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 28 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 23 23
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 0
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,755 2,137 2,489
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.97% 7.70% 7.63%
As % of the General category 10.65% 12.01% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,717 1,446 1,714
10th Percentile £400 £350 £402
25th Percentile £459 £420 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £618
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -8.70% -1.20%
75th Percentile £680 £716 £775
90th Percentile £813 £825 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 31 12
10th Percentile £16.04 £19.18 -
25th Percentile £16.87 - £14.50
Median hourly rate £17.25 £25.15 £17.14
Median % change year-on-year -31.41% +46.78% -7.38%
75th Percentile £19.69 £26.88 £31.19
90th Percentile £22.03 £78.75 £63.78
UK median hourly rate £17.25 £25.15 £17.14
% change year-on-year -31.41% +46.78% -7.38%

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 25,880 17,797 19,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.10% 64.16% 58.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,159 11,293 11,495
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,315 1,027 901
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.77 £16.17 £18.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.08 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.64% -33.13% +30.43%
75th Percentile £56.21 £45.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.41 £69.65 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £25.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.65% -28.36% +27.27%

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 28 September 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
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 28 September 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 -7 2,015 £592 -5.28% 2,073
North of England -10 492 £500 +15.61% 226
Yorkshire -6 248 £514 +14.22% 79
North West -6 237 £500 +17.65% 131
Midlands -37 139 £498 +11.30% 112
West Midlands -9 101 £535 -0.93% 50
South West -30 45 £500 -4.76% 118
East of England +18 42 £558 -20.36% 17
South East -44 41 £500 +17.65% 146
East Midlands -36 38 £468 +17.31% 62
North East -34 11 £875 +108.33% 16
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
1 151 (5.48%) Confluence
2 60 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.05%) Apache
4 28 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.94%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.62%) Camunda
7 16 (0.58%) SAS
8 13 (0.47%) CICS
8 13 (0.47%) IIS
9 10 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.33%) Appian
11 8 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
12 6 (0.22%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 5 (0.18%) MTS
14 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
14 4 (0.15%) WordPress
15 3 (0.11%) Hyperledger
15 3 (0.11%) MQSeries
Applications
1 94 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.02%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Trello
9 2 (0.073%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.073%) EngageOne
9 2 (0.073%) Notion
9 2 (0.073%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.073%) Sketch
10 1 (0.036%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.036%) InVision
10 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.036%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 20 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
2 19 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
3 17 (0.62%) Finacle
4 14 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.51%) Temenos T24
5 13 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
6 11 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
7 10 (0.36%) Aladdin
7 10 (0.36%) FLEXCUBE
8 9 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
9 8 (0.29%) Loan IQ
10 7 (0.25%) OpenText MBPM
10 7 (0.25%) Oracle BPM
10 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
10 7 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
12 5 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
12 5 (0.18%) Oracle FAH
12 5 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 438 (15.90%) Azure
2 359 (13.03%) AWS
3 199 (7.22%) GCP
4 142 (5.15%) Power Platform
5 94 (3.41%) GitHub
6 81 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 79 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
8 72 (2.61%) Snowflake
9 69 (2.50%) SaaS
10 57 (2.07%) Entra ID
11 43 (1.56%) OpenShift
