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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -7
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,097 2,021 2,456
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.59% 7.50% 6.80%
As % of the General category 10.85% 12.07% 11.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,324 1,301 1,713
10th Percentile £358 £363 £398
25th Percentile £438 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.04% -5.77%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £750
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
UK median daily rate £535 £600 £612
% change year-on-year -10.83% -1.96% -5.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 11 16
10th Percentile £18.69 £14.75 £13.51
25th Percentile - £15.24 £16.18
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £18.99
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +17.27% -9.57%
75th Percentile £25.77 £25.76 £30.00
90th Percentile £61.32 £78.75 £41.88
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £23.21 £18.99
% change year-on-year +8.36% +22.22% -9.57%

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 19,332 16,749 21,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 60.72% 62.14% 59.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,324 10,117 14,284
10th Percentile £285 £296 £275
25th Percentile £402 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,193 556 1,098
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.51 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.68 £16.05
Median hourly rate £23.00 £30.00 £30.66
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% -2.16% +19.26%
75th Percentile £46.00 £56.26 £57.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.81 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £27.50 £30.48
% change year-on-year -16.38% -9.76% +21.90%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 16 January 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 -5 1,437 £600 -4.00% 247
North of England +7 444 £460 +0.27% 92
Yorkshire +4 229 £488 -11.36% 41
North West +10 223 £447 +5.18% 40
Midlands +20 172 £475 -13.64% 71
West Midlands +10 111 £540 -7.49% 34
East Midlands +12 63 £410 -8.89% 36
South East -25 47 £425 -20.93% 189
South West -7 32 £525 -14.29% 46
East of England -11 10 £400 -46.67% 47
North East -12 5 £400 - 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
1 149 (7.11%) Confluence
2 55 (2.62%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.19%) Apache
4 24 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.91%) Apache Spark
6 14 (0.67%) CMS
7 13 (0.62%) CICS
8 10 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.38%) IIS
9 8 (0.38%) MQSeries
9 8 (0.38%) Mule
10 7 (0.33%) HCL Notes
10 7 (0.33%) SAS
11 6 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 5 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
12 5 (0.24%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.14%) WebLogic
15 2 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 140 (6.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (3.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 47 (2.24%) MS Visio
4 25 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (1.00%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.24%) Adobe Captivate
8 3 (0.14%) Notion
8 3 (0.14%) Sketch
8 3 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.14%) Trello
9 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.048%) InVision
9 1 (0.048%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 25 (1.19%) Oracle Payables
2 21 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
3 20 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
4 16 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
5 15 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
6 13 (0.62%) Oracle General Ledger
7 11 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
8 10 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 9 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
9 9 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
9 9 (0.43%) Temenos T24
10 8 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
10 8 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 8 (0.38%) VisionPLUS
11 7 (0.33%) Fidessa
11 7 (0.33%) Finacle
12 6 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
12 6 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
12 6 (0.29%) Oracle FAH
13 5 (0.24%) Oracle E-Business Tax
Cloud Services
1 322 (15.36%) Azure
2 312 (14.88%) AWS
3 176 (8.39%) GCP
4 146 (6.96%) Power Platform
5 84 (4.01%) GitHub
6 81 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
