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 5 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 24 24
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,292 1,898 2,333
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.92% 7.79% 6.21%
As % of the General category 10.45% 12.23% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,385 1,268 1,671
10th Percentile £370 £360 £380
25th Percentile £438 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% -4.21%
75th Percentile £668 £750 £750
90th Percentile £775 £852 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £618
% change year-on-year -12.50% -2.83% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 19 26
10th Percentile £17.00 £15.24 £12.42
25th Percentile £18.65 £18.31 £17.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +14.21% -7.14%
75th Percentile £57.10 £24.66 £30.00
90th Percentile £96.63 £82.00 £78.38
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £23.23 £19.50
% change year-on-year +8.29% +19.10% -7.14%

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 21,923 15,520 21,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.59% 63.70% 58.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,818 10,111 14,221
10th Percentile £303 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -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 1,376 629 1,714
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.42 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.13 £15.29
Median hourly rate £26.80 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.80% +7.67% -22.86%
75th Percentile £61.18 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £29.00 £26.37
% change year-on-year -11.14% +9.97% -24.66%

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 5 April 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 5 April 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 5 April 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 1,567 £575 -9.80% 331
North of England +7 488 £475 +5.56% 73
North West +14 266 £447 +11.75% 41
Yorkshire -3 222 £500 -7.41% 25
Midlands +15 183 £491 -10.73% 41
West Midlands +20 128 £540 -2.70% 22
East Midlands -11 55 £436 +8.91% 19
South East -30 49 £475 -15.56% 94
South West -20 33 £525 -11.76% 9
East of England -29 11 £400 -33.33% 13
North East -8 8 £400 - 7
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
1 180 (7.85%) Confluence
2 54 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 20 (0.87%) SAS
5 14 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.57%) Apache
6 13 (0.57%) IIS
7 11 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.44%) CICS
9 7 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.31%) CMS
10 6 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.22%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.22%) Hyperledger
12 3 (0.13%) Camunda
12 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.087%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.087%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.087%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.087%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 152 (6.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 79 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 66 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
4 46 (2.01%) MS Visio
5 29 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.74%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.13%) Notion
7 3 (0.13%) Trello
8 2 (0.087%) Adobe Captivate
8 2 (0.087%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.087%) InVision
8 2 (0.087%) Sketch
8 2 (0.087%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.044%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 31 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.09%) Oracle Payables
3 20 (0.87%) Oracle Receivables
3 20 (0.87%) Temenos T24
4 19 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
4 19 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
5 17 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 15 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
6 15 (0.65%) Loan IQ
7 10 (0.44%) Actimize
7 10 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
7 10 (0.44%) SAP FI
8 9 (0.39%) Finacle
9 8 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 8 (0.35%) SAP CO
9 8 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
10 7 (0.31%) Aladdin
10 7 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
10 7 (0.31%) Summit
11 5 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 358 (15.62%) Azure
2 325 (14.18%) AWS
3 162 (7.07%) GCP
4 140 (6.11%) Power Platform
5 96 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
