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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 24 25
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,261 1,894 2,245
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.72% 7.73% 6.06%
As % of the General category 10.28% 12.08% 10.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,368 1,253 1,628
10th Percentile £369 £360 £385
25th Percentile £440 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £771
90th Percentile £780 £863 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £615
% change year-on-year -12.50% -2.44% -5.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 17 24
10th Percentile £16.63 £16.76 £12.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.51 £18.12
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +14.21% -7.14%
75th Percentile £57.37 £24.66 £32.63
90th Percentile £96.88 £55.55 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £23.23 £19.50
% change year-on-year +8.29% +19.10% -7.14%

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 22,000 15,678 21,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.61% 63.96% 58.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,781 10,206 13,962
10th Percentile £304 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,424 653 1,765
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.97 £17.61 £15.39
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.75 £28.92
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.59% -17.37%
75th Percentile £61.18 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £28.60 £28.42
% change year-on-year -2.10% +0.63% -18.80%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 21 April 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 1,555 £575 -9.80% 353
North of England +6 475 £473 +1.29% 324
North West +17 261 £449 +0.79% 281
Yorkshire -11 211 £500 -6.98% 40
Midlands +9 175 £471 -13.58% 45
West Midlands +11 119 £565 +1.80% 17
East Midlands -11 56 £450 +13.78% 28
South East -37 43 £500 -13.04% 82
South West -32 31 £500 -15.97% 11
East of England -27 14 £600 - 5
North East -6 10 £400 -4.76% 3
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
1 172 (7.61%) Confluence
2 52 (2.30%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.11%) SAS
4 22 (0.97%) Apache Spark
5 14 (0.62%) IIS
6 12 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (0.53%) CICS
7 11 (0.49%) Apache
7 11 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.22%) CMS
9 5 (0.22%) Ethereum
9 5 (0.22%) Hyperledger
9 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.13%) Camunda
10 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.088%) Appian
11 2 (0.088%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.088%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 144 (6.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 63 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (1.86%) MS Visio
5 28 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.62%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.13%) Notion
8 2 (0.088%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.088%) InVision
8 2 (0.088%) Sketch
8 2 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.088%) Trello
8 2 (0.088%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.044%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 30 (1.33%) Payment Gateway
2 23 (1.02%) Oracle Payables
3 21 (0.93%) Temenos T24
4 19 (0.84%) Oracle Receivables
4 19 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
4 19 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
5 17 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 15 (0.66%) Loan IQ
7 11 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
8 10 (0.44%) Finacle
8 10 (0.44%) SAP FI
9 9 (0.40%) Actimize
9 9 (0.40%) Aladdin
9 9 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
10 8 (0.35%) SAP CO
10 8 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
10 8 (0.35%) Summit
11 7 (0.31%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 6 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
13 5 (0.22%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 354 (15.66%) Azure
2 302 (13.36%) AWS
3 151 (6.68%) GCP
4 126 (5.57%) Power Platform
5 103 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
6 79 (3.49%) GitHub
7 60 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
8 52 (2.30%) SaaS
9 41 (1.81%) Figma
10 40 (1.77%) Serverless
11 33 (1.46%) Entra ID
12 32 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
13 30 (1.33%) OpenShift
14 29 (1.28%) Amazon S3
