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 7 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,131 2,298 2,837
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.88% 7.58% 7.36%
As % of the General category 11.00% 12.49% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,366 1,524 1,968
10th Percentile £358 £400 £400
25th Percentile £436 £500 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £610 £615
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% -0.81% -5.38%
75th Percentile £688 £750 £750
90th Percentile £813 £850 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £615
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.44% -5.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 9 21
10th Percentile £18.69 £14.93 £15.72
25th Percentile £24.45 £15.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £27.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.55% +48.65% -19.57%
75th Percentile - £66.00 £30.00
90th Percentile £57.75 £82.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £27.00 £18.72
% change year-on-year -6.85% +44.27% -18.63%

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 19,379 18,404 22,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 62.58% 60.70% 59.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,319 11,118 15,590
10th Percentile £275 £300 £290
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £667
90th Percentile £738 £775 £769
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,255 665 1,041
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.80 £18.00 £17.22
Median hourly rate £23.58 £30.45 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% -6.31% +26.41%
75th Percentile £46.00 £58.75 £59.50
90th Percentile £71.50 £72.50 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £31.71
% change year-on-year -13.36% -13.28% +26.84%

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 7 December 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 7 December 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 7 December 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 -5 1,523 £600 -5.88% 306
North of England +5 393 £470 -6.93% 231
Yorkshire +1 223 £500 -9.09% 97
North West +6 180 £455 +0.22% 117
Midlands +13 149 £490 -10.91% 187
West Midlands +9 95 £525 -14.98% 98
East Midlands +13 56 £410 -7.87% 75
South East -29 44 £425 -15.00% 309
South West -3 37 £525 -11.76% 127
East of England -5 12 £400 -46.67% 146
North East -2 4 - - 17
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 (5.49%) Confluence
2 53 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.69%) Apache
4 34 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.84%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.80%) CICS
6 17 (0.80%) CMS
7 12 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.42%) IIS
8 9 (0.42%) SAS
9 8 (0.38%) MQSeries
9 8 (0.38%) Mule
10 7 (0.33%) HCL Notes
10 7 (0.33%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.28%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.19%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.14%) Appian
14 3 (0.14%) Camunda
Applications
1 115 (5.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 80 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
3 57 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (1.78%) MS Visio
5 22 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
6 21 (0.99%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 7 (0.33%) Sketch
9 6 (0.28%) Adobe Captivate
10 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.14%) InVision
10 3 (0.14%) Notion
10 3 (0.14%) Trello
11 2 (0.094%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.047%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.047%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 22 (1.03%) Oracle Payables
2 20 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
4 13 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
4 13 (0.61%) Oracle General Ledger
4 13 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
5 12 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
5 12 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
6 11 (0.52%) Oracle Financials
7 10 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
7 10 (0.47%) Temenos T24
8 8 (0.38%) Aladdin
8 8 (0.38%) Oracle E-Business Tax
8 8 (0.38%) VisionPLUS
9 7 (0.33%) Fidessa
10 6 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
11 5 (0.23%) Loan IQ
11 5 (0.23%) thinkFolio
12 4 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
12 4 (0.19%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 337 (15.81%) Azure
2 324 (15.20%) AWS
3 183 (8.59%) GCP
4 139 (6.52%) Power Platform
