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 17 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 24 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -7
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,169 2,387 3,022
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.26% 7.73% 7.58%
As % of the General category 11.41% 13.03% 12.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,414 1,586 2,097
10th Percentile £358 £400 £406
25th Percentile £425 £495 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £608 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% -2.68% -3.85%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £750
90th Percentile £825 £850 £850
UK median daily rate £540 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -10.00% -3.23% -4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 9 22
10th Percentile £18.69 £14.35 £15.72
25th Percentile £24.45 £15.22 £17.12
Median hourly rate £25.15 £27.00 £18.72
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% +44.27% -26.61%
75th Percentile - £66.00 £32.81
90th Percentile £56.00 £84.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £18.93
% change year-on-year +4.01% +27.73% -27.19%

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 common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 19,014 18,324 23,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 63.64% 59.31% 59.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,041 10,991 16,205
10th Percentile £275 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £673
90th Percentile £738 £775 £772
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,246 687 1,043
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.04 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.77 £17.44 £17.23
Median hourly rate £24.34 £31.97 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.87% -0.09% +24.47%
75th Percentile £45.35 £60.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £70.41
UK median hourly rate £24.09 £29.50 £30.83
% change year-on-year -18.34% -4.30% +23.30%

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 17 November 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 17 November 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 17 November 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 -6 1,538 £600 -6.25% 715
North of England +4 406 £465 -7.00% 83
Yorkshire 0 223 £500 -8.05% 26
North West +4 193 £441 -1.94% 55
Midlands +17 167 £465 -15.45% 55
West Midlands +13 94 £525 -14.98% 28
East Midlands +14 75 £403 -9.52% 27
South East -32 42 £413 -17.50% 136
South West +17 35 £525 -4.98% 19
East of England -9 10 £400 -46.67% 9
North East -6 4 - - 3
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
1 126 (5.81%) Confluence
2 51 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 45 (2.07%) Apache
4 42 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (0.97%) Apache Spark
6 19 (0.88%) CMS
7 16 (0.74%) CICS
8 11 (0.51%) MQSeries
8 11 (0.51%) WebSphere
9 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.41%) Tomcat
11 8 (0.37%) Mule
12 7 (0.32%) HCL Notes
12 7 (0.32%) SAS
13 5 (0.23%) IIS
13 5 (0.23%) JBoss
13 5 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.18%) Anypoint
14 4 (0.18%) Camunda
15 3 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 117 (5.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
3 55 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (1.80%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
6 20 (0.92%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 7 (0.32%) Sketch
9 6 (0.28%) Adobe Captivate
10 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.14%) InVision
10 3 (0.14%) Trello
11 2 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.092%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.046%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 23 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
2 20 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
3 19 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
5 13 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
6 12 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
6 12 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
7 10 (0.46%) Oracle EBS R12
7 10 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
7 10 (0.46%) VisionPLUS
8 8 (0.37%) Aladdin
8 8 (0.37%) Oracle BPM
8 8 (0.37%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 6 (0.28%) Fidessa
9 6 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
9 6 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
9 6 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
10 5 (0.23%) Loan IQ
