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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,531 2,038 2,499
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.83% 8.09% 6.69%
As % of the General category 10.62% 12.57% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,535 1,396 1,845
10th Percentile £393 £358 £400
25th Percentile £450 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £576 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% -7.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £684 £750 £775
90th Percentile £791 £838 £875
UK median daily rate £548 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -2.19% -6.71% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 23 26
10th Percentile - £15.42 £12.42
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.69 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £24.66 £19.28
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% +27.94% +4.19%
75th Percentile £76.25 £25.15 £27.00
90th Percentile £96.50 £66.50 £85.50
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £24.66 £19.05
% change year-on-year +4.50% +29.45% -0.68%

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 23,839 16,213 21,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.93% 64.32% 57.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,480 10,436 13,677
10th Percentile £313 £281 £290
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £520 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -2.83% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,698 785 1,806
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -16.67% +17.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £52.00 £54.89
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.45 £31.89
% change year-on-year +16.58% -13.91% +6.28%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -9 1,778 £579 -10.92% 421
North of England -3 512 £492 +10.07% 64
North West +2 270 £449 +11.57% 42
Yorkshire -5 233 £500 - 18
Midlands -6 183 £525 +25.75% 24
West Midlands +28 135 £575 +4.55% 13
East Midlands -16 47 £466 +19.55% 11
South West -30 36 £515 +3.00% 10
South East -48 35 £550 +4.76% 87
East of England -16 20 £505 -15.83% 9
North East -24 13 £875 +108.33% 4
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 (6.84%) Confluence
2 56 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.11%) SAS
4 20 (0.79%) IIS
5 18 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
7 11 (0.43%) Apache
8 10 (0.40%) Camunda
8 10 (0.40%) CICS
9 8 (0.32%) Appian
9 8 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.28%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.28%) Hyperledger
10 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.16%) WordPress
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.079%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.079%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.079%) WebSphere
Applications
1 114 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 54 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (1.46%) MS Visio
5 23 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.12%) Sketch
7 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.079%) InVision
8 2 (0.079%) Notion
8 2 (0.079%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 26 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (0.99%) Oracle Payables
2 25 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
3 17 (0.67%) Finacle
4 16 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.63%) Temenos T24
5 15 (0.59%) Loan IQ
5 15 (0.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 11 (0.43%) Aladdin
7 9 (0.36%) Actimize
7 9 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
7 9 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
9 7 (0.28%) Summit
10 6 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
10 6 (0.24%) Oracle BPM
10 6 (0.24%) SAP CO
10 6 (0.24%) SAP FI
10 6 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
11 5 (0.20%) OpenText MBPM
Cloud Services
1 390 (15.41%) Azure
2 332 (13.12%) AWS
3 160 (6.32%) GCP
4 136 (5.37%) Power Platform
5 80 (3.16%) GitHub
6 78 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
7 68 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
8 57 (2.25%) SaaS
9 55 (2.17%) Snowflake
10 41 (1.62%) OpenShift
11 37 (1.46%) Entra ID
12 34 (1.34%) Amazon S3
13 30 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
14 29 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
14 29 (1.15%) Figma
15 27 (1.07%) Serverless
16 26 (1.03%) Power Automate
