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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 23 23
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 0
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,800 2,145 2,486
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.04% 7.64% 7.67%
As % of the General category 10.73% 11.95% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,755 1,436 1,696
10th Percentile £400 £350 £400
25th Percentile £459 £420 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £566 £614
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% -7.78% -1.76%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £775
90th Percentile £813 £825 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 32 11
10th Percentile £16.25 £19.26 -
25th Percentile £16.83 - £14.50
Median hourly rate £17.00 £25.15 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.41% +57.19% -13.51%
75th Percentile £19.69 £26.01 £35.38
90th Percentile £21.75 £77.88 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £25.15 £16.00
% change year-on-year -32.41% +57.19% -13.51%

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 26,093 17,954 19,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.32% 63.95% 58.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,217 11,378 11,456
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £748 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,385 1,050 868
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.51 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.62 £16.26 £18.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.11 £36.08
Median % change year-on-year +15.76% -30.40% +22.31%
75th Percentile £56.00 £45.56 £61.33
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £25.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.67% -28.36% +27.27%

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 4 October 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
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 4 October 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 -5 2,060 £600 -4.00% 2,752
North of England -14 487 £500 +12.11% 328
Yorkshire -8 246 £510 +10.87% 129
North West -8 235 £500 +16.28% 168
Midlands -38 135 £475 +6.26% 135
West Midlands -21 96 £523 -4.13% 64
South West -19 50 £503 -6.51% 168
East of England +21 45 £558 -20.36% 48
South East -43 42 £500 +17.65% 238
East Midlands -30 39 £465 +16.98% 70
North East -36 10 £875 +108.33% 37
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
1 153 (5.46%) Confluence
2 62 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.07%) Apache
4 27 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.93%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.57%) Camunda
6 16 (0.57%) SAS
7 13 (0.46%) CICS
8 12 (0.43%) IIS
9 10 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.32%) Appian
11 8 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
12 7 (0.25%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 5 (0.18%) MTS
15 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
15 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
15 4 (0.14%) WordPress
16 3 (0.11%) Hyperledger
16 3 (0.11%) MQSeries
Applications
1 98 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (1.11%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.11%) Trello
9 2 (0.071%) EngageOne
9 2 (0.071%) Notion
10 1 (0.036%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.036%) LaTeX
10 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.036%) Sketch
10 1 (0.036%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 21 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
2 20 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
3 19 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.61%) Finacle
5 15 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.54%) Temenos T24
6 14 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
7 11 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
8 10 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
8 10 (0.36%) FLEXCUBE
9 9 (0.32%) Aladdin
10 8 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
10 8 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
11 7 (0.25%) OpenText MBPM
11 7 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
11 7 (0.25%) Oracle BPM
12 6 (0.21%) Loan IQ
12 6 (0.21%) Workday HCM
13 5 (0.18%) NetSuite
13 5 (0.18%) Oracle iProcurement
Cloud Services
1 452 (16.14%) Azure
2 371 (13.25%) AWS
3 209 (7.46%) GCP
4 147 (5.25%) Power Platform
5 96 (3.43%) GitHub
6 86 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
7 82 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
8 70 (2.50%) SaaS
