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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 24 24
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -7
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,091 2,015 2,432
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.58% 7.47% 6.79%
As % of the General category 10.84% 12.03% 11.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,318 1,293 1,698
10th Percentile £358 £382 £399
25th Percentile £438 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £608 £611
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -0.57% -6.00%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £750
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
UK median daily rate £535 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.83% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 11 16
10th Percentile £18.69 £14.75 £13.51
25th Percentile - £15.24 £16.18
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £18.99
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +17.27% -9.57%
75th Percentile £25.77 £25.76 £30.00
90th Percentile £61.32 £78.75 £41.88
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £23.21 £18.99
% change year-on-year +8.36% +22.22% -9.57%

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 19,282 16,745 21,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 60.71% 62.10% 59.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,273 10,098 14,178
10th Percentile £284 £294 £275
25th Percentile £402 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,191 554 1,078
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.40 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.54 £16.02
Median hourly rate £23.00 £30.00 £30.48
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% -1.56% +18.53%
75th Percentile £46.00 £57.44 £57.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.96 £70.02
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -16.36% -8.33% +20.00%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -5 1,436 £600 -4.76% 256
North of England +12 436 £463 +1.82% 109
Yorkshire +5 227 £488 -11.36% 53
North West +12 217 £447 +5.18% 44
Midlands +22 173 £475 -13.64% 77
West Midlands +23 111 £540 -10.56% 36
East Midlands +10 64 £410 -0.30% 41
South East -17 48 £419 -22.09% 202
South West -13 32 £525 -13.40% 59
East of England -13 11 £400 -46.67% 52
North East -9 5 £400 - 12
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
1 145 (6.93%) Confluence
2 55 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.20%) Apache
4 24 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.91%) Apache Spark
6 14 (0.67%) CMS
7 13 (0.62%) CICS
8 10 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.43%) IIS
10 8 (0.38%) MQSeries
10 8 (0.38%) Mule
11 7 (0.33%) HCL Notes
12 6 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.29%) SAS
13 5 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 5 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
13 5 (0.24%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
15 3 (0.14%) WebLogic
16 2 (0.096%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 138 (6.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
3 70 (3.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (2.25%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
6 21 (1.00%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.24%) Adobe Captivate
9 3 (0.14%) Notion
9 3 (0.14%) Sketch
9 3 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.14%) Trello
10 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.048%) InVision
10 1 (0.048%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 25 (1.20%) Oracle Payables
2 20 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
3 16 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
4 15 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.62%) Oracle General Ledger
6 11 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
7 10 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 9 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
8 9 (0.43%) Temenos T24
9 8 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
9 8 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 8 (0.38%) VisionPLUS
10 7 (0.33%) Fidessa
10 7 (0.33%) Finacle
11 6 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
11 6 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
11 6 (0.29%) Oracle FAH
12 5 (0.24%) Oracle E-Business Tax
Cloud Services
1 321 (15.35%) Azure
2 313 (14.97%) AWS
3 175 (8.37%) GCP
4 146 (6.98%) Power Platform
5 83 (3.97%) GitHub
6 80 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
