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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,585 2,188 2,459
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.76% 7.98% 6.88%
As % of the General category 10.43% 12.53% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,556 1,495 1,806
10th Percentile £400 £358 £400
25th Percentile £456 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £618
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -6.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £688 £739 £788
90th Percentile £800 £838 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £553 £600
% change year-on-year -0.45% -7.92% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 27 20
10th Percentile - £18.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £19.58 £14.50
Median hourly rate £19.69 £25.15 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.71% +28.97% +8.45%
75th Percentile £95.00 - £49.31
90th Percentile £96.75 £59.50 £88.00
UK median hourly rate £19.69 £24.66 £19.50
% change year-on-year -20.15% +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 24,776 17,460 20,527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.20% 63.66% 57.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,869 11,169 13,155
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £535
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.21% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £760 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,821 906 1,551
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.25 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £16.36 £16.25
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.28 £35.03
Median % change year-on-year +29.34% -24.98% +16.77%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.16 £57.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.38 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.81 £25.75 £34.23
% change year-on-year +27.40% -24.77% +12.16%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 1,835 £577 -11.23% 514
North of England -3 513 £500 +12.36% 83
North West -1 260 £478 +18.83% 55
Yorkshire -6 245 £514 +5.44% 27
Midlands -6 169 £525 +23.53% 24
West Midlands +17 128 £570 +3.64% 12
East Midlands -26 41 £519 +32.61% 12
South West -42 34 £515 -1.90% 10
South East -60 34 £540 +6.40% 64
East of England +6 30 £580 -3.33% 3
North East -28 13 £875 +108.33% 1
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
1 159 (6.15%) Confluence
2 57 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.08%) SAS
4 20 (0.77%) Apache Spark
5 19 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.74%) IIS
6 15 (0.58%) Apache
7 11 (0.43%) Camunda
8 10 (0.39%) CICS
9 8 (0.31%) Appian
9 8 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.27%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.27%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.15%) WordPress
13 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.077%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.077%) JBoss
14 2 (0.077%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.077%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 96 (3.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.16%) MS Visio
5 23 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.12%) Sketch
8 2 (0.077%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.077%) EngageOne
8 2 (0.077%) InVision
8 2 (0.077%) Notion
8 2 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.077%) Trello
8 2 (0.077%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 23 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
1 23 (0.89%) Oracle Receivables
2 22 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
3 17 (0.66%) Temenos T24
4 15 (0.58%) Finacle
4 15 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
5 14 (0.54%) Loan IQ
6 13 (0.50%) Aladdin
7 11 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 10 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
9 9 (0.35%) Actimize
10 7 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
10 7 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
10 7 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
10 7 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
11 6 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
11 6 (0.23%) OpenText MBPM
11 6 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (0.23%) Summit
12 5 (0.19%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 394 (15.24%) Azure
