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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,127 1,928 2,449
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.38% 7.38% 6.44%
As % of the General category 10.69% 11.79% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,301 1,223 1,735
10th Percentile £363 £375 £385
25th Percentile £447 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £675 £731 £750
90th Percentile £800 £838 £838
UK median daily rate £537 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.50% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 12 24
10th Percentile £18.78 £14.80 £12.84
25th Percentile - £15.24 £16.18
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +14.21% -7.14%
75th Percentile £38.59 £25.81 £30.00
90th Percentile £80.38 £73.80 £67.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £23.21 £19.50
% change year-on-year +8.36% +19.03% -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 19,902 16,352 22,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 59.70% 62.61% 58.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,652 9,880 14,818
10th Percentile £290 £294 £263
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,235 529 1,488
10th Percentile £14.01 £15.62 £13.23
25th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.85 £30.21 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year -24.36% +17.50% -1.12%
75th Percentile £49.25 £57.62 £53.78
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £22.81 £29.00 £25.71
% change year-on-year -21.34% +12.80% +2.84%

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 February 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 4 February 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 4 February 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 -6 1,454 £600 -4.00% 280
North of England +8 458 £467 +3.67% 58
Yorkshire +4 234 £500 -11.50% 22
North West +12 232 £447 +11.75% 33
Midlands +18 174 £475 -13.64% 14
West Midlands +15 119 £558 +0.90% 9
East Midlands +4 55 £420 -6.67% 5
South East -15 48 £419 -23.86% 129
South West -11 28 £525 -16.00% 13
East of England -24 10 £400 -33.33% 4
North East -12 5 £400 - 3
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
1 155 (7.29%) Confluence
2 55 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 20 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 16 (0.75%) Apache
5 15 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.47%) CMS
7 9 (0.42%) CICS
7 9 (0.42%) IIS
7 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.42%) SAS
8 7 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.33%) MQSeries
9 5 (0.24%) Ethereum
9 5 (0.24%) Hyperledger
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.14%) Camunda
10 3 (0.14%) HCL Notes
10 3 (0.14%) Mule
10 3 (0.14%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.094%) Tomcat
Applications
1 148 (6.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (3.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 65 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
4 45 (2.12%) MS Visio
5 24 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
6 20 (0.94%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.19%) Adobe Captivate
9 3 (0.14%) Notion
9 3 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.14%) Trello
10 2 (0.094%) Sketch
11 1 (0.047%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.047%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.047%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 29 (1.36%) Payment Gateway
2 24 (1.13%) Oracle Payables
3 20 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 18 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
5 15 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
6 13 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
7 12 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 11 (0.52%) Temenos T24
9 10 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
10 8 (0.38%) Finacle
10 8 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 7 (0.33%) Fidessa
11 7 (0.33%) Loan IQ
11 7 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
11 7 (0.33%) SAP FI
12 6 (0.28%) Aladdin
12 6 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
13 5 (0.24%) SAP CO
13 5 (0.24%) Summit
13 5 (0.24%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 325 (15.28%) Azure
2 310 (14.57%) AWS
3 170 (7.99%) GCP
4 139 (6.54%) Power Platform
5 86 (4.04%) GitHub
6 81 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
7 66 (3.10%) Serverless
8 51 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
9 45 (2.12%) Figma
10 39 (1.83%) SaaS