17 24 (0.95%) PowerApps
18 23 (0.91%) OCI
19 22 (0.87%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (2.65%) DNS
2 60 (2.37%) Firewall
3 56 (2.21%) VPN
4 54 (2.13%) Network Security
5 38 (1.50%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.22%) BGP
6 31 (1.22%) HTTP
6 31 (1.22%) Multicast
7 30 (1.19%) SSL
8 24 (0.95%) DMZ
8 24 (0.95%) SAN
9 23 (0.91%) BIG-IP
10 22 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 20 (0.79%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 20 (0.79%) FIX Connectivity
11 20 (0.79%) Wireshark
12 16 (0.63%) DHCP
13 12 (0.47%) Internet
14 11 (0.43%) OSPF
15 10 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (4.66%) SQL Server
2 112 (4.43%) Power BI
3 71 (2.81%) Metadata
4 70 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
5 61 (2.41%) Relational Database
6 50 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
7 48 (1.90%) Oracle Database
8 44 (1.74%) Tableau
9 33 (1.30%) MongoDB
10 31 (1.22%) Big Data
11 28 (1.11%) Data Lake
12 25 (0.99%) NoSQL
13 21 (0.83%) RDBMS
13 21 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 19 (0.75%) BigQuery
14 19 (0.75%) Db2
15 18 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
16 15 (0.59%) Data Vault
17 14 (0.55%) Power Query
17 14 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 270 (10.67%) JIRA
2 105 (4.15%) Jenkins
3 102 (4.03%) Git
4 63 (2.49%) GitLab
5 39 (1.54%) JUnit
6 25 (0.99%) Selenium
7 24 (0.95%) Cucumber
8 20 (0.79%) TeamCity
9 19 (0.75%) Bitbucket
9 19 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (0.71%) Postman
11 17 (0.67%) Fiddler
12 14 (0.55%) ERwin
12 14 (0.55%) Mockito
12 14 (0.55%) REST Assured
12 14 (0.55%) SonarQube
13 13 (0.51%) ER Studio
14 12 (0.47%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.40%) Maven
16 9 (0.36%) Gradle
General
1 1,554 (61.40%) Finance
2 669 (26.43%) Social Skills
3 542 (21.41%) Investment Banking
4 333 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 224 (8.85%) Front Office
6 122 (4.82%) Financial Institution
7 113 (4.46%) Retail Banking
8 104 (4.11%) Retail
9 87 (3.44%) Corporate Banking
10 85 (3.36%) Legal
11 57 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
12 50 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
12 50 (1.98%) Public Sector
13 43 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
14 35 (1.38%) Private Banking
15 31 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
16 30 (1.19%) Back Office
17 23 (0.91%) Marketing
18 22 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 20 (0.79%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 445 (17.58%) Developer
2 387 (15.29%) Analyst
3 321 (12.68%) Senior
4 290 (11.46%) Architect
5 259 (10.23%) Business Analyst
6 206 (8.14%) Lead
7 151 (5.97%) Java Developer
8 124 (4.90%) Solutions Architect
9 109 (4.31%) Project Manager
9 109 (4.31%) Senior Developer
10 94 (3.71%) Data Engineer
11 92 (3.63%) Banking Analyst
12 82 (3.24%) Consultant
13 68 (2.69%) Senior Java Developer
14 60 (2.37%) Banking Business Analyst
15 57 (2.25%) Network Engineer
16 55 (2.17%) C# Developer
16 55 (2.17%) Data Analyst
17 54 (2.13%) Payments Architect
18 53 (2.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (5.49%) React
2 121 (4.78%) .NET
3 115 (4.54%) Kafka
4 94 (3.71%) REST
5 92 (3.63%) Middleware
6 91 (3.60%) Spring
7 76 (3.00%) Spring Boot
8 66 (2.61%) RESTful
9 54 (2.13%) Redux
10 52 (2.05%) HTML
11 47 (1.86%) CSS
11 47 (1.86%) OAuth
12 41 (1.62%) AngularJS
13 38 (1.50%) FIX Protocol
14 37 (1.46%) JSON
15 36 (1.42%) OAuth2
15 36 (1.42%) XML
16 29 (1.15%) Node.js
17 26 (1.03%) PySpark
18 25 (0.99%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 179 (7.07%) Product Ownership
2 134 (5.29%) Cloud Native
3 127 (5.02%) Derivative
4 123 (4.86%) Onboarding
5 122 (4.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 97 (3.83%) Fixed Income
7 83 (3.28%) Management Information System
8 81 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
9 79 (3.12%) Equities
10 75 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
11 69 (2.73%) Data Structures
12 53 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
13 50 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
13 50 (1.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 49 (1.94%) Credit Risk
15 48 (1.90%) Mainframe
16 45 (1.78%) Data Centre
17 40 (1.58%) AI Agents
18 39 (1.54%) Market Risk
19 38 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 152 (6.01%) Windows
2 128 (5.06%) Linux
3 85 (3.36%) Unix
