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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,518 2,008 2,477
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.83% 8.06% 6.56%
As % of the General category 10.64% 12.54% 11.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,538 1,381 1,830
10th Percentile £389 £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 £790 £838 £875
UK median daily rate £545 £556 £600
% change year-on-year -2.01% -7.31% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 26
10th Percentile - £14.73 £12.42
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.41 £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 £71.88 £85.50
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £19.97 £19.05
% change year-on-year +29.04% +4.83% -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 23,658 16,017 21,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.76% 64.32% 57.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,411 10,325 13,753
10th Percentile £313 £282 £285
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -2.62% -2.91%
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 1,651 774 1,850
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.38 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.93 £15.62
Median hourly rate £33.00 £28.18 £31.97
Median % change year-on-year +17.10% -11.85% +6.57%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £53.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £67.83
UK median hourly rate £32.36 £28.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year +15.58% -8.20% -0.13%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 1,756 £579 -10.92% 411
North of England -3 517 £480 +7.62% 60
North West +1 275 £445 +10.76% 42
Yorkshire -7 233 £500 - 14
Midlands -6 191 £519 +23.45% 25
West Midlands +28 138 £575 +4.55% 14
East Midlands -22 52 £465 +19.23% 11
South West -20 37 £510 +2.00% 14
South East -53 36 £550 +4.76% 94
East of England -23 18 £530 -11.67% 9
North East -27 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
1 178 (7.07%) Confluence
2 53 (2.10%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.11%) SAS
4 19 (0.75%) IIS
5 18 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
7 11 (0.44%) Apache
8 10 (0.40%) Camunda
8 10 (0.40%) 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
1 120 (4.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 56 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
4 39 (1.55%) 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 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.68%) Temenos T24
4 16 (0.64%) Finacle
4 16 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 15 (0.60%) Loan IQ
6 10 (0.40%) Aladdin
6 10 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
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%) OpenText MBPM
Cloud Services
1 386 (15.33%) Azure
2 331 (13.15%) AWS
3 159 (6.31%) GCP
4 133 (5.28%) Power Platform
5 80 (3.18%) GitHub
6 79 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
7 63 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 58 (2.30%) SaaS
9 47 (1.87%) Snowflake
10 42 (1.67%) OpenShift
11 35 (1.39%) Entra ID
12 33 (1.31%) Amazon S3
13 29 (1.15%) Figma
13 29 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
14 28 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (1.07%) Serverless
16 24 (0.95%) Power Automate
17 23 (0.91%) OCI
18 22 (0.87%) PowerApps
19 21 (0.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 68 (2.70%) DNS
2 59 (2.34%) Firewall
3 56 (2.22%) VPN
4 51 (2.03%) Network Security
5 38 (1.51%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.23%) HTTP
6 31 (1.23%) Multicast
7 30 (1.19%) BGP
7 30 (1.19%) 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 (0.60%) DHCP
14 12 (0.48%) NetScaler
15 11 (0.44%) Internet
16 10 (0.40%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (4.61%) SQL Server
2 109 (4.33%) Power BI
3 68 (2.70%) Metadata
4 67 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
5 58 (2.30%) Relational Database
6 53 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
7 51 (2.03%) Tableau
8 46 (1.83%) Oracle Database
9 31 (1.23%) MongoDB
10 29 (1.15%) Big Data
11 26 (1.03%) NoSQL
12 23 (0.91%) Data Lake
13 19 (0.75%) Db2
14 18 (0.71%) BigQuery
14 18 (0.71%) RDBMS
14 18 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 17 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
16 15 (0.60%) Data Vault
16 15 (0.60%) Power Query
17 14 (0.56%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 270 (10.72%) JIRA
2 105 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 96 (3.81%) Git
4 66 (2.62%) GitLab
5 39 (1.55%) 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 (0.68%) Fiddler
9 17 (0.68%) Postman
10 14 (0.56%) ERwin
10 14 (0.56%) Mockito
10 14 (0.56%) SonarQube
11 13 (0.52%) ER Studio
11 13 (0.52%) REST Assured
12 11 (0.44%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.40%) Maven
14 9 (0.36%) Gradle
General
1 1,546 (61.40%) Finance
2 661 (26.25%) Social Skills
3 536 (21.29%) Investment Banking
4 326 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
5 223 (8.86%) Front Office
6 121 (4.81%) Financial Institution
7 116 (4.61%) Retail Banking
8 100 (3.97%) Retail
9 88 (3.49%) Corporate Banking
10 86 (3.42%) Legal
11 58 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
12 51 (2.03%) Public Sector
13 50 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
14 43 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
15 33 (1.31%) Private Banking
16 32 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
17 26 (1.03%) Back Office
18 24 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 22 (0.87%) Marketing
20 21 (0.83%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 442 (17.55%) Developer
2 382 (15.17%) Analyst
3 330 (13.11%) Senior
