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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 24 25
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,269 1,906 2,306
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.54% 7.79% 6.33%
As % of the General category 10.23% 12.15% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,380 1,274 1,707
10th Percentile £375 £358 £390
25th Percentile £447 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £775
90th Percentile £776 £850 £863
UK median daily rate £525 £595 £613
% change year-on-year -11.69% -2.94% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 23
10th Percentile - £17.43 £12.17
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% -9.29%
75th Percentile £95.00 £24.66 £23.88
90th Percentile £97.63 £42.40 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £30.39 £22.27 £19.05
% change year-on-year +36.44% +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 22,176 15,681 21,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.12% 64.08% 58.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,726 10,164 13,658
10th Percentile £308 £293 £281
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -2.88% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,471 678 1,777
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.77 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.95 £15.43
Median hourly rate £30.58 £27.45 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +11.40% -8.86% -6.75%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.25 £51.91
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £66.45
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.69%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -10 1,558 £575 -11.54% 437
North of England +4 482 £475 +6.15% 87
North West +11 263 £447 +4.87% 45
Yorkshire -7 213 £500 +1.27% 36
Midlands +6 178 £505 +12.28% 25
West Midlands +24 127 £575 +2.04% 17
East Midlands -18 51 £465 +19.23% 8
South East -44 39 £545 -5.22% 111
South West -25 35 £500 -4.76% 19
East of England -23 14 £553 -7.92% 6
North East -15 10 £400 -4.76% 6
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
1 166 (7.32%) Confluence
2 48 (2.12%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.06%) SAS
4 18 (0.79%) IIS
5 14 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.57%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.44%) Apache
7 10 (0.44%) CICS
7 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.18%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.13%) Camunda
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.088%) Appian
12 2 (0.088%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.088%) CMS
12 2 (0.088%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 127 (5.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (1.90%) MS Visio
5 27 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.40%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.22%) Notion
8 2 (0.088%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.088%) InVision
8 2 (0.088%) Sketch
8 2 (0.088%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 28 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
3 23 (1.01%) Oracle Receivables
4 19 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
5 18 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
5 18 (0.79%) Temenos T24
6 16 (0.71%) Loan IQ
6 16 (0.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 12 (0.53%) Finacle
8 9 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
8 9 (0.40%) SAP FI
9 8 (0.35%) Actimize
9 8 (0.35%) Aladdin
9 8 (0.35%) SAP CO
9 8 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
9 8 (0.35%) Summit
10 7 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
11 6 (0.26%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 5 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 364 (16.04%) Azure
2 310 (13.66%) AWS
3 151 (6.65%) GCP
4 114 (5.02%) Power Platform
5 89 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
6 75 (3.31%) GitHub
7 57 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
8 55 (2.42%) SaaS
9 37 (1.63%) Figma
10 33 (1.45%) Snowflake
11 32 (1.41%) Entra ID
11 32 (1.41%) OpenShift
12 28 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
12 28 (1.23%) Serverless
13 24 (1.06%) Amazon S3
13 24 (1.06%) OCI
13 24 (1.06%) Power Automate
14 20 (0.88%) PaaS
14 20 (0.88%) PowerApps
