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 27 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,102 2,170 2,564
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.61% 7.61% 6.94%
As % of the General category 10.79% 12.33% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,321 1,404 1,789
10th Percentile £359 £383 £400
25th Percentile £438 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +1.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £750
90th Percentile £813 £842 £850
UK median daily rate £545 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -9.17% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 11 19
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.22 £14.18
25th Percentile - £18.76 £16.30
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +20.38% -11.90%
75th Percentile £25.43 £47.63 £30.00
90th Percentile £55.45 £78.75 £57.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £24.17 £18.72
% change year-on-year +4.08% +29.12% -10.88%

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 common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 19,476 17,602 21,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 61.26% 61.71% 59.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,325 10,663 14,818
10th Percentile £282 £300 £280
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £626 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,249 610 1,034
10th Percentile £14.22 £15.62 £14.20
25th Percentile £16.96 £18.42 £16.64
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -9.09% +32.00%
75th Percentile £46.00 £58.20 £59.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.85 £70.37
UK median hourly rate £23.58 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.27% -15.38% +30.00%

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025. 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 -5 1,471 £600 -4.38% 656
North of England +3 413 £465 -7.00% 145
Yorkshire +2 229 £497 -12.12% 62
North West +5 193 £452 +1.63% 79
Midlands +15 162 £492 -10.55% 86
West Midlands +18 104 £539 -12.75% 54
East Midlands +11 61 £415 +0.91% 26
South East -18 49 £425 -19.05% 203
South West +3 35 £525 -12.50% 53
East of England -13 12 £400 -46.67% 50
North East -4 5 £400 - 4
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
1 127 (6.04%) Confluence
2 54 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.43%) Apache
4 28 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.86%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.76%) CMS
7 14 (0.67%) CICS
8 11 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.43%) IIS
10 8 (0.38%) MQSeries
10 8 (0.38%) Mule
11 7 (0.33%) HCL Notes
12 6 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.29%) SAS
13 5 (0.24%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.19%) Anypoint
14 4 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 4 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
15 3 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 122 (5.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
3 59 (2.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (2.00%) MS Visio
5 22 (1.05%) Chatbot
6 21 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 6 (0.29%) Adobe Captivate
8 6 (0.29%) Sketch
9 3 (0.14%) InVision
9 3 (0.14%) Notion
9 3 (0.14%) Trello
10 2 (0.095%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.048%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 21 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 21 (1.00%) Oracle Payables
1 21 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
2 17 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
4 11 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
5 10 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.48%) Temenos T24
6 9 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
6 9 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
7 8 (0.38%) Aladdin
7 8 (0.38%) Fidessa
7 8 (0.38%) VisionPLUS
8 7 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
8 7 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
9 6 (0.29%) Oracle FAH
9 6 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle E-Business Tax
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 339 (16.13%) Azure
2 329 (15.65%) AWS
3 181 (8.61%) GCP
4 152 (7.23%) Power Platform
5 84 (4.00%) GitHub
6 82 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
7 70 (3.33%) Serverless
8 54 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
9 52 (2.47%) Figma
