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 25 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,233 1,895 2,343
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.95% 7.81% 6.21%
As % of the General category 10.39% 12.28% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,355 1,257 1,675
10th Percentile £370 £363 £375
25th Percentile £439 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £615
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -2.44% -6.29%
75th Percentile £659 £750 £750
90th Percentile £775 £850 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 15 24
10th Percentile £17.00 £15.23 £12.84
25th Percentile £19.36 £22.27 £18.12
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.66 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% +26.46% -7.14%
75th Percentile £55.22 - £32.63
90th Percentile £95.63 £58.95 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £19.50
% change year-on-year +4.01% +24.00% -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 21,489 15,430 22,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.29% 63.56% 58.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,570 10,055 14,384
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.57% -3.03%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,348 597 1,678
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.96 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £19.00 £15.19
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.78 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.29% +18.38% -25.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £77.88 £76.25 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +15.38% -25.71%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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 1,516 £575 -9.98% 323
North of England +8 482 £475 +5.56% 71
North West +15 269 £447 +11.75% 41
Yorkshire -3 217 £500 -7.41% 24
Midlands +9 183 £490 -10.91% 34
West Midlands +20 128 £575 -1.50% 20
East Midlands -12 55 £436 +8.91% 14
South East -32 47 £468 -18.61% 90
South West -12 36 £525 -11.76% 8
East of England -32 11 £400 -33.33% 12
North East -9 5 £400 - 6
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
1 178 (7.97%) Confluence
2 57 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.07%) Apache Spark
4 18 (0.81%) SAS
5 14 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.58%) Apache
7 12 (0.54%) IIS
8 11 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.40%) CICS
10 7 (0.31%) CMS
11 6 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.22%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.22%) Hyperledger
13 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.090%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.090%) MQSeries
14 2 (0.090%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.090%) WebLogic
14 2 (0.090%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 150 (6.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (3.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 66 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
4 51 (2.28%) MS Visio
5 29 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.72%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
9 3 (0.13%) Notion
9 3 (0.13%) Trello
10 2 (0.090%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.090%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.045%) InVision
11 1 (0.045%) Sketch
11 1 (0.045%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 32 (1.43%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.12%) Oracle Payables
3 20 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
4 19 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
5 18 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
5 18 (0.81%) Temenos T24
6 17 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 15 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
8 13 (0.58%) Loan IQ
9 10 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
9 10 (0.45%) SAP FI
10 9 (0.40%) Actimize
11 8 (0.36%) Finacle
11 8 (0.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 8 (0.36%) SAP CO
11 8 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
12 7 (0.31%) Aladdin
12 7 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
12 7 (0.31%) Summit
13 6 (0.27%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 353 (15.81%) Azure
2 332 (14.87%) AWS
3 165 (7.39%) GCP
4 137 (6.14%) Power Platform
5 93 (4.16%) Microsoft 365
6 87 (3.90%) GitHub
7 61 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
8 58 (2.60%) Serverless
9 47 (2.10%) SaaS
10 44 (1.97%) Figma
