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 23 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,592 2,194 2,453
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.78% 8.02% 6.97%
As % of the General category 10.45% 12.61% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,561 1,503 1,797
10th Percentile £400 £358 £400
25th Percentile £456 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £620
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% -4.62%
75th Percentile £680 £738 £788
90th Percentile £810 £825 £881
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 27 19
10th Percentile - £18.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £19.58 £14.50
Median hourly rate £19.69 £25.15 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.71% +28.97% +5.41%
75th Percentile £41.64 - £54.88
90th Percentile £97.00 £59.50 £88.00
UK median hourly rate £18.42 £24.66 £19.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% +26.46% +4.19%

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 24,805 17,396 20,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.27% 63.62% 57.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,882 11,107 12,994
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £748 £752 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,814 911 1,473
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.25 £13.85
25th Percentile £19.03 £16.46 £16.30
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.28 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.34% -28.00% +21.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.58 £57.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.81 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.17% -25.71% +14.68%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -9 1,844 £579 -10.92% 680
North of England -3 514 £500 +12.36% 109
North West -2 261 £481 +19.13% 59
Yorkshire -7 243 £514 +5.44% 46
Midlands -12 165 £523 +22.94% 26
West Midlands +16 125 £538 -2.27% 14
East Midlands -30 40 £504 +29.29% 12
South West -44 35 £515 -1.90% 50
South East -59 34 £540 +12.79% 71
East of England -3 30 £580 -3.33% 9
North East -30 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
1 160 (6.17%) Confluence
2 59 (2.28%) SharePoint
3 25 (0.96%) SAS
4 23 (0.89%) Apache Spark
5 19 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
6 18 (0.69%) IIS
7 17 (0.66%) Apache
8 12 (0.46%) Camunda
9 10 (0.39%) CICS
10 8 (0.31%) Appian
10 8 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.15%) Hyperledger
12 4 (0.15%) WordPress
13 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.077%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.077%) JBoss
14 2 (0.077%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 91 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (1.20%) MS Visio
5 22 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.12%) Sketch
8 2 (0.077%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.077%) EngageOne
8 2 (0.077%) InVision
8 2 (0.077%) Notion
8 2 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.077%) Trello
8 2 (0.077%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 22 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
1 22 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
2 19 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
2 19 (0.73%) Temenos T24
3 17 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.62%) Finacle
5 13 (0.50%) Aladdin
6 12 (0.46%) Loan IQ
7 10 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
7 10 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 9 (0.35%) Actimize
9 8 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
10 7 (0.27%) FLEXCUBE
10 7 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
10 7 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
11 6 (0.23%) OpenText MBPM
11 6 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
11 6 (0.23%) SAP CO
11 6 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
11 6 (0.23%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 391 (15.08%) Azure
2 344 (13.27%) AWS
3 162 (6.25%) GCP
4 131 (5.05%) Power Platform
5 84 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
6 79 (3.05%) GitHub
7 70 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
8 66 (2.55%) SaaS
9 64 (2.47%) Snowflake
10 45 (1.74%) Entra ID
11 44 (1.70%) OpenShift
12 38 (1.47%) Amazon S3
13 34 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
14 32 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
