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 6 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 24 24
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,281 1,898 2,313
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.90% 7.79% 6.19%
As % of the General category 10.44% 12.23% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,381 1,268 1,660
10th Percentile £370 £360 £380
25th Percentile £438 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £670 £750 £750
90th Percentile £775 £852 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £618
% change year-on-year -12.50% -2.83% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 19 25
10th Percentile £17.00 £15.24 £12.34
25th Percentile £18.65 £18.31 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +14.21% -7.14%
75th Percentile £57.10 £24.66 £30.00
90th Percentile £96.63 £82.00 £79.30
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £23.23 £19.50
% change year-on-year +8.29% +19.10% -7.14%

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 21,844 15,525 21,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.50% 63.69% 58.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,765 10,112 14,139
10th Percentile £303 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £774
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,380 631 1,718
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.42 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.84 £18.13 £15.29
Median hourly rate £27.00 £29.07 £26.87
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +8.21% -23.24%
75th Percentile £61.18 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £29.00 £26.24
% change year-on-year -11.14% +10.52% -25.03%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 6 April 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 1,564 £575 -9.80% 331
North of England +6 482 £475 +5.56% 73
North West +15 264 £447 +11.75% 41
Yorkshire -4 218 £500 -7.41% 25
Midlands +13 180 £490 -10.91% 41
West Midlands +20 126 £540 -2.70% 22
East Midlands -10 54 £436 +8.91% 19
South East -35 50 £475 -15.56% 94
South West -18 33 £525 -11.76% 9
East of England -29 11 £400 -33.33% 13
North East -9 8 £400 - 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
1 179 (7.85%) Confluence
2 53 (2.32%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 20 (0.88%) SAS
5 14 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.57%) Apache
6 13 (0.57%) IIS
7 11 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.44%) CICS
9 7 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.31%) CMS
10 6 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.22%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.22%) Hyperledger
12 3 (0.13%) Camunda
12 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.088%) Appian
13 2 (0.088%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.088%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 153 (6.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 79 (3.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 66 (2.89%) Microsoft Office
4 46 (2.02%) MS Visio
5 29 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.75%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.13%) Notion
7 3 (0.13%) Trello
8 2 (0.088%) Adobe Captivate
8 2 (0.088%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.088%) InVision
8 2 (0.088%) Sketch
8 2 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.044%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 31 (1.36%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
3 20 (0.88%) Oracle Receivables
3 20 (0.88%) Temenos T24
4 19 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
4 19 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
5 17 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 15 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
6 15 (0.66%) Loan IQ
7 10 (0.44%) Actimize
7 10 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
7 10 (0.44%) SAP FI
8 9 (0.39%) Finacle
9 8 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 8 (0.35%) SAP CO
9 8 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
10 7 (0.31%) Aladdin
10 7 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
10 7 (0.31%) Summit
11 5 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 358 (15.69%) Azure
2 318 (13.94%) AWS
3 157 (6.88%) GCP
4 139 (6.09%) Power Platform
5 97 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
6 86 (3.77%) GitHub
7 61 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (2.32%) SaaS
9 52 (2.28%) Serverless
10 45 (1.97%) Figma
11 34 (1.49%) Entra ID