10 5 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 332 (15.31%) AWS
2 329 (15.17%) Azure
3 191 (8.81%) GCP
4 129 (5.95%) Power Platform
5 79 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
6 76 (3.50%) GitHub
7 63 (2.90%) Serverless
8 50 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (2.17%) Figma
10 45 (2.07%) Snowflake
11 38 (1.75%) Entra ID
11 38 (1.75%) SaaS
12 36 (1.66%) PowerApps
13 34 (1.57%) dbt
14 31 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
15 28 (1.29%) Power Automate
16 25 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
17 20 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
17 20 (0.92%) Azure AKS
18 19 (0.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 54 (2.49%) Firewall
2 40 (1.84%) DNS
3 34 (1.57%) Network Security
4 28 (1.29%) Wireless
5 25 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 25 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 22 (1.01%) TCP/IP
7 21 (0.97%) DMZ
8 19 (0.88%) Multicast
9 18 (0.83%) HTTP
10 14 (0.65%) SSL
11 13 (0.60%) DHCP
11 13 (0.60%) Wireshark
12 12 (0.55%) BGP
12 12 (0.55%) BIG-IP
13 11 (0.51%) VPN
14 9 (0.41%) LAN
14 9 (0.41%) SAN
15 8 (0.37%) Internet
15 8 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (4.84%) Power BI
2 94 (4.33%) SQL Server
3 88 (4.06%) PostgreSQL
4 71 (3.27%) NoSQL
5 56 (2.58%) Tableau
6 53 (2.44%) MongoDB
7 47 (2.17%) Data Lake
8 46 (2.12%) Relational Database
9 38 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
10 36 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
11 34 (1.57%) Apache Arrow
11 34 (1.57%) Apache Iceberg
11 34 (1.57%) Apache Ignite
11 34 (1.57%) Dremio
12 30 (1.38%) DB2
12 30 (1.38%) Metadata
13 29 (1.34%) Oracle Database
14 24 (1.11%) Big Data
15 23 (1.06%) Power Query
16 20 (0.92%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 213 (9.82%) JIRA
2 159 (7.33%) Jenkins
3 117 (5.39%) Git
4 83 (3.83%) GitLab
5 50 (2.31%) JUnit
6 40 (1.84%) Sonatype Nexus
7 34 (1.57%) Selenium
8 32 (1.48%) Bitbucket
9 26 (1.20%) Cucumber
9 26 (1.20%) Maven
10 25 (1.15%) Liquibase
11 24 (1.11%) SonarQube
12 21 (0.97%) Postman
13 19 (0.88%) Gradle
14 16 (0.74%) TeamCity
15 14 (0.65%) Xcode
16 13 (0.60%) Cypress.io
16 13 (0.60%) REST Assured
17 11 (0.51%) Fiddler
17 11 (0.51%) webpack
General
1 1,352 (62.33%) Finance
2 791 (36.47%) Social Skills
3 500 (23.05%) Investment Banking
4 306 (14.11%) Analytical Skills
5 211 (9.73%) Front Office
6 136 (6.27%) Financial Institution
7 77 (3.55%) Retail Banking
8 68 (3.14%) Retail
9 55 (2.54%) Corporate Banking
10 50 (2.31%) Legal
11 43 (1.98%) Back Office
12 39 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
13 36 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
13 36 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
14 33 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
15 28 (1.29%) Private Banking
16 24 (1.11%) International Banking
16 24 (1.11%) Public Sector
17 21 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 17 (0.78%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 451 (20.79%) Developer
2 359 (16.55%) Analyst
3 273 (12.59%) Senior
4 235 (10.83%) Business Analyst
5 184 (8.48%) Architect
6 139 (6.41%) Project Manager
7 123 (5.67%) Java Developer
8 105 (4.84%) Lead
9 94 (4.33%) Software Engineer
10 88 (4.06%) Senior Developer
11 71 (3.27%) Solutions Architect
12 62 (2.86%) Banking Analyst
12 62 (2.86%) Consultant
12 62 (2.86%) Python Engineer
13 60 (2.77%) AWS Engineer
14 57 (2.63%) Designer
15 55 (2.54%) Data Analyst
16 52 (2.40%) DevOps Engineer
17 49 (2.26%) Senior Java Developer
18 48 (2.21%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (5.72%) Kafka
2 113 (5.21%) REST
3 99 (4.56%) .NET
4 91 (4.20%) React
5 86 (3.96%) RESTful
6 85 (3.92%) Spring
7 72 (3.32%) Pandas
8 69 (3.18%) NumPy
9 68 (3.14%) Spring Boot
10 62 (2.86%) AngularJS
10 62 (2.86%) HTML
11 54 (2.49%) CSS
12 53 (2.44%) SciPy
13 42 (1.94%) Node.js
14 40 (1.84%) Elastic Stack
15 39 (1.80%) gRPC
15 39 (1.80%) XML
16 37 (1.71%) FIX Protocol
17 35 (1.61%) Middleware
18 34 (1.57%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 157 (7.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 149 (6.87%) Derivative
3 110 (5.07%) Onboarding
3 110 (5.07%) Product Ownership
4 101 (4.66%) Cloud Native
5 100 (4.61%) Equities
5 100 (4.61%) Fixed Income
6 82 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
7 79 (3.64%) Hedge funds
8 76 (3.50%) Management Information System
9 66 (3.04%) Data Centre
10 61 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
11 60 (2.77%) Mobile App
12 48 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
