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 21 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 21 23
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -6
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,143 2,485 3,163
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.55% 7.87% 7.75%
As % of the General category 11.85% 13.33% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,439 1,673 2,225
10th Percentile £358 £400 £413
25th Percentile £425 £491 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £608 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% -2.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £700 £769 £750
90th Percentile £825 £850 £863
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 13 19
10th Percentile £18.87 - £15.41
25th Percentile - £14.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.19 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.34% -12.49% -26.00%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £28.88
90th Percentile £64.75 £76.20 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £16.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year +52.42% -10.81% -26.00%

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 18,090 18,637 24,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 63.71% 59.03% 59.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,471 11,169 16,721
10th Percentile £275 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,092 761 1,009
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.29 £17.25 £16.66
Median hourly rate £25.00 £33.07 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.40% +12.10% +18.00%
75th Percentile £44.05 £61.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £69.96 £72.50 £70.16
UK median hourly rate £24.34 £31.06 £27.50
% change year-on-year -21.64% +12.95% +10.00%

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 21 October 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 21 October 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 21 October 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 -4 1,537 £625 -3.85% 721
North of England +1 385 £450 -7.12% 86
Yorkshire -1 197 £500 -6.76% 28
North West +2 193 £430 -5.34% 44
Midlands +9 164 £460 +1.10% 42
West Midlands +16 85 £525 -14.98% 23
East Midlands +4 81 £402 -9.66% 17
South West +21 40 £525 -4.55% 18
South East -39 34 £413 -17.50% 461
East of England -4 7 £500 -16.67% 13
North East -2 6 - - 14
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
1 117 (5.46%) Confluence
2 48 (2.24%) Apache
3 47 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
4 46 (2.15%) SharePoint
5 20 (0.93%) CICS
6 18 (0.84%) WebSphere
7 15 (0.70%) CMS
8 14 (0.65%) Apache Spark
9 11 (0.51%) Tomcat
10 10 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 10 (0.47%) MQSeries
11 8 (0.37%) Mule
12 7 (0.33%) JBoss
12 7 (0.33%) SAS
13 6 (0.28%) HCL Notes
14 5 (0.23%) IIS
14 5 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 5 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.23%) WebLogic
15 4 (0.19%) Anypoint
Applications
1 102 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (3.78%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (1.87%) MS Visio
5 22 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.70%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.37%) Sketch
8 7 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 6 (0.28%) Adobe Captivate
10 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.14%) InVision
11 2 (0.093%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.047%) Trello
12 1 (0.047%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 31 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.12%) Oracle Payables
3 22 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
3 22 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
4 20 (0.93%) Oracle Assets
5 19 (0.89%) Oracle General Ledger
6 15 (0.70%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 14 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
8 13 (0.61%) Oracle EBS R12
9 11 (0.51%) Oracle BPM
9 11 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
10 10 (0.47%) VisionPLUS
11 9 (0.42%) FLEXCUBE
12 7 (0.33%) Aladdin
13 6 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
14 5 (0.23%) Fidessa
14 5 (0.23%) Loan IQ
15 4 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
15 4 (0.19%) Temenos T24
15 4 (0.19%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 346 (16.15%) AWS
2 318 (14.84%) Azure
3 199 (9.29%) GCP
4 107 (4.99%) Power Platform
5 69 (3.22%) GitHub
