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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 24 25
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -5
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,282 1,889 2,306
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.55% 7.78% 6.33%
As % of the General category 10.27% 12.14% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,390 1,257 1,707
10th Percentile £375 £358 £390
25th Percentile £447 £447 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £775
90th Percentile £775 £850 £863
UK median daily rate £525 £594 £613
% change year-on-year -11.62% -3.02% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 23
10th Percentile - £17.43 £12.17
25th Percentile £17.00 £19.24 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £22.27 £19.05
Median % change year-on-year +15.72% +16.90% -9.29%
75th Percentile £95.00 £24.66 £23.88
90th Percentile £97.63 £42.40 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £30.39 £22.27 £19.05
% change year-on-year +36.44% +16.90% -9.29%

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 22,227 15,558 21,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.06% 64.07% 58.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,740 10,063 13,655
10th Percentile £310 £290 £281
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £510 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -1.45% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,470 682 1,778
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.79 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.01 £16.95 £15.44
Median hourly rate £30.58 £27.50 £30.14
Median % change year-on-year +11.20% -8.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £61.18 £55.25 £51.91
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £66.40
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.69%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -10 1,571 £575 -11.54% 467
North of England +1 482 £475 +6.26% 97
North West +10 259 £445 +3.85% 49
Yorkshire -6 217 £500 +2.56% 42
Midlands +6 179 £519 +19.40% 21
West Midlands +31 128 £575 +3.60% 14
East Midlands -22 51 £465 +19.23% 7
South East -48 38 £550 -4.35% 106
South West -36 36 £500 -4.76% 18
East of England -23 14 £553 -7.92% 7
North East -18 10 £400 -4.76% 6
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
1 167 (7.32%) Confluence
2 47 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.05%) SAS
4 19 (0.83%) IIS
5 16 (0.70%) Apache Spark
6 14 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (0.44%) Apache
7 10 (0.44%) CICS
7 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.18%) Camunda
10 4 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.18%) Hyperledger
10 4 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.13%) Appian
11 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.088%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.088%) CMS
12 2 (0.088%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 125 (5.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 44 (1.93%) MS Visio
4 27 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.35%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.22%) Notion
7 2 (0.088%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.088%) InVision
7 2 (0.088%) Sketch
7 2 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.088%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 26 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
3 23 (1.01%) Oracle Receivables
4 18 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
5 17 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
5 17 (0.74%) Temenos T24
6 16 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 15 (0.66%) Loan IQ
8 12 (0.53%) Finacle
9 9 (0.39%) Aladdin
9 9 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
9 9 (0.39%) SAP FI
10 8 (0.35%) Actimize
10 8 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
10 8 (0.35%) SAP CO
10 8 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
10 8 (0.35%) Summit
11 6 (0.26%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 5 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
12 5 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 362 (15.86%) Azure
2 314 (13.76%) AWS
3 149 (6.53%) GCP
4 112 (4.91%) Power Platform
5 87 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
6 76 (3.33%) GitHub
7 58 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
8 57 (2.50%) SaaS
9 37 (1.62%) Figma
10 33 (1.45%) OpenShift
10 33 (1.45%) Snowflake
