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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 24 25
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,281 1,887 2,306
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.56% 7.76% 6.33%
As % of the General category 10.28% 12.10% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,390 1,256 1,707
10th Percentile £375 £358 £390
25th Percentile £447 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £775
90th Percentile £775 £850 £863
UK median daily rate £525 £595 £613
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 23
10th Percentile - £17.43 £12.17
25th Percentile £17.00 £19.24 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £22.27 £19.05
Median % change year-on-year +15.72% +16.90% -9.29%
75th Percentile £95.00 £24.66 £23.88
90th Percentile £97.63 £42.40 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £30.39 £22.27 £19.05
% change year-on-year +36.44% +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 22,179 15,592 21,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.04% 64.10% 58.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,720 10,096 13,657
10th Percentile £309 £293 £281
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £506 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -2.69% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,465 679 1,777
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.77 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.95 £15.43
Median hourly rate £30.58 £27.50 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +11.20% -8.70% -5.88%
75th Percentile £61.18 £55.25 £51.91
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £66.45
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.69%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 1,566 £575 -11.54% 446
North of England +4 484 £475 +6.26% 89
North West +11 261 £447 +4.56% 43
Yorkshire -5 217 £500 +2.56% 39
Midlands +8 179 £511 +14.40% 23
West Midlands +26 127 £575 +3.60% 15
East Midlands -19 52 £465 +19.23% 8
South East -44 39 £545 -5.22% 111
South West -25 36 £500 -4.76% 17
East of England -22 14 £553 -7.92% 7
North East -16 10 £400 -4.76% 7
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
1 167 (7.32%) Confluence
2 49 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.05%) SAS
4 19 (0.83%) IIS
5 15 (0.66%) Apache Spark
6 14 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (0.44%) Apache
7 10 (0.44%) CICS
7 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.18%) Camunda
10 4 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.18%) Hyperledger
10 4 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.13%) Appian
11 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.088%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.088%) CMS
12 2 (0.088%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 126 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 60 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (1.93%) MS Visio
5 27 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.35%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.22%) Notion
8 2 (0.088%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.088%) InVision
8 2 (0.088%) Sketch
8 2 (0.088%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 28 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
3 23 (1.01%) Oracle Receivables
4 19 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
5 18 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
5 18 (0.79%) Temenos T24
6 16 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 15 (0.66%) Loan IQ
8 12 (0.53%) Finacle
9 9 (0.39%) Aladdin
9 9 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
9 9 (0.39%) SAP FI
10 8 (0.35%) Actimize
10 8 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
10 8 (0.35%) SAP CO
10 8 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
10 8 (0.35%) Summit
11 6 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
11 6 (0.26%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 5 (0.22%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 363 (15.91%) Azure
2 314 (13.77%) AWS
3 152 (6.66%) GCP
4 113 (4.95%) Power Platform
5 89 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
6 76 (3.33%) GitHub
7 58 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
8 56 (2.46%) SaaS
9 37 (1.62%) Figma
10 33 (1.45%) OpenShift
10 33 (1.45%) Snowflake
11 32 (1.40%) Entra ID
