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 14 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,468 1,985 2,448
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.77% 8.05% 6.52%
As % of the General category 10.60% 12.51% 11.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,503 1,359 1,808
10th Percentile £388 £358 £400
25th Percentile £448 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -6.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £775
90th Percentile £788 £838 £875
UK median daily rate £538 £568 £600
% change year-on-year -5.29% -5.42% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 25
10th Percentile - £17.10 £12.34
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.88 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £24.66 £19.05
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% +29.45% +2.97%
75th Percentile £66.88 £25.03 £27.00
90th Percentile £96.38 £75.63 £86.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £22.27 £19.05
% change year-on-year +15.72% +16.90% -26.28%

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 23,290 15,868 21,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.47% 64.34% 57.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,227 10,218 13,751
10th Percentile £313 £281 £281
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -2.35% -3.18%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £650
90th Percentile £745 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +1.69% -4.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,608 748 1,833
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.43 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.08 £31.97
Median % change year-on-year +15.76% -12.18% +4.82%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £52.78
90th Percentile £81.41 £75.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £30.83
% change year-on-year +14.29% -9.16% -0.17%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 14 June 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 1,713 £575 -11.54% 339
North of England -3 511 £480 +7.87% 65
North West +4 269 £445 +10.76% 40
Yorkshire -7 233 £500 +2.56% 22
Midlands -3 192 £519 +24.19% 28
West Midlands +30 139 £575 +4.55% 21
East Midlands -23 53 £465 +19.08% 7
South East -51 39 £550 +4.76% 84
South West -21 37 £510 +2.00% 12
East of England -19 17 £505 -15.83% 9
North East -25 13 £875 +108.33% 3
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
1 177 (7.17%) Confluence
2 53 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.09%) SAS
4 17 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (0.69%) Apache Spark
4 17 (0.69%) IIS
5 11 (0.45%) Apache
6 10 (0.41%) CICS
7 8 (0.32%) Camunda
7 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.28%) Ethereum
8 7 (0.28%) Hyperledger
9 6 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.24%) Appian
9 6 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.12%) WordPress
12 2 (0.081%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.081%) CMS
12 2 (0.081%) WebSphere
Applications
1 119 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 55 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
4 43 (1.74%) MS Visio
5 24 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.12%) Sketch
7 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.081%) InVision
8 2 (0.081%) Notion
8 2 (0.081%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 26 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.01%) Oracle Payables
2 25 (1.01%) Oracle Receivables
3 19 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.69%) Temenos T24
5 16 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 15 (0.61%) Loan IQ
7 14 (0.57%) Finacle
8 12 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
9 10 (0.41%) Aladdin
10 8 (0.32%) Actimize
10 8 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
10 8 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
11 7 (0.28%) SAP CO
11 7 (0.28%) SAP FI
11 7 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
11 7 (0.28%) Summit
12 6 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 5 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
14 4 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 376 (15.24%) Azure
2 323 (13.09%) AWS
3 156 (6.32%) GCP
4 132 (5.35%) Power Platform
5 80 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
6 79 (3.20%) GitHub
7 58 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
8 54 (2.19%) SaaS
9 45 (1.82%) Snowflake
10 40 (1.62%) OpenShift
11 35 (1.42%) Entra ID
12 32 (1.30%) Amazon S3