7 63 (3.01%) Serverless
8 51 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
9 49 (2.34%) Figma
10 39 (1.87%) PowerApps
10 39 (1.87%) SaaS
11 37 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
12 31 (1.48%) Snowflake
13 30 (1.43%) Power Automate
14 28 (1.34%) Entra ID
15 24 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
15 24 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
16 23 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
17 20 (0.96%) Amazon S3
17 20 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.53%) DNS
2 47 (2.25%) Firewall
3 33 (1.58%) Network Security
4 30 (1.43%) HTTP
5 29 (1.39%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 29 (1.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 29 (1.39%) TCP/IP
6 25 (1.20%) DMZ
7 23 (1.10%) Wireless
8 21 (1.00%) SSL
8 21 (1.00%) VPN
9 17 (0.81%) BIG-IP
9 17 (0.81%) Wireshark
10 15 (0.72%) NetScaler
11 12 (0.57%) BGP
11 12 (0.57%) DHCP
11 12 (0.57%) Multicast
12 10 (0.48%) LAN
13 9 (0.43%) FIX Connectivity
13 9 (0.43%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (5.83%) Power BI
2 90 (4.30%) SQL Server
3 78 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
4 68 (3.25%) Tableau
5 65 (3.11%) NoSQL
6 44 (2.10%) MongoDB
7 42 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
8 38 (1.82%) Oracle Database
8 38 (1.82%) Relational Database
9 30 (1.43%) Metadata
10 27 (1.29%) Data Lake
11 23 (1.10%) Big Data
12 22 (1.05%) DB2
13 18 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
13 18 (0.86%) Hadoop
14 17 (0.81%) Apache Arrow
14 17 (0.81%) Apache Iceberg
14 17 (0.81%) Apache Ignite
14 17 (0.81%) Dremio
15 16 (0.77%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 225 (10.76%) JIRA
2 149 (7.13%) Jenkins
3 99 (4.73%) Git
4 84 (4.02%) GitLab
5 36 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
6 32 (1.53%) JUnit
7 30 (1.43%) Bitbucket
8 29 (1.39%) Selenium
9 23 (1.10%) Cucumber
10 22 (1.05%) Liquibase
11 19 (0.91%) SonarQube
12 18 (0.86%) Maven
13 17 (0.81%) Postman
14 16 (0.77%) Fiddler
15 15 (0.72%) Gradle
15 15 (0.72%) REST Assured
16 14 (0.67%) TeamCity
17 11 (0.53%) Cypress.io
17 11 (0.53%) webpack
18 7 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,344 (64.28%) Finance
2 763 (36.49%) Social Skills
3 443 (21.19%) Investment Banking
4 286 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
5 182 (8.70%) Front Office
6 133 (6.36%) Financial Institution
7 68 (3.25%) Retail Banking
8 57 (2.73%) Legal
9 49 (2.34%) Retail
10 48 (2.30%) Corporate Banking
10 48 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
11 36 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
11 36 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
12 34 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (1.63%) Public Sector
13 32 (1.53%) Back Office
14 25 (1.20%) General Ledger
14 25 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 25 (1.20%) International Banking
15 22 (1.05%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 405 (19.37%) Developer
2 345 (16.50%) Analyst
3 277 (13.25%) Senior
4 233 (11.14%) Business Analyst
5 183 (8.75%) Architect
6 133 (6.36%) Project Manager
7 121 (5.79%) Lead
8 108 (5.16%) Java Developer
9 94 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
10 86 (4.11%) Senior Developer
11 71 (3.40%) Banking Analyst
12 70 (3.35%) Consultant
13 55 (2.63%) DevOps Engineer
14 53 (2.53%) Banking Business Analyst
14 53 (2.53%) Designer
15 52 (2.49%) Software Engineer
16 46 (2.20%) Senior Java Developer
17 44 (2.10%) AWS Engineer
17 44 (2.10%) Python Engineer
17 44 (2.10%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (5.69%) Kafka
2 100 (4.78%) REST
3 99 (4.73%) .NET
4 86 (4.11%) Spring
5 78 (3.73%) RESTful
6 72 (3.44%) React
7 71 (3.40%) Spring Boot
8 61 (2.92%) HTML
9 56 (2.68%) Pandas
10 50 (2.39%) NumPy
11 48 (2.30%) Middleware
11 48 (2.30%) XML
12 46 (2.20%) AngularJS
13 44 (2.10%) CSS
14 38 (1.82%) Node.js
15 32 (1.53%) SciPy
16 31 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
17 30 (1.43%) OAuth
18 29 (1.39%) JMS
18 29 (1.39%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 132 (6.31%) Derivative
2 126 (6.03%) Product Ownership
3 116 (5.55%) Onboarding
4 111 (5.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 95 (4.54%) Cloud Native
6 87 (4.16%) Management Information System
7 78 (3.73%) Equities
8 71 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
9 69 (3.30%) Data Protection Act
10 61 (2.92%) Fixed Income
11 54 (2.58%) Hedge funds
12 53 (2.53%) Data Centre
13 48 (2.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 47 (2.25%) Mobile App
15 45 (2.15%) Public Cloud
16 42 (2.01%) Data Structures