11 33 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
12 31 (1.39%) Entra ID
13 30 (1.34%) Amazon S3
14 29 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (1.21%) OCI
16 26 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
16 26 (1.16%) Snowflake
17 25 (1.12%) Power Automate
17 25 (1.12%) PowerApps
18 24 (1.07%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 70 (3.13%) DNS
2 50 (2.24%) Firewall
3 44 (1.97%) VPN
4 38 (1.70%) HTTP
4 38 (1.70%) TCP/IP
5 33 (1.48%) Network Security
6 28 (1.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 27 (1.21%) Multicast
8 26 (1.16%) BGP
8 26 (1.16%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 25 (1.12%) SSL
10 24 (1.07%) DMZ
11 21 (0.94%) BIG-IP
12 20 (0.90%) Wireshark
13 19 (0.85%) NetScaler
13 19 (0.85%) SAN
14 17 (0.76%) FIX Connectivity
15 16 (0.72%) DHCP
15 16 (0.72%) Wireless
16 13 (0.58%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (4.93%) Power BI
2 99 (4.43%) SQL Server
3 70 (3.13%) Tableau
4 68 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
5 56 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
6 53 (2.37%) NoSQL
7 46 (2.06%) Metadata
8 40 (1.79%) Oracle Database
9 38 (1.70%) MongoDB
10 35 (1.57%) Relational Database
11 30 (1.34%) Big Data
12 22 (0.99%) BigQuery
13 18 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 17 (0.76%) Hadoop
15 15 (0.67%) Data Lake
15 15 (0.67%) DB2
16 12 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
16 12 (0.54%) KDB
17 11 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
17 11 (0.49%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 258 (11.55%) JIRA
2 127 (5.69%) Jenkins
3 92 (4.12%) Git
4 90 (4.03%) GitLab
5 28 (1.25%) JUnit
6 24 (1.07%) Bitbucket
6 24 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
7 23 (1.03%) Cucumber
7 23 (1.03%) Selenium
8 19 (0.85%) Fiddler
8 19 (0.85%) Postman
9 15 (0.67%) REST Assured
10 14 (0.63%) Liquibase
10 14 (0.63%) Maven
11 13 (0.58%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.54%) Gradle
13 9 (0.40%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.40%) Mockito
14 7 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
14 7 (0.31%) SonarQube
General
1 1,413 (63.28%) Finance
2 712 (31.89%) Social Skills
3 442 (19.79%) Investment Banking
4 298 (13.35%) Analytical Skills
5 182 (8.15%) Front Office
6 116 (5.19%) Financial Institution
7 88 (3.94%) Retail Banking
8 65 (2.91%) Retail
9 63 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
10 62 (2.78%) Legal
11 61 (2.73%) Corporate Banking
12 55 (2.46%) Public Sector
13 44 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
14 38 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
15 33 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
16 29 (1.30%) Marketing
17 24 (1.07%) General Ledger
18 23 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 21 (0.94%) International Banking
20 20 (0.90%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 385 (17.24%) Developer
2 380 (17.02%) Analyst
3 282 (12.63%) Senior
4 261 (11.69%) Business Analyst
5 253 (11.33%) Architect
6 148 (6.63%) Lead
7 128 (5.73%) Solutions Architect
8 126 (5.64%) Project Manager
9 100 (4.48%) Java Developer
10 87 (3.90%) Senior Developer
11 81 (3.63%) Consultant
12 77 (3.45%) Banking Analyst
13 63 (2.82%) Data Engineer
14 55 (2.46%) Designer
15 54 (2.42%) Banking Business Analyst
16 52 (2.33%) Network Engineer
16 52 (2.33%) Payments Architect
17 51 (2.28%) DevOps Engineer
18 48 (2.15%) Payments Solutions Architect
19 43 (1.93%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (5.24%) Kafka
2 109 (4.88%) .NET
3 103 (4.61%) REST
4 78 (3.49%) React
5 68 (3.05%) Spring
6 66 (2.96%) RESTful
7 61 (2.73%) Middleware
8 60 (2.69%) Spring Boot
9 59 (2.64%) HTML
10 49 (2.19%) AngularJS
11 40 (1.79%) CSS
11 40 (1.79%) OAuth
12 37 (1.66%) XML
13 36 (1.61%) Pandas
14 34 (1.52%) JSON
15 32 (1.43%) NumPy
16 29 (1.30%) FIX Protocol
16 29 (1.30%) Node.js
16 29 (1.30%) OAuth2
17 25 (1.12%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 136 (6.09%) Product Ownership
2 109 (4.88%) Derivative
3 105 (4.70%) Onboarding
4 93 (4.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 93 (4.16%) Management Information System
5 91 (4.08%) Cloud Native
6 71 (3.18%) Data Protection Act
7 69 (3.09%) Fixed Income
8 68 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
8 68 (3.05%) Equities
9 46 (2.06%) Data Structures
10 42 (1.88%) Public Cloud
10 42 (1.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 39 (1.75%) Data Centre
11 39 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
11 39 (1.75%) Market Risk
12 38 (1.70%) Credit Risk
13 31 (1.39%) Hedge funds
14 30 (1.34%) Mobile App
