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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 22 23
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,704 2,244 2,485
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.89% 8.13% 7.48%
As % of the General category 10.65% 12.64% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,650 1,565 1,773
10th Percentile £400 £350 £400
25th Percentile £451 £415 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -10.00% -0.40%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £794
90th Percentile £813 £825 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 33 16
10th Percentile £16.63 £18.18 £14.13
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.66 £14.50
Median hourly rate £18.60 £25.15 £18.89
Median % change year-on-year -26.06% +33.17% +5.03%
75th Percentile £33.70 - £41.31
90th Percentile £96.88 £66.50 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £18.42 £25.15 £18.27
% change year-on-year -26.78% +37.66% -1.24%

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 25,381 17,754 19,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.33% 64.34% 57.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,120 11,287 12,208
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £420 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -5.58% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £656
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,032 979 1,155
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.33 £14.26
25th Percentile £17.70 £16.34 £17.25
Median hourly rate £32.36 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +28.68% -34.02% +38.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £60.03
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £35.50
% change year-on-year +25.25% -29.15% +29.09%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -8 1,955 £590 -5.60% 383
North of England -5 518 £500 +11.86% 61
North West -7 269 £500 +15.27% 32
Yorkshire -7 240 £500 +8.40% 21
Midlands -24 147 £511 +19.42% 19
West Midlands +14 112 £538 +2.38% 13
South West -42 39 £575 +9.52% 33
South East -57 37 £525 +16.67% 105
East Midlands -40 35 £475 +20.25% 6
East of England +10 34 £558 - 6
North East -36 13 £875 +108.33% 8
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
1 163 (6.03%) Confluence
2 60 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (0.96%) Apache Spark
5 23 (0.85%) Apache
5 23 (0.85%) SAS
6 16 (0.59%) IIS
7 11 (0.41%) CICS
8 10 (0.37%) Appian
8 10 (0.37%) Camunda
9 9 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.22%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.15%) WordPress
13 3 (0.11%) CMS
13 3 (0.11%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.11%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.11%) MTS
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 105 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (1.26%) MS Visio
5 23 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Sketch
8 3 (0.11%) Trello
9 2 (0.074%) EngageOne
9 2 (0.074%) InVision
9 2 (0.074%) Notion
10 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.037%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 20 (0.74%) Temenos T24
2 19 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
3 18 (0.67%) Finacle
4 17 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
5 15 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
6 14 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
7 13 (0.48%) Aladdin
7 13 (0.48%) Loan IQ
8 12 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
9 9 (0.33%) FLEXCUBE
9 9 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
10 8 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
11 7 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
11 7 (0.26%) OpenText MBPM
11 7 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 6 (0.22%) Actimize
12 6 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
12 6 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
13 5 (0.18%) Summit
14 4 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 419 (15.50%) Azure
2 355 (13.13%) AWS
3 167 (6.18%) GCP
4 144 (5.33%) Power Platform
5 87 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
6 85 (3.14%) GitHub
6 85 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
7 76 (2.81%) Snowflake
8 74 (2.74%) SaaS
9 53 (1.96%) Entra ID
10 40 (1.48%) OpenShift
11 39 (1.44%) Amazon EKS
11 39 (1.44%) Amazon S3
12 37 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
13 36 (1.33%) Serverless
