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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 23 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,332 1,888 2,331
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.62% 7.92% 6.41%
As % of the General category 10.38% 12.37% 11.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,418 1,266 1,730
10th Percentile £380 £358 £391
25th Percentile £447 £447 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £775
90th Percentile £775 £850 £874
UK median daily rate £525 £588 £613
% change year-on-year -10.64% -4.08% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 17 23
10th Percentile - £16.76 £12.17
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.51 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £22.27 £19.05
Median % change year-on-year +15.72% +16.90% -9.29%
75th Percentile £95.00 £24.66 £23.88
90th Percentile £97.63 £24.86 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £30.39 £22.27 £19.05
% change year-on-year +36.44% +16.90% -9.29%

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 22,457 15,262 21,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.07% 64.05% 58.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,832 9,892 13,639
10th Percentile £311 £285 £281
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £628 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,513 662 1,778
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.66 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.22 £16.95 £15.47
Median hourly rate £30.81 £27.39 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -8.71% -7.12%
75th Percentile £61.18 £53.75 £51.91
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £66.40
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.69%

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 May 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 23 May 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 23 May 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 1,610 £575 -11.54% 494
North of England -2 491 £475 +6.50% 86
North West +8 258 £442 +5.30% 52
Yorkshire -4 227 £500 +3.90% 32
Midlands +1 182 £519 +21.11% 22
West Midlands +24 129 £575 +2.04% 17
East Midlands -20 53 £465 +19.23% 5
South West -32 36 £500 -4.76% 18
South East -55 35 £545 -5.22% 107
East of England -24 15 £505 -15.83% 11
North East -21 10 £400 -4.76% 2
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
1 167 (7.16%) Confluence
2 47 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.03%) SAS
4 19 (0.81%) IIS
5 15 (0.64%) Apache Spark
6 14 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (0.43%) Apache
7 10 (0.43%) CICS
7 10 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.21%) Camunda
9 5 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.17%) Appian
10 4 (0.17%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.17%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.086%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.086%) CMS
12 2 (0.086%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 127 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 59 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
4 44 (1.89%) MS Visio
5 27 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.34%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.21%) Notion
8 2 (0.086%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.086%) InVision
8 2 (0.086%) Sketch
8 2 (0.086%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.086%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 26 (1.11%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.07%) Oracle Payables
3 23 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
4 18 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
5 17 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
5 17 (0.73%) Temenos T24
6 16 (0.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 15 (0.64%) Loan IQ
8 12 (0.51%) Finacle
9 9 (0.39%) Aladdin
9 9 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
9 9 (0.39%) SAP FI
10 8 (0.34%) Actimize
10 8 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
10 8 (0.34%) SAP CO
10 8 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
10 8 (0.34%) Summit
11 6 (0.26%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 5 (0.21%) BASE24
12 5 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 362 (15.52%) Azure
2 319 (13.68%) AWS
3 147 (6.30%) GCP
4 115 (4.93%) Power Platform
5 85 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
6 80 (3.43%) GitHub
7 58 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
8 55 (2.36%) SaaS
