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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,695 2,218 2,479
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.89% 8.05% 7.47%
As % of the General category 10.65% 12.50% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,645 1,532 1,763
10th Percentile £400 £350 £400
25th Percentile £456 £415 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £554 £625
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% -11.44% -
75th Percentile £676 £725 £800
90th Percentile £813 £825 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 33 14
10th Percentile £16.63 £18.18 £13.98
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.66 £14.50
Median hourly rate £18.60 £25.15 £17.14
Median % change year-on-year -26.06% +46.78% -4.70%
75th Percentile £33.70 - £27.00
90th Percentile £96.88 £66.50 £59.33
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 25,315 17,741 19,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.31% 64.40% 57.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,000 11,277 12,084
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £423 £400 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -6.88% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £651
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 2,050 984 1,107
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.50 £14.06
25th Percentile £17.50 £16.32 £17.47
Median hourly rate £31.93 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +26.94% -34.02% +33.38%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.85 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £31.16 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +23.88% -28.14% +27.27%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 28 August 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 1,945 £600 -4.00% 1,288
North of England -8 513 £500 +14.29% 120
North West -5 266 £500 +16.28% 62
Yorkshire -8 237 £500 +11.11% 47
Midlands -28 144 £511 +18.03% 48
West Midlands +2 108 £525 -1.18% 28
South West -31 39 £575 +9.52% 105
South East -45 38 £515 +16.06% 153
East of England +15 37 £600 - 8
East Midlands -41 36 £478 +18.91% 20
North East -32 13 £875 +108.33% 11
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 (6.01%) Confluence
2 63 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 26 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (0.96%) Apache Spark
4 22 (0.82%) Apache
5 21 (0.78%) SAS
6 15 (0.56%) Camunda
6 15 (0.56%) IIS
7 10 (0.37%) Appian
8 9 (0.33%) CICS
9 8 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.15%) MTS
12 4 (0.15%) WordPress
13 3 (0.11%) CMS
13 3 (0.11%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.11%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 105 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (1.15%) MS Visio
5 23 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Sketch
8 3 (0.11%) Trello
9 2 (0.074%) EngageOne
9 2 (0.074%) InVision
9 2 (0.074%) Notion
10 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.037%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 20 (0.74%) Temenos T24
2 18 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
3 17 (0.63%) Finacle
4 16 (0.59%) Oracle Receivables
5 15 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
6 14 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
7 13 (0.48%) Aladdin
8 12 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
9 11 (0.41%) Loan IQ
10 10 (0.37%) FLEXCUBE
11 9 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
12 8 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
13 7 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
13 7 (0.26%) OpenText MBPM
14 6 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
14 6 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
14 6 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
15 5 (0.19%) Actimize
15 5 (0.19%) NetSuite
15 5 (0.19%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 409 (15.18%) Azure
2 353 (13.10%) AWS
3 167 (6.20%) GCP
4 148 (5.49%) Power Platform
5 82 (3.04%) GitHub
6 81 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
6 81 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
7 73 (2.71%) SaaS
7 73 (2.71%) Snowflake
8 53 (1.97%) Entra ID
9 43 (1.60%) OpenShift
10 39 (1.45%) Amazon S3
11 36 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
12 35 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
13 34 (1.26%) Serverless
14 26 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
