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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 24 22
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,206 2,471 3,259
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 7.94% 7.50% 7.77%
As % of the General category 12.31% 12.88% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,504 1,709 2,290
10th Percentile £350 £400 £413
25th Percentile £417 £500 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £725 £788 £750
90th Percentile £825 £875 £863
UK median daily rate £550 £609 £625
% change year-on-year -9.69% -2.56% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 13 17
10th Percentile £18.18 £13.90 £15.10
25th Percentile £24.66 £14.50 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.19% -13.51% -17.61%
75th Percentile - £27.00 £33.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £61.55 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £16.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year +57.19% -13.51% -24.35%

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 common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 17,920 19,188 24,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.49% 58.26% 59.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,360 11,708 17,206
10th Percentile £275 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £777
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,012 979 979
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.44 £16.65
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.85 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.26% +41.27% +10.93%
75th Percentile £47.50 £61.30 £58.67
90th Percentile £71.48 £71.50 £71.26
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% +30.91% +12.24%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Banking 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 -2 1,644 £625 -3.85% 663
North of England +5 358 £438 -12.94% 121
North West +7 180 £425 -15.00% 63
Yorkshire +3 178 £450 -16.08% 37
Midlands +1 131 £447 -0.67% 37
East Midlands +6 80 £402 -9.66% 12
West Midlands +4 53 £544 -9.38% 23
South West +35 41 £525 -4.55% 33
South East -29 25 £414 -17.30% 304
North East +3 7 £420 -9.19% 21
East of England -4 3 £700 +16.67% 10
Banking
UK

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 108 (4.90%) Confluence
2 57 (2.58%) Apache
3 53 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (1.68%) SharePoint
5 20 (0.91%) CICS
6 18 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 18 (0.82%) WebSphere
7 15 (0.68%) CMS
7 15 (0.68%) SAS
8 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
8 11 (0.50%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
10 8 (0.36%) JBoss
10 8 (0.36%) MQSeries
10 8 (0.36%) Mule
11 6 (0.27%) HCL Notes
12 5 (0.23%) IIS
12 5 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 4 (0.18%) Anypoint
13 4 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 94 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 89 (4.03%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 34 (1.54%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.50%) Sketch
6 8 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.14%) InVision
8 2 (0.091%) Adobe Captivate
8 2 (0.091%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.045%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.045%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.045%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 37 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.31%) Oracle EBS
2 29 (1.31%) Oracle Payables
3 26 (1.18%) Oracle Assets
4 24 (1.09%) Oracle General Ledger
5 21 (0.95%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 19 (0.86%) Oracle EBS R12
6 19 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
7 13 (0.59%) Oracle BPM
8 12 (0.54%) FLEXCUBE
8 12 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
9 10 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
9 10 (0.45%) VisionPLUS
10 6 (0.27%) Aladdin
10 6 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 5 (0.23%) ION Anvil
11 5 (0.23%) Loan IQ
11 5 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
12 4 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
12 4 (0.18%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 337 (15.28%) AWS
2 324 (14.69%) Azure
3 195 (8.84%) GCP
4 98 (4.44%) Power Platform
5 74 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
6 58 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
