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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 23 24
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,747 2,212 2,466
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.95% 7.97% 7.49%
As % of the General category 10.68% 12.37% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,687 1,508 1,717
10th Percentile £400 £350 £405
25th Percentile £456 £415 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £680 £725 £788
90th Percentile £823 £825 £879
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £613
% change year-on-year - -10.20% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 33 13
10th Percentile £16.48 £18.18 £13.90
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.66 £14.50
Median hourly rate £18.60 £25.15 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.06% +57.19% -11.01%
75th Percentile £23.81 - £27.00
90th Percentile £97.13 £77.00 £61.55
UK median hourly rate £18.42 £25.15 £16.00
% change year-on-year -26.78% +57.19% -13.51%

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 25,730 17,888 19,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.70% 64.47% 58.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,172 11,324 11,787
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £423 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,169 1,012 1,006
10th Percentile £13.65 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.11 £16.17 £17.63
Median hourly rate £31.10 £25.15 £38.68
Median % change year-on-year +23.66% -34.97% +40.64%
75th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £71.48 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £29.98 £25.15 £37.39
% change year-on-year +19.20% -32.74% +35.96%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -8 2,001 £592 -5.28% 1,892
North of England -6 516 £500 +14.29% 174
North West -7 262 £500 +17.65% 93
Yorkshire -6 245 £508 +12.78% 67
Midlands -28 138 £519 +17.51% 80
West Midlands +2 104 £550 +2.33% 44
East of England +15 39 £560 -20.00% 14
South West -46 37 £563 +7.14% 88
South East -51 36 £525 +21.74% 165
East Midlands -41 34 £478 +18.76% 36
North East -35 13 £875 +108.33% 14
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
1 162 (5.90%) Confluence
2 67 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 27 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.84%) Apache
5 20 (0.73%) SAS
6 16 (0.58%) Camunda
7 14 (0.51%) IIS
8 11 (0.40%) CICS
9 10 (0.36%) Appian
10 9 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 8 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
12 6 (0.22%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 5 (0.18%) MTS
14 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
14 4 (0.15%) WordPress
15 3 (0.11%) Hyperledger
15 3 (0.11%) MQSeries
Applications
1 103 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.09%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Trello
9 2 (0.073%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.073%) EngageOne
9 2 (0.073%) Notion
9 2 (0.073%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.073%) Sketch
10 1 (0.036%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.036%) InVision
10 1 (0.036%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 19 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
2 18 (0.66%) Finacle
2 18 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
3 16 (0.58%) Temenos T24
4 15 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
5 14 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
6 13 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
6 13 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
7 10 (0.36%) Aladdin
7 10 (0.36%) FLEXCUBE
8 8 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
8 8 (0.29%) Loan IQ
8 8 (0.29%) Oracle BPM
8 8 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
9 7 (0.25%) OpenText MBPM
9 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
10 5 (0.18%) NetSuite
10 5 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
10 5 (0.18%) Oracle FAH
10 5 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 426 (15.51%) Azure
2 350 (12.74%) AWS
3 185 (6.73%) GCP
4 148 (5.39%) Power Platform
5 86 (3.13%) GitHub
6 83 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
7 81 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
8 71 (2.58%) Snowflake
9 70 (2.55%) SaaS
10 56 (2.04%) Entra ID
11 45 (1.64%) OpenShift
12 37 (1.35%) Amazon S3
13 35 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
13 35 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
14 33 (1.20%) Serverless