5 87 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
6 78 (3.66%) GitHub
7 71 (3.33%) Serverless
8 55 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
9 53 (2.49%) Figma
10 42 (1.97%) SaaS
11 41 (1.92%) Snowflake
12 39 (1.83%) Entra ID
12 39 (1.83%) PowerApps
13 32 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
14 30 (1.41%) Power Automate
15 29 (1.36%) dbt
16 24 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
16 24 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
17 23 (1.08%) Azure AKS
17 23 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.30%) Firewall
2 42 (1.97%) DNS
3 35 (1.64%) Network Security
4 31 (1.45%) Wireless
5 26 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 26 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 24 (1.13%) HTTP
7 22 (1.03%) TCP/IP
8 21 (0.99%) DMZ
9 17 (0.80%) SSL
10 15 (0.70%) VPN
11 14 (0.66%) Multicast
11 14 (0.66%) Wireshark
12 13 (0.61%) BIG-IP
12 13 (0.61%) DHCP
13 10 (0.47%) BGP
14 9 (0.42%) LAN
14 9 (0.42%) NetScaler
15 8 (0.38%) Internet
15 8 (0.38%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (5.44%) Power BI
2 94 (4.41%) SQL Server
3 80 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
4 71 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 57 (2.67%) Tableau
6 50 (2.35%) MongoDB
7 40 (1.88%) Data Lake
7 40 (1.88%) Relational Database
8 34 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
9 33 (1.55%) Metadata
10 30 (1.41%) Oracle Database
11 29 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
12 28 (1.31%) Apache Arrow
12 28 (1.31%) Apache Iceberg
12 28 (1.31%) Apache Ignite
12 28 (1.31%) DB2
12 28 (1.31%) Dremio
13 24 (1.13%) Power Query
14 23 (1.08%) Big Data
15 18 (0.84%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 206 (9.67%) JIRA
2 154 (7.23%) Jenkins
3 110 (5.16%) Git
4 80 (3.75%) GitLab
5 45 (2.11%) JUnit
6 36 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
7 33 (1.55%) Bitbucket
8 32 (1.50%) Selenium
9 26 (1.22%) Liquibase
10 25 (1.17%) Cucumber
11 23 (1.08%) SonarQube
12 22 (1.03%) Maven
13 19 (0.89%) Postman
14 15 (0.70%) TeamCity
15 14 (0.66%) REST Assured
16 13 (0.61%) Gradle
17 12 (0.56%) Fiddler
18 11 (0.52%) Cypress.io
18 11 (0.52%) webpack
19 10 (0.47%) Mockito
General
1 1,373 (64.43%) Finance
2 779 (36.56%) Social Skills
3 467 (21.91%) Investment Banking
4 282 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
5 204 (9.57%) Front Office
6 137 (6.43%) Financial Institution
7 69 (3.24%) Retail Banking
8 60 (2.82%) Retail
9 49 (2.30%) Legal
10 46 (2.16%) Corporate Banking
11 40 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
12 38 (1.78%) Back Office
12 38 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
13 35 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
14 34 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
15 27 (1.27%) Public Sector
16 23 (1.08%) International Banking
17 22 (1.03%) Private Banking
18 21 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 21 (0.99%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 428 (20.08%) Developer
2 347 (16.28%) Analyst
3 272 (12.76%) Senior
4 229 (10.75%) Business Analyst
5 181 (8.49%) Architect
6 135 (6.34%) Project Manager
7 117 (5.49%) Java Developer
8 98 (4.60%) Lead
9 88 (4.13%) Senior Developer
10 78 (3.66%) Software Engineer
11 71 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
12 65 (3.05%) Consultant
13 60 (2.82%) Banking Analyst
14 59 (2.77%) Designer
15 57 (2.67%) Python Engineer
16 55 (2.58%) AWS Engineer
17 53 (2.49%) DevOps Engineer
18 51 (2.39%) Data Analyst
19 50 (2.35%) Senior Java Developer
20 47 (2.21%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (5.63%) Kafka
2 112 (5.26%) REST
3 100 (4.69%) .NET
4 84 (3.94%) RESTful
4 84 (3.94%) Spring
5 76 (3.57%) React
6 71 (3.33%) Pandas
7 70 (3.28%) Spring Boot
8 66 (3.10%) NumPy
9 57 (2.67%) AngularJS
9 57 (2.67%) HTML
10 48 (2.25%) SciPy
11 47 (2.21%) CSS
12 40 (1.88%) Middleware
13 39 (1.83%) Elastic Stack
13 39 (1.83%) Node.js
14 35 (1.64%) XML
15 34 (1.60%) FIX Protocol
16 33 (1.55%) gRPC
17 30 (1.41%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 152 (7.13%) Derivative
2 146 (6.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 121 (5.68%) Onboarding
4 110 (5.16%) Cloud Native
5 108 (5.07%) Product Ownership
6 92 (4.32%) Fixed Income
7 91 (4.27%) Equities
8 84 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
9 77 (3.61%) Management Information System
10 72 (3.38%) Hedge funds
11 67 (3.14%) Data Centre
12 62 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
13 54 (2.53%) Mobile App
14 51 (2.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 42 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