6 58 (2.63%) Snowflake
7 56 (2.54%) GitHub
8 49 (2.22%) dbt
8 49 (2.22%) Figma
9 40 (1.81%) SaaS
10 38 (1.72%) Serverless
11 33 (1.50%) Entra ID
12 30 (1.36%) PowerApps
13 24 (1.09%) Azure AKS
13 24 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
13 24 (1.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 22 (1.00%) Power Automate
15 21 (0.95%) OpenShift
16 19 (0.86%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 64 (2.90%) Firewall
2 36 (1.63%) Network Security
3 23 (1.04%) DNS
4 16 (0.73%) TCP/IP
5 15 (0.68%) Wireless
6 13 (0.59%) HTTP
6 13 (0.59%) Multicast
7 12 (0.54%) DMZ
7 12 (0.54%) VPN
8 11 (0.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 11 (0.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 9 (0.41%) BGP
9 9 (0.41%) OSPF
9 9 (0.41%) SAN
9 9 (0.41%) SSL
9 9 (0.41%) WAN
10 7 (0.32%) Internet
10 7 (0.32%) LAN
11 6 (0.27%) ATM
11 6 (0.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 90 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
3 83 (3.76%) Power BI
4 66 (2.99%) Data Lake
5 58 (2.63%) NoSQL
6 51 (2.31%) MongoDB
7 49 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
8 48 (2.18%) Apache Arrow
8 48 (2.18%) Apache Iceberg
8 48 (2.18%) Apache Ignite
8 48 (2.18%) Dremio
9 45 (2.04%) Relational Database
10 41 (1.86%) Tableau
11 37 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
11 37 (1.68%) DB2
12 29 (1.31%) Metadata
13 28 (1.27%) Oracle Database
14 27 (1.22%) Redis
15 24 (1.09%) SAP HANA
16 19 (0.86%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 193 (8.75%) JIRA
2 140 (6.35%) Jenkins
3 126 (5.71%) Git
4 52 (2.36%) JUnit
5 47 (2.13%) GitLab
6 36 (1.63%) Selenium
7 34 (1.54%) Bitbucket
8 29 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
9 27 (1.22%) Cucumber
10 26 (1.18%) Maven
11 25 (1.13%) SonarQube
11 25 (1.13%) TeamCity
12 20 (0.91%) Postman
13 18 (0.82%) Gradle
14 16 (0.73%) webpack
14 16 (0.73%) Xcode
15 15 (0.68%) Liquibase
16 13 (0.59%) REST Assured
17 10 (0.45%) Cypress.io
17 10 (0.45%) Subversion
General
1 1,395 (63.24%) Finance
2 790 (35.81%) Social Skills
3 523 (23.71%) Investment Banking
4 349 (15.82%) Analytical Skills
5 229 (10.38%) Front Office
6 121 (5.49%) Financial Institution
7 95 (4.31%) Retail Banking
8 72 (3.26%) Retail
9 66 (2.99%) Corporate Banking
10 53 (2.40%) Legal
11 46 (2.09%) Back Office
12 39 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
13 37 (1.68%) General Ledger
13 37 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
14 32 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
15 30 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
16 23 (1.04%) International Banking
17 20 (0.91%) Private Banking
18 19 (0.86%) Public Sector
19 17 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 469 (21.26%) Developer
2 361 (16.36%) Analyst
3 271 (12.28%) Senior
4 240 (10.88%) Business Analyst
5 213 (9.66%) Architect
6 129 (5.85%) Java Developer
7 127 (5.76%) Project Manager
8 121 (5.49%) Software Engineer
9 110 (4.99%) Lead
10 96 (4.35%) Senior Developer
11 79 (3.58%) Consultant
12 77 (3.49%) Banking Analyst
13 71 (3.22%) Solutions Architect
14 67 (3.04%) Java Engineer
14 67 (3.04%) Python Engineer
15 63 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
16 58 (2.63%) Senior Software Engineer
17 57 (2.58%) Designer
18 53 (2.40%) Senior Java Developer
19 52 (2.36%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (5.98%) React
2 126 (5.71%) Kafka
3 98 (4.44%) .NET
4 88 (3.99%) Spring
5 82 (3.72%) REST
6 79 (3.58%) HTML
7 73 (3.31%) AngularJS
7 73 (3.31%) CSS
8 72 (3.26%) Pandas
9 71 (3.22%) RESTful
10 70 (3.17%) NumPy
11 67 (3.04%) SciPy
12 66 (2.99%) Spring Boot
13 63 (2.86%) Node.js
14 62 (2.81%) gRPC
15 54 (2.45%) Protocol Buffers
15 54 (2.45%) Web Services
16 42 (1.90%) XML
17 40 (1.81%) Redux
18 36 (1.63%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 173 (7.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 157 (7.12%) Derivative
3 131 (5.94%) Fixed Income
4 117 (5.30%) Equities
5 107 (4.85%) Product Ownership
6 94 (4.26%) Cloud Native
7 89 (4.03%) Onboarding
8 77 (3.49%) Hedge funds
9 64 (2.90%) Management Information System
10 61 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
11 57 (2.58%) Data Centre
12 53 (2.40%) Market Risk
12 53 (2.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 51 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
14 48 (2.18%) Mobile App
14 48 (2.18%) Pricing Data
15 47 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
