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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 25 25
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,284 1,898 2,276
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.73% 7.72% 6.11%
As % of the General category 10.36% 12.06% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,382 1,251 1,659
10th Percentile £368 £363 £385
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 £675 £750 £775
90th Percentile £788 £863 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £618
% change year-on-year -12.50% -2.83% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 18 23
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.10 £12.17
25th Percentile £18.91 £19.45 £17.99
Median hourly rate £25.77 £23.47 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.82% +20.33% -7.14%
75th Percentile £76.25 £24.66 £35.25
90th Percentile £97.25 £48.98 £81.15
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £24.18 £19.50
% change year-on-year +6.58% +24.00% -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 22,056 15,744 21,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.32% 64.03% 58.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,825 10,236 14,068
10th Percentile £305 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £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 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,427 671 1,774
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.19 £17.44 £15.39
Median hourly rate £30.15 £28.18 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +6.99% -1.98% -17.86%
75th Percentile £61.21 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £28.00 £28.42
% change year-on-year +3.57% -1.48% -18.80%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 1,566 £575 -11.54% 244
North of England +6 486 £473 +5.11% 244
North West +15 268 £447 +0.45% 194
Yorkshire -6 215 £500 - 45
Midlands +8 178 £468 -14.91% 42
West Midlands +15 124 £570 +2.70% 11
East Midlands -14 54 £430 +8.72% 31
South East -48 42 £500 -13.04% 78
South West -45 33 £500 -11.11% 15
East of England -35 14 £600 - 3
North East -10 10 £400 -4.76% 5
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
1 173 (7.57%) Confluence
2 52 (2.28%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.09%) SAS
4 20 (0.88%) Apache Spark
5 14 (0.61%) IIS
6 13 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.53%) CICS
8 11 (0.48%) Apache
8 11 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.22%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.22%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.18%) CMS
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
1 144 (6.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 65 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (1.84%) MS Visio
5 30 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.61%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.13%) Notion
8 2 (0.088%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.088%) InVision
8 2 (0.088%) Sketch
8 2 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.088%) Trello
8 2 (0.088%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.044%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 31 (1.36%) Payment Gateway
2 23 (1.01%) Oracle Payables
3 21 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
3 21 (0.92%) Temenos T24
4 19 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
5 18 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
6 16 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 15 (0.66%) Loan IQ
8 11 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
8 11 (0.48%) Finacle
9 10 (0.44%) SAP FI
10 9 (0.39%) Aladdin
10 9 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
11 8 (0.35%) Actimize
11 8 (0.35%) SAP CO
11 8 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
11 8 (0.35%) Summit
12 7 (0.31%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 6 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
14 5 (0.22%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 356 (15.59%) Azure
2 310 (13.57%) AWS
3 154 (6.74%) GCP
4 119 (5.21%) Power Platform
5 105 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
6 78 (3.42%) GitHub
7 60 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (2.32%) SaaS
9 41 (1.80%) Figma
10 39 (1.71%) Serverless
11 32 (1.40%) Entra ID
12 30 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
12 30 (1.31%) OpenShift
13 28 (1.23%) Amazon S3
13 28 (1.23%) Power Automate
