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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,166 1,906 2,382
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.02% 7.65% 6.26%
As % of the General category 10.35% 12.13% 10.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,327 1,239 1,698
10th Percentile £365 £373 £375
25th Percentile £441 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £609 £605
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +0.66% -8.95%
75th Percentile £674 £750 £750
90th Percentile £775 £860 £838
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 13 23
10th Percentile £18.25 £15.23 £12.84
25th Percentile £23.02 - £17.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +14.21% -7.14%
75th Percentile £32.03 £24.66 £35.25
90th Percentile £83.59 £68.85 £81.15
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 20,929 15,709 22,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.13% 63.07% 58.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,261 10,035 14,572
10th Percentile £300 £300 £266
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,303 570 1,672
10th Percentile £14.15 £15.06 £13.05
25th Percentile £17.55 £19.93 £15.29
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.41 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.78% +16.94% -19.38%
75th Percentile £57.25 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £24.03 £29.23 £25.71
% change year-on-year -17.79% +13.69% -19.66%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -11 1,473 £575 -10.16% 221
North of England +8 467 £475 +2.15% 69
North West +14 241 £445 +11.31% 37
Yorkshire +1 233 £500 -10.31% 28
Midlands +17 182 £471 -14.36% 29
West Midlands +20 126 £558 -12.20% 19
East Midlands -6 56 £428 +6.61% 10
South East -30 46 £450 -18.18% 107
South West -19 33 £525 -14.29% 10
East of England -31 11 £400 -33.33% 14
North East -10 4 £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
1 161 (7.43%) Confluence
2 52 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.11%) Apache Spark
4 16 (0.74%) SAS
5 15 (0.69%) Apache
5 15 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.46%) IIS
8 9 (0.42%) CICS
9 7 (0.32%) CMS
10 6 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.23%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.23%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.23%) MQSeries
12 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.092%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.092%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.092%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 146 (6.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (3.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 65 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
4 49 (2.26%) MS Visio
5 22 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
6 19 (0.88%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
9 3 (0.14%) Notion
9 3 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.14%) Trello
10 2 (0.092%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.046%) Sketch
11 1 (0.046%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 30 (1.39%) Payment Gateway
2 24 (1.11%) Oracle Payables
3 19 (0.88%) Oracle Receivables
4 18 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
4 18 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
5 16 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
5 16 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 13 (0.60%) Loan IQ
6 13 (0.60%) Temenos T24
7 10 (0.46%) SAP FI
8 8 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
8 8 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 8 (0.37%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
9 7 (0.32%) Actimize
9 7 (0.32%) Aladdin
9 7 (0.32%) Finacle
10 6 (0.28%) Fidessa
10 6 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
11 5 (0.23%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 337 (15.56%) Azure
2 327 (15.10%) AWS
3 165 (7.62%) GCP
4 137 (6.33%) Power Platform
5 91 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
6 88 (4.06%) GitHub
7 56 (2.59%) Serverless
8 53 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (2.17%) SaaS
10 40 (1.85%) Figma
11 34 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
12 28 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
13 27 (1.25%) Entra ID
14 26 (1.20%) Amazon S3
14 26 (1.20%) OCI
14 26 (1.20%) PowerApps
15 25 (1.15%) Snowflake
16 24 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
16 24 (1.11%) Power Automate
