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 23 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,100 2,188 2,579
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.64% 7.64% 7.02%
As % of the General category 10.78% 12.39% 11.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,316 1,423 1,795
10th Percentile £360 £390 £400
25th Percentile £442 £500 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +2.08% -7.69%
75th Percentile £688 £750 £750
90th Percentile £813 £850 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 11 18
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.22 £15.26
25th Percentile - £18.76 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £18.72
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +19.00% -10.88%
75th Percentile - £47.63 £30.00
90th Percentile £53.94 £78.75 £59.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £24.17 £18.93
% change year-on-year +4.08% +27.65% -9.86%

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 common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 19,485 17,653 21,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 61.64% 61.62% 59.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,320 10,695 14,819
10th Percentile £280 £300 £281
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £628 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,265 604 982
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.24 £17.25
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £34.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -13.67% +35.16%
75th Percentile £45.75 £58.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £23.50 £27.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year -13.92% -17.27% +32.00%

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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 2025. 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 1,484 £600 -4.76% 469
North of England +5 402 £470 -6.00% 158
Yorkshire +5 226 £500 -11.50% 60
North West -1 184 £456 +2.53% 74
Midlands +14 150 £500 -9.09% 80
West Midlands +8 98 £538 -12.96% 45
East Midlands +11 55 £410 +1.86% 29
South East -15 48 £425 -19.05% 217
South West +7 38 £525 -13.40% 53
East of England -13 12 £400 -46.67% 46
North East -6 6 £400 - 24
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
1 114 (5.43%) Confluence
2 54 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.52%) Apache
4 30 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.86%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.81%) CMS
7 16 (0.76%) CICS
8 11 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.48%) IIS
10 8 (0.38%) MQSeries
10 8 (0.38%) Mule
11 7 (0.33%) HCL Notes
11 7 (0.33%) SAS
12 6 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.29%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.24%) WebSphere
14 4 (0.19%) Anypoint
14 4 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
15 3 (0.14%) WebLogic
16 2 (0.095%) JBoss
Applications
1 115 (5.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
3 53 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (1.90%) MS Visio
5 22 (1.05%) Chatbot
6 19 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
7 8 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 6 (0.29%) Adobe Captivate
8 6 (0.29%) Sketch
9 3 (0.14%) InVision
9 3 (0.14%) Notion
9 3 (0.14%) Trello
10 2 (0.095%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.048%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 21 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 21 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
2 20 (0.95%) Oracle Payables
3 16 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
5 10 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
5 10 (0.48%) Temenos T24
6 9 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
6 9 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
7 8 (0.38%) Aladdin
7 8 (0.38%) VisionPLUS
8 7 (0.33%) Fidessa
8 7 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
9 6 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle E-Business Tax
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.24%) thinkFolio
11 4 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
11 4 (0.19%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 335 (15.95%) Azure
2 332 (15.81%) AWS
3 185 (8.81%) GCP
4 145 (6.90%) Power Platform
5 84 (4.00%) GitHub
6 81 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
7 70 (3.33%) Serverless
8 56 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
9 53 (2.52%) Figma
10 39 (1.86%) PowerApps