9 37 (1.59%) Figma
10 34 (1.46%) Entra ID
10 34 (1.46%) OpenShift
11 33 (1.42%) Snowflake
12 30 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
13 27 (1.16%) Amazon S3
13 27 (1.16%) Serverless
14 25 (1.07%) OCI
15 23 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
15 23 (0.99%) Power Automate
16 22 (0.94%) PaaS
17 20 (0.86%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (3.00%) DNS
2 56 (2.40%) VPN
3 53 (2.27%) Firewall
4 43 (1.84%) Network Security
5 37 (1.59%) HTTP
5 37 (1.59%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.29%) Multicast
7 27 (1.16%) BGP
8 23 (0.99%) BIG-IP
8 23 (0.99%) SSL
9 22 (0.94%) DMZ
9 22 (0.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 22 (0.94%) SAN
10 21 (0.90%) FIX Connectivity
10 21 (0.90%) Wireshark
11 20 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 14 (0.60%) DHCP
12 14 (0.60%) NetScaler
13 10 (0.43%) Internet
13 10 (0.43%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (4.37%) SQL Server
2 93 (3.99%) Power BI
3 61 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (2.57%) Metadata
5 53 (2.27%) Tableau
6 51 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
7 44 (1.89%) Oracle Database
8 43 (1.84%) Relational Database
9 36 (1.54%) MongoDB
10 32 (1.37%) NoSQL
11 23 (0.99%) Big Data
12 20 (0.86%) DB2
13 18 (0.77%) BigQuery
14 16 (0.69%) Data Lake
14 16 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 13 (0.56%) DataStage
15 13 (0.56%) Pinecone
15 13 (0.56%) Power Query
15 13 (0.56%) Weaviate
16 12 (0.51%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 261 (11.19%) JIRA
2 103 (4.42%) Jenkins
3 90 (3.86%) Git
4 59 (2.53%) GitLab
5 33 (1.42%) JUnit
6 25 (1.07%) Selenium
7 22 (0.94%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.77%) Fiddler
9 17 (0.73%) Postman
10 16 (0.69%) TeamCity
11 15 (0.64%) Bitbucket
11 15 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
12 14 (0.60%) REST Assured
13 13 (0.56%) SonarQube
14 11 (0.47%) Maven
14 11 (0.47%) Mockito
15 10 (0.43%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.43%) ERwin
16 9 (0.39%) ER Studio
17 8 (0.34%) Appium
General
1 1,434 (61.49%) Finance
2 624 (26.76%) Social Skills
3 483 (20.71%) Investment Banking
4 324 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
5 181 (7.76%) Front Office
6 111 (4.76%) Financial Institution
6 111 (4.76%) Retail Banking
7 89 (3.82%) Retail
8 86 (3.69%) Corporate Banking
9 76 (3.26%) Legal
10 61 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
11 54 (2.32%) Public Sector
12 41 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
13 39 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
14 35 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (1.11%) General Ledger
16 25 (1.07%) Private Banking
17 24 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 24 (1.03%) Marketing
18 23 (0.99%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 384 (16.47%) Analyst
2 382 (16.38%) Developer
3 307 (13.16%) Senior
4 275 (11.79%) Architect
5 268 (11.49%) Business Analyst
6 180 (7.72%) Lead
7 135 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
8 117 (5.02%) Java Developer
9 102 (4.37%) Project Manager
10 94 (4.03%) Banking Analyst
11 91 (3.90%) Senior Developer
12 85 (3.64%) Consultant
13 82 (3.52%) Data Engineer
14 64 (2.74%) Banking Business Analyst
15 58 (2.49%) Payments Architect
16 55 (2.36%) Network Engineer
17 53 (2.27%) Payments Solutions Architect
18 51 (2.19%) Designer
19 49 (2.10%) C# Developer
20 47 (2.02%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (4.76%) Kafka
2 109 (4.67%) .NET
3 91 (3.90%) React
4 82 (3.52%) Middleware
5 80 (3.43%) Spring
6 73 (3.13%) REST
7 66 (2.83%) Spring Boot
8 58 (2.49%) RESTful
9 55 (2.36%) HTML
10 44 (1.89%) CSS
10 44 (1.89%) OAuth
11 38 (1.63%) AngularJS
11 38 (1.63%) FIX Protocol
11 38 (1.63%) XML
12 35 (1.50%) JSON
13 33 (1.42%) OAuth2
14 25 (1.07%) HTML5
15 23 (0.99%) Redux
16 22 (0.94%) Node.js
16 22 (0.94%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 168 (7.20%) Product Ownership
2 122 (5.23%) Derivative
3 110 (4.72%) Onboarding
4 106 (4.55%) Cloud Native
5 90 (3.86%) Management Information System
6 88 (3.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 74 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
8 68 (2.92%) Fixed Income
9 65 (2.79%) Data Structures
10 63 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
11 56 (2.40%) Equities
12 46 (1.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 45 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
14 43 (1.84%) Data Centre
15 41 (1.76%) Market Risk
16 40 (1.72%) Credit Risk
17 36 (1.54%) Mainframe
