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 23 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,534 2,018 2,467
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.85% 8.08% 6.58%
As % of the General category 10.67% 12.57% 11.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,549 1,386 1,818
10th Percentile £390 £358 £400
25th Percentile £450 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £681 £750 £775
90th Percentile £789 £838 £875
UK median daily rate £540 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -3.53% -6.71% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 22 26
10th Percentile - £15.09 £12.42
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.60 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £24.66 £19.28
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% +27.94% +4.19%
75th Percentile £85.63 £25.15 £27.00
90th Percentile £96.63 £68.25 £85.50
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £22.32 £19.05
% change year-on-year +15.48% +17.14% -0.68%

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 23,749 16,057 21,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.81% 64.28% 57.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,466 10,331 13,650
10th Percentile £313 £281 £287
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,674 784 1,843
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.25 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.86 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.18 £31.97
Median % change year-on-year +15.33% -11.85% +14.26%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £53.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £32.23 £28.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year +15.09% -9.68% +3.33%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 1,773 £577 -11.23% 401
North of England -3 513 £481 +7.63% 61
North West +3 272 £447 +11.12% 43
Yorkshire -8 232 £500 - 15
Midlands -1 192 £515 +22.50% 37
West Midlands +28 138 £575 +4.55% 9
East Midlands -21 53 £465 +19.23% 28
South West -25 36 £515 +3.00% 13
South East -51 36 £550 +4.76% 87
East of England -15 20 £505 -15.83% 10
North East -27 13 £875 +108.33% 3
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
1 179 (7.06%) Confluence
2 53 (2.09%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.10%) SAS
4 19 (0.75%) IIS
5 18 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
7 11 (0.43%) Apache
8 10 (0.39%) Camunda
8 10 (0.39%) CICS
9 8 (0.32%) Appian
9 8 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.28%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.28%) Hyperledger
10 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.16%) WordPress
13 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.079%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.079%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.079%) WebSphere
Applications
1 121 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 54 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
4 39 (1.54%) MS Visio
5 24 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.12%) Sketch
7 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.079%) InVision
8 2 (0.079%) Notion
8 2 (0.079%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 26 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (0.99%) Oracle Payables
2 25 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
3 17 (0.67%) Finacle
3 17 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.67%) Temenos T24
4 16 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 15 (0.59%) Loan IQ
6 10 (0.39%) Aladdin
7 9 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
7 9 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.32%) Actimize
8 8 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
9 7 (0.28%) SAP CO
9 7 (0.28%) SAP FI
9 7 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
9 7 (0.28%) Summit
10 6 (0.24%) Oracle BPM
10 6 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 5 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 391 (15.43%) Azure
2 331 (13.06%) AWS
3 158 (6.24%) GCP
4 136 (5.37%) Power Platform
5 79 (3.12%) GitHub
6 77 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
7 64 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
8 58 (2.29%) SaaS
9 48 (1.89%) Snowflake
10 42 (1.66%) OpenShift
11 36 (1.42%) Entra ID
12 33 (1.30%) Amazon S3
13 29 (1.14%) Figma
13 29 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
14 28 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (1.07%) Serverless
16 25 (0.99%) Power Automate
