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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 22 25
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,540 2,048 2,488
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.83% 8.04% 6.66%
As % of the General category 10.62% 12.54% 11.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,547 1,406 1,826
10th Percentile £394 £358 £400
25th Percentile £450 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £576 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% -7.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £688 £750 £788
90th Percentile £795 £838 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.70% -6.75% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 23 25
10th Percentile - £15.42 £12.34
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.69 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £24.66 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% +26.46% +9.86%
75th Percentile £76.25 £25.15 £27.00
90th Percentile £96.50 £66.50 £86.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £24.66 £19.05
% change year-on-year +4.50% +29.45% +1.11%

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 23,925 16,328 21,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.88% 64.11% 57.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,509 10,492 13,660
10th Percentile £313 £282 £291
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -2.85% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,714 803 1,802
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.27 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.76 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% -15.61% +9.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £52.08 £54.89
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.50 £31.76
% change year-on-year +16.36% -13.40% +3.98%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 1,789 £583 -10.38% 409
North of England -2 512 £492 +10.07% 64
North West 0 269 £450 +11.87% 41
Yorkshire -6 234 £500 - 19
Midlands -3 183 £525 +26.51% 22
West Midlands +28 135 £575 +4.55% 15
East Midlands -21 47 £466 +19.55% 7
South East -51 35 £550 +4.76% 87
South West -35 34 £515 +3.00% 8
East of England -13 20 £505 -15.83% 11
North East -29 13 £875 +108.33% 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
1 174 (6.85%) Confluence
2 56 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.10%) SAS
4 20 (0.79%) 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 (0.31%) Appian
9 8 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.28%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.28%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.16%) WordPress
13 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.079%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.079%) CMS
14 2 (0.079%) Jupyter
Applications
1 114 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 54 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (1.46%) MS Visio
5 23 (0.91%) 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 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
2 24 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
2 24 (0.94%) Oracle Receivables
3 17 (0.67%) Finacle
4 16 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.63%) Temenos T24
5 15 (0.59%) Loan IQ
6 13 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 11 (0.43%) Aladdin
8 9 (0.35%) Actimize
8 9 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
9 8 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
9 8 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
10 7 (0.28%) Summit
11 6 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
11 6 (0.24%) Oracle BPM
11 6 (0.24%) SAP CO
11 6 (0.24%) SAP FI
11 6 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
12 5 (0.20%) OpenText MBPM
Cloud Services
1 390 (15.35%) Azure
2 334 (13.15%) AWS
3 162 (6.38%) GCP
4 135 (5.31%) Power Platform
5 80 (3.15%) GitHub
6 77 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
7 68 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
8 57 (2.24%) Snowflake
9 56 (2.20%) SaaS
10 41 (1.61%) OpenShift
11 37 (1.46%) Entra ID
12 34 (1.34%) Amazon S3
13 30 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
14 29 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
14 29 (1.14%) Figma