10 39 (1.86%) SaaS
11 38 (1.81%) Snowflake
12 37 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
13 32 (1.52%) Entra ID
14 31 (1.48%) Power Automate
15 26 (1.24%) Microsoft Copilot
16 25 (1.19%) dbt
17 24 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
18 22 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
18 22 (1.05%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 52 (2.48%) Firewall
2 48 (2.29%) DNS
3 35 (1.67%) Network Security
4 28 (1.33%) Wireless
5 27 (1.29%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 27 (1.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 26 (1.24%) HTTP
7 25 (1.19%) TCP/IP
8 22 (1.05%) DMZ
9 18 (0.86%) SSL
9 18 (0.86%) VPN
10 15 (0.71%) Wireshark
11 14 (0.67%) BIG-IP
11 14 (0.67%) Multicast
12 13 (0.62%) DHCP
13 10 (0.48%) BGP
14 9 (0.43%) Internet
14 9 (0.43%) NetScaler
15 8 (0.38%) Skype
15 8 (0.38%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (5.71%) Power BI
2 95 (4.52%) SQL Server
3 81 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
4 70 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 58 (2.76%) Tableau
6 52 (2.48%) MongoDB
7 40 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
7 40 (1.90%) Relational Database
8 35 (1.67%) Data Lake
9 34 (1.62%) Oracle Database
10 31 (1.48%) Metadata
11 27 (1.29%) DB2
12 25 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
13 24 (1.14%) Apache Arrow
13 24 (1.14%) Apache Iceberg
13 24 (1.14%) Apache Ignite
13 24 (1.14%) Dremio
14 22 (1.05%) Big Data
15 20 (0.95%) Power Query
16 17 (0.81%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 202 (9.62%) JIRA
2 157 (7.48%) Jenkins
3 111 (5.29%) Git
4 83 (3.95%) GitLab
5 40 (1.90%) JUnit
6 34 (1.62%) Selenium
6 34 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
7 27 (1.29%) Bitbucket
8 26 (1.24%) Cucumber
8 26 (1.24%) Liquibase
9 22 (1.05%) SonarQube
10 21 (1.00%) Maven
11 20 (0.95%) Postman
12 18 (0.86%) REST Assured
13 15 (0.71%) Gradle
13 15 (0.71%) TeamCity
14 13 (0.62%) Fiddler
15 12 (0.57%) Cypress.io
15 12 (0.57%) webpack
16 10 (0.48%) SoapUI
General
1 1,353 (64.43%) Finance
2 770 (36.67%) Social Skills
3 456 (21.71%) Investment Banking
4 285 (13.57%) Analytical Skills
5 193 (9.19%) Front Office
6 135 (6.43%) Financial Institution
7 66 (3.14%) Retail Banking
8 52 (2.48%) Retail
9 50 (2.38%) Legal
10 45 (2.14%) Corporate Banking
11 41 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
12 39 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
13 38 (1.81%) Back Office
14 33 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
15 31 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
16 29 (1.38%) Public Sector
17 23 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 22 (1.05%) General Ledger
18 22 (1.05%) International Banking
18 22 (1.05%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 416 (19.81%) Developer
2 341 (16.24%) Analyst
3 274 (13.05%) Senior
4 224 (10.67%) Business Analyst
5 176 (8.38%) Architect
6 130 (6.19%) Project Manager
7 113 (5.38%) Java Developer
8 106 (5.05%) Lead
9 91 (4.33%) Senior Developer
10 72 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
11 66 (3.14%) Consultant
12 65 (3.10%) Software Engineer
13 58 (2.76%) Banking Analyst
14 57 (2.71%) Designer
15 56 (2.67%) DevOps Engineer
16 53 (2.52%) Python Engineer
17 49 (2.33%) AWS Engineer
17 49 (2.33%) Senior Java Developer
18 48 (2.29%) Data Analyst
19 41 (1.95%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (5.86%) Kafka
2 114 (5.43%) REST
3 106 (5.05%) .NET
4 86 (4.10%) Spring
5 82 (3.90%) RESTful
6 72 (3.43%) React
6 72 (3.43%) Spring Boot
7 65 (3.10%) Pandas
8 59 (2.81%) NumPy
9 57 (2.71%) HTML
10 56 (2.67%) AngularJS
11 44 (2.10%) CSS
12 42 (2.00%) SciPy
13 41 (1.95%) Middleware
14 40 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
15 38 (1.81%) XML
16 35 (1.67%) Node.js
17 31 (1.48%) FIX Protocol
18 29 (1.38%) gRPC
18 29 (1.38%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 145 (6.90%) Derivative
2 138 (6.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 117 (5.57%) Onboarding
4 109 (5.19%) Cloud Native
5 104 (4.95%) Product Ownership
6 87 (4.14%) Equities
7 85 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
8 82 (3.90%) Management Information System
9 81 (3.86%) Fixed Income
10 68 (3.24%) Hedge funds
11 65 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
12 62 (2.95%) Data Centre
13 51 (2.43%) Mobile App
14 48 (2.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 43 (2.05%) Public Cloud
16 41 (1.95%) Data Structures
17 38 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