17 23 (0.91%) OCI
17 23 (0.91%) PowerApps
18 21 (0.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 67 (2.64%) DNS
2 59 (2.33%) Firewall
3 55 (2.17%) VPN
4 51 (2.01%) Network Security
5 38 (1.50%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.22%) HTTP
6 31 (1.22%) Multicast
7 30 (1.18%) BGP
7 30 (1.18%) SSL
8 24 (0.95%) DMZ
8 24 (0.95%) SAN
9 23 (0.91%) BIG-IP
10 22 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 21 (0.83%) FIX Connectivity
12 20 (0.79%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 20 (0.79%) Wireshark
13 15 (0.59%) DHCP
14 12 (0.47%) NetScaler
15 11 (0.43%) Internet
16 10 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (4.62%) SQL Server
2 112 (4.42%) Power BI
3 71 (2.80%) Metadata
4 67 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
5 60 (2.37%) Relational Database
6 51 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
6 51 (2.01%) Tableau
7 47 (1.85%) Oracle Database
8 31 (1.22%) MongoDB
9 29 (1.14%) Big Data
10 26 (1.03%) NoSQL
11 23 (0.91%) Data Lake
12 19 (0.75%) Db2
12 19 (0.75%) RDBMS
13 18 (0.71%) BigQuery
13 18 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 17 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (0.59%) Data Vault
15 15 (0.59%) Power Query
16 14 (0.55%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 275 (10.85%) JIRA
2 104 (4.10%) Jenkins
3 96 (3.79%) Git
4 65 (2.57%) GitLab
5 39 (1.54%) JUnit
6 23 (0.91%) Cucumber
6 23 (0.91%) Selenium
7 19 (0.75%) Bitbucket
7 19 (0.75%) TeamCity
8 18 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
9 17 (0.67%) Fiddler
9 17 (0.67%) Postman
10 14 (0.55%) ERwin
10 14 (0.55%) Mockito
10 14 (0.55%) SonarQube
11 13 (0.51%) ER Studio
11 13 (0.51%) REST Assured
12 11 (0.43%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.39%) Maven
14 9 (0.36%) Gradle
General
1 1,555 (61.37%) Finance
2 666 (26.28%) Social Skills
3 539 (21.27%) Investment Banking
4 328 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
5 223 (8.80%) Front Office
6 120 (4.74%) Financial Institution
7 115 (4.54%) Retail Banking
8 100 (3.95%) Retail
9 88 (3.47%) Corporate Banking
10 86 (3.39%) Legal
11 58 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
12 51 (2.01%) Public Sector
13 50 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
14 42 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
15 34 (1.34%) Private Banking
16 32 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
17 27 (1.07%) Back Office
18 24 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 22 (0.87%) Marketing
20 21 (0.83%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 441 (17.40%) Developer
2 384 (15.15%) Analyst
3 328 (12.94%) Senior
4 294 (11.60%) Architect
5 255 (10.06%) Business Analyst
6 206 (8.13%) Lead
7 152 (6.00%) Java Developer
8 133 (5.25%) Solutions Architect
9 111 (4.38%) Project Manager
10 110 (4.34%) Senior Developer
11 95 (3.75%) Banking Analyst
12 94 (3.71%) Data Engineer
13 81 (3.20%) Consultant
14 69 (2.72%) Senior Java Developer
15 63 (2.49%) Banking Business Analyst
16 61 (2.41%) Payments Architect
17 56 (2.21%) Network Engineer
18 53 (2.09%) C# Developer
18 53 (2.09%) Data Analyst
18 53 (2.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (5.52%) React
2 117 (4.62%) Kafka
3 116 (4.58%) .NET
4 94 (3.71%) Middleware
5 91 (3.59%) Spring
6 90 (3.55%) REST
7 77 (3.04%) Spring Boot
8 67 (2.64%) RESTful
9 55 (2.17%) Redux
10 53 (2.09%) HTML
11 47 (1.85%) CSS
11 47 (1.85%) OAuth
12 40 (1.58%) AngularJS
13 38 (1.50%) FIX Protocol
13 38 (1.50%) JSON
14 36 (1.42%) OAuth2
14 36 (1.42%) XML
15 29 (1.14%) Node.js
16 26 (1.03%) PySpark
17 24 (0.95%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 187 (7.38%) Product Ownership
2 132 (5.21%) Cloud Native
3 127 (5.01%) Derivative
4 126 (4.97%) Onboarding
5 120 (4.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 96 (3.79%) Fixed Income
7 85 (3.35%) Management Information System
8 80 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
9 78 (3.08%) Equities
10 74 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
11 71 (2.80%) Data Structures
12 53 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
13 51 (2.01%) Credit Risk
13 51 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
14 48 (1.89%) Mainframe
14 48 (1.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 44 (1.74%) Data Centre
16 41 (1.62%) Market Risk
17 38 (1.50%) AI Agents
18 37 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 151 (5.96%) Windows
2 127 (5.01%) Linux
3 83 (3.28%) Unix
4 28 (1.10%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.07%) zOS