11 32 (1.40%) Entra ID
12 29 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (1.23%) Serverless
14 24 (1.05%) Amazon S3
15 23 (1.01%) OCI
15 23 (1.01%) Power Automate
16 20 (0.88%) PaaS
17 19 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
17 19 (0.83%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 70 (3.07%) DNS
2 55 (2.41%) VPN
3 52 (2.28%) Firewall
4 42 (1.84%) Network Security
5 38 (1.67%) TCP/IP
6 37 (1.62%) HTTP
7 30 (1.31%) Multicast
8 27 (1.18%) BGP
9 24 (1.05%) SSL
10 23 (1.01%) BIG-IP
11 22 (0.96%) DMZ
11 22 (0.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 22 (0.96%) SAN
12 21 (0.92%) FIX Connectivity
12 21 (0.92%) Wireshark
13 20 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 15 (0.66%) NetScaler
15 14 (0.61%) DHCP
16 10 (0.44%) Internet
16 10 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (4.43%) SQL Server
2 90 (3.94%) Power BI
3 59 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (2.41%) Metadata
5 53 (2.32%) Tableau
6 47 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
7 43 (1.88%) Oracle Database
8 41 (1.80%) Relational Database
9 34 (1.49%) MongoDB
10 32 (1.40%) NoSQL
11 23 (1.01%) Big Data
12 20 (0.88%) DB2
13 18 (0.79%) BigQuery
14 16 (0.70%) Data Lake
14 16 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 13 (0.57%) DataStage
16 12 (0.53%) Pinecone
16 12 (0.53%) RDBMS
16 12 (0.53%) Weaviate
17 11 (0.48%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 254 (11.13%) JIRA
2 100 (4.38%) Jenkins
3 83 (3.64%) Git
4 58 (2.54%) GitLab
5 31 (1.36%) JUnit
6 25 (1.10%) Selenium
7 18 (0.79%) Cucumber
7 18 (0.79%) Fiddler
8 16 (0.70%) Postman
8 16 (0.70%) TeamCity
9 15 (0.66%) Bitbucket
9 15 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
10 13 (0.57%) Maven
10 13 (0.57%) REST Assured
10 13 (0.57%) SonarQube
11 10 (0.44%) Cypress.io
12 9 (0.39%) ERwin
12 9 (0.39%) Mockito
13 8 (0.35%) Appium
13 8 (0.35%) ER Studio
General
1 1,392 (61.00%) Finance
2 613 (26.86%) Social Skills
3 473 (20.73%) Investment Banking
4 320 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
5 181 (7.93%) Front Office
6 113 (4.95%) Financial Institution
7 109 (4.78%) Retail Banking
8 87 (3.81%) Retail
9 86 (3.77%) Corporate Banking
10 73 (3.20%) Legal
11 63 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
12 55 (2.41%) Public Sector
13 39 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
14 38 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
15 35 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
16 26 (1.14%) General Ledger
17 25 (1.10%) Marketing
18 24 (1.05%) Back Office
18 24 (1.05%) Private Banking
19 20 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 376 (16.48%) Developer
2 375 (16.43%) Analyst
3 302 (13.23%) Senior
4 269 (11.79%) Architect
5 265 (11.61%) Business Analyst
6 173 (7.58%) Lead
7 131 (5.74%) Solutions Architect
8 113 (4.95%) Java Developer
9 102 (4.47%) Project Manager
10 91 (3.99%) Banking Analyst
11 90 (3.94%) Senior Developer
12 83 (3.64%) Consultant
13 80 (3.51%) Data Engineer
14 61 (2.67%) Banking Business Analyst
15 58 (2.54%) Payments Architect
16 55 (2.41%) Network Engineer
17 53 (2.32%) Payments Solutions Architect
18 51 (2.23%) Designer
19 50 (2.19%) C# Developer
20 45 (1.97%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (4.95%) Kafka
2 107 (4.69%) .NET
3 89 (3.90%) React
4 81 (3.55%) Middleware
5 78 (3.42%) Spring
6 70 (3.07%) REST
7 65 (2.85%) Spring Boot
8 58 (2.54%) RESTful
9 56 (2.45%) HTML
10 45 (1.97%) CSS
11 40 (1.75%) OAuth
12 39 (1.71%) AngularJS
13 38 (1.67%) FIX Protocol
13 38 (1.67%) XML
14 36 (1.58%) JSON
15 29 (1.27%) OAuth2
16 25 (1.10%) HTML5
17 23 (1.01%) Redux
18 22 (0.96%) OpenID
18 22 (0.96%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 164 (7.19%) Product Ownership
2 123 (5.39%) Derivative
3 110 (4.82%) Onboarding
4 103 (4.51%) Cloud Native
5 90 (3.94%) Management Information System
6 89 (3.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 72 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
8 69 (3.02%) Fixed Income
9 64 (2.80%) Data Structures
10 61 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
11 58 (2.54%) Equities
12 46 (2.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 45 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
14 41 (1.80%) Data Centre
14 41 (1.80%) Market Risk
15 39 (1.71%) Credit Risk
16 35 (1.53%) Mainframe
17 31 (1.36%) Public Cloud
18 30 (1.31%) Algorithms
19 27 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 135 (5.92%) Windows
2 103 (4.51%) Linux
