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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 24 25
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,271 1,889 2,279
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.63% 7.76% 6.12%
As % of the General category 10.23% 12.13% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,368 1,250 1,670
10th Percentile £368 £362 £385
25th Percentile £438 £463 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £775
90th Percentile £788 £863 £851
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £616
% change year-on-year -12.50% -2.64% -5.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 18 23
10th Percentile - £17.10 £12.17
25th Percentile £17.00 £19.45 £17.99
Median hourly rate £25.77 £23.47 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.82% +20.33% -7.14%
75th Percentile £76.25 £24.66 £35.25
90th Percentile £97.25 £48.98 £81.15
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £22.27 £19.50
% change year-on-year +15.72% +14.21% -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 22,204 15,579 21,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.07% 64.03% 58.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,889 10,118 14,023
10th Percentile £305 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -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 1,450 673 1,785
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.06 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.26 £17.33 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.38 £28.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.50% -6.67% -11.53%
75th Percentile £62.75 £58.37 £51.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £29.02 £28.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +3.64% -6.67% -14.29%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -11 1,564 £575 -11.54% 286
North of England 0 475 £465 +3.33% 69
North West +11 268 £447 +2.46% 43
Yorkshire -7 202 £500 - 23
Midlands +7 177 £468 -14.22% 27
West Midlands +9 122 £565 +0.27% 19
East Midlands -9 55 £428 +9.62% 8
South East -37 39 £500 -13.04% 71
South West -35 34 £500 -11.11% 11
East of England -33 15 £500 -16.67% 3
North East -8 11 £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
1 174 (7.66%) Confluence
2 50 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.10%) SAS
4 21 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 17 (0.75%) IIS
6 13 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.53%) CICS
8 11 (0.48%) Apache
8 11 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.22%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.22%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.13%) Camunda
11 3 (0.13%) CMS
11 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.088%) Appian
12 2 (0.088%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.088%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 137 (6.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (1.89%) MS Visio
5 30 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.53%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.22%) Notion
8 2 (0.088%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.088%) InVision
8 2 (0.088%) Sketch
8 2 (0.088%) Trello
8 2 (0.088%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.044%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 30 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
2 24 (1.06%) Oracle Payables
3 22 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
4 21 (0.92%) Temenos T24
5 19 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
6 17 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
7 16 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 15 (0.66%) Loan IQ
9 12 (0.53%) Finacle
10 10 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
10 10 (0.44%) SAP FI
11 9 (0.40%) Aladdin
11 9 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
12 8 (0.35%) Actimize
12 8 (0.35%) SAP CO
12 8 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
12 8 (0.35%) Summit
13 7 (0.31%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
14 6 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
14 6 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 350 (15.41%) Azure
2 307 (13.52%) AWS
3 154 (6.78%) GCP
4 118 (5.20%) Power Platform
5 103 (4.54%) Microsoft 365
6 76 (3.35%) GitHub
7 58 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
8 55 (2.42%) SaaS
9 40 (1.76%) Figma
10 37 (1.63%) Serverless
11 29 (1.28%) Entra ID
11 29 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
