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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 24 25
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,275 1,902 2,304
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.59% 7.80% 6.21%
As % of the General category 10.22% 12.16% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,362 1,263 1,691
10th Percentile £372 £360 £380
25th Percentile £440 £455 £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 £872 £863
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £614
% change year-on-year -12.50% -2.28% -5.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 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 £95.00 £24.66 £27.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £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 22,261 15,638 21,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.67% 64.15% 58.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,821 10,155 13,947
10th Percentile £305 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £412 £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 1,463 667 1,789
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.19 £17.19 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.15 £27.76 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.61% -8.98% -5.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 £56.58 £51.91
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.01
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +5.45% -8.33% -7.96%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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% 422
North of England +3 484 £468 +4.00% 71
North West +13 268 £447 +4.56% 36
Yorkshire -2 212 £500 - 30
Midlands -1 184 £475 -1.55% 46
West Midlands +18 129 £550 -0.90% 25
East Midlands -15 55 £455 +13.75% 21
South East -29 40 £505 -12.17% 90
South West -33 35 £500 -6.98% 15
East of England -30 13 £600 - 9
North East -9 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 (7.34%) Confluence
2 50 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.05%) SAS
4 17 (0.75%) Apache Spark
4 17 (0.75%) IIS
5 13 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (0.53%) Apache
6 12 (0.53%) CICS
7 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.22%) Ethereum
9 5 (0.22%) Hyperledger
9 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.18%) CMS
11 3 (0.13%) Camunda
11 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.088%) Appian
12 2 (0.088%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.088%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 133 (5.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (2.77%) Microsoft Office
3 62 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (1.93%) 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 (1.27%) Payment Gateway
2 24 (1.05%) Oracle Payables
3 22 (0.97%) 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 6 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
12 6 (0.26%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 5 (0.22%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 359 (15.78%) Azure
2 314 (13.80%) AWS
3 154 (6.77%) GCP
4 119 (5.23%) Power Platform
5 97 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
6 76 (3.34%) GitHub
7 58 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
8 54 (2.37%) SaaS
9 40 (1.76%) Figma
10 33 (1.45%) Serverless
11 31 (1.36%) OpenShift
12 30 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (1.27%) Entra ID
13 29 (1.27%) Snowflake
14 27 (1.19%) Amazon S3
15 25 (1.10%) OCI
16 24 (1.05%) Power Automate
17 20 (0.88%) Amazon EKS
17 20 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
17 20 (0.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (3.30%) DNS
2 54 (2.37%) VPN
3 50 (2.20%) Firewall
4 42 (1.85%) HTTP
4 42 (1.85%) TCP/IP
5 40 (1.76%) Network Security
6 28 (1.23%) BGP
6 28 (1.23%) Multicast
7 26 (1.14%) DMZ
7 26 (1.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 26 (1.14%) SSL
8 25 (1.10%) BIG-IP
9 24 (1.05%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 23 (1.01%) Wireshark
11 22 (0.97%) FIX Connectivity
