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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 23 22
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,819 2,133 2,463
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.06% 7.63% 7.67%
As % of the General category 10.72% 11.94% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,772 1,428 1,677
10th Percentile £400 £350 £400
25th Percentile £458 £422 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £552 £613
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -9.88% -2.00%
75th Percentile £688 £706 £775
90th Percentile £800 £825 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 31 11
10th Percentile £16.04 £19.18 -
25th Percentile £16.83 - £14.50
Median hourly rate £17.25 £25.15 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.41% +57.19% -13.51%
75th Percentile £19.69 - £35.38
90th Percentile £22.03 £70.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £17.25 £25.15 £16.00
% change year-on-year -31.41% +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 26,286 17,862 18,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.47% 63.91% 58.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,330 11,337 11,341
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,416 1,048 851
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.51 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.62 £16.29 £18.00
Median hourly rate £29.01 £25.15 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -29.15% +19.33%
75th Percentile £56.00 £45.19 £61.52
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £27.85 £25.08 £33.52
% change year-on-year +11.07% -25.19% +21.89%

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 7 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 7 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 -5 2,076 £600 -4.00% 2,643
North of England -15 486 £500 +11.86% 258
Yorkshire -7 245 £511 +7.35% 109
North West -7 236 £500 +16.28% 130
Midlands -35 139 £475 +5.91% 112
West Midlands -21 100 £523 -3.24% 48
South West -30 50 £503 -6.51% 97
East of England +21 48 £555 -20.71% 25
South East -49 40 £500 +17.65% 224
East Midlands -37 39 £465 +16.98% 63
North East -37 9 £875 +108.33% 19
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 (5.46%) Confluence
2 62 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.10%) Apache
4 28 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.92%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.60%) SAS
7 16 (0.57%) Camunda
8 13 (0.46%) CICS
8 13 (0.46%) IIS
9 12 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.32%) Appian
11 8 (0.28%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
12 6 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 5 (0.18%) MTS
14 4 (0.14%) CMS
14 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
14 4 (0.14%) WordPress
15 3 (0.11%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 101 (3.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (1.10%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.18%) 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
10 1 (0.035%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.035%) LaTeX
10 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.035%) Sketch
10 1 (0.035%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 22 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
2 20 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
3 19 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.57%) Finacle
5 15 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.53%) Oracle General Ledger
5 15 (0.53%) Temenos T24
6 10 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
6 10 (0.35%) FLEXCUBE
6 10 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
7 9 (0.32%) Aladdin
7 9 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
8 8 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
8 8 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
9 7 (0.25%) OpenText MBPM
9 7 (0.25%) Oracle BPM
10 6 (0.21%) Loan IQ
10 6 (0.21%) Workday HCM
11 5 (0.18%) NetSuite
11 5 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 455 (16.14%) Azure
2 374 (13.27%) AWS
3 208 (7.38%) GCP
4 149 (5.29%) Power Platform
5 96 (3.41%) GitHub
6 89 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
7 83 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
8 70 (2.48%) SaaS
9 69 (2.45%) Snowflake
10 60 (2.13%) Entra ID
11 42 (1.49%) Amazon S3
12 41 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
12 41 (1.45%) OpenShift
13 38 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