6 86 (3.75%) GitHub
7 61 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
8 56 (2.44%) Serverless
9 53 (2.31%) SaaS
10 45 (1.96%) Figma
11 33 (1.44%) Entra ID
11 33 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
12 31 (1.35%) Amazon S3
12 31 (1.35%) OpenShift
13 27 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
13 27 (1.18%) OCI
13 27 (1.18%) Power Automate
14 26 (1.13%) Snowflake
15 25 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
15 25 (1.09%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 72 (3.14%) DNS
2 49 (2.14%) Firewall
3 44 (1.92%) VPN
4 39 (1.70%) HTTP
4 39 (1.70%) TCP/IP
5 34 (1.48%) Network Security
6 29 (1.27%) Multicast
7 27 (1.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 26 (1.13%) BGP
9 25 (1.09%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 24 (1.05%) BIG-IP
10 24 (1.05%) DMZ
10 24 (1.05%) SSL
11 21 (0.92%) SAN
12 20 (0.87%) Wireshark
13 19 (0.83%) NetScaler
14 18 (0.79%) FIX Connectivity
15 16 (0.70%) DHCP
16 13 (0.57%) Internet
16 13 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (4.80%) Power BI
2 102 (4.45%) SQL Server
3 70 (3.05%) Tableau
4 67 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
5 57 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
6 49 (2.14%) NoSQL
7 48 (2.09%) Metadata
8 41 (1.79%) Oracle Database
9 38 (1.66%) MongoDB
10 35 (1.53%) Relational Database
11 29 (1.27%) Big Data
12 22 (0.96%) BigQuery
13 18 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 16 (0.70%) DB2
14 16 (0.70%) Hadoop
15 15 (0.65%) Data Lake
16 14 (0.61%) Power Query
17 13 (0.57%) KDB
18 12 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
19 11 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 260 (11.34%) JIRA
2 123 (5.37%) Jenkins
3 93 (4.06%) Git
4 84 (3.66%) GitLab
5 27 (1.18%) JUnit
6 24 (1.05%) Selenium
7 22 (0.96%) Bitbucket
8 21 (0.92%) Cucumber
9 20 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
10 19 (0.83%) Fiddler
11 18 (0.79%) Postman
12 15 (0.65%) REST Assured
13 14 (0.61%) TeamCity
14 13 (0.57%) Maven
15 12 (0.52%) Liquibase
16 10 (0.44%) Cypress.io
17 9 (0.39%) Gradle
17 9 (0.39%) Mockito
18 8 (0.35%) SonarQube
19 7 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,444 (63.00%) Finance
2 715 (31.20%) Social Skills
3 455 (19.85%) Investment Banking
4 316 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
5 189 (8.25%) Front Office
6 112 (4.89%) Financial Institution
7 91 (3.97%) Retail Banking
8 70 (3.05%) Corporate Banking
8 70 (3.05%) Legal
9 68 (2.97%) Retail
10 64 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
11 53 (2.31%) Public Sector
12 44 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
13 36 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
14 34 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
15 31 (1.35%) Marketing
16 24 (1.05%) Back Office
16 24 (1.05%) General Ledger
17 22 (0.96%) International Banking
18 20 (0.87%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 385 (16.80%) Analyst
2 383 (16.71%) Developer
3 289 (12.61%) Senior
4 268 (11.69%) Business Analyst
5 260 (11.34%) Architect
6 152 (6.63%) Lead
7 127 (5.54%) Solutions Architect
8 122 (5.32%) Project Manager
9 100 (4.36%) Java Developer
10 87 (3.80%) Consultant
11 86 (3.75%) Senior Developer
12 82 (3.58%) Banking Analyst
13 71 (3.10%) Data Engineer
14 59 (2.57%) Banking Business Analyst
15 55 (2.40%) Payments Architect
16 54 (2.36%) Designer
17 53 (2.31%) Network Engineer
18 52 (2.27%) DevOps Engineer
19 49 (2.14%) Payments Solutions Architect
20 47 (2.05%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (5.10%) Kafka
2 111 (4.84%) .NET
3 100 (4.36%) REST
4 82 (3.58%) React
5 69 (3.01%) RESTful
6 67 (2.92%) Spring
7 66 (2.88%) Middleware
8 61 (2.66%) HTML
9 59 (2.57%) Spring Boot
10 45 (1.96%) AngularJS
10 45 (1.96%) CSS
11 42 (1.83%) OAuth
12 40 (1.75%) JSON
13 37 (1.61%) XML
14 35 (1.53%) Pandas
15 31 (1.35%) FIX Protocol
15 31 (1.35%) OAuth2
16 30 (1.31%) NumPy
17 29 (1.27%) Node.js
18 26 (1.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 138 (6.02%) Product Ownership
2 112 (4.89%) Derivative
3 108 (4.71%) Onboarding
4 101 (4.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 94 (4.10%) Management Information System
6 91 (3.97%) Cloud Native
7 75 (3.27%) Fixed Income
8 74 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
9 68 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
10 66 (2.88%) Equities
11 52 (2.27%) Data Structures
12 45 (1.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 43 (1.88%) Public Cloud
14 40 (1.75%) Data Centre
15 39 (1.70%) Market Risk
16 38 (1.66%) Credit Risk
17 37 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
