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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 25 25
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,272 1,901 2,279
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.59% 7.79% 6.18%
As % of the General category 10.23% 12.15% 10.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,363 1,265 1,669
10th Percentile £372 £361 £378
25th Percentile £440 £458 £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 £788 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -12.50% -2.04% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 18 21
10th Percentile - £17.10 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £19.45 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £23.47 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.82% +20.33% -7.14%
75th Percentile £76.25 £24.66 £27.00
90th Percentile £97.25 £48.98 £83.00
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 22,217 15,643 21,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.66% 64.12% 58.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,823 10,163 13,863
10th Percentile £305 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -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 1,459 669 1,783
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.23 £17.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.50 £27.64 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +10.35% -8.36% -6.63%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.24 £51.91
90th Percentile £80.01 £75.00 £65.03
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 6 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 6 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 6 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 1,556 £575 -11.54% 741
North of England +4 481 £468 +4.00% 323
North West +11 266 £447 +3.95% 254
Yorkshire -6 211 £500 - 61
Midlands +2 182 £475 -1.55% 80
West Midlands +15 126 £550 -0.90% 29
East Midlands -11 56 £453 +13.13% 51
South East -36 40 £505 -12.17% 265
South West -36 35 £500 -6.98% 50
East of England -31 13 £600 - 111
North East -12 10 £400 -4.76% 8
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
1 170 (7.48%) Confluence
2 51 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.10%) SAS
4 18 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 17 (0.75%) IIS
6 13 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.53%) CICS
8 11 (0.48%) Apache
8 11 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.22%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.22%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.18%) CMS
12 3 (0.13%) Camunda
12 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.088%) Appian
13 2 (0.088%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.088%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 133 (5.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
3 62 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (1.94%) MS Visio
5 30 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.48%) 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%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.044%) Trello
Business Applications
1 29 (1.28%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
3 23 (1.01%) Oracle Receivables
4 21 (0.92%) Temenos T24
5 20 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
6 17 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
7 16 (0.70%) Loan IQ
7 16 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 12 (0.53%) Finacle
9 10 (0.44%) SAP FI
10 9 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
11 8 (0.35%) Actimize
11 8 (0.35%) Aladdin
11 8 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
11 8 (0.35%) SAP CO
11 8 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
11 8 (0.35%) Summit
12 7 (0.31%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 6 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
13 6 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 356 (15.67%) Azure
2 313 (13.78%) AWS
3 153 (6.73%) GCP
4 120 (5.28%) Power Platform
5 101 (4.45%) Microsoft 365
6 76 (3.35%) GitHub
7 59 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
8 54 (2.38%) SaaS
9 40 (1.76%) Figma
10 34 (1.50%) Serverless
11 31 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
12 30 (1.32%) Entra ID
12 30 (1.32%) OpenShift
13 29 (1.28%) Snowflake
14 27 (1.19%) Amazon S3
