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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 24 25
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,259 1,900 2,301
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.57% 7.82% 6.26%
As % of the General category 10.23% 12.18% 10.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,366 1,267 1,699
10th Percentile £372 £360 £385
25th Percentile £442 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £775
90th Percentile £780 £869 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -12.50% -2.04% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 22
10th Percentile - £17.10 £12.08
25th Percentile £17.00 £19.45 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £23.47 £19.28
Median % change year-on-year +9.82% +21.74% -8.21%
75th Percentile £95.00 £24.66 £25.44
90th Percentile £97.63 £48.98 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £22.27 £19.05
% change year-on-year +15.72% +16.90% -9.29%

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 22,074 15,601 21,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.38% 64.17% 58.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,667 10,126 13,790
10th Percentile £306 £300 £280
25th Percentile £410 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -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 1,465 667 1,786
10th Percentile £14.23 £14.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.27 £16.98 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.58 £27.50 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.20% -10.57% -5.38%
75th Percentile £63.75 £56.58 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.82% -11.29%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -11 1,547 £575 -11.54% 412
North of England 0 479 £472 +5.48% 84
North West +10 265 £447 +5.18% 47
Yorkshire -6 209 £500 - 34
Midlands +4 180 £492 +7.54% 39
West Midlands +15 126 £565 +1.80% 22
East Midlands -17 54 £455 +16.37% 17
South East -40 40 £520 -9.57% 108
South West -35 34 £500 -4.76% 12
East of England -25 13 £600 - 7
North East -11 10 £400 -4.76% 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
1 169 (7.48%) Confluence
2 49 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.06%) SAS
4 18 (0.80%) IIS
5 16 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 13 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.53%) Apache
8 11 (0.49%) CICS
9 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.22%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.22%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.13%) Camunda
12 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.089%) Appian
13 2 (0.089%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.089%) CMS
13 2 (0.089%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.089%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 131 (5.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 42 (1.86%) MS Visio
4 29 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.49%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.22%) Notion
7 2 (0.089%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.089%) InVision
7 2 (0.089%) Sketch
7 2 (0.089%) UserZoom
8 1 (0.044%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.044%) Trello
Business Applications
1 28 (1.24%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.11%) Oracle Payables
3 23 (1.02%) Oracle Receivables
4 20 (0.89%) Temenos T24
5 19 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
6 18 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
7 16 (0.71%) Loan IQ
7 16 (0.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 12 (0.53%) Finacle
9 9 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
9 9 (0.40%) SAP FI
10 8 (0.35%) Actimize
10 8 (0.35%) Aladdin
10 8 (0.35%) SAP CO
10 8 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
10 8 (0.35%) Summit
11 7 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
11 7 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
12 6 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 5 (0.22%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 358 (15.85%) Azure
2 314 (13.90%) AWS
3 153 (6.77%) GCP
4 117 (5.18%) Power Platform
5 91 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
6 76 (3.36%) GitHub
7 58 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
8 54 (2.39%) SaaS
9 39 (1.73%) Figma
10 33 (1.46%) Serverless
11 31 (1.37%) OpenShift
12 30 (1.33%) Entra ID