12 28 (1.23%) OpenShift
12 28 (1.23%) Snowflake
13 27 (1.19%) Amazon S3
14 25 (1.10%) OCI
14 25 (1.10%) Power Automate
15 22 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
16 21 (0.92%) Microsoft Copilot
16 21 (0.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 72 (3.17%) DNS
2 53 (2.33%) VPN
3 51 (2.25%) Firewall
4 42 (1.85%) HTTP
5 41 (1.81%) TCP/IP
6 34 (1.50%) Network Security
7 26 (1.14%) BGP
7 26 (1.14%) Multicast
8 25 (1.10%) DMZ
8 25 (1.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 24 (1.06%) BIG-IP
9 24 (1.06%) SSL
10 23 (1.01%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 22 (0.97%) SAN
12 21 (0.92%) FIX Connectivity
12 21 (0.92%) Wireshark
13 20 (0.88%) NetScaler
14 15 (0.66%) DHCP
15 11 (0.48%) Wireless
16 10 (0.44%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (4.23%) SQL Server
2 94 (4.14%) Power BI
3 56 (2.47%) Tableau
4 52 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
5 51 (2.25%) Metadata
6 45 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
7 43 (1.89%) Oracle Database
8 36 (1.59%) Relational Database
9 35 (1.54%) MongoDB
10 29 (1.28%) NoSQL
11 25 (1.10%) Big Data
12 22 (0.97%) DB2
13 21 (0.92%) BigQuery
14 16 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 14 (0.62%) Hadoop
16 13 (0.57%) Data Lake
17 12 (0.53%) Pinecone
17 12 (0.53%) RDBMS
17 12 (0.53%) Weaviate
18 11 (0.48%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 262 (11.54%) JIRA
2 97 (4.27%) Jenkins
3 87 (3.83%) Git
4 60 (2.64%) GitLab
5 28 (1.23%) JUnit
6 25 (1.10%) Selenium
7 21 (0.92%) Bitbucket
8 19 (0.84%) Fiddler
9 18 (0.79%) Cucumber
10 17 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
11 16 (0.70%) TeamCity
12 15 (0.66%) Postman
13 12 (0.53%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.53%) Maven
13 12 (0.53%) REST Assured
14 10 (0.44%) SonarQube
15 9 (0.40%) Mockito
16 8 (0.35%) Appium
16 8 (0.35%) Gradle
16 8 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,418 (62.44%) Finance
2 666 (29.33%) Social Skills
3 448 (19.73%) Investment Banking
4 323 (14.22%) Analytical Skills
5 178 (7.84%) Front Office
6 106 (4.67%) Financial Institution
7 93 (4.10%) Retail Banking
8 77 (3.39%) Corporate Banking
9 75 (3.30%) Retail
10 69 (3.04%) Legal
11 63 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
12 53 (2.33%) Public Sector
13 38 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
15 35 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
16 29 (1.28%) Marketing
17 26 (1.14%) General Ledger
18 24 (1.06%) Back Office
19 21 (0.92%) International Banking
19 21 (0.92%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 386 (17.00%) Analyst
2 376 (16.56%) Developer
3 291 (12.81%) Senior
4 272 (11.98%) Business Analyst
5 265 (11.67%) Architect
6 163 (7.18%) Lead
7 124 (5.46%) Solutions Architect
8 109 (4.80%) Project Manager
9 100 (4.40%) Java Developer
10 91 (4.01%) Banking Analyst
11 85 (3.74%) Senior Developer
12 79 (3.48%) Data Engineer
13 76 (3.35%) Consultant
14 62 (2.73%) Banking Business Analyst
15 59 (2.60%) Payments Architect
16 54 (2.38%) Network Engineer
17 53 (2.33%) Payments Solutions Architect
18 52 (2.29%) Designer
19 51 (2.25%) C# Developer
20 45 (1.98%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (4.84%) .NET
2 107 (4.71%) Kafka
3 81 (3.57%) React
4 72 (3.17%) Middleware
5 71 (3.13%) REST
6 68 (2.99%) Spring
7 61 (2.69%) HTML
8 60 (2.64%) Spring Boot
9 55 (2.42%) RESTful
10 45 (1.98%) CSS
11 44 (1.94%) OAuth
12 39 (1.72%) AngularJS
13 38 (1.67%) JSON
13 38 (1.67%) XML
14 33 (1.45%) OAuth2
15 31 (1.37%) FIX Protocol
16 27 (1.19%) Node.js
17 24 (1.06%) SOAP
18 23 (1.01%) HTML5
19 21 (0.92%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 150 (6.61%) Product Ownership
2 114 (5.02%) Derivative
3 106 (4.67%) Onboarding
4 97 (4.27%) Cloud Native
5 96 (4.23%) Management Information System
6 90 (3.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 78 (3.43%) Data Protection Act
8 66 (2.91%) Fixed Income
9 60 (2.64%) Data Structures
10 56 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
10 56 (2.47%) Equities
11 48 (2.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 45 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
13 42 (1.85%) Credit Risk
13 42 (1.85%) Data Centre
14 41 (1.81%) Market Risk
15 38 (1.67%) Mainframe
16 33 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
17 29 (1.28%) Public Cloud
18 28 (1.23%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 144 (6.34%) Windows
2 103 (4.54%) Linux
3 70 (3.08%) Unix
