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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 22 25
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,557 2,123 2,506
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.80% 8.01% 6.72%
As % of the General category 10.54% 12.53% 11.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,543 1,456 1,831
10th Percentile £400 £358 £400
25th Percentile £450 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £688 £750 £788
90th Percentile £800 £838 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 25 25
10th Percentile - £16.09 £12.34
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.87 £14.50
Median hourly rate £24.89 £24.66 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% +26.46% +8.45%
75th Percentile £66.88 £25.15 £40.50
90th Percentile £96.38 £63.00 £86.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £24.66 £19.50
% change year-on-year -2.68% +26.46% +3.50%

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 24,252 16,937 21,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.00% 63.89% 57.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,640 10,873 13,632
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -3.27% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,754 845 1,766
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.36 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.92
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.21 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -17.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £51.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £73.75 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.21 £31.97
% change year-on-year +17.60% -14.89% +4.68%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 5 July 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 1,807 £579 -10.92% 619
North of England -4 514 £500 +12.36% 79
North West +1 264 £466 +15.98% 49
Yorkshire -6 241 £514 +4.26% 24
Midlands -7 173 £525 +23.53% 49
West Midlands +22 131 £575 +4.55% 22
East Midlands -29 41 £519 +32.78% 27
South East -48 35 £550 +4.76% 93
South West -27 33 £515 -1.90% 13
East of England -12 25 £580 -3.33% 15
North East -29 13 £875 +108.33% 6
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
1 165 (6.45%) Confluence
2 55 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.10%) SAS
4 20 (0.78%) IIS
5 17 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (0.66%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.47%) Apache
7 10 (0.39%) Camunda
7 10 (0.39%) CICS
8 8 (0.31%) Appian
9 7 (0.27%) Ethereum
9 7 (0.27%) Hyperledger
9 7 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.16%) WordPress
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.078%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.078%) JBoss
13 2 (0.078%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.078%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 108 (4.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (1.33%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.12%) Sketch
7 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.078%) InVision
8 2 (0.078%) Notion
8 2 (0.078%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 27 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
2 23 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
2 23 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
3 18 (0.70%) Finacle
3 18 (0.70%) Temenos T24
4 16 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
5 15 (0.59%) Loan IQ
6 12 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 11 (0.43%) Aladdin
8 9 (0.35%) Actimize
9 8 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
9 8 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
10 7 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
10 7 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
10 7 (0.27%) Summit
11 6 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
11 6 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
11 6 (0.23%) OpenText MBPM
12 5 (0.20%) SAP CO
12 5 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 391 (15.29%) Azure
2 343 (13.41%) AWS
3 164 (6.41%) GCP
4 132 (5.16%) Power Platform
5 82 (3.21%) GitHub
6 75 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
7 69 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
8 59 (2.31%) Snowflake
9 57 (2.23%) SaaS
10 41 (1.60%) OpenShift
11 37 (1.45%) Entra ID
12 35 (1.37%) Amazon S3