17 23 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 68 (3.14%) DNS
2 48 (2.22%) Firewall
3 38 (1.75%) HTTP
4 37 (1.71%) VPN
5 36 (1.66%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.52%) Network Security
7 31 (1.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 29 (1.34%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 26 (1.20%) SSL
10 25 (1.15%) DMZ
11 24 (1.11%) BGP
12 22 (1.02%) BIG-IP
12 22 (1.02%) Multicast
12 22 (1.02%) Wireshark
13 19 (0.88%) Wireless
14 17 (0.78%) NetScaler
14 17 (0.78%) SAN
15 15 (0.69%) DHCP
15 15 (0.69%) FIX Connectivity
16 13 (0.60%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (5.17%) Power BI
2 97 (4.48%) SQL Server
3 76 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
4 66 (3.05%) Tableau
5 55 (2.54%) NoSQL
6 51 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
7 40 (1.85%) Metadata
7 40 (1.85%) MongoDB
7 40 (1.85%) Oracle Database
8 36 (1.66%) Relational Database
9 29 (1.34%) Big Data
10 22 (1.02%) BigQuery
11 18 (0.83%) Data Lake
12 17 (0.78%) DB2
12 17 (0.78%) Hadoop
12 17 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
13 11 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (0.51%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 240 (11.08%) JIRA
2 128 (5.91%) Jenkins
3 92 (4.25%) Git
4 88 (4.06%) GitLab
5 31 (1.43%) JUnit
6 25 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
7 24 (1.11%) Cucumber
8 22 (1.02%) Bitbucket
8 22 (1.02%) Selenium
9 20 (0.92%) Fiddler
10 18 (0.83%) Postman
11 16 (0.74%) Liquibase
12 15 (0.69%) REST Assured
13 14 (0.65%) Gradle
13 14 (0.65%) Maven
13 14 (0.65%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.42%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.42%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.37%) Mockito
15 8 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,371 (63.30%) Finance
2 710 (32.78%) Social Skills
3 437 (20.18%) Investment Banking
4 292 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
5 172 (7.94%) Front Office
6 120 (5.54%) Financial Institution
7 82 (3.79%) Retail Banking
8 59 (2.72%) Legal
9 58 (2.68%) Corporate Banking
9 58 (2.68%) Retail
10 57 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
11 51 (2.35%) Public Sector
12 40 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
13 39 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
14 35 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
15 28 (1.29%) Marketing
16 23 (1.06%) International Banking
17 22 (1.02%) Private Banking
18 21 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 20 (0.92%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 382 (17.64%) Analyst
2 379 (17.50%) Developer
3 282 (13.02%) Senior
4 260 (12.00%) Business Analyst
5 226 (10.43%) Architect
6 137 (6.33%) Lead
7 130 (6.00%) Project Manager
8 125 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
9 100 (4.62%) Java Developer
10 84 (3.88%) Senior Developer
11 75 (3.46%) Consultant
12 74 (3.42%) Banking Analyst
13 59 (2.72%) Data Engineer
14 52 (2.40%) Banking Business Analyst
15 50 (2.31%) DevOps Engineer
16 49 (2.26%) Network Engineer
17 48 (2.22%) Designer
18 45 (2.08%) Payments Architect
18 45 (2.08%) Senior Analyst
19 44 (2.03%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (5.68%) Kafka
2 106 (4.89%) REST
3 105 (4.85%) .NET
4 73 (3.37%) Spring
5 72 (3.32%) React
6 64 (2.95%) RESTful
7 63 (2.91%) Middleware
8 61 (2.82%) Spring Boot
9 59 (2.72%) HTML
10 49 (2.26%) AngularJS
11 41 (1.89%) OAuth
12 39 (1.80%) Pandas
13 37 (1.71%) CSS
13 37 (1.71%) XML
14 35 (1.62%) JSON
15 34 (1.57%) NumPy
16 30 (1.39%) OAuth2
17 29 (1.34%) Node.js
18 26 (1.20%) SOAP
19 24 (1.11%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 135 (6.23%) Product Ownership
2 112 (5.17%) Derivative
3 96 (4.43%) Onboarding
4 95 (4.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 91 (4.20%) Management Information System
6 86 (3.97%) Cloud Native
7 69 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
8 67 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
9 65 (3.00%) Equities
10 63 (2.91%) Fixed Income
11 47 (2.17%) Public Cloud
12 43 (1.99%) Data Structures
13 41 (1.89%) Data Centre
14 39 (1.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 38 (1.75%) Credit Risk
15 38 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
15 38 (1.75%) Market Risk
16 33 (1.52%) Hedge funds
17 31 (1.43%) Mobile App
18 28 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 132 (6.09%) Windows
2 122 (5.63%) Linux
3 50 (2.31%) Unix
4 36 (1.66%) Windows 10
5 35 (1.62%) Android