12 41 (1.49%) Amazon S3
13 39 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
14 38 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
15 36 (1.31%) Serverless
16 29 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
17 27 (0.98%) dbt
18 24 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
19 23 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
19 23 (0.83%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 89 (3.23%) Firewall
2 70 (2.54%) VPN
3 63 (2.29%) Network Security
4 54 (1.96%) DNS
5 38 (1.38%) TCP/IP
6 29 (1.05%) BGP
7 28 (1.02%) Multicast
7 28 (1.02%) SSL
8 25 (0.91%) WAN
9 20 (0.73%) BIG-IP
10 19 (0.69%) HTTP
11 18 (0.65%) LAN
12 17 (0.62%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 17 (0.62%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 16 (0.58%) DMZ
14 15 (0.54%) DHCP
14 15 (0.54%) Wireshark
15 13 (0.47%) SAN
16 12 (0.44%) FIX Connectivity
17 10 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (4.46%) SQL Server
2 118 (4.28%) Power BI
3 93 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
4 75 (2.72%) Metadata
5 74 (2.69%) Relational Database
6 52 (1.89%) Oracle Database
6 52 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
7 41 (1.49%) Data Lake
8 35 (1.27%) MongoDB
9 28 (1.02%) Tableau
10 25 (0.91%) Db2
11 22 (0.80%) BigQuery
11 22 (0.80%) NoSQL
12 21 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
13 20 (0.73%) Big Data
13 20 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 19 (0.69%) RDBMS
15 18 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
16 16 (0.58%) Data Vault
17 15 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 274 (9.95%) JIRA
2 149 (5.41%) Git
3 114 (4.14%) Jenkins
4 65 (2.36%) GitLab
5 48 (1.74%) Selenium
6 41 (1.49%) JUnit
7 25 (0.91%) Gradle
7 25 (0.91%) Maven
7 25 (0.91%) SonarQube
8 24 (0.87%) Cucumber
9 22 (0.80%) REST Assured
10 20 (0.73%) Bitbucket
10 20 (0.73%) Mockito
11 18 (0.65%) Postman
11 18 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
12 16 (0.58%) Cypress.io
13 15 (0.54%) ER Studio
13 15 (0.54%) ERwin
14 14 (0.51%) TeamCity
15 12 (0.44%) Fiddler
General
1 1,834 (66.57%) Finance
2 797 (28.93%) Social Skills
3 525 (19.06%) Investment Banking
4 404 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
5 244 (8.86%) Front Office
6 142 (5.15%) Financial Institution
7 113 (4.10%) Retail Banking
8 108 (3.92%) Retail
9 80 (2.90%) Corporate Banking
10 78 (2.83%) Legal
11 77 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
12 64 (2.32%) Private Banking
13 55 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
14 51 (1.85%) Back Office
15 49 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
16 38 (1.38%) Public Sector
17 33 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
18 32 (1.16%) General Ledger
19 30 (1.09%) Manufacturing
20 29 (1.05%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 465 (16.88%) Developer
2 405 (14.70%) Senior
3 395 (14.34%) Analyst
4 276 (10.02%) Architect
5 268 (9.73%) Lead
6 242 (8.78%) Business Analyst
7 153 (5.55%) Java Developer
8 139 (5.05%) Project Manager
9 107 (3.88%) Data Engineer
10 103 (3.74%) Senior Developer
11 92 (3.34%) Consultant
12 84 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
13 74 (2.69%) Banking Analyst
14 69 (2.50%) Software Engineer
15 65 (2.36%) Network Engineer
16 61 (2.21%) Data Analyst
17 54 (1.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 54 (1.96%) Java Engineer
18 52 (1.89%) Senior Java Developer
19 51 (1.85%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (5.55%) Kafka
2 144 (5.23%) React
3 131 (4.75%) REST
4 112 (4.07%) Terraform
5 111 (4.03%) .NET
6 108 (3.92%) Spring
7 105 (3.81%) Spring Boot
8 88 (3.19%) Middleware
9 64 (2.32%) Redux
10 52 (1.89%) HTML
11 49 (1.78%) RESTful
12 45 (1.63%) CSS
13 42 (1.52%) OAuth
14 39 (1.42%) PySpark
15 38 (1.38%) JSON
16 34 (1.23%) FIX Protocol
16 34 (1.23%) LangChain
17 33 (1.20%) XML
18 29 (1.05%) AngularJS
19 28 (1.02%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 230 (8.35%) Product Ownership
2 196 (7.11%) Onboarding
3 182 (6.61%) Cloud Native
4 135 (4.90%) Derivative
5 124 (4.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 101 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
7 100 (3.63%) Fixed Income
8 84 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
9 81 (2.94%) AI Agents
10 79 (2.87%) Equities
11 74 (2.69%) Management Information System
12 68 (2.47%) Data Structures
13 66 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
14 60 (2.18%) Credit Risk
15 59 (2.14%) Data Centre
16 57 (2.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 56 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