4 292 (11.60%) Architect
5 255 (10.13%) Business Analyst
6 203 (8.06%) Lead
7 154 (6.12%) Java Developer
8 131 (5.20%) Solutions Architect
9 113 (4.49%) Project Manager
10 111 (4.41%) Senior Developer
11 94 (3.73%) Banking Analyst
12 93 (3.69%) Data Engineer
13 80 (3.18%) Consultant
14 69 (2.74%) Senior Java Developer
15 63 (2.50%) Banking Business Analyst
16 60 (2.38%) Payments Architect
17 56 (2.22%) Network Engineer
18 53 (2.10%) C# Developer
18 53 (2.10%) Data Analyst
18 53 (2.10%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (5.60%) React
2 116 (4.61%) Kafka
3 115 (4.57%) .NET
4 93 (3.69%) Middleware
4 93 (3.69%) Spring
5 90 (3.57%) REST
6 79 (3.14%) Spring Boot
7 68 (2.70%) RESTful
8 55 (2.18%) Redux
9 53 (2.10%) HTML
10 47 (1.87%) CSS
10 47 (1.87%) OAuth
11 40 (1.59%) AngularJS
12 38 (1.51%) FIX Protocol
12 38 (1.51%) JSON
13 36 (1.43%) OAuth2
13 36 (1.43%) XML
14 29 (1.15%) Node.js
15 26 (1.03%) PySpark
16 24 (0.95%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 185 (7.35%) Product Ownership
2 130 (5.16%) Cloud Native
3 127 (5.04%) Derivative
4 125 (4.96%) Onboarding
5 120 (4.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 97 (3.85%) Fixed Income
7 84 (3.34%) Management Information System
8 79 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
9 77 (3.06%) Equities
10 75 (2.98%) Data Protection Act
11 71 (2.82%) Data Structures
12 53 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
13 51 (2.03%) Credit Risk
13 51 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
14 47 (1.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 46 (1.83%) Mainframe
16 42 (1.67%) Data Centre
17 41 (1.63%) Market Risk
18 38 (1.51%) AI Agents
19 37 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 151 (6.00%) Windows
2 127 (5.04%) Linux
3 82 (3.26%) Unix
4 27 (1.07%) zOS
5 26 (1.03%) Windows Server
6 25 (0.99%) Apple iOS
7 24 (0.95%) Android
7 24 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 24 (0.95%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.48%) Ubuntu
9 11 (0.44%) AIX
10 8 (0.32%) Solaris
11 7 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
12 6 (0.24%) VMS
12 6 (0.24%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.20%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.20%) HPUX
13 5 (0.20%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.20%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 580 (23.03%) Agile
2 465 (18.47%) Stakeholder Management
3 368 (14.61%) CI/CD
4 347 (13.78%) Problem-Solving
5 321 (12.75%) DevOps
6 300 (11.91%) AI
7 299 (11.87%) Migration
8 223 (8.86%) Analytics
9 219 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 216 (8.58%) Data Modelling
11 194 (7.70%) Roadmaps
12 192 (7.63%) Microservices
13 179 (7.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 179 (7.11%) Validation
14 173 (6.87%) User Acceptance Testing
15 163 (6.47%) Decision-Making
16 161 (6.39%) Risk Management
17 159 (6.31%) Software Engineering
18 158 (6.27%) Test Automation
19 152 (6.04%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 407 (16.16%) SQL
2 353 (14.02%) Python
3 348 (13.82%) Java
4 177 (7.03%) C#
5 132 (5.24%) JavaScript
6 111 (4.41%) TypeScript
7 68 (2.70%) PowerShell
8 61 (2.42%) PL/SQL
9 41 (1.63%) Bash
10 39 (1.55%) Shell Script
10 39 (1.55%) T-SQL
11 32 (1.27%) Kotlin
12 23 (0.91%) VBA
13 22 (0.87%) C++
14 20 (0.79%) Go
14 20 (0.79%) Korn
15 17 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 15 (0.60%) Scala
17 12 (0.48%) JCL
18 10 (0.40%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 185 (7.35%) Degree
2 122 (4.85%) Security Cleared
3 84 (3.34%) SC Cleared
4 58 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 46 (1.83%) PMP
6 40 (1.59%) PMI Certification
7 39 (1.55%) Master's Degree
8 37 (1.47%) CISSP
9 30 (1.19%) Azure Certification
10 25 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (0.71%) AWS Certification
11 18 (0.71%) CISM
12 15 (0.60%) ISTQB
13 14 (0.56%) MBA
14 12 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 11 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.40%) CISA
17 9 (0.36%) CCSP
17 9 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (5.32%) Data Quality
2 127 (5.04%) QA
3 54 (2.14%) PMO
4 50 (1.99%) ISO 20022
5 45 (1.79%) GDPR
6 37 (1.47%) PSD2
7 33 (1.31%) NIST
8 32 (1.27%) SEPA
8 32 (1.27%) SLA
9 30 (1.19%) GRC
10 28 (1.11%) Accessibility
10 28 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 25 (0.99%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.79%) MiFID
13 19 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.40%) Basel III
14 10 (0.40%) GAAP
14 10 (0.40%) ISO 8583
15 9 (0.36%) EMIR
15 9 (0.36%) IFRS
System Software
1 123 (4.88%) Docker
2 52 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.68%) Firmware
4 17 (0.68%) vSphere
5 16 (0.64%) NFS
6 15 (0.60%) RACF
7 13 (0.52%) 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%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 160 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 89 (3.53%) Terraform
3 83 (3.30%) Ansible
4 32 (1.27%) Grafana
5 30 (1.19%) Prometheus
6 20 (0.79%) SCCM
7 18 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (0.56%) Argo
9 13 (0.52%) Control-M
10 11 (0.44%) Istio
10 11 (0.44%) OMEGAMON
11 9 (0.36%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
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%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 284 (11.28%) Microsoft
2 197 (7.82%) Oracle
3 84 (3.34%) ServiceNow
4 65 (2.58%) IBM
5 63 (2.50%) Google
6 56 (2.22%) Databricks
7 55 (2.18%) Cisco
8 54 (2.14%) SAP
9 51 (2.03%) Citrix
10 49 (1.95%) F5
11 46 (1.83%) Splunk
12 42 (1.67%) VMware
13 35 (1.39%) Salesforce
14 31 (1.23%) Murex
15 28 (1.11%) Avaloq
15 28 (1.11%) Temenos
16 27 (1.07%) Pega
17 26 (1.03%) Bloomberg
17 26 (1.03%) OpenAI
18 24 (0.95%) NetApp