12 21 (0.92%) SAN
13 17 (0.75%) NetScaler
14 14 (0.62%) DHCP
15 10 (0.44%) OSPF
15 10 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (4.26%) Power BI
2 94 (4.13%) SQL Server
3 55 (2.42%) Tableau
4 52 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (2.29%) Metadata
5 47 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
6 43 (1.89%) Oracle Database
7 36 (1.58%) Relational Database
8 35 (1.54%) MongoDB
9 28 (1.23%) NoSQL
10 23 (1.01%) Big Data
11 22 (0.97%) DB2
12 21 (0.92%) BigQuery
13 17 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 16 (0.70%) Data Lake
15 14 (0.62%) Pinecone
15 14 (0.62%) Weaviate
16 13 (0.57%) Power Query
17 12 (0.53%) DataStage
18 11 (0.48%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 252 (11.08%) JIRA
2 97 (4.26%) Jenkins
3 85 (3.74%) Git
4 59 (2.59%) GitLab
5 30 (1.32%) JUnit
6 22 (0.97%) Selenium
7 20 (0.88%) Fiddler
8 16 (0.70%) Bitbucket
8 16 (0.70%) Cucumber
9 15 (0.66%) TeamCity
10 14 (0.62%) Maven
10 14 (0.62%) Postman
11 13 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
12 12 (0.53%) REST Assured
12 12 (0.53%) SonarQube
13 11 (0.48%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.44%) Mockito
15 9 (0.40%) Gradle
16 8 (0.35%) Appium
16 8 (0.35%) MLflow
General
1 1,412 (62.07%) Finance
2 649 (28.53%) Social Skills
3 455 (20.00%) Investment Banking
4 328 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
5 182 (8.00%) Front Office
6 111 (4.88%) Financial Institution
7 96 (4.22%) Retail Banking
8 81 (3.56%) Corporate Banking
9 77 (3.38%) Retail
10 72 (3.16%) Legal
11 61 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
12 54 (2.37%) Public Sector
13 39 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
15 34 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
16 27 (1.19%) Marketing
17 26 (1.14%) General Ledger
18 22 (0.97%) Back Office
19 20 (0.88%) Private Banking
20 18 (0.79%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 377 (16.57%) Analyst
1 377 (16.57%) Developer
2 294 (12.92%) Senior
3 268 (11.78%) Architect
4 261 (11.47%) Business Analyst
5 165 (7.25%) Lead
6 127 (5.58%) Solutions Architect
7 109 (4.79%) Project Manager
8 106 (4.66%) Java Developer
9 93 (4.09%) Banking Analyst
10 88 (3.87%) Senior Developer
11 80 (3.52%) Data Engineer
12 76 (3.34%) Consultant
13 62 (2.73%) Banking Business Analyst
14 59 (2.59%) Payments Architect
15 57 (2.51%) Network Engineer
16 53 (2.33%) Designer
16 53 (2.33%) Payments Solutions Architect
17 47 (2.07%) C# Developer
18 43 (1.89%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (4.92%) .NET
2 110 (4.84%) Kafka
3 91 (4.00%) React
4 77 (3.38%) Middleware
5 73 (3.21%) Spring
6 72 (3.16%) REST
7 63 (2.77%) HTML
7 63 (2.77%) Spring Boot
8 58 (2.55%) RESTful
9 48 (2.11%) CSS
10 42 (1.85%) OAuth
11 40 (1.76%) AngularJS
12 37 (1.63%) JSON
12 37 (1.63%) XML
13 33 (1.45%) FIX Protocol
14 31 (1.36%) OAuth2
15 26 (1.14%) Node.js
16 25 (1.10%) HTML5
17 24 (1.05%) Redux
18 23 (1.01%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 154 (6.77%) Product Ownership
2 118 (5.19%) Derivative
3 104 (4.57%) Onboarding
4 101 (4.44%) Management Information System
5 99 (4.35%) Cloud Native
6 87 (3.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 77 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
8 70 (3.08%) Fixed Income
9 62 (2.73%) Data Structures
10 59 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
11 58 (2.55%) Equities
12 48 (2.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 46 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
14 43 (1.89%) Data Centre
15 42 (1.85%) Market Risk
16 41 (1.80%) Credit Risk
17 40 (1.76%) Mainframe
18 33 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
19 30 (1.32%) AI Agents
19 30 (1.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 140 (6.15%) Windows
2 98 (4.31%) Linux
3 69 (3.03%) Unix
4 34 (1.49%) Windows 10
5 26 (1.14%) Android
6 23 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 23 (1.01%) zOS
7 22 (0.97%) Windows Server
8 17 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.48%) AIX
9 11 (0.48%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.31%) VMS
