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 23 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 25 24
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,175 2,389 2,980
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.15% 7.60% 7.56%
As % of the General category 11.26% 12.76% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,410 1,584 2,064
10th Percentile £358 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £495 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £608 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% -2.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £695 £750 £750
90th Percentile £818 £850 £850
UK median daily rate £540 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -10.00% -3.23% -4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 11 21
10th Percentile £18.69 £14.50 £15.72
25th Percentile £24.45 £15.24 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £27.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.55% +48.65% -26.00%
75th Percentile - £72.38 £30.00
90th Percentile £56.00 £95.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £27.00 £18.72
% change year-on-year -6.85% +44.27% -42.85%

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 common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 19,313 18,728 23,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 63.53% 59.60% 59.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,225 11,239 16,017
10th Percentile £275 £300 £293
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £670
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,271 707 1,039
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.00 £17.25
Median hourly rate £24.61 £31.62 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.17% -2.71% +26.41%
75th Percentile £46.00 £59.98 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £72.50 £70.78
UK median hourly rate £24.21 £28.00 £31.76
% change year-on-year -13.55% -11.84% +27.04%

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025. 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 1,539 £600 -5.88% 257
North of England +5 405 £465 -7.00% 49
Yorkshire +1 229 £500 -9.09% 17
North West +5 186 £447 -1.60% 30
Midlands +25 169 £460 -16.36% 27
West Midlands +14 97 £525 -14.98% 15
East Midlands +23 74 £410 -3.24% 12
South East -27 45 £425 -15.00% 145
South West +7 35 £525 -4.98% 16
East of England -8 10 £400 -46.67% 7
North East -4 4 - - 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
1 123 (5.66%) Confluence
2 54 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.02%) Apache
4 40 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (1.01%) Apache Spark
6 19 (0.87%) CMS
7 16 (0.74%) CICS
8 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 11 (0.51%) WebSphere
9 9 (0.41%) MQSeries
9 9 (0.41%) Tomcat
10 8 (0.37%) Mule
11 7 (0.32%) HCL Notes
11 7 (0.32%) SAS
12 6 (0.28%) IIS
13 5 (0.23%) JBoss
13 5 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.18%) Anypoint
14 4 (0.18%) Camunda
15 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 117 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (3.72%) Microsoft Office
3 57 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (1.84%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
6 20 (0.92%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 7 (0.32%) Sketch
9 6 (0.28%) Adobe Captivate
10 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.14%) InVision
10 3 (0.14%) Trello
11 2 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.092%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.046%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 24 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
2 21 (0.97%) Oracle Payables
3 20 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
4 13 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
5 12 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
5 12 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
6 11 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
7 10 (0.46%) Oracle EBS R12
7 10 (0.46%) VisionPLUS
8 8 (0.37%) Aladdin
8 8 (0.37%) Oracle E-Business Tax
8 8 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.37%) Temenos T24
9 6 (0.28%) Fidessa
9 6 (0.28%) Loan IQ
9 6 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
10 5 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
10 5 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
11 4 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 340 (15.63%) AWS
2 338 (15.54%) Azure
3 197 (9.06%) GCP
4 135 (6.21%) Power Platform
5 81 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
6 76 (3.49%) GitHub
