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 8 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 24 25
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,258 1,883 2,300
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.57% 7.77% 6.24%
As % of the General category 10.21% 12.11% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,359 1,253 1,695
10th Percentile £372 £358 £385
25th Percentile £440 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £775
90th Percentile £788 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -12.50% -2.04% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 21
10th Percentile - £17.10 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £19.45 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £23.47 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.82% +20.33% -7.14%
75th Percentile £95.00 £24.66 £27.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £48.98 £83.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £22.27 £19.05
% change year-on-year +15.72% +16.90% -9.29%

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 22,122 15,548 21,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.60% 64.17% 58.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,749 10,088 13,837
10th Percentile £306 £300 £278
25th Percentile £409 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,446 660 1,786
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.18 £16.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.50 £27.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -9.84% -6.15%
75th Percentile £63.75 £56.25 £51.91
90th Percentile £80.07 £75.00 £65.14
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.82% -8.17%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 1,546 £575 -11.54% 391
North of England +3 478 £468 +4.00% 72
North West +10 266 £447 +4.56% 41
Yorkshire -3 207 £500 - 27
Midlands -1 179 £483 +3.76% 42
West Midlands +17 125 £558 +0.45% 19
East Midlands -12 54 £455 +15.04% 23
South East -50 41 £500 -13.04% 93
South West -39 35 £500 -6.98% 11
East of England -27 13 £600 - 10
North East -9 10 £400 -4.76% 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
1 168 (7.44%) Confluence
2 49 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.06%) SAS
4 17 (0.75%) IIS
5 16 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 13 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.53%) Apache
7 12 (0.53%) CICS
8 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.22%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.22%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.18%) CMS
12 3 (0.13%) Camunda
12 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.089%) Appian
13 2 (0.089%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.089%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.089%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 133 (5.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (1.90%) MS Visio
5 30 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.49%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.22%) Notion
8 2 (0.089%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.089%) InVision
8 2 (0.089%) Sketch
8 2 (0.089%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.044%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.044%) Trello
Business Applications
1 29 (1.28%) Payment Gateway
2 24 (1.06%) Oracle Payables
3 22 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
4 20 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
4 20 (0.89%) Temenos T24
5 18 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
6 16 (0.71%) Loan IQ
6 16 (0.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 12 (0.53%) Finacle
8 10 (0.44%) SAP FI
9 9 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
10 8 (0.35%) Actimize
10 8 (0.35%) Aladdin
10 8 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
10 8 (0.35%) SAP CO
10 8 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
10 8 (0.35%) Summit
11 6 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 5 (0.22%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 360 (15.94%) Azure
2 313 (13.86%) AWS
3 154 (6.82%) GCP
4 118 (5.23%) Power Platform
5 96 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
6 76 (3.37%) GitHub
7 58 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
8 54 (2.39%) SaaS
9 40 (1.77%) Figma
10 33 (1.46%) Serverless
11 31 (1.37%) OpenShift
12 30 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (1.28%) Entra ID