15 19 (0.84%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (3.09%) DNS
2 54 (2.38%) VPN
3 50 (2.20%) Firewall
4 40 (1.76%) Network Security
5 38 (1.67%) HTTP
5 38 (1.67%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.32%) Multicast
7 27 (1.19%) BGP
8 24 (1.06%) SSL
9 23 (1.01%) BIG-IP
10 22 (0.97%) DMZ
10 22 (0.97%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 22 (0.97%) SAN
11 21 (0.93%) Wireshark
12 20 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 20 (0.88%) FIX Connectivity
13 15 (0.66%) NetScaler
14 14 (0.62%) DHCP
15 10 (0.44%) Skype
15 10 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (4.32%) SQL Server
2 92 (4.05%) Power BI
3 58 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
4 57 (2.51%) Metadata
5 52 (2.29%) Tableau
6 45 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
7 42 (1.85%) Oracle Database
8 39 (1.72%) Relational Database
9 32 (1.41%) MongoDB
10 29 (1.28%) NoSQL
11 21 (0.93%) Big Data
12 20 (0.88%) BigQuery
12 20 (0.88%) DB2
13 17 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 16 (0.71%) Data Lake
15 13 (0.57%) Pinecone
15 13 (0.57%) Weaviate
16 12 (0.53%) DataStage
17 11 (0.48%) Power Query
17 11 (0.48%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 252 (11.11%) JIRA
2 98 (4.32%) Jenkins
3 84 (3.70%) Git
4 58 (2.56%) GitLab
5 30 (1.32%) JUnit
6 24 (1.06%) Selenium
7 18 (0.79%) Cucumber
7 18 (0.79%) Fiddler
8 16 (0.71%) Postman
8 16 (0.71%) TeamCity
9 15 (0.66%) Bitbucket
9 15 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
10 13 (0.57%) Maven
10 13 (0.57%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.53%) REST Assured
12 10 (0.44%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.40%) Mockito
14 8 (0.35%) ERwin
14 8 (0.35%) Gradle
14 8 (0.35%) MLflow
General
1 1,383 (60.95%) Finance
2 618 (27.24%) Social Skills
3 463 (20.41%) Investment Banking
4 320 (14.10%) Analytical Skills
5 177 (7.80%) Front Office
6 110 (4.85%) Financial Institution
7 106 (4.67%) Retail Banking
8 84 (3.70%) Corporate Banking
8 84 (3.70%) Retail
9 70 (3.09%) Legal
10 62 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
11 56 (2.47%) Public Sector
12 40 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
13 37 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
14 36 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
15 27 (1.19%) General Ledger
16 26 (1.15%) Marketing
17 23 (1.01%) Back Office
17 23 (1.01%) Private Banking
18 19 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 373 (16.44%) Analyst
2 372 (16.39%) Developer
3 300 (13.22%) Senior
4 270 (11.90%) Architect
5 261 (11.50%) Business Analyst
6 172 (7.58%) Lead
7 131 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
8 109 (4.80%) Java Developer
9 98 (4.32%) Project Manager
10 92 (4.05%) Banking Analyst
11 90 (3.97%) Senior Developer
12 83 (3.66%) Consultant
13 81 (3.57%) Data Engineer
14 62 (2.73%) Banking Business Analyst
15 58 (2.56%) Payments Architect
16 54 (2.38%) Network Engineer
17 53 (2.34%) Payments Solutions Architect
18 51 (2.25%) Designer
19 49 (2.16%) C# Developer
20 44 (1.94%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (4.72%) Kafka
2 106 (4.67%) .NET
3 88 (3.88%) React
4 79 (3.48%) Middleware
5 73 (3.22%) Spring
6 71 (3.13%) REST
7 61 (2.69%) Spring Boot
8 59 (2.60%) HTML
9 57 (2.51%) RESTful
10 46 (2.03%) CSS
11 39 (1.72%) AngularJS
11 39 (1.72%) OAuth
12 38 (1.67%) XML
13 37 (1.63%) JSON
14 36 (1.59%) FIX Protocol
15 29 (1.28%) OAuth2
16 25 (1.10%) HTML5
17 23 (1.01%) Node.js
17 23 (1.01%) PySpark
17 23 (1.01%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 162 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 117 (5.16%) Derivative
3 109 (4.80%) Onboarding
4 100 (4.41%) Cloud Native
5 90 (3.97%) Management Information System
6 88 (3.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 75 (3.31%) Data Protection Act
8 70 (3.09%) Fixed Income
9 66 (2.91%) Data Structures
10 61 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
11 56 (2.47%) Equities
12 48 (2.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 46 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
14 40 (1.76%) Credit Risk
14 40 (1.76%) Data Centre
14 40 (1.76%) Market Risk
15 35 (1.54%) Mainframe
16 32 (1.41%) Public Cloud
17 31 (1.37%) Algorithms
18 28 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 136 (5.99%) Windows
2 104 (4.58%) Linux
3 73 (3.22%) Unix
4 29 (1.28%) Windows 10