12 30 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (1.28%) Snowflake
14 28 (1.24%) Amazon S3
15 24 (1.06%) OCI
15 24 (1.06%) Power Automate
16 20 (0.89%) Amazon EKS
16 20 (0.89%) PaaS
16 20 (0.89%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 72 (3.19%) DNS
2 54 (2.39%) VPN
3 50 (2.21%) Firewall
4 41 (1.81%) HTTP
4 41 (1.81%) TCP/IP
5 39 (1.73%) Network Security
6 30 (1.33%) Multicast
7 27 (1.20%) BGP
8 25 (1.11%) DMZ
8 25 (1.11%) SSL
9 24 (1.06%) BIG-IP
9 24 (1.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 22 (0.97%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 22 (0.97%) SAN
10 22 (0.97%) Wireshark
11 21 (0.93%) FIX Connectivity
12 15 (0.66%) NetScaler
13 14 (0.62%) DHCP
14 10 (0.44%) Internet
14 10 (0.44%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (4.25%) Power BI
2 93 (4.12%) SQL Server
3 54 (2.39%) Metadata
3 54 (2.39%) Tableau
4 53 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
5 45 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
6 42 (1.86%) Oracle Database
7 36 (1.59%) Relational Database
8 33 (1.46%) MongoDB
9 28 (1.24%) NoSQL
10 23 (1.02%) Big Data
11 21 (0.93%) BigQuery
11 21 (0.93%) DB2
12 16 (0.71%) Data Lake
12 16 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 14 (0.62%) Pinecone
13 14 (0.62%) Power Query
13 14 (0.62%) Weaviate
14 12 (0.53%) DataStage
15 11 (0.49%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 255 (11.29%) JIRA
2 98 (4.34%) Jenkins
3 82 (3.63%) Git
4 58 (2.57%) GitLab
5 30 (1.33%) JUnit
6 22 (0.97%) Selenium
7 19 (0.84%) Fiddler
8 16 (0.71%) Bitbucket
8 16 (0.71%) Cucumber
9 15 (0.66%) TeamCity
10 14 (0.62%) Maven
10 14 (0.62%) Postman
11 13 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
12 12 (0.53%) REST Assured
12 12 (0.53%) SonarQube
13 10 (0.44%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.44%) Mockito
14 9 (0.40%) Gradle
15 8 (0.35%) Appium
15 8 (0.35%) MLflow
General
1 1,396 (61.80%) Finance
2 639 (28.29%) Social Skills
3 459 (20.32%) Investment Banking
4 321 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
5 178 (7.88%) Front Office
6 107 (4.74%) Financial Institution
7 103 (4.56%) Retail Banking
8 86 (3.81%) Corporate Banking
9 82 (3.63%) Retail
10 68 (3.01%) Legal
11 62 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
12 53 (2.35%) Public Sector
13 39 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
14 37 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
15 35 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
16 28 (1.24%) Marketing
17 27 (1.20%) General Ledger
18 23 (1.02%) Back Office
19 20 (0.89%) Private Banking
20 19 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 373 (16.51%) Developer
2 372 (16.47%) Analyst
3 293 (12.97%) Senior
4 266 (11.78%) Architect
5 257 (11.38%) Business Analyst
6 168 (7.44%) Lead
7 126 (5.58%) Solutions Architect
8 108 (4.78%) Java Developer
9 107 (4.74%) Project Manager
10 91 (4.03%) Banking Analyst
11 86 (3.81%) Senior Developer
12 81 (3.59%) Consultant
13 80 (3.54%) Data Engineer
14 61 (2.70%) Banking Business Analyst
15 57 (2.52%) Payments Architect
16 55 (2.43%) Network Engineer
17 52 (2.30%) Designer
17 52 (2.30%) Payments Solutions Architect
18 47 (2.08%) C# Developer
19 44 (1.95%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (4.91%) Kafka
2 107 (4.74%) .NET
3 89 (3.94%) React
4 79 (3.50%) Middleware
5 75 (3.32%) Spring
6 69 (3.05%) REST
7 63 (2.79%) Spring Boot
8 61 (2.70%) HTML
9 58 (2.57%) RESTful
10 47 (2.08%) CSS
11 40 (1.77%) AngularJS
11 40 (1.77%) OAuth
12 38 (1.68%) XML
13 36 (1.59%) JSON
14 35 (1.55%) FIX Protocol
15 30 (1.33%) OAuth2
16 25 (1.11%) HTML5
16 25 (1.11%) Node.js
17 24 (1.06%) Redux
18 22 (0.97%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 160 (7.08%) Product Ownership
2 117 (5.18%) Derivative
3 105 (4.65%) Onboarding
4 102 (4.52%) Cloud Native
5 95 (4.21%) Management Information System
6 90 (3.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 75 (3.32%) Data Protection Act
8 68 (3.01%) Fixed Income
9 63 (2.79%) Data Structures
10 61 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
11 57 (2.52%) Equities
12 48 (2.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 44 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
14 41 (1.81%) Data Centre
15 38 (1.68%) Credit Risk
15 38 (1.68%) Market Risk
16 37 (1.64%) Mainframe
17 32 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
18 30 (1.33%) AI Agents
18 30 (1.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 136 (6.02%) Windows
2 100 (4.43%) Linux