7 63 (3.00%) Serverless
8 51 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
9 49 (2.34%) Figma
10 39 (1.86%) SaaS
11 38 (1.81%) PowerApps
12 37 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
13 31 (1.48%) Snowflake
14 30 (1.43%) Power Automate
15 28 (1.34%) Entra ID
16 24 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
16 24 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
17 23 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
18 20 (0.95%) Amazon S3
18 20 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.53%) DNS
2 47 (2.24%) Firewall
3 32 (1.53%) Network Security
4 30 (1.43%) HTTP
4 30 (1.43%) TCP/IP
5 29 (1.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 29 (1.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 26 (1.24%) DMZ
7 23 (1.10%) Wireless
8 22 (1.05%) VPN
9 21 (1.00%) SSL
10 17 (0.81%) BIG-IP
10 17 (0.81%) Wireshark
11 15 (0.72%) NetScaler
12 12 (0.57%) BGP
12 12 (0.57%) DHCP
12 12 (0.57%) Multicast
13 10 (0.48%) LAN
14 9 (0.43%) FIX Connectivity
14 9 (0.43%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (5.82%) Power BI
2 90 (4.29%) SQL Server
3 76 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
4 68 (3.24%) Tableau
5 65 (3.10%) NoSQL
6 44 (2.10%) MongoDB
7 42 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
8 38 (1.81%) Oracle Database
8 38 (1.81%) Relational Database
9 30 (1.43%) Metadata
10 27 (1.29%) Data Lake
11 22 (1.05%) Big Data
11 22 (1.05%) DB2
12 18 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (0.81%) Apache Arrow
13 17 (0.81%) Apache Iceberg
13 17 (0.81%) Apache Ignite
13 17 (0.81%) Dremio
13 17 (0.81%) Hadoop
14 16 (0.76%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 231 (11.02%) JIRA
2 150 (7.15%) Jenkins
3 101 (4.82%) Git
4 84 (4.01%) GitLab
5 37 (1.76%) Sonatype Nexus
6 32 (1.53%) JUnit
7 30 (1.43%) Bitbucket
8 29 (1.38%) Selenium
9 23 (1.10%) Cucumber
10 22 (1.05%) Liquibase
11 19 (0.91%) SonarQube
12 18 (0.86%) Maven
13 17 (0.81%) Postman
14 16 (0.76%) Fiddler
14 16 (0.76%) REST Assured
15 15 (0.72%) Gradle
16 14 (0.67%) TeamCity
17 11 (0.52%) Cypress.io
17 11 (0.52%) webpack
18 8 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,344 (64.09%) Finance
2 768 (36.62%) Social Skills
3 443 (21.13%) Investment Banking
4 282 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
5 186 (8.87%) Front Office
6 133 (6.34%) Financial Institution
7 69 (3.29%) Retail Banking
8 56 (2.67%) Legal
9 50 (2.38%) Corporate Banking
9 50 (2.38%) Retail
10 48 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
11 36 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
11 36 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (1.72%) Public Sector
12 34 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
13 32 (1.53%) Back Office
14 25 (1.19%) General Ledger
14 25 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 25 (1.19%) International Banking
15 22 (1.05%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 408 (19.46%) Developer
2 342 (16.31%) Analyst
3 279 (13.30%) Senior
4 234 (11.16%) Business Analyst
5 188 (8.97%) Architect
6 133 (6.34%) Project Manager
7 123 (5.87%) Lead
8 108 (5.15%) Java Developer
9 98 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
10 86 (4.10%) Senior Developer
11 70 (3.34%) Banking Analyst
11 70 (3.34%) Consultant
12 55 (2.62%) DevOps Engineer
13 53 (2.53%) Banking Business Analyst
13 53 (2.53%) Designer
14 52 (2.48%) Software Engineer
15 46 (2.19%) Senior Java Developer
16 45 (2.15%) Python Engineer
17 44 (2.10%) AWS Engineer
17 44 (2.10%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (5.58%) Kafka
2 102 (4.86%) .NET
2 102 (4.86%) REST
3 87 (4.15%) Spring
4 77 (3.67%) RESTful
5 72 (3.43%) React
5 72 (3.43%) Spring Boot
6 60 (2.86%) HTML
7 57 (2.72%) Pandas
8 52 (2.48%) NumPy
9 48 (2.29%) Middleware
10 47 (2.24%) XML
11 46 (2.19%) AngularJS
12 44 (2.10%) CSS
13 38 (1.81%) Node.js
14 32 (1.53%) SciPy
15 31 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
15 31 (1.48%) JMS
16 30 (1.43%) OAuth
17 28 (1.34%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 131 (6.25%) Derivative
2 125 (5.96%) Product Ownership
3 116 (5.53%) Onboarding
4 111 (5.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 96 (4.58%) Cloud Native
6 87 (4.15%) Management Information System
7 78 (3.72%) Equities
8 71 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
9 69 (3.29%) Data Protection Act
10 65 (3.10%) Fixed Income
11 54 (2.58%) Hedge funds
12 52 (2.48%) Data Centre
13 50 (2.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 47 (2.24%) Mobile App
15 46 (2.19%) Public Cloud