2 341 (13.19%) AWS
3 164 (6.34%) GCP
4 133 (5.15%) Power Platform
5 82 (3.17%) GitHub
5 82 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
6 69 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (2.44%) SaaS
8 62 (2.40%) Snowflake
9 45 (1.74%) OpenShift
10 43 (1.66%) Entra ID
11 36 (1.39%) Amazon S3
12 33 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
13 32 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
14 30 (1.16%) Serverless
15 29 (1.12%) Figma
16 26 (1.01%) Power Automate
17 24 (0.93%) PowerApps
18 23 (0.89%) PaaS
19 22 (0.85%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 75 (2.90%) Firewall
2 69 (2.67%) DNS
3 63 (2.44%) VPN
4 60 (2.32%) Network Security
5 41 (1.59%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.28%) BGP
6 33 (1.28%) Multicast
6 33 (1.28%) SSL
7 30 (1.16%) HTTP
8 25 (0.97%) SAN
9 22 (0.85%) BIG-IP
9 22 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 21 (0.81%) DMZ
11 20 (0.77%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 19 (0.74%) Wireshark
13 18 (0.70%) FIX Connectivity
14 17 (0.66%) DHCP
15 13 (0.50%) LAN
15 13 (0.50%) WAN
16 11 (0.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (4.72%) SQL Server
2 109 (4.22%) Power BI
3 75 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
4 70 (2.71%) Metadata
5 64 (2.48%) Relational Database
6 50 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
7 47 (1.82%) Oracle Database
8 39 (1.51%) Tableau
9 38 (1.47%) MongoDB
10 31 (1.20%) Big Data
10 31 (1.20%) Data Lake
11 23 (0.89%) NoSQL
12 20 (0.77%) Db2
12 20 (0.77%) RDBMS
13 19 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
13 19 (0.74%) BigQuery
13 19 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 16 (0.62%) Data Vault
15 14 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
15 14 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 267 (10.33%) JIRA
2 111 (4.29%) Git
3 106 (4.10%) Jenkins
4 63 (2.44%) GitLab
5 41 (1.59%) JUnit
6 26 (1.01%) Selenium
7 23 (0.89%) Cucumber
8 19 (0.74%) TeamCity
9 18 (0.70%) Bitbucket
9 18 (0.70%) Postman
10 17 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
11 16 (0.62%) Fiddler
11 16 (0.62%) Mockito
12 15 (0.58%) REST Assured
13 14 (0.54%) ERwin
13 14 (0.54%) SonarQube
14 13 (0.50%) ER Studio
14 13 (0.50%) Gradle
15 12 (0.46%) Maven
16 11 (0.43%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,605 (62.09%) Finance
2 668 (25.84%) Social Skills
3 527 (20.39%) Investment Banking
4 360 (13.93%) Analytical Skills
5 226 (8.74%) Front Office
6 124 (4.80%) Financial Institution
7 110 (4.26%) Retail Banking
8 105 (4.06%) Retail
9 91 (3.52%) Corporate Banking
10 82 (3.17%) Legal
11 63 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
12 58 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
13 50 (1.93%) Private Banking
14 47 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
14 47 (1.82%) Public Sector
15 32 (1.24%) Back Office
16 30 (1.16%) Marketing
17 27 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
18 23 (0.89%) General Ledger
19 20 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 456 (17.64%) Developer
2 388 (15.01%) Analyst
3 329 (12.73%) Senior
4 300 (11.61%) Architect
5 250 (9.67%) Business Analyst
6 230 (8.90%) Lead
7 159 (6.15%) Java Developer
8 114 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
9 110 (4.26%) Project Manager
9 110 (4.26%) Senior Developer
10 93 (3.60%) Data Engineer
11 85 (3.29%) Banking Analyst
12 77 (2.98%) Consultant
13 67 (2.59%) Senior Java Developer
14 62 (2.40%) Network Engineer
15 59 (2.28%) Data Analyst
15 59 (2.28%) Software Engineer
16 53 (2.05%) C# Developer
17 50 (1.93%) Banking Business Analyst
17 50 (1.93%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (5.34%) React
2 123 (4.76%) Kafka
3 120 (4.64%) .NET
4 101 (3.91%) REST
5 94 (3.64%) Middleware
6 87 (3.37%) Spring
7 75 (2.90%) Spring Boot
8 61 (2.36%) RESTful
9 55 (2.13%) Redux
10 46 (1.78%) HTML
11 41 (1.59%) CSS
12 40 (1.55%) OAuth
13 39 (1.51%) FIX Protocol
14 38 (1.47%) AngularJS
15 36 (1.39%) JSON
16 30 (1.16%) PySpark
17 29 (1.12%) XML
18 26 (1.01%) Node.js
18 26 (1.01%) OAuth2
19 24 (0.93%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 177 (6.85%) Product Ownership
2 144 (5.57%) Onboarding
3 139 (5.38%) Cloud Native
4 129 (4.99%) Derivative
5 125 (4.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 99 (3.83%) Fixed Income
7 88 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
8 80 (3.09%) Management Information System