5 69 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
6 54 (2.52%) Serverless
7 52 (2.43%) Snowflake
8 50 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
9 44 (2.05%) Figma
10 41 (1.91%) SaaS
11 40 (1.87%) dbt
12 37 (1.73%) Entra ID
13 30 (1.40%) PowerApps
14 26 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
15 23 (1.07%) Power Automate
16 22 (1.03%) Azure AKS
17 21 (0.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 21 (0.98%) Microsoft Copilot
18 19 (0.89%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.47%) Firewall
2 32 (1.49%) Network Security
3 31 (1.45%) DNS
4 20 (0.93%) Wireless
5 19 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 19 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 18 (0.84%) Multicast
7 17 (0.79%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.75%) DMZ
9 13 (0.61%) BGP
9 13 (0.61%) HTTP
10 10 (0.47%) DHCP
10 10 (0.47%) SSL
10 10 (0.47%) VPN
10 10 (0.47%) Wireshark
11 9 (0.42%) WAN
12 8 (0.37%) BIG-IP
12 8 (0.37%) LAN
12 8 (0.37%) OSPF
12 8 (0.37%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (4.39%) SQL Server
3 89 (4.15%) Power BI
4 73 (3.41%) NoSQL
5 55 (2.57%) Data Lake
6 50 (2.33%) MongoDB
6 50 (2.33%) Relational Database
7 46 (2.15%) Tableau
8 41 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
9 40 (1.87%) Apache Arrow
9 40 (1.87%) Apache Iceberg
9 40 (1.87%) Apache Ignite
9 40 (1.87%) Dremio
10 38 (1.77%) DB2
11 37 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
12 31 (1.45%) Metadata
12 31 (1.45%) Oracle Database
13 25 (1.17%) Big Data
14 23 (1.07%) Redis
14 23 (1.07%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 201 (9.38%) JIRA
2 163 (7.61%) Jenkins
3 118 (5.51%) Git
4 73 (3.41%) GitLab
5 53 (2.47%) JUnit
6 37 (1.73%) Selenium
6 37 (1.73%) Sonatype Nexus
7 30 (1.40%) Bitbucket
8 29 (1.35%) Cucumber
9 27 (1.26%) Maven
10 25 (1.17%) SonarQube
11 24 (1.12%) Liquibase
12 23 (1.07%) Postman
13 21 (0.98%) Gradle
14 19 (0.89%) TeamCity
15 16 (0.75%) Xcode
16 13 (0.61%) REST Assured
17 10 (0.47%) Cypress.io
17 10 (0.47%) Subversion
17 10 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 1,330 (62.06%) Finance
2 781 (36.44%) Social Skills
3 491 (22.91%) Investment Banking
4 311 (14.51%) Analytical Skills
5 207 (9.66%) Front Office
6 139 (6.49%) Financial Institution
7 76 (3.55%) Retail Banking
8 66 (3.08%) Retail
9 54 (2.52%) Corporate Banking
10 46 (2.15%) Back Office
10 46 (2.15%) Legal
11 41 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
13 34 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
14 33 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
15 27 (1.26%) General Ledger
16 26 (1.21%) Private Banking
17 23 (1.07%) International Banking
17 23 (1.07%) Public Sector
18 20 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 450 (21.00%) Developer
2 350 (16.33%) Analyst
3 268 (12.51%) Senior
4 232 (10.83%) Business Analyst
5 203 (9.47%) Architect
6 130 (6.07%) Project Manager
7 122 (5.69%) Java Developer
8 112 (5.23%) Lead
9 107 (4.99%) Software Engineer
10 90 (4.20%) Senior Developer
11 71 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
12 64 (2.99%) Python Engineer
13 62 (2.89%) Banking Analyst
14 61 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
15 59 (2.75%) Consultant
16 55 (2.57%) Data Analyst
17 54 (2.52%) Designer
17 54 (2.52%) Java Engineer
18 53 (2.47%) Senior Software Engineer
19 51 (2.38%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (5.79%) Kafka
2 107 (4.99%) REST
3 105 (4.90%) React
4 90 (4.20%) .NET
5 87 (4.06%) Spring
6 83 (3.87%) RESTful
7 72 (3.36%) Pandas
8 70 (3.27%) AngularJS
9 69 (3.22%) NumPy
10 67 (3.13%) Spring Boot
11 65 (3.03%) HTML
12 61 (2.85%) SciPy
13 53 (2.47%) CSS
13 53 (2.47%) Web Services
14 50 (2.33%) gRPC
15 49 (2.29%) Node.js
16 43 (2.01%) XML
17 42 (1.96%) Protocol Buffers
18 40 (1.87%) Elastic Stack
19 37 (1.73%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 161 (7.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 155 (7.23%) Derivative
3 112 (5.23%) Cloud Native
4 106 (4.95%) Equities
4 106 (4.95%) Fixed Income
5 104 (4.85%) Product Ownership
6 95 (4.43%) Onboarding
7 79 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
8 78 (3.64%) Hedge funds
9 66 (3.08%) Management Information System
10 62 (2.89%) Data Centre
11 59 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
12 55 (2.57%) Mobile App
13 52 (2.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 48 (2.24%) Market Risk
15 46 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
16 44 (2.05%) Data Structures
17 43 (2.01%) Public Cloud