5 23 (1.01%) Android
5 23 (1.01%) Windows Server
6 20 (0.88%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.88%) zOS
7 16 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.40%) AIX
9 8 (0.35%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
10 6 (0.26%) Solaris
10 6 (0.26%) VMS
10 6 (0.26%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
11 5 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
12 4 (0.18%) HPUX
12 4 (0.18%) SUSE
13 3 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 544 (23.98%) Agile
2 412 (18.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 340 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
4 312 (13.75%) CI/CD
5 292 (12.87%) DevOps
6 258 (11.37%) Migration
7 247 (10.89%) AI
8 194 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 193 (8.51%) Analytics
10 184 (8.11%) Roadmaps
11 182 (8.02%) Data Modelling
12 176 (7.76%) Decision-Making
13 171 (7.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 170 (7.49%) Microservices
15 164 (7.23%) Validation
16 156 (6.88%) Risk Management
17 152 (6.70%) User Acceptance Testing
18 148 (6.52%) Test Automation
19 134 (5.91%) Data Analysis
19 134 (5.91%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 380 (16.75%) SQL
2 319 (14.06%) Python
3 287 (12.65%) Java
4 139 (6.13%) C#
5 100 (4.41%) JavaScript
6 71 (3.13%) TypeScript
7 59 (2.60%) PowerShell
8 49 (2.16%) PL/SQL
9 35 (1.54%) Shell Script
10 33 (1.45%) T-SQL
11 28 (1.23%) Bash
12 24 (1.06%) Go
13 23 (1.01%) C++
13 23 (1.01%) Kotlin
14 21 (0.93%) VBA
15 17 (0.75%) Korn
16 16 (0.71%) COBOL
17 15 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 13 (0.57%) JCL
18 13 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 195 (8.59%) Degree
2 113 (4.98%) Security Cleared
3 72 (3.17%) SC Cleared
4 63 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (2.25%) PMP
6 49 (2.16%) Master's Degree
7 48 (2.12%) PMI Certification
8 39 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (1.45%) CISSP
10 26 (1.15%) Azure Certification
11 22 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (0.75%) AWS Certification
13 16 (0.71%) MBA
14 15 (0.66%) CISM
15 14 (0.62%) ISTQB
16 13 (0.57%) CBAP
17 10 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 10 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
18 9 (0.40%) CCSP
19 8 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (5.73%) QA
2 125 (5.51%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.29%) GDPR
3 52 (2.29%) ISO 20022
4 50 (2.20%) PMO
5 37 (1.63%) PSD2
6 36 (1.59%) SLA
7 33 (1.45%) NIST
7 33 (1.45%) SEPA
8 30 (1.32%) PCI DSS
9 29 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 28 (1.23%) GRC
11 25 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 20 (0.88%) Accessibility
12 20 (0.88%) MiFID
13 15 (0.66%) ISO 8583
14 14 (0.62%) Basel III
15 10 (0.44%) IFRS
16 7 (0.31%) COBIT
16 7 (0.31%) COREP
System Software
1 125 (5.51%) Docker
2 49 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.79%) Firmware
5 15 (0.66%) NFS
6 14 (0.62%) vSphere
7 13 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.22%) 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%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.18%) XenApp
11 3 (0.13%) GPFS
11 3 (0.13%) SRDF
12 2 (0.088%) ACF2
12 2 (0.088%) GridGain
13 1 (0.044%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 164 (7.23%) Kubernetes
2 82 (3.61%) Terraform
3 68 (3.00%) Ansible
4 33 (1.45%) Grafana
5 25 (1.10%) Prometheus
6 22 (0.97%) SCCM
7 19 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (0.75%) Argo
9 10 (0.44%) Control-M
9 10 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.35%) Istio
10 8 (0.35%) Puppet
11 6 (0.26%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.26%) SnapMirror
12 5 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
12 5 (0.22%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.22%) vRealize
12 5 (0.22%) WSUS
13 4 (0.18%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 275 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 166 (7.32%) Oracle
3 83 (3.66%) ServiceNow
4 59 (2.60%) Google
5 57 (2.51%) SAP
6 56 (2.47%) Cisco
7 55 (2.42%) IBM
8 51 (2.25%) F5
9 48 (2.12%) Splunk
10 47 (2.07%) VMware
11 46 (2.03%) Citrix
12 41 (1.81%) Databricks
13 29 (1.28%) Temenos
14 26 (1.15%) Avaloq
14 26 (1.15%) Pega
15 25 (1.10%) Bloomberg
15 25 (1.10%) Murex
15 25 (1.10%) NetApp
16 23 (1.01%) Remedy
16 23 (1.01%) Workday