15 27 (1.06%) Serverless
16 26 (1.02%) Power Automate
17 24 (0.94%) PowerApps
18 21 (0.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 21 (0.83%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 67 (2.64%) DNS
2 60 (2.36%) Firewall
3 56 (2.20%) VPN
4 54 (2.13%) Network Security
5 38 (1.50%) TCP/IP
6 32 (1.26%) Multicast
7 31 (1.22%) BGP
7 31 (1.22%) HTTP
8 30 (1.18%) SSL
9 24 (0.94%) DMZ
9 24 (0.94%) SAN
10 23 (0.91%) BIG-IP
11 22 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 20 (0.79%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 20 (0.79%) FIX Connectivity
12 20 (0.79%) Wireshark
13 16 (0.63%) DHCP
14 12 (0.47%) Internet
15 11 (0.43%) OSPF
16 10 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (4.61%) SQL Server
2 111 (4.37%) Power BI
3 71 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
3 71 (2.80%) Metadata
4 62 (2.44%) Relational Database
5 50 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
6 48 (1.89%) Oracle Database
7 44 (1.73%) Tableau
8 33 (1.30%) MongoDB
9 31 (1.22%) Big Data
10 28 (1.10%) Data Lake
11 25 (0.98%) NoSQL
12 21 (0.83%) RDBMS
12 21 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 19 (0.75%) BigQuery
13 19 (0.75%) Db2
14 18 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (0.59%) Data Vault
16 14 (0.55%) Power Query
16 14 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 270 (10.63%) JIRA
2 106 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 102 (4.02%) Git
4 63 (2.48%) GitLab
5 39 (1.54%) JUnit
6 27 (1.06%) Selenium
7 24 (0.94%) Cucumber
8 20 (0.79%) TeamCity
9 19 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (0.71%) Bitbucket
10 18 (0.71%) Postman
11 17 (0.67%) Fiddler
12 14 (0.55%) ERwin
12 14 (0.55%) Mockito
12 14 (0.55%) REST Assured
12 14 (0.55%) SonarQube
13 13 (0.51%) ER Studio
14 12 (0.47%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.39%) Maven
16 9 (0.35%) Gradle
General
1 1,562 (61.50%) Finance
2 666 (26.22%) Social Skills
3 543 (21.38%) Investment Banking
4 334 (13.15%) Analytical Skills
5 228 (8.98%) Front Office
6 123 (4.84%) Financial Institution
7 112 (4.41%) Retail Banking
8 104 (4.09%) Retail
9 87 (3.43%) Corporate Banking
10 84 (3.31%) Legal
11 58 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
12 50 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
13 49 (1.93%) Public Sector
14 42 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
15 41 (1.61%) Private Banking
16 30 (1.18%) Back Office
17 29 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
18 24 (0.94%) Marketing
19 22 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 19 (0.75%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 446 (17.56%) Developer
2 387 (15.24%) Analyst
3 320 (12.60%) Senior
4 291 (11.46%) Architect
5 259 (10.20%) Business Analyst
6 206 (8.11%) Lead
7 152 (5.98%) Java Developer
8 124 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
9 109 (4.29%) Project Manager
9 109 (4.29%) Senior Developer
10 94 (3.70%) Data Engineer
11 90 (3.54%) Banking Analyst
12 82 (3.23%) Consultant
13 68 (2.68%) Senior Java Developer
14 58 (2.28%) Banking Business Analyst
15 57 (2.24%) Network Engineer
16 55 (2.17%) C# Developer
16 55 (2.17%) Data Analyst
17 54 (2.13%) Payments Architect
18 53 (2.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (5.43%) React
2 122 (4.80%) .NET
3 117 (4.61%) Kafka
4 94 (3.70%) Middleware
4 94 (3.70%) REST
5 91 (3.58%) Spring
6 76 (2.99%) Spring Boot
7 66 (2.60%) RESTful
8 54 (2.13%) Redux
9 52 (2.05%) HTML
10 47 (1.85%) CSS
10 47 (1.85%) OAuth
11 41 (1.61%) AngularJS
12 39 (1.54%) FIX Protocol
13 38 (1.50%) JSON
14 36 (1.42%) OAuth2
15 35 (1.38%) XML
16 29 (1.14%) Node.js
17 26 (1.02%) PySpark
18 25 (0.98%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 180 (7.09%) Product Ownership
2 134 (5.28%) Cloud Native
3 127 (5.00%) Derivative
4 125 (4.92%) Onboarding
5 124 (4.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 99 (3.90%) Fixed Income
7 83 (3.27%) Management Information System
8 82 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
9 79 (3.11%) Equities
10 74 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
11 69 (2.72%) Data Structures
12 54 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
13 50 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
13 50 (1.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 49 (1.93%) Credit Risk
