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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 24 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 -5
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,184 1,918 2,373
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.94% 7.75% 6.26%
As % of the General category 10.30% 12.26% 10.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,318 1,270 1,700
10th Percentile £368 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £483 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -2.04% -8.99%
75th Percentile £668 £738 £750
90th Percentile £775 £850 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 13 24
10th Percentile £17.59 £15.23 £12.84
25th Percentile £22.29 - £18.12
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +14.21% -7.14%
75th Percentile £45.93 £24.66 £32.63
90th Percentile £95.00 £68.85 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.50
% change year-on-year +12.93% +14.21% -7.14%

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 21,201 15,643 22,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.65% 63.23% 58.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,382 10,110 14,532
10th Percentile £300 £300 £269
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,328 575 1,663
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.00 £13.01
25th Percentile £17.69 £19.99 £15.35
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.78 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.78% +18.38% -23.53%
75th Percentile £58.94 £61.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £77.33 £76.25 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £24.19 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -19.37% +15.38% -24.64%

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 16 March 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 16 March 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 16 March 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 1,486 £575 -9.80% 274
North of England +5 468 £480 +4.35% 64
North West +11 253 £447 +9.02% 36
Yorkshire -1 222 £500 -11.50% 25
Midlands +16 185 £474 -13.82% 49
West Midlands +16 129 £558 -7.66% 16
East Midlands -6 56 £430 +7.23% 33
South East -31 47 £468 -16.80% 103
South West -17 33 £525 -14.29% 8
East of England -28 11 £400 -33.33% 8
North East -10 4 £400 - 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
1 170 (7.78%) Confluence
2 51 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.10%) Apache Spark
4 17 (0.78%) SAS
5 14 (0.64%) Apache
6 13 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
7 11 (0.50%) IIS
7 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.37%) CICS
9 7 (0.32%) CMS
10 6 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.23%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.23%) Hyperledger
12 4 (0.18%) MQSeries
12 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.092%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.092%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.092%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 149 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 80 (3.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 67 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
4 50 (2.29%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
6 18 (0.82%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
9 3 (0.14%) Notion
9 3 (0.14%) Trello
10 2 (0.092%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.092%) Sketch
10 2 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.046%) InVision
11 1 (0.046%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 31 (1.42%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
3 20 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
4 19 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
5 18 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
6 17 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 17 (0.78%) Temenos T24
7 16 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
8 13 (0.60%) Loan IQ
9 10 (0.46%) SAP FI
10 8 (0.37%) Actimize
10 8 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
10 8 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 8 (0.37%) SAP CO
10 8 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
11 7 (0.32%) Aladdin
11 7 (0.32%) Finacle
12 6 (0.27%) Fidessa
12 6 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
13 5 (0.23%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 341 (15.61%) Azure
2 327 (14.97%) AWS
3 159 (7.28%) GCP
4 135 (6.18%) Power Platform
5 89 (4.08%) GitHub
6 88 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
7 59 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
