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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 22 25
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,589 2,142 2,488
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.82% 8.03% 6.71%
As % of the General category 10.56% 12.57% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,567 1,469 1,822
10th Percentile £400 £358 £400
25th Percentile £450 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £684 £750 £788
90th Percentile £800 £838 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £553 £600
% change year-on-year -0.54% -7.83% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 25 25
10th Percentile - £16.09 £12.34
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.87 £14.50
Median hourly rate £24.89 £24.66 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% +26.46% +11.68%
75th Percentile £66.88 £25.15 £40.50
90th Percentile £96.38 £63.00 £86.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £24.66 £19.50
% change year-on-year -2.68% +26.46% +5.41%

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 24,516 17,035 21,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.15% 63.85% 57.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,801 10,924 13,585
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £517 £533
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% -3.00% -3.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,769 860 1,753
10th Percentile £14.34 £13.34 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £16.48 £15.92
Median hourly rate £32.81 £27.17 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.75% -17.67% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £51.41 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £32.36 £27.22 £31.89
% change year-on-year +18.91% -14.65% +6.28%

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 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 8 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 8 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 -10 1,826 £575 -11.54% 481
North of England -3 521 £500 +12.36% 90
North West 0 268 £472 +17.29% 52
Yorkshire -3 244 £510 +2.00% 29
Midlands -6 176 £525 +23.53% 39
West Midlands +27 133 £570 +3.64% 23
East Midlands -26 42 £504 +29.13% 16
South East -56 35 £550 +4.76% 90
South West -39 33 £515 -1.90% 16
East of England -4 28 £560 -6.67% 10
North East -30 13 £875 +108.33% 9
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
1 166 (6.41%) Confluence
2 55 (2.12%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.08%) SAS
4 20 (0.77%) IIS
5 18 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.70%) Apache Spark
6 13 (0.50%) Apache
7 10 (0.39%) Camunda
7 10 (0.39%) CICS
8 8 (0.31%) Appian
9 7 (0.27%) Ethereum
9 7 (0.27%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.15%) WordPress
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.077%) CMS
13 2 (0.077%) JBoss
13 2 (0.077%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.077%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 107 (4.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (1.31%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.12%) Sketch
8 2 (0.077%) InVision
8 2 (0.077%) Notion
8 2 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.077%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.039%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 26 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
2 22 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
2 22 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
3 19 (0.73%) Finacle
3 19 (0.73%) Temenos T24
4 16 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
5 15 (0.58%) Loan IQ
6 12 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 11 (0.42%) Aladdin
8 9 (0.35%) Actimize
9 8 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
9 8 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
10 7 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
10 7 (0.27%) Summit
11 6 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
11 6 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
11 6 (0.23%) OpenText MBPM
11 6 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
12 5 (0.19%) SAP CO
12 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 395 (15.26%) Azure
2 348 (13.44%) AWS
3 169 (6.53%) GCP
4 132 (5.10%) Power Platform
5 82 (3.17%) GitHub
6 77 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
7 70 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
8 59 (2.28%) SaaS
8 59 (2.28%) Snowflake
9 41 (1.58%) OpenShift
10 38 (1.47%) Entra ID