3 69 (3.05%) Unix
4 30 (1.33%) Windows 10
5 23 (1.02%) Android
5 23 (1.02%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.97%) Windows Server
7 21 (0.93%) zOS
8 16 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.49%) AIX
10 8 (0.35%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.31%) VMS
12 6 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
12 6 (0.27%) Solaris
12 6 (0.27%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
14 4 (0.18%) HPUX
14 4 (0.18%) SUSE
15 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 560 (24.79%) Agile
2 413 (18.28%) Stakeholder Management
3 351 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
4 306 (13.55%) CI/CD
5 296 (13.10%) DevOps
6 254 (11.24%) AI
7 249 (11.02%) Migration
8 195 (8.63%) Analytics
8 195 (8.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 186 (8.23%) Decision-Making
9 186 (8.23%) Roadmaps
10 181 (8.01%) Data Modelling
11 173 (7.66%) Microservices
12 171 (7.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 165 (7.30%) Validation
14 164 (7.26%) Risk Management
15 154 (6.82%) User Acceptance Testing
16 145 (6.42%) Test Automation
17 141 (6.24%) Project Management
18 140 (6.20%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 379 (16.78%) SQL
2 322 (14.25%) Python
3 292 (12.93%) Java
4 141 (6.24%) C#
5 103 (4.56%) JavaScript
6 72 (3.19%) TypeScript
7 59 (2.61%) PowerShell
8 45 (1.99%) PL/SQL
9 35 (1.55%) Shell Script
10 30 (1.33%) T-SQL
11 27 (1.20%) Bash
12 26 (1.15%) VBA
13 25 (1.11%) Go
14 23 (1.02%) Kotlin
15 21 (0.93%) C++
16 18 (0.80%) COBOL
16 18 (0.80%) Korn
17 15 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 15 (0.66%) JCL
18 14 (0.62%) Scala
Qualifications
1 197 (8.72%) Degree
2 106 (4.69%) Security Cleared
3 67 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 65 (2.88%) SC Cleared
5 54 (2.39%) PMP
6 53 (2.35%) Master's Degree
7 52 (2.30%) PMI Certification
8 40 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (1.46%) CISSP
10 28 (1.24%) Azure Certification
11 21 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (0.75%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.75%) MBA
13 15 (0.66%) CISM
14 13 (0.58%) CBAP
14 13 (0.58%) ISTQB
15 10 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
16 9 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 8 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
17 8 (0.35%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (5.75%) QA
2 119 (5.27%) Data Quality
3 51 (2.26%) GDPR
3 51 (2.26%) ISO 20022
4 49 (2.17%) PMO
5 37 (1.64%) PSD2
6 36 (1.59%) SLA
7 34 (1.51%) SEPA
8 33 (1.46%) NIST
9 31 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 30 (1.33%) PCI DSS
11 29 (1.28%) GRC
12 24 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 20 (0.89%) Accessibility
13 20 (0.89%) MiFID
14 17 (0.75%) Basel III
15 15 (0.66%) ISO 8583
16 12 (0.53%) IFRS
17 8 (0.35%) EMIR
18 7 (0.31%) COREP
System Software
1 125 (5.53%) Docker
2 46 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.84%) Firmware
5 14 (0.62%) NFS
6 13 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.58%) vSphere
7 10 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.27%) RACF
9 5 (0.22%) Varnish
9 5 (0.22%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.18%) Postfix
10 4 (0.18%) Sendmail
10 4 (0.18%) XenApp
11 3 (0.13%) ACF2
11 3 (0.13%) SRDF
11 3 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.089%) GPFS
12 2 (0.089%) GridGain
12 2 (0.089%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 167 (7.39%) Kubernetes
2 86 (3.81%) Terraform
3 66 (2.92%) Ansible
4 32 (1.42%) Grafana
5 25 (1.11%) SCCM
6 24 (1.06%) Prometheus
7 19 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (0.80%) Argo
9 10 (0.44%) Control-M
9 10 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.35%) Puppet
11 7 (0.31%) Istio
11 7 (0.31%) WSUS
12 6 (0.27%) SnapMirror
13 5 (0.22%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
13 5 (0.22%) NetBackup
13 5 (0.22%) RSA Archer
14 4 (0.18%) CA Endevor
14 4 (0.18%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 269 (11.91%) Microsoft
2 165 (7.30%) Oracle
3 79 (3.50%) ServiceNow
4 63 (2.79%) Google
5 57 (2.52%) IBM
5 57 (2.52%) SAP
6 56 (2.48%) Cisco
7 53 (2.35%) F5
8 48 (2.12%) VMware
9 47 (2.08%) Citrix
10 46 (2.04%) Splunk
11 33 (1.46%) Databricks
12 29 (1.28%) Temenos
13 28 (1.24%) Murex
14 27 (1.20%) Bloomberg
15 26 (1.15%) NetApp
15 26 (1.15%) Pega
16 25 (1.11%) Avaloq
17 23 (1.02%) Remedy
17 23 (1.02%) Salesforce