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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,636 2,255 2,444
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.79% 8.10% 7.36%
As % of the General category 10.44% 12.64% 12.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,596 1,566 1,762
10th Percentile £400 £355 £400
25th Percentile £458 £418 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% -2.34%
75th Percentile £676 £738 £788
90th Percentile £811 £825 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £613
% change year-on-year - -10.20% -2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 29 16
10th Percentile £16.63 £18.10 £14.13
25th Percentile £17.00 £19.97 £14.50
Median hourly rate £18.60 £25.15 £18.89
Median % change year-on-year -26.06% +33.17% +2.08%
75th Percentile £33.70 - £41.31
90th Percentile £96.88 £56.00 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £17.25 £24.66 £18.27
% change year-on-year -30.05% +34.98% -2.38%

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 25,248 17,847 19,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.43% 64.13% 57.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,043 11,377 12,327
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £419 £402 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £660
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 1,997 956 1,233
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.25 £14.45
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.48 £18.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +36.24%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £74.38 £70.39
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +27.24% -34.02% +27.07%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 1,907 £592 -5.28% 1,194
North of England -3 514 £500 +11.86% 130
North West -4 264 £500 +16.28% 82
Yorkshire -10 240 £501 +5.37% 46
Midlands -22 152 £520 +23.08% 48
West Midlands +20 118 £550 +2.33% 31
East Midlands -35 34 £475 +21.79% 17
South West -49 34 £563 +7.14% 37
South East -68 31 £540 +20.00% 95
East of England +9 30 £580 -22.67% 15
North East -34 13 £875 +108.33% 2
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
1 154 (5.84%) Confluence
2 57 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 26 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 25 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (0.95%) SAS
5 23 (0.87%) Apache
6 17 (0.64%) IIS
7 11 (0.42%) CICS
8 10 (0.38%) Appian
8 10 (0.38%) Camunda
9 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.23%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.15%) WordPress
12 3 (0.11%) Ethereum
12 3 (0.11%) Hyperledger
12 3 (0.11%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.076%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.076%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.076%) CMS
Applications
1 89 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (1.21%) MS Visio
5 22 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Sketch
8 3 (0.11%) Trello
9 2 (0.076%) EngageOne
9 2 (0.076%) InVision
9 2 (0.076%) Notion
10 1 (0.038%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.038%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 21 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
1 21 (0.80%) Temenos T24
2 19 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
3 18 (0.68%) Finacle
4 15 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
5 14 (0.53%) Aladdin
5 14 (0.53%) Loan IQ
6 13 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
7 11 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
8 9 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 8 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
10 7 (0.27%) Actimize
10 7 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
10 7 (0.27%) OpenText MBPM
10 7 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
11 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
11 5 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
11 5 (0.19%) Summit
12 4 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 401 (15.21%) Azure
2 343 (13.01%) AWS
3 166 (6.30%) GCP
4 133 (5.05%) Power Platform
5 82 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
6 81 (3.07%) GitHub
7 80 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
8 73 (2.77%) Snowflake
9 71 (2.69%) SaaS
10 49 (1.86%) Entra ID
11 41 (1.56%) OpenShift
12 40 (1.52%) Amazon S3
13 36 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
14 35 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