13 30 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
13 30 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
14 29 (1.13%) Figma
15 28 (1.10%) Serverless
16 26 (1.02%) Power Automate
17 24 (0.94%) PowerApps
18 21 (0.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 21 (0.82%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (2.66%) DNS
2 67 (2.62%) Firewall
3 60 (2.35%) VPN
4 58 (2.27%) Network Security
5 39 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.29%) Multicast
6 33 (1.29%) SSL
7 32 (1.25%) BGP
8 31 (1.21%) HTTP
9 24 (0.94%) SAN
10 23 (0.90%) BIG-IP
10 23 (0.90%) DMZ
11 22 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 20 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 20 (0.78%) Wireshark
13 19 (0.74%) FIX Connectivity
14 16 (0.63%) DHCP
15 12 (0.47%) Internet
16 11 (0.43%) OSPF
16 11 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (4.58%) SQL Server
2 108 (4.22%) Power BI
3 75 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
4 70 (2.74%) Metadata
5 64 (2.50%) Relational Database
6 51 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
7 48 (1.88%) Oracle Database
8 40 (1.56%) Tableau
9 36 (1.41%) MongoDB
10 31 (1.21%) Big Data
11 28 (1.10%) Data Lake
12 23 (0.90%) NoSQL
13 21 (0.82%) RDBMS
14 20 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 19 (0.74%) BigQuery
15 19 (0.74%) Db2
16 18 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
17 15 (0.59%) Data Vault
17 15 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 13 (0.51%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 262 (10.25%) JIRA
2 109 (4.26%) Jenkins
3 108 (4.22%) Git
4 65 (2.54%) GitLab
5 40 (1.56%) JUnit
6 27 (1.06%) Selenium
7 23 (0.90%) Cucumber
8 19 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
8 19 (0.74%) TeamCity
9 18 (0.70%) Postman
10 17 (0.66%) Fiddler
11 16 (0.63%) Bitbucket
12 15 (0.59%) Mockito
13 14 (0.55%) ERwin
13 14 (0.55%) REST Assured
13 14 (0.55%) SonarQube
14 13 (0.51%) ER Studio
15 12 (0.47%) Cypress.io
15 12 (0.47%) Maven
16 10 (0.39%) Gradle
General
1 1,571 (61.44%) Finance
2 664 (25.97%) Social Skills
3 546 (21.35%) Investment Banking
4 340 (13.30%) Analytical Skills
5 232 (9.07%) Front Office
6 121 (4.73%) Financial Institution
7 108 (4.22%) Retail Banking
8 104 (4.07%) Retail
9 87 (3.40%) Corporate Banking
10 86 (3.36%) Legal
11 61 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
12 53 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
13 49 (1.92%) Public Sector
14 46 (1.80%) Private Banking
15 42 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
16 30 (1.17%) Back Office
17 27 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
18 25 (0.98%) Marketing
19 19 (0.74%) General Ledger
19 19 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 455 (17.79%) Developer
2 385 (15.06%) Analyst
3 315 (12.32%) Senior
4 301 (11.77%) Architect
5 258 (10.09%) Business Analyst
6 210 (8.21%) Lead
7 159 (6.22%) Java Developer
8 126 (4.93%) Solutions Architect
9 108 (4.22%) Senior Developer
10 106 (4.15%) Project Manager
11 93 (3.64%) Data Engineer
12 82 (3.21%) Banking Analyst
13 79 (3.09%) Consultant
14 69 (2.70%) Senior Java Developer
15 61 (2.39%) Network Engineer
16 57 (2.23%) Data Analyst
17 55 (2.15%) C# Developer
17 55 (2.15%) Software Engineer
18 51 (1.99%) Banking Business Analyst
18 51 (1.99%) Payments Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (5.51%) React
2 123 (4.81%) .NET
3 116 (4.54%) Kafka
4 100 (3.91%) REST
5 97 (3.79%) Middleware
6 92 (3.60%) Spring
7 76 (2.97%) Spring Boot
8 66 (2.58%) RESTful
9 54 (2.11%) Redux
10 51 (1.99%) HTML
11 46 (1.80%) CSS
12 45 (1.76%) OAuth
13 42 (1.64%) AngularJS
14 39 (1.53%) FIX Protocol
15 36 (1.41%) JSON
16 32 (1.25%) Node.js
16 32 (1.25%) OAuth2
17 30 (1.17%) XML
18 26 (1.02%) .NET Framework
18 26 (1.02%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 170 (6.65%) Product Ownership
2 139 (5.44%) Cloud Native
3 130 (5.08%) Derivative
3 130 (5.08%) Onboarding
4 129 (5.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 101 (3.95%) Fixed Income
6 84 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
7 82 (3.21%) Management Information System
8 79 (3.09%) Equities
9 78 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
10 69 (2.70%) Data Structures
11 56 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
12 52 (2.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 51 (1.99%) Mainframe
14 49 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
