 23 (0.88%) Apple iOS
8 22 (0.84%) Android
9 17 (0.65%) Windows 10
10 14 (0.53%) Ubuntu
11 12 (0.46%) AIX
12 9 (0.34%) Solaris
13 8 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
14 6 (0.23%) HPUX
14 6 (0.23%) SUSE
14 6 (0.23%) VMS
15 5 (0.19%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.19%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 588 (22.47%) Agile
2 473 (18.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 387 (14.79%) CI/CD
4 371 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
5 340 (12.99%) AI
6 327 (12.50%) DevOps
7 311 (11.88%) Migration
8 242 (9.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 241 (9.21%) Analytics
10 215 (8.22%) Data Modelling
11 206 (7.87%) Roadmaps
12 205 (7.83%) Microservices
13 194 (7.41%) Validation
14 187 (7.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 179 (6.84%) User Acceptance Testing
16 172 (6.57%) Decision-Making
17 166 (6.34%) Software Engineering
18 165 (6.30%) Risk Management
19 161 (6.15%) Generative AI
19 161 (6.15%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 416 (15.90%) SQL
2 375 (14.33%) Python
3 363 (13.87%) Java
4 182 (6.95%) C#
5 136 (5.20%) JavaScript
6 114 (4.36%) TypeScript
7 76 (2.90%) PowerShell
8 63 (2.41%) PL/SQL
9 45 (1.72%) Bash
10 41 (1.57%) Shell Script
10 41 (1.57%) T-SQL
11 35 (1.34%) Kotlin
12 30 (1.15%) C++
13 27 (1.03%) VBA
14 21 (0.80%) Korn
15 19 (0.73%) Go
16 17 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 15 (0.57%) Scala
18 12 (0.46%) Bicep
18 12 (0.46%) JCL
Qualifications
1 178 (6.80%) Degree
2 127 (4.85%) Security Cleared
3 91 (3.48%) SC Cleared
4 58 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (1.45%) PMP
6 37 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 37 (1.41%) CISSP
7 33 (1.26%) PMI Certification
8 30 (1.15%) Azure Certification
9 27 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 23 (0.88%) AWS Certification
11 18 (0.69%) CISM
12 14 (0.53%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 10 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (0.34%) CCSP
15 9 (0.34%) MBA
16 8 (0.31%) ACCA
16 8 (0.31%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (5.04%) Data Quality
2 129 (4.93%) QA
3 57 (2.18%) PMO
4 54 (2.06%) ISO 20022
5 44 (1.68%) GDPR
6 37 (1.41%) SEPA
7 35 (1.34%) NIST
8 32 (1.22%) PSD2
9 31 (1.18%) GRC
9 31 (1.18%) SLA
10 29 (1.11%) Accessibility
11 28 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 24 (0.92%) PCI DSS
13 20 (0.76%) MiFID
14 16 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 9 (0.34%) EMIR
15 9 (0.34%) IFRS
16 8 (0.31%) COREP
16 8 (0.31%) ISO 8583
17 6 (0.23%) FINREP
System Software
1 123 (4.70%) Docker
2 60 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.73%) RACF
5 17 (0.65%) Firmware
5 17 (0.65%) vSphere
6 16 (0.61%) NFS
7 13 (0.50%) 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%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.11%) SRDF
11 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.11%) XenApp
12 2 (0.076%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.076%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 167 (6.38%) Kubernetes
2 89 (3.40%) Terraform
3 86 (3.29%) Ansible
4 31 (1.18%) Prometheus
5 30 (1.15%) Grafana
6 20 (0.76%) SCCM
7 18 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.53%) Control-M
9 14 (0.53%) OMEGAMON
10 12 (0.46%) Argo
11 11 (0.42%) Istio
12 9 (0.34%) FortiGate
13 8 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
14 7 (0.27%) WSUS
15 6 (0.23%) Puppet
15 6 (0.23%) SnapMirror
16 5 (0.19%) Progress Chef
16 5 (0.19%) RSA Archer
16 5 (0.19%) vRealize
Vendors
1 289 (11.04%) Microsoft
2 203 (7.76%) Oracle
3 89 (3.40%) ServiceNow
4 76 (2.90%) IBM
5 64 (2.45%) Cisco
6 63 (2.41%) Databricks
6 63 (2.41%) Google
7 50 (1.91%) SAP
8 49 (1.87%) F5
9 48 (1.83%) Splunk
10 45 (1.72%) Citrix
10 45 (1.72%) VMware
11 40 (1.53%) Salesforce
12 35 (1.34%) Murex
13 28 (1.07%) CyberArk
13 28 (1.07%) OpenAI
14 27 (1.03%) Avaloq
14 27 (1.03%) Temenos
15 26 (0.99%) Fortinet
15 26 (0.99%) NetApp