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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 24 24
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,309 1,893 2,324
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.59% 7.89% 6.39%
As % of the General category 10.35% 12.31% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 1,267 1,727
10th Percentile £379 £358 £391
25th Percentile £447 £447 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £775
90th Percentile £775 £850 £874
UK median daily rate £525 £588 £613
% change year-on-year -10.64% -4.08% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 17 23
10th Percentile - £16.76 £12.17
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.51 £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 £24.86 £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 22,317 15,380 21,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.04% 64.14% 58.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,762 9,956 13,647
10th Percentile £310 £287 £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 £626 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £510 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,495 664 1,773
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.80 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.22 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -8.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £61.34 £55.06 £51.91
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £66.25
UK median hourly rate £30.08 £27.57 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.10% -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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -8 1,592 £575 -11.54% 385
North of England +1 487 £475 +6.26% 76
North West +9 257 £441 +3.76% 46
Yorkshire -6 224 £500 +3.90% 26
Midlands +3 181 £519 +20.06% 22
West Midlands +33 129 £575 +2.04% 19
East Midlands -19 52 £465 +19.23% 3
South West -26 36 £500 -4.76% 15
South East -42 35 £545 -5.22% 106
East of England -21 15 £505 -15.83% 7
North East -23 10 £400 -4.76% 4
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 (7.23%) Confluence
2 47 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.04%) SAS
4 18 (0.78%) IIS
5 15 (0.65%) Apache Spark
6 14 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (0.43%) Apache
7 10 (0.43%) CICS
7 10 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.17%) Camunda
10 4 (0.17%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.17%) Hyperledger
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.13%) Appian
11 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.087%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.087%) CMS
12 2 (0.087%) Jupyter
Applications
1 127 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (2.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 59 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
4 44 (1.91%) MS Visio
5 27 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.35%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.22%) Notion
8 2 (0.087%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.087%) InVision
8 2 (0.087%) Sketch
8 2 (0.087%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.087%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 26 (1.13%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
3 23 (1.00%) Oracle Receivables
4 18 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
5 17 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
5 17 (0.74%) Temenos T24
6 16 (0.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 15 (0.65%) Loan IQ
8 12 (0.52%) 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
1 359 (15.55%) Azure
2 314 (13.60%) AWS
3 147 (6.37%) GCP
4 113 (4.89%) Power Platform
5 85 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
6 79 (3.42%) GitHub
7 58 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
8 55 (2.38%) SaaS
9 37 (1.60%) Figma
10 33 (1.43%) Entra ID
10 33 (1.43%) OpenShift
10 33 (1.43%) Snowflake
11 29 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
12 27 (1.17%) Serverless
13 26 (1.13%) Amazon S3
14 24 (1.04%) OCI
15 23 (1.00%) Power Automate
16 21 (0.91%) PaaS
17 20 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
17 20 (0.87%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (3.03%) DNS
2 56 (2.43%) VPN
3 53 (2.30%) Firewall
4 42 (1.82%) Network Security
5 37 (1.60%) HTTP
5 37 (1.60%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.30%) Multicast
7 27 (1.17%) BGP
8 23 (1.00%) BIG-IP
8 23 (1.00%) SSL
9 22 (0.95%) DMZ
9 22 (0.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 22 (0.95%) SAN
10 21 (0.91%) FIX Connectivity
10 21 (0.91%) Wireshark
11 20 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 14 (0.61%) DHCP
12 14 (0.61%) NetScaler