11 34 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
12 30 (1.41%) PowerApps
13 26 (1.22%) Entra ID
14 25 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
14 25 (1.18%) Power Automate
15 24 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
15 24 (1.13%) Snowflake
16 23 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
17 22 (1.03%) Amazon S3
17 22 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 58 (2.73%) DNS
2 49 (2.30%) Firewall
3 36 (1.69%) HTTP
3 36 (1.69%) Network Security
4 32 (1.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 31 (1.46%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.41%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 27 (1.27%) VPN
8 26 (1.22%) DMZ
9 22 (1.03%) SSL
10 21 (0.99%) Wireless
11 20 (0.94%) BIG-IP
11 20 (0.94%) Wireshark
12 16 (0.75%) BGP
12 16 (0.75%) Multicast
12 16 (0.75%) NetScaler
13 13 (0.61%) DHCP
14 11 (0.52%) FIX Connectivity
14 11 (0.52%) Internet
14 11 (0.52%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (5.36%) Power BI
2 91 (4.28%) SQL Server
3 71 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
4 68 (3.20%) Tableau
5 64 (3.01%) NoSQL
6 45 (2.12%) MongoDB
7 44 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
8 39 (1.83%) Relational Database
9 38 (1.79%) Oracle Database
10 30 (1.41%) Metadata
11 22 (1.03%) Big Data
11 22 (1.03%) BigQuery
12 19 (0.89%) DB2
13 18 (0.85%) Data Lake
14 16 (0.75%) Hadoop
15 15 (0.71%) MySQL
15 15 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 13 (0.61%) Power Query
17 11 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
18 10 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 239 (11.24%) JIRA
2 138 (6.49%) Jenkins
3 98 (4.61%) Git
4 86 (4.04%) GitLab
5 34 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
6 33 (1.55%) JUnit
7 24 (1.13%) Bitbucket
8 23 (1.08%) Selenium
9 21 (0.99%) Liquibase
10 19 (0.89%) Maven
11 18 (0.85%) Cucumber
11 18 (0.85%) Fiddler
11 18 (0.85%) Postman
12 17 (0.80%) Gradle
13 15 (0.71%) REST Assured
14 14 (0.66%) SonarQube
15 13 (0.61%) TeamCity
16 8 (0.38%) Cypress.io
17 7 (0.33%) SoapUI
17 7 (0.33%) Xcode
General
1 1,343 (63.14%) Finance
2 752 (35.35%) Social Skills
3 442 (20.78%) Investment Banking
4 286 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
5 180 (8.46%) Front Office
6 127 (5.97%) Financial Institution
7 72 (3.39%) Retail Banking
8 54 (2.54%) Legal
9 52 (2.44%) Retail
10 51 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
11 50 (2.35%) Corporate Banking
12 41 (1.93%) Public Sector
13 36 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
14 34 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
15 29 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
16 25 (1.18%) Back Office
16 25 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 24 (1.13%) International Banking
18 23 (1.08%) Marketing
19 22 (1.03%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 415 (19.51%) Developer
2 360 (16.93%) Analyst
3 280 (13.16%) Senior
4 250 (11.75%) Business Analyst
5 206 (9.69%) Architect
6 134 (6.30%) Project Manager
7 133 (6.25%) Lead
8 116 (5.45%) Java Developer
9 113 (5.31%) Solutions Architect
10 93 (4.37%) Senior Developer
11 70 (3.29%) Consultant
12 68 (3.20%) Banking Analyst
13 52 (2.44%) Senior Java Developer
14 50 (2.35%) Banking Business Analyst
14 50 (2.35%) Designer
14 50 (2.35%) DevOps Engineer
15 46 (2.16%) Data Engineer
16 44 (2.07%) Senior Analyst
17 41 (1.93%) C# Developer
17 41 (1.93%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (5.45%) Kafka
2 114 (5.36%) REST
3 106 (4.98%) .NET
4 83 (3.90%) Spring
5 74 (3.48%) RESTful
6 69 (3.24%) Spring Boot
7 65 (3.06%) React
8 58 (2.73%) HTML
9 52 (2.44%) Middleware
10 49 (2.30%) AngularJS
11 48 (2.26%) Pandas
12 42 (1.97%) NumPy
13 40 (1.88%) XML
14 38 (1.79%) CSS
15 37 (1.74%) Node.js
16 35 (1.65%) OAuth
17 31 (1.46%) JMS
18 29 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
18 29 (1.36%) JSON
19 25 (1.18%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 133 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 120 (5.64%) Derivative
3 109 (5.12%) Onboarding
4 101 (4.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 96 (4.51%) Cloud Native
6 90 (4.23%) Management Information System
7 76 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
8 71 (3.34%) Equities
9 70 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
10 64 (3.01%) Fixed Income
11 54 (2.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 47 (2.21%) Public Cloud
13 44 (2.07%) Data Centre
14 42 (1.97%) Credit Risk
15 41 (1.93%) Hedge funds
15 41 (1.93%) Mobile App