10 39 (1.86%) PowerApps
10 39 (1.86%) SaaS
11 38 (1.81%) GitHub Actions
12 36 (1.71%) Snowflake
13 32 (1.52%) Entra ID
14 31 (1.47%) Power Automate
15 26 (1.24%) Microsoft Copilot
16 24 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
17 23 (1.09%) dbt
18 22 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
18 22 (1.05%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 51 (2.43%) DNS
2 50 (2.38%) Firewall
3 35 (1.67%) Network Security
4 28 (1.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 28 (1.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 27 (1.28%) HTTP
5 27 (1.28%) TCP/IP
5 27 (1.28%) Wireless
6 23 (1.09%) DMZ
7 19 (0.90%) SSL
7 19 (0.90%) VPN
8 16 (0.76%) Wireshark
9 15 (0.71%) BIG-IP
10 14 (0.67%) Multicast
11 13 (0.62%) DHCP
11 13 (0.62%) NetScaler
12 11 (0.52%) BGP
13 9 (0.43%) Internet
13 9 (0.43%) LAN
14 8 (0.38%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (6.04%) Power BI
2 91 (4.33%) SQL Server
3 81 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
4 71 (3.38%) NoSQL
5 65 (3.09%) Tableau
6 51 (2.43%) MongoDB
7 42 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
8 40 (1.90%) Relational Database
9 37 (1.76%) Oracle Database
10 32 (1.52%) Data Lake
11 31 (1.47%) Metadata
12 24 (1.14%) DB2
13 23 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
14 22 (1.05%) Apache Arrow
14 22 (1.05%) Apache Iceberg
14 22 (1.05%) Apache Ignite
14 22 (1.05%) Big Data
14 22 (1.05%) Dremio
15 20 (0.95%) Power Query
16 17 (0.81%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 215 (10.23%) JIRA
2 155 (7.37%) Jenkins
3 109 (5.19%) Git
4 85 (4.04%) GitLab
5 39 (1.86%) JUnit
6 34 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
7 33 (1.57%) Selenium
8 29 (1.38%) Bitbucket
9 26 (1.24%) Liquibase
10 25 (1.19%) Cucumber
11 21 (1.00%) Maven
11 21 (1.00%) SonarQube
12 19 (0.90%) Postman
13 18 (0.86%) REST Assured
14 16 (0.76%) TeamCity
15 15 (0.71%) Gradle
16 14 (0.67%) Fiddler
17 12 (0.57%) Cypress.io
17 12 (0.57%) webpack
18 10 (0.48%) SoapUI
General
1 1,354 (64.41%) Finance
2 769 (36.58%) Social Skills
3 452 (21.50%) Investment Banking
4 286 (13.61%) Analytical Skills
5 188 (8.94%) Front Office
6 135 (6.42%) Financial Institution
7 67 (3.19%) Retail Banking
8 52 (2.47%) Legal
9 51 (2.43%) Retail
10 46 (2.19%) Corporate Banking
11 44 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
12 37 (1.76%) Back Office
12 37 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
13 33 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
13 33 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
14 31 (1.47%) Public Sector
15 25 (1.19%) General Ledger
15 25 (1.19%) International Banking
16 24 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 22 (1.05%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 411 (19.55%) Developer
2 346 (16.46%) Analyst
3 276 (13.13%) Senior
4 229 (10.89%) Business Analyst
5 178 (8.47%) Architect
6 132 (6.28%) Project Manager
7 112 (5.33%) Java Developer
8 111 (5.28%) Lead
9 87 (4.14%) Senior Developer
10 79 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
11 66 (3.14%) Consultant
12 61 (2.90%) Banking Analyst
12 61 (2.90%) Software Engineer
13 56 (2.66%) Designer
13 56 (2.66%) DevOps Engineer
14 51 (2.43%) Python Engineer
15 48 (2.28%) AWS Engineer
15 48 (2.28%) Senior Java Developer
16 46 (2.19%) Data Analyst
17 42 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (5.80%) Kafka
2 113 (5.38%) REST
3 103 (4.90%) .NET
4 86 (4.09%) Spring
5 81 (3.85%) RESTful
6 73 (3.47%) Spring Boot
7 72 (3.43%) React
8 62 (2.95%) Pandas
9 59 (2.81%) HTML
10 56 (2.66%) NumPy
11 53 (2.52%) AngularJS
12 45 (2.14%) CSS
13 42 (2.00%) Middleware
13 42 (2.00%) XML
14 39 (1.86%) SciPy
15 37 (1.76%) Elastic Stack
16 35 (1.67%) Node.js
17 30 (1.43%) FIX Protocol
17 30 (1.43%) JSON
18 29 (1.38%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 142 (6.76%) Derivative
2 133 (6.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 117 (5.57%) Onboarding
4 113 (5.38%) Product Ownership
5 108 (5.14%) Cloud Native
6 86 (4.09%) Equities
7 84 (4.00%) Management Information System
8 83 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
9 76 (3.62%) Fixed Income
10 70 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
11 65 (3.09%) Hedge funds
12 60 (2.85%) Data Centre
13 51 (2.43%) Mobile App
14 48 (2.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 44 (2.09%) Public Cloud
16 41 (1.95%) Data Structures
17 38 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