14 26 (0.96%) Figma
15 24 (0.89%) Microsoft Copilot
15 24 (0.89%) Power Automate
16 21 (0.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 82 (3.04%) Firewall
2 68 (2.52%) VPN
3 65 (2.41%) DNS
4 59 (2.19%) Network Security
5 44 (1.63%) TCP/IP
6 32 (1.19%) SSL
7 31 (1.15%) Multicast
8 29 (1.08%) BGP
9 24 (0.89%) HTTP
10 21 (0.78%) BIG-IP
10 21 (0.78%) DMZ
11 19 (0.71%) WAN
12 18 (0.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 18 (0.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 17 (0.63%) SAN
13 17 (0.63%) Wireshark
14 16 (0.59%) DHCP
14 16 (0.59%) LAN
15 15 (0.56%) FIX Connectivity
16 10 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (4.71%) SQL Server
2 124 (4.60%) Power BI
3 90 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
4 73 (2.71%) Metadata
5 71 (2.63%) Relational Database
6 45 (1.67%) Oracle Database
7 43 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (1.34%) Data Lake
9 35 (1.30%) Tableau
10 31 (1.15%) MongoDB
11 24 (0.89%) Db2
12 23 (0.85%) Big Data
13 20 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
13 20 (0.74%) RDBMS
14 19 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 18 (0.67%) NoSQL
16 17 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
16 17 (0.63%) Data Vault
17 15 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
18 14 (0.52%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 276 (10.24%) JIRA
2 125 (4.64%) Git
3 107 (3.97%) Jenkins
4 65 (2.41%) GitLab
5 40 (1.48%) Selenium
6 37 (1.37%) JUnit
7 22 (0.82%) Maven
8 21 (0.78%) Gradle
8 21 (0.78%) SonarQube
9 20 (0.74%) REST Assured
10 19 (0.71%) Bitbucket
10 19 (0.71%) Mockito
10 19 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
11 18 (0.67%) Cucumber
12 16 (0.59%) ER Studio
12 16 (0.59%) ERwin
13 15 (0.56%) Fiddler
13 15 (0.56%) Postman
13 15 (0.56%) TeamCity
14 12 (0.45%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,750 (64.94%) Finance
2 755 (28.01%) Social Skills
3 542 (20.11%) Investment Banking
4 395 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
5 241 (8.94%) Front Office
6 134 (4.97%) Financial Institution
7 119 (4.42%) Retail
8 112 (4.16%) Retail Banking
9 91 (3.38%) Corporate Banking
10 82 (3.04%) Legal
11 65 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
12 62 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
13 60 (2.23%) Private Banking
14 52 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
15 47 (1.74%) Back Office
16 36 (1.34%) Public Sector
17 31 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
18 30 (1.11%) General Ledger
18 30 (1.11%) Marketing
19 26 (0.96%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 462 (17.14%) Developer
2 398 (14.77%) Analyst
3 363 (13.47%) Senior
4 281 (10.43%) Architect
5 256 (9.50%) Lead
6 241 (8.94%) Business Analyst
7 152 (5.64%) Java Developer
8 122 (4.53%) Project Manager
9 103 (3.82%) Senior Developer
10 102 (3.78%) Data Engineer
11 91 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
12 90 (3.34%) Consultant
13 80 (2.97%) Banking Analyst
14 69 (2.56%) Software Engineer
15 62 (2.30%) Network Engineer
16 60 (2.23%) Data Analyst
17 56 (2.08%) Designer
17 56 (2.08%) Senior Java Developer
18 52 (1.93%) Java Engineer
19 48 (1.78%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (5.16%) React
2 127 (4.71%) Kafka
3 123 (4.56%) .NET
4 108 (4.01%) REST
5 94 (3.49%) Terraform
6 93 (3.45%) Spring
7 90 (3.34%) Spring Boot
8 86 (3.19%) Middleware
9 59 (2.19%) Redux
10 44 (1.63%) RESTful
11 43 (1.60%) HTML
12 41 (1.52%) FIX Protocol
13 40 (1.48%) CSS
14 39 (1.45%) PySpark
15 34 (1.26%) JSON
15 34 (1.26%) OAuth
16 32 (1.19%) XML
17 31 (1.15%) AngularJS
18 26 (0.96%) Node.js
18 26 (0.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 219 (8.13%) Product Ownership
2 180 (6.68%) Onboarding
3 154 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 137 (5.08%) Derivative
5 124 (4.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 100 (3.71%) Fixed Income
7 88 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
8 85 (3.15%) Equities
9 81 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
10 77 (2.86%) Management Information System
11 76 (2.82%) Data Structures
12 69 (2.56%) AI Agents
13 58 (2.15%) Credit Risk
13 58 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
14 54 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
15 52 (1.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 51 (1.89%) Mainframe
17 49 (1.82%) Data Centre
18 45 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