16 40 (1.88%) Data Structures
17 36 (1.69%) Market Risk
18 32 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
19 28 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 129 (6.06%) Linux
2 123 (5.78%) Windows
3 48 (2.26%) Unix
4 37 (1.74%) Android
5 33 (1.55%) Windows 10
6 22 (1.03%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.94%) Windows Server
8 16 (0.75%) Mac OS
9 11 (0.52%) zOS
10 5 (0.24%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.19%) AIX
11 4 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.047%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.047%) VMS
13 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 579 (27.22%) Agile
2 387 (18.19%) Problem-Solving
3 363 (17.07%) Stakeholder Management
4 312 (14.67%) DevOps
5 310 (14.57%) CI/CD
6 201 (9.45%) Analytics
7 185 (8.70%) Microservices
7 185 (8.70%) Migration
8 183 (8.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 174 (8.18%) Risk Management
10 163 (7.66%) Project Management
11 160 (7.52%) AI
12 155 (7.29%) Decision-Making
13 147 (6.91%) Data Analysis
14 145 (6.82%) Scrum
15 143 (6.72%) Change Management
15 143 (6.72%) Data Modelling
16 138 (6.49%) Business Intelligence
17 137 (6.44%) User Acceptance Testing
18 135 (6.35%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 401 (18.85%) SQL
2 367 (17.25%) Python
3 307 (14.43%) Java
4 141 (6.63%) C#
5 83 (3.90%) JavaScript
6 59 (2.77%) PowerShell
7 58 (2.73%) Go
8 55 (2.59%) TypeScript
9 41 (1.93%) C++
10 33 (1.55%) PL/SQL
11 28 (1.32%) VBA
12 26 (1.22%) Shell Script
13 25 (1.18%) Bash
14 21 (0.99%) T-SQL
15 20 (0.94%) COBOL
16 17 (0.80%) Kotlin
17 14 (0.66%) Scala
18 11 (0.52%) Korn
18 11 (0.52%) Perl
18 11 (0.52%) RPG
Qualifications
1 250 (11.75%) Degree
2 87 (4.09%) Security Cleared
3 85 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 81 (3.81%) Master's Degree
5 57 (2.68%) PMI Certification
6 51 (2.40%) PMP
7 49 (2.30%) SC Cleared
8 37 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (1.18%) CISSP
10 24 (1.13%) AWS Certification
10 24 (1.13%) Azure Certification
11 16 (0.75%) MBA
12 15 (0.71%) CBAP
13 14 (0.66%) DV Cleared
13 14 (0.66%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.61%) CISM
15 12 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.56%) PhD
16 9 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
17 8 (0.38%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (6.06%) QA
2 87 (4.09%) Data Quality
3 60 (2.82%) ISO 20022
4 52 (2.44%) GDPR
5 41 (1.93%) PSD2
6 38 (1.79%) PMO
7 36 (1.69%) SEPA
8 32 (1.50%) Accessibility
9 28 (1.32%) SLA
10 26 (1.22%) GRC
11 25 (1.18%) PCI DSS
11 25 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 24 (1.13%) Basel III
13 21 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 21 (0.99%) MiFID
14 19 (0.89%) NIST
15 16 (0.75%) ISO 8583
16 15 (0.71%) EMIR
17 10 (0.47%) IFRS
18 8 (0.38%) COBIT
System Software
1 171 (8.04%) Docker
2 43 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (1.36%) Active Directory
4 20 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (0.89%) Firmware
6 6 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.24%) vSphere
8 3 (0.14%) RACF
8 3 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.094%) ACF2
9 2 (0.094%) GridGain
9 2 (0.094%) NFS
9 2 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.047%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.047%) GPFS
10 1 (0.047%) PowerHA
10 1 (0.047%) SRDF
10 1 (0.047%) XenApp
10 1 (0.047%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 194 (9.12%) Kubernetes
2 104 (4.89%) Terraform
3 76 (3.57%) Ansible
4 49 (2.30%) Grafana
5 42 (1.97%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.85%) SCCM
7 16 (0.75%) Argo
8 12 (0.56%) Control-M
9 10 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
11 7 (0.33%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
11 7 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.24%) CA Endevor
12 5 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (0.24%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.19%) Istio
13 4 (0.19%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.14%) Thomson Reuters DACS
14 3 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 233 (10.95%) Microsoft
2 152 (7.15%) Oracle
3 87 (4.09%) Google
4 62 (2.91%) Splunk
5 52 (2.44%) ServiceNow
6 50 (2.35%) VMware
7 49 (2.30%) IBM
8 46 (2.16%) Cisco
9 45 (2.12%) F5
10 41 (1.93%) SAP
11 39 (1.83%) Citrix
12 31 (1.46%) Remedy
13 28 (1.32%) HP
14 27 (1.27%) Databricks
14 27 (1.27%) Salesforce
15 26 (1.22%) Dell
16 25 (1.18%) Bloomberg
17 24 (1.13%) Apple
17 24 (1.13%) CyberArk
18 20 (0.94%) Murex