9 69 (2.46%) Snowflake
10 58 (2.07%) Entra ID
11 42 (1.50%) Amazon S3
12 41 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
13 40 (1.43%) OpenShift
14 38 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
15 37 (1.32%) Serverless
16 30 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
17 27 (0.96%) dbt
18 25 (0.89%) Amazon ECS
19 24 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
19 24 (0.86%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 92 (3.29%) Firewall
2 69 (2.46%) VPN
3 64 (2.29%) Network Security
4 47 (1.68%) DNS
5 34 (1.21%) TCP/IP
6 28 (1.00%) BGP
6 28 (1.00%) Multicast
7 27 (0.96%) SSL
7 27 (0.96%) WAN
8 19 (0.68%) LAN
9 18 (0.64%) HTTP
10 16 (0.57%) BIG-IP
10 16 (0.57%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 16 (0.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 15 (0.54%) DMZ
12 14 (0.50%) MPLS
12 14 (0.50%) Wireshark
13 13 (0.46%) Cisco IOS
14 12 (0.43%) DHCP
15 11 (0.39%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (4.50%) SQL Server
2 123 (4.39%) Power BI
3 97 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
4 78 (2.79%) Relational Database
5 74 (2.64%) Metadata
6 55 (1.96%) Oracle Database
6 55 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
7 41 (1.46%) Data Lake
8 35 (1.25%) MongoDB
9 29 (1.04%) Tableau
10 25 (0.89%) Db2
11 24 (0.86%) NoSQL
12 23 (0.82%) BigQuery
13 22 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
14 20 (0.71%) Big Data
15 19 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
15 19 (0.68%) RDBMS
15 19 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 16 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
16 16 (0.57%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 277 (9.89%) JIRA
2 155 (5.54%) Git
3 115 (4.11%) Jenkins
4 65 (2.32%) GitLab
5 47 (1.68%) Selenium
6 40 (1.43%) JUnit
7 26 (0.93%) Gradle
8 25 (0.89%) Cucumber
8 25 (0.89%) Maven
9 24 (0.86%) SonarQube
10 22 (0.79%) REST Assured
11 21 (0.75%) Bitbucket
12 19 (0.68%) Mockito
12 19 (0.68%) Postman
13 18 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
14 15 (0.54%) Cypress.io
14 15 (0.54%) ER Studio
14 15 (0.54%) ERwin
15 14 (0.50%) TeamCity
16 12 (0.43%) JMeter
General
1 1,887 (67.39%) Finance
2 817 (29.18%) Social Skills
3 533 (19.04%) Investment Banking
4 427 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
5 248 (8.86%) Front Office
6 151 (5.39%) Financial Institution
7 111 (3.96%) Retail Banking
8 107 (3.82%) Retail
9 81 (2.89%) Corporate Banking
10 80 (2.86%) Legal
11 75 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
12 66 (2.36%) Private Banking
13 58 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
14 55 (1.96%) Back Office
15 54 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
16 40 (1.43%) Public Sector
17 36 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
18 33 (1.18%) General Ledger
19 31 (1.11%) Manufacturing
20 30 (1.07%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 477 (17.04%) Developer
2 416 (14.86%) Senior
3 397 (14.18%) Analyst
4 276 (9.86%) Architect
5 273 (9.75%) Lead
6 237 (8.46%) Business Analyst
7 154 (5.50%) Java Developer
8 142 (5.07%) Project Manager
9 104 (3.71%) Data Engineer
9 104 (3.71%) Senior Developer
10 96 (3.43%) Consultant
11 86 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
12 72 (2.57%) Banking Analyst
13 68 (2.43%) Software Engineer
14 65 (2.32%) Network Engineer
15 58 (2.07%) Data Analyst
16 55 (1.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 55 (1.96%) Java Engineer
16 55 (1.96%) Python Developer
17 52 (1.86%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (5.57%) Kafka
2 141 (5.04%) React
2 141 (5.04%) REST
3 119 (4.25%) Terraform
4 112 (4.00%) .NET
5 110 (3.93%) Spring
6 107 (3.82%) Spring Boot
7 84 (3.00%) Middleware
8 61 (2.18%) Redux
9 55 (1.96%) HTML
10 53 (1.89%) RESTful
11 48 (1.71%) CSS
12 43 (1.54%) OAuth
12 43 (1.54%) PySpark
13 34 (1.21%) JSON
14 33 (1.18%) LangChain
14 33 (1.18%) XML
15 32 (1.14%) AngularJS
15 32 (1.14%) FIX Protocol
16 28 (1.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 231 (8.25%) Product Ownership
2 198 (7.07%) Onboarding
3 189 (6.75%) Cloud Native
4 137 (4.89%) Derivative
5 122 (4.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 100 (3.57%) Fixed Income
7 96 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
8 84 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
9 83 (2.96%) Management Information System
10 82 (2.93%) AI Agents
11 79 (2.82%) Equities
12 67 (2.39%) Data Structures
12 67 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
13 63 (2.25%) Credit Risk
14 60 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
15 59 (2.11%) Data Centre