11 35 (1.35%) Amazon S3
12 30 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
12 30 (1.16%) Figma
12 30 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (1.08%) Serverless
14 26 (1.00%) Power Automate
15 24 (0.93%) PowerApps
16 21 (0.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 21 (0.81%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (2.63%) DNS
1 68 (2.63%) Firewall
2 61 (2.36%) VPN
3 58 (2.24%) Network Security
4 39 (1.51%) TCP/IP
5 33 (1.27%) Multicast
5 33 (1.27%) SSL
6 32 (1.24%) BGP
7 31 (1.20%) HTTP
8 24 (0.93%) SAN
9 23 (0.89%) BIG-IP
9 23 (0.89%) DMZ
10 22 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 20 (0.77%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 20 (0.77%) Wireshark
12 19 (0.73%) FIX Connectivity
13 16 (0.62%) DHCP
14 12 (0.46%) Internet
15 11 (0.42%) LAN
15 11 (0.42%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (4.56%) SQL Server
2 108 (4.17%) Power BI
3 75 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
4 70 (2.70%) Metadata
5 65 (2.51%) Relational Database
6 51 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
7 48 (1.85%) Oracle Database
8 40 (1.54%) Tableau
9 36 (1.39%) MongoDB
10 31 (1.20%) Big Data
11 29 (1.12%) Data Lake
12 23 (0.89%) NoSQL
13 21 (0.81%) RDBMS
14 20 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 19 (0.73%) BigQuery
15 19 (0.73%) Db2
16 18 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
17 15 (0.58%) Data Vault
17 15 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 13 (0.50%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 265 (10.24%) JIRA
2 109 (4.21%) Jenkins
3 108 (4.17%) Git
4 65 (2.51%) GitLab
5 40 (1.54%) JUnit
6 27 (1.04%) Selenium
7 23 (0.89%) Cucumber
8 19 (0.73%) Postman
8 19 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
8 19 (0.73%) TeamCity
9 17 (0.66%) Fiddler
10 16 (0.62%) Bitbucket
11 15 (0.58%) Mockito
12 14 (0.54%) ERwin
12 14 (0.54%) REST Assured
12 14 (0.54%) SonarQube
13 13 (0.50%) ER Studio
14 12 (0.46%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.46%) Maven
15 10 (0.39%) Gradle
General
1 1,592 (61.49%) Finance
2 676 (26.11%) Social Skills
3 547 (21.13%) Investment Banking
4 347 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
5 230 (8.88%) Front Office
6 123 (4.75%) Financial Institution
7 110 (4.25%) Retail Banking
8 105 (4.06%) Retail
9 90 (3.48%) Corporate Banking
10 86 (3.32%) Legal
11 62 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
12 58 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
13 50 (1.93%) Public Sector
14 46 (1.78%) Private Banking
15 42 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
16 30 (1.16%) Back Office
17 29 (1.12%) Marketing
18 26 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
19 19 (0.73%) General Ledger
19 19 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 462 (17.84%) Developer
2 391 (15.10%) Analyst
3 318 (12.28%) Senior
4 302 (11.66%) Architect
5 261 (10.08%) Business Analyst
6 217 (8.38%) Lead
7 163 (6.30%) Java Developer
8 124 (4.79%) Solutions Architect
9 109 (4.21%) Senior Developer
10 106 (4.09%) Project Manager
11 95 (3.67%) Data Engineer
12 85 (3.28%) Banking Analyst
13 81 (3.13%) Consultant
14 69 (2.67%) Senior Java Developer
15 61 (2.36%) Network Engineer
16 57 (2.20%) Data Analyst
17 56 (2.16%) Software Engineer
18 55 (2.12%) C# Developer
19 54 (2.09%) Banking Business Analyst
20 50 (1.93%) Payments Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (5.48%) React
2 123 (4.75%) .NET
3 116 (4.48%) Kafka
4 100 (3.86%) REST
5 95 (3.67%) Middleware
6 92 (3.55%) Spring
7 76 (2.94%) Spring Boot
8 66 (2.55%) RESTful
9 54 (2.09%) Redux
10 52 (2.01%) HTML
11 47 (1.82%) CSS
11 47 (1.82%) OAuth
12 42 (1.62%) AngularJS
13 39 (1.51%) FIX Protocol
14 36 (1.39%) JSON
15 32 (1.24%) Node.js
15 32 (1.24%) OAuth2
16 28 (1.08%) XML
17 26 (1.00%) .NET Framework
17 26 (1.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 174 (6.72%) Product Ownership
2 139 (5.37%) Cloud Native
3 131 (5.06%) Derivative
3 131 (5.06%) Onboarding
4 129 (4.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 100 (3.86%) Fixed Income
6 87 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
7 82 (3.17%) Management Information System
8 79 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
8 79 (3.05%) Equities
9 69 (2.67%) Data Structures
10 57 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
11 55 (2.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 51 (1.97%) Mainframe
13 50 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
14 47 (1.82%) Credit Risk
15 44 (1.70%) AI Agents
