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 26 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,245 1,889 2,337
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.98% 7.78% 6.20%
As % of the General category 10.45% 12.26% 10.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,361 1,250 1,670
10th Percentile £372 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% -4.03%
75th Percentile £663 £750 £750
90th Percentile £775 £851 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 18 25
10th Percentile £17.00 £15.24 £12.34
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.20 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +14.21% -7.14%
75th Percentile £53.48 £24.66 £30.00
90th Percentile £95.50 £44.10 £79.30
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.50
% change year-on-year +12.93% +14.21% -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 21,474 15,403 22,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.18% 63.48% 58.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,551 10,052 14,391
10th Percentile £303 £300 £272
25th Percentile £406 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,350 606 1,679
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.95 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.78 £15.21
Median hourly rate £25.38 £30.21 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.97% +16.17% -25.71%
75th Percentile £60.41 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.78 £75.13 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £25.12 £29.15 £26.00
% change year-on-year -13.83% +12.12% -25.71%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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 1,526 £575 -9.80% 331
North of England +8 483 £475 +5.56% 73
North West +15 268 £447 +11.75% 41
Yorkshire -4 218 £500 -7.41% 25
Midlands +20 185 £491 -10.73% 41
West Midlands +20 130 £545 -1.80% 22
East Midlands -11 55 £436 +8.91% 19
South East -35 48 £472 -18.00% 94
South West -18 35 £525 -11.76% 9
East of England -27 11 £400 -33.33% 13
North East -9 6 £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
1 181 (8.06%) Confluence
2 58 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.07%) Apache Spark
4 18 (0.80%) SAS
5 14 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.58%) Apache
7 12 (0.53%) IIS
8 11 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.45%) CICS
10 7 (0.31%) CMS
11 6 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.22%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.22%) Hyperledger
13 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.089%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.089%) MQSeries
14 2 (0.089%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.089%) WebLogic
14 2 (0.089%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 150 (6.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 80 (3.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 65 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
4 50 (2.23%) MS Visio
5 29 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.71%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.13%) Adobe Captivate
8 3 (0.13%) Notion
8 3 (0.13%) Trello
9 2 (0.089%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.045%) InVision
10 1 (0.045%) Sketch
10 1 (0.045%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 32 (1.43%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.11%) Oracle Payables
3 20 (0.89%) Oracle Receivables
4 19 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
4 19 (0.85%) Temenos T24
5 18 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
6 17 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 15 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
8 13 (0.58%) Loan IQ
9 10 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
9 10 (0.45%) SAP FI
10 9 (0.40%) Actimize
11 8 (0.36%) Finacle
11 8 (0.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 8 (0.36%) SAP CO
11 8 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
12 7 (0.31%) Aladdin
12 7 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
12 7 (0.31%) Summit
13 6 (0.27%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 358 (15.95%) Azure
2 332 (14.79%) AWS
3 166 (7.39%) GCP
4 140 (6.24%) Power Platform
5 93 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
6 88 (3.92%) GitHub
7 61 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
8 56 (2.49%) Serverless
9 48 (2.14%) SaaS
10 43 (1.92%) Figma
11 33 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
12 32 (1.43%) Entra ID