14 27 (1.18%) Snowflake
15 25 (1.09%) OCI
16 24 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
16 24 (1.05%) PowerApps
17 22 (0.96%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.11%) DNS
2 52 (2.28%) VPN
3 51 (2.23%) Firewall
4 41 (1.80%) HTTP
4 41 (1.80%) TCP/IP
5 35 (1.53%) Network Security
6 26 (1.14%) Multicast
7 25 (1.09%) BGP
7 25 (1.09%) DMZ
7 25 (1.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 24 (1.05%) BIG-IP
8 24 (1.05%) SSL
9 23 (1.01%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 22 (0.96%) SAN
11 20 (0.88%) FIX Connectivity
11 20 (0.88%) NetScaler
11 20 (0.88%) Wireshark
12 15 (0.66%) DHCP
13 11 (0.48%) Internet
13 11 (0.48%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (4.20%) SQL Server
2 93 (4.07%) Power BI
3 58 (2.54%) Tableau
4 52 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
5 51 (2.23%) Metadata
6 48 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
7 42 (1.84%) Oracle Database
8 36 (1.58%) MongoDB
8 36 (1.58%) Relational Database
9 33 (1.44%) NoSQL
10 24 (1.05%) Big Data
11 22 (0.96%) DB2
12 21 (0.92%) BigQuery
13 16 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 14 (0.61%) Hadoop
15 13 (0.57%) Data Lake
16 12 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
16 12 (0.53%) Power Query
16 12 (0.53%) RDBMS
17 11 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 260 (11.38%) JIRA
2 97 (4.25%) Jenkins
3 88 (3.85%) Git
4 63 (2.76%) GitLab
5 28 (1.23%) JUnit
6 24 (1.05%) Selenium
7 21 (0.92%) Bitbucket
8 19 (0.83%) Fiddler
9 18 (0.79%) Cucumber
10 17 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
11 16 (0.70%) TeamCity
12 15 (0.66%) Postman
13 13 (0.57%) REST Assured
14 12 (0.53%) Maven
15 11 (0.48%) Cypress.io
16 10 (0.44%) SonarQube
17 9 (0.39%) Mockito
18 8 (0.35%) Gradle
18 8 (0.35%) MLflow
18 8 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,419 (62.13%) Finance
2 675 (29.55%) Social Skills
3 450 (19.70%) Investment Banking
4 322 (14.10%) Analytical Skills
5 177 (7.75%) Front Office
6 106 (4.64%) Financial Institution
7 92 (4.03%) Retail Banking
8 75 (3.28%) Corporate Banking
9 72 (3.15%) Retail
10 71 (3.11%) Legal
11 60 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
12 55 (2.41%) Public Sector
13 43 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
15 35 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
16 30 (1.31%) Marketing
17 25 (1.09%) General Ledger
18 23 (1.01%) Back Office
19 20 (0.88%) International Banking
19 20 (0.88%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 385 (16.86%) Analyst
2 377 (16.51%) Developer
3 291 (12.74%) Senior
4 272 (11.91%) Architect
5 271 (11.87%) Business Analyst
6 160 (7.01%) Lead
7 129 (5.65%) Solutions Architect
8 111 (4.86%) Project Manager
9 102 (4.47%) Java Developer
10 92 (4.03%) Banking Analyst
11 86 (3.77%) Senior Developer
12 82 (3.59%) Consultant
13 78 (3.42%) Data Engineer
14 64 (2.80%) Banking Business Analyst
15 59 (2.58%) Payments Architect
16 53 (2.32%) Designer
16 53 (2.32%) Network Engineer
16 53 (2.32%) Payments Solutions Architect
17 48 (2.10%) C# Developer
18 47 (2.06%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (4.73%) .NET
2 107 (4.68%) Kafka
3 83 (3.63%) React
4 73 (3.20%) REST
5 69 (3.02%) Middleware
6 67 (2.93%) Spring
7 64 (2.80%) HTML
8 60 (2.63%) Spring Boot
9 56 (2.45%) RESTful
10 48 (2.10%) CSS
11 44 (1.93%) OAuth
12 41 (1.80%) AngularJS
13 37 (1.62%) JSON
14 34 (1.49%) XML
15 33 (1.44%) OAuth2
16 29 (1.27%) FIX Protocol
17 27 (1.18%) Node.js
18 24 (1.05%) Pandas
18 24 (1.05%) SOAP
19 23 (1.01%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 148 (6.48%) Product Ownership
2 112 (4.90%) Derivative
3 110 (4.82%) Onboarding
4 98 (4.29%) Management Information System
5 96 (4.20%) Cloud Native
6 86 (3.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 79 (3.46%) Data Protection Act
8 69 (3.02%) Fixed Income
9 58 (2.54%) Data Structures
9 58 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
10 57 (2.50%) Equities
11 47 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
12 45 (1.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 43 (1.88%) Data Centre
14 41 (1.80%) Credit Risk
14 41 (1.80%) Market Risk
15 37 (1.62%) Mainframe
16 32 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
17 29 (1.27%) Public Cloud
18 28 (1.23%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 147 (6.44%) Windows
2 107 (4.68%) Linux
3 71 (3.11%) Unix
4 38 (1.66%) Windows 10
5 26 (1.14%) Android
6 24 (1.05%) Windows Server
