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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 23 23
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 0
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,800 2,150 2,472
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.01% 7.69% 7.66%
As % of the General category 10.70% 11.99% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,752 1,449 1,699
10th Percentile £400 £350 £400
25th Percentile £457 £418 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £618
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -10.12% -1.20%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £775
90th Percentile £812 £825 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 32 11
10th Percentile £16.25 £19.26 -
25th Percentile £16.83 - £14.50
Median hourly rate £17.00 £25.15 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.41% +57.19% -13.51%
75th Percentile £19.69 £26.01 £35.38
90th Percentile £21.75 £77.88 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £25.15 £16.00
% change year-on-year -32.41% +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 26,178 17,926 18,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.23% 64.16% 58.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,313 11,375 11,385
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.19% -3.09%
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 2,344 1,026 885
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.17 £17.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.30% -32.93% +29.87%
75th Percentile £56.21 £45.00 £61.43
90th Percentile £78.54 £69.65 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +13.32% -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 1 October 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
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 1 October 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 -6 2,051 £600 -4.00% 2,267
North of England -13 491 £500 +14.29% 266
Yorkshire -8 246 £513 +11.52% 93
North West -8 238 £500 +17.65% 157
Midlands -40 140 £488 +9.17% 118
West Midlands -4 101 £511 -5.46% 54
South West -25 49 £500 -4.76% 164
East of England +16 45 £558 -20.36% 20
South East -43 42 £500 +17.65% 154
East Midlands -33 39 £465 +16.69% 63
North East -33 11 £875 +108.33% 16
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
1 151 (5.39%) Confluence
2 62 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.11%) Apache
4 28 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.93%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.57%) Camunda
6 16 (0.57%) SAS
7 13 (0.46%) CICS
8 12 (0.43%) IIS
9 10 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.32%) Appian
11 8 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
12 7 (0.25%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 5 (0.18%) MTS
15 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
15 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
15 4 (0.14%) WordPress
16 3 (0.11%) Hyperledger
16 3 (0.11%) MQSeries
Applications
1 99 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.07%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.11%) Trello
9 2 (0.071%) EngageOne
9 2 (0.071%) Notion
9 2 (0.071%) Sketch
10 1 (0.036%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.036%) InVision
10 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.036%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 21 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
2 20 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
3 17 (0.61%) Finacle
4 15 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.54%) Temenos T24
5 14 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
6 11 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
7 10 (0.36%) Aladdin
7 10 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
7 10 (0.36%) FLEXCUBE
8 8 (0.29%) Loan IQ
8 8 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
8 8 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
9 7 (0.25%) OpenText MBPM
9 7 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
9 7 (0.25%) Oracle BPM
10 6 (0.21%) Workday HCM
11 5 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
11 5 (0.18%) Oracle iProcurement
Cloud Services
1 451 (16.11%) Azure
2 365 (13.04%) AWS
3 206 (7.36%) GCP
4 146 (5.21%) Power Platform
5 97 (3.46%) GitHub
6 84 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
7 83 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
8 72 (2.57%) Snowflake
9 71 (2.54%) SaaS
10 59 (2.11%) Entra ID
11 42 (1.50%) Amazon S3
11 42 (1.50%) OpenShift