18 31 (1.33%) Algorithms
18 31 (1.33%) Public Cloud
19 28 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 137 (5.87%) Windows
2 106 (4.55%) Linux
3 74 (3.17%) Unix
4 28 (1.20%) Windows 10
5 25 (1.07%) Android
6 23 (0.99%) Apple iOS
7 22 (0.94%) Windows Server
8 20 (0.86%) zOS
9 18 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.39%) AIX
11 7 (0.30%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
12 6 (0.26%) Solaris
12 6 (0.26%) VMS
12 6 (0.26%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.21%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
14 4 (0.17%) HPUX
14 4 (0.17%) SUSE
15 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 561 (24.06%) Agile
2 424 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 342 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
4 324 (13.89%) CI/CD
5 306 (13.12%) DevOps
6 269 (11.54%) Migration
7 257 (11.02%) AI
8 202 (8.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 201 (8.62%) Analytics
10 197 (8.45%) Data Modelling
11 187 (8.02%) Roadmaps
12 178 (7.63%) Microservices
13 176 (7.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 173 (7.42%) Decision-Making
15 172 (7.38%) Validation
16 161 (6.90%) User Acceptance Testing
17 157 (6.73%) Risk Management
18 155 (6.65%) Test Automation
19 134 (5.75%) Data Analysis
19 134 (5.75%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 381 (16.34%) SQL
2 325 (13.94%) Python
3 300 (12.86%) Java
4 142 (6.09%) C#
5 97 (4.16%) JavaScript
6 71 (3.04%) TypeScript
7 62 (2.66%) PowerShell
8 50 (2.14%) PL/SQL
9 34 (1.46%) Shell Script
10 33 (1.42%) T-SQL
11 32 (1.37%) Bash
12 27 (1.16%) Kotlin
13 24 (1.03%) Go
14 23 (0.99%) C++
15 21 (0.90%) VBA
16 20 (0.86%) Korn
17 16 (0.69%) COBOL
17 16 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 14 (0.60%) Scala
19 13 (0.56%) JCL
Qualifications
1 197 (8.45%) Degree
2 112 (4.80%) Security Cleared
3 72 (3.09%) SC Cleared
4 64 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (2.06%) Master's Degree
5 48 (2.06%) PMP
6 45 (1.93%) PMI Certification
7 39 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 33 (1.42%) CISSP
9 29 (1.24%) Azure Certification
10 23 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (0.73%) AWS Certification
12 16 (0.69%) MBA
13 15 (0.64%) CISM
14 14 (0.60%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.51%) CBAP
16 11 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
17 10 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 9 (0.39%) CCSP
18 9 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (5.87%) QA
2 131 (5.62%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.23%) GDPR
4 51 (2.19%) PMO
5 50 (2.14%) ISO 20022
6 38 (1.63%) SLA
7 35 (1.50%) PSD2
8 33 (1.42%) NIST
9 32 (1.37%) SEPA
10 30 (1.29%) PCI DSS
11 29 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 26 (1.11%) GRC
13 24 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 22 (0.94%) Accessibility
15 21 (0.90%) MiFID
16 15 (0.64%) ISO 8583
17 13 (0.56%) Basel III
18 12 (0.51%) IFRS
19 9 (0.39%) EMIR
20 8 (0.34%) GAAP
System Software
1 127 (5.45%) Docker
2 49 (2.10%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.77%) Firmware
5 15 (0.64%) NFS
6 14 (0.60%) vSphere
7 12 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.26%) Varnish
10 5 (0.21%) Postfix
10 5 (0.21%) RACF
11 4 (0.17%) Sendmail
11 4 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.17%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.13%) SRDF
12 3 (0.13%) XenApp
13 2 (0.086%) ACF2
13 2 (0.086%) GPFS
13 2 (0.086%) GridGain
14 1 (0.043%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 168 (7.20%) Kubernetes
2 90 (3.86%) Terraform
3 72 (3.09%) Ansible
4 37 (1.59%) Grafana
5 29 (1.24%) Prometheus
6 21 (0.90%) SCCM
7 19 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (0.73%) Argo
9 11 (0.47%) Control-M
10 10 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.39%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.39%) Istio
12 8 (0.34%) Puppet
13 6 (0.26%) SnapMirror
14 5 (0.21%) HAProxy
14 5 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
14 5 (0.21%) NetBackup
14 5 (0.21%) vRealize
14 5 (0.21%) WSUS
15 4 (0.17%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 276 (11.84%) Microsoft
2 175 (7.50%) Oracle
3 85 (3.64%) ServiceNow
4 60 (2.57%) Google
5 57 (2.44%) SAP
6 56 (2.40%) IBM
7 54 (2.32%) Cisco
8 50 (2.14%) F5
9 46 (1.97%) Citrix
9 46 (1.97%) Splunk
10 45 (1.93%) VMware
11 41 (1.76%) Databricks
12 28 (1.20%) Temenos
13 26 (1.11%) Avaloq
14 25 (1.07%) Murex
14 25 (1.07%) NetApp
14 25 (1.07%) Pega
15 24 (1.03%) Bloomberg
16 22 (0.94%) Workday
17 21 (0.90%) Remedy