15 47 (1.84%) Credit Risk
16 44 (1.72%) Data Centre
17 42 (1.64%) AI Agents
17 42 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
18 40 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 150 (5.87%) Windows
2 131 (5.12%) Linux
3 86 (3.36%) Unix
4 30 (1.17%) zOS
5 28 (1.10%) Windows Server
6 24 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 23 (0.90%) Apple iOS
8 22 (0.86%) Android
9 17 (0.66%) Windows 10
10 12 (0.47%) Ubuntu
11 11 (0.43%) AIX
12 8 (0.31%) Solaris
13 7 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
14 6 (0.23%) VMS
15 5 (0.20%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.20%) HPUX
15 5 (0.20%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.20%) SUSE
16 4 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 582 (22.76%) Agile
2 463 (18.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 385 (15.06%) CI/CD
4 356 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
5 329 (12.87%) AI
6 328 (12.83%) DevOps
7 303 (11.85%) Migration
8 237 (9.27%) Analytics
9 230 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 216 (8.45%) Data Modelling
11 203 (7.94%) Roadmaps
12 199 (7.78%) Microservices
13 188 (7.35%) Validation
14 178 (6.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 175 (6.84%) User Acceptance Testing
16 166 (6.49%) Decision-Making
17 164 (6.41%) Test Automation
18 160 (6.26%) Risk Management
18 160 (6.26%) Software Engineering
19 159 (6.22%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 418 (16.35%) SQL
2 372 (14.55%) Python
3 353 (13.81%) Java
4 182 (7.12%) C#
5 136 (5.32%) JavaScript
6 114 (4.46%) TypeScript
7 74 (2.89%) PowerShell
8 60 (2.35%) PL/SQL
9 43 (1.68%) Bash
10 42 (1.64%) T-SQL
11 40 (1.56%) Shell Script
12 33 (1.29%) Kotlin
13 28 (1.10%) VBA
14 26 (1.02%) C++
15 21 (0.82%) Korn
16 20 (0.78%) Go
17 17 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 15 (0.59%) Scala
19 12 (0.47%) COBOL
19 12 (0.47%) JCL
Qualifications
1 176 (6.88%) Degree
2 126 (4.93%) Security Cleared
3 89 (3.48%) SC Cleared
4 57 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (1.45%) CISSP
6 36 (1.41%) PMP
7 31 (1.21%) PMI Certification
8 29 (1.13%) Azure Certification
9 28 (1.10%) Master's Degree
10 26 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
11 22 (0.86%) AWS Certification
12 18 (0.70%) CISM
13 15 (0.59%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 12 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.39%) CISA
16 9 (0.35%) ACCA
16 9 (0.35%) CCSP
17 8 (0.31%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (5.32%) Data Quality
2 127 (4.97%) QA
3 53 (2.07%) PMO
4 49 (1.92%) ISO 20022
5 46 (1.80%) GDPR
6 33 (1.29%) NIST
6 33 (1.29%) SEPA
6 33 (1.29%) SLA
7 31 (1.21%) PSD2
8 30 (1.17%) GRC
9 29 (1.13%) Accessibility
10 28 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 26 (1.02%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.78%) MiFID
13 17 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.35%) EMIR
14 9 (0.35%) IFRS
15 8 (0.31%) COREP
15 8 (0.31%) ISO 8583
16 7 (0.27%) GAAP
System Software
1 122 (4.77%) Docker
2 52 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.70%) RACF
5 17 (0.66%) Firmware
5 17 (0.66%) vSphere
6 16 (0.63%) NFS
7 13 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.23%) Varnish
9 5 (0.20%) Postfix
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%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.12%) XenApp
12 2 (0.078%) GridGain
12 2 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 166 (6.49%) Kubernetes
2 91 (3.56%) Terraform
3 87 (3.40%) Ansible
4 30 (1.17%) Grafana
4 30 (1.17%) Prometheus
5 19 (0.74%) SCCM
6 16 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (0.55%) OMEGAMON
8 13 (0.51%) Control-M
9 12 (0.47%) Argo
9 12 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (0.43%) Istio
11 9 (0.35%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
13 7 (0.27%) Puppet
13 7 (0.27%) WSUS
14 6 (0.23%) SnapMirror
15 5 (0.20%) HAProxy
15 5 (0.20%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 282 (11.03%) Microsoft
2 197 (7.70%) Oracle
3 91 (3.56%) ServiceNow
4 73 (2.85%) IBM
5 63 (2.46%) Google
6 60 (2.35%) Cisco
6 60 (2.35%) Databricks
7 50 (1.96%) SAP
8 49 (1.92%) F5
9 48 (1.88%) Splunk
10 45 (1.76%) Citrix
11 42 (1.64%) VMware
12 38 (1.49%) Murex
12 38 (1.49%) Salesforce
13 28 (1.10%) Avaloq
14 27 (1.06%) OpenAI
14 27 (1.06%) Temenos
15 26 (1.02%) Bloomberg
15 26 (1.02%) Fortinet
16 24 (0.94%) NetApp