18 40 (1.87%) Pricing Data
19 32 (1.49%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 175 (8.17%) Linux
2 118 (5.51%) Windows
3 54 (2.52%) Android
4 51 (2.38%) Unix
5 34 (1.59%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.98%) Mac OS
7 19 (0.89%) Windows 10
8 16 (0.75%) Windows Server
9 9 (0.42%) zOS
10 5 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.14%) AIX
12 2 (0.093%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.047%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.047%) Solaris
13 1 (0.047%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 631 (29.44%) Agile
2 407 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
3 315 (14.70%) DevOps
4 297 (13.86%) CI/CD
5 280 (13.07%) Stakeholder Management
6 217 (10.13%) Analytics
7 215 (10.03%) Microservices
8 185 (8.63%) Software Engineering
9 182 (8.49%) Risk Management
10 173 (8.07%) Project Management
11 151 (7.05%) Migration
12 149 (6.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 145 (6.77%) Change Management
14 142 (6.63%) Decision-Making
15 140 (6.53%) Scrum
16 134 (6.25%) SDLC
17 133 (6.21%) Computer Science
18 128 (5.97%) Roadmaps
19 124 (5.79%) Continuous Improvement
20 123 (5.74%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 428 (19.97%) Python
2 382 (17.83%) SQL
3 362 (16.89%) Java
4 164 (7.65%) JavaScript
5 136 (6.35%) C#
6 96 (4.48%) TypeScript
7 66 (3.08%) C++
8 54 (2.52%) Go
9 45 (2.10%) PowerShell
10 42 (1.96%) Shell Script
11 36 (1.68%) PL/SQL
12 31 (1.45%) Scala
13 29 (1.35%) Kotlin
14 26 (1.21%) Bash
15 23 (1.07%) Rust
16 22 (1.03%) COBOL
17 15 (0.70%) Bicep
17 15 (0.70%) C
17 15 (0.70%) JCL
17 15 (0.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 236 (11.01%) Degree
2 85 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 69 (3.22%) Security Cleared
4 52 (2.43%) Master's Degree
5 43 (2.01%) PMI Certification
5 43 (2.01%) PMP
6 33 (1.54%) SC Cleared
7 29 (1.35%) AWS Certification
7 29 (1.35%) Azure Certification
8 24 (1.12%) CISSP
9 23 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
11 15 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 15 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (0.70%) DV Cleared
12 12 (0.56%) BC Cleared
12 12 (0.56%) CISM
13 11 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
14 9 (0.42%) CCNP
15 7 (0.33%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (5.41%) QA
2 68 (3.17%) Data Quality
3 50 (2.33%) GDPR
4 49 (2.29%) Accessibility
5 44 (2.05%) PMO
6 35 (1.63%) SEPA
7 34 (1.59%) ISO 20022
8 27 (1.26%) MiFID
8 27 (1.26%) SLA
9 26 (1.21%) NIST
10 21 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 21 (0.98%) PSD2
11 19 (0.89%) GRC
12 17 (0.79%) Basel III
12 17 (0.79%) EMIR
12 17 (0.79%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 13 (0.61%) IFRS
15 9 (0.42%) IFRS 9
16 7 (0.33%) Basel II
System Software
1 165 (7.70%) Docker
2 42 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.42%) Firmware
5 8 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
7 5 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.19%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 3 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.093%) GridGain
10 2 (0.093%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.093%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.093%) RACF
10 2 (0.093%) XenApp
10 2 (0.093%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.047%) KVM
11 1 (0.047%) NFS
11 1 (0.047%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.047%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 184 (8.59%) Kubernetes
2 109 (5.09%) Terraform
3 75 (3.50%) Ansible
4 42 (1.96%) Prometheus
5 41 (1.91%) Grafana
6 13 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
6 13 (0.61%) SCCM
7 12 (0.56%) NetBackup
8 11 (0.51%) Control-M
8 11 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
9 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.33%) Argo
12 6 (0.28%) CA Endevor
12 6 (0.28%) Kibana
13 5 (0.23%) Data Guard
13 5 (0.23%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.23%) logstash
13 5 (0.23%) Puppet
13 5 (0.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 231 (10.78%) Microsoft
2 153 (7.14%) Oracle
3 100 (4.67%) Google
4 59 (2.75%) Splunk
5 48 (2.24%) IBM
6 46 (2.15%) SAP
7 41 (1.91%) VMware
8 36 (1.68%) ServiceNow
9 35 (1.63%) Salesforce
10 33 (1.54%) Cisco
10 33 (1.54%) F5
11 30 (1.40%) HP
12 29 (1.35%) Databricks
13 27 (1.26%) CyberArk
14 26 (1.21%) Apple
14 26 (1.21%) Citrix
15 25 (1.17%) Dynatrace
15 25 (1.17%) Solace
16 24 (1.12%) Sybase
17 23 (1.07%) Dell