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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,633 2,234 2,430
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.79% 8.09% 7.20%
As % of the General category 10.44% 12.66% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,597 1,550 1,770
10th Percentile £400 £350 £400
25th Percentile £456 £418 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £680 £738 £795
90th Percentile £811 £825 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 28 15
10th Percentile £16.63 £18.10 -
25th Percentile £17.00 £19.77 £14.50
Median hourly rate £18.60 £25.15 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.06% +28.97% +5.41%
75th Percentile £33.70 - £42.13
90th Percentile £96.88 £57.75 £76.20
UK median hourly rate £17.25 £24.66 £18.89
% change year-on-year -30.05% +30.58% +0.91%

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 25,225 17,651 19,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.43% 63.95% 57.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,096 11,267 12,489
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £416 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £656
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,922 942 1,312
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.25 £14.06
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.33 £17.25
Median hourly rate £33.74 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +34.16% -34.02% +27.07%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £70.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +29.22% -32.93% +25.00%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1,887 £584 -8.79% 882
North of England -3 520 £500 +12.36% 113
North West -5 266 £492 +15.76% 69
Yorkshire -5 244 £508 +8.27% 39
Midlands -20 160 £523 +24.40% 31
West Midlands +13 123 £525 -2.33% 22
East Midlands -34 37 £519 +32.10% 9
South West -47 36 £563 +7.14% 22
South East -61 32 £545 +21.11% 90
East of England +9 30 £580 -22.67% 9
North East -31 13 £875 +108.33% 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
1 154 (5.85%) Confluence
2 57 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 26 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 25 (0.95%) SAS
5 22 (0.84%) Apache
5 22 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
6 18 (0.68%) IIS
7 11 (0.42%) CICS
8 10 (0.38%) Camunda
9 9 (0.34%) Appian
10 8 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
11 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
12 6 (0.23%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.15%) WordPress
14 3 (0.11%) Ethereum
14 3 (0.11%) Hyperledger
15 2 (0.076%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 2 (0.076%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 2 (0.076%) JBoss
15 2 (0.076%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 87 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (1.22%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.11%) Sketch
7 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.11%) Trello
8 2 (0.076%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.076%) EngageOne
8 2 (0.076%) InVision
8 2 (0.076%) Notion
9 1 (0.038%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 21 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
1 21 (0.80%) Oracle Receivables
1 21 (0.80%) Temenos T24
2 18 (0.68%) Finacle
3 16 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
3 16 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.53%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.49%) Loan IQ
6 10 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 8 (0.30%) Actimize
8 8 (0.30%) FLEXCUBE
8 8 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
9 7 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
9 7 (0.27%) OpenText MBPM
10 6 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
11 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
11 5 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
11 5 (0.19%) SAP CO
11 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 404 (15.34%) Azure
2 350 (13.29%) AWS
3 168 (6.38%) GCP
4 137 (5.20%) Power Platform
5 85 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
6 81 (3.08%) GitHub
7 75 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
8 71 (2.70%) Snowflake
9 68 (2.58%) SaaS
10 47 (1.79%) Entra ID
11 45 (1.71%) OpenShift
12 39 (1.48%) Amazon S3
13 36 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
14 33 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