13 29 (1.28%) Snowflake
14 27 (1.20%) Amazon S3
15 25 (1.11%) OCI
16 24 (1.06%) Power Automate
17 20 (0.89%) Amazon EKS
17 20 (0.89%) Microsoft Copilot
17 20 (0.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (3.19%) DNS
2 54 (2.39%) VPN
3 50 (2.21%) Firewall
4 41 (1.82%) HTTP
4 41 (1.82%) TCP/IP
5 39 (1.73%) Network Security
6 28 (1.24%) Multicast
7 27 (1.20%) BGP
8 25 (1.11%) DMZ
8 25 (1.11%) SSL
9 24 (1.06%) BIG-IP
9 24 (1.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 22 (0.97%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 22 (0.97%) Wireshark
11 21 (0.93%) FIX Connectivity
11 21 (0.93%) SAN
12 15 (0.66%) NetScaler
13 14 (0.62%) DHCP
14 10 (0.44%) OSPF
14 10 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (4.25%) Power BI
2 95 (4.21%) SQL Server
3 54 (2.39%) Tableau
4 53 (2.35%) Metadata
5 52 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
6 45 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
7 43 (1.90%) Oracle Database
8 35 (1.55%) Relational Database
9 34 (1.51%) MongoDB
10 28 (1.24%) NoSQL
11 23 (1.02%) Big Data
12 22 (0.97%) DB2
13 21 (0.93%) BigQuery
14 17 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 16 (0.71%) Data Lake
16 14 (0.62%) Pinecone
16 14 (0.62%) Weaviate
17 13 (0.58%) Power Query
18 12 (0.53%) DataStage
19 11 (0.49%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 254 (11.25%) JIRA
2 97 (4.30%) Jenkins
3 85 (3.76%) Git
4 59 (2.61%) GitLab
5 30 (1.33%) JUnit
6 22 (0.97%) Selenium
7 19 (0.84%) Fiddler
8 16 (0.71%) Bitbucket
8 16 (0.71%) Cucumber
9 15 (0.66%) TeamCity
10 14 (0.62%) Maven
10 14 (0.62%) Postman
11 13 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
12 12 (0.53%) REST Assured
12 12 (0.53%) SonarQube
13 11 (0.49%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.44%) Mockito
15 9 (0.40%) Gradle
16 8 (0.35%) Appium
16 8 (0.35%) MLflow
General
1 1,403 (62.13%) Finance
2 645 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 450 (19.93%) Investment Banking
4 322 (14.26%) Analytical Skills
5 178 (7.88%) Front Office
6 110 (4.87%) Financial Institution
7 99 (4.38%) Retail Banking
8 82 (3.63%) Corporate Banking
9 78 (3.45%) Retail
10 70 (3.10%) Legal
11 61 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
12 54 (2.39%) Public Sector
13 39 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
15 35 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
16 28 (1.24%) Marketing
17 27 (1.20%) General Ledger
18 22 (0.97%) Back Office
19 20 (0.89%) Private Banking
20 19 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 375 (16.61%) Analyst
2 371 (16.43%) Developer
3 290 (12.84%) Senior
4 269 (11.91%) Architect
5 259 (11.47%) Business Analyst
6 167 (7.40%) Lead
7 127 (5.62%) Solutions Architect
8 109 (4.83%) Project Manager
9 103 (4.56%) Java Developer
10 93 (4.12%) Banking Analyst
11 85 (3.76%) Senior Developer
12 80 (3.54%) Data Engineer
13 78 (3.45%) Consultant
14 62 (2.75%) Banking Business Analyst
15 58 (2.57%) Payments Architect
16 55 (2.44%) Network Engineer
17 53 (2.35%) Designer
17 53 (2.35%) Payments Solutions Architect
18 47 (2.08%) C# Developer
19 43 (1.90%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (4.96%) .NET
2 109 (4.83%) Kafka
3 91 (4.03%) React
4 78 (3.45%) Middleware
5 72 (3.19%) Spring
6 71 (3.14%) REST
7 63 (2.79%) HTML
8 62 (2.75%) Spring Boot
9 58 (2.57%) RESTful
10 48 (2.13%) CSS
11 42 (1.86%) OAuth
12 40 (1.77%) AngularJS
13 37 (1.64%) JSON
13 37 (1.64%) XML
14 32 (1.42%) FIX Protocol
15 31 (1.37%) OAuth2
16 26 (1.15%) Node.js
17 25 (1.11%) HTML5
18 24 (1.06%) Redux
19 23 (1.02%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 158 (7.00%) Product Ownership
2 115 (5.09%) Derivative
3 106 (4.69%) Onboarding
4 99 (4.38%) Cloud Native
5 96 (4.25%) Management Information System
6 85 (3.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 75 (3.32%) Data Protection Act
8 69 (3.06%) Fixed Income
9 62 (2.75%) Data Structures
10 59 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
11 55 (2.44%) Equities
12 47 (2.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 45 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
14 42 (1.86%) Credit Risk
14 42 (1.86%) Data Centre
15 41 (1.82%) Market Risk
16 39 (1.73%) Mainframe
17 32 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
18 30 (1.33%) AI Agents
18 30 (1.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 139 (6.16%) Windows
2 100 (4.43%) Linux
3 69 (3.06%) Unix
4 32 (1.42%) Windows 10