15 28 (1.24%) Power Automate
16 25 (1.11%) OCI
17 24 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
17 24 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
17 24 (1.06%) PowerApps
18 23 (1.02%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 69 (3.05%) DNS
2 50 (2.21%) Firewall
2 50 (2.21%) VPN
3 40 (1.77%) HTTP
3 40 (1.77%) TCP/IP
4 34 (1.50%) Network Security
5 25 (1.11%) Multicast
6 24 (1.06%) BGP
6 24 (1.06%) DMZ
6 24 (1.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 23 (1.02%) BIG-IP
7 23 (1.02%) SSL
8 22 (0.97%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 22 (0.97%) SAN
9 20 (0.88%) NetScaler
10 19 (0.84%) FIX Connectivity
10 19 (0.84%) Wireshark
11 15 (0.66%) DHCP
12 11 (0.49%) Internet
12 11 (0.49%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (4.38%) Power BI
2 95 (4.20%) SQL Server
3 61 (2.70%) Tableau
4 50 (2.21%) Metadata
5 49 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
6 48 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
7 40 (1.77%) Oracle Database
8 37 (1.64%) MongoDB
9 33 (1.46%) NoSQL
10 32 (1.42%) Relational Database
11 25 (1.11%) Big Data
12 21 (0.93%) BigQuery
13 20 (0.88%) DB2
14 16 (0.71%) Hadoop
14 16 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 14 (0.62%) Power Query
16 11 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (0.49%) Pinecone
16 11 (0.49%) RDBMS
16 11 (0.49%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 255 (11.28%) JIRA
2 97 (4.29%) Jenkins
3 86 (3.80%) Git
4 65 (2.87%) GitLab
5 28 (1.24%) JUnit
6 23 (1.02%) Selenium
7 21 (0.93%) Bitbucket
8 18 (0.80%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.80%) Fiddler
9 17 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
10 15 (0.66%) Postman
11 14 (0.62%) TeamCity
12 13 (0.57%) REST Assured
13 12 (0.53%) Maven
14 10 (0.44%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.44%) SonarQube
15 9 (0.40%) Mockito
16 8 (0.35%) Gradle
17 7 (0.31%) Appium
17 7 (0.31%) Chocolatey
General
1 1,415 (62.58%) Finance
2 675 (29.85%) Social Skills
3 442 (19.55%) Investment Banking
4 320 (14.15%) Analytical Skills
5 178 (7.87%) Front Office
6 104 (4.60%) Financial Institution
7 91 (4.02%) Retail Banking
8 75 (3.32%) Corporate Banking
9 73 (3.23%) Legal
10 71 (3.14%) Retail
11 60 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
12 54 (2.39%) Public Sector
13 44 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
15 34 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
16 30 (1.33%) Marketing
17 24 (1.06%) General Ledger
18 23 (1.02%) Back Office
19 20 (0.88%) International Banking
19 20 (0.88%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 383 (16.94%) Analyst
2 366 (16.19%) Developer
3 287 (12.69%) Senior
4 267 (11.81%) Business Analyst
5 264 (11.68%) Architect
6 161 (7.12%) Lead
7 124 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
8 109 (4.82%) Project Manager
9 98 (4.33%) Java Developer
10 88 (3.89%) Consultant
11 87 (3.85%) Banking Analyst
12 84 (3.72%) Senior Developer
13 75 (3.32%) Data Engineer
14 62 (2.74%) Banking Business Analyst
15 57 (2.52%) Payments Architect
16 53 (2.34%) Designer
17 51 (2.26%) Payments Solutions Architect
18 50 (2.21%) Network Engineer
19 48 (2.12%) DevOps Engineer
20 46 (2.03%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (4.87%) Kafka
2 106 (4.69%) .NET
3 80 (3.54%) React
4 74 (3.27%) REST
5 68 (3.01%) Middleware
6 66 (2.92%) Spring
7 63 (2.79%) HTML
8 59 (2.61%) Spring Boot
9 56 (2.48%) RESTful
10 48 (2.12%) CSS
11 44 (1.95%) OAuth
12 40 (1.77%) AngularJS
13 37 (1.64%) JSON
14 34 (1.50%) XML
15 33 (1.46%) OAuth2
16 28 (1.24%) FIX Protocol
17 27 (1.19%) Node.js
18 25 (1.11%) Pandas
19 24 (1.06%) SOAP
20 23 (1.02%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 140 (6.19%) Product Ownership
2 108 (4.78%) Onboarding
3 107 (4.73%) Derivative
4 93 (4.11%) Management Information System
5 90 (3.98%) Cloud Native
5 90 (3.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 76 (3.36%) Data Protection Act
7 72 (3.18%) Fixed Income
8 58 (2.57%) Equities
9 55 (2.43%) Data Structures
9 55 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
10 47 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
11 45 (1.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 42 (1.86%) Data Centre
13 40 (1.77%) Credit Risk
14 39 (1.72%) Market Risk
15 37 (1.64%) Mainframe
16 29 (1.28%) Algorithms
16 29 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
16 29 (1.28%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 145 (6.41%) Windows
2 104 (4.60%) Linux
3 68 (3.01%) Unix
4 37 (1.64%) Windows 10