15 32 (1.22%) Figma
15 32 (1.22%) Serverless
16 26 (0.99%) Power Automate
17 25 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
17 25 (0.95%) PaaS
18 24 (0.91%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 81 (3.08%) Firewall
2 72 (2.73%) DNS
3 66 (2.51%) VPN
4 60 (2.28%) Network Security
5 43 (1.63%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.25%) BGP
6 33 (1.25%) Multicast
6 33 (1.25%) SSL
7 27 (1.03%) SAN
8 25 (0.95%) HTTP
9 22 (0.84%) BIG-IP
9 22 (0.84%) DMZ
9 22 (0.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 20 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 19 (0.72%) DHCP
11 19 (0.72%) Wireshark
12 18 (0.68%) FIX Connectivity
13 16 (0.61%) LAN
14 15 (0.57%) WAN
15 13 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (4.94%) SQL Server
2 113 (4.29%) Power BI
3 85 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
4 71 (2.70%) Metadata
5 65 (2.47%) Relational Database
6 52 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
7 47 (1.79%) Oracle Database
8 39 (1.48%) Tableau
9 38 (1.44%) Data Lake
10 36 (1.37%) MongoDB
11 30 (1.14%) Big Data
12 24 (0.91%) Db2
13 21 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 20 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
14 20 (0.76%) BigQuery
14 20 (0.76%) RDBMS
15 18 (0.68%) Data Vault
16 17 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
17 16 (0.61%) NoSQL
17 16 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 263 (9.99%) JIRA
2 110 (4.18%) Git
3 105 (3.99%) Jenkins
4 63 (2.39%) GitLab
5 36 (1.37%) JUnit
6 27 (1.03%) Selenium
7 23 (0.87%) Cucumber
8 19 (0.72%) Bitbucket
9 18 (0.68%) TeamCity
10 16 (0.61%) ERwin
10 16 (0.61%) Fiddler
11 15 (0.57%) ER Studio
11 15 (0.57%) Mockito
11 15 (0.57%) REST Assured
11 15 (0.57%) SonarQube
11 15 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
12 14 (0.53%) Gradle
12 14 (0.53%) Maven
12 14 (0.53%) Postman
13 12 (0.46%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,680 (63.81%) Finance
2 696 (26.43%) Social Skills
3 532 (20.21%) Investment Banking
4 380 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
5 230 (8.74%) Front Office
6 134 (5.09%) Financial Institution
7 114 (4.33%) Retail Banking
8 110 (4.18%) Retail
9 91 (3.46%) Corporate Banking
10 83 (3.15%) Legal
11 63 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
12 61 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
13 55 (2.09%) Private Banking
14 48 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
15 43 (1.63%) Public Sector
16 36 (1.37%) Back Office
17 31 (1.18%) Marketing
18 26 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
19 24 (0.91%) General Ledger
20 22 (0.84%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 449 (17.05%) Developer
2 389 (14.77%) Analyst
3 341 (12.95%) Senior
4 302 (11.47%) Architect
5 243 (9.23%) Business Analyst
6 241 (9.15%) Lead
7 151 (5.73%) Java Developer
8 116 (4.41%) Project Manager
9 109 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
10 104 (3.95%) Senior Developer
11 100 (3.80%) Data Engineer
12 89 (3.38%) Consultant
13 83 (3.15%) Banking Analyst
14 66 (2.51%) Software Engineer
15 62 (2.35%) Data Analyst
15 62 (2.35%) Network Engineer
16 59 (2.24%) Senior Java Developer
17 55 (2.09%) Designer
18 52 (1.97%) C# Developer
19 48 (1.82%) Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (5.43%) React
2 123 (4.67%) .NET
3 121 (4.60%) Kafka
4 102 (3.87%) REST
5 92 (3.49%) Middleware
6 88 (3.34%) Spring
7 75 (2.85%) Spring Boot
8 55 (2.09%) Redux
9 54 (2.05%) RESTful
10 45 (1.71%) HTML
11 42 (1.60%) CSS
12 39 (1.48%) FIX Protocol
12 39 (1.48%) PySpark
13 36 (1.37%) OAuth
14 35 (1.33%) AngularJS
14 35 (1.33%) JSON
15 27 (1.03%) LangChain
15 27 (1.03%) Node.js
16 26 (0.99%) OAuth2
16 26 (0.99%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 196 (7.44%) Product Ownership
2 157 (5.96%) Onboarding
3 151 (5.73%) Cloud Native
4 132 (5.01%) Derivative
5 125 (4.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 97 (3.68%) Fixed Income
7 87 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
8 81 (3.08%) Equities
9 79 (3.00%) Management Information System
10 74 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
11 73 (2.77%) Data Structures
12 58 (2.20%) AI Agents
12 58 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
13 53 (2.01%) Mainframe
14 52 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
15 49 (1.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 47 (1.79%) Data Centre