14 37 (1.31%) Serverless
15 30 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
16 28 (0.99%) dbt
17 26 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
18 25 (0.89%) Microsoft Copilot
19 24 (0.85%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 92 (3.26%) Firewall
2 70 (2.48%) VPN
3 64 (2.27%) Network Security
4 50 (1.77%) DNS
5 35 (1.24%) TCP/IP
6 29 (1.03%) BGP
6 29 (1.03%) Multicast
7 28 (0.99%) SSL
8 27 (0.96%) WAN
9 19 (0.67%) HTTP
9 19 (0.67%) LAN
10 17 (0.60%) BIG-IP
10 17 (0.60%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 17 (0.60%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 16 (0.57%) DMZ
12 15 (0.53%) Wireshark
13 14 (0.50%) MPLS
14 13 (0.46%) Cisco IOS
15 12 (0.43%) DHCP
16 11 (0.39%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (4.47%) SQL Server
2 125 (4.43%) Power BI
3 101 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
4 77 (2.73%) Relational Database
5 75 (2.66%) Metadata
6 56 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
7 53 (1.88%) Oracle Database
8 42 (1.49%) Data Lake
9 35 (1.24%) MongoDB
10 28 (0.99%) Tableau
11 24 (0.85%) Db2
11 24 (0.85%) NoSQL
12 22 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
12 22 (0.78%) BigQuery
13 20 (0.71%) Apache Cassandra
13 20 (0.71%) Big Data
14 19 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 18 (0.64%) RDBMS
16 17 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
16 17 (0.60%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 281 (9.97%) JIRA
2 159 (5.64%) Git
3 115 (4.08%) Jenkins
4 65 (2.31%) GitLab
5 47 (1.67%) Selenium
6 40 (1.42%) JUnit
7 26 (0.92%) Gradle
8 25 (0.89%) Cucumber
8 25 (0.89%) Maven
9 24 (0.85%) SonarQube
10 22 (0.78%) Bitbucket
10 22 (0.78%) REST Assured
11 19 (0.67%) Mockito
11 19 (0.67%) Postman
12 18 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
13 15 (0.53%) Cypress.io
13 15 (0.53%) ER Studio
13 15 (0.53%) TeamCity
14 14 (0.50%) ERwin
15 12 (0.43%) JMeter
General
1 1,911 (67.79%) Finance
2 827 (29.34%) Social Skills
3 540 (19.16%) Investment Banking
4 433 (15.36%) Analytical Skills
5 249 (8.83%) Front Office
6 154 (5.46%) Financial Institution
7 111 (3.94%) Retail Banking
8 108 (3.83%) Retail
9 80 (2.84%) Corporate Banking
10 79 (2.80%) Legal
11 77 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
12 66 (2.34%) Private Banking
13 62 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
14 54 (1.92%) Back Office
15 53 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
16 39 (1.38%) Public Sector
17 36 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
18 34 (1.21%) General Ledger
19 31 (1.10%) Manufacturing
20 30 (1.06%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 477 (16.92%) Developer
2 419 (14.86%) Senior
3 403 (14.30%) Analyst
4 277 (9.83%) Architect
5 276 (9.79%) Lead
6 241 (8.55%) Business Analyst
7 152 (5.39%) Java Developer
8 143 (5.07%) Project Manager
9 105 (3.72%) Data Engineer
10 103 (3.65%) Senior Developer
11 96 (3.41%) Consultant
12 87 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
13 71 (2.52%) Banking Analyst
14 68 (2.41%) Software Engineer
15 67 (2.38%) Network Engineer
16 58 (2.06%) Data Analyst
17 56 (1.99%) Java Engineer
17 56 (1.99%) Python Developer
18 55 (1.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 51 (1.81%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (5.68%) Kafka
2 145 (5.14%) REST
3 141 (5.00%) React
4 121 (4.29%) Terraform
5 115 (4.08%) .NET
6 113 (4.01%) Spring
7 109 (3.87%) Spring Boot
8 84 (2.98%) Middleware
9 59 (2.09%) Redux
10 57 (2.02%) HTML
11 53 (1.88%) RESTful
12 48 (1.70%) CSS
13 46 (1.63%) PySpark
14 44 (1.56%) OAuth
15 35 (1.24%) JSON
16 33 (1.17%) AngularJS
16 33 (1.17%) LangChain
16 33 (1.17%) XML
17 32 (1.14%) FIX Protocol
18 28 (0.99%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 234 (8.30%) Product Ownership
2 198 (7.02%) Onboarding
3 190 (6.74%) Cloud Native
4 138 (4.90%) Derivative
5 120 (4.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 100 (3.55%) Fixed Income
7 97 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
8 87 (3.09%) Management Information System
9 83 (2.94%) AI Agents
10 82 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
11 78 (2.77%) Equities
12 67 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
13 66 (2.34%) Data Structures
14 63 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
15 62 (2.20%) Credit Risk
16 59 (2.09%) Data Centre
17 57 (2.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
18 56 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
19 53 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
