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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,455 1,975 2,426
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.76% 8.07% 6.47%
As % of the General category 10.59% 12.55% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,494 1,347 1,790
10th Percentile £381 £358 £400
25th Percentile £448 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £594 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% -4.96% -3.85%
75th Percentile £676 £750 £775
90th Percentile £788 £838 £875
UK median daily rate £537 £572 £600
% change year-on-year -6.16% -4.63% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 25
10th Percentile - £17.43 £12.34
25th Percentile £17.00 £19.24 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £22.27 £19.05
Median % change year-on-year +15.72% +16.90% -44.15%
75th Percentile £66.88 £24.66 £27.00
90th Percentile £96.38 £73.75 £86.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £22.27 £19.05
% change year-on-year +15.72% +16.90% -63.71%

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 23,184 15,739 21,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.44% 64.32% 57.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,170 10,135 13,770
10th Percentile £313 £281 £281
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £631 £644 £650
90th Percentile £749 £770 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +1.08% -3.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,600 736 1,832
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.30 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.85 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.70% -11.59% +2.78%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £27.70 £30.00
% change year-on-year +13.72% -7.67% -6.25%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 1,697 £575 -11.54% 367
North of England -2 513 £475 +10.47% 76
North West +3 269 £444 +10.32% 47
Yorkshire -4 235 £500 +1.27% 27
Midlands -6 193 £519 +24.37% 28
West Midlands +35 140 £575 +3.60% 20
East Midlands -25 53 £465 +19.23% 8
South East -47 39 £545 +3.81% 96
South West -18 38 £510 -0.49% 10
East of England -16 16 £505 -15.83% 7
North East -20 13 £875 +108.33% 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
1 175 (7.13%) Confluence
2 53 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.10%) SAS
4 17 (0.69%) Apache Spark
4 17 (0.69%) IIS
5 16 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (0.45%) Apache
7 10 (0.41%) CICS
8 8 (0.33%) Camunda
8 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.29%) Ethereum
9 7 (0.29%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.20%) Appian
11 5 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.12%) WordPress
13 2 (0.081%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.081%) CMS
13 2 (0.081%) WebSphere
Applications
1 118 (4.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 55 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
4 43 (1.75%) MS Visio
5 24 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.12%) Sketch
7 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.081%) InVision
8 2 (0.081%) Notion
8 2 (0.081%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 27 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.02%) Oracle Payables
2 25 (1.02%) Oracle Receivables
3 19 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.69%) Temenos T24
5 16 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 15 (0.61%) Loan IQ
7 14 (0.57%) Finacle
8 13 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
9 9 (0.37%) Aladdin
10 8 (0.33%) Actimize
10 8 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
10 8 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
11 7 (0.29%) SAP CO
11 7 (0.29%) SAP FI
11 7 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
11 7 (0.29%) Summit
12 6 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 5 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
14 4 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 371 (15.11%) Azure
2 325 (13.24%) AWS
3 154 (6.27%) GCP
4 129 (5.25%) Power Platform
5 81 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
6 79 (3.22%) GitHub
7 58 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
8 56 (2.28%) SaaS
9 43 (1.75%) Snowflake
10 40 (1.63%) OpenShift
11 35 (1.43%) Entra ID
12 31 (1.26%) Amazon S3
13 30 (1.22%) Figma
14 29 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
16 25 (1.02%) Serverless
17 24 (0.98%) OCI
