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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 24 25
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,231 1,881 2,288
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.53% 7.80% 6.26%
As % of the General category 10.21% 12.15% 10.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,354 1,250 1,690
10th Percentile £378 £358 £387
25th Percentile £447 £450 £500
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 £785 £860 £851
UK median daily rate £525 £599 £615
% change year-on-year -12.32% -2.64% -5.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 22
10th Percentile - £17.10 £12.08
25th Percentile £17.00 £19.45 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £23.47 £19.28
Median % change year-on-year +9.82% +21.74% -8.21%
75th Percentile £95.00 £24.66 £25.44
90th Percentile £97.63 £48.98 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £22.27 £19.05
% change year-on-year +15.72% +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 21,859 15,486 21,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.22% 64.21% 58.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,538 10,031 13,702
10th Percentile £306 £300 £280
25th Percentile £410 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.51% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.37% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,442 661 1,781
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.85 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.58 £27.25 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.22% -10.66% -6.15%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.30 £30.16
% change year-on-year +9.89% -9.48% -10.82%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -9 1,528 £575 -11.54% 443
North of England +4 476 £472 +5.65% 92
North West +14 263 £447 +5.18% 49
Yorkshire -6 208 £500 - 37
Midlands +4 177 £494 +6.13% 40
West Midlands +19 126 £565 +1.80% 24
East Midlands -19 51 £465 +17.57% 16
South East -35 40 £520 -9.57% 111
South West -33 34 £500 -4.76% 18
East of England -26 13 £600 - 7
North East -12 10 £400 -4.76% 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
1 166 (7.44%) Confluence
2 49 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.08%) SAS
4 18 (0.81%) IIS
5 15 (0.67%) Apache Spark
6 13 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 11 (0.49%) Apache
8 10 (0.45%) CICS
8 10 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.36%) 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%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.090%) Appian
12 2 (0.090%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.090%) CMS
12 2 (0.090%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.090%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 128 (5.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 42 (1.88%) MS Visio
4 27 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.22%) Notion
7 2 (0.090%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.090%) InVision
7 2 (0.090%) Sketch
7 2 (0.090%) UserZoom
8 1 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 28 (1.26%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.12%) Oracle Payables
3 23 (1.03%) Oracle Receivables
4 20 (0.90%) Temenos T24
5 18 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
5 18 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
6 16 (0.72%) Loan IQ
6 16 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 12 (0.54%) Finacle
8 9 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
8 9 (0.40%) SAP FI
9 8 (0.36%) Actimize
9 8 (0.36%) Aladdin
9 8 (0.36%) SAP CO
9 8 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
9 8 (0.36%) Summit
10 7 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
11 6 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 5 (0.22%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 351 (15.73%) Azure
2 312 (13.98%) AWS
3 154 (6.90%) GCP
4 113 (5.06%) Power Platform
5 89 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
6 75 (3.36%) GitHub
7 57 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (2.38%) SaaS
9 38 (1.70%) Figma
10 31 (1.39%) OpenShift
10 31 (1.39%) Serverless
11 30 (1.34%) Entra ID
12 29 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
12 29 (1.30%) Snowflake
13 27 (1.21%) Amazon S3
14 24 (1.08%) OCI
14 24 (1.08%) Power Automate