14 27 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
14 27 (1.00%) Figma
15 25 (0.92%) Power Automate
16 23 (0.85%) Microsoft Copilot
16 23 (0.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 85 (3.14%) Firewall
2 70 (2.59%) DNS
3 67 (2.48%) VPN
4 60 (2.22%) Network Security
5 44 (1.63%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.22%) SSL
7 32 (1.18%) Multicast
8 31 (1.15%) BGP
9 25 (0.92%) HTTP
10 22 (0.81%) BIG-IP
10 22 (0.81%) DMZ
10 22 (0.81%) SAN
11 19 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 19 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 18 (0.67%) DHCP
12 18 (0.67%) Wireshark
13 16 (0.59%) FIX Connectivity
13 16 (0.59%) WAN
14 15 (0.55%) LAN
15 12 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (4.81%) SQL Server
2 120 (4.44%) Power BI
3 90 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
4 72 (2.66%) Metadata
5 68 (2.51%) Relational Database
6 46 (1.70%) Oracle Database
7 45 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (1.37%) Data Lake
9 33 (1.22%) Tableau
10 32 (1.18%) MongoDB
11 25 (0.92%) Big Data
12 24 (0.89%) Db2
13 20 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
13 20 (0.74%) RDBMS
13 20 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 18 (0.67%) Data Vault
14 18 (0.67%) NoSQL
15 15 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
15 15 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 14 (0.52%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 279 (10.32%) JIRA
2 128 (4.73%) Git
3 109 (4.03%) Jenkins
4 62 (2.29%) GitLab
5 40 (1.48%) Selenium
6 32 (1.18%) JUnit
7 19 (0.70%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.67%) Bitbucket
9 16 (0.59%) ER Studio
9 16 (0.59%) ERwin
9 16 (0.59%) Fiddler
9 16 (0.59%) Gradle
9 16 (0.59%) Maven
9 16 (0.59%) Postman
9 16 (0.59%) REST Assured
9 16 (0.59%) TeamCity
10 15 (0.55%) SonarQube
10 15 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
11 14 (0.52%) Mockito
12 12 (0.44%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,749 (64.68%) Finance
2 749 (27.70%) Social Skills
3 546 (20.19%) Investment Banking
4 405 (14.98%) Analytical Skills
5 244 (9.02%) Front Office
6 136 (5.03%) Financial Institution
7 122 (4.51%) Retail
8 113 (4.18%) Retail Banking
9 91 (3.37%) Corporate Banking
10 85 (3.14%) Legal
11 66 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
12 63 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
13 62 (2.29%) Private Banking
14 54 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
15 46 (1.70%) Back Office
16 36 (1.33%) Public Sector
17 31 (1.15%) Marketing
18 30 (1.11%) General Ledger
19 29 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
20 23 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 452 (16.72%) Developer
2 397 (14.68%) Analyst
3 356 (13.17%) Senior
4 284 (10.50%) Architect
5 255 (9.43%) Lead
6 240 (8.88%) Business Analyst
7 145 (5.36%) Java Developer
8 131 (4.84%) Project Manager
9 104 (3.85%) Data Engineer
10 101 (3.74%) Senior Developer
11 91 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
12 90 (3.33%) Consultant
13 79 (2.92%) Banking Analyst
14 67 (2.48%) Software Engineer
15 62 (2.29%) Network Engineer
16 60 (2.22%) Data Analyst
17 57 (2.11%) Designer
18 54 (2.00%) Senior Java Developer
19 49 (1.81%) C# Developer
20 48 (1.78%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (4.96%) React
2 128 (4.73%) .NET
3 119 (4.40%) Kafka
4 110 (4.07%) REST
5 92 (3.40%) Terraform
6 89 (3.29%) Middleware
7 88 (3.25%) Spring
8 77 (2.85%) Spring Boot
9 55 (2.03%) Redux
10 48 (1.78%) RESTful
11 43 (1.59%) HTML
12 40 (1.48%) FIX Protocol
12 40 (1.48%) PySpark
13 38 (1.41%) CSS
14 37 (1.37%) OAuth
15 36 (1.33%) JSON
16 35 (1.29%) XML
17 34 (1.26%) AngularJS
18 28 (1.04%) Web Services
19 25 (0.92%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 218 (8.06%) Product Ownership
2 180 (6.66%) Onboarding
3 154 (5.70%) Cloud Native
4 138 (5.10%) Derivative
5 124 (4.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 101 (3.74%) Fixed Income
7 87 (3.22%) Equities
8 86 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
9 81 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
10 78 (2.88%) Management Information System
11 72 (2.66%) Data Structures
12 63 (2.33%) AI Agents
13 61 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
14 58 (2.14%) Credit Risk
15 54 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
15 54 (2.00%) Mainframe
16 52 (1.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 49 (1.81%) Data Centre
17 49 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