15 25 (1.10%) OCI
16 24 (1.06%) Power Automate
17 20 (0.88%) Amazon EKS
17 20 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
17 20 (0.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (3.17%) DNS
2 53 (2.33%) VPN
3 50 (2.20%) Firewall
4 41 (1.80%) HTTP
4 41 (1.80%) TCP/IP
5 38 (1.67%) Network Security
6 27 (1.19%) BGP
6 27 (1.19%) Multicast
7 25 (1.10%) DMZ
7 25 (1.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 25 (1.10%) SSL
8 24 (1.06%) BIG-IP
9 23 (1.01%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 22 (0.97%) Wireshark
11 21 (0.92%) FIX Connectivity
11 21 (0.92%) SAN
12 18 (0.79%) NetScaler
13 15 (0.66%) DHCP
14 12 (0.53%) Wireless
15 10 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (4.27%) Power BI
2 94 (4.14%) SQL Server
3 55 (2.42%) Tableau
4 54 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
5 52 (2.29%) Metadata
6 47 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
7 44 (1.94%) Oracle Database
8 37 (1.63%) Relational Database
9 35 (1.54%) MongoDB
10 28 (1.23%) NoSQL
11 23 (1.01%) Big Data
12 22 (0.97%) DB2
13 21 (0.92%) BigQuery
14 17 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 16 (0.70%) Data Lake
16 13 (0.57%) Power Query
17 12 (0.53%) DataStage
17 12 (0.53%) Hadoop
17 12 (0.53%) Pinecone
17 12 (0.53%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 254 (11.18%) JIRA
2 95 (4.18%) Jenkins
3 86 (3.79%) Git
4 59 (2.60%) GitLab
5 30 (1.32%) JUnit
6 22 (0.97%) Selenium
7 19 (0.84%) Fiddler
8 18 (0.79%) Bitbucket
9 16 (0.70%) Cucumber
10 15 (0.66%) TeamCity
11 14 (0.62%) Postman
12 13 (0.57%) Maven
12 13 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
13 12 (0.53%) REST Assured
14 11 (0.48%) SonarQube
15 10 (0.44%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.44%) Mockito
16 9 (0.40%) Gradle
17 8 (0.35%) Appium
17 8 (0.35%) MLflow
General
1 1,410 (62.06%) Finance
2 650 (28.61%) Social Skills
3 445 (19.59%) Investment Banking
4 329 (14.48%) Analytical Skills
5 179 (7.88%) Front Office
6 111 (4.89%) Financial Institution
7 95 (4.18%) Retail Banking
8 79 (3.48%) Corporate Banking
9 76 (3.35%) Retail
10 73 (3.21%) Legal
11 62 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
12 54 (2.38%) Public Sector
13 38 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
15 35 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
16 27 (1.19%) General Ledger
16 27 (1.19%) Marketing
17 23 (1.01%) Back Office
18 20 (0.88%) International Banking
18 20 (0.88%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 376 (16.55%) Analyst
1 376 (16.55%) Developer
2 297 (13.07%) Senior
3 266 (11.71%) Architect
4 259 (11.40%) Business Analyst
5 164 (7.22%) Lead
6 126 (5.55%) Solutions Architect
7 108 (4.75%) Project Manager
8 104 (4.58%) Java Developer
9 93 (4.09%) Banking Analyst
10 88 (3.87%) Senior Developer
11 80 (3.52%) Data Engineer
12 76 (3.35%) Consultant
13 61 (2.68%) Banking Business Analyst
14 58 (2.55%) Payments Architect
15 55 (2.42%) Network Engineer
16 52 (2.29%) Designer
16 52 (2.29%) Payments Solutions Architect
17 47 (2.07%) C# Developer
18 43 (1.89%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (4.84%) .NET
1 110 (4.84%) Kafka
2 89 (3.92%) React
3 76 (3.35%) Middleware
4 73 (3.21%) Spring
5 71 (3.13%) REST
6 63 (2.77%) HTML
6 63 (2.77%) Spring Boot
7 58 (2.55%) RESTful
8 48 (2.11%) CSS
9 42 (1.85%) OAuth
10 40 (1.76%) AngularJS
11 37 (1.63%) JSON
11 37 (1.63%) XML
12 32 (1.41%) FIX Protocol
13 31 (1.36%) OAuth2
14 25 (1.10%) HTML5
14 25 (1.10%) Node.js
15 24 (1.06%) Redux
16 23 (1.01%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 153 (6.73%) Product Ownership
2 115 (5.06%) Derivative
3 105 (4.62%) Onboarding
4 100 (4.40%) Cloud Native
5 98 (4.31%) Management Information System
6 88 (3.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 77 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
8 71 (3.13%) Fixed Income
9 61 (2.68%) Data Structures
10 58 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
11 57 (2.51%) Equities
12 48 (2.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 46 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
14 44 (1.94%) Data Centre
15 42 (1.85%) Market Risk
16 41 (1.80%) Credit Risk
17 39 (1.72%) Mainframe
18 33 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
19 29 (1.28%) Public Cloud
20 28 (1.23%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 141 (6.21%) Windows
2 97 (4.27%) Linux
3 68 (2.99%) Unix