15 20 (0.90%) PaaS
15 20 (0.90%) PowerApps
16 19 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 72 (3.23%) DNS
2 53 (2.38%) VPN
3 49 (2.20%) Firewall
4 39 (1.75%) Network Security
4 39 (1.75%) TCP/IP
5 38 (1.70%) HTTP
6 29 (1.30%) Multicast
7 27 (1.21%) BGP
8 25 (1.12%) SSL
9 24 (1.08%) BIG-IP
9 24 (1.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 23 (1.03%) DMZ
11 22 (0.99%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 22 (0.99%) SAN
11 22 (0.99%) Wireshark
12 21 (0.94%) FIX Connectivity
13 15 (0.67%) NetScaler
14 14 (0.63%) DHCP
15 10 (0.45%) Internet
15 10 (0.45%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 91 (4.08%) Power BI
3 54 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (2.42%) Metadata
4 51 (2.29%) Tableau
5 45 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
6 41 (1.84%) Oracle Database
7 36 (1.61%) Relational Database
8 33 (1.48%) MongoDB
9 28 (1.26%) NoSQL
10 23 (1.03%) Big Data
11 21 (0.94%) BigQuery
12 20 (0.90%) DB2
13 16 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (0.67%) Data Lake
15 13 (0.58%) Pinecone
15 13 (0.58%) Power Query
15 13 (0.58%) Weaviate
16 12 (0.54%) DataStage
17 11 (0.49%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 251 (11.25%) JIRA
2 96 (4.30%) Jenkins
3 82 (3.68%) Git
4 57 (2.55%) GitLab
5 29 (1.30%) JUnit
6 22 (0.99%) Selenium
7 19 (0.85%) Fiddler
8 16 (0.72%) Bitbucket
8 16 (0.72%) Cucumber
9 15 (0.67%) TeamCity
10 14 (0.63%) Maven
10 14 (0.63%) Postman
11 13 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
12 12 (0.54%) REST Assured
12 12 (0.54%) SonarQube
13 10 (0.45%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.45%) Mockito
14 9 (0.40%) Gradle
15 8 (0.36%) Appium
15 8 (0.36%) MLflow
General
1 1,374 (61.59%) Finance
2 624 (27.97%) Social Skills
3 455 (20.39%) Investment Banking
4 314 (14.07%) Analytical Skills
5 174 (7.80%) Front Office
6 107 (4.80%) Financial Institution
7 103 (4.62%) Retail Banking
8 85 (3.81%) Corporate Banking
9 81 (3.63%) Retail
10 66 (2.96%) Legal
11 62 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
12 53 (2.38%) Public Sector
13 37 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
15 35 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
16 27 (1.21%) General Ledger
16 27 (1.21%) Marketing
17 22 (0.99%) Back Office
18 20 (0.90%) Private Banking
19 19 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 369 (16.54%) Analyst
1 369 (16.54%) Developer
2 291 (13.04%) Senior
3 265 (11.88%) Architect
4 257 (11.52%) Business Analyst
5 168 (7.53%) Lead
6 125 (5.60%) Solutions Architect
7 109 (4.89%) Java Developer
8 101 (4.53%) Project Manager
9 90 (4.03%) Banking Analyst
10 86 (3.85%) Senior Developer
11 81 (3.63%) Consultant
12 80 (3.59%) Data Engineer
13 61 (2.73%) Banking Business Analyst
14 58 (2.60%) Payments Architect
15 55 (2.47%) Network Engineer
16 53 (2.38%) Payments Solutions Architect
17 51 (2.29%) Designer
18 49 (2.20%) C# Developer
19 42 (1.88%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (4.80%) Kafka
2 105 (4.71%) .NET
3 89 (3.99%) React
4 76 (3.41%) Middleware
5 75 (3.36%) Spring
6 68 (3.05%) REST
7 63 (2.82%) Spring Boot
8 60 (2.69%) HTML
9 57 (2.55%) RESTful
10 47 (2.11%) CSS
11 40 (1.79%) AngularJS
12 39 (1.75%) OAuth
13 36 (1.61%) XML
14 35 (1.57%) JSON
15 34 (1.52%) FIX Protocol
16 29 (1.30%) OAuth2
17 25 (1.12%) HTML5
18 24 (1.08%) Node.js
19 23 (1.03%) Redux
20 21 (0.94%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 159 (7.13%) Product Ownership
2 116 (5.20%) Derivative
3 105 (4.71%) Onboarding
4 102 (4.57%) Cloud Native
5 93 (4.17%) Management Information System
6 89 (3.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 75 (3.36%) Data Protection Act
8 67 (3.00%) Fixed Income
9 63 (2.82%) Data Structures
10 60 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
11 56 (2.51%) Equities
12 47 (2.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 44 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
14 42 (1.88%) Data Centre
15 38 (1.70%) Credit Risk
15 38 (1.70%) Market Risk
16 35 (1.57%) Mainframe
17 31 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
18 30 (1.34%) Public Cloud
19 29 (1.30%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 132 (5.92%) Windows
2 99 (4.44%) Linux
3 69 (3.09%) Unix
4 29 (1.30%) Windows 10
5 23 (1.03%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.99%) Android