4 30 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.07%) zOS
6 25 (0.99%) Apple iOS
7 24 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 23 (0.91%) Android
9 21 (0.83%) Windows 10
10 12 (0.47%) Ubuntu
11 11 (0.43%) AIX
12 8 (0.32%) Solaris
13 7 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
14 6 (0.24%) VMS
15 5 (0.20%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.20%) HPUX
15 5 (0.20%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.20%) SUSE
15 5 (0.20%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 588 (23.23%) Agile
2 465 (18.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 375 (14.82%) CI/CD
4 353 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
5 324 (12.80%) DevOps
6 315 (12.45%) AI
7 298 (11.77%) Migration
8 232 (9.17%) Analytics
9 226 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 218 (8.61%) Data Modelling
11 197 (7.78%) Roadmaps
12 191 (7.55%) Microservices
13 182 (7.19%) Validation
14 178 (7.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 177 (6.99%) User Acceptance Testing
16 170 (6.72%) Decision-Making
17 163 (6.44%) Risk Management
17 163 (6.44%) Test Automation
18 160 (6.32%) Software Engineering
19 156 (6.16%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 417 (16.48%) SQL
2 363 (14.34%) Python
3 342 (13.51%) Java
4 182 (7.19%) C#
5 135 (5.33%) JavaScript
6 112 (4.43%) TypeScript
7 73 (2.88%) PowerShell
8 61 (2.41%) PL/SQL
9 42 (1.66%) Bash
10 40 (1.58%) Shell Script
10 40 (1.58%) T-SQL
11 32 (1.26%) Kotlin
12 24 (0.95%) C++
12 24 (0.95%) VBA
13 21 (0.83%) Go
13 21 (0.83%) Korn
14 17 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 15 (0.59%) Scala
16 12 (0.47%) Bicep
16 12 (0.47%) JCL
Qualifications
1 188 (7.43%) Degree
2 123 (4.86%) Security Cleared
3 86 (3.40%) SC Cleared
4 59 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (1.74%) PMP
6 43 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 40 (1.58%) PMI Certification
8 37 (1.46%) CISSP
9 34 (1.34%) Master's Degree
10 29 (1.15%) Azure Certification
11 25 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (0.75%) AWS Certification
13 18 (0.71%) CISM
14 15 (0.59%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 12 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.40%) CISA
16 10 (0.40%) MBA
17 9 (0.36%) ACCA
17 9 (0.36%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (5.33%) Data Quality
2 129 (5.10%) QA
3 55 (2.17%) PMO
4 49 (1.94%) ISO 20022
5 46 (1.82%) GDPR
6 34 (1.34%) PSD2
7 33 (1.30%) NIST
8 32 (1.26%) SEPA
8 32 (1.26%) SLA
9 31 (1.22%) GRC
10 29 (1.15%) Accessibility
11 28 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 26 (1.03%) PCI DSS
13 20 (0.79%) MiFID
14 18 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 9 (0.36%) EMIR
15 9 (0.36%) GAAP
15 9 (0.36%) IFRS
15 9 (0.36%) ISO 8583
16 8 (0.32%) COREP
System Software
1 120 (4.74%) Docker
2 52 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.67%) Firmware
4 17 (0.67%) vSphere
5 16 (0.63%) NFS
6 15 (0.59%) RACF
7 13 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.24%) Varnish
9 5 (0.20%) Postfix
9 5 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.16%) Sendmail
10 4 (0.16%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.12%) ACF2
11 3 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.12%) SRDF
11 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.12%) XenApp
12 2 (0.079%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.079%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 160 (6.32%) Kubernetes
2 90 (3.56%) Terraform
3 83 (3.28%) Ansible
4 29 (1.15%) Grafana
4 29 (1.15%) Prometheus
5 20 (0.79%) SCCM
6 18 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.51%) Argo
7 13 (0.51%) Control-M
8 11 (0.43%) Istio
8 11 (0.43%) OMEGAMON
8 11 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.36%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.28%) Puppet
10 7 (0.28%) WSUS
11 6 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
11 6 (0.24%) SnapMirror
12 5 (0.20%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.20%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.20%) vRealize
Vendors
1 290 (11.46%) Microsoft
2 199 (7.86%) Oracle
3 89 (3.52%) ServiceNow
4 68 (2.69%) IBM
5 64 (2.53%) Google
6 62 (2.45%) Databricks
7 55 (2.17%) Cisco
8 52 (2.05%) SAP
9 49 (1.94%) F5
10 47 (1.86%) Citrix
10 47 (1.86%) Splunk
11 42 (1.66%) VMware
12 37 (1.46%) Salesforce
13 33 (1.30%) Murex
14 27 (1.07%) OpenAI
15 26 (1.03%) Avaloq
15 26 (1.03%) Bloomberg
15 26 (1.03%) Temenos
16 25 (0.99%) Pega
17 24 (0.95%) NetApp