15 29 (1.12%) Figma
15 29 (1.12%) Serverless
16 26 (1.00%) Power Automate
17 24 (0.93%) Microsoft Copilot
17 24 (0.93%) PaaS
17 24 (0.93%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 78 (3.01%) Firewall
2 70 (2.70%) DNS
3 65 (2.51%) VPN
4 59 (2.28%) Network Security
5 41 (1.58%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.27%) BGP
6 33 (1.27%) Multicast
6 33 (1.27%) SSL
7 26 (1.00%) HTTP
7 26 (1.00%) SAN
8 22 (0.85%) BIG-IP
8 22 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 21 (0.81%) DMZ
10 20 (0.77%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 19 (0.73%) Wireshark
12 18 (0.69%) DHCP
12 18 (0.69%) FIX Connectivity
13 13 (0.50%) LAN
14 12 (0.46%) WAN
14 12 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (4.78%) SQL Server
2 107 (4.13%) Power BI
3 76 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
4 69 (2.66%) Metadata
5 63 (2.43%) Relational Database
6 51 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
7 46 (1.77%) Oracle Database
8 39 (1.50%) Tableau
9 36 (1.39%) MongoDB
10 35 (1.35%) Data Lake
11 31 (1.20%) Big Data
12 22 (0.85%) Db2
13 20 (0.77%) RDBMS
14 19 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 18 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
15 18 (0.69%) NoSQL
16 16 (0.62%) BigQuery
16 16 (0.62%) Data Vault
17 15 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
18 14 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 266 (10.26%) JIRA
2 108 (4.17%) Git
3 104 (4.01%) Jenkins
4 61 (2.35%) GitLab
5 37 (1.43%) JUnit
6 26 (1.00%) Selenium
7 22 (0.85%) Cucumber
8 19 (0.73%) TeamCity
9 18 (0.69%) Bitbucket
9 18 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
10 16 (0.62%) Fiddler
11 15 (0.58%) Mockito
11 15 (0.58%) Postman
12 14 (0.54%) ERwin
12 14 (0.54%) REST Assured
13 13 (0.50%) ER Studio
13 13 (0.50%) Gradle
13 13 (0.50%) SonarQube
14 12 (0.46%) Maven
15 11 (0.42%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,630 (62.89%) Finance
2 673 (25.96%) Social Skills
3 523 (20.18%) Investment Banking
4 365 (14.08%) Analytical Skills
5 225 (8.68%) Front Office
6 125 (4.82%) Financial Institution
7 110 (4.24%) Retail Banking
8 103 (3.97%) Retail
9 88 (3.40%) Corporate Banking
10 81 (3.13%) Legal
11 64 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
12 61 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
13 54 (2.08%) Private Banking
14 48 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
14 48 (1.85%) Public Sector
15 32 (1.23%) Back Office
16 28 (1.08%) Marketing
17 27 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
18 24 (0.93%) General Ledger
19 19 (0.73%) Billing
Job Titles
1 452 (17.44%) Developer
2 385 (14.85%) Analyst
3 330 (12.73%) Senior
4 301 (11.61%) Architect
5 244 (9.41%) Business Analyst
6 236 (9.10%) Lead
7 157 (6.06%) Java Developer
8 112 (4.32%) Solutions Architect
9 111 (4.28%) Project Manager
10 108 (4.17%) Senior Developer
11 95 (3.67%) Data Engineer
12 87 (3.36%) Banking Analyst
13 77 (2.97%) Consultant
14 65 (2.51%) Senior Java Developer
15 61 (2.35%) Network Engineer
16 60 (2.31%) Data Analyst
16 60 (2.31%) Software Engineer
17 51 (1.97%) C# Developer
17 51 (1.97%) Designer
18 50 (1.93%) Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (5.32%) React
2 121 (4.67%) Kafka
3 118 (4.55%) .NET
4 97 (3.74%) REST
5 95 (3.67%) Middleware
6 85 (3.28%) Spring
7 73 (2.82%) Spring Boot
8 56 (2.16%) RESTful
9 54 (2.08%) Redux
10 44 (1.70%) HTML
11 41 (1.58%) CSS
12 39 (1.50%) FIX Protocol
13 35 (1.35%) AngularJS
13 35 (1.35%) OAuth
13 35 (1.35%) PySpark
14 34 (1.31%) JSON
15 27 (1.04%) XML
16 26 (1.00%) Node.js
17 25 (0.96%) OAuth2
18 24 (0.93%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 180 (6.94%) Product Ownership
2 148 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 142 (5.48%) Cloud Native
4 131 (5.05%) Derivative
5 128 (4.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 98 (3.78%) Fixed Income
7 90 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
8 81 (3.13%) Management Information System
9 79 (3.05%) Equities
10 78 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
11 70 (2.70%) Data Structures
12 57 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
13 53 (2.04%) AI Agents
13 53 (2.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 52 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
15 50 (1.93%) Mainframe
16 44 (1.70%) Data Centre
17 43 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