12 33 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
13 31 (1.36%) Amazon S3
13 31 (1.36%) OpenShift
14 27 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
14 27 (1.18%) OCI
14 27 (1.18%) Power Automate
15 26 (1.14%) Snowflake
16 25 (1.10%) Microsoft Copilot
16 25 (1.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 72 (3.16%) DNS
2 49 (2.15%) Firewall
3 44 (1.93%) VPN
4 39 (1.71%) HTTP
4 39 (1.71%) TCP/IP
5 34 (1.49%) Network Security
6 29 (1.27%) Multicast
7 27 (1.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 26 (1.14%) BGP
9 25 (1.10%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 24 (1.05%) BIG-IP
10 24 (1.05%) DMZ
10 24 (1.05%) SSL
11 21 (0.92%) SAN
12 20 (0.88%) Wireshark
13 19 (0.83%) NetScaler
14 18 (0.79%) FIX Connectivity
15 16 (0.70%) DHCP
16 13 (0.57%) Internet
16 13 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (4.78%) Power BI
2 101 (4.43%) SQL Server
3 70 (3.07%) Tableau
4 62 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
5 57 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
6 48 (2.10%) Metadata
7 45 (1.97%) NoSQL
8 42 (1.84%) Oracle Database
9 38 (1.67%) MongoDB
10 35 (1.53%) Relational Database
11 28 (1.23%) Big Data
12 22 (0.96%) BigQuery
13 17 (0.75%) DB2
13 17 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (0.66%) Data Lake
14 15 (0.66%) Hadoop
15 14 (0.61%) Power Query
16 12 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
16 12 (0.53%) KDB
17 11 (0.48%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 259 (11.35%) JIRA
2 118 (5.17%) Jenkins
3 93 (4.08%) Git
4 79 (3.46%) GitLab
5 27 (1.18%) JUnit
6 23 (1.01%) Selenium
7 22 (0.96%) Bitbucket
8 20 (0.88%) Cucumber
8 20 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
9 19 (0.83%) Fiddler
10 18 (0.79%) Postman
11 15 (0.66%) REST Assured
12 14 (0.61%) TeamCity
13 13 (0.57%) Maven
14 10 (0.44%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.39%) Gradle
15 9 (0.39%) Liquibase
15 9 (0.39%) Mockito
16 8 (0.35%) SonarQube
17 7 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,433 (62.82%) Finance
2 707 (31.00%) Social Skills
3 454 (19.90%) Investment Banking
4 314 (13.77%) Analytical Skills
5 189 (8.29%) Front Office
6 106 (4.65%) Financial Institution
7 92 (4.03%) Retail Banking
8 70 (3.07%) Corporate Banking
8 70 (3.07%) Legal
9 68 (2.98%) Retail
10 62 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
11 53 (2.32%) Public Sector
12 44 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
13 36 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
14 34 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
15 31 (1.36%) Marketing
16 24 (1.05%) General Ledger
17 23 (1.01%) Back Office
18 22 (0.96%) International Banking
19 20 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 382 (16.75%) Analyst
2 381 (16.70%) Developer
3 286 (12.54%) Senior
4 267 (11.71%) Business Analyst
5 259 (11.35%) Architect
6 153 (6.71%) Lead
7 127 (5.57%) Solutions Architect
8 121 (5.30%) Project Manager
9 100 (4.38%) Java Developer
10 87 (3.81%) Consultant
11 86 (3.77%) Senior Developer
12 81 (3.55%) Banking Analyst
13 72 (3.16%) Data Engineer
14 58 (2.54%) Banking Business Analyst
15 55 (2.41%) Payments Architect
16 54 (2.37%) Designer
17 53 (2.32%) Network Engineer
18 52 (2.28%) DevOps Engineer
19 49 (2.15%) Payments Solutions Architect
20 47 (2.06%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (5.13%) Kafka
2 111 (4.87%) .NET
3 95 (4.16%) REST
4 82 (3.59%) React
5 67 (2.94%) Spring
6 66 (2.89%) Middleware
7 65 (2.85%) RESTful
8 61 (2.67%) HTML
9 59 (2.59%) Spring Boot
10 45 (1.97%) AngularJS
10 45 (1.97%) CSS
11 42 (1.84%) OAuth
12 40 (1.75%) JSON
13 35 (1.53%) Pandas
13 35 (1.53%) XML
14 31 (1.36%) FIX Protocol
14 31 (1.36%) OAuth2
15 30 (1.32%) NumPy
16 29 (1.27%) Node.js
17 26 (1.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 138 (6.05%) Product Ownership
2 112 (4.91%) Derivative
3 108 (4.73%) Onboarding
4 101 (4.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 94 (4.12%) Management Information System
6 87 (3.81%) Cloud Native
7 75 (3.29%) Fixed Income
8 73 (3.20%) Data Protection Act
9 66 (2.89%) Equities
10 63 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
11 53 (2.32%) Data Structures
12 45 (1.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 40 (1.75%) Data Centre
14 39 (1.71%) Market Risk
14 39 (1.71%) Public Cloud
15 38 (1.67%) Credit Risk
16 37 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
17 32 (1.40%) Mainframe
18 29 (1.27%) Algorithms
18 29 (1.27%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 142 (6.23%) Windows
2 113 (4.95%) Linux