12 29 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (1.23%) Serverless
14 24 (1.05%) Amazon S3
14 24 (1.05%) Power Automate
15 23 (1.01%) OCI
16 20 (0.88%) PaaS
16 20 (0.88%) PowerApps
17 19 (0.83%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (3.07%) DNS
2 56 (2.46%) VPN
3 52 (2.28%) Firewall
4 42 (1.84%) Network Security
5 38 (1.67%) HTTP
5 38 (1.67%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.32%) Multicast
7 27 (1.18%) BGP
8 24 (1.05%) SSL
9 23 (1.01%) BIG-IP
10 22 (0.96%) DMZ
10 22 (0.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 22 (0.96%) SAN
11 21 (0.92%) Wireshark
12 20 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 20 (0.88%) FIX Connectivity
13 15 (0.66%) NetScaler
14 14 (0.61%) DHCP
15 10 (0.44%) Internet
15 10 (0.44%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (4.34%) SQL Server
2 91 (3.99%) Power BI
3 59 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (2.46%) Metadata
5 52 (2.28%) Tableau
6 45 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
7 43 (1.89%) Oracle Database
8 40 (1.75%) Relational Database
9 32 (1.40%) MongoDB
10 31 (1.36%) NoSQL
11 23 (1.01%) Big Data
12 20 (0.88%) BigQuery
12 20 (0.88%) DB2
13 17 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 16 (0.70%) Data Lake
15 12 (0.53%) DataStage
15 12 (0.53%) Pinecone
15 12 (0.53%) RDBMS
15 12 (0.53%) Weaviate
16 11 (0.48%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 253 (11.09%) JIRA
2 101 (4.43%) Jenkins
3 83 (3.64%) Git
4 58 (2.54%) GitLab
5 31 (1.36%) JUnit
6 25 (1.10%) Selenium
7 18 (0.79%) Cucumber
7 18 (0.79%) Fiddler
8 16 (0.70%) Postman
8 16 (0.70%) TeamCity
9 15 (0.66%) Bitbucket
9 15 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
10 13 (0.57%) Maven
10 13 (0.57%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.53%) REST Assured
12 10 (0.44%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.39%) Mockito
14 8 (0.35%) Appium
14 8 (0.35%) ERwin
14 8 (0.35%) Gradle
General
1 1,390 (60.94%) Finance
2 620 (27.18%) Social Skills
3 467 (20.47%) Investment Banking
4 323 (14.16%) Analytical Skills
5 177 (7.76%) Front Office
6 112 (4.91%) Financial Institution
7 107 (4.69%) Retail Banking
8 85 (3.73%) Corporate Banking
8 85 (3.73%) Retail
9 71 (3.11%) Legal
10 62 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
11 55 (2.41%) Public Sector
12 40 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
13 37 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
14 35 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
15 27 (1.18%) General Ledger
16 26 (1.14%) Marketing
17 24 (1.05%) Back Office
18 23 (1.01%) Private Banking
19 19 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 374 (16.40%) Analyst
2 373 (16.35%) Developer
3 300 (13.15%) Senior
4 271 (11.88%) Architect
5 265 (11.62%) Business Analyst
6 173 (7.58%) Lead
7 132 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
8 111 (4.87%) Java Developer
9 100 (4.38%) Project Manager
10 91 (3.99%) Banking Analyst
11 90 (3.95%) Senior Developer
12 83 (3.64%) Consultant
13 80 (3.51%) Data Engineer
14 61 (2.67%) Banking Business Analyst
15 58 (2.54%) Payments Architect
16 54 (2.37%) Network Engineer
17 53 (2.32%) Payments Solutions Architect
18 51 (2.24%) Designer
19 49 (2.15%) C# Developer
20 44 (1.93%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (4.87%) Kafka
2 107 (4.69%) .NET
3 88 (3.86%) React
4 80 (3.51%) Middleware
5 75 (3.29%) Spring
6 70 (3.07%) REST
7 62 (2.72%) Spring Boot
8 57 (2.50%) HTML
8 57 (2.50%) RESTful
9 45 (1.97%) CSS
10 40 (1.75%) OAuth
11 39 (1.71%) AngularJS
12 38 (1.67%) XML
13 37 (1.62%) FIX Protocol
13 37 (1.62%) JSON
14 29 (1.27%) OAuth2
15 25 (1.10%) HTML5
16 23 (1.01%) Redux
17 22 (0.96%) Node.js
17 22 (0.96%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 164 (7.19%) Product Ownership
2 119 (5.22%) Derivative
3 112 (4.91%) Onboarding
4 100 (4.38%) Cloud Native
5 89 (3.90%) Management Information System
6 88 (3.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 73 (3.20%) Data Protection Act
8 70 (3.07%) Fixed Income
9 66 (2.89%) Data Structures
10 61 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
11 56 (2.46%) Equities
12 47 (2.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 44 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
14 41 (1.80%) Data Centre
14 41 (1.80%) Market Risk
15 40 (1.75%) Credit Risk
16 35 (1.53%) Mainframe
17 32 (1.40%) Public Cloud
18 30 (1.32%) Algorithms
19 28 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 137 (6.01%) Windows