7 20 (0.90%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.90%) zOS
8 16 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.40%) AIX
10 7 (0.31%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
11 6 (0.27%) Solaris
11 6 (0.27%) VMS
11 6 (0.27%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
12 5 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.18%) HPUX
13 4 (0.18%) SUSE
14 3 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 543 (24.34%) Agile
2 408 (18.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 344 (15.42%) Problem-Solving
4 305 (13.67%) CI/CD
5 289 (12.95%) DevOps
6 249 (11.16%) Migration
7 247 (11.07%) AI
8 192 (8.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 191 (8.56%) Analytics
10 183 (8.20%) Decision-Making
11 180 (8.07%) Roadmaps
12 179 (8.02%) Data Modelling
13 171 (7.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 170 (7.62%) Microservices
15 161 (7.22%) Risk Management
16 159 (7.13%) Validation
17 149 (6.68%) User Acceptance Testing
18 144 (6.45%) Test Automation
19 137 (6.14%) Project Management
20 135 (6.05%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 375 (16.81%) SQL
2 316 (14.16%) Python
3 288 (12.91%) Java
4 140 (6.28%) C#
5 102 (4.57%) JavaScript
6 70 (3.14%) TypeScript
7 56 (2.51%) PowerShell
8 47 (2.11%) PL/SQL
9 34 (1.52%) Shell Script
10 33 (1.48%) T-SQL
11 28 (1.26%) Bash
12 25 (1.12%) Go
13 24 (1.08%) VBA
14 22 (0.99%) C++
15 21 (0.94%) Kotlin
16 16 (0.72%) COBOL
16 16 (0.72%) Korn
17 15 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 13 (0.58%) JCL
18 13 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 194 (8.70%) Degree
2 104 (4.66%) Security Cleared
3 65 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 64 (2.87%) SC Cleared
5 51 (2.29%) Master's Degree
5 51 (2.29%) PMP
6 49 (2.20%) PMI Certification
7 40 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 34 (1.52%) CISSP
9 27 (1.21%) Azure Certification
10 22 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (0.76%) AWS Certification
12 16 (0.72%) CISM
12 16 (0.72%) MBA
13 13 (0.58%) CBAP
13 13 (0.58%) ISTQB
14 10 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 10 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (0.40%) CCSP
16 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (5.74%) QA
2 120 (5.38%) Data Quality
3 51 (2.29%) GDPR
3 51 (2.29%) ISO 20022
4 49 (2.20%) PMO
5 37 (1.66%) PSD2
6 36 (1.61%) SLA
7 33 (1.48%) NIST
7 33 (1.48%) SEPA
8 31 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 30 (1.34%) PCI DSS
10 28 (1.26%) GRC
11 24 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 20 (0.90%) MiFID
13 19 (0.85%) Accessibility
14 16 (0.72%) Basel III
15 15 (0.67%) ISO 8583
16 11 (0.49%) IFRS
17 8 (0.36%) EMIR
18 7 (0.31%) COREP
System Software
1 126 (5.65%) Docker
2 46 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.85%) Firmware
5 14 (0.63%) NFS
6 13 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.58%) vSphere
7 9 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.22%) RACF
8 5 (0.22%) Varnish
8 5 (0.22%) XenDesktop
9 4 (0.18%) Postfix
9 4 (0.18%) Sendmail
9 4 (0.18%) XenApp
10 3 (0.13%) SRDF
10 3 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.090%) ACF2
11 2 (0.090%) GPFS
11 2 (0.090%) GridGain
12 1 (0.045%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 166 (7.44%) Kubernetes
2 85 (3.81%) Terraform
3 66 (2.96%) Ansible
4 32 (1.43%) Grafana
5 24 (1.08%) Prometheus
6 22 (0.99%) SCCM
7 19 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (0.76%) Argo
9 10 (0.45%) Control-M
9 10 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.36%) Puppet
11 7 (0.31%) Istio
12 6 (0.27%) SnapMirror
13 5 (0.22%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
13 5 (0.22%) NetBackup
13 5 (0.22%) WSUS
14 4 (0.18%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.18%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 265 (11.88%) Microsoft
2 163 (7.31%) Oracle
3 77 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 63 (2.82%) Google
5 57 (2.55%) SAP
6 55 (2.47%) Cisco
7 54 (2.42%) IBM
8 53 (2.38%) F5
9 48 (2.15%) VMware
10 46 (2.06%) Splunk
11 45 (2.02%) Citrix
12 33 (1.48%) Databricks
13 29 (1.30%) Temenos
14 27 (1.21%) Murex
15 26 (1.17%) NetApp
15 26 (1.17%) Pega
16 25 (1.12%) Avaloq
16 25 (1.12%) Bloomberg
17 23 (1.03%) Workday
18 22 (0.99%) Remedy