15 29 (1.30%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 139 (6.22%) Windows
2 120 (5.37%) Linux
3 58 (2.60%) Unix
4 36 (1.61%) Windows 10
5 33 (1.48%) Android
6 24 (1.07%) Apple iOS
7 21 (0.94%) Windows Server
8 15 (0.67%) zOS
9 14 (0.63%) Mac OS
10 13 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.31%) VMS
12 6 (0.27%) AIX
13 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
14 3 (0.13%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.13%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.090%) Solaris
15 2 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
16 1 (0.045%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 561 (25.12%) Agile
2 402 (18.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 374 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
4 331 (14.82%) DevOps
5 322 (14.42%) CI/CD
6 229 (10.26%) Migration
7 207 (9.27%) Analytics
8 202 (9.05%) AI
9 179 (8.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 178 (7.97%) Microservices
11 171 (7.66%) Risk Management
12 170 (7.61%) Data Modelling
13 162 (7.25%) Decision-Making
14 158 (7.08%) Data Analysis
14 158 (7.08%) Project Management
14 158 (7.08%) Roadmaps
15 156 (6.99%) Continuous Improvement
16 147 (6.58%) Validation
17 146 (6.54%) Business Intelligence
17 146 (6.54%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 396 (17.73%) SQL
2 365 (16.35%) Python
3 298 (13.35%) Java
4 144 (6.45%) C#
5 90 (4.03%) JavaScript
6 61 (2.73%) PowerShell
6 61 (2.73%) TypeScript
7 48 (2.15%) Go
8 37 (1.66%) PL/SQL
9 31 (1.39%) Shell Script
10 29 (1.30%) Bash
10 29 (1.30%) VBA
11 23 (1.03%) C++
11 23 (1.03%) T-SQL
12 18 (0.81%) COBOL
12 18 (0.81%) Kotlin
13 14 (0.63%) Perl
14 13 (0.58%) Korn
14 13 (0.58%) Scala
15 10 (0.45%) JCL
Qualifications
1 233 (10.43%) Degree
2 115 (5.15%) Security Cleared
3 77 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 74 (3.31%) Master's Degree
5 70 (3.13%) SC Cleared
6 54 (2.42%) PMI Certification
7 52 (2.33%) PMP
8 45 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.21%) CISSP
10 25 (1.12%) Azure Certification
11 19 (0.85%) AWS Certification
11 19 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (0.76%) MBA
13 15 (0.67%) CISM
13 15 (0.67%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.54%) CBAP
14 12 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.54%) PhD
15 10 (0.45%) DV Cleared
16 9 (0.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (6.09%) QA
2 105 (4.70%) Data Quality
3 55 (2.46%) ISO 20022
4 49 (2.19%) GDPR
5 43 (1.93%) PMO
6 35 (1.57%) SLA
7 34 (1.52%) PCI DSS
8 32 (1.43%) Accessibility
8 32 (1.43%) PSD2
9 29 (1.30%) NIST
9 29 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 29 (1.30%) SEPA
10 26 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 25 (1.12%) GRC
12 22 (0.99%) MiFID
13 21 (0.94%) Basel III
14 14 (0.63%) ISO 8583
15 13 (0.58%) EMIR
16 11 (0.49%) IFRS
17 7 (0.31%) GAAP
System Software
1 146 (6.54%) Docker
2 48 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (1.84%) Active Directory
4 22 (0.99%) Firmware
5 21 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.58%) vSphere
7 10 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.40%) NFS
9 6 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.18%) RACF
10 4 (0.18%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.13%) SRDF
11 3 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
11 3 (0.13%) XenApp
12 2 (0.090%) ACF2
12 2 (0.090%) GridGain
12 2 (0.090%) Varnish
12 2 (0.090%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.045%) Postfix
13 1 (0.045%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 184 (8.24%) Kubernetes
2 103 (4.61%) Terraform
3 79 (3.54%) Ansible
4 48 (2.15%) Grafana
5 38 (1.70%) Prometheus
6 26 (1.16%) SCCM
7 19 (0.85%) Argo
8 18 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.40%) Puppet
11 8 (0.36%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.36%) Istio
12 7 (0.31%) Control-M
13 6 (0.27%) RSA Archer
13 6 (0.27%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.27%) WSUS
14 5 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
14 5 (0.22%) SnapMirror
15 4 (0.18%) Karpenter
15 4 (0.18%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 265 (11.87%) Microsoft
2 160 (7.17%) Oracle
3 77 (3.45%) Google
4 75 (3.36%) ServiceNow
5 59 (2.64%) Cisco
6 58 (2.60%) VMware
7 57 (2.55%) Splunk
8 52 (2.33%) SAP
9 49 (2.19%) Citrix
9 49 (2.19%) IBM
10 47 (2.10%) F5
11 31 (1.39%) Bloomberg
11 31 (1.39%) Remedy
12 28 (1.25%) Temenos
13 27 (1.21%) Murex
14 25 (1.12%) HP
15 24 (1.07%) NetApp
15 24 (1.07%) Salesforce
16 23 (1.03%) Avaloq
16 23 (1.03%) Databricks