6 20 (0.92%) Apple iOS
7 18 (0.83%) Windows Server
8 15 (0.69%) Mac OS
9 14 (0.65%) zOS
10 12 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.32%) VMS
12 6 (0.28%) AIX
13 5 (0.23%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
14 4 (0.18%) Windows 7
15 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
16 1 (0.046%) Kali Linux
16 1 (0.046%) Solaris
16 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 553 (25.53%) Agile
2 391 (18.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 375 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
4 320 (14.77%) DevOps
5 316 (14.59%) CI/CD
6 228 (10.53%) Migration
7 209 (9.65%) Analytics
8 189 (8.73%) AI
9 178 (8.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 177 (8.17%) Microservices
11 171 (7.89%) Risk Management
12 158 (7.29%) Data Modelling
12 158 (7.29%) Decision-Making
13 155 (7.16%) Project Management
14 154 (7.11%) Data Analysis
15 145 (6.69%) Roadmaps
16 143 (6.60%) Validation
17 142 (6.56%) Business Intelligence
18 141 (6.51%) Continuous Improvement
19 136 (6.28%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 390 (18.01%) SQL
2 371 (17.13%) Python
3 301 (13.90%) Java
4 141 (6.51%) C#
5 84 (3.88%) JavaScript
6 62 (2.86%) TypeScript
7 60 (2.77%) PowerShell
8 49 (2.26%) Go
9 36 (1.66%) PL/SQL
10 29 (1.34%) VBA
11 28 (1.29%) Bash
11 28 (1.29%) C++
11 28 (1.29%) Shell Script
12 22 (1.02%) T-SQL
13 18 (0.83%) COBOL
14 16 (0.74%) Kotlin
15 14 (0.65%) Scala
16 13 (0.60%) Perl
17 11 (0.51%) Korn
18 10 (0.46%) JCL
Qualifications
1 233 (10.76%) Degree
2 97 (4.48%) Security Cleared
3 77 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 76 (3.51%) Master's Degree
5 55 (2.54%) SC Cleared
6 54 (2.49%) PMI Certification
7 53 (2.45%) PMP
8 41 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (1.34%) Azure Certification
10 28 (1.29%) CISSP
11 24 (1.11%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.78%) CISM
12 17 (0.78%) MBA
13 16 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (0.69%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.55%) CBAP
15 12 (0.55%) PhD
16 10 (0.46%) DV Cleared
16 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
17 8 (0.37%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (6.19%) QA
2 100 (4.62%) Data Quality
3 56 (2.59%) ISO 20022
4 51 (2.35%) GDPR
5 36 (1.66%) PMO
6 35 (1.62%) PCI DSS
7 33 (1.52%) PSD2
8 32 (1.48%) SLA
9 30 (1.39%) Accessibility
9 30 (1.39%) SEPA
10 29 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 28 (1.29%) GRC
12 25 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 25 (1.15%) NIST
13 22 (1.02%) Basel III
14 21 (0.97%) MiFID
15 14 (0.65%) ISO 8583
16 12 (0.55%) EMIR
17 11 (0.51%) IFRS
18 7 (0.32%) GAAP
System Software
1 156 (7.20%) Docker
2 52 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (1.66%) Active Directory
4 22 (1.02%) Firmware
5 20 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.60%) vSphere
7 11 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (0.37%) NFS
9 6 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.18%) RACF
11 3 (0.14%) SRDF
11 3 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
12 2 (0.092%) ACF2
12 2 (0.092%) Varnish
12 2 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.092%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.046%) Postfix
13 1 (0.046%) PowerHA
13 1 (0.046%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.046%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 186 (8.59%) Kubernetes
2 98 (4.52%) Terraform
3 84 (3.88%) Ansible
4 50 (2.31%) Grafana
5 39 (1.80%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.02%) SCCM
7 18 (0.83%) Argo
8 17 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.46%) Control-M
10 9 (0.42%) Puppet
10 9 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.37%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.28%) Istio
12 6 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
12 6 (0.28%) NetBackup
12 6 (0.28%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.23%) RSA Archer
13 5 (0.23%) SnapMirror
14 4 (0.18%) Karpenter
14 4 (0.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 241 (11.13%) Microsoft
2 146 (6.74%) Oracle
3 80 (3.69%) Google
4 69 (3.19%) ServiceNow
5 63 (2.91%) VMware
6 58 (2.68%) Cisco
6 58 (2.68%) Splunk
7 48 (2.22%) F5
8 46 (2.12%) SAP
9 45 (2.08%) Citrix
9 45 (2.08%) IBM
10 33 (1.52%) Remedy
11 28 (1.29%) Bloomberg
11 28 (1.29%) Murex
12 25 (1.15%) HP
12 25 (1.15%) NetApp
13 23 (1.06%) Apple
14 22 (1.02%) Dell
14 22 (1.02%) Salesforce
14 22 (1.02%) Temenos