15 28 (1.02%) Microsoft Copilot
16 26 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
17 24 (0.87%) dbt
17 24 (0.87%) Power Automate
18 23 (0.84%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 88 (3.20%) Firewall
2 68 (2.48%) VPN
3 62 (2.26%) Network Security
4 58 (2.11%) DNS
5 39 (1.42%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.13%) Multicast
7 29 (1.06%) SSL
8 28 (1.02%) BGP
9 21 (0.76%) BIG-IP
9 21 (0.76%) HTTP
10 20 (0.73%) WAN
11 19 (0.69%) DMZ
12 18 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 18 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 16 (0.58%) Wireshark
14 15 (0.55%) DHCP
14 15 (0.55%) LAN
14 15 (0.55%) SAN
15 13 (0.47%) FIX Connectivity
16 10 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (4.66%) SQL Server
2 120 (4.37%) Power BI
3 90 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
4 77 (2.80%) Metadata
5 72 (2.62%) Relational Database
6 50 (1.82%) Oracle Database
7 48 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (1.31%) Data Lake
9 32 (1.16%) MongoDB
10 28 (1.02%) Tableau
11 25 (0.91%) Db2
12 24 (0.87%) Big Data
13 22 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 20 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
14 20 (0.73%) BigQuery
15 19 (0.69%) NoSQL
15 19 (0.69%) RDBMS
16 17 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
17 16 (0.58%) Data Vault
18 14 (0.51%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 285 (10.37%) JIRA
2 139 (5.06%) Git
3 112 (4.08%) Jenkins
4 65 (2.37%) GitLab
5 41 (1.49%) Selenium
6 39 (1.42%) JUnit
7 23 (0.84%) Maven
8 22 (0.80%) Gradle
8 22 (0.80%) SonarQube
9 21 (0.76%) REST Assured
10 20 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
11 19 (0.69%) Bitbucket
11 19 (0.69%) Cucumber
11 19 (0.69%) Mockito
12 15 (0.55%) ER Studio
12 15 (0.55%) ERwin
12 15 (0.55%) Postman
12 15 (0.55%) TeamCity
13 13 (0.47%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.47%) Fiddler
General
1 1,801 (65.56%) Finance
2 789 (28.72%) Social Skills
3 530 (19.29%) Investment Banking
4 406 (14.78%) Analytical Skills
5 247 (8.99%) Front Office
6 137 (4.99%) Financial Institution
7 119 (4.33%) Retail
8 114 (4.15%) Retail Banking
9 89 (3.24%) Corporate Banking
10 85 (3.09%) Legal
11 72 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
12 62 (2.26%) Private Banking
13 61 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
14 50 (1.82%) Back Office
15 48 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
16 36 (1.31%) Public Sector
17 33 (1.20%) General Ledger
18 31 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
19 30 (1.09%) Marketing
20 26 (0.95%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 468 (17.04%) Developer
2 405 (14.74%) Analyst
3 390 (14.20%) Senior
4 287 (10.45%) Architect
5 271 (9.87%) Lead
6 247 (8.99%) Business Analyst
7 154 (5.61%) Java Developer
8 130 (4.73%) Project Manager
9 103 (3.75%) Data Engineer
9 103 (3.75%) Senior Developer
10 95 (3.46%) Consultant
11 88 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
12 76 (2.77%) Banking Analyst
13 70 (2.55%) Software Engineer
14 62 (2.26%) Data Analyst
15 60 (2.18%) Network Engineer
16 55 (2.00%) Senior Java Developer
17 53 (1.93%) Java Engineer
18 52 (1.89%) Python Developer
19 50 (1.82%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (5.24%) React
2 139 (5.06%) Kafka
3 120 (4.37%) REST
4 116 (4.22%) .NET
5 101 (3.68%) Spring
6 99 (3.60%) Terraform
7 98 (3.57%) Spring Boot
8 85 (3.09%) Middleware
9 64 (2.33%) Redux
10 49 (1.78%) HTML
11 45 (1.64%) CSS
12 44 (1.60%) RESTful
13 39 (1.42%) FIX Protocol
14 37 (1.35%) PySpark
15 34 (1.24%) JSON
16 33 (1.20%) OAuth
17 32 (1.16%) XML
18 30 (1.09%) LangChain
19 28 (1.02%) AngularJS
19 28 (1.02%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 230 (8.37%) Product Ownership
2 181 (6.59%) Onboarding
3 170 (6.19%) Cloud Native
4 132 (4.81%) Derivative
5 126 (4.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 102 (3.71%) Fixed Income
7 92 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
8 85 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
9 80 (2.91%) Equities
10 77 (2.80%) AI Agents
11 76 (2.77%) Data Structures
12 75 (2.73%) Management Information System
13 63 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
14 62 (2.26%) Credit Risk
15 59 (2.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 56 (2.04%) Data Centre
17 54 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
18 53 (1.93%) Mainframe
19 49 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
20 46 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 153 (5.57%) Linux