18 33 (1.57%) Market Risk
19 30 (1.43%) Credit Risk
20 28 (1.33%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 145 (6.90%) Linux
2 113 (5.38%) Windows
3 46 (2.19%) Unix
4 43 (2.05%) Android
5 28 (1.33%) Windows 10
6 23 (1.09%) Mac OS
7 22 (1.05%) Apple iOS
8 20 (0.95%) Windows Server
9 8 (0.38%) zOS
10 4 (0.19%) AIX
10 4 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.14%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.048%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.048%) Solaris
12 1 (0.048%) VMS
12 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 586 (27.88%) Agile
2 394 (18.74%) Problem-Solving
3 333 (15.84%) DevOps
4 316 (15.03%) CI/CD
5 314 (14.94%) Stakeholder Management
6 210 (9.99%) Analytics
7 198 (9.42%) Microservices
8 175 (8.33%) Risk Management
9 172 (8.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 160 (7.61%) Decision-Making
11 157 (7.47%) Project Management
12 156 (7.42%) Migration
13 150 (7.14%) Change Management
14 145 (6.90%) Business Intelligence
15 144 (6.85%) AI
16 139 (6.61%) Containerisation
17 138 (6.57%) Software Engineering
18 136 (6.47%) Data Modelling
19 135 (6.42%) Roadmaps
20 130 (6.18%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 389 (18.51%) Python
2 385 (18.32%) SQL
3 327 (15.56%) Java
4 147 (6.99%) C#
5 107 (5.09%) JavaScript
6 66 (3.14%) TypeScript
7 61 (2.90%) Go
8 58 (2.76%) PowerShell
9 47 (2.24%) C++
10 33 (1.57%) PL/SQL
11 30 (1.43%) Shell Script
12 27 (1.28%) Bash
13 25 (1.19%) VBA
14 20 (0.95%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.86%) COBOL
16 16 (0.76%) Rust
17 15 (0.71%) Scala
17 15 (0.71%) T-SQL
18 13 (0.62%) R
19 12 (0.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 255 (12.13%) Degree
2 93 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 86 (4.09%) Security Cleared
4 74 (3.52%) Master's Degree
5 55 (2.62%) PMI Certification
6 51 (2.43%) PMP
7 39 (1.86%) SC Cleared
8 30 (1.43%) CISSP
9 29 (1.38%) AWS Certification
10 27 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (1.19%) Azure Certification
12 18 (0.86%) DV Cleared
13 15 (0.71%) CISM
14 14 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.57%) BC Cleared
15 12 (0.57%) CBAP
16 11 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 11 (0.52%) ISTQB
17 10 (0.48%) MBA
17 10 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (6.66%) QA
2 77 (3.66%) Data Quality
3 55 (2.62%) GDPR
4 47 (2.24%) ISO 20022
4 47 (2.24%) PMO
5 37 (1.76%) Accessibility
6 31 (1.47%) SLA
7 28 (1.33%) SEPA
8 27 (1.28%) MiFID
8 27 (1.28%) NIST
8 27 (1.28%) PSD2
9 23 (1.09%) Basel III
9 23 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 23 (1.09%) PCI DSS
10 22 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 21 (1.00%) GRC
12 17 (0.81%) EMIR
13 13 (0.62%) IFRS
14 10 (0.48%) ISO 8583
15 8 (0.38%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 183 (8.71%) Docker
2 44 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (1.47%) Active Directory
4 18 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.71%) Firmware
6 6 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.14%) RACF
9 3 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
9 3 (0.14%) vSphere
10 2 (0.095%) ACF2
10 2 (0.095%) GridGain
10 2 (0.095%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.095%) NFS
10 2 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.048%) KVM
11 1 (0.048%) SRDF
11 1 (0.048%) XenApp
11 1 (0.048%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 211 (10.04%) Kubernetes
2 119 (5.66%) Terraform
3 83 (3.95%) Ansible
4 56 (2.66%) Grafana
5 49 (2.33%) Prometheus
6 17 (0.81%) SCCM
7 14 (0.67%) Argo
8 11 (0.52%) Control-M
8 11 (0.52%) ITRS Geneos
9 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.43%) NetBackup
10 8 (0.38%) CA Endevor
10 8 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
11 7 (0.33%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.29%) RSA Archer
13 5 (0.24%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 4 (0.19%) Data Guard
14 4 (0.19%) Kibana
14 4 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 240 (11.42%) Microsoft
2 142 (6.76%) Oracle
3 93 (4.42%) Google
4 67 (3.19%) Splunk
5 50 (2.38%) ServiceNow
5 50 (2.38%) VMware
6 47 (2.24%) IBM
7 42 (2.00%) Cisco
8 38 (1.81%) F5
9 37 (1.76%) SAP
10 33 (1.57%) HP
11 31 (1.47%) Dell
12 30 (1.43%) Salesforce
13 29 (1.38%) Apple
13 29 (1.38%) Citrix
14 28 (1.33%) CyberArk
14 28 (1.33%) Databricks
15 27 (1.28%) Bloomberg
15 27 (1.28%) Dynatrace
16 26 (1.24%) Remedy