7 20 (0.88%) zOS
8 19 (0.83%) Apple iOS
9 17 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (0.53%) Mac OS
11 11 (0.48%) AIX
12 7 (0.31%) VMS
13 6 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
13 6 (0.26%) Solaris
13 6 (0.26%) Windows 7
14 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
14 5 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
15 4 (0.18%) SUSE
15 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 549 (24.04%) Agile
2 416 (18.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 359 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
4 307 (13.44%) CI/CD
5 306 (13.40%) DevOps
6 252 (11.03%) Migration
7 241 (10.55%) AI
8 190 (8.32%) Analytics
9 185 (8.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 185 (8.10%) Roadmaps
10 184 (8.06%) Decision-Making
11 177 (7.75%) Data Modelling
12 175 (7.66%) Risk Management
13 174 (7.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 167 (7.31%) Microservices
15 164 (7.18%) Validation
16 158 (6.92%) User Acceptance Testing
17 153 (6.70%) Project Management
18 150 (6.57%) Data Analysis
19 144 (6.30%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 382 (16.73%) SQL
2 325 (14.23%) Python
3 288 (12.61%) Java
4 141 (6.17%) C#
5 98 (4.29%) JavaScript
6 65 (2.85%) TypeScript
7 61 (2.67%) PowerShell
8 43 (1.88%) PL/SQL
9 35 (1.53%) Shell Script
10 31 (1.36%) VBA
11 29 (1.27%) Go
12 28 (1.23%) T-SQL
13 24 (1.05%) Bash
14 22 (0.96%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.79%) COBOL
16 17 (0.74%) Korn
17 16 (0.70%) C++
18 14 (0.61%) JCL
18 14 (0.61%) Scala
19 13 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 215 (9.41%) Degree
2 111 (4.86%) Security Cleared
3 70 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 66 (2.89%) SC Cleared
5 59 (2.58%) Master's Degree
6 54 (2.36%) PMP
7 53 (2.32%) PMI Certification
8 43 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 35 (1.53%) CISSP
10 29 (1.27%) Azure Certification
11 19 (0.83%) AWS Certification
11 19 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (0.79%) MBA
13 16 (0.70%) ISTQB
14 15 (0.66%) CISM
15 12 (0.53%) CBAP
15 12 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
16 10 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
17 9 (0.39%) ACCA
17 9 (0.39%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (5.82%) QA
2 117 (5.12%) Data Quality
3 54 (2.36%) GDPR
4 51 (2.23%) ISO 20022
5 43 (1.88%) PMO
6 35 (1.53%) PSD2
7 34 (1.49%) NIST
7 34 (1.49%) SLA
8 32 (1.40%) PCI DSS
9 31 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 30 (1.31%) GRC
10 30 (1.31%) SEPA
11 25 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 21 (0.92%) Accessibility
13 19 (0.83%) Basel III
14 18 (0.79%) MiFID
15 15 (0.66%) ISO 8583
16 12 (0.53%) IFRS
17 8 (0.35%) EMIR
18 7 (0.31%) COBIT
System Software
1 125 (5.47%) Docker
2 46 (2.01%) Active Directory
3 45 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.88%) Firmware
4 20 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.61%) vSphere
6 13 (0.57%) NFS
7 9 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.31%) RACF
9 5 (0.22%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.18%) ACF2
10 4 (0.18%) Varnish
10 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.18%) XenApp
11 3 (0.13%) Postfix
11 3 (0.13%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.13%) SRDF
11 3 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
11 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.088%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 169 (7.40%) Kubernetes
2 87 (3.81%) Terraform
3 67 (2.93%) Ansible
4 34 (1.49%) Grafana
5 27 (1.18%) SCCM
6 25 (1.09%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (0.83%) Argo
9 10 (0.44%) Control-M
10 9 (0.39%) Istio
11 8 (0.35%) Puppet
11 8 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.31%) WSUS
13 6 (0.26%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
13 6 (0.26%) RSA Archer
13 6 (0.26%) SnapMirror
13 6 (0.26%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.18%) NetBackup
14 4 (0.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 285 (12.48%) Microsoft
2 165 (7.22%) Oracle
3 81 (3.55%) ServiceNow
4 70 (3.06%) Google
5 62 (2.71%) IBM
6 60 (2.63%) Cisco
7 56 (2.45%) SAP
8 54 (2.36%) VMware
9 52 (2.28%) F5
10 51 (2.23%) Citrix
11 45 (1.97%) Splunk
12 30 (1.31%) Bloomberg
13 29 (1.27%) Temenos
14 28 (1.23%) HP
15 27 (1.18%) Murex
15 27 (1.18%) Remedy
16 26 (1.14%) Databricks
16 26 (1.14%) Pega
17 25 (1.09%) Avaloq
17 25 (1.09%) NetApp