20 52 (1.84%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 163 (5.78%) Linux
2 146 (5.18%) Windows
3 97 (3.44%) Unix
4 45 (1.60%) Windows Server
5 30 (1.06%) zOS
6 27 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 26 (0.92%) Android
8 23 (0.82%) Apple iOS
9 16 (0.57%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.39%) AIX
11 8 (0.28%) Solaris
11 8 (0.28%) Windows 10
12 7 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
13 6 (0.21%) HPUX
13 6 (0.21%) SUSE
14 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.11%) CentOS
15 3 (0.11%) MVS
15 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
16 2 (0.071%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 778 (27.60%) Stakeholder Management
2 698 (24.76%) Agile
3 478 (16.96%) CI/CD
4 419 (14.86%) AI
5 418 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
6 374 (13.27%) DevOps
7 365 (12.95%) Migration
8 318 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 281 (9.97%) Analytics
10 278 (9.86%) Roadmaps
11 250 (8.87%) Validation
12 237 (8.41%) Data Modelling
13 235 (8.34%) Microservices
14 228 (8.09%) Software Engineering
15 218 (7.73%) Risk Management
16 215 (7.63%) Decision-Making
17 208 (7.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 204 (7.24%) Test Automation
19 202 (7.17%) User Acceptance Testing
20 201 (7.13%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 548 (19.44%) SQL
2 438 (15.54%) Python
3 386 (13.69%) Java
4 177 (6.28%) C#
5 147 (5.21%) JavaScript
6 113 (4.01%) TypeScript
7 94 (3.33%) PowerShell
8 73 (2.59%) PL/SQL
9 71 (2.52%) Bash
10 51 (1.81%) Shell Script
11 48 (1.70%) Kotlin
12 36 (1.28%) T-SQL
13 35 (1.24%) C++
14 27 (0.96%) Korn
15 20 (0.71%) Go
16 16 (0.57%) VBA
17 15 (0.53%) JCL
18 13 (0.46%) COBOL
19 12 (0.43%) Bicep
20 11 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 196 (6.95%) Degree
2 130 (4.61%) Security Cleared
3 103 (3.65%) SC Cleared
4 70 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (2.23%) PMP
6 59 (2.09%) PMI Certification
7 36 (1.28%) CISSP
8 29 (1.03%) AWS Certification
9 28 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (0.89%) ACCA
10 25 (0.89%) Azure Certification
11 24 (0.85%) Master's Degree
12 22 (0.78%) CIMA
13 20 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (0.71%) ISTQB
14 15 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 13 (0.46%) CCNP
15 13 (0.46%) CISM
16 12 (0.43%) CBAP
17 11 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (6.92%) Data Quality
2 152 (5.39%) QA
3 54 (1.92%) ISO 20022
4 51 (1.81%) PMO
5 40 (1.42%) GRC
6 39 (1.38%) SEPA
7 32 (1.14%) NIST
8 29 (1.03%) GDPR
9 28 (0.99%) SLA
10 26 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 23 (0.82%) Accessibility
12 22 (0.78%) MiFID
13 19 (0.67%) IFRS
13 19 (0.67%) PSD2
14 14 (0.50%) EMIR
15 13 (0.46%) PCI DSS
16 12 (0.43%) Basel III
17 8 (0.28%) COREP
17 8 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 8 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 125 (4.43%) Docker
2 68 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.74%) RACF
5 12 (0.43%) Firmware
6 10 (0.35%) vSphere
7 8 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
9 5 (0.18%) ACF2
9 5 (0.18%) NFS
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
11 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.071%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.071%) GPFS
12 2 (0.071%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.071%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.071%) Postfix
12 2 (0.071%) Varnish
12 2 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 184 (6.53%) Kubernetes
2 83 (2.94%) Ansible
3 30 (1.06%) Grafana
4 28 (0.99%) Prometheus
5 20 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (0.64%) SCCM
7 16 (0.57%) Control-M
8 15 (0.53%) OMEGAMON
9 12 (0.43%) Argo
9 12 (0.43%) Istio
10 10 (0.35%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.28%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
12 6 (0.21%) Tivoli
13 5 (0.18%) HP ALM
13 5 (0.18%) systemd
14 3 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
14 3 (0.11%) Kibana
14 3 (0.11%) QRadar
Vendors
1 295 (10.46%) Microsoft
2 215 (7.63%) Oracle
3 113 (4.01%) IBM
4 106 (3.76%) Databricks
5 87 (3.09%) ServiceNow
6 69 (2.45%) Cisco
7 66 (2.34%) Google
8 61 (2.16%) Salesforce
9 54 (1.92%) Splunk
10 49 (1.74%) SAP
11 42 (1.49%) Citrix
12 38 (1.35%) CyberArk
12 38 (1.35%) F5
12 38 (1.35%) OpenAI
13 35 (1.24%) VMware
14 33 (1.17%) Murex
15 31 (1.10%) Bloomberg
16 28 (0.99%) Dynatrace
17 26 (0.92%) Avaloq
18 24 (0.85%) Fortinet