13 30 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
14 28 (1.13%) Figma
15 26 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
15 26 (1.05%) Serverless
16 24 (0.97%) OCI
17 23 (0.93%) Power Automate
18 21 (0.85%) PowerApps
19 20 (0.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 72 (2.92%) DNS
2 60 (2.43%) Firewall
3 57 (2.31%) VPN
4 47 (1.90%) Network Security
5 39 (1.58%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.26%) HTTP
6 31 (1.26%) Multicast
7 28 (1.13%) BGP
8 27 (1.09%) SSL
9 24 (0.97%) DMZ
9 24 (0.97%) SAN
10 23 (0.93%) BIG-IP
11 22 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 21 (0.85%) FIX Connectivity
13 20 (0.81%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 20 (0.81%) Wireshark
14 16 (0.65%) DHCP
15 13 (0.53%) NetScaler
16 11 (0.45%) Internet
17 10 (0.41%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (4.58%) SQL Server
2 109 (4.42%) Power BI
3 67 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
4 64 (2.59%) Metadata
5 55 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
6 54 (2.19%) Relational Database
7 52 (2.11%) Tableau
8 43 (1.74%) Oracle Database
9 33 (1.34%) MongoDB
10 27 (1.09%) Big Data
11 26 (1.05%) NoSQL
12 22 (0.89%) Data Lake
13 19 (0.77%) Db2
14 18 (0.73%) BigQuery
14 18 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 16 (0.65%) RDBMS
16 15 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
16 15 (0.61%) Power Query
17 14 (0.57%) Data Vault
17 14 (0.57%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 269 (10.90%) JIRA
2 104 (4.21%) Jenkins
3 97 (3.93%) Git
4 65 (2.63%) GitLab
5 38 (1.54%) JUnit
6 24 (0.97%) Selenium
7 22 (0.89%) Cucumber
8 19 (0.77%) Bitbucket
8 19 (0.77%) TeamCity
9 18 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
10 17 (0.69%) Fiddler
10 17 (0.69%) Postman
11 14 (0.57%) SonarQube
12 13 (0.53%) Mockito
12 13 (0.53%) REST Assured
13 12 (0.49%) ER Studio
13 12 (0.49%) ERwin
14 10 (0.41%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.41%) Maven
15 8 (0.32%) Gradle
General
1 1,509 (61.14%) Finance
2 649 (26.30%) Social Skills
3 531 (21.52%) Investment Banking
4 329 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 212 (8.59%) Front Office
6 118 (4.78%) Financial Institution
7 110 (4.46%) Retail Banking
8 96 (3.89%) Retail
9 89 (3.61%) Corporate Banking
10 84 (3.40%) Legal
11 59 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
12 52 (2.11%) Public Sector
13 48 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
14 42 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
15 32 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
16 31 (1.26%) Private Banking
17 25 (1.01%) Back Office
18 24 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 23 (0.93%) Law
20 22 (0.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 434 (17.59%) Developer
2 384 (15.56%) Analyst
3 325 (13.17%) Senior
4 282 (11.43%) Architect
5 257 (10.41%) Business Analyst
6 197 (7.98%) Lead
7 150 (6.08%) Java Developer
8 132 (5.35%) Solutions Architect
9 112 (4.54%) Senior Developer
10 109 (4.42%) Project Manager
11 94 (3.81%) Banking Analyst
12 91 (3.69%) Data Engineer
13 81 (3.28%) Consultant
14 68 (2.76%) Senior Java Developer
15 63 (2.55%) Banking Business Analyst
16 59 (2.39%) Payments Architect
17 54 (2.19%) Network Engineer
17 54 (2.19%) Payments Solutions Architect
18 51 (2.07%) C# Developer
18 51 (2.07%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (5.31%) React
2 116 (4.70%) Kafka
3 114 (4.62%) .NET
4 90 (3.65%) Middleware
4 90 (3.65%) Spring
5 87 (3.53%) REST
6 77 (3.12%) Spring Boot
7 66 (2.67%) RESTful
8 56 (2.27%) HTML
9 50 (2.03%) Redux
10 48 (1.94%) CSS
11 45 (1.82%) OAuth
12 40 (1.62%) AngularJS
13 38 (1.54%) FIX Protocol
14 37 (1.50%) XML
15 35 (1.42%) JSON
16 34 (1.38%) OAuth2
17 26 (1.05%) PySpark
18 25 (1.01%) Node.js
19 24 (0.97%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 183 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 125 (5.06%) Derivative
3 122 (4.94%) Onboarding
4 120 (4.86%) Cloud Native
5 118 (4.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 96 (3.89%) Fixed Income
7 89 (3.61%) Management Information System
8 78 (3.16%) Equities
9 76 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
10 73 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
11 69 (2.80%) Data Structures
12 53 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
13 50 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
14 49 (1.99%) Credit Risk
15 45 (1.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 43 (1.74%) Data Centre
17 42 (1.70%) Mainframe
17 42 (1.70%) Market Risk