16 42 (2.00%) Data Structures
17 35 (1.67%) Credit Risk
17 35 (1.67%) Market Risk
18 30 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
19 29 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 133 (6.34%) Linux
2 117 (5.58%) Windows
3 44 (2.10%) Unix
4 41 (1.96%) Android
5 32 (1.53%) Windows 10
6 24 (1.14%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.95%) Windows Server
8 19 (0.91%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.57%) zOS
10 4 (0.19%) AIX
10 4 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.19%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.048%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.048%) Solaris
12 1 (0.048%) VMS
12 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 594 (28.33%) Agile
2 398 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
3 355 (16.93%) Stakeholder Management
4 334 (15.93%) DevOps
5 326 (15.55%) CI/CD
6 197 (9.39%) Analytics
7 189 (9.01%) Microservices
8 178 (8.49%) Risk Management
9 175 (8.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 169 (8.06%) Migration
11 158 (7.53%) Project Management
12 157 (7.49%) Decision-Making
13 151 (7.20%) Change Management
14 147 (7.01%) AI
15 141 (6.72%) Business Intelligence
15 141 (6.72%) Scrum
16 139 (6.63%) Data Modelling
17 138 (6.58%) Containerisation
18 130 (6.20%) Data Analysis
19 129 (6.15%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 391 (18.65%) SQL
2 359 (17.12%) Python
3 309 (14.74%) Java
4 142 (6.77%) C#
5 100 (4.77%) JavaScript
6 59 (2.81%) Go
7 58 (2.77%) TypeScript
8 56 (2.67%) PowerShell
9 43 (2.05%) C++
10 35 (1.67%) PL/SQL
11 28 (1.34%) Shell Script
12 26 (1.24%) VBA
13 25 (1.19%) Bash
14 18 (0.86%) COBOL
14 18 (0.86%) T-SQL
15 17 (0.81%) Kotlin
16 13 (0.62%) R
16 13 (0.62%) Rust
16 13 (0.62%) Scala
17 12 (0.57%) Korn
Qualifications
1 256 (12.21%) Degree
2 88 (4.20%) Security Cleared
3 87 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 79 (3.77%) Master's Degree
5 59 (2.81%) PMI Certification
6 54 (2.58%) PMP
7 39 (1.86%) SC Cleared
8 38 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (1.24%) CISSP
10 25 (1.19%) AWS Certification
11 23 (1.10%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.76%) DV Cleared
12 16 (0.76%) MBA
13 14 (0.67%) CBAP
14 12 (0.57%) BC Cleared
14 12 (0.57%) CISM
14 12 (0.57%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.48%) PhD
16 9 (0.43%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (6.77%) QA
2 89 (4.24%) Data Quality
3 58 (2.77%) GDPR
4 51 (2.43%) ISO 20022
5 48 (2.29%) PMO
6 38 (1.81%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.57%) PSD2
8 32 (1.53%) SLA
9 30 (1.43%) SEPA
10 26 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 24 (1.14%) Basel III
11 24 (1.14%) GRC
12 22 (1.05%) MiFID
13 21 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 21 (1.00%) PCI DSS
14 18 (0.86%) NIST
15 15 (0.72%) EMIR
16 13 (0.62%) IFRS
17 12 (0.57%) ISO 8583
18 8 (0.38%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 178 (8.49%) Docker
2 44 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (1.43%) Active Directory
4 20 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (0.81%) Firmware
6 6 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.14%) RACF
8 3 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
8 3 (0.14%) vSphere
9 2 (0.095%) ACF2
9 2 (0.095%) GridGain
9 2 (0.095%) NFS
9 2 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.048%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.048%) GPFS
10 1 (0.048%) HDFS
10 1 (0.048%) KVM
10 1 (0.048%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 203 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 118 (5.63%) Terraform
3 80 (3.81%) Ansible
4 53 (2.53%) Grafana
5 45 (2.15%) Prometheus
6 17 (0.81%) SCCM
7 15 (0.72%) Argo
8 11 (0.52%) Control-M
9 8 (0.38%) CA Endevor
9 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.33%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
10 7 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.29%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.19%) Istio
12 4 (0.19%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.14%) Thomson Reuters DACS
13 3 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 236 (11.25%) Microsoft
2 152 (7.25%) Oracle
3 94 (4.48%) Google
4 60 (2.86%) Splunk
5 51 (2.43%) ServiceNow
6 50 (2.38%) VMware
7 48 (2.29%) IBM
8 41 (1.96%) Cisco
8 41 (1.96%) F5
9 40 (1.91%) SAP
10 35 (1.67%) Citrix
11 32 (1.53%) HP
12 29 (1.38%) Bloomberg
12 29 (1.38%) Dell
12 29 (1.38%) Remedy
12 29 (1.38%) Salesforce
13 27 (1.29%) Apple
13 27 (1.29%) Databricks
14 26 (1.24%) CyberArk
15 23 (1.10%) Dynatrace