15 33 (1.25%) Serverless
16 30 (1.14%) Figma
17 28 (1.06%) Power Automate
18 26 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
19 25 (0.95%) PaaS
20 24 (0.91%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 77 (2.92%) Firewall
2 69 (2.62%) DNS
3 65 (2.47%) VPN
4 57 (2.16%) Network Security
5 43 (1.63%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.25%) SSL
7 31 (1.18%) BGP
7 31 (1.18%) Multicast
8 25 (0.95%) HTTP
9 23 (0.87%) SAN
10 22 (0.83%) DMZ
11 21 (0.80%) BIG-IP
12 19 (0.72%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 19 (0.72%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 18 (0.68%) DHCP
13 18 (0.68%) FIX Connectivity
13 18 (0.68%) Wireshark
14 16 (0.61%) LAN
15 15 (0.57%) WAN
16 11 (0.42%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (4.86%) SQL Server
2 109 (4.14%) Power BI
3 85 (3.22%) Data Warehouse
4 67 (2.54%) Metadata
5 63 (2.39%) Relational Database
6 48 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
7 47 (1.78%) Oracle Database
8 37 (1.40%) Data Lake
9 35 (1.33%) MongoDB
10 34 (1.29%) Tableau
11 28 (1.06%) Big Data
12 23 (0.87%) Db2
13 20 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
13 20 (0.76%) RDBMS
13 20 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 17 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
14 17 (0.64%) Data Vault
14 17 (0.64%) NoSQL
15 16 (0.61%) BigQuery
16 15 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 265 (10.05%) JIRA
2 117 (4.44%) Git
3 102 (3.87%) Jenkins
4 64 (2.43%) GitLab
5 36 (1.37%) JUnit
6 30 (1.14%) Selenium
7 23 (0.87%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.68%) Bitbucket
8 18 (0.68%) TeamCity
9 16 (0.61%) ERwin
9 16 (0.61%) Fiddler
9 16 (0.61%) SonarQube
10 15 (0.57%) ER Studio
10 15 (0.57%) Gradle
10 15 (0.57%) Maven
10 15 (0.57%) Mockito
10 15 (0.57%) REST Assured
10 15 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
11 13 (0.49%) Postman
12 11 (0.42%) Zephyr
General
1 1,693 (64.23%) Finance
2 714 (27.09%) Social Skills
3 532 (20.18%) Investment Banking
4 385 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
5 237 (8.99%) Front Office
6 138 (5.24%) Financial Institution
7 116 (4.40%) Retail
8 113 (4.29%) Retail Banking
9 91 (3.45%) Corporate Banking
10 83 (3.15%) Legal
11 63 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
12 61 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
13 58 (2.20%) Private Banking
14 52 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
15 41 (1.56%) Back Office
16 38 (1.44%) Public Sector
17 30 (1.14%) Marketing
18 27 (1.02%) General Ledger
19 26 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
20 22 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 440 (16.69%) Developer
2 392 (14.87%) Analyst
3 346 (13.13%) Senior
4 294 (11.15%) Architect
5 247 (9.37%) Lead
6 243 (9.22%) Business Analyst
7 146 (5.54%) Java Developer
8 126 (4.78%) Project Manager
9 103 (3.91%) Data Engineer
9 103 (3.91%) Senior Developer
10 100 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
11 91 (3.45%) Consultant
12 85 (3.22%) Banking Analyst
13 68 (2.58%) Software Engineer
14 62 (2.35%) Data Analyst
15 59 (2.24%) Designer
15 59 (2.24%) Network Engineer
16 56 (2.12%) Senior Java Developer
17 50 (1.90%) C# Developer
17 50 (1.90%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (5.27%) React
2 125 (4.74%) .NET
3 120 (4.55%) Kafka
4 102 (3.87%) REST
5 90 (3.41%) Middleware
6 88 (3.34%) Spring
7 76 (2.88%) Spring Boot
8 55 (2.09%) Redux
9 50 (1.90%) RESTful
10 41 (1.56%) FIX Protocol
10 41 (1.56%) HTML
11 39 (1.48%) CSS
11 39 (1.48%) PySpark
12 35 (1.33%) JSON
12 35 (1.33%) OAuth
13 34 (1.29%) AngularJS
14 30 (1.14%) XML
15 25 (0.95%) LangChain
15 25 (0.95%) Node.js
15 25 (0.95%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 204 (7.74%) Product Ownership
2 166 (6.30%) Onboarding
3 149 (5.65%) Cloud Native
4 138 (5.24%) Derivative
5 124 (4.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 98 (3.72%) Fixed Income
7 85 (3.22%) Equities
8 82 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
9 76 (2.88%) Management Information System
10 73 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
10 73 (2.77%) Data Structures
11 59 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
12 58 (2.20%) AI Agents
13 53 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
13 53 (2.01%) Mainframe
14 51 (1.93%) Credit Risk
14 51 (1.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 47 (1.78%) Data Centre
16 46 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