3 72 (3.16%) Unix
4 27 (1.18%) Windows 10
5 23 (1.01%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.96%) Android
7 20 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.88%) zOS
8 15 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.39%) AIX
10 7 (0.31%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
11 6 (0.26%) Solaris
11 6 (0.26%) VMS
11 6 (0.26%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
12 5 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.18%) HPUX
13 4 (0.18%) SUSE
14 3 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 549 (24.06%) Agile
2 412 (18.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 339 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
4 315 (13.80%) CI/CD
5 297 (13.01%) DevOps
6 258 (11.31%) Migration
7 247 (10.82%) AI
8 196 (8.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 192 (8.41%) Analytics
10 185 (8.11%) Roadmaps
11 179 (7.84%) Data Modelling
12 175 (7.67%) Microservices
13 173 (7.58%) Decision-Making
14 170 (7.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 165 (7.23%) Validation
16 156 (6.84%) Risk Management
16 156 (6.84%) User Acceptance Testing
17 149 (6.53%) Test Automation
18 133 (5.83%) Data Analysis
18 133 (5.83%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 379 (16.61%) SQL
2 315 (13.80%) Python
3 292 (12.80%) Java
4 140 (6.13%) C#
5 97 (4.25%) JavaScript
6 70 (3.07%) TypeScript
7 59 (2.59%) PowerShell
8 50 (2.19%) PL/SQL
9 35 (1.53%) Shell Script
10 34 (1.49%) T-SQL
11 28 (1.23%) Bash
12 24 (1.05%) C++
12 24 (1.05%) Go
12 24 (1.05%) Kotlin
13 21 (0.92%) VBA
14 19 (0.83%) Korn
15 16 (0.70%) COBOL
16 15 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 13 (0.57%) JCL
17 13 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 195 (8.55%) Degree
2 111 (4.86%) Security Cleared
3 71 (3.11%) SC Cleared
4 61 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 49 (2.15%) Master's Degree
6 48 (2.10%) PMP
7 46 (2.02%) PMI Certification
8 39 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (1.45%) CISSP
10 27 (1.18%) Azure Certification
11 23 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (0.74%) AWS Certification
13 16 (0.70%) MBA
14 15 (0.66%) CISM
15 14 (0.61%) ISTQB
16 13 (0.57%) CBAP
17 11 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
18 10 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 9 (0.39%) ACCA
19 9 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (5.70%) QA
2 123 (5.39%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.28%) GDPR
4 50 (2.19%) ISO 20022
5 48 (2.10%) PMO
6 37 (1.62%) SLA
7 35 (1.53%) PSD2
8 33 (1.45%) NIST
9 32 (1.40%) SEPA
10 30 (1.31%) PCI DSS
11 29 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 28 (1.23%) GRC
13 25 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 21 (0.92%) MiFID
15 20 (0.88%) Accessibility
16 15 (0.66%) ISO 8583
17 13 (0.57%) Basel III
18 11 (0.48%) IFRS
19 9 (0.39%) EMIR
20 8 (0.35%) GAAP
System Software
1 129 (5.65%) Docker
2 49 (2.15%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.79%) Firmware
5 15 (0.66%) NFS
6 14 (0.61%) vSphere
7 13 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.22%) RACF
9 5 (0.22%) Varnish
9 5 (0.22%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.18%) Postfix
10 4 (0.18%) Sendmail
10 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.18%) XenApp
11 3 (0.13%) SRDF
12 2 (0.088%) ACF2
12 2 (0.088%) GPFS
12 2 (0.088%) GridGain
13 1 (0.044%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 170 (7.45%) Kubernetes
2 85 (3.72%) Terraform
3 68 (2.98%) Ansible
4 34 (1.49%) Grafana
5 26 (1.14%) Prometheus
6 22 (0.96%) SCCM
7 19 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (0.74%) Argo
9 10 (0.44%) Control-M
9 10 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.35%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.35%) Istio
10 8 (0.35%) Puppet
11 6 (0.26%) SnapMirror
12 5 (0.22%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.22%) vRealize
12 5 (0.22%) WSUS
13 4 (0.18%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.18%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 276 (12.09%) Microsoft
2 167 (7.32%) Oracle
3 84 (3.68%) ServiceNow
4 60 (2.63%) Google
5 57 (2.50%) SAP
6 54 (2.37%) Cisco
6 54 (2.37%) IBM
7 51 (2.23%) F5
8 47 (2.06%) Citrix
8 47 (2.06%) VMware
9 46 (2.02%) Splunk
10 39 (1.71%) Databricks
11 28 (1.23%) Temenos
12 26 (1.14%) Avaloq
12 26 (1.14%) Pega
13 25 (1.10%) Murex
13 25 (1.10%) NetApp
14 24 (1.05%) Bloomberg
15 22 (0.96%) Workday
16 21 (0.92%) Remedy