2 104 (4.56%) Linux
3 73 (3.20%) Unix
4 29 (1.27%) Windows 10
5 23 (1.01%) Android
5 23 (1.01%) Windows Server
6 20 (0.88%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.88%) zOS
7 16 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.39%) AIX
9 8 (0.35%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
10 6 (0.26%) Solaris
10 6 (0.26%) VMS
10 6 (0.26%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
11 5 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
12 4 (0.18%) HPUX
12 4 (0.18%) SUSE
13 3 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 546 (23.94%) Agile
2 415 (18.19%) Stakeholder Management
3 339 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
4 313 (13.72%) CI/CD
5 297 (13.02%) DevOps
6 257 (11.27%) Migration
7 247 (10.83%) AI
8 194 (8.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 193 (8.46%) Analytics
10 185 (8.11%) Roadmaps
11 182 (7.98%) Data Modelling
12 175 (7.67%) Decision-Making
13 172 (7.54%) Microservices
14 171 (7.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 162 (7.10%) Validation
16 157 (6.88%) Risk Management
17 153 (6.71%) User Acceptance Testing
18 147 (6.44%) Test Automation
19 135 (5.92%) Project Management
20 134 (5.87%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 381 (16.70%) SQL
2 318 (13.94%) Python
3 288 (12.63%) Java
4 139 (6.09%) C#
5 98 (4.30%) JavaScript
6 71 (3.11%) TypeScript
7 59 (2.59%) PowerShell
8 50 (2.19%) PL/SQL
9 35 (1.53%) Shell Script
10 34 (1.49%) T-SQL
11 28 (1.23%) Bash
12 25 (1.10%) Go
13 24 (1.05%) C++
13 24 (1.05%) Kotlin
14 21 (0.92%) VBA
15 19 (0.83%) Korn
16 16 (0.70%) COBOL
17 15 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 13 (0.57%) JCL
18 13 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 197 (8.64%) Degree
2 112 (4.91%) Security Cleared
3 72 (3.16%) SC Cleared
4 63 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (2.24%) PMP
6 49 (2.15%) Master's Degree
7 48 (2.10%) PMI Certification
8 39 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (1.45%) CISSP
10 26 (1.14%) Azure Certification
11 22 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (0.75%) AWS Certification
13 16 (0.70%) MBA
14 15 (0.66%) CISM
15 14 (0.61%) ISTQB
16 13 (0.57%) CBAP
17 11 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
18 10 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 9 (0.39%) CCSP
20 8 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (5.61%) QA
2 124 (5.44%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.28%) GDPR
4 51 (2.24%) ISO 20022
5 50 (2.19%) PMO
6 37 (1.62%) SLA
7 35 (1.53%) PSD2
8 33 (1.45%) NIST
9 32 (1.40%) SEPA
10 31 (1.36%) PCI DSS
11 29 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 28 (1.23%) GRC
13 25 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 20 (0.88%) Accessibility
14 20 (0.88%) MiFID
15 15 (0.66%) ISO 8583
16 14 (0.61%) Basel III
17 10 (0.44%) IFRS
18 8 (0.35%) EMIR
19 7 (0.31%) COREP
System Software
1 127 (5.57%) Docker
2 49 (2.15%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.79%) Firmware
5 15 (0.66%) NFS
6 14 (0.61%) vSphere
7 13 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.22%) 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%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.18%) XenApp
11 3 (0.13%) GPFS
11 3 (0.13%) SRDF
12 2 (0.088%) ACF2
12 2 (0.088%) GridGain
13 1 (0.044%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 168 (7.37%) Kubernetes
2 84 (3.68%) Terraform
3 69 (3.02%) Ansible
4 34 (1.49%) Grafana
5 26 (1.14%) Prometheus
6 22 (0.96%) SCCM
7 19 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (0.75%) Argo
9 10 (0.44%) Control-M
9 10 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.35%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.35%) Istio
10 8 (0.35%) Puppet
11 6 (0.26%) SnapMirror
12 5 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
12 5 (0.22%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.22%) vRealize
12 5 (0.22%) WSUS
13 4 (0.18%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 277 (12.14%) Microsoft
2 166 (7.28%) Oracle
3 85 (3.73%) ServiceNow
4 60 (2.63%) Google
5 57 (2.50%) SAP
6 56 (2.46%) Cisco
7 55 (2.41%) IBM
8 51 (2.24%) F5
9 48 (2.10%) Splunk
10 47 (2.06%) Citrix
10 47 (2.06%) VMware
11 40 (1.75%) Databricks
12 29 (1.27%) Temenos
13 26 (1.14%) Avaloq
13 26 (1.14%) Pega
14 25 (1.10%) Bloomberg
14 25 (1.10%) Murex
14 25 (1.10%) NetApp
15 23 (1.01%) Remedy
15 23 (1.01%) Workday