9 78 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
10 77 (2.98%) Equities
11 66 (2.55%) Data Structures
12 57 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
13 53 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
13 53 (2.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 52 (2.01%) AI Agents
15 50 (1.93%) Mainframe
16 44 (1.70%) Data Centre
16 44 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
17 43 (1.66%) Credit Risk
18 39 (1.51%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 156 (6.03%) Windows
2 135 (5.22%) Linux
3 89 (3.44%) Unix
4 33 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 26 (1.01%) zOS
7 22 (0.85%) Apple iOS
8 21 (0.81%) Android
9 17 (0.66%) Windows 10
10 14 (0.54%) Ubuntu
11 12 (0.46%) AIX
12 9 (0.35%) 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
1 586 (22.67%) Agile
2 488 (18.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 385 (14.89%) CI/CD
4 371 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
5 351 (13.58%) AI
6 322 (12.46%) DevOps
7 312 (12.07%) Migration
8 245 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 243 (9.40%) Analytics
10 213 (8.24%) Data Modelling
11 204 (7.89%) Roadmaps
12 198 (7.66%) Microservices
13 190 (7.35%) Validation
14 185 (7.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 176 (6.81%) Decision-Making
16 175 (6.77%) User Acceptance Testing
17 173 (6.69%) Software Engineering
18 164 (6.34%) Test Automation
19 162 (6.27%) Generative AI
19 162 (6.27%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 415 (16.05%) SQL
2 371 (14.35%) Python
3 346 (13.38%) Java
4 180 (6.96%) C#
5 129 (4.99%) JavaScript
6 112 (4.33%) TypeScript
7 76 (2.94%) PowerShell
8 65 (2.51%) PL/SQL
9 46 (1.78%) Bash
10 43 (1.66%) Shell Script
11 41 (1.59%) T-SQL
12 39 (1.51%) Kotlin
13 30 (1.16%) C++
14 26 (1.01%) VBA
15 22 (0.85%) Korn
16 18 (0.70%) Go
17 17 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 14 (0.54%) Scala
19 12 (0.46%) Bicep
19 12 (0.46%) JCL
Qualifications
1 177 (6.85%) Degree
2 122 (4.72%) Security Cleared
3 87 (3.37%) SC Cleared
4 59 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (1.66%) PMP
6 38 (1.47%) PMI Certification
7 37 (1.43%) CISSP
8 30 (1.16%) Azure Certification
8 30 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (1.01%) Master's Degree
11 23 (0.89%) AWS Certification
12 18 (0.70%) CISM
13 14 (0.54%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 10 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
16 9 (0.35%) ACCA
16 9 (0.35%) CCSP
17 8 (0.31%) CCNA
17 8 (0.31%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (5.11%) QA
2 128 (4.95%) Data Quality
3 57 (2.21%) PMO
4 49 (1.90%) ISO 20022
5 42 (1.62%) GDPR
6 35 (1.35%) NIST
7 33 (1.28%) SEPA
8 32 (1.24%) GRC
9 29 (1.12%) PSD2
10 28 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 28 (1.08%) SLA
11 26 (1.01%) Accessibility
12 21 (0.81%) PCI DSS
13 19 (0.74%) MiFID
14 15 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 9 (0.35%) COREP
15 9 (0.35%) EMIR
15 9 (0.35%) IFRS
16 7 (0.27%) FINREP
17 6 (0.23%) Basel III
System Software
1 117 (4.53%) Docker
2 61 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.74%) RACF
5 17 (0.66%) vSphere
6 16 (0.62%) Firmware
6 16 (0.62%) NFS
7 14 (0.54%) 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 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.12%) SRDF
11 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.12%) XenApp
12 2 (0.077%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.077%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 162 (6.27%) Kubernetes
2 88 (3.40%) Terraform
3 87 (3.37%) Ansible
4 32 (1.24%) Prometheus
5 30 (1.16%) Grafana
6 20 (0.77%) SCCM
7 18 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.54%) Control-M
9 14 (0.54%) OMEGAMON
10 12 (0.46%) Argo
11 11 (0.43%) Istio
12 9 (0.35%) FortiGate
13 8 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
14 6 (0.23%) Puppet
14 6 (0.23%) SnapMirror
14 6 (0.23%) WSUS
15 5 (0.19%) NetBackup
15 5 (0.19%) RSA Archer
15 5 (0.19%) vRealize
Vendors
1 288 (11.14%) Microsoft
2 201 (7.78%) Oracle
3 91 (3.52%) ServiceNow
4 75 (2.90%) IBM
5 65 (2.51%) Cisco
5 65 (2.51%) Databricks
6 56 (2.17%) Google
7 49 (1.90%) F5
7 49 (1.90%) Splunk
8 47 (1.82%) Citrix
8 47 (1.82%) SAP
9 45 (1.74%) VMware
10 41 (1.59%) Salesforce
11 34 (1.32%) Murex
12 28 (1.08%) CyberArk
12 28 (1.08%) OpenAI
13 26 (1.01%) Avaloq
13 26 (1.01%) Fortinet
13 26 (1.01%) NetApp
14 24 (0.93%) Red Hat