17 41 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 154 (5.84%) Windows
2 137 (5.20%) Linux
3 88 (3.34%) Unix
4 36 (1.37%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (1.02%) zOS
6 23 (0.87%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.76%) Android
8 15 (0.57%) Ubuntu
9 12 (0.46%) AIX
9 12 (0.46%) Windows 10
10 9 (0.34%) Solaris
11 8 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (0.23%) HPUX
12 6 (0.23%) SUSE
13 4 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
13 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.15%) VMS
14 3 (0.11%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 620 (23.52%) Agile
2 572 (21.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 398 (15.10%) CI/CD
4 390 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
5 369 (14.00%) AI
6 343 (13.01%) DevOps
7 311 (11.80%) Migration
8 275 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 256 (9.71%) Analytics
10 234 (8.88%) Data Modelling
11 220 (8.35%) Roadmaps
12 196 (7.44%) Microservices
13 195 (7.40%) Decision-Making
14 189 (7.17%) Software Engineering
14 189 (7.17%) Validation
15 185 (7.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 172 (6.53%) User Acceptance Testing
17 166 (6.30%) Change Management
17 166 (6.30%) Generative AI
17 166 (6.30%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 441 (16.73%) SQL
2 375 (14.23%) Python
3 343 (13.01%) Java
4 184 (6.98%) C#
5 131 (4.97%) JavaScript
6 107 (4.06%) TypeScript
7 80 (3.03%) PowerShell
8 68 (2.58%) PL/SQL
9 49 (1.86%) Bash
10 47 (1.78%) Shell Script
11 44 (1.67%) Kotlin
12 39 (1.48%) T-SQL
13 33 (1.25%) C++
14 23 (0.87%) Korn
15 22 (0.83%) VBA
16 15 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 12 (0.46%) JCL
17 12 (0.46%) Scala
18 11 (0.42%) Bicep
18 11 (0.42%) Go
Qualifications
1 170 (6.45%) Degree
2 126 (4.78%) Security Cleared
3 96 (3.64%) SC Cleared
4 54 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (1.93%) PMP
6 43 (1.63%) PMI Certification
7 34 (1.29%) CISSP
8 27 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
9 26 (0.99%) Azure Certification
10 21 (0.80%) AWS Certification
11 20 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (0.76%) Master's Degree
12 17 (0.64%) CISM
13 15 (0.57%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 11 (0.42%) ACCA
16 10 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
17 9 (0.34%) CCNA
17 9 (0.34%) CCSP
18 8 (0.30%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (5.58%) Data Quality
2 129 (4.89%) QA
3 58 (2.20%) PMO
4 49 (1.86%) ISO 20022
5 38 (1.44%) GDPR
6 36 (1.37%) GRC
7 34 (1.29%) NIST
8 33 (1.25%) SEPA
9 28 (1.06%) SLA
10 26 (0.99%) PSD2
11 25 (0.95%) Accessibility
11 25 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 22 (0.83%) MiFID
13 15 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (0.46%) IFRS
14 12 (0.46%) PCI DSS
15 11 (0.42%) EMIR
16 9 (0.34%) COREP
17 7 (0.27%) FINREP
18 6 (0.23%) Basel III
System Software
1 113 (4.29%) Docker
2 68 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.72%) RACF
5 16 (0.61%) Firmware
6 14 (0.53%) NFS
6 14 (0.53%) vSphere
7 11 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.23%) Varnish
9 5 (0.19%) Postfix
10 4 (0.15%) ACF2
10 4 (0.15%) Sendmail
10 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.15%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.11%) SRDF
11 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.11%) XenApp
12 2 (0.076%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.076%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 163 (6.18%) Kubernetes
2 90 (3.41%) Terraform
3 79 (3.00%) Ansible
4 30 (1.14%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.99%) Grafana
6 19 (0.72%) SCCM
7 18 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (0.57%) Control-M
9 15 (0.57%) OMEGAMON
10 14 (0.53%) Argo
11 11 (0.42%) Istio
12 9 (0.34%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
13 7 (0.27%) Puppet
14 6 (0.23%) WSUS
15 5 (0.19%) HAProxy
15 5 (0.19%) NetBackup
15 5 (0.19%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.19%) systemd
Vendors
1 296 (11.23%) Microsoft
2 202 (7.66%) Oracle
3 96 (3.64%) ServiceNow
4 87 (3.30%) IBM
5 78 (2.96%) Databricks
6 62 (2.35%) Cisco
7 55 (2.09%) Google
8 51 (1.93%) SAP
9 48 (1.82%) Salesforce
10 45 (1.71%) F5
10 45 (1.71%) VMware
11 44 (1.67%) Splunk
12 42 (1.59%) Citrix
13 33 (1.25%) CyberArk
13 33 (1.25%) Murex
14 29 (1.10%) OpenAI
15 25 (0.95%) NetApp
16 24 (0.91%) Avaloq
16 24 (0.91%) Fortinet
16 24 (0.91%) Pega