18 42 (1.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 158 (5.84%) Windows
2 151 (5.58%) Linux
3 91 (3.37%) Unix
4 40 (1.48%) Windows Server
5 30 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 27 (1.00%) zOS
7 24 (0.89%) Apple iOS
8 21 (0.78%) Android
9 16 (0.59%) Ubuntu
10 12 (0.44%) AIX
10 12 (0.44%) Windows 10
11 9 (0.33%) Solaris
12 8 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
13 6 (0.22%) HPUX
13 6 (0.22%) SUSE
14 4 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
14 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.11%) CoreOS
15 3 (0.11%) Windows 7
15 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 651 (24.08%) Agile
2 611 (22.60%) Stakeholder Management
3 409 (15.13%) CI/CD
3 409 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
4 374 (13.83%) AI
5 340 (12.57%) DevOps
6 315 (11.65%) Migration
7 295 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 262 (9.69%) Analytics
9 243 (8.99%) Data Modelling
10 231 (8.54%) Roadmaps
11 201 (7.43%) Decision-Making
12 195 (7.21%) Software Engineering
13 194 (7.17%) Microservices
14 193 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 192 (7.10%) Validation
16 186 (6.88%) User Acceptance Testing
17 178 (6.58%) Test Automation
18 176 (6.51%) Change Management
18 176 (6.51%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 478 (17.68%) SQL
2 390 (14.42%) Python
3 345 (12.76%) Java
4 191 (7.06%) C#
5 134 (4.96%) JavaScript
6 109 (4.03%) TypeScript
7 88 (3.25%) PowerShell
8 71 (2.63%) PL/SQL
9 54 (2.00%) Bash
9 54 (2.00%) Shell Script
10 45 (1.66%) Kotlin
11 40 (1.48%) T-SQL
12 36 (1.33%) C++
13 26 (0.96%) Korn
14 23 (0.85%) VBA
15 15 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 12 (0.44%) Bicep
16 12 (0.44%) Go
16 12 (0.44%) JCL
17 11 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 181 (6.69%) Degree
2 137 (5.07%) Security Cleared
3 109 (4.03%) SC Cleared
4 56 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (2.00%) PMP
6 45 (1.66%) PMI Certification
7 39 (1.44%) CISSP
8 33 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
9 29 (1.07%) Azure Certification
10 26 (0.96%) AWS Certification
11 19 (0.70%) CISM
12 18 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
12 18 (0.67%) ISTQB
12 18 (0.67%) Master's Degree
13 16 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 16 (0.59%) ACCA
14 13 (0.48%) CIMA
15 12 (0.44%) CCSP
16 11 (0.41%) CCNP
17 9 (0.33%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (5.92%) Data Quality
2 141 (5.21%) QA
3 60 (2.22%) PMO
4 47 (1.74%) ISO 20022
5 41 (1.52%) GRC
6 39 (1.44%) NIST
7 34 (1.26%) GDPR
7 34 (1.26%) SEPA
8 31 (1.15%) SLA
9 27 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 24 (0.89%) Accessibility
10 24 (0.89%) PSD2
11 21 (0.78%) MiFID
12 16 (0.59%) IFRS
13 13 (0.48%) PCI DSS
13 13 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (0.44%) EMIR
15 7 (0.26%) COREP
15 7 (0.26%) FINREP
16 6 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 112 (4.14%) Docker
2 73 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.70%) RACF
5 16 (0.59%) Firmware
6 14 (0.52%) NFS
6 14 (0.52%) vSphere
7 11 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.22%) Varnish
9 5 (0.18%) Postfix
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.15%) ACF2
10 4 (0.15%) Sendmail
10 4 (0.15%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.11%) SRDF
11 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.11%) XenApp
12 2 (0.074%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.074%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 162 (5.99%) Kubernetes
2 83 (3.07%) Ansible
3 31 (1.15%) Prometheus
4 30 (1.11%) Grafana
5 20 (0.74%) SCCM
6 18 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (0.63%) Control-M
8 15 (0.55%) OMEGAMON
9 13 (0.48%) Argo
9 13 (0.48%) Istio
10 10 (0.37%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
11 7 (0.26%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.22%) Puppet
12 6 (0.22%) WSUS
13 5 (0.18%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.18%) RSA Archer
13 5 (0.18%) systemd
13 5 (0.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 313 (11.58%) Microsoft
2 210 (7.77%) Oracle
3 96 (3.55%) IBM
4 95 (3.51%) ServiceNow
5 86 (3.18%) Databricks
6 64 (2.37%) Cisco
7 54 (2.00%) Google
7 54 (2.00%) Salesforce
8 50 (1.85%) SAP
9 49 (1.81%) Splunk
10 47 (1.74%) F5
10 47 (1.74%) VMware
11 41 (1.52%) Citrix
12 38 (1.41%) CyberArk
13 31 (1.15%) Murex
13 31 (1.15%) OpenAI
14 29 (1.07%) Bloomberg
15 25 (0.92%) Avaloq
15 25 (0.92%) Dynatrace
15 25 (0.92%) NetApp