18 33 (1.57%) Mainframe
18 33 (1.57%) Market Risk
19 30 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 154 (7.33%) Linux
2 113 (5.38%) Windows
3 48 (2.29%) Unix
4 44 (2.10%) Android
5 26 (1.24%) Windows 10
6 24 (1.14%) Mac OS
7 21 (1.00%) Apple iOS
8 20 (0.95%) Windows Server
9 11 (0.52%) zOS
10 5 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.19%) AIX
12 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.14%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.048%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.048%) Solaris
13 1 (0.048%) VMS
13 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 577 (27.48%) Agile
2 392 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
3 331 (15.76%) DevOps
4 315 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 298 (14.19%) Stakeholder Management
6 210 (10.00%) Analytics
7 205 (9.76%) Microservices
8 175 (8.33%) Risk Management
9 169 (8.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 155 (7.38%) Decision-Making
10 155 (7.38%) Project Management
11 154 (7.33%) Migration
12 150 (7.14%) Change Management
13 143 (6.81%) Containerisation
14 141 (6.71%) AI
14 141 (6.71%) Business Intelligence
14 141 (6.71%) Software Engineering
15 137 (6.52%) Roadmaps
16 128 (6.10%) Data Modelling
17 127 (6.05%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 404 (19.24%) Python
2 380 (18.10%) SQL
3 331 (15.76%) Java
4 153 (7.29%) C#
5 108 (5.14%) JavaScript
6 67 (3.19%) TypeScript
7 62 (2.95%) PowerShell
8 61 (2.90%) Go
9 49 (2.33%) C++
10 31 (1.48%) Shell Script
11 30 (1.43%) Bash
12 29 (1.38%) PL/SQL
13 25 (1.19%) VBA
14 21 (1.00%) Kotlin
15 20 (0.95%) COBOL
16 17 (0.81%) Rust
17 15 (0.71%) Scala
18 14 (0.67%) T-SQL
19 13 (0.62%) R
20 12 (0.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 251 (11.95%) Degree
2 92 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 86 (4.10%) Security Cleared
4 69 (3.29%) Master's Degree
5 50 (2.38%) PMI Certification
6 44 (2.10%) PMP
7 40 (1.90%) SC Cleared
8 31 (1.48%) CISSP
9 29 (1.38%) AWS Certification
10 24 (1.14%) Azure Certification
11 23 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (0.90%) DV Cleared
13 15 (0.71%) CISM
14 12 (0.57%) BC Cleared
14 12 (0.57%) CBAP
14 12 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 11 (0.52%) ISTQB
16 10 (0.48%) PhD
17 9 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (6.57%) QA
2 74 (3.52%) Data Quality
3 54 (2.57%) GDPR
4 46 (2.19%) PMO
5 45 (2.14%) ISO 20022
6 37 (1.76%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.43%) SLA
8 28 (1.33%) MiFID
8 28 (1.33%) SEPA
9 27 (1.29%) NIST
10 25 (1.19%) PSD2
11 24 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 23 (1.10%) PCI DSS
13 21 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 20 (0.95%) Basel III
14 20 (0.95%) GRC
15 18 (0.86%) EMIR
16 12 (0.57%) IFRS
17 9 (0.43%) ISO 8583
18 6 (0.29%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 188 (8.95%) Docker
2 46 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (1.52%) Active Directory
4 15 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.67%) Firmware
6 6 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (0.19%) RACF
8 4 (0.19%) Time Sharing Option
9 3 (0.14%) vSphere
10 2 (0.095%) ACF2
10 2 (0.095%) GridGain
10 2 (0.095%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.095%) NFS
10 2 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.048%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.048%) HDFS
11 1 (0.048%) KVM
11 1 (0.048%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 214 (10.19%) Kubernetes
2 118 (5.62%) Terraform
3 82 (3.90%) Ansible
4 54 (2.57%) Grafana
5 48 (2.29%) Prometheus
6 17 (0.81%) SCCM
7 14 (0.67%) Argo
8 13 (0.62%) ITRS Geneos
9 12 (0.57%) NetBackup
10 11 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (0.48%) Control-M
12 8 (0.38%) CA Endevor
12 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.33%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.29%) Kibana
14 6 (0.29%) OMEGAMON
14 6 (0.29%) RSA Archer
15 5 (0.24%) Tivoli Storage Manager
16 4 (0.19%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 238 (11.33%) Microsoft
2 139 (6.62%) Oracle
3 97 (4.62%) Google
4 67 (3.19%) Splunk
5 54 (2.57%) VMware
6 51 (2.43%) IBM
6 51 (2.43%) ServiceNow
7 43 (2.05%) Cisco
8 38 (1.81%) F5
9 36 (1.71%) HP
10 33 (1.57%) SAP
11 32 (1.52%) CyberArk
11 32 (1.52%) Dell
12 31 (1.48%) Salesforce
13 29 (1.38%) Apple
14 28 (1.33%) Citrix
15 27 (1.29%) Dynatrace
16 26 (1.24%) Bloomberg
16 26 (1.24%) Databricks
16 26 (1.24%) Remedy