19 41 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 153 (5.68%) Linux
2 151 (5.60%) Windows
3 92 (3.41%) Unix
4 41 (1.52%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 26 (0.96%) zOS
7 24 (0.89%) Apple iOS
8 21 (0.78%) Android
9 16 (0.59%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.41%) AIX
10 11 (0.41%) Windows 10
11 8 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
11 8 (0.30%) Solaris
12 6 (0.22%) HPUX
12 6 (0.22%) SUSE
13 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.11%) CentOS
14 3 (0.11%) MVS
14 3 (0.11%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 652 (24.19%) Agile
2 629 (23.34%) Stakeholder Management
3 407 (15.10%) CI/CD
4 402 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
5 373 (13.84%) AI
6 333 (12.36%) DevOps
7 313 (11.61%) Migration
8 298 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 259 (9.61%) Analytics
10 236 (8.76%) Roadmaps
11 234 (8.68%) Data Modelling
12 204 (7.57%) Microservices
13 202 (7.50%) Software Engineering
14 198 (7.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 197 (7.31%) Decision-Making
15 197 (7.31%) Validation
16 185 (6.86%) User Acceptance Testing
17 179 (6.64%) Change Management
18 175 (6.49%) Test Automation
19 172 (6.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 475 (17.63%) SQL
2 382 (14.17%) Python
3 360 (13.36%) Java
4 178 (6.60%) C#
5 135 (5.01%) JavaScript
6 109 (4.04%) TypeScript
7 87 (3.23%) PowerShell
8 72 (2.67%) PL/SQL
9 53 (1.97%) Bash
10 50 (1.86%) Shell Script
11 44 (1.63%) Kotlin
12 38 (1.41%) T-SQL
13 35 (1.30%) C++
14 26 (0.96%) Korn
15 22 (0.82%) VBA
16 15 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 14 (0.52%) Go
18 11 (0.41%) JCL
19 10 (0.37%) Apex Code
19 10 (0.37%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 188 (6.98%) Degree
2 133 (4.94%) Security Cleared
3 105 (3.90%) SC Cleared
4 63 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 49 (1.82%) PMP
6 45 (1.67%) PMI Certification
7 37 (1.37%) CISSP
8 33 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
9 28 (1.04%) Azure Certification
10 23 (0.85%) AWS Certification
11 21 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
12 18 (0.67%) ISTQB
12 18 (0.67%) Master's Degree
13 17 (0.63%) CISM
14 16 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 16 (0.59%) ACCA
15 13 (0.48%) CCSP
15 13 (0.48%) CIMA
16 12 (0.45%) CCNP
17 9 (0.33%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (6.01%) Data Quality
2 139 (5.16%) QA
3 59 (2.19%) PMO
4 45 (1.67%) ISO 20022
5 40 (1.48%) GRC
6 35 (1.30%) NIST
7 34 (1.26%) GDPR
8 31 (1.15%) SEPA
9 26 (0.96%) SLA
10 24 (0.89%) Accessibility
10 24 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 21 (0.78%) PSD2
12 20 (0.74%) MiFID
13 15 (0.56%) IFRS
14 13 (0.48%) PCI DSS
14 13 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 12 (0.45%) EMIR
16 7 (0.26%) COREP
16 7 (0.26%) FINREP
17 6 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 112 (4.16%) Docker
2 71 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.74%) RACF
5 15 (0.56%) Firmware
6 12 (0.45%) vSphere
7 11 (0.41%) NFS
8 9 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.19%) ACF2
9 5 (0.19%) Varnish
9 5 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.15%) Postfix
11 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.11%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.11%) XenApp
11 3 (0.11%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.074%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.074%) GPFS
12 2 (0.074%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 163 (6.05%) Kubernetes
2 77 (2.86%) Ansible
3 29 (1.08%) Prometheus
4 28 (1.04%) Grafana
5 17 (0.63%) Control-M
5 17 (0.63%) SCCM
5 17 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (0.56%) OMEGAMON
7 12 (0.45%) Istio
8 11 (0.41%) Argo
9 10 (0.37%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
11 6 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.22%) WSUS
12 5 (0.19%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.19%) systemd
12 5 (0.19%) vRealize
13 4 (0.15%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 305 (11.32%) Microsoft
2 212 (7.87%) Oracle
3 103 (3.82%) IBM
4 88 (3.27%) Databricks
4 88 (3.27%) ServiceNow
5 59 (2.19%) Cisco
6 54 (2.00%) Salesforce
7 52 (1.93%) SAP
8 51 (1.89%) Google
9 49 (1.82%) Splunk
10 45 (1.67%) F5
11 40 (1.48%) Citrix
12 39 (1.45%) VMware
13 36 (1.34%) CyberArk
14 34 (1.26%) OpenAI
15 29 (1.08%) Murex
16 27 (1.00%) Bloomberg
17 24 (0.89%) Avaloq
17 24 (0.89%) Dynatrace
18 23 (0.85%) NetApp