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 28 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,096 2,162 2,543
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.64% 7.60% 6.92%
As % of the General category 10.83% 12.32% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,318 1,398 1,774
10th Percentile £360 £385 £400
25th Percentile £438 £500 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +1.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £750
90th Percentile £813 £838 £850
UK median daily rate £545 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -9.17% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 11 19
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.22 £14.18
25th Percentile - £18.76 £16.30
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +20.38% -11.90%
75th Percentile £25.43 £47.63 £30.00
90th Percentile £55.45 £78.75 £57.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £24.17 £18.72
% change year-on-year +4.08% +29.12% -10.88%

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 19,350 17,553 21,809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 61.27% 61.72% 59.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,251 10,624 14,724
10th Percentile £281 £300 £280
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £626 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £755
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,243 605 1,026
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.94 £18.50 £16.69
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -9.09% +28.35%
75th Percentile £46.00 £58.00 £59.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.35 £70.28
UK median hourly rate £23.54 £27.39 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.05% -15.74% +30.00%

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 28 December 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 28 December 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 28 December 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 -5 1,466 £600 -4.38% 648
North of England +6 413 £465 -7.00% 175
Yorkshire +2 229 £497 -12.12% 72
North West +2 193 £452 +1.63% 97
Midlands +15 161 £496 -9.82% 113
West Midlands +15 104 £539 -12.75% 62
East Midlands +9 60 £420 +2.13% 46
South East -16 49 £425 -19.05% 275
South West +5 35 £525 -12.50% 65
East of England -13 12 £400 -46.67% 65
North East -4 5 £400 - 6
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
1 126 (6.01%) Confluence
2 54 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.43%) Apache
4 28 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.86%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.76%) CMS
7 14 (0.67%) CICS
8 11 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.43%) IIS
10 8 (0.38%) MQSeries
10 8 (0.38%) Mule
11 7 (0.33%) HCL Notes
12 6 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.29%) SAS
13 5 (0.24%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.19%) Anypoint
14 4 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 4 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
15 3 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 122 (5.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (3.58%) Microsoft Office
3 59 (2.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (2.00%) MS Visio
5 22 (1.05%) Chatbot
6 21 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 6 (0.29%) Adobe Captivate
8 6 (0.29%) Sketch
9 3 (0.14%) InVision
9 3 (0.14%) Notion
9 3 (0.14%) Trello
10 2 (0.095%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.048%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 21 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 21 (1.00%) Oracle Payables
1 21 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
2 17 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
4 11 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
5 10 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.48%) Temenos T24
6 9 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
6 9 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
7 8 (0.38%) Aladdin
7 8 (0.38%) Fidessa
7 8 (0.38%) VisionPLUS
8 7 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
8 7 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
9 6 (0.29%) Oracle FAH
9 6 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle E-Business Tax
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 338 (16.13%) Azure
2 328 (15.65%) AWS
3 181 (8.64%) GCP
4 152 (7.25%) Power Platform
5 84 (4.01%) GitHub
6 82 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