4 37 (1.63%) Windows 10
5 28 (1.23%) Android
6 24 (1.06%) Windows Server
7 21 (0.92%) Apple iOS
7 21 (0.92%) zOS
8 16 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (0.53%) Mac OS
10 11 (0.48%) AIX
11 7 (0.31%) VMS
12 6 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
12 6 (0.26%) Solaris
12 6 (0.26%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
14 4 (0.18%) HPUX
14 4 (0.18%) SUSE
14 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 560 (24.66%) Agile
2 412 (18.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 361 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
4 306 (13.47%) CI/CD
5 300 (13.21%) DevOps
6 246 (10.83%) Migration
7 240 (10.57%) AI
8 194 (8.54%) Analytics
9 188 (8.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 184 (8.10%) Roadmaps
11 181 (7.97%) Decision-Making
12 177 (7.79%) Data Modelling
13 175 (7.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 172 (7.57%) Risk Management
15 167 (7.35%) Validation
16 165 (7.27%) Microservices
17 162 (7.13%) User Acceptance Testing
18 150 (6.61%) Data Analysis
19 148 (6.52%) Project Management
20 145 (6.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 382 (16.82%) SQL
2 323 (14.22%) Python
3 287 (12.64%) Java
4 144 (6.34%) C#
5 97 (4.27%) JavaScript
6 65 (2.86%) TypeScript
7 61 (2.69%) PowerShell
8 43 (1.89%) PL/SQL
9 35 (1.54%) Shell Script
10 29 (1.28%) VBA
11 28 (1.23%) Go
11 28 (1.23%) T-SQL
12 24 (1.06%) Bash
13 22 (0.97%) Kotlin
14 19 (0.84%) COBOL
15 18 (0.79%) C++
15 18 (0.79%) Korn
16 16 (0.70%) JCL
17 14 (0.62%) Scala
18 13 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 208 (9.16%) Degree
2 109 (4.80%) Security Cleared
3 68 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 66 (2.91%) SC Cleared
5 56 (2.47%) Master's Degree
5 56 (2.47%) PMP
6 55 (2.42%) PMI Certification
7 41 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 35 (1.54%) CISSP
9 29 (1.28%) Azure Certification
10 19 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (0.79%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.75%) MBA
13 16 (0.70%) ISTQB
14 15 (0.66%) CISM
15 13 (0.57%) CBAP
16 11 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
17 10 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
18 9 (0.40%) ACCA
18 9 (0.40%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (5.86%) QA
2 122 (5.37%) Data Quality
3 56 (2.47%) GDPR
4 50 (2.20%) ISO 20022
5 43 (1.89%) PMO
6 35 (1.54%) PSD2
6 35 (1.54%) SLA
7 32 (1.41%) NIST
8 31 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 31 (1.37%) PCI DSS
9 30 (1.32%) SEPA
10 28 (1.23%) GRC
11 25 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 21 (0.92%) Accessibility
13 19 (0.84%) Basel III
14 17 (0.75%) MiFID
15 15 (0.66%) ISO 8583
16 12 (0.53%) IFRS
17 8 (0.35%) EMIR
18 7 (0.31%) COREP
System Software
1 124 (5.46%) Docker
2 45 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 41 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.88%) Firmware
5 19 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (0.62%) vSphere
7 13 (0.57%) NFS
8 9 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.26%) RACF
10 5 (0.22%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.18%) Varnish
11 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.18%) XenApp
12 3 (0.13%) ACF2
12 3 (0.13%) Postfix
12 3 (0.13%) Sendmail
12 3 (0.13%) SRDF
12 3 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
13 2 (0.088%) GPFS
13 2 (0.088%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 166 (7.31%) Kubernetes
2 85 (3.74%) Terraform
3 65 (2.86%) Ansible
4 33 (1.45%) Grafana
5 27 (1.19%) SCCM
6 24 (1.06%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (0.75%) Argo
9 10 (0.44%) Control-M
10 8 (0.35%) Istio
10 8 (0.35%) Puppet
10 8 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.31%) WSUS
12 6 (0.26%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.26%) RSA Archer
12 6 (0.26%) SnapMirror
13 5 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
13 5 (0.22%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.18%) CA Endevor
14 4 (0.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 278 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 166 (7.31%) Oracle
3 79 (3.48%) ServiceNow
4 69 (3.04%) Google
5 62 (2.73%) IBM
6 61 (2.69%) Cisco
7 56 (2.47%) SAP
8 53 (2.33%) F5
9 51 (2.25%) Citrix
10 50 (2.20%) VMware
11 44 (1.94%) Splunk
12 29 (1.28%) Bloomberg
12 29 (1.28%) Temenos
13 28 (1.23%) Databricks
13 28 (1.23%) HP
13 28 (1.23%) Murex
14 26 (1.14%) Pega
15 25 (1.10%) NetApp
15 25 (1.10%) Remedy
16 24 (1.06%) Avaloq