13 29 (1.29%) Amazon S3
14 27 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
14 27 (1.20%) OCI
14 27 (1.20%) Power Automate
15 25 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
15 25 (1.11%) OpenShift
15 25 (1.11%) PowerApps
15 25 (1.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 70 (3.12%) DNS
2 48 (2.14%) Firewall
3 43 (1.92%) VPN
4 38 (1.69%) HTTP
5 37 (1.65%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.47%) Network Security
7 28 (1.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 27 (1.20%) Multicast
9 26 (1.16%) BGP
9 26 (1.16%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 24 (1.07%) DMZ
10 24 (1.07%) SSL
11 21 (0.94%) BIG-IP
12 20 (0.89%) NetScaler
12 20 (0.89%) Wireshark
13 19 (0.85%) SAN
14 17 (0.76%) FIX Connectivity
15 16 (0.71%) DHCP
15 16 (0.71%) Wireless
16 13 (0.58%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (4.99%) Power BI
2 99 (4.41%) SQL Server
3 70 (3.12%) Tableau
4 68 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
5 58 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
6 53 (2.36%) NoSQL
7 45 (2.00%) Metadata
8 40 (1.78%) Oracle Database
9 38 (1.69%) MongoDB
10 35 (1.56%) Relational Database
11 30 (1.34%) Big Data
12 22 (0.98%) BigQuery
13 18 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 17 (0.76%) Hadoop
15 16 (0.71%) DB2
16 15 (0.67%) Data Lake
17 13 (0.58%) Power Query
18 12 (0.53%) KDB
19 11 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
19 11 (0.49%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 257 (11.45%) JIRA
2 126 (5.61%) Jenkins
3 89 (3.96%) Git
3 89 (3.96%) GitLab
4 28 (1.25%) JUnit
5 23 (1.02%) Cucumber
5 23 (1.02%) Selenium
6 22 (0.98%) Bitbucket
6 22 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
7 19 (0.85%) Fiddler
7 19 (0.85%) Postman
8 15 (0.67%) REST Assured
9 14 (0.62%) Liquibase
9 14 (0.62%) Maven
9 14 (0.62%) TeamCity
10 12 (0.53%) Gradle
11 9 (0.40%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.40%) Mockito
12 8 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (0.31%) SonarQube
General
1 1,420 (63.25%) Finance
2 714 (31.80%) Social Skills
3 442 (19.69%) Investment Banking
4 303 (13.50%) Analytical Skills
5 183 (8.15%) Front Office
6 116 (5.17%) Financial Institution
7 87 (3.88%) Retail Banking
8 65 (2.90%) Retail
9 64 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
10 62 (2.76%) Legal
11 61 (2.72%) Corporate Banking
12 55 (2.45%) Public Sector
13 45 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
14 37 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
15 33 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
16 29 (1.29%) Marketing
17 24 (1.07%) General Ledger
18 22 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 22 (0.98%) International Banking
19 20 (0.89%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 391 (17.42%) Developer
2 378 (16.84%) Analyst
3 283 (12.61%) Senior
4 258 (11.49%) Business Analyst
5 257 (11.45%) Architect
6 148 (6.59%) Lead
7 129 (5.75%) Solutions Architect
8 125 (5.57%) Project Manager
9 100 (4.45%) Java Developer
10 87 (3.88%) Senior Developer
11 82 (3.65%) Consultant
12 77 (3.43%) Banking Analyst
13 63 (2.81%) Data Engineer
14 54 (2.41%) Banking Business Analyst
14 54 (2.41%) Designer
15 53 (2.36%) Payments Architect
16 52 (2.32%) DevOps Engineer
16 52 (2.32%) Network Engineer
17 48 (2.14%) Payments Solutions Architect
18 45 (2.00%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (5.26%) Kafka
2 110 (4.90%) .NET
3 103 (4.59%) REST
4 77 (3.43%) React
5 68 (3.03%) Spring
6 67 (2.98%) RESTful
7 61 (2.72%) Middleware
8 60 (2.67%) HTML
8 60 (2.67%) Spring Boot
9 48 (2.14%) AngularJS
10 41 (1.83%) CSS
11 40 (1.78%) OAuth
12 37 (1.65%) XML
13 35 (1.56%) JSON
13 35 (1.56%) Pandas
14 31 (1.38%) NumPy
15 29 (1.29%) OAuth2
16 28 (1.25%) FIX Protocol
17 26 (1.16%) Node.js
17 26 (1.16%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 137 (6.10%) Product Ownership
2 110 (4.90%) Derivative
3 106 (4.72%) Onboarding
4 94 (4.19%) Management Information System
5 93 (4.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 90 (4.01%) Cloud Native
7 71 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
8 69 (3.07%) Fixed Income
9 68 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
9 68 (3.03%) Equities
10 47 (2.09%) Data Structures
11 44 (1.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 42 (1.87%) Public Cloud
13 39 (1.74%) Data Centre
13 39 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
13 39 (1.74%) Market Risk
14 36 (1.60%) Credit Risk
15 31 (1.38%) Hedge funds
16 29 (1.29%) Algorithms