7 70 (3.34%) Serverless
8 54 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
9 52 (2.48%) Figma
10 39 (1.86%) PowerApps
10 39 (1.86%) SaaS
11 38 (1.81%) GitHub Actions
12 36 (1.72%) Snowflake
13 32 (1.53%) Entra ID
14 31 (1.48%) Power Automate
15 26 (1.24%) Microsoft Copilot
16 24 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
17 23 (1.10%) dbt
18 22 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
18 22 (1.05%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 51 (2.43%) DNS
2 50 (2.39%) Firewall
3 35 (1.67%) Network Security
4 28 (1.34%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 28 (1.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 27 (1.29%) HTTP
5 27 (1.29%) TCP/IP
5 27 (1.29%) Wireless
6 23 (1.10%) DMZ
7 19 (0.91%) SSL
7 19 (0.91%) VPN
8 16 (0.76%) Wireshark
9 15 (0.72%) BIG-IP
10 14 (0.67%) Multicast
11 13 (0.62%) DHCP
11 13 (0.62%) NetScaler
12 11 (0.52%) BGP
13 9 (0.43%) Internet
13 9 (0.43%) LAN
14 8 (0.38%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (6.06%) Power BI
2 91 (4.34%) SQL Server
3 81 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
4 71 (3.39%) NoSQL
5 65 (3.10%) Tableau
6 51 (2.43%) MongoDB
7 42 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
8 40 (1.91%) Relational Database
9 37 (1.77%) Oracle Database
10 32 (1.53%) Data Lake
11 31 (1.48%) Metadata
12 24 (1.15%) DB2
13 23 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
14 22 (1.05%) Apache Arrow
14 22 (1.05%) Apache Iceberg
14 22 (1.05%) Apache Ignite
14 22 (1.05%) Big Data
14 22 (1.05%) Dremio
15 20 (0.95%) Power Query
16 17 (0.81%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 215 (10.26%) JIRA
2 153 (7.30%) Jenkins
3 107 (5.10%) Git
4 85 (4.06%) GitLab
5 39 (1.86%) JUnit
6 34 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
7 32 (1.53%) Selenium
8 29 (1.38%) Bitbucket
9 26 (1.24%) Liquibase
10 24 (1.15%) Cucumber
11 21 (1.00%) Maven
11 21 (1.00%) SonarQube
12 19 (0.91%) Postman
13 18 (0.86%) REST Assured
14 16 (0.76%) TeamCity
15 15 (0.72%) Gradle
16 14 (0.67%) Fiddler
17 12 (0.57%) Cypress.io
17 12 (0.57%) webpack
18 10 (0.48%) SoapUI
General
1 1,350 (64.41%) Finance
2 766 (36.55%) Social Skills
3 452 (21.56%) Investment Banking
4 285 (13.60%) Analytical Skills
5 188 (8.97%) Front Office
6 135 (6.44%) Financial Institution
7 67 (3.20%) Retail Banking
8 51 (2.43%) Legal
9 50 (2.39%) Retail
10 45 (2.15%) Corporate Banking
11 44 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
12 38 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
13 37 (1.77%) Back Office
14 33 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
14 33 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
15 31 (1.48%) Public Sector
16 25 (1.19%) General Ledger
16 25 (1.19%) International Banking
17 24 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 22 (1.05%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 410 (19.56%) Developer
2 346 (16.51%) Analyst
3 277 (13.22%) Senior
4 229 (10.93%) Business Analyst
5 178 (8.49%) Architect
6 131 (6.25%) Project Manager
7 112 (5.34%) Java Developer
8 111 (5.30%) Lead
9 87 (4.15%) Senior Developer
10 79 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
11 66 (3.15%) Consultant
12 62 (2.96%) Banking Analyst
13 61 (2.91%) Software Engineer
14 56 (2.67%) Designer
14 56 (2.67%) DevOps Engineer
15 51 (2.43%) Python Engineer
16 48 (2.29%) AWS Engineer
16 48 (2.29%) Senior Java Developer
17 46 (2.19%) Data Analyst
18 43 (2.05%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (5.82%) Kafka
2 113 (5.39%) REST
3 103 (4.91%) .NET
4 86 (4.10%) Spring
5 81 (3.86%) RESTful
6 73 (3.48%) Spring Boot
7 72 (3.44%) React
8 62 (2.96%) Pandas
9 58 (2.77%) HTML
10 56 (2.67%) NumPy
11 53 (2.53%) AngularJS
12 45 (2.15%) CSS
13 42 (2.00%) Middleware
13 42 (2.00%) XML
14 39 (1.86%) SciPy
15 37 (1.77%) Elastic Stack
16 35 (1.67%) Node.js
17 30 (1.43%) FIX Protocol
17 30 (1.43%) JSON
18 29 (1.38%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 142 (6.77%) Derivative
2 133 (6.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 116 (5.53%) Onboarding
4 113 (5.39%) Product Ownership
5 108 (5.15%) Cloud Native
6 86 (4.10%) Equities
7 84 (4.01%) Management Information System
8 83 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
9 76 (3.63%) Fixed Income
10 70 (3.34%) Data Protection Act
11 65 (3.10%) Hedge funds
12 60 (2.86%) Data Centre
13 51 (2.43%) Mobile App
14 48 (2.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 44 (2.10%) Public Cloud
16 41 (1.96%) Data Structures