15 44 (1.70%) Data Centre
16 42 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
17 41 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 151 (5.83%) Windows
2 132 (5.10%) Linux
3 87 (3.36%) Unix
4 30 (1.16%) zOS
5 29 (1.12%) Windows Server
6 25 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 23 (0.89%) Apple iOS
8 22 (0.85%) Android
9 17 (0.66%) Windows 10
10 12 (0.46%) AIX
10 12 (0.46%) Ubuntu
11 9 (0.35%) Solaris
12 8 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
13 6 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
13 6 (0.23%) HPUX
13 6 (0.23%) SUSE
13 6 (0.23%) VMS
14 5 (0.19%) CoreOS
14 5 (0.19%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 587 (22.67%) Agile
2 473 (18.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 389 (15.03%) CI/CD
4 363 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
5 335 (12.94%) AI
6 332 (12.82%) DevOps
7 309 (11.94%) Migration
8 241 (9.31%) Analytics
9 237 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 216 (8.34%) Data Modelling
11 204 (7.88%) Roadmaps
12 202 (7.80%) Microservices
13 190 (7.34%) Validation
14 184 (7.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 181 (6.99%) User Acceptance Testing
16 171 (6.60%) Decision-Making
17 164 (6.33%) Test Automation
18 163 (6.30%) Risk Management
18 163 (6.30%) Software Engineering
19 159 (6.14%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 418 (16.15%) SQL
2 373 (14.41%) Python
3 357 (13.79%) Java
4 182 (7.03%) C#
5 137 (5.29%) JavaScript
6 115 (4.44%) TypeScript
7 74 (2.86%) PowerShell
8 61 (2.36%) PL/SQL
9 43 (1.66%) Bash
9 43 (1.66%) T-SQL
10 40 (1.54%) Shell Script
11 33 (1.27%) Kotlin
12 28 (1.08%) VBA
13 27 (1.04%) C++
14 21 (0.81%) Korn
15 20 (0.77%) Go
16 17 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 15 (0.58%) Scala
18 12 (0.46%) COBOL
18 12 (0.46%) JCL
Qualifications
1 175 (6.76%) Degree
2 127 (4.91%) Security Cleared
3 90 (3.48%) SC Cleared
4 56 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (1.43%) CISSP
6 36 (1.39%) PMP
7 31 (1.20%) PMI Certification
8 29 (1.12%) Azure Certification
9 27 (1.04%) Master's Degree
10 26 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
11 22 (0.85%) AWS Certification
12 18 (0.70%) CISM
13 15 (0.58%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 12 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.39%) CISA
16 9 (0.35%) ACCA
16 9 (0.35%) CCSP
17 8 (0.31%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (5.25%) Data Quality
2 128 (4.94%) QA
3 54 (2.09%) PMO
4 52 (2.01%) ISO 20022
5 47 (1.82%) GDPR
6 35 (1.35%) SEPA
7 33 (1.27%) NIST
7 33 (1.27%) SLA
8 31 (1.20%) GRC
8 31 (1.20%) PSD2
9 30 (1.16%) Accessibility
10 28 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 26 (1.00%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.77%) MiFID
13 17 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.35%) EMIR
14 9 (0.35%) IFRS
15 8 (0.31%) COREP
15 8 (0.31%) ISO 8583
16 7 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 123 (4.75%) Docker
2 53 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.70%) RACF
5 17 (0.66%) Firmware
5 17 (0.66%) vSphere
6 16 (0.62%) NFS
7 13 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.23%) Varnish
9 5 (0.19%) Postfix
10 4 (0.15%) Sendmail
10 4 (0.15%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.12%) ACF2
11 3 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.12%) SRDF
11 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.12%) XenApp
12 2 (0.077%) GridGain
12 2 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 167 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 92 (3.55%) Terraform
3 88 (3.40%) Ansible
4 31 (1.20%) Grafana
4 31 (1.20%) Prometheus
5 19 (0.73%) SCCM
6 17 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (0.54%) OMEGAMON
7 14 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.50%) Control-M
9 12 (0.46%) Argo
10 11 (0.42%) Istio
11 9 (0.35%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
13 7 (0.27%) Puppet
13 7 (0.27%) WSUS
14 6 (0.23%) SnapMirror
15 5 (0.19%) HAProxy
15 5 (0.19%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.19%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 285 (11.01%) Microsoft
2 199 (7.69%) Oracle
3 92 (3.55%) ServiceNow
4 74 (2.86%) IBM
5 63 (2.43%) Google
6 61 (2.36%) Databricks
7 60 (2.32%) Cisco
8 49 (1.89%) F5
8 49 (1.89%) SAP
8 49 (1.89%) Splunk
9 45 (1.74%) Citrix
10 42 (1.62%) VMware
11 39 (1.51%) Salesforce
12 38 (1.47%) Murex
13 29 (1.12%) Avaloq
14 28 (1.08%) Temenos
15 27 (1.04%) OpenAI
16 26 (1.00%) Fortinet
17 25 (0.97%) Bloomberg
18 24 (0.93%) NetApp