18 55 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
19 53 (1.92%) Mainframe
20 52 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 158 (5.74%) Linux
2 147 (5.34%) Windows
3 97 (3.52%) Unix
4 44 (1.60%) Windows Server
5 30 (1.09%) zOS
6 26 (0.94%) Android
6 26 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 22 (0.80%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.58%) Ubuntu
9 11 (0.40%) AIX
10 9 (0.33%) Windows 10
11 8 (0.29%) Solaris
12 7 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
13 6 (0.22%) HPUX
13 6 (0.22%) SUSE
14 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.11%) CentOS
15 3 (0.11%) MVS
15 3 (0.11%) Windows 7
15 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 736 (26.72%) Stakeholder Management
2 675 (24.50%) Agile
3 462 (16.77%) CI/CD
4 415 (15.06%) AI
5 405 (14.70%) Problem-Solving
6 353 (12.81%) DevOps
7 352 (12.78%) Migration
8 304 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 268 (9.73%) Analytics
10 258 (9.36%) Roadmaps
11 240 (8.71%) Validation
12 233 (8.46%) Data Modelling
12 233 (8.46%) Microservices
13 219 (7.95%) Software Engineering
14 204 (7.40%) Decision-Making
15 201 (7.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 198 (7.19%) Risk Management
17 197 (7.15%) User Acceptance Testing
18 196 (7.11%) Test Automation
19 195 (7.08%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 521 (18.91%) SQL
2 427 (15.50%) Python
3 382 (13.87%) Java
4 174 (6.32%) C#
5 149 (5.41%) JavaScript
6 118 (4.28%) TypeScript
7 93 (3.38%) PowerShell
8 74 (2.69%) PL/SQL
9 64 (2.32%) Bash
10 50 (1.81%) Shell Script
11 49 (1.78%) Kotlin
12 38 (1.38%) T-SQL
13 34 (1.23%) C++
14 27 (0.98%) Korn
15 19 (0.69%) Go
15 19 (0.69%) VBA
16 15 (0.54%) JCL
17 13 (0.47%) COBOL
18 11 (0.40%) Bicep
19 10 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 190 (6.90%) Degree
2 131 (4.75%) Security Cleared
3 104 (3.77%) SC Cleared
4 66 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (2.07%) PMP
6 52 (1.89%) PMI Certification
7 37 (1.34%) CISSP
8 29 (1.05%) AWS Certification
9 27 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (0.94%) Azure Certification
11 23 (0.83%) Master's Degree
12 22 (0.80%) ACCA
13 20 (0.73%) ISTQB
14 19 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
14 19 (0.69%) CIMA
15 15 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 14 (0.51%) CISM
17 12 (0.44%) CCNP
18 11 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 11 (0.40%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (6.68%) Data Quality
2 154 (5.59%) QA
3 54 (1.96%) ISO 20022
4 51 (1.85%) PMO
5 40 (1.45%) GRC
6 39 (1.42%) SEPA
7 30 (1.09%) NIST
8 29 (1.05%) GDPR
9 27 (0.98%) SLA
10 24 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 23 (0.83%) Accessibility
12 22 (0.80%) MiFID
13 19 (0.69%) PSD2
14 18 (0.65%) IFRS
15 13 (0.47%) EMIR
15 13 (0.47%) PCI DSS
16 11 (0.40%) Basel III
17 8 (0.29%) COREP
17 8 (0.29%) FINREP
17 8 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 122 (4.43%) Docker
2 65 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.80%) RACF
5 12 (0.44%) Firmware
6 10 (0.36%) vSphere
7 9 (0.33%) NFS
8 8 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.18%) ACF2
9 5 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 4 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
10 4 (0.15%) Varnish
11 3 (0.11%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.073%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.073%) GPFS
12 2 (0.073%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.073%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 178 (6.46%) Kubernetes
2 83 (3.01%) Ansible
3 27 (0.98%) Grafana
3 27 (0.98%) Prometheus
4 20 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.62%) Control-M
5 17 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (0.58%) SCCM
7 15 (0.54%) OMEGAMON
8 12 (0.44%) Argo
9 10 (0.36%) FortiGate
9 10 (0.36%) Istio
10 8 (0.29%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
12 6 (0.22%) Tivoli
13 5 (0.18%) HP ALM
13 5 (0.18%) systemd
14 4 (0.15%) HAProxy
15 3 (0.11%) CA Endevor
15 3 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 290 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 212 (7.70%) Oracle
3 116 (4.21%) IBM
4 102 (3.70%) Databricks
5 86 (3.12%) ServiceNow
6 66 (2.40%) Cisco
7 61 (2.21%) Google
8 57 (2.07%) Salesforce
9 52 (1.89%) Splunk
10 43 (1.56%) SAP
11 41 (1.49%) F5
12 39 (1.42%) Citrix
13 38 (1.38%) OpenAI
14 37 (1.34%) CyberArk
15 35 (1.27%) VMware
16 31 (1.13%) Murex
17 30 (1.09%) Bloomberg
18 26 (0.94%) Avaloq
18 26 (0.94%) Dynatrace
19 22 (0.80%) Fortinet