11 6 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
11 6 (0.26%) Solaris
11 6 (0.26%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
12 5 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.18%) HPUX
13 4 (0.18%) SUSE
14 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 557 (24.48%) Agile
2 411 (18.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 359 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
4 304 (13.36%) CI/CD
5 296 (13.01%) DevOps
6 249 (10.95%) Migration
7 248 (10.90%) AI
8 196 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 193 (8.48%) Analytics
10 185 (8.13%) Decision-Making
11 184 (8.09%) Roadmaps
12 180 (7.91%) Data Modelling
13 173 (7.60%) Risk Management
13 173 (7.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 169 (7.43%) Validation
15 168 (7.38%) Microservices
16 157 (6.90%) User Acceptance Testing
17 146 (6.42%) Test Automation
18 145 (6.37%) Data Analysis
19 143 (6.29%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 379 (16.66%) SQL
2 320 (14.07%) Python
3 290 (12.75%) Java
4 144 (6.33%) C#
5 105 (4.62%) JavaScript
6 72 (3.16%) TypeScript
7 57 (2.51%) PowerShell
8 45 (1.98%) PL/SQL
9 34 (1.49%) Shell Script
10 30 (1.32%) T-SQL
11 27 (1.19%) VBA
12 25 (1.10%) Bash
12 25 (1.10%) Go
13 23 (1.01%) Kotlin
14 19 (0.84%) C++
14 19 (0.84%) COBOL
15 18 (0.79%) Korn
16 16 (0.70%) JCL
17 14 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 14 (0.62%) Scala
Qualifications
1 202 (8.88%) Degree
2 109 (4.79%) 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 (2.37%) PMI Certification
8 40 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 36 (1.58%) CISSP
10 28 (1.23%) 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
16 9 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 9 (0.40%) ACCA
16 9 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (5.71%) QA
2 121 (5.32%) Data Quality
3 56 (2.46%) GDPR
4 51 (2.24%) ISO 20022
5 49 (2.15%) PMO
6 37 (1.63%) PSD2
7 36 (1.58%) SLA
8 34 (1.49%) NIST
9 33 (1.45%) SEPA
10 32 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 30 (1.32%) PCI DSS
12 27 (1.19%) GRC
13 24 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 20 (0.88%) Accessibility
14 20 (0.88%) MiFID
15 19 (0.84%) Basel III
16 15 (0.66%) ISO 8583
17 12 (0.53%) IFRS
18 8 (0.35%) EMIR
19 7 (0.31%) COREP
System Software
1 125 (5.49%) Docker
2 45 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 40 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.88%) Firmware
5 15 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (0.62%) NFS
7 13 (0.57%) vSphere
8 10 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.26%) RACF
10 5 (0.22%) Varnish
10 5 (0.22%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.18%) Postfix
11 4 (0.18%) Sendmail
11 4 (0.18%) XenApp
12 3 (0.13%) ACF2
12 3 (0.13%) SRDF
12 3 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
12 3 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
13 2 (0.088%) GPFS
13 2 (0.088%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 167 (7.34%) Kubernetes
2 85 (3.74%) Terraform
3 64 (2.81%) Ansible
4 33 (1.45%) Grafana
5 26 (1.14%) SCCM
6 24 (1.05%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.79%) Argo
7 18 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (0.44%) Control-M
8 10 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.35%) Puppet
10 7 (0.31%) Istio
10 7 (0.31%) WSUS
11 6 (0.26%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.26%) SnapMirror
12 5 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
12 5 (0.22%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.18%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.18%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 276 (12.13%) Microsoft
2 166 (7.30%) Oracle
3 81 (3.56%) ServiceNow
4 65 (2.86%) Google
5 60 (2.64%) Cisco
5 60 (2.64%) IBM
6 55 (2.42%) F5
6 55 (2.42%) SAP
7 49 (2.15%) Citrix
7 49 (2.15%) VMware
8 46 (2.02%) Splunk
9 31 (1.36%) Databricks
10 30 (1.32%) Temenos
11 28 (1.23%) Murex
12 27 (1.19%) Bloomberg
12 27 (1.19%) NetApp
13 26 (1.14%) HP
13 26 (1.14%) Pega
13 26 (1.14%) Remedy
14 24 (1.05%) Avaloq