12 41 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
13 39 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
14 37 (1.32%) Serverless
15 30 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
16 27 (0.96%) dbt
17 25 (0.89%) Amazon ECS
17 25 (0.89%) Microsoft Copilot
18 24 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 90 (3.21%) Firewall
2 69 (2.46%) VPN
3 66 (2.36%) Network Security
4 50 (1.79%) DNS
5 35 (1.25%) TCP/IP
6 28 (1.00%) BGP
7 27 (0.96%) Multicast
7 27 (0.96%) SSL
8 26 (0.93%) WAN
9 19 (0.68%) HTTP
10 18 (0.64%) LAN
11 17 (0.61%) BIG-IP
12 16 (0.57%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 16 (0.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 15 (0.54%) DMZ
14 14 (0.50%) Wireshark
15 13 (0.46%) Cisco IOS
15 13 (0.46%) DHCP
15 13 (0.46%) MPLS
16 12 (0.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (4.39%) SQL Server
2 121 (4.32%) Power BI
3 96 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
4 76 (2.71%) Metadata
5 75 (2.68%) Relational Database
6 52 (1.86%) Oracle Database
7 51 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
8 41 (1.46%) Data Lake
9 35 (1.25%) MongoDB
10 29 (1.04%) Tableau
11 25 (0.89%) Db2
12 23 (0.82%) NoSQL
13 22 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
13 22 (0.79%) BigQuery
14 20 (0.71%) Big Data
14 20 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 19 (0.68%) RDBMS
16 18 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
17 16 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
17 16 (0.57%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 273 (9.75%) JIRA
2 153 (5.46%) Git
3 117 (4.18%) Jenkins
4 64 (2.29%) GitLab
5 49 (1.75%) Selenium
6 41 (1.46%) JUnit
7 25 (0.89%) Cucumber
7 25 (0.89%) Gradle
7 25 (0.89%) Maven
7 25 (0.89%) SonarQube
8 22 (0.79%) REST Assured
9 21 (0.75%) Bitbucket
10 20 (0.71%) Mockito
11 19 (0.68%) Postman
12 18 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
13 16 (0.57%) Cypress.io
14 15 (0.54%) ER Studio
14 15 (0.54%) ERwin
15 14 (0.50%) TeamCity
16 12 (0.43%) JMeter
General
1 1,874 (66.93%) Finance
2 815 (29.11%) Social Skills
3 533 (19.04%) Investment Banking
4 416 (14.86%) Analytical Skills
5 245 (8.75%) Front Office
6 145 (5.18%) Financial Institution
7 113 (4.04%) Retail Banking
8 110 (3.93%) Retail
9 81 (2.89%) Corporate Banking
10 77 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
10 77 (2.75%) Legal
11 64 (2.29%) Private Banking
12 57 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
13 51 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
14 50 (1.79%) Back Office
15 40 (1.43%) Public Sector
16 33 (1.18%) General Ledger
16 33 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
17 31 (1.11%) Marketing
18 30 (1.07%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 473 (16.89%) Developer
2 417 (14.89%) Senior
3 401 (14.32%) Analyst
4 273 (9.75%) Architect
5 269 (9.61%) Lead
6 243 (8.68%) Business Analyst
7 150 (5.36%) Java Developer
8 146 (5.21%) Project Manager
9 108 (3.86%) Data Engineer
10 103 (3.68%) Senior Developer
11 94 (3.36%) Consultant
12 84 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
13 74 (2.64%) Banking Analyst
14 70 (2.50%) Software Engineer
15 65 (2.32%) Network Engineer
16 60 (2.14%) Data Analyst
17 55 (1.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 55 (1.96%) Java Engineer
17 55 (1.96%) Python Developer
18 51 (1.82%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (5.64%) Kafka
2 143 (5.11%) React
3 137 (4.89%) REST
4 116 (4.14%) Terraform
5 113 (4.04%) .NET
6 109 (3.89%) Spring
7 106 (3.79%) Spring Boot
8 87 (3.11%) Middleware
9 61 (2.18%) Redux
10 55 (1.96%) HTML
11 54 (1.93%) RESTful
12 48 (1.71%) CSS
13 43 (1.54%) OAuth
14 41 (1.46%) PySpark
15 36 (1.29%) JSON
16 34 (1.21%) FIX Protocol
17 33 (1.18%) LangChain
17 33 (1.18%) XML
18 32 (1.14%) AngularJS
19 28 (1.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 231 (8.25%) Product Ownership
2 198 (7.07%) Onboarding
3 189 (6.75%) Cloud Native
4 136 (4.86%) Derivative
5 124 (4.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 101 (3.61%) Fixed Income
7 100 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
8 85 (3.04%) Data Protection Act
9 82 (2.93%) AI Agents
10 81 (2.89%) Management Information System
11 79 (2.82%) Equities
12 69 (2.46%) Data Structures
13 67 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
14 61 (2.18%) Data Centre
15 60 (2.14%) Credit Risk
16 57 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
16 57 (2.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 56 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