16 58 (2.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 57 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
18 53 (1.89%) Mainframe
18 53 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 160 (5.71%) Linux
2 144 (5.14%) Windows
3 96 (3.43%) Unix
4 44 (1.57%) Windows Server
5 30 (1.07%) zOS
6 28 (1.00%) Android
7 27 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 24 (0.86%) Apple iOS
9 16 (0.57%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.39%) AIX
11 8 (0.29%) Solaris
11 8 (0.29%) Windows 10
12 7 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
13 6 (0.21%) HPUX
13 6 (0.21%) SUSE
14 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.11%) CentOS
15 3 (0.11%) MVS
15 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
16 2 (0.071%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 763 (27.25%) Stakeholder Management
2 691 (24.68%) Agile
3 472 (16.86%) CI/CD
4 417 (14.89%) AI
5 416 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
6 369 (13.18%) DevOps
7 362 (12.93%) Migration
8 316 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 276 (9.86%) Analytics
10 267 (9.54%) Roadmaps
11 247 (8.82%) Validation
12 234 (8.36%) Microservices
13 233 (8.32%) Data Modelling
14 223 (7.96%) Software Engineering
15 212 (7.57%) Risk Management
16 211 (7.54%) Decision-Making
17 206 (7.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 202 (7.21%) Test Automation
18 202 (7.21%) User Acceptance Testing
19 199 (7.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 540 (19.29%) SQL
2 432 (15.43%) Python
3 385 (13.75%) Java
4 176 (6.29%) C#
5 148 (5.29%) JavaScript
6 114 (4.07%) TypeScript
7 91 (3.25%) PowerShell
8 74 (2.64%) PL/SQL
9 69 (2.46%) Bash
10 50 (1.79%) Kotlin
11 49 (1.75%) Shell Script
12 37 (1.32%) T-SQL
13 35 (1.25%) C++
14 27 (0.96%) Korn
15 20 (0.71%) Go
16 16 (0.57%) VBA
17 15 (0.54%) JCL
18 13 (0.46%) COBOL
19 12 (0.43%) Bicep
20 11 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 192 (6.86%) Degree
2 130 (4.64%) Security Cleared
3 103 (3.68%) SC Cleared
4 68 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 61 (2.18%) PMP
6 57 (2.04%) PMI Certification
7 36 (1.29%) CISSP
8 29 (1.04%) AWS Certification
9 28 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (0.89%) Azure Certification
11 24 (0.86%) Master's Degree
12 23 (0.82%) ACCA
13 20 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (0.71%) CIMA
13 20 (0.71%) ISTQB
14 15 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 13 (0.46%) CCNP
15 13 (0.46%) CISM
16 11 (0.39%) CBAP
16 11 (0.39%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (6.61%) Data Quality
2 155 (5.54%) QA
3 54 (1.93%) ISO 20022
4 51 (1.82%) PMO
5 40 (1.43%) GRC
6 39 (1.39%) SEPA
7 32 (1.14%) NIST
8 30 (1.07%) GDPR
9 28 (1.00%) SLA
10 26 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 23 (0.82%) Accessibility
12 21 (0.75%) MiFID
13 19 (0.68%) IFRS
13 19 (0.68%) PSD2
14 13 (0.46%) EMIR
14 13 (0.46%) PCI DSS
15 12 (0.43%) Basel III
16 8 (0.29%) COREP
16 8 (0.29%) FINREP
16 8 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 124 (4.43%) Docker
2 66 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.75%) RACF
5 11 (0.39%) Firmware
6 10 (0.36%) vSphere
7 8 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
9 5 (0.18%) ACF2
9 5 (0.18%) NFS
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
11 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.071%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.071%) GPFS
12 2 (0.071%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.071%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.071%) Postfix
12 2 (0.071%) Varnish
12 2 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 182 (6.50%) Kubernetes
2 82 (2.93%) Ansible
3 29 (1.04%) Grafana
4 28 (1.00%) Prometheus
5 20 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.61%) SCCM
7 16 (0.57%) Control-M
7 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 15 (0.54%) OMEGAMON
9 12 (0.43%) Argo
9 12 (0.43%) Istio
10 10 (0.36%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.29%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
12 6 (0.21%) Tivoli
13 5 (0.18%) HP ALM
13 5 (0.18%) systemd
14 3 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
14 3 (0.11%) Kibana
14 3 (0.11%) QRadar
Vendors
1 291 (10.39%) Microsoft
2 216 (7.71%) Oracle
3 115 (4.11%) IBM
4 106 (3.79%) Databricks
5 87 (3.11%) ServiceNow
6 68 (2.43%) Cisco
7 67 (2.39%) Google
8 61 (2.18%) Salesforce
9 53 (1.89%) Splunk
10 48 (1.71%) SAP
11 41 (1.46%) Citrix
12 38 (1.36%) OpenAI
13 37 (1.32%) CyberArk
14 36 (1.29%) F5
15 34 (1.21%) VMware
16 33 (1.18%) Murex
17 31 (1.11%) Bloomberg
18 28 (1.00%) Dynatrace
19 26 (0.93%) Avaloq
20 24 (0.86%) Fortinet