16 42 (1.90%) Data Structures
17 35 (1.59%) Mainframe
18 30 (1.36%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 161 (7.30%) Linux
2 143 (6.48%) Windows
3 54 (2.45%) Unix
4 45 (2.04%) Android
5 38 (1.72%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.82%) Windows 10
7 16 (0.73%) Mac OS
7 16 (0.73%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.41%) zOS
9 3 (0.14%) AIX
9 3 (0.14%) Solaris
10 2 (0.091%) HPUX
10 2 (0.091%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.045%) CentOS
11 1 (0.045%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 665 (30.15%) Agile
2 414 (18.77%) Problem-Solving
3 297 (13.46%) DevOps
4 268 (12.15%) Stakeholder Management
5 262 (11.88%) CI/CD
6 214 (9.70%) Microservices
7 206 (9.34%) Risk Management
8 199 (9.02%) Analytics
9 194 (8.79%) Software Engineering
10 171 (7.75%) Project Management
11 158 (7.16%) Migration
12 150 (6.80%) SDLC
13 145 (6.57%) Change Management
14 143 (6.48%) Scrum
15 141 (6.39%) Decision-Making
16 139 (6.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 138 (6.26%) Roadmaps
18 128 (5.80%) Fintech
19 125 (5.67%) Computer Science
20 121 (5.49%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 405 (18.36%) Python
2 387 (17.54%) Java
3 382 (17.32%) SQL
4 205 (9.29%) JavaScript
5 141 (6.39%) C#
6 132 (5.98%) TypeScript
7 67 (3.04%) C++
8 45 (2.04%) PowerShell
9 43 (1.95%) Shell Script
10 37 (1.68%) PL/SQL
11 36 (1.63%) Go
12 33 (1.50%) Scala
13 32 (1.45%) Kotlin
14 25 (1.13%) COBOL
15 23 (1.04%) Bicep
16 22 (1.00%) Bash
17 19 (0.86%) Rust
18 17 (0.77%) C
19 16 (0.73%) JCL
20 14 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 233 (10.56%) Degree
2 71 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 61 (2.77%) Security Cleared
4 40 (1.81%) PMP
5 39 (1.77%) Master's Degree
6 37 (1.68%) PMI Certification
7 28 (1.27%) Azure Certification
7 28 (1.27%) SC Cleared
8 25 (1.13%) AWS Certification
8 25 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (1.04%) CISSP
10 19 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 16 (0.73%) Numerate Degree
12 14 (0.63%) DV Cleared
13 12 (0.54%) BC Cleared
14 11 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.45%) CISM
16 8 (0.36%) CISA
16 8 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (5.21%) QA
2 62 (2.81%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.36%) GDPR
4 42 (1.90%) PMO
5 40 (1.81%) Accessibility
6 36 (1.63%) SEPA
7 31 (1.41%) ISO 20022
8 28 (1.27%) NIST
8 28 (1.27%) SLA
9 26 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 21 (0.95%) PSD2
11 20 (0.91%) IFRS
11 20 (0.91%) MiFID
12 17 (0.77%) Basel III
13 16 (0.73%) GRC
13 16 (0.73%) PCI DSS
14 15 (0.68%) IFRS 9
15 12 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 11 (0.50%) Basel II
17 9 (0.41%) EMIR
System Software
1 144 (6.53%) Docker
2 44 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
5 5 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.18%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 3 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
7 3 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.091%) Firmware
8 2 (0.091%) GridGain
8 2 (0.091%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.091%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.091%) RACF
8 2 (0.091%) XenApp
8 2 (0.091%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.045%) HDFS
9 1 (0.045%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.045%) KVM
9 1 (0.045%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 167 (7.57%) Kubernetes
2 93 (4.22%) Terraform
3 58 (2.63%) Ansible
4 28 (1.27%) Grafana
5 25 (1.13%) Prometheus
6 20 (0.91%) SCCM
7 13 (0.59%) NetBackup
8 12 (0.54%) ITRS Geneos
8 12 (0.54%) Oracle RMAN
9 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.32%) Control-M
11 6 (0.27%) Argo
11 6 (0.27%) CA Endevor
11 6 (0.27%) Kibana
12 5 (0.23%) Data Guard
12 5 (0.23%) Istio
12 5 (0.23%) logstash
13 4 (0.18%) QRadar
13 4 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.18%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 215 (9.75%) Microsoft
2 166 (7.52%) Oracle
3 93 (4.22%) Google
4 59 (2.67%) SAP
5 51 (2.31%) IBM
6 47 (2.13%) Splunk
7 40 (1.81%) Citrix
8 37 (1.68%) Databricks
8 37 (1.68%) ServiceNow
9 36 (1.63%) Salesforce
10 32 (1.45%) VMware
11 31 (1.41%) Cisco
12 30 (1.36%) Apple
13 27 (1.22%) HP
14 26 (1.18%) Dynatrace
14 26 (1.18%) F5
15 24 (1.09%) CyberArk
16 22 (1.00%) Sybase
17 21 (0.95%) Adobe
17 21 (0.95%) Dell