18 53 (1.89%) Mainframe
19 52 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 160 (5.71%) Linux
2 148 (5.29%) Windows
3 99 (3.54%) Unix
4 45 (1.61%) Windows Server
5 30 (1.07%) zOS
6 28 (1.00%) Android
7 27 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 24 (0.86%) Apple iOS
9 16 (0.57%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.39%) AIX
11 9 (0.32%) Windows 10
12 8 (0.29%) Solaris
13 7 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.21%) HPUX
14 6 (0.21%) SUSE
15 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.11%) CentOS
16 3 (0.11%) MVS
16 3 (0.11%) Windows 7
16 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 755 (26.96%) Stakeholder Management
2 691 (24.68%) Agile
3 469 (16.75%) CI/CD
4 419 (14.96%) AI
5 410 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
6 363 (12.96%) DevOps
7 359 (12.82%) Migration
8 312 (11.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 272 (9.71%) Analytics
10 262 (9.36%) Roadmaps
11 243 (8.68%) Validation
12 237 (8.46%) Microservices
13 234 (8.36%) Data Modelling
14 225 (8.04%) Software Engineering
15 208 (7.43%) Decision-Making
16 206 (7.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 204 (7.29%) Risk Management
18 202 (7.21%) User Acceptance Testing
19 201 (7.18%) Test Automation
20 197 (7.04%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 534 (19.07%) SQL
2 434 (15.50%) Python
3 384 (13.71%) Java
4 177 (6.32%) C#
5 149 (5.32%) JavaScript
6 116 (4.14%) TypeScript
7 94 (3.36%) PowerShell
8 75 (2.68%) PL/SQL
9 67 (2.39%) Bash
10 51 (1.82%) Shell Script
11 49 (1.75%) Kotlin
12 38 (1.36%) T-SQL
13 35 (1.25%) C++
14 26 (0.93%) Korn
15 20 (0.71%) Go
16 17 (0.61%) VBA
17 15 (0.54%) JCL
18 13 (0.46%) COBOL
19 12 (0.43%) Bicep
20 11 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 193 (6.89%) Degree
2 132 (4.71%) Security Cleared
3 105 (3.75%) SC Cleared
4 69 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (2.04%) PMP
6 53 (1.89%) PMI Certification
7 37 (1.32%) CISSP
8 29 (1.04%) AWS Certification
9 28 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (0.93%) Azure Certification
11 24 (0.86%) Master's Degree
12 23 (0.82%) ACCA
13 20 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (0.71%) CIMA
13 20 (0.71%) ISTQB
14 15 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 14 (0.50%) CISM
16 13 (0.46%) CCNP
17 11 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 11 (0.39%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (6.61%) Data Quality
2 155 (5.54%) QA
3 54 (1.93%) ISO 20022
4 52 (1.86%) PMO
5 40 (1.43%) GRC
6 39 (1.39%) SEPA
7 32 (1.14%) NIST
8 29 (1.04%) GDPR
9 27 (0.96%) SLA
10 25 (0.89%) Accessibility
10 25 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 22 (0.79%) MiFID
12 19 (0.68%) IFRS
12 19 (0.68%) PSD2
13 13 (0.46%) EMIR
13 13 (0.46%) PCI DSS
14 12 (0.43%) Basel III
15 8 (0.29%) COREP
15 8 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 125 (4.46%) Docker
2 66 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.79%) RACF
5 11 (0.39%) Firmware
6 10 (0.36%) vSphere
7 8 (0.29%) NFS
7 8 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.18%) ACF2
8 5 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
8 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.14%) Postfix
9 4 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
9 4 (0.14%) Varnish
10 3 (0.11%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.071%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.071%) GPFS
11 2 (0.071%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.071%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 184 (6.57%) Kubernetes
2 81 (2.89%) Ansible
3 29 (1.04%) Grafana
4 28 (1.00%) Prometheus
5 20 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.61%) Control-M
6 17 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (0.61%) SCCM
7 15 (0.54%) OMEGAMON
8 12 (0.43%) Argo
8 12 (0.43%) Istio
9 10 (0.36%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.29%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
12 6 (0.21%) Tivoli
13 5 (0.18%) HP ALM
13 5 (0.18%) systemd
14 4 (0.14%) HAProxy
15 3 (0.11%) Kibana
15 3 (0.11%) QRadar
Vendors
1 295 (10.54%) Microsoft
2 215 (7.68%) Oracle
3 114 (4.07%) IBM
4 104 (3.71%) Databricks
5 87 (3.11%) ServiceNow
6 69 (2.46%) Cisco
7 64 (2.29%) Google
8 60 (2.14%) Salesforce
9 53 (1.89%) Splunk
10 44 (1.57%) SAP
11 40 (1.43%) Citrix
12 38 (1.36%) CyberArk
12 38 (1.36%) OpenAI
13 37 (1.32%) F5
14 34 (1.21%) VMware
15 33 (1.18%) Murex
16 30 (1.07%) Bloomberg
17 28 (1.00%) Dynatrace
18 26 (0.93%) Avaloq
19 23 (0.82%) Fortinet