17 24 (0.98%) Power Automate
18 22 (0.90%) PaaS
19 21 (0.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 74 (3.01%) DNS
2 59 (2.40%) VPN
3 58 (2.36%) Firewall
4 46 (1.87%) Network Security
5 40 (1.63%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.34%) HTTP
7 31 (1.26%) Multicast
8 29 (1.18%) BGP
9 28 (1.14%) SSL
10 25 (1.02%) DMZ
11 24 (0.98%) BIG-IP
11 24 (0.98%) SAN
12 23 (0.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 22 (0.90%) FIX Connectivity
14 21 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 21 (0.86%) Wireshark
15 16 (0.65%) DHCP
16 13 (0.53%) NetScaler
17 11 (0.45%) Internet
18 10 (0.41%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (4.48%) SQL Server
2 107 (4.36%) Power BI
3 68 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (2.57%) Metadata
5 55 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
6 52 (2.12%) Tableau
7 51 (2.08%) Relational Database
8 44 (1.79%) Oracle Database
9 31 (1.26%) MongoDB
10 27 (1.10%) Big Data
11 26 (1.06%) NoSQL
12 22 (0.90%) Data Lake
13 20 (0.81%) Db2
14 18 (0.73%) BigQuery
14 18 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 15 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (0.61%) Power Query
15 15 (0.61%) RDBMS
16 14 (0.57%) Data Vault
16 14 (0.57%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 270 (11.00%) JIRA
2 102 (4.15%) Jenkins
3 91 (3.71%) Git
4 62 (2.53%) GitLab
5 37 (1.51%) JUnit
6 28 (1.14%) Selenium
7 23 (0.94%) Cucumber
8 19 (0.77%) Bitbucket
9 18 (0.73%) Fiddler
9 18 (0.73%) Postman
9 18 (0.73%) TeamCity
10 16 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
11 15 (0.61%) REST Assured
12 14 (0.57%) SonarQube
13 12 (0.49%) ER Studio
13 12 (0.49%) ERwin
13 12 (0.49%) Mockito
14 11 (0.45%) Maven
15 10 (0.41%) Cypress.io
16 9 (0.37%) Gradle
General
1 1,496 (60.94%) Finance
2 641 (26.11%) Social Skills
3 535 (21.79%) Investment Banking
4 327 (13.32%) Analytical Skills
5 211 (8.59%) Front Office
6 117 (4.77%) Financial Institution
7 111 (4.52%) Retail Banking
8 95 (3.87%) Retail
9 90 (3.67%) Corporate Banking
10 85 (3.46%) Legal
11 57 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
12 52 (2.12%) Public Sector
13 48 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
14 42 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
15 32 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
16 26 (1.06%) Back Office
16 26 (1.06%) Private Banking
17 23 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 22 (0.90%) General Ledger
19 21 (0.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 431 (17.56%) Developer
2 380 (15.48%) Analyst
3 324 (13.20%) Senior
4 281 (11.45%) Architect
5 258 (10.51%) Business Analyst
6 193 (7.86%) Lead
7 147 (5.99%) Java Developer
8 133 (5.42%) Solutions Architect
9 112 (4.56%) Senior Developer
10 110 (4.48%) Project Manager
11 93 (3.79%) Banking Analyst
12 92 (3.75%) Data Engineer
13 81 (3.30%) Consultant
14 65 (2.65%) Senior Java Developer
15 63 (2.57%) Banking Business Analyst
16 59 (2.40%) Payments Architect
17 56 (2.28%) Network Engineer
18 54 (2.20%) Payments Solutions Architect
19 50 (2.04%) Data Analyst
20 49 (2.00%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (5.05%) React
2 113 (4.60%) Kafka
3 111 (4.52%) .NET
4 91 (3.71%) Spring
5 88 (3.58%) Middleware
5 88 (3.58%) REST
6 78 (3.18%) Spring Boot
7 63 (2.57%) RESTful
8 57 (2.32%) HTML
9 48 (1.96%) CSS
10 46 (1.87%) Redux
11 45 (1.83%) OAuth
12 40 (1.63%) AngularJS
13 39 (1.59%) FIX Protocol
14 37 (1.51%) XML
15 36 (1.47%) JSON
16 35 (1.43%) OAuth2
17 26 (1.06%) PySpark
18 24 (0.98%) HTML5
18 24 (0.98%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 181 (7.37%) Product Ownership
2 128 (5.21%) Derivative
3 118 (4.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 118 (4.81%) Onboarding
4 117 (4.77%) Cloud Native
5 92 (3.75%) Fixed Income
6 91 (3.71%) Management Information System
7 77 (3.14%) Equities
8 76 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
9 71 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
10 67 (2.73%) Data Structures
11 54 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
12 48 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (1.87%) Credit Risk
14 45 (1.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 43 (1.75%) Data Centre
15 43 (1.75%) Market Risk
16 42 (1.71%) Mainframe
17 38 (1.55%) AI Agents
18 34 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 151 (6.15%) Windows
2 126 (5.13%) Linux
3 84 (3.42%) Unix
4 25 (1.02%) Windows 10