2 148 (5.39%) Windows
3 95 (3.46%) Unix
4 40 (1.46%) Windows Server
5 28 (1.02%) zOS
6 26 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 23 (0.84%) Android
8 22 (0.80%) Apple iOS
9 16 (0.58%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.40%) AIX
11 9 (0.33%) Solaris
11 9 (0.33%) Windows 10
12 8 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
13 6 (0.22%) HPUX
13 6 (0.22%) SUSE
14 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.11%) CentOS
15 3 (0.11%) MVS
15 3 (0.11%) Windows 7
15 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 677 (24.65%) Stakeholder Management
2 667 (24.28%) Agile
3 434 (15.80%) CI/CD
4 411 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
5 401 (14.60%) AI
6 347 (12.63%) DevOps
7 337 (12.27%) Migration
8 304 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 262 (9.54%) Analytics
10 242 (8.81%) Roadmaps
11 234 (8.52%) Data Modelling
12 218 (7.94%) Validation
13 217 (7.90%) Microservices
14 212 (7.72%) Software Engineering
15 206 (7.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 202 (7.35%) Decision-Making
17 195 (7.10%) Change Management
18 190 (6.92%) User Acceptance Testing
19 183 (6.66%) Risk Management
20 182 (6.63%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 510 (18.57%) SQL
2 405 (14.74%) Python
3 373 (13.58%) Java
4 177 (6.44%) C#
5 141 (5.13%) JavaScript
6 114 (4.15%) TypeScript
7 88 (3.20%) PowerShell
8 75 (2.73%) PL/SQL
9 58 (2.11%) Bash
10 50 (1.82%) Shell Script
11 45 (1.64%) Kotlin
12 40 (1.46%) T-SQL
13 35 (1.27%) C++
14 27 (0.98%) Korn
15 22 (0.80%) VBA
16 15 (0.55%) Go
17 14 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 13 (0.47%) JCL
19 10 (0.36%) Apex Code
19 10 (0.36%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 191 (6.95%) Degree
2 136 (4.95%) Security Cleared
3 110 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 66 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (2.07%) PMP
6 52 (1.89%) PMI Certification
7 37 (1.35%) CISSP
8 29 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
9 28 (1.02%) Azure Certification
10 23 (0.84%) AWS Certification
11 22 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (0.69%) ISTQB
12 19 (0.69%) Master's Degree
13 18 (0.66%) ACCA
14 16 (0.58%) CISM
15 15 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 15 (0.55%) CIMA
16 13 (0.47%) CCNP
17 12 (0.44%) CCSP
18 9 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (6.37%) Data Quality
2 148 (5.39%) QA
3 60 (2.18%) PMO
4 53 (1.93%) ISO 20022
5 42 (1.53%) GRC
6 37 (1.35%) SEPA
7 34 (1.24%) NIST
8 31 (1.13%) GDPR
9 25 (0.91%) SLA
10 24 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 22 (0.80%) Accessibility
11 22 (0.80%) MiFID
11 22 (0.80%) PSD2
12 17 (0.62%) IFRS
13 13 (0.47%) EMIR
14 11 (0.40%) PCI DSS
14 11 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.25%) Basel III
15 7 (0.25%) COREP
15 7 (0.25%) FINREP
System Software
1 119 (4.33%) Docker
2 69 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.73%) RACF
5 13 (0.47%) Firmware
6 10 (0.36%) NFS
7 8 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.29%) vSphere
8 6 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.18%) ACF2
10 4 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 4 (0.15%) Varnish
11 3 (0.11%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.073%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.073%) GPFS
12 2 (0.073%) GridGain
12 2 (0.073%) Time Sharing Option
12 2 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 172 (6.26%) Kubernetes
2 77 (2.80%) Ansible
3 28 (1.02%) Grafana
3 28 (1.02%) Prometheus
4 20 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (0.69%) Control-M
6 15 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (0.55%) OMEGAMON
6 15 (0.55%) SCCM
7 12 (0.44%) Argo
7 12 (0.44%) Istio
8 9 (0.33%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
10 6 (0.22%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.22%) WSUS
11 5 (0.18%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.18%) systemd
12 4 (0.15%) CA Endevor
12 4 (0.15%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.15%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 306 (11.14%) Microsoft
2 221 (8.05%) Oracle
3 109 (3.97%) IBM
4 100 (3.64%) Databricks
5 90 (3.28%) ServiceNow
6 62 (2.26%) Cisco
7 54 (1.97%) Google
8 53 (1.93%) Salesforce
9 52 (1.89%) Splunk
10 50 (1.82%) SAP
11 43 (1.57%) F5
12 39 (1.42%) Citrix
13 38 (1.38%) OpenAI
14 36 (1.31%) CyberArk
15 34 (1.24%) VMware
16 30 (1.09%) Murex
17 29 (1.06%) Bloomberg
18 24 (0.87%) Avaloq
18 24 (0.87%) Dynatrace
19 22 (0.80%) Red Hat