6 25 (0.99%) Apple iOS
7 24 (0.95%) Android
7 24 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 22 (0.87%) Windows 10
9 12 (0.47%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.43%) AIX
11 8 (0.32%) Solaris
12 7 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
13 6 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
13 6 (0.24%) VMS
14 5 (0.20%) CoreOS
14 5 (0.20%) HPUX
14 5 (0.20%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.20%) SUSE
14 5 (0.20%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 587 (23.16%) Agile
2 473 (18.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 369 (14.56%) CI/CD
4 352 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
5 324 (12.79%) DevOps
6 301 (11.88%) AI
7 300 (11.84%) Migration
8 225 (8.88%) Analytics
9 224 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 216 (8.52%) Data Modelling
11 200 (7.89%) Roadmaps
12 192 (7.58%) Microservices
13 182 (7.18%) Validation
14 180 (7.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 173 (6.83%) User Acceptance Testing
16 168 (6.63%) Decision-Making
17 163 (6.43%) Risk Management
18 160 (6.31%) Test Automation
19 159 (6.27%) Software Engineering
20 153 (6.04%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 409 (16.14%) SQL
2 353 (13.93%) Python
3 344 (13.58%) Java
4 178 (7.02%) C#
5 133 (5.25%) JavaScript
6 112 (4.42%) TypeScript
7 69 (2.72%) PowerShell
8 61 (2.41%) PL/SQL
9 41 (1.62%) Bash
10 40 (1.58%) Shell Script
11 39 (1.54%) T-SQL
12 32 (1.26%) Kotlin
13 25 (0.99%) VBA
14 23 (0.91%) C++
15 21 (0.83%) Go
16 20 (0.79%) Korn
17 17 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 15 (0.59%) Scala
19 12 (0.47%) COBOL
19 12 (0.47%) JCL
Qualifications
1 187 (7.38%) Degree
2 124 (4.89%) Security Cleared
3 86 (3.39%) SC Cleared
4 60 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (1.89%) PMP
6 46 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 42 (1.66%) PMI Certification
8 39 (1.54%) Master's Degree
9 37 (1.46%) CISSP
10 29 (1.14%) Azure Certification
11 25 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (0.71%) AWS Certification
12 18 (0.71%) CISM
13 15 (0.59%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.55%) MBA
15 12 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 11 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
17 10 (0.39%) CISA
18 9 (0.36%) ACCA
18 9 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (5.37%) Data Quality
2 128 (5.05%) QA
3 56 (2.21%) PMO
4 50 (1.97%) ISO 20022
5 45 (1.78%) GDPR
6 37 (1.46%) PSD2
7 33 (1.30%) NIST
7 33 (1.30%) SLA
8 32 (1.26%) SEPA
9 30 (1.18%) GRC
10 28 (1.10%) Accessibility
10 28 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 25 (0.99%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.79%) MiFID
13 19 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.39%) Basel III
14 10 (0.39%) GAAP
14 10 (0.39%) ISO 8583
15 9 (0.36%) EMIR
15 9 (0.36%) IFRS
System Software
1 121 (4.78%) Docker
2 52 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.67%) Firmware
4 17 (0.67%) vSphere
5 16 (0.63%) NFS
6 15 (0.59%) RACF
7 13 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.24%) Varnish
10 5 (0.20%) Postfix
11 4 (0.16%) Sendmail
11 4 (0.16%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.12%) ACF2
12 3 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.12%) SRDF
12 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.12%) XenApp
13 2 (0.079%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.079%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 159 (6.27%) Kubernetes
2 89 (3.51%) Terraform
3 82 (3.24%) Ansible
4 31 (1.22%) Grafana
5 30 (1.18%) Prometheus
6 20 (0.79%) SCCM
7 18 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (0.55%) Argo
9 13 (0.51%) Control-M
10 11 (0.43%) Istio
10 11 (0.43%) OMEGAMON
11 10 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.36%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.28%) Puppet
13 7 (0.28%) WSUS
14 6 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
14 6 (0.24%) SnapMirror
15 5 (0.20%) HAProxy
15 5 (0.20%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.20%) vRealize
Vendors
1 287 (11.33%) Microsoft
2 198 (7.81%) Oracle
3 86 (3.39%) ServiceNow
4 68 (2.68%) IBM
5 63 (2.49%) Google
6 57 (2.25%) Databricks
7 54 (2.13%) Cisco
7 54 (2.13%) SAP
8 50 (1.97%) Citrix
9 49 (1.93%) F5
10 46 (1.82%) Splunk
11 42 (1.66%) VMware
12 34 (1.34%) Salesforce
13 31 (1.22%) Murex
14 28 (1.10%) Avaloq
14 28 (1.10%) Temenos
15 27 (1.07%) Pega
16 26 (1.03%) Bloomberg
16 26 (1.03%) OpenAI
17 24 (0.95%) NetApp