7 66 (3.03%) Serverless
8 49 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (2.16%) Figma
10 43 (1.98%) Snowflake
11 39 (1.79%) SaaS
12 38 (1.75%) Entra ID
13 37 (1.70%) PowerApps
14 32 (1.47%) dbt
14 32 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
15 29 (1.33%) Power Automate
16 25 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
17 22 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
18 21 (0.97%) Azure AKS
18 21 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 54 (2.48%) Firewall
2 41 (1.89%) DNS
3 36 (1.66%) Network Security
4 29 (1.33%) Wireless
5 25 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 25 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 22 (1.01%) TCP/IP
7 21 (0.97%) DMZ
8 19 (0.87%) HTTP
9 17 (0.78%) Multicast
10 15 (0.69%) SSL
11 13 (0.60%) DHCP
11 13 (0.60%) VPN
11 13 (0.60%) Wireshark
12 12 (0.55%) BIG-IP
13 11 (0.51%) BGP
14 10 (0.46%) LAN
15 9 (0.41%) NetScaler
15 9 (0.41%) SAN
16 8 (0.37%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (5.10%) Power BI
2 94 (4.32%) SQL Server
3 86 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
4 69 (3.17%) NoSQL
5 56 (2.57%) Tableau
6 52 (2.39%) MongoDB
7 46 (2.11%) Data Lake
8 43 (1.98%) Relational Database
9 37 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
11 33 (1.52%) Metadata
12 32 (1.47%) Apache Arrow
12 32 (1.47%) Apache Iceberg
12 32 (1.47%) Apache Ignite
12 32 (1.47%) Dremio
13 29 (1.33%) DB2
14 28 (1.29%) Oracle Database
15 27 (1.24%) Big Data
16 24 (1.10%) Power Query
17 21 (0.97%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 213 (9.79%) JIRA
2 155 (7.13%) Jenkins
3 117 (5.38%) Git
4 82 (3.77%) GitLab
5 50 (2.30%) JUnit
6 40 (1.84%) Sonatype Nexus
7 34 (1.56%) Bitbucket
7 34 (1.56%) Selenium
8 28 (1.29%) Maven
9 26 (1.20%) Cucumber
9 26 (1.20%) Liquibase
10 25 (1.15%) SonarQube
11 20 (0.92%) Postman
12 16 (0.74%) TeamCity
13 15 (0.69%) Gradle
14 13 (0.60%) Cypress.io
14 13 (0.60%) REST Assured
15 11 (0.51%) Fiddler
15 11 (0.51%) webpack
15 11 (0.51%) Xcode
General
1 1,375 (63.22%) Finance
2 799 (36.74%) Social Skills
3 489 (22.48%) Investment Banking
4 306 (14.07%) Analytical Skills
5 208 (9.56%) Front Office
6 138 (6.34%) Financial Institution
7 74 (3.40%) Retail Banking
8 67 (3.08%) Retail
9 54 (2.48%) Corporate Banking
10 50 (2.30%) Legal
11 42 (1.93%) Back Office
12 40 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
13 36 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
14 35 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
14 35 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
15 28 (1.29%) Public Sector
16 25 (1.15%) Private Banking
17 24 (1.10%) International Banking
18 21 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 18 (0.83%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 445 (20.46%) Developer
2 359 (16.51%) Analyst
3 273 (12.55%) Senior
4 236 (10.85%) Business Analyst
5 187 (8.60%) Architect
6 141 (6.48%) Project Manager
7 123 (5.66%) Java Developer
8 107 (4.92%) Lead
9 90 (4.14%) Software Engineer
10 88 (4.05%) Senior Developer
11 71 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
12 64 (2.94%) Banking Analyst
12 64 (2.94%) Consultant
13 60 (2.76%) Python Engineer
14 59 (2.71%) AWS Engineer
15 55 (2.53%) Data Analyst
16 52 (2.39%) Designer
16 52 (2.39%) DevOps Engineer
17 50 (2.30%) Senior Java Developer
18 49 (2.25%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (5.84%) Kafka
2 118 (5.43%) REST
3 101 (4.64%) .NET
4 90 (4.14%) React
4 90 (4.14%) Spring
5 85 (3.91%) RESTful
6 73 (3.36%) Spring Boot
7 72 (3.31%) Pandas
8 69 (3.17%) NumPy
9 59 (2.71%) AngularJS
9 59 (2.71%) HTML
10 52 (2.39%) SciPy
11 49 (2.25%) CSS
12 42 (1.93%) Node.js
13 40 (1.84%) Elastic Stack
14 36 (1.66%) FIX Protocol
14 36 (1.66%) gRPC
15 35 (1.61%) XML
16 34 (1.56%) Middleware
17 32 (1.47%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 156 (7.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 149 (6.85%) Derivative
3 114 (5.24%) Onboarding
4 105 (4.83%) Product Ownership
5 103 (4.74%) Cloud Native
6 98 (4.51%) Equities
7 97 (4.46%) Fixed Income
8 83 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
9 79 (3.63%) Management Information System
10 78 (3.59%) Hedge funds
11 67 (3.08%) Data Centre
12 65 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
13 56 (2.57%) Mobile App
14 50 (2.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 48 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
16 43 (1.98%) Public Cloud
17 39 (1.79%) Market Risk
18 37 (1.70%) Data Structures
19 34 (1.56%) Credit Risk
20 32 (1.47%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 167 (7.68%) Linux