18 42 (1.62%) Credit Risk
18 42 (1.62%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 154 (5.94%) Windows
2 137 (5.29%) Linux
3 88 (3.40%) Unix
4 33 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (1.04%) zOS
6 23 (0.89%) Apple iOS
7 22 (0.85%) Android
8 15 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 15 (0.58%) Windows 10
9 12 (0.46%) AIX
10 9 (0.35%) Solaris
11 8 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
12 6 (0.23%) HPUX
12 6 (0.23%) SUSE
12 6 (0.23%) VMS
13 5 (0.19%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.19%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 587 (22.65%) Agile
2 504 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 382 (14.74%) CI/CD
4 372 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
5 353 (13.62%) AI
6 328 (12.65%) DevOps
7 316 (12.19%) Migration
8 255 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 252 (9.72%) Analytics
10 219 (8.45%) Data Modelling
11 210 (8.10%) Roadmaps
12 200 (7.72%) Microservices
13 185 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 185 (7.14%) Validation
14 176 (6.79%) Decision-Making
14 176 (6.79%) Software Engineering
15 171 (6.60%) User Acceptance Testing
16 165 (6.37%) Risk Management
17 164 (6.33%) Test Automation
18 162 (6.25%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 416 (16.05%) SQL
2 371 (14.31%) Python
3 347 (13.39%) Java
4 177 (6.83%) C#
5 129 (4.98%) JavaScript
6 107 (4.13%) TypeScript
7 76 (2.93%) PowerShell
8 64 (2.47%) PL/SQL
9 46 (1.77%) Bash
10 45 (1.74%) Shell Script
11 40 (1.54%) Kotlin
11 40 (1.54%) T-SQL
12 31 (1.20%) C++
13 24 (0.93%) VBA
14 22 (0.85%) Korn
15 17 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 13 (0.50%) Go
16 13 (0.50%) Scala
17 12 (0.46%) Bicep
17 12 (0.46%) JCL
Qualifications
1 175 (6.75%) Degree
2 121 (4.67%) Security Cleared
3 86 (3.32%) SC Cleared
4 56 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (1.62%) PMP
6 38 (1.47%) PMI Certification
7 35 (1.35%) CISSP
8 29 (1.12%) Azure Certification
9 28 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 27 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
10 27 (1.04%) Master's Degree
11 23 (0.89%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.66%) CISM
13 14 (0.54%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 10 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
16 9 (0.35%) ACCA
16 9 (0.35%) CCSP
17 8 (0.31%) CCNA
17 8 (0.31%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (5.29%) Data Quality
2 132 (5.09%) QA
3 57 (2.20%) PMO
4 49 (1.89%) ISO 20022
5 43 (1.66%) GDPR
6 35 (1.35%) NIST
7 33 (1.27%) GRC
7 33 (1.27%) SEPA
8 30 (1.16%) PSD2
9 29 (1.12%) SLA
10 27 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 26 (1.00%) Accessibility
12 19 (0.73%) MiFID
13 18 (0.69%) PCI DSS
14 15 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 9 (0.35%) COREP
15 9 (0.35%) EMIR
15 9 (0.35%) IFRS
16 7 (0.27%) FINREP
17 6 (0.23%) Basel III
System Software
1 112 (4.32%) Docker
2 63 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.73%) RACF
5 17 (0.66%) vSphere
6 16 (0.62%) Firmware
6 16 (0.62%) NFS
7 14 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.23%) Varnish
9 5 (0.19%) Postfix
10 4 (0.15%) ACF2
10 4 (0.15%) Sendmail
10 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.15%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.12%) SRDF
11 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.12%) XenApp
12 2 (0.077%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.077%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 159 (6.13%) Kubernetes
2 85 (3.28%) Ansible
2 85 (3.28%) Terraform
3 32 (1.23%) Prometheus
4 31 (1.20%) Grafana
5 20 (0.77%) SCCM
6 18 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.54%) Control-M
8 14 (0.54%) OMEGAMON
9 12 (0.46%) Argo
10 11 (0.42%) Istio
11 9 (0.35%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
13 6 (0.23%) Puppet
13 6 (0.23%) SnapMirror
13 6 (0.23%) WSUS
14 5 (0.19%) HAProxy
14 5 (0.19%) NetBackup
14 5 (0.19%) systemd
Vendors
1 291 (11.23%) Microsoft
2 196 (7.56%) Oracle
3 93 (3.59%) ServiceNow
4 78 (3.01%) IBM
5 66 (2.55%) Databricks
6 65 (2.51%) Cisco
7 56 (2.16%) Google
8 50 (1.93%) Splunk
9 49 (1.89%) F5
9 49 (1.89%) SAP
10 47 (1.81%) VMware
11 46 (1.77%) Citrix
12 42 (1.62%) Salesforce
13 33 (1.27%) Murex
14 31 (1.20%) CyberArk
15 28 (1.08%) OpenAI
16 27 (1.04%) NetApp
17 26 (1.00%) Fortinet
18 25 (0.96%) Avaloq
18 25 (0.96%) Red Hat