5 26 (1.15%) Android
6 23 (1.02%) Windows Server
7 20 (0.88%) zOS
8 19 (0.84%) Apple iOS
9 17 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (0.53%) Mac OS
11 10 (0.44%) AIX
12 7 (0.31%) VMS
13 6 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
13 6 (0.27%) Solaris
13 6 (0.27%) Windows 7
14 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
14 5 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
15 4 (0.18%) HPUX
15 4 (0.18%) SUSE
15 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 537 (23.75%) Agile
2 408 (18.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 362 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
4 303 (13.40%) CI/CD
5 302 (13.36%) DevOps
6 250 (11.06%) Migration
7 237 (10.48%) AI
8 192 (8.49%) Analytics
9 182 (8.05%) Decision-Making
10 181 (8.01%) Roadmaps
11 180 (7.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 178 (7.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 173 (7.65%) Data Modelling
14 171 (7.56%) Risk Management
15 160 (7.08%) Microservices
15 160 (7.08%) Validation
16 157 (6.94%) Data Analysis
17 156 (6.90%) User Acceptance Testing
18 153 (6.77%) Project Management
19 143 (6.32%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 380 (16.81%) SQL
2 331 (14.64%) Python
3 285 (12.61%) Java
4 139 (6.15%) C#
5 96 (4.25%) JavaScript
6 65 (2.87%) TypeScript
7 61 (2.70%) PowerShell
8 40 (1.77%) PL/SQL
9 34 (1.50%) Shell Script
10 33 (1.46%) VBA
11 29 (1.28%) Go
12 27 (1.19%) T-SQL
13 24 (1.06%) Bash
14 20 (0.88%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.80%) COBOL
16 17 (0.75%) C++
17 16 (0.71%) Korn
18 14 (0.62%) JCL
19 13 (0.57%) Perl
19 13 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 213 (9.42%) Degree
2 112 (4.95%) Security Cleared
3 68 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 67 (2.96%) SC Cleared
5 59 (2.61%) Master's Degree
6 51 (2.26%) PMP
7 50 (2.21%) PMI Certification
8 43 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 35 (1.55%) CISSP
10 29 (1.28%) Azure Certification
11 18 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (0.75%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.75%) MBA
13 15 (0.66%) CISM
13 15 (0.66%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.53%) CBAP
14 12 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.44%) PhD
16 9 (0.40%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (5.93%) QA
2 111 (4.91%) Data Quality
3 54 (2.39%) GDPR
4 52 (2.30%) ISO 20022
5 43 (1.90%) PMO
6 35 (1.55%) NIST
6 35 (1.55%) SLA
7 34 (1.50%) PSD2
8 32 (1.42%) PCI DSS
9 31 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 30 (1.33%) GRC
10 30 (1.33%) SEPA
11 24 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 21 (0.93%) Accessibility
13 19 (0.84%) Basel III
14 18 (0.80%) MiFID
15 15 (0.66%) ISO 8583
16 12 (0.53%) IFRS
17 8 (0.35%) EMIR
18 7 (0.31%) GAAP
System Software
1 125 (5.53%) Docker
2 46 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 43 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (0.84%) Firmware
6 13 (0.57%) vSphere
7 12 (0.53%) NFS
8 9 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.31%) RACF
10 5 (0.22%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.18%) ACF2
11 4 (0.18%) Varnish
11 4 (0.18%) XenApp
12 3 (0.13%) Postfix
12 3 (0.13%) Sendmail
12 3 (0.13%) SRDF
12 3 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
12 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
13 2 (0.088%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 169 (7.47%) Kubernetes
2 85 (3.76%) Terraform
3 67 (2.96%) Ansible
4 34 (1.50%) Grafana
5 27 (1.19%) SCCM
6 25 (1.11%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.88%) Argo
7 20 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (0.44%) Control-M
9 9 (0.40%) Istio
10 8 (0.35%) Puppet
10 8 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.31%) WSUS
12 6 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
12 6 (0.27%) RSA Archer
12 6 (0.27%) SnapMirror
12 6 (0.27%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.22%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.18%) NetBackup
15 3 (0.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 278 (12.30%) Microsoft
2 160 (7.08%) Oracle
3 81 (3.58%) ServiceNow
4 69 (3.05%) Google
5 59 (2.61%) IBM
6 58 (2.57%) Cisco
6 58 (2.57%) SAP
7 52 (2.30%) VMware
8 51 (2.26%) Citrix
9 49 (2.17%) F5
10 45 (1.99%) Splunk
11 30 (1.33%) Bloomberg
12 29 (1.28%) Temenos
13 28 (1.24%) HP
13 28 (1.24%) Remedy
14 27 (1.19%) Murex
15 26 (1.15%) Pega
16 24 (1.06%) Avaloq
16 24 (1.06%) Databricks
16 24 (1.06%) NetApp