15 48 (1.89%) Mainframe
16 45 (1.77%) Data Centre
17 40 (1.57%) AI Agents
18 39 (1.54%) Market Risk
19 38 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 150 (5.91%) Windows
2 130 (5.12%) Linux
3 88 (3.46%) Unix
4 28 (1.10%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.06%) zOS
6 25 (0.98%) Apple iOS
7 24 (0.94%) Android
7 24 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 21 (0.83%) Windows 10
9 12 (0.47%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.43%) AIX
11 8 (0.31%) 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
1 588 (23.15%) Agile
2 461 (18.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 380 (14.96%) CI/CD
4 353 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
5 326 (12.83%) DevOps
6 315 (12.40%) AI
7 298 (11.73%) Migration
8 232 (9.13%) Analytics
9 226 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 217 (8.54%) Data Modelling
11 197 (7.76%) Roadmaps
12 192 (7.56%) Microservices
13 183 (7.20%) Validation
14 178 (7.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 176 (6.93%) User Acceptance Testing
16 167 (6.57%) Decision-Making
17 165 (6.50%) Test Automation
18 163 (6.42%) Risk Management
19 160 (6.30%) Software Engineering
20 156 (6.14%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 418 (16.46%) SQL
2 366 (14.41%) Python
3 343 (13.50%) Java
4 182 (7.17%) C#
5 135 (5.31%) JavaScript
6 112 (4.41%) TypeScript
7 72 (2.83%) PowerShell
8 60 (2.36%) PL/SQL
9 42 (1.65%) Bash
10 40 (1.57%) Shell Script
10 40 (1.57%) T-SQL
11 33 (1.30%) Kotlin
12 26 (1.02%) VBA
13 24 (0.94%) C++
14 21 (0.83%) Go
14 21 (0.83%) Korn
15 17 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 15 (0.59%) Scala
17 12 (0.47%) COBOL
17 12 (0.47%) JCL
Qualifications
1 184 (7.24%) Degree
2 123 (4.84%) Security Cleared
3 86 (3.39%) SC Cleared
4 58 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 41 (1.61%) PMP
7 37 (1.46%) CISSP
8 36 (1.42%) PMI Certification
9 33 (1.30%) Master's Degree
10 29 (1.14%) Azure Certification
11 25 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (0.75%) AWS Certification
13 18 (0.71%) CISM
14 15 (0.59%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 12 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
16 11 (0.43%) MBA
17 10 (0.39%) CISA
18 9 (0.35%) ACCA
18 9 (0.35%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (5.35%) Data Quality
2 130 (5.12%) QA
3 54 (2.13%) PMO
4 49 (1.93%) ISO 20022
5 46 (1.81%) GDPR
6 34 (1.34%) PSD2
7 33 (1.30%) NIST
8 32 (1.26%) SEPA
8 32 (1.26%) SLA
9 30 (1.18%) GRC
10 29 (1.14%) Accessibility
11 28 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 26 (1.02%) PCI DSS
13 20 (0.79%) MiFID
14 17 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 9 (0.35%) EMIR
15 9 (0.35%) ISO 8583
16 8 (0.31%) COREP
16 8 (0.31%) GAAP
16 8 (0.31%) IFRS
System Software
1 122 (4.80%) Docker
2 51 (2.01%) 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 6 (0.24%) Varnish
9 5 (0.20%) Postfix
9 5 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.16%) Sendmail
10 4 (0.16%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.12%) ACF2
11 3 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.12%) SRDF
11 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.12%) XenApp
12 2 (0.079%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.079%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 163 (6.42%) Kubernetes
2 90 (3.54%) Terraform
3 83 (3.27%) Ansible
4 29 (1.14%) Grafana
4 29 (1.14%) Prometheus
5 20 (0.79%) SCCM
6 17 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.51%) Argo
8 12 (0.47%) Control-M
9 11 (0.43%) Istio
9 11 (0.43%) OMEGAMON
9 11 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.35%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
11 7 (0.28%) Puppet
11 7 (0.28%) WSUS
12 6 (0.24%) SnapMirror
13 5 (0.20%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.20%) RSA Archer
13 5 (0.20%) vRealize
Vendors
1 290 (11.42%) Microsoft
2 197 (7.76%) Oracle
3 89 (3.50%) ServiceNow
4 67 (2.64%) IBM
5 64 (2.52%) Google
6 62 (2.44%) Databricks
7 55 (2.17%) Cisco
8 51 (2.01%) SAP
9 49 (1.93%) F5
10 47 (1.85%) Citrix
10 47 (1.85%) Splunk
11 42 (1.65%) VMware
12 38 (1.50%) Salesforce
13 35 (1.38%) Murex
14 30 (1.18%) Avaloq
15 27 (1.06%) OpenAI
16 26 (1.02%) Bloomberg
16 26 (1.02%) Temenos
17 25 (0.98%) Pega
18 24 (0.94%) NetApp