17 35 (1.67%) Market Risk
18 34 (1.63%) Credit Risk
19 30 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
20 29 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 133 (6.36%) Linux
2 116 (5.55%) Windows
3 44 (2.10%) Unix
4 41 (1.96%) Android
5 32 (1.53%) Windows 10
6 24 (1.15%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.96%) Windows Server
8 19 (0.91%) Mac OS
9 11 (0.53%) zOS
10 4 (0.19%) AIX
10 4 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.19%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.048%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.048%) Solaris
12 1 (0.048%) VMS
12 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 591 (28.26%) Agile
2 397 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
3 350 (16.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 333 (15.93%) DevOps
5 323 (15.45%) CI/CD
6 197 (9.42%) Analytics
7 188 (8.99%) Microservices
8 178 (8.51%) Risk Management
8 178 (8.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 167 (7.99%) Migration
10 158 (7.56%) Project Management
11 156 (7.46%) Decision-Making
12 153 (7.32%) Change Management
13 148 (7.08%) AI
14 141 (6.74%) Business Intelligence
14 141 (6.74%) Scrum
15 139 (6.65%) Data Modelling
16 137 (6.55%) Containerisation
17 132 (6.31%) Data Analysis
18 129 (6.17%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 387 (18.51%) SQL
2 362 (17.31%) Python
3 309 (14.78%) Java
4 140 (6.70%) C#
5 100 (4.78%) JavaScript
6 59 (2.82%) Go
7 58 (2.77%) TypeScript
8 55 (2.63%) PowerShell
9 43 (2.06%) C++
10 35 (1.67%) PL/SQL
11 28 (1.34%) Shell Script
12 25 (1.20%) Bash
13 24 (1.15%) VBA
14 18 (0.86%) COBOL
14 18 (0.86%) Kotlin
14 18 (0.86%) T-SQL
15 14 (0.67%) R
16 13 (0.62%) Rust
16 13 (0.62%) Scala
17 12 (0.57%) Korn
Qualifications
1 257 (12.29%) Degree
2 89 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 86 (4.11%) Security Cleared
4 78 (3.73%) Master's Degree
5 60 (2.87%) PMI Certification
6 55 (2.63%) PMP
7 38 (1.82%) SC Cleared
8 36 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (1.24%) CISSP
10 25 (1.20%) AWS Certification
11 23 (1.10%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.77%) DV Cleared
13 15 (0.72%) CBAP
13 15 (0.72%) MBA
14 13 (0.62%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.57%) BC Cleared
15 12 (0.57%) CISM
15 12 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
16 10 (0.48%) PhD
17 9 (0.43%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (6.74%) QA
2 86 (4.11%) Data Quality
3 58 (2.77%) GDPR
4 49 (2.34%) ISO 20022
4 49 (2.34%) PMO
5 38 (1.82%) Accessibility
6 33 (1.58%) SLA
7 30 (1.43%) PSD2
8 28 (1.34%) SEPA
9 26 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 24 (1.15%) Basel III
10 24 (1.15%) GRC
11 22 (1.05%) MiFID
12 21 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 21 (1.00%) PCI DSS
13 19 (0.91%) NIST
14 16 (0.77%) EMIR
15 13 (0.62%) IFRS
16 12 (0.57%) ISO 8583
17 8 (0.38%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 177 (8.46%) Docker
2 44 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (1.43%) Active Directory
4 20 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (0.81%) Firmware
6 6 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.14%) RACF
8 3 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
8 3 (0.14%) vSphere
9 2 (0.096%) ACF2
9 2 (0.096%) GridGain
9 2 (0.096%) NFS
9 2 (0.096%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.048%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.048%) GPFS
10 1 (0.048%) HDFS
10 1 (0.048%) KVM
10 1 (0.048%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 203 (9.71%) Kubernetes
2 119 (5.69%) Terraform
3 79 (3.78%) Ansible
4 53 (2.53%) Grafana
5 45 (2.15%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.77%) SCCM
7 15 (0.72%) Argo
8 10 (0.48%) Control-M
9 8 (0.38%) CA Endevor
9 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.33%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
10 7 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.29%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.19%) Istio
12 4 (0.19%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.14%) Thomson Reuters DACS
13 3 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 237 (11.33%) Microsoft
2 151 (7.22%) Oracle
3 93 (4.45%) Google
4 60 (2.87%) Splunk
5 51 (2.44%) ServiceNow
6 50 (2.39%) VMware
7 48 (2.30%) IBM
8 41 (1.96%) Cisco
8 41 (1.96%) F5
9 40 (1.91%) SAP
10 34 (1.63%) Citrix
11 32 (1.53%) HP
12 29 (1.39%) Dell
12 29 (1.39%) Remedy
12 29 (1.39%) Salesforce
13 27 (1.29%) Apple
13 27 (1.29%) Databricks
14 26 (1.24%) Bloomberg
14 26 (1.24%) CyberArk
15 23 (1.10%) Dynatrace