13 46 (2.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 42 (1.94%) Market Risk
14 42 (1.94%) Public Cloud
15 36 (1.66%) Data Structures
16 34 (1.57%) Pricing Data
17 33 (1.52%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 170 (7.84%) Linux
2 124 (5.72%) Windows
3 60 (2.77%) Android
4 46 (2.12%) Unix
5 32 (1.48%) Apple iOS
6 26 (1.20%) Mac OS
7 25 (1.15%) Windows 10
8 19 (0.88%) Windows Server
9 8 (0.37%) zOS
10 5 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.092%) AIX
11 2 (0.092%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.046%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.046%) Solaris
12 1 (0.046%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.046%) VMS
12 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 622 (28.68%) Agile
2 407 (18.76%) Problem-Solving
3 324 (14.94%) DevOps
4 309 (14.25%) CI/CD
5 295 (13.60%) Stakeholder Management
6 214 (9.87%) Analytics
7 209 (9.64%) Microservices
8 183 (8.44%) Risk Management
9 168 (7.75%) Project Management
10 167 (7.70%) Software Engineering
11 165 (7.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 153 (7.05%) Migration
13 149 (6.87%) Decision-Making
14 148 (6.82%) Change Management
15 138 (6.36%) Roadmaps
16 137 (6.32%) Scrum
17 128 (5.90%) Computer Science
17 128 (5.90%) Containerisation
18 127 (5.86%) Data Analysis
19 126 (5.81%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 424 (19.55%) Python
2 369 (17.01%) SQL
3 350 (16.14%) Java
4 144 (6.64%) C#
5 141 (6.50%) JavaScript
6 86 (3.96%) TypeScript
7 60 (2.77%) C++
8 56 (2.58%) PowerShell
9 52 (2.40%) Go
10 38 (1.75%) Shell Script
11 31 (1.43%) Kotlin
11 31 (1.43%) PL/SQL
12 27 (1.24%) Bash
13 23 (1.06%) Scala
13 23 (1.06%) VBA
14 20 (0.92%) Rust
15 18 (0.83%) COBOL
16 16 (0.74%) Swift
17 13 (0.60%) Objective-C
17 13 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 240 (11.07%) Degree
2 88 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 81 (3.73%) Security Cleared
4 57 (2.63%) Master's Degree
5 45 (2.07%) PMI Certification
6 42 (1.94%) PMP
7 40 (1.84%) SC Cleared
8 31 (1.43%) AWS Certification
8 31 (1.43%) CISSP
9 30 (1.38%) Azure Certification
10 26 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (0.88%) DV Cleared
13 14 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 14 (0.65%) CISM
14 13 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.55%) BC Cleared
16 9 (0.41%) CCNP
17 8 (0.37%) CFA
17 8 (0.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (5.72%) QA
2 74 (3.41%) Data Quality
3 54 (2.49%) GDPR
4 47 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 42 (1.94%) PMO
6 38 (1.75%) ISO 20022
7 30 (1.38%) NIST
8 29 (1.34%) SEPA
9 27 (1.24%) MiFID
9 27 (1.24%) SLA
10 23 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 20 (0.92%) PSD2
12 18 (0.83%) PCI DSS
13 17 (0.78%) EMIR
13 17 (0.78%) GRC
13 17 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 13 (0.60%) Basel III
15 7 (0.32%) IFRS
15 7 (0.32%) SOC 2
16 6 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 167 (7.70%) Docker
2 44 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 43 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.60%) Firmware
4 13 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.23%) RACF
6 5 (0.23%) Time Sharing Option
7 4 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.092%) ACF2
8 2 (0.092%) GridGain
8 2 (0.092%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.092%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.092%) NFS
8 2 (0.092%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 2 (0.092%) vSphere
8 2 (0.092%) XenApp
8 2 (0.092%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.046%) KVM
Systems Management
1 193 (8.90%) Kubernetes
2 114 (5.26%) Terraform
3 80 (3.69%) Ansible
4 45 (2.07%) Grafana
4 45 (2.07%) Prometheus
5 16 (0.74%) SCCM
6 13 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
7 12 (0.55%) NetBackup
8 11 (0.51%) Argo
8 11 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
9 10 (0.46%) Control-M
10 8 (0.37%) CA Endevor
10 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.32%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.28%) Istio
12 6 (0.28%) RSA Archer
13 5 (0.23%) Kibana
13 5 (0.23%) QRadar
13 5 (0.23%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 247 (11.39%) Microsoft
2 141 (6.50%) Oracle
3 102 (4.70%) Google
4 58 (2.67%) Splunk
5 54 (2.49%) IBM
6 50 (2.31%) VMware
7 41 (1.89%) Cisco
8 39 (1.80%) ServiceNow
9 37 (1.71%) F5
9 37 (1.71%) Salesforce
10 34 (1.57%) HP
11 31 (1.43%) Apple
11 31 (1.43%) CyberArk
12 30 (1.38%) Dell
13 27 (1.24%) SAP
14 26 (1.20%) Citrix
15 25 (1.15%) Databricks
16 24 (1.11%) Bloomberg
16 24 (1.11%) Dynatrace
16 24 (1.11%) Solace