3 60 (2.63%) Unix
4 37 (1.62%) Windows 10
5 32 (1.40%) Android
6 25 (1.10%) Apple iOS
7 21 (0.92%) Windows Server
8 16 (0.70%) zOS
9 13 (0.57%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.31%) VMS
11 6 (0.26%) AIX
12 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
12 5 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
12 5 (0.22%) Windows 7
13 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.13%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.088%) Solaris
16 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 562 (24.64%) Agile
2 411 (18.02%) Stakeholder Management
3 381 (16.70%) Problem-Solving
4 326 (14.29%) DevOps
5 323 (14.16%) CI/CD
6 244 (10.70%) Migration
7 225 (9.86%) AI
8 208 (9.12%) Analytics
9 185 (8.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 175 (7.67%) Data Modelling
11 174 (7.63%) Microservices
12 172 (7.54%) Decision-Making
13 169 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 169 (7.41%) Risk Management
14 167 (7.32%) Roadmaps
15 163 (7.15%) Project Management
16 157 (6.88%) Data Analysis
17 153 (6.71%) Validation
18 152 (6.66%) User Acceptance Testing
19 146 (6.40%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 401 (17.58%) SQL
2 362 (15.87%) Python
3 289 (12.67%) Java
4 145 (6.36%) C#
5 99 (4.34%) JavaScript
6 65 (2.85%) TypeScript
7 64 (2.81%) PowerShell
8 40 (1.75%) Go
9 39 (1.71%) PL/SQL
10 35 (1.53%) VBA
11 34 (1.49%) Shell Script
12 30 (1.32%) Bash
13 25 (1.10%) T-SQL
14 21 (0.92%) C++
15 19 (0.83%) Kotlin
16 18 (0.79%) COBOL
17 13 (0.57%) Korn
17 13 (0.57%) Perl
17 13 (0.57%) Scala
18 11 (0.48%) JCL
Qualifications
1 231 (10.13%) Degree
2 114 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 72 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 69 (3.02%) SC Cleared
5 67 (2.94%) Master's Degree
6 54 (2.37%) PMP
7 53 (2.32%) PMI Certification
8 45 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (1.36%) CISSP
10 27 (1.18%) Azure Certification
11 18 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (0.79%) CISM
12 17 (0.75%) MBA
13 16 (0.70%) AWS Certification
14 15 (0.66%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.53%) CBAP
15 12 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.53%) PhD
16 9 (0.39%) ACCA
16 9 (0.39%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (6.23%) QA
2 110 (4.82%) Data Quality
3 54 (2.37%) ISO 20022
4 52 (2.28%) GDPR
5 43 (1.89%) PMO
6 36 (1.58%) SLA
7 33 (1.45%) NIST
7 33 (1.45%) PCI DSS
7 33 (1.45%) PSD2
8 30 (1.32%) Accessibility
8 30 (1.32%) SEPA
9 29 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 26 (1.14%) GRC
11 24 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 23 (1.01%) MiFID
13 19 (0.83%) Basel III
14 15 (0.66%) ISO 8583
15 13 (0.57%) EMIR
16 12 (0.53%) IFRS
17 7 (0.31%) GAAP
System Software
1 141 (6.18%) Docker
2 47 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (1.93%) Active Directory
4 21 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (0.88%) Firmware
6 13 (0.57%) NFS
6 13 (0.57%) vSphere
7 9 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.22%) RACF
9 4 (0.18%) Varnish
9 4 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.18%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.13%) Postfix
10 3 (0.13%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.13%) SRDF
10 3 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
10 3 (0.13%) XenApp
11 2 (0.088%) ACF2
11 2 (0.088%) GridGain
11 2 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 185 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 99 (4.34%) Terraform
3 76 (3.33%) Ansible
4 45 (1.97%) Grafana
5 35 (1.53%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.10%) SCCM
7 19 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (0.79%) Argo
9 10 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.39%) Puppet
11 8 (0.35%) Control-M
11 8 (0.35%) Istio
12 7 (0.31%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.31%) RSA Archer
13 6 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
13 6 (0.26%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.26%) WSUS
14 5 (0.22%) SnapMirror
15 4 (0.18%) Karpenter
15 4 (0.18%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 281 (12.32%) Microsoft
2 163 (7.15%) Oracle
3 84 (3.68%) ServiceNow
4 72 (3.16%) Google
5 60 (2.63%) Cisco
6 57 (2.50%) VMware
7 56 (2.46%) SAP
8 53 (2.32%) Splunk
9 52 (2.28%) IBM
10 51 (2.24%) F5
11 49 (2.15%) Citrix
12 31 (1.36%) Bloomberg
13 30 (1.32%) Remedy
13 30 (1.32%) Temenos
14 28 (1.23%) Murex
15 24 (1.05%) HP
15 24 (1.05%) NetApp
16 23 (1.01%) Avaloq
16 23 (1.01%) Pega
16 23 (1.01%) Salesforce