4 25 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.02%) zOS
5 24 (0.98%) Apple iOS
6 23 (0.94%) Android
6 23 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.45%) AIX
8 9 (0.37%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.33%) Solaris
10 7 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
11 6 (0.24%) VMS
11 6 (0.24%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.20%) CoreOS
12 5 (0.20%) HPUX
12 5 (0.20%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.20%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 561 (22.85%) Agile
2 444 (18.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 345 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
4 341 (13.89%) CI/CD
5 310 (12.63%) DevOps
6 293 (11.93%) Migration
7 285 (11.61%) AI
8 217 (8.84%) Analytics
9 213 (8.68%) Data Modelling
10 210 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 188 (7.66%) Roadmaps
12 182 (7.41%) Microservices
12 182 (7.41%) Validation
13 178 (7.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 169 (6.88%) User Acceptance Testing
15 159 (6.48%) Decision-Making
16 158 (6.44%) Risk Management
17 153 (6.23%) Test Automation
18 145 (5.91%) Software Engineering
19 144 (5.87%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 397 (16.17%) SQL
2 347 (14.13%) Python
3 345 (14.05%) Java
4 168 (6.84%) C#
5 124 (5.05%) JavaScript
6 100 (4.07%) TypeScript
7 69 (2.81%) PowerShell
8 57 (2.32%) PL/SQL
9 42 (1.71%) Bash
10 41 (1.67%) Shell Script
11 35 (1.43%) T-SQL
12 31 (1.26%) Kotlin
13 25 (1.02%) C++
14 21 (0.86%) Go
15 20 (0.81%) Korn
15 20 (0.81%) VBA
16 17 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 16 (0.65%) Scala
18 12 (0.49%) JCL
19 11 (0.45%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 189 (7.70%) Degree
2 119 (4.85%) Security Cleared
3 80 (3.26%) SC Cleared
4 63 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 44 (1.79%) PMP
6 40 (1.63%) PMI Certification
7 39 (1.59%) Master's Degree
8 37 (1.51%) CISSP
9 30 (1.22%) Azure Certification
10 25 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
11 19 (0.77%) AWS Certification
12 18 (0.73%) CISM
13 14 (0.57%) MBA
14 12 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 12 (0.49%) ISTQB
15 11 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.41%) CISA
17 9 (0.37%) CCSP
17 9 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (5.38%) QA
2 131 (5.34%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.12%) PMO
4 51 (2.08%) ISO 20022
5 47 (1.91%) GDPR
6 35 (1.43%) PSD2
7 34 (1.38%) SLA
8 33 (1.34%) NIST
9 31 (1.26%) SEPA
10 28 (1.14%) GRC
10 28 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 26 (1.06%) Accessibility
11 26 (1.06%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.81%) MiFID
12 20 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 13 (0.53%) ISO 8583
14 12 (0.49%) Basel III
15 9 (0.37%) GAAP
16 8 (0.33%) EMIR
16 8 (0.33%) IFRS
System Software
1 123 (5.01%) Docker
2 52 (2.12%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.73%) Firmware
5 16 (0.65%) NFS
5 16 (0.65%) vSphere
6 12 (0.49%) RACF
6 12 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.24%) Varnish
9 5 (0.20%) Postfix
10 4 (0.16%) Sendmail
10 4 (0.16%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.12%) ACF2
11 3 (0.12%) SRDF
11 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.12%) XenApp
12 2 (0.081%) GPFS
12 2 (0.081%) GridGain
12 2 (0.081%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 158 (6.44%) Kubernetes
2 88 (3.58%) Terraform
3 78 (3.18%) Ansible
4 35 (1.43%) Grafana
5 28 (1.14%) Prometheus
6 20 (0.81%) SCCM
7 18 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.65%) Argo
9 12 (0.49%) Control-M
10 9 (0.37%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.37%) Istio
11 8 (0.33%) OMEGAMON
11 8 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.29%) Puppet
12 7 (0.29%) WSUS
13 6 (0.24%) SnapMirror
14 5 (0.20%) HAProxy
14 5 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
14 5 (0.20%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.20%) vRealize
Vendors
1 285 (11.61%) Microsoft
2 195 (7.94%) Oracle
3 83 (3.38%) ServiceNow
4 65 (2.65%) Google
5 60 (2.44%) IBM
6 56 (2.28%) SAP
7 54 (2.20%) Cisco
8 52 (2.12%) Databricks
9 51 (2.08%) F5
10 48 (1.96%) Citrix
10 48 (1.96%) Splunk
11 43 (1.75%) VMware
12 28 (1.14%) Murex
12 28 (1.14%) Temenos
13 27 (1.10%) Avaloq
13 27 (1.10%) Pega
13 27 (1.10%) Salesforce
14 25 (1.02%) Bloomberg
14 25 (1.02%) NetApp
15 24 (0.98%) Workday