16 41 (1.92%) Public Cloud
17 39 (1.83%) Data Structures
18 35 (1.64%) Market Risk
19 34 (1.60%) Mainframe
20 32 (1.50%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 154 (7.23%) Linux
2 127 (5.96%) Windows
3 54 (2.53%) Android
4 45 (2.11%) Unix
5 29 (1.36%) Mac OS
6 28 (1.31%) Windows 10
7 24 (1.13%) Apple iOS
8 23 (1.08%) Windows Server
9 11 (0.52%) zOS
10 5 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.19%) AIX
12 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.094%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.047%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.047%) Solaris
14 1 (0.047%) VMS
14 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 596 (27.97%) Agile
2 386 (18.11%) Problem-Solving
3 325 (15.25%) DevOps
4 314 (14.73%) CI/CD
5 296 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 214 (10.04%) Analytics
7 206 (9.67%) Microservices
8 178 (8.35%) Risk Management
9 171 (8.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 157 (7.37%) Project Management
11 156 (7.32%) Migration
12 151 (7.09%) Decision-Making
12 151 (7.09%) Software Engineering
13 148 (6.95%) Change Management
14 140 (6.57%) Containerisation
15 136 (6.38%) Business Intelligence
16 135 (6.34%) Roadmaps
17 131 (6.15%) Scrum
18 127 (5.96%) AI
19 126 (5.91%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 411 (19.29%) Python
2 378 (17.74%) SQL
3 330 (15.49%) Java
4 152 (7.13%) C#
5 117 (5.49%) JavaScript
6 72 (3.38%) TypeScript
7 58 (2.72%) PowerShell
8 56 (2.63%) Go
9 51 (2.39%) C++
10 29 (1.36%) Shell Script
11 28 (1.31%) PL/SQL
12 27 (1.27%) Bash
13 24 (1.13%) VBA
14 23 (1.08%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.84%) COBOL
15 18 (0.84%) Rust
16 15 (0.70%) T-SQL
17 14 (0.66%) Scala
18 13 (0.61%) JCL
18 13 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 248 (11.64%) Degree
2 88 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 85 (3.99%) Security Cleared
4 66 (3.10%) Master's Degree
5 46 (2.16%) PMI Certification
6 42 (1.97%) PMP
7 41 (1.92%) SC Cleared
8 32 (1.50%) CISSP
9 28 (1.31%) AWS Certification
10 26 (1.22%) Azure Certification
11 24 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
12 22 (1.03%) DV Cleared
13 18 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 15 (0.70%) CISM
15 12 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 12 (0.56%) BC Cleared
16 11 (0.52%) PhD
17 10 (0.47%) CBAP
17 10 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
18 8 (0.38%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (6.34%) QA
2 79 (3.71%) Data Quality
3 56 (2.63%) GDPR
4 46 (2.16%) PMO
5 42 (1.97%) Accessibility
5 42 (1.97%) ISO 20022
6 30 (1.41%) SEPA
7 29 (1.36%) SLA
8 28 (1.31%) NIST
9 26 (1.22%) MiFID
10 25 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 23 (1.08%) PSD2
12 21 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 20 (0.94%) PCI DSS
14 19 (0.89%) GRC
15 18 (0.84%) Basel III
16 16 (0.75%) EMIR
17 13 (0.61%) IFRS
18 7 (0.33%) IFRS 9
18 7 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 175 (8.21%) Docker
2 46 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (2.02%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.61%) Firmware
6 6 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.23%) RACF
7 5 (0.23%) Time Sharing Option
7 5 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.14%) vSphere
10 2 (0.094%) ACF2
10 2 (0.094%) GridGain
10 2 (0.094%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.094%) NFS
10 2 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.094%) XenApp
10 2 (0.094%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.047%) KVM
11 1 (0.047%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 205 (9.62%) Kubernetes
2 114 (5.35%) Terraform
3 80 (3.75%) Ansible
4 48 (2.25%) Grafana
5 47 (2.21%) Prometheus
6 20 (0.94%) SCCM
7 13 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
8 12 (0.56%) Argo
8 12 (0.56%) NetBackup
9 11 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.42%) Control-M
11 9 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (0.38%) CA Endevor
13 7 (0.33%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.28%) Kibana
14 6 (0.28%) OMEGAMON
14 6 (0.28%) RSA Archer
15 5 (0.23%) QRadar
15 5 (0.23%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 244 (11.45%) Microsoft
2 135 (6.34%) Oracle
3 99 (4.65%) Google
4 63 (2.96%) Splunk
5 56 (2.63%) VMware
6 53 (2.49%) IBM
7 46 (2.16%) ServiceNow
8 43 (2.02%) Cisco
9 39 (1.83%) F5
10 38 (1.78%) HP
11 37 (1.74%) Salesforce
12 35 (1.64%) Dell
13 34 (1.60%) Apple
14 31 (1.45%) CyberArk
15 30 (1.41%) SAP
16 29 (1.36%) Citrix
17 26 (1.22%) Bloomberg
17 26 (1.22%) Dynatrace
18 25 (1.17%) Databricks
19 24 (1.13%) Remedy