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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 24 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,296 1,894 2,324
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.57% 7.82% 6.38%
As % of the General category 10.30% 12.20% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,399 1,263 1,725
10th Percentile £375 £358 £390
25th Percentile £447 £449 £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 £775 £850 £874
UK median daily rate £525 £588 £613
% change year-on-year -10.64% -4.08% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 23
10th Percentile - £17.10 £12.17
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.88 £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 £26.38 £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 22,298 15,520 21,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.08% 64.09% 58.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,771 10,039 13,665
10th Percentile £310 £290 £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 £626 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £510 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -1.35% -1.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,484 684 1,774
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.76 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.03 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.78 £27.25 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +12.95% -9.65% -5.75%
75th Percentile £61.18 £54.25 £52.35
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £66.59
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.40 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.49% -8.67% -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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -9 1,582 £575 -11.54% 427
North of England +1 487 £475 +6.26% 75
North West +11 258 £441 +2.56% 44
Yorkshire -3 223 £500 +2.56% 26
Midlands +5 178 £519 +18.92% 22
West Midlands +26 127 £575 +3.60% 18
East Midlands -20 51 £465 +19.23% 4
South West -32 36 £500 -4.76% 13
South East -42 36 £545 -5.22% 106
East of England -18 14 £553 -7.92% 7
North East -18 10 £400 -4.76% 5
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
1 167 (7.27%) Confluence
2 47 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.05%) SAS
4 18 (0.78%) IIS
5 16 (0.70%) Apache Spark
6 14 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (0.44%) Apache
7 10 (0.44%) CICS
7 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.17%) Camunda
10 4 (0.17%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.17%) Hyperledger
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.13%) Appian
11 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.087%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.087%) CMS
12 2 (0.087%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 127 (5.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (2.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 60 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
4 44 (1.92%) MS Visio
5 27 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.35%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.22%) Notion
8 2 (0.087%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.087%) InVision
8 2 (0.087%) Sketch
8 2 (0.087%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.087%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 26 (1.13%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.09%) Oracle Payables
3 23 (1.00%) Oracle Receivables
4 18 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
5 17 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
5 17 (0.74%) Temenos T24
6 16 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 15 (0.65%) Loan IQ
8 12 (0.52%) Finacle
9 9 (0.39%) Aladdin
9 9 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
9 9 (0.39%) SAP FI
10 8 (0.35%) Actimize
10 8 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
10 8 (0.35%) SAP CO
10 8 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
10 8 (0.35%) Summit
11 6 (0.26%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 5 (0.22%) BASE24
12 5 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 359 (15.64%) Azure
2 315 (13.72%) AWS
3 147 (6.40%) GCP
4 112 (4.88%) Power Platform
5 86 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
6 78 (3.40%) GitHub
7 57 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
8 56 (2.44%) SaaS
9 37 (1.61%) Figma