4 35 (1.54%) Windows 10
5 29 (1.28%) Android
6 23 (1.01%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.97%) Apple iOS
7 22 (0.97%) zOS
8 17 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 13 (0.57%) Mac OS
10 11 (0.48%) AIX
11 7 (0.31%) VMS
12 6 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
12 6 (0.26%) Solaris
12 6 (0.26%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
14 4 (0.18%) HPUX
14 4 (0.18%) SUSE
14 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 558 (24.56%) Agile
2 413 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 358 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
4 306 (13.47%) CI/CD
5 296 (13.03%) DevOps
6 247 (10.87%) AI
7 246 (10.83%) Migration
8 195 (8.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 193 (8.49%) Analytics
10 187 (8.23%) Roadmaps
11 185 (8.14%) Decision-Making
12 178 (7.83%) Data Modelling
13 174 (7.66%) Risk Management
14 173 (7.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 169 (7.44%) Validation
16 166 (7.31%) Microservices
17 159 (7.00%) User Acceptance Testing
18 146 (6.43%) Test Automation
19 145 (6.38%) Data Analysis
20 144 (6.34%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 380 (16.73%) SQL
2 319 (14.04%) Python
3 291 (12.81%) Java
4 142 (6.25%) C#
5 103 (4.53%) JavaScript
6 70 (3.08%) TypeScript
7 59 (2.60%) PowerShell
8 45 (1.98%) PL/SQL
9 33 (1.45%) Shell Script
10 30 (1.32%) T-SQL
11 27 (1.19%) VBA
12 25 (1.10%) Bash
12 25 (1.10%) Go
12 25 (1.10%) Kotlin
13 19 (0.84%) C++
13 19 (0.84%) COBOL
14 18 (0.79%) Korn
15 16 (0.70%) JCL
16 14 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 14 (0.62%) Scala
Qualifications
1 203 (8.93%) Degree
2 109 (4.80%) Security Cleared
3 68 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 67 (2.95%) SC Cleared
5 56 (2.46%) PMP
6 55 (2.42%) Master's Degree
7 54 (2.38%) PMI Certification
8 40 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 36 (1.58%) CISSP
10 29 (1.28%) Azure Certification
11 22 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (0.75%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.75%) MBA
13 16 (0.70%) CISM
14 13 (0.57%) CBAP
14 13 (0.57%) ISTQB
15 10 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (0.40%) ACCA
16 9 (0.40%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (5.72%) QA
2 121 (5.33%) Data Quality
3 56 (2.46%) GDPR
4 50 (2.20%) ISO 20022
5 49 (2.16%) PMO
6 36 (1.58%) PSD2
6 36 (1.58%) SLA
7 34 (1.50%) NIST
8 32 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (1.41%) SEPA
9 30 (1.32%) PCI DSS
10 27 (1.19%) GRC
11 24 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 22 (0.97%) Accessibility
13 20 (0.88%) MiFID
14 19 (0.84%) 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
1 123 (5.41%) Docker
2 46 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 40 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.88%) Firmware
5 16 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (0.62%) vSphere
7 13 (0.57%) NFS
8 10 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.26%) RACF
10 5 (0.22%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.18%) Varnish
11 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.18%) XenApp
12 3 (0.13%) ACF2
12 3 (0.13%) Postfix
12 3 (0.13%) Sendmail
12 3 (0.13%) SRDF
12 3 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
13 2 (0.088%) GPFS
13 2 (0.088%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 165 (7.26%) Kubernetes
2 84 (3.70%) Terraform
3 63 (2.77%) Ansible
4 32 (1.41%) Grafana
5 26 (1.14%) SCCM
6 23 (1.01%) Prometheus
7 19 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (0.79%) 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 (0.26%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.26%) SnapMirror
13 5 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
13 5 (0.22%) RSA Archer
13 5 (0.22%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.18%) CA Endevor
14 4 (0.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 280 (12.32%) Microsoft
2 168 (7.39%) Oracle
3 81 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 65 (2.86%) Google
5 61 (2.68%) Cisco
6 60 (2.64%) IBM
7 55 (2.42%) SAP
8 53 (2.33%) F5
9 49 (2.16%) Citrix
9 49 (2.16%) VMware
10 45 (1.98%) Splunk
11 31 (1.36%) Databricks
12 30 (1.32%) Temenos
13 28 (1.23%) HP
13 28 (1.23%) Murex
14 27 (1.19%) Bloomberg
15 26 (1.14%) NetApp
15 26 (1.14%) Pega
15 26 (1.14%) Remedy
16 25 (1.10%) Avaloq