2 126 (5.79%) Windows
3 55 (2.53%) Android
4 47 (2.16%) Unix
5 28 (1.29%) Apple iOS
6 27 (1.24%) Mac OS
6 27 (1.24%) Windows 10
7 20 (0.92%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.37%) zOS
9 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.092%) AIX
10 2 (0.092%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.092%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.092%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.046%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.046%) Solaris
11 1 (0.046%) VMS
11 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 614 (28.23%) Agile
2 401 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
3 323 (14.85%) DevOps
4 310 (14.25%) CI/CD
5 300 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 219 (10.07%) Analytics
7 205 (9.43%) Microservices
8 184 (8.46%) Risk Management
9 171 (7.86%) Project Management
10 169 (7.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 163 (7.49%) Software Engineering
12 154 (7.08%) Migration
13 151 (6.94%) Change Management
13 151 (6.94%) Decision-Making
14 139 (6.39%) Containerisation
15 134 (6.16%) Roadmaps
16 133 (6.11%) Scrum
17 132 (6.07%) Data Analysis
18 130 (5.98%) Business Intelligence
19 128 (5.89%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 430 (19.77%) Python
2 373 (17.15%) SQL
3 349 (16.05%) Java
4 151 (6.94%) C#
5 136 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 81 (3.72%) TypeScript
7 58 (2.67%) C++
8 56 (2.57%) PowerShell
9 53 (2.44%) Go
10 37 (1.70%) Shell Script
11 28 (1.29%) Bash
11 28 (1.29%) PL/SQL
12 25 (1.15%) Kotlin
13 24 (1.10%) VBA
14 20 (0.92%) Rust
15 19 (0.87%) Scala
16 17 (0.78%) COBOL
17 15 (0.69%) T-SQL
18 14 (0.64%) Swift
19 13 (0.60%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 243 (11.17%) Degree
2 90 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 87 (4.00%) Security Cleared
4 61 (2.80%) Master's Degree
5 48 (2.21%) PMI Certification
6 44 (2.02%) PMP
7 43 (1.98%) SC Cleared
8 31 (1.43%) CISSP
9 30 (1.38%) AWS Certification
9 30 (1.38%) Azure Certification
10 26 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (0.92%) DV Cleared
13 14 (0.64%) CISM
14 13 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 12 (0.55%) BC Cleared
15 12 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
16 9 (0.41%) CCNP
16 9 (0.41%) PhD
17 7 (0.32%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (5.79%) QA
2 77 (3.54%) Data Quality
3 54 (2.48%) GDPR
4 44 (2.02%) Accessibility
4 44 (2.02%) PMO
5 42 (1.93%) ISO 20022
6 31 (1.43%) SEPA
7 30 (1.38%) NIST
8 27 (1.24%) SLA
9 26 (1.20%) MiFID
10 23 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 22 (1.01%) PSD2
12 19 (0.87%) GRC
12 19 (0.87%) PCI DSS
13 18 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 16 (0.74%) EMIR
15 15 (0.69%) Basel III
16 9 (0.41%) IFRS
17 7 (0.32%) SOC 2
18 6 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 176 (8.09%) Docker
2 45 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (1.93%) Active Directory
4 14 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.60%) Firmware
6 6 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.23%) RACF
7 5 (0.23%) Time Sharing Option
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.14%) XenApp
9 3 (0.14%) XenDesktop
10 2 (0.092%) ACF2
10 2 (0.092%) GridGain
10 2 (0.092%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.092%) NFS
10 2 (0.092%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 2 (0.092%) vSphere
11 1 (0.046%) KVM
11 1 (0.046%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 203 (9.33%) Kubernetes
2 116 (5.33%) Terraform
3 81 (3.72%) Ansible
4 45 (2.07%) Grafana
5 44 (2.02%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.83%) SCCM
7 13 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
8 12 (0.55%) Argo
8 12 (0.55%) NetBackup
9 11 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
10 9 (0.41%) Control-M
10 9 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.37%) CA Endevor
11 8 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.32%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.28%) Istio
13 6 (0.28%) Kibana
13 6 (0.28%) RSA Archer
14 5 (0.23%) QRadar
14 5 (0.23%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 252 (11.59%) Microsoft
2 142 (6.53%) Oracle
3 101 (4.64%) Google
4 60 (2.76%) Splunk
5 52 (2.39%) VMware
6 51 (2.34%) IBM
7 42 (1.93%) Cisco
8 40 (1.84%) ServiceNow
9 38 (1.75%) F5
9 38 (1.75%) Salesforce
10 36 (1.66%) HP
11 32 (1.47%) Apple
11 32 (1.47%) Dell
12 31 (1.43%) CyberArk
13 29 (1.33%) SAP
14 28 (1.29%) Citrix
15 27 (1.24%) Databricks
16 25 (1.15%) Dynatrace
17 24 (1.10%) Bloomberg
18 23 (1.06%) Solace