18 36 (1.46%) AI Agents
19 35 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 149 (6.04%) Windows
2 128 (5.19%) Linux
3 86 (3.48%) Unix
4 25 (1.01%) Apple iOS
4 25 (1.01%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.01%) zOS
5 24 (0.97%) Android
5 24 (0.97%) Windows 10
6 23 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.45%) AIX
8 10 (0.41%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.32%) Solaris
10 7 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
11 6 (0.24%) VMS
11 6 (0.24%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.20%) CoreOS
12 5 (0.20%) HPUX
12 5 (0.20%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.20%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 563 (22.81%) Agile
2 456 (18.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 350 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
4 348 (14.10%) CI/CD
5 313 (12.68%) DevOps
6 297 (12.03%) Migration
7 284 (11.51%) AI
8 217 (8.79%) Analytics
9 214 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 214 (8.67%) Data Modelling
10 193 (7.82%) Roadmaps
11 186 (7.54%) Microservices
12 181 (7.33%) Validation
13 174 (7.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 169 (6.85%) User Acceptance Testing
15 159 (6.44%) Decision-Making
16 158 (6.40%) Risk Management
17 152 (6.16%) Test Automation
18 148 (6.00%) Software Engineering
19 145 (5.88%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 398 (16.13%) SQL
2 351 (14.22%) Python
3 344 (13.94%) Java
4 173 (7.01%) C#
5 126 (5.11%) JavaScript
6 103 (4.17%) TypeScript
7 70 (2.84%) PowerShell
8 58 (2.35%) PL/SQL
9 43 (1.74%) Bash
10 42 (1.70%) Shell Script
11 36 (1.46%) T-SQL
12 31 (1.26%) Kotlin
13 23 (0.93%) C++
14 20 (0.81%) Korn
14 20 (0.81%) VBA
15 19 (0.77%) Go
16 17 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 15 (0.61%) Scala
18 12 (0.49%) JCL
19 10 (0.41%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 185 (7.50%) Degree
2 121 (4.90%) Security Cleared
3 82 (3.32%) SC Cleared
4 59 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 45 (1.82%) PMP
6 41 (1.66%) PMI Certification
7 38 (1.54%) Master's Degree
8 37 (1.50%) CISSP
9 31 (1.26%) Azure Certification
10 25 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
11 19 (0.77%) AWS Certification
12 18 (0.73%) CISM
13 14 (0.57%) MBA
14 12 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 12 (0.49%) ISTQB
15 11 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.41%) CISA
17 9 (0.36%) CCSP
17 9 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (5.31%) Data Quality
2 127 (5.15%) QA
3 51 (2.07%) ISO 20022
3 51 (2.07%) PMO
4 47 (1.90%) GDPR
5 36 (1.46%) PSD2
6 34 (1.38%) SLA
7 33 (1.34%) NIST
8 31 (1.26%) SEPA
9 29 (1.18%) GRC
10 28 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 27 (1.09%) Accessibility
11 27 (1.09%) PCI DSS
12 21 (0.85%) MiFID
13 20 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (0.49%) ISO 8583
15 11 (0.45%) Basel III
16 10 (0.41%) GAAP
17 9 (0.36%) EMIR
17 9 (0.36%) IFRS
System Software
1 124 (5.02%) Docker
2 52 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.69%) Firmware
5 16 (0.65%) NFS
5 16 (0.65%) vSphere
6 12 (0.49%) RACF
6 12 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.24%) Varnish
9 5 (0.20%) Postfix
10 4 (0.16%) Sendmail
10 4 (0.16%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.12%) ACF2
11 3 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.12%) SRDF
11 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.12%) XenApp
12 2 (0.081%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.081%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 160 (6.48%) Kubernetes
2 86 (3.48%) Terraform
3 81 (3.28%) Ansible
4 36 (1.46%) Grafana
5 30 (1.22%) Prometheus
6 20 (0.81%) SCCM
7 18 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
8 15 (0.61%) Argo
9 12 (0.49%) Control-M
10 11 (0.45%) Istio
11 9 (0.36%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (0.32%) OMEGAMON
13 7 (0.28%) Puppet
13 7 (0.28%) WSUS
14 6 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
14 6 (0.24%) SnapMirror
15 5 (0.20%) HAProxy
15 5 (0.20%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 284 (11.51%) Microsoft
2 197 (7.98%) Oracle
3 87 (3.53%) ServiceNow
4 65 (2.63%) Google
5 60 (2.43%) IBM
6 56 (2.27%) SAP
7 53 (2.15%) Databricks
8 52 (2.11%) Cisco
9 50 (2.03%) Splunk
10 49 (1.99%) Citrix
10 49 (1.99%) F5
11 42 (1.70%) VMware
12 30 (1.22%) Salesforce
13 29 (1.18%) Avaloq
13 29 (1.18%) Murex
13 29 (1.18%) Temenos
14 28 (1.13%) Pega
15 25 (1.01%) Bloomberg
16 24 (0.97%) NetApp
16 24 (0.97%) Workday