10 33 (1.44%) OpenShift
10 33 (1.44%) Snowflake
11 32 (1.39%) Entra ID
12 29 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (1.22%) Serverless
14 27 (1.18%) Amazon S3
15 23 (1.00%) OCI
15 23 (1.00%) Power Automate
16 20 (0.87%) PaaS
17 19 (0.83%) IaaS
17 19 (0.83%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 70 (3.05%) DNS
2 56 (2.44%) VPN
3 53 (2.31%) Firewall
4 43 (1.87%) Network Security
5 38 (1.66%) TCP/IP
6 37 (1.61%) HTTP
7 30 (1.31%) Multicast
8 27 (1.18%) BGP
9 24 (1.05%) SSL
10 23 (1.00%) BIG-IP
11 22 (0.96%) DMZ
11 22 (0.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 22 (0.96%) SAN
12 21 (0.91%) FIX Connectivity
12 21 (0.91%) Wireshark
13 20 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 15 (0.65%) NetScaler
15 14 (0.61%) DHCP
16 10 (0.44%) LAN
16 10 (0.44%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (4.31%) SQL Server
2 90 (3.92%) Power BI
3 59 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (2.40%) Metadata
5 53 (2.31%) Tableau
6 49 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
7 42 (1.83%) Oracle Database
8 41 (1.79%) Relational Database
9 34 (1.48%) MongoDB
10 32 (1.39%) NoSQL
11 23 (1.00%) Big Data
12 20 (0.87%) DB2
13 18 (0.78%) BigQuery
14 16 (0.70%) Data Lake
14 16 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 13 (0.57%) DataStage
16 12 (0.52%) Pinecone
16 12 (0.52%) RDBMS
16 12 (0.52%) Weaviate
17 11 (0.48%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 256 (11.15%) JIRA
2 101 (4.40%) Jenkins
3 88 (3.83%) Git
4 57 (2.48%) GitLab
5 32 (1.39%) JUnit
6 25 (1.09%) Selenium
7 20 (0.87%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.78%) Fiddler
9 16 (0.70%) Postman
9 16 (0.70%) TeamCity
10 15 (0.65%) Bitbucket
10 15 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
11 13 (0.57%) REST Assured
11 13 (0.57%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.52%) Maven
13 10 (0.44%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.44%) Mockito
14 9 (0.39%) ERwin
15 8 (0.35%) Appium
15 8 (0.35%) Gradle
General
1 1,402 (61.06%) Finance
2 615 (26.79%) Social Skills
3 474 (20.64%) Investment Banking
4 321 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
5 181 (7.88%) Front Office
6 113 (4.92%) Financial Institution
7 109 (4.75%) Retail Banking
8 87 (3.79%) Retail
9 86 (3.75%) Corporate Banking
10 73 (3.18%) Legal
11 62 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
12 54 (2.35%) Public Sector
13 39 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
13 39 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
14 35 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (1.13%) General Ledger
16 25 (1.09%) Marketing
17 24 (1.05%) Back Office
17 24 (1.05%) Private Banking
18 22 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 377 (16.42%) Developer
2 375 (16.33%) Analyst
3 305 (13.28%) Senior
4 271 (11.80%) Architect
5 264 (11.50%) Business Analyst
6 175 (7.62%) Lead
7 133 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
8 114 (4.97%) Java Developer
9 102 (4.44%) Project Manager
10 91 (3.96%) Banking Analyst
10 91 (3.96%) Senior Developer
11 84 (3.66%) Consultant
12 81 (3.53%) Data Engineer
13 61 (2.66%) Banking Business Analyst
14 58 (2.53%) Payments Architect
15 55 (2.40%) Network Engineer
16 53 (2.31%) Payments Solutions Architect
17 51 (2.22%) Designer
18 49 (2.13%) C# Developer
19 45 (1.96%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (4.83%) Kafka
2 106 (4.62%) .NET
3 89 (3.88%) React
4 81 (3.53%) Middleware
5 79 (3.44%) Spring
6 71 (3.09%) REST
7 66 (2.87%) Spring Boot
8 59 (2.57%) RESTful
9 56 (2.44%) HTML
10 45 (1.96%) CSS
11 42 (1.83%) OAuth
12 39 (1.70%) AngularJS
13 38 (1.66%) FIX Protocol
13 38 (1.66%) XML
14 35 (1.52%) JSON
15 31 (1.35%) OAuth2
16 25 (1.09%) HTML5
17 23 (1.00%) Redux
18 22 (0.96%) Node.js
18 22 (0.96%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 165 (7.19%) Product Ownership
2 123 (5.36%) Derivative
3 109 (4.75%) Onboarding
4 103 (4.49%) Cloud Native
5 90 (3.92%) Management Information System
6 89 (3.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 73 (3.18%) Data Protection Act
8 69 (3.01%) Fixed Income
9 65 (2.83%) Data Structures
10 61 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
11 58 (2.53%) Equities
12 46 (2.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 44 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
14 41 (1.79%) Data Centre
14 41 (1.79%) Market Risk
15 39 (1.70%) Credit Risk
16 35 (1.52%) Mainframe
17 31 (1.35%) Algorithms