18 31 (1.35%) Mainframe
19 30 (1.31%) Mobile App
20 29 (1.27%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 142 (6.20%) Windows
2 117 (5.10%) Linux
3 61 (2.66%) Unix
4 36 (1.57%) Windows 10
5 32 (1.40%) Android
6 25 (1.09%) Apple iOS
7 21 (0.92%) Windows Server
8 16 (0.70%) zOS
9 13 (0.57%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.31%) VMS
11 6 (0.26%) AIX
12 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
12 5 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
13 4 (0.17%) Windows 7
13 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.13%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.087%) Solaris
16 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 568 (24.78%) Agile
2 412 (17.98%) Stakeholder Management
3 382 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 331 (14.44%) DevOps
5 329 (14.35%) CI/CD
6 244 (10.65%) Migration
7 226 (9.86%) AI
8 209 (9.12%) Analytics
9 187 (8.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 178 (7.77%) Microservices
11 176 (7.68%) Data Modelling
12 172 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 172 (7.50%) Decision-Making
13 170 (7.42%) Risk Management
14 167 (7.29%) Roadmaps
15 164 (7.16%) Project Management
16 158 (6.89%) Data Analysis
17 152 (6.63%) User Acceptance Testing
17 152 (6.63%) Validation
18 148 (6.46%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 403 (17.58%) SQL
2 369 (16.10%) Python
3 290 (12.65%) Java
4 145 (6.33%) C#
5 99 (4.32%) JavaScript
6 65 (2.84%) TypeScript
7 64 (2.79%) PowerShell
8 45 (1.96%) Go
9 39 (1.70%) PL/SQL
10 35 (1.53%) VBA
11 34 (1.48%) Shell Script
12 30 (1.31%) Bash
13 25 (1.09%) T-SQL
14 21 (0.92%) C++
15 19 (0.83%) Kotlin
16 18 (0.79%) COBOL
17 13 (0.57%) Korn
17 13 (0.57%) Perl
17 13 (0.57%) Scala
18 11 (0.48%) JCL
Qualifications
1 237 (10.34%) Degree
2 114 (4.97%) Security Cleared
3 78 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 72 (3.14%) Master's Degree
5 69 (3.01%) SC Cleared
6 54 (2.36%) PMI Certification
6 54 (2.36%) PMP
7 45 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (1.35%) CISSP
9 26 (1.13%) Azure Certification
10 18 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
10 18 (0.79%) CISM
11 17 (0.74%) MBA
12 16 (0.70%) AWS Certification
13 15 (0.65%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.52%) CBAP
14 12 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.52%) PhD
15 9 (0.39%) ACCA
15 9 (0.39%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (6.24%) QA
2 110 (4.80%) Data Quality
3 54 (2.36%) ISO 20022
4 52 (2.27%) GDPR
5 43 (1.88%) PMO
6 36 (1.57%) SLA
7 33 (1.44%) NIST
7 33 (1.44%) PCI DSS
7 33 (1.44%) PSD2
8 30 (1.31%) Accessibility
8 30 (1.31%) SEPA
9 29 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 26 (1.13%) GRC
11 25 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 23 (1.00%) MiFID
13 19 (0.83%) Basel III
14 15 (0.65%) ISO 8583
15 13 (0.57%) EMIR
16 12 (0.52%) IFRS
17 7 (0.31%) COBIT
System Software
1 144 (6.28%) Docker
2 47 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (1.88%) Active Directory
4 21 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (0.87%) Firmware
6 13 (0.57%) NFS
6 13 (0.57%) vSphere
7 9 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.22%) RACF
9 4 (0.17%) Varnish
9 4 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.17%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.13%) Postfix
10 3 (0.13%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.13%) SRDF
10 3 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
10 3 (0.13%) XenApp
11 2 (0.087%) ACF2
11 2 (0.087%) GridGain
11 2 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 189 (8.25%) Kubernetes
2 104 (4.54%) Terraform
3 80 (3.49%) Ansible
4 49 (2.14%) Grafana
5 39 (1.70%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.09%) SCCM
7 18 (0.79%) Argo
7 18 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.39%) Control-M
9 9 (0.39%) Puppet
10 8 (0.35%) Istio
11 7 (0.31%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.31%) RSA Archer
12 6 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
12 6 (0.26%) vCenter Server
12 6 (0.26%) WSUS
13 5 (0.22%) SnapMirror
14 4 (0.17%) Karpenter
14 4 (0.17%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 281 (12.26%) Microsoft
2 163 (7.11%) Oracle
3 84 (3.66%) ServiceNow
4 74 (3.23%) Google
5 60 (2.62%) Cisco
6 57 (2.49%) Splunk
6 57 (2.49%) VMware
7 56 (2.44%) SAP
8 53 (2.31%) IBM
9 51 (2.23%) F5
10 49 (2.14%) Citrix
11 31 (1.35%) Bloomberg
12 30 (1.31%) Remedy
12 30 (1.31%) Temenos
13 28 (1.22%) Murex
14 24 (1.05%) HP
14 24 (1.05%) NetApp
15 23 (1.00%) Avaloq
15 23 (1.00%) Pega
15 23 (1.00%) Salesforce