17 46 (1.75%) Credit Risk
18 44 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
19 42 (1.60%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 157 (5.96%) Windows
2 138 (5.24%) Linux
3 87 (3.30%) Unix
4 35 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 28 (1.06%) zOS
6 27 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 24 (0.91%) Apple iOS
8 23 (0.87%) Android
9 15 (0.57%) Ubuntu
10 13 (0.49%) Windows 10
11 12 (0.46%) AIX
12 9 (0.34%) Solaris
13 8 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
14 6 (0.23%) HPUX
14 6 (0.23%) SUSE
14 6 (0.23%) VMS
15 5 (0.19%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.19%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 613 (23.28%) Agile
2 547 (20.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 392 (14.89%) CI/CD
4 387 (14.70%) Problem-Solving
5 373 (14.17%) AI
6 335 (12.72%) DevOps
7 318 (12.08%) Migration
8 272 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 266 (10.10%) Analytics
10 232 (8.81%) Data Modelling
11 222 (8.43%) Roadmaps
12 201 (7.63%) Microservices
13 193 (7.33%) Decision-Making
14 188 (7.14%) Software Engineering
15 184 (6.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 181 (6.87%) Validation
17 171 (6.49%) Generative AI
18 169 (6.42%) User Acceptance Testing
19 168 (6.38%) Risk Management
20 165 (6.27%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 434 (16.48%) SQL
2 379 (14.39%) Python
3 344 (13.06%) Java
4 181 (6.87%) C#
5 134 (5.09%) JavaScript
6 108 (4.10%) TypeScript
7 77 (2.92%) PowerShell
8 66 (2.51%) PL/SQL
9 47 (1.79%) Bash
9 47 (1.79%) Shell Script
10 44 (1.67%) Kotlin
11 40 (1.52%) T-SQL
12 31 (1.18%) C++
13 24 (0.91%) VBA
14 21 (0.80%) Korn
15 18 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 13 (0.49%) Scala
17 12 (0.46%) Bicep
17 12 (0.46%) Go
17 12 (0.46%) JCL
Qualifications
1 173 (6.57%) Degree
2 123 (4.67%) Security Cleared
3 89 (3.38%) SC Cleared
4 53 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (1.75%) PMP
6 40 (1.52%) PMI Certification
7 35 (1.33%) CISSP
8 28 (1.06%) Azure Certification
8 28 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (0.91%) Master's Degree
11 22 (0.84%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.65%) CISM
13 14 (0.53%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 10 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
16 9 (0.34%) ACCA
16 9 (0.34%) CCNA
16 9 (0.34%) CCSP
17 8 (0.30%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (5.55%) Data Quality
2 133 (5.05%) QA
3 59 (2.24%) PMO
4 45 (1.71%) ISO 20022
5 41 (1.56%) GDPR
6 37 (1.41%) NIST
7 34 (1.29%) GRC
8 32 (1.22%) SEPA
9 31 (1.18%) SLA
10 27 (1.03%) Accessibility
10 27 (1.03%) PSD2
11 26 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 21 (0.80%) MiFID
13 17 (0.65%) PCI DSS
14 15 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.38%) COREP
15 10 (0.38%) EMIR
15 10 (0.38%) IFRS
16 8 (0.30%) FINREP
17 7 (0.27%) Basel III
System Software
1 115 (4.37%) Docker
2 65 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.72%) RACF
5 17 (0.65%) vSphere
6 16 (0.61%) Firmware
6 16 (0.61%) NFS
7 15 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.23%) Varnish
9 5 (0.19%) Postfix
10 4 (0.15%) ACF2
10 4 (0.15%) Sendmail
10 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.15%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.11%) SRDF
11 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.11%) XenApp
12 2 (0.076%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.076%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 169 (6.42%) Kubernetes
2 92 (3.49%) Terraform
3 83 (3.15%) Ansible
4 32 (1.22%) Prometheus
5 30 (1.14%) Grafana
6 21 (0.80%) SCCM
7 20 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (0.57%) Control-M
9 15 (0.57%) OMEGAMON
10 13 (0.49%) Argo
11 12 (0.46%) Istio
12 9 (0.34%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
14 6 (0.23%) Puppet
14 6 (0.23%) SnapMirror
14 6 (0.23%) WSUS
15 5 (0.19%) NetBackup
15 5 (0.19%) RSA Archer
15 5 (0.19%) vRealize
Vendors
1 294 (11.17%) Microsoft
2 198 (7.52%) Oracle
3 94 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 81 (3.08%) IBM
5 75 (2.85%) Databricks
6 64 (2.43%) Cisco
7 59 (2.24%) Google
8 50 (1.90%) SAP
9 49 (1.86%) F5
10 48 (1.82%) VMware
11 45 (1.71%) Citrix
11 45 (1.71%) Salesforce
11 45 (1.71%) Splunk
12 32 (1.22%) CyberArk
12 32 (1.22%) Murex
13 31 (1.18%) OpenAI
14 27 (1.03%) NetApp
15 25 (0.95%) Avaloq
15 25 (0.95%) Fortinet
15 25 (0.95%) Red Hat