17 31 (1.35%) Public Cloud
18 27 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 136 (5.92%) Windows
2 103 (4.49%) Linux
3 72 (3.14%) Unix
4 28 (1.22%) Windows 10
5 24 (1.05%) Android
6 22 (0.96%) Windows Server
7 21 (0.91%) Apple iOS
8 20 (0.87%) zOS
9 15 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.39%) AIX
11 7 (0.30%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
12 6 (0.26%) Solaris
12 6 (0.26%) VMS
12 6 (0.26%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
14 4 (0.17%) HPUX
14 4 (0.17%) SUSE
15 3 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 552 (24.04%) Agile
2 415 (18.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 339 (14.76%) Problem-Solving
4 319 (13.89%) CI/CD
5 299 (13.02%) DevOps
6 265 (11.54%) Migration
7 250 (10.89%) AI
8 196 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 193 (8.41%) Analytics
10 187 (8.14%) Data Modelling
11 184 (8.01%) Roadmaps
12 175 (7.62%) Microservices
13 173 (7.53%) Decision-Making
14 171 (7.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 168 (7.32%) Validation
16 155 (6.75%) Risk Management
16 155 (6.75%) User Acceptance Testing
17 151 (6.58%) Test Automation
18 133 (5.79%) Project Management
19 132 (5.75%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 377 (16.42%) SQL
2 315 (13.72%) Python
3 295 (12.85%) Java
4 139 (6.05%) C#
5 97 (4.22%) JavaScript
6 70 (3.05%) TypeScript
7 60 (2.61%) PowerShell
8 49 (2.13%) PL/SQL
9 34 (1.48%) Shell Script
10 32 (1.39%) T-SQL
11 28 (1.22%) Bash
12 26 (1.13%) Kotlin
13 24 (1.05%) C++
13 24 (1.05%) Go
14 21 (0.91%) VBA
15 19 (0.83%) Korn
16 16 (0.70%) COBOL
17 15 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 14 (0.61%) Scala
19 13 (0.57%) JCL
Qualifications
1 197 (8.58%) Degree
2 112 (4.88%) Security Cleared
3 72 (3.14%) SC Cleared
4 64 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 49 (2.13%) Master's Degree
6 48 (2.09%) PMP
7 45 (1.96%) PMI Certification
8 39 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (1.44%) CISSP
10 27 (1.18%) Azure Certification
11 23 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (0.74%) AWS Certification
13 16 (0.70%) MBA
14 15 (0.65%) CISM
15 14 (0.61%) ISTQB
16 12 (0.52%) CBAP
17 11 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
18 10 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 9 (0.39%) CCSP
19 9 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (5.79%) QA
2 127 (5.53%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.26%) GDPR
4 50 (2.18%) ISO 20022
5 49 (2.13%) PMO
6 38 (1.66%) SLA
7 35 (1.52%) PSD2
8 33 (1.44%) NIST
9 32 (1.39%) SEPA
10 30 (1.31%) PCI DSS
11 29 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 27 (1.18%) GRC
13 25 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 21 (0.91%) Accessibility
14 21 (0.91%) MiFID
15 15 (0.65%) ISO 8583
16 13 (0.57%) Basel III
17 12 (0.52%) IFRS
18 9 (0.39%) EMIR
19 8 (0.35%) GAAP
System Software
1 129 (5.62%) Docker
2 50 (2.18%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.78%) Firmware
5 15 (0.65%) NFS
6 14 (0.61%) vSphere
7 13 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.22%) RACF
9 5 (0.22%) Varnish
9 5 (0.22%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.17%) Postfix
10 4 (0.17%) Sendmail
10 4 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.17%) XenApp
11 3 (0.13%) SRDF
12 2 (0.087%) ACF2
12 2 (0.087%) GPFS
12 2 (0.087%) GridGain
13 1 (0.044%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 169 (7.36%) Kubernetes
2 85 (3.70%) Terraform
3 70 (3.05%) Ansible
4 36 (1.57%) Grafana
5 28 (1.22%) Prometheus
6 22 (0.96%) SCCM
7 20 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (0.74%) Argo
9 10 (0.44%) Control-M
9 10 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.39%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.35%) Istio
11 8 (0.35%) Puppet
12 6 (0.26%) SnapMirror
13 5 (0.22%) NetBackup
13 5 (0.22%) vRealize
13 5 (0.22%) WSUS
14 4 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
14 4 (0.17%) RSA Archer
14 4 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 276 (12.02%) Microsoft
2 168 (7.32%) Oracle
3 85 (3.70%) ServiceNow
4 60 (2.61%) Google
5 56 (2.44%) SAP
6 54 (2.35%) Cisco
6 54 (2.35%) IBM
7 51 (2.22%) F5
8 47 (2.05%) VMware
9 46 (2.00%) Citrix
10 45 (1.96%) Splunk
11 39 (1.70%) Databricks
12 28 (1.22%) Temenos
13 26 (1.13%) Avaloq
13 26 (1.13%) Pega
14 25 (1.09%) Murex
14 25 (1.09%) NetApp
15 24 (1.05%) Bloomberg
16 22 (0.96%) Workday
17 21 (0.91%) Salesforce