16 29 (1.29%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 139 (6.19%) Windows
2 118 (5.26%) Linux
3 59 (2.63%) Unix
4 36 (1.60%) Windows 10
5 33 (1.47%) Android
6 24 (1.07%) Apple iOS
7 21 (0.94%) Windows Server
8 16 (0.71%) zOS
9 14 (0.62%) Mac OS
10 13 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.31%) VMS
12 6 (0.27%) AIX
13 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
14 3 (0.13%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.13%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.089%) Solaris
15 2 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
16 1 (0.045%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 558 (24.86%) Agile
2 402 (17.91%) Stakeholder Management
3 379 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
4 331 (14.74%) DevOps
5 323 (14.39%) CI/CD
6 229 (10.20%) Migration
7 210 (9.35%) Analytics
8 207 (9.22%) AI
9 180 (8.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 177 (7.88%) Microservices
11 173 (7.71%) Data Modelling
12 172 (7.66%) Risk Management
13 164 (7.31%) Decision-Making
14 160 (7.13%) Roadmaps
15 158 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
15 158 (7.04%) Data Analysis
15 158 (7.04%) Project Management
16 148 (6.59%) Business Intelligence
16 148 (6.59%) Validation
17 146 (6.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 398 (17.73%) SQL
2 361 (16.08%) Python
3 294 (13.10%) Java
4 145 (6.46%) C#
5 89 (3.96%) JavaScript
6 61 (2.72%) TypeScript
7 60 (2.67%) PowerShell
8 48 (2.14%) Go
9 37 (1.65%) PL/SQL
10 32 (1.43%) Shell Script
11 30 (1.34%) VBA
12 29 (1.29%) Bash
13 23 (1.02%) C++
13 23 (1.02%) T-SQL
14 18 (0.80%) COBOL
14 18 (0.80%) Kotlin
15 13 (0.58%) Korn
15 13 (0.58%) Scala
16 12 (0.53%) Perl
17 11 (0.49%) JCL
Qualifications
1 234 (10.42%) Degree
2 117 (5.21%) Security Cleared
3 78 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 74 (3.30%) Master's Degree
5 71 (3.16%) SC Cleared
6 56 (2.49%) PMI Certification
7 54 (2.41%) PMP
8 45 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (1.29%) CISSP
10 26 (1.16%) Azure Certification
11 19 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (0.80%) AWS Certification
13 17 (0.76%) MBA
14 16 (0.71%) CISM
15 15 (0.67%) ISTQB
16 12 (0.53%) CBAP
16 12 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (0.53%) PhD
17 10 (0.45%) DV Cleared
18 9 (0.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (6.06%) QA
2 105 (4.68%) Data Quality
3 56 (2.49%) ISO 20022
4 50 (2.23%) GDPR
5 43 (1.92%) PMO
6 35 (1.56%) SLA
7 34 (1.51%) PCI DSS
8 32 (1.43%) PSD2
9 31 (1.38%) Accessibility
9 31 (1.38%) NIST
10 30 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 30 (1.34%) SEPA
11 28 (1.25%) GRC
11 28 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 22 (0.98%) MiFID
13 21 (0.94%) Basel III
14 14 (0.62%) ISO 8583
15 13 (0.58%) EMIR
16 11 (0.49%) IFRS
17 7 (0.31%) GAAP
System Software
1 144 (6.41%) Docker
2 48 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (1.87%) Active Directory
4 22 (0.98%) Firmware
5 21 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.58%) vSphere
7 10 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.40%) NFS
9 4 (0.18%) RACF
9 4 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.18%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.13%) SRDF
10 3 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
10 3 (0.13%) XenApp
11 2 (0.089%) ACF2
11 2 (0.089%) GridGain
11 2 (0.089%) Varnish
11 2 (0.089%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.045%) HDFS
12 1 (0.045%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 183 (8.15%) Kubernetes
2 104 (4.63%) Terraform
3 80 (3.56%) Ansible
4 48 (2.14%) Grafana
5 39 (1.74%) Prometheus
6 26 (1.16%) SCCM
7 19 (0.85%) Argo
8 18 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.40%) Puppet
11 8 (0.36%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.36%) Istio
12 7 (0.31%) Control-M
13 6 (0.27%) RSA Archer
13 6 (0.27%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.27%) WSUS
14 5 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
14 5 (0.22%) SnapMirror
15 4 (0.18%) Karpenter
15 4 (0.18%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 266 (11.85%) Microsoft
2 157 (6.99%) Oracle
3 78 (3.47%) ServiceNow
4 77 (3.43%) Google
5 59 (2.63%) Cisco
6 58 (2.58%) Splunk
6 58 (2.58%) VMware
7 53 (2.36%) SAP
8 50 (2.23%) Citrix
8 50 (2.23%) IBM
9 47 (2.09%) F5
10 31 (1.38%) Bloomberg
10 31 (1.38%) Remedy
11 29 (1.29%) Temenos
12 27 (1.20%) Murex
13 25 (1.11%) HP
14 24 (1.07%) NetApp
14 24 (1.07%) Salesforce
15 23 (1.02%) Avaloq
15 23 (1.02%) Databricks