5 26 (1.15%) Android
6 23 (1.02%) Apple iOS
6 23 (1.02%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.97%) zOS
8 17 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.49%) AIX
9 11 (0.49%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.31%) VMS
11 6 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
11 6 (0.27%) Solaris
11 6 (0.27%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
12 5 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.18%) HPUX
13 4 (0.18%) SUSE
14 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 560 (24.80%) Agile
2 413 (18.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 352 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
4 304 (13.46%) CI/CD
5 296 (13.11%) DevOps
6 251 (11.12%) Migration
7 246 (10.89%) AI
8 196 (8.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 190 (8.41%) Analytics
10 188 (8.33%) Roadmaps
11 185 (8.19%) Decision-Making
12 181 (8.02%) Data Modelling
13 173 (7.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 171 (7.57%) Microservices
15 169 (7.48%) Validation
16 167 (7.40%) Risk Management
17 157 (6.95%) User Acceptance Testing
18 146 (6.47%) Test Automation
19 142 (6.29%) Data Analysis
19 142 (6.29%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 376 (16.65%) SQL
2 317 (14.04%) Python
3 287 (12.71%) Java
4 144 (6.38%) C#
5 105 (4.65%) JavaScript
6 72 (3.19%) TypeScript
7 58 (2.57%) PowerShell
8 45 (1.99%) PL/SQL
9 34 (1.51%) Shell Script
10 30 (1.33%) T-SQL
11 26 (1.15%) Bash
11 26 (1.15%) VBA
12 25 (1.11%) Go
13 22 (0.97%) Kotlin
14 19 (0.84%) C++
14 19 (0.84%) COBOL
15 18 (0.80%) Korn
16 16 (0.71%) JCL
17 14 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 14 (0.62%) Scala
Qualifications
1 199 (8.81%) Degree
2 110 (4.87%) Security Cleared
3 68 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 68 (3.01%) SC Cleared
4 55 (2.44%) PMP
5 54 (2.39%) Master's Degree
6 53 (2.35%) PMI Certification
7 40 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 34 (1.51%) CISSP
9 28 (1.24%) Azure Certification
10 21 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (0.75%) AWS Certification
11 17 (0.75%) MBA
12 16 (0.71%) CISM
13 13 (0.58%) CBAP
13 13 (0.58%) ISTQB
14 10 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 9 (0.40%) ACCA
15 9 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (5.80%) QA
2 119 (5.27%) Data Quality
3 53 (2.35%) GDPR
4 51 (2.26%) ISO 20022
5 49 (2.17%) PMO
6 37 (1.64%) PSD2
7 36 (1.59%) SLA
8 35 (1.55%) NIST
9 33 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 33 (1.46%) SEPA
10 30 (1.33%) PCI DSS
11 28 (1.24%) GRC
12 24 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 20 (0.89%) Accessibility
13 20 (0.89%) MiFID
14 18 (0.80%) Basel III
15 15 (0.66%) ISO 8583
16 12 (0.53%) IFRS
17 8 (0.35%) EMIR
18 7 (0.31%) COREP
System Software
1 125 (5.54%) Docker
2 45 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.84%) Firmware
5 14 (0.62%) NFS
6 13 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.58%) vSphere
7 10 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.27%) RACF
9 5 (0.22%) Varnish
9 5 (0.22%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.18%) Postfix
10 4 (0.18%) Sendmail
10 4 (0.18%) XenApp
11 3 (0.13%) ACF2
11 3 (0.13%) SRDF
11 3 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
11 3 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.089%) GPFS
12 2 (0.089%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 167 (7.40%) Kubernetes
2 85 (3.76%) Terraform
3 65 (2.88%) Ansible
4 33 (1.46%) Grafana
5 25 (1.11%) SCCM
6 24 (1.06%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.80%) Argo
7 18 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (0.44%) Control-M
8 10 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.35%) Puppet
10 7 (0.31%) Istio
10 7 (0.31%) WSUS
11 6 (0.27%) SnapMirror
12 5 (0.22%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
12 5 (0.22%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.18%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.18%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 273 (12.09%) Microsoft
2 166 (7.35%) Oracle
3 80 (3.54%) ServiceNow
4 64 (2.83%) Google
5 59 (2.61%) Cisco
6 58 (2.57%) IBM
7 57 (2.52%) SAP
8 53 (2.35%) F5
9 47 (2.08%) Citrix
9 47 (2.08%) VMware
10 46 (2.04%) Splunk
11 32 (1.42%) Databricks
12 29 (1.28%) Temenos
13 28 (1.24%) Murex
14 27 (1.20%) Bloomberg
15 26 (1.15%) HP
15 26 (1.15%) NetApp
15 26 (1.15%) Pega
16 24 (1.06%) Avaloq
16 24 (1.06%) Remedy