17 38 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
18 33 (1.57%) Market Risk
19 30 (1.43%) Credit Risk
20 28 (1.34%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 145 (6.92%) Linux
2 113 (5.39%) Windows
3 46 (2.19%) Unix
4 43 (2.05%) Android
5 28 (1.34%) Windows 10
6 23 (1.10%) Mac OS
7 22 (1.05%) Apple iOS
8 20 (0.95%) Windows Server
9 8 (0.38%) zOS
10 4 (0.19%) AIX
10 4 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.14%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.048%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.048%) Solaris
12 1 (0.048%) VMS
12 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 585 (27.91%) Agile
2 393 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 332 (15.84%) DevOps
4 315 (15.03%) CI/CD
4 315 (15.03%) Stakeholder Management
5 210 (10.02%) Analytics
6 198 (9.45%) Microservices
7 175 (8.35%) Risk Management
8 172 (8.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 160 (7.63%) Decision-Making
10 157 (7.49%) Project Management
11 156 (7.44%) Migration
12 151 (7.20%) Change Management
13 145 (6.92%) Business Intelligence
14 144 (6.87%) AI
15 139 (6.63%) Containerisation
16 138 (6.58%) Software Engineering
17 136 (6.49%) Data Modelling
18 133 (6.35%) Roadmaps
19 129 (6.15%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 387 (18.46%) Python
2 385 (18.37%) SQL
3 325 (15.51%) Java
4 147 (7.01%) C#
5 107 (5.10%) JavaScript
6 66 (3.15%) TypeScript
7 60 (2.86%) Go
8 58 (2.77%) PowerShell
9 47 (2.24%) C++
10 33 (1.57%) PL/SQL
11 30 (1.43%) Shell Script
12 27 (1.29%) Bash
13 25 (1.19%) VBA
14 20 (0.95%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.86%) COBOL
16 16 (0.76%) Rust
17 15 (0.72%) Scala
17 15 (0.72%) T-SQL
18 13 (0.62%) R
19 12 (0.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 255 (12.17%) Degree
2 92 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 86 (4.10%) Security Cleared
4 75 (3.58%) Master's Degree
5 55 (2.62%) PMI Certification
6 50 (2.39%) PMP
7 39 (1.86%) SC Cleared
8 30 (1.43%) CISSP
9 29 (1.38%) AWS Certification
10 27 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (1.19%) Azure Certification
12 18 (0.86%) DV Cleared
13 15 (0.72%) CISM
14 14 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (0.62%) CBAP
16 12 (0.57%) BC Cleared
17 11 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 11 (0.52%) ISTQB
18 10 (0.48%) MBA
18 10 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (6.68%) QA
2 77 (3.67%) Data Quality
3 54 (2.58%) GDPR
4 47 (2.24%) ISO 20022
4 47 (2.24%) PMO
5 37 (1.77%) Accessibility
6 31 (1.48%) SLA
7 28 (1.34%) SEPA
8 27 (1.29%) MiFID
8 27 (1.29%) PSD2
9 26 (1.24%) NIST
10 23 (1.10%) Basel III
10 23 (1.10%) PCI DSS
11 22 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 22 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 21 (1.00%) GRC
13 17 (0.81%) EMIR
14 13 (0.62%) IFRS
15 10 (0.48%) ISO 8583
16 8 (0.38%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 182 (8.68%) Docker
2 44 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (1.48%) Active Directory
4 18 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.72%) Firmware
6 6 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.14%) RACF
9 3 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
9 3 (0.14%) vSphere
10 2 (0.095%) ACF2
10 2 (0.095%) GridGain
10 2 (0.095%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.095%) NFS
10 2 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.048%) KVM
11 1 (0.048%) SRDF
11 1 (0.048%) XenApp
11 1 (0.048%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 210 (10.02%) Kubernetes
2 119 (5.68%) Terraform
3 82 (3.91%) Ansible
4 56 (2.67%) Grafana
5 49 (2.34%) Prometheus
6 17 (0.81%) SCCM
7 14 (0.67%) Argo
8 11 (0.52%) Control-M
8 11 (0.52%) ITRS Geneos
9 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.43%) NetBackup
10 8 (0.38%) CA Endevor
10 8 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
11 7 (0.33%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.29%) RSA Archer
13 5 (0.24%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 4 (0.19%) Data Guard
14 4 (0.19%) Istio
14 4 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 240 (11.45%) Microsoft
2 142 (6.77%) Oracle
3 92 (4.39%) Google
4 66 (3.15%) Splunk
5 50 (2.39%) VMware
6 49 (2.34%) ServiceNow
7 47 (2.24%) IBM
8 42 (2.00%) Cisco
9 38 (1.81%) F5
10 37 (1.77%) SAP
11 33 (1.57%) HP
12 31 (1.48%) Dell
13 30 (1.43%) Salesforce
14 29 (1.38%) Apple
14 29 (1.38%) Citrix
15 28 (1.34%) CyberArk
15 28 (1.34%) Databricks
16 27 (1.29%) Bloomberg
16 27 (1.29%) Dynatrace
17 26 (1.24%) Remedy