8 58 (2.66%) Serverless
9 49 (2.24%) SaaS
10 42 (1.92%) Figma
11 34 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
12 30 (1.37%) Amazon S3
13 29 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
13 29 (1.33%) Entra ID
14 27 (1.24%) OCI
15 26 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
16 24 (1.10%) PowerApps
16 24 (1.10%) Snowflake
17 23 (1.05%) Power Automate
18 22 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.25%) DNS
2 46 (2.11%) Firewall
3 39 (1.79%) HTTP
3 39 (1.79%) VPN
4 38 (1.74%) TCP/IP
5 35 (1.60%) Network Security
6 32 (1.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 30 (1.37%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 27 (1.24%) SSL
9 26 (1.19%) BGP
9 26 (1.19%) DMZ
10 24 (1.10%) Multicast
11 23 (1.05%) BIG-IP
12 22 (1.01%) Wireshark
13 19 (0.87%) Wireless
14 18 (0.82%) NetScaler
15 17 (0.78%) SAN
16 16 (0.73%) DHCP
16 16 (0.73%) FIX Connectivity
17 14 (0.64%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (5.08%) Power BI
2 92 (4.21%) SQL Server
3 74 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
4 68 (3.11%) Tableau
5 52 (2.38%) NoSQL
6 51 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
7 44 (2.01%) Metadata
8 43 (1.97%) Oracle Database
9 40 (1.83%) MongoDB
10 35 (1.60%) Relational Database
11 29 (1.33%) Big Data
12 23 (1.05%) BigQuery
13 17 (0.78%) DB2
13 17 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 16 (0.73%) Data Lake
14 16 (0.73%) Hadoop
15 12 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
15 12 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
16 11 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 249 (11.40%) JIRA
2 127 (5.82%) Jenkins
3 94 (4.30%) Git
4 89 (4.08%) GitLab
5 30 (1.37%) JUnit
6 24 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
7 23 (1.05%) Cucumber
7 23 (1.05%) Selenium
8 22 (1.01%) Bitbucket
9 21 (0.96%) Fiddler
10 20 (0.92%) Postman
11 16 (0.73%) REST Assured
12 14 (0.64%) Liquibase
13 13 (0.60%) Gradle
13 13 (0.60%) Maven
13 13 (0.60%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.41%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.41%) Mockito
14 9 (0.41%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,386 (63.46%) Finance
2 695 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 444 (20.33%) Investment Banking
4 292 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
5 174 (7.97%) Front Office
6 118 (5.40%) Financial Institution
7 91 (4.17%) Retail Banking
8 63 (2.88%) Retail
9 61 (2.79%) Corporate Banking
10 59 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
11 58 (2.66%) Legal
12 53 (2.43%) Public Sector
13 41 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
14 40 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
15 35 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
16 29 (1.33%) Marketing
17 22 (1.01%) International Banking
18 21 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 21 (0.96%) Private Banking
19 20 (0.92%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 383 (17.54%) Developer
2 377 (17.26%) Analyst
3 279 (12.77%) Senior
4 258 (11.81%) Business Analyst
5 239 (10.94%) Architect
6 143 (6.55%) Lead
7 127 (5.82%) Project Manager
7 127 (5.82%) Solutions Architect
8 99 (4.53%) Java Developer
9 84 (3.85%) Senior Developer
10 75 (3.43%) Banking Analyst
10 75 (3.43%) Consultant
11 60 (2.75%) Data Engineer
12 52 (2.38%) Banking Business Analyst
12 52 (2.38%) Network Engineer
13 50 (2.29%) Designer
13 50 (2.29%) DevOps Engineer
14 48 (2.20%) Payments Architect
15 45 (2.06%) Payments Solutions Architect
16 44 (2.01%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (5.63%) Kafka
2 109 (4.99%) .NET
3 105 (4.81%) REST
4 72 (3.30%) React
4 72 (3.30%) Spring
5 64 (2.93%) RESTful
6 63 (2.88%) Middleware
7 62 (2.84%) Spring Boot
8 59 (2.70%) HTML
9 50 (2.29%) AngularJS
10 41 (1.88%) OAuth
11 38 (1.74%) CSS
11 38 (1.74%) Pandas
11 38 (1.74%) XML
12 35 (1.60%) JSON
13 33 (1.51%) NumPy
14 30 (1.37%) OAuth2
15 28 (1.28%) Node.js
16 27 (1.24%) SOAP
17 25 (1.14%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 133 (6.09%) Product Ownership
2 110 (5.04%) Derivative
3 98 (4.49%) Onboarding
4 96 (4.40%) Management Information System
5 95 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 87 (3.98%) Cloud Native
7 69 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
8 67 (3.07%) Equities
9 65 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
9 65 (2.98%) Fixed Income
10 45 (2.06%) Data Structures
10 45 (2.06%) Public Cloud
11 42 (1.92%) Data Centre
11 42 (1.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 40 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
13 39 (1.79%) Market Risk
14 37 (1.69%) Credit Risk
15 34 (1.56%) Hedge funds
16 31 (1.42%) Mobile App
17 29 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 132 (6.04%) Windows
2 116 (5.31%) Linux
3 50 (2.29%) Unix
4 36 (1.65%) Android
4 36 (1.65%) Windows 10
5 22 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.92%) Windows Server
7 15 (0.69%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.64%) zOS
9 12 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.32%) VMS
11 6 (0.27%) AIX
12 5 (0.23%) CoreOS
12 5 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
13 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.14%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.046%) Kali Linux
15 1 (0.046%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 553 (25.32%) Agile
2 394 (18.04%) Stakeholder Management
3 369 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
4 320 (14.65%) DevOps
5 315 (14.42%) CI/CD
6 231 (10.58%) Migration
7 208 (9.52%) Analytics
8 188 (8.61%) AI
9 177 (8.10%) Microservices
9 177 (8.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 170 (7.78%) Risk Management
11 163 (7.46%) Data Modelling
12 161 (7.37%) Decision-Making
13 156 (7.14%) Data Analysis
14 155 (7.10%) Project Management
15 149 (6.82%) Roadmaps
16 145 (6.64%) Continuous Improvement
16 145 (6.64%) Validation
17 144 (6.59%) Business Intelligence
18 142 (6.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 395 (18.09%) SQL
2 366 (16.76%) Python
3 298 (13.64%) Java
4 143 (6.55%) C#
5 90 (4.12%) JavaScript
6 61 (2.79%) TypeScript
7 59 (2.70%) PowerShell
8 47 (2.15%) Go
9 36 (1.65%) PL/SQL
10 29 (1.33%) VBA
11 28 (1.28%) Shell Script
12 27 (1.24%) C++
13 26 (1.19%) Bash
14 22 (1.01%) T-SQL
15 18 (0.82%) Kotlin
16 17 (0.78%) COBOL
17 14 (0.64%) Scala
18 13 (0.60%) Perl
19 11 (0.50%) Korn
20 10 (0.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 229 (10.49%) Degree
2 105 (4.81%) Security Cleared
3 75 (3.43%) Master's Degree
4 74 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 61 (2.79%) SC Cleared
6 54 (2.47%) PMI Certification
7 53 (2.43%) PMP
8 41 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (1.28%) CISSP
10 27 (1.24%) Azure Certification
11 21 (0.96%) AWS Certification
12 18 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (0.82%) MBA
13 16 (0.73%) CISM
14 15 (0.69%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.55%) CBAP
15 12 (0.55%) PhD
16 10 (0.46%) DV Cleared
16 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
17 8 (0.37%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (6.23%) QA
2 103 (4.72%) Data Quality
3 55 (2.52%) ISO 20022
4 51 (2.34%) GDPR
5 38 (1.74%) PMO
6 34 (1.56%) PCI DSS
6 34 (1.56%) SLA
7 32 (1.47%) Accessibility
8 31 (1.42%) PSD2
9 30 (1.37%) SEPA
10 28 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 27 (1.24%) NIST
12 25 (1.14%) GRC
13 23 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 22 (1.01%) Basel III
14 22 (1.01%) MiFID
15 14 (0.64%) ISO 8583
16 13 (0.60%) EMIR
17 11 (0.50%) IFRS
18 7 (0.32%) GAAP
System Software
1 147 (6.73%) Docker
2 49 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (1.74%) Active Directory
4 23 (1.05%) Firmware
5 20 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.60%) vSphere
7 11 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (0.37%) NFS
9 6 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.18%) RACF
11 3 (0.14%) SRDF
11 3 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
11 3 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.092%) ACF2
12 2 (0.092%) Varnish
12 2 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.092%) XenApp
13 1 (0.046%) Postfix
13 1 (0.046%) PowerHA
13 1 (0.046%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 182 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 98 (4.49%) Terraform
3 82 (3.75%) Ansible
4 48 (2.20%) Grafana
5 38 (1.74%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.05%) SCCM
7 19 (0.87%) Argo
8 17 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.41%) Control-M
9 9 (0.41%) Puppet
9 9 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.37%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.32%) Istio
12 6 (0.27%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
13 5 (0.23%) SnapMirror
14 4 (0.18%) Karpenter
14 4 (0.18%) NetBackup
14 4 (0.18%) RSA Archer
14 4 (0.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 250 (11.45%) Microsoft
2 149 (6.82%) Oracle
3 77 (3.53%) Google
4 69 (3.16%) ServiceNow
5 60 (2.75%) Cisco
5 60 (2.75%) VMware
6 55 (2.52%) Splunk
7 49 (2.24%) F5
7 49 (2.24%) SAP
8 48 (2.20%) IBM
9 46 (2.11%) Citrix
10 32 (1.47%) Remedy
11 29 (1.33%) Bloomberg
12 28 (1.28%) Murex
13 26 (1.19%) HP
13 26 (1.19%) NetApp
13 26 (1.19%) Temenos
14 23 (1.05%) Apple
14 23 (1.05%) Salesforce
15 22 (1.01%) McAfee