13 10 (0.43%) Internet
13 10 (0.43%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (4.33%) SQL Server
2 91 (3.94%) Power BI
3 60 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
4 58 (2.51%) Metadata
5 53 (2.30%) Tableau
6 50 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
7 43 (1.86%) Oracle Database
7 43 (1.86%) Relational Database
8 34 (1.47%) MongoDB
9 32 (1.39%) NoSQL
10 23 (1.00%) Big Data
11 20 (0.87%) DB2
12 18 (0.78%) BigQuery
13 16 (0.69%) Data Lake
13 16 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (0.56%) DataStage
14 13 (0.56%) Pinecone
14 13 (0.56%) Weaviate
15 12 (0.52%) RDBMS
16 11 (0.48%) KDB
Development Applications
1 260 (11.26%) JIRA
2 102 (4.42%) Jenkins
3 89 (3.85%) Git
4 58 (2.51%) GitLab
5 33 (1.43%) JUnit
6 25 (1.08%) Selenium
7 21 (0.91%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.78%) Fiddler
9 17 (0.74%) Postman
10 16 (0.69%) TeamCity
11 15 (0.65%) Bitbucket
11 15 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
12 13 (0.56%) REST Assured
12 13 (0.56%) SonarQube
13 11 (0.48%) Maven
13 11 (0.48%) Mockito
14 10 (0.43%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.39%) ERwin
16 8 (0.35%) Appium
16 8 (0.35%) ER Studio
General
1 1,415 (61.28%) Finance
2 618 (26.76%) Social Skills
3 479 (20.74%) Investment Banking
4 321 (13.90%) Analytical Skills
5 181 (7.84%) Front Office
6 111 (4.81%) Financial Institution
6 111 (4.81%) Retail Banking
7 88 (3.81%) Retail
8 86 (3.72%) Corporate Banking
9 74 (3.20%) Legal
10 61 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
11 53 (2.30%) Public Sector
12 40 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
13 39 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
14 35 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (1.13%) General Ledger
16 25 (1.08%) Private Banking
17 24 (1.04%) Marketing
18 23 (1.00%) Back Office
19 22 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 378 (16.37%) Analyst
2 377 (16.33%) Developer
3 305 (13.21%) Senior
4 273 (11.82%) Architect
5 266 (11.52%) Business Analyst
6 178 (7.71%) Lead
7 134 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
8 115 (4.98%) Java Developer
9 102 (4.42%) Project Manager
10 92 (3.98%) Banking Analyst
11 91 (3.94%) Senior Developer
12 85 (3.68%) Consultant
13 82 (3.55%) Data Engineer
14 62 (2.69%) Banking Business Analyst
15 58 (2.51%) Payments Architect
16 55 (2.38%) Network Engineer
17 53 (2.30%) Payments Solutions Architect
18 51 (2.21%) Designer
19 49 (2.12%) C# Developer
20 46 (1.99%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (4.72%) Kafka
2 107 (4.63%) .NET
3 90 (3.90%) React
4 81 (3.51%) Middleware
5 78 (3.38%) Spring
6 71 (3.07%) REST
7 65 (2.82%) Spring Boot
8 58 (2.51%) RESTful
9 55 (2.38%) HTML
10 44 (1.91%) CSS
11 43 (1.86%) OAuth
12 38 (1.65%) AngularJS
12 38 (1.65%) FIX Protocol
12 38 (1.65%) XML
13 35 (1.52%) JSON
14 32 (1.39%) OAuth2
15 25 (1.08%) HTML5
16 23 (1.00%) Redux
17 22 (0.95%) OpenID
17 22 (0.95%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 167 (7.23%) Product Ownership
2 122 (5.28%) Derivative
3 109 (4.72%) Onboarding
4 105 (4.55%) Cloud Native
5 90 (3.90%) Management Information System
6 88 (3.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 73 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
8 68 (2.94%) Fixed Income
9 65 (2.82%) Data Structures
10 61 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
11 56 (2.43%) Equities
12 46 (1.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 45 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
14 42 (1.82%) Data Centre
15 41 (1.78%) Market Risk
16 40 (1.73%) Credit Risk
17 35 (1.52%) Mainframe
18 31 (1.34%) Algorithms
18 31 (1.34%) Public Cloud
19 27 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 135 (5.85%) Windows
2 104 (4.50%) Linux
3 74 (3.20%) Unix
4 28 (1.21%) Windows 10
5 24 (1.04%) Android
6 22 (0.95%) Apple iOS
7 21 (0.91%) Windows Server
8 20 (0.87%) zOS
9 16 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.39%) AIX
11 7 (0.30%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
12 6 (0.26%) Solaris
12 6 (0.26%) VMS
12 6 (0.26%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
14 4 (0.17%) HPUX
14 4 (0.17%) SUSE
15 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 556 (24.08%) Agile
2 419 (18.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 339 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
4 320 (13.86%) CI/CD
5 300 (12.99%) DevOps
6 269 (11.65%) Migration
7 252 (10.91%) AI
8 199 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 196 (8.49%) Analytics
10 191 (8.27%) Data Modelling
11 186 (8.06%) Roadmaps
12 174 (7.54%) Microservices
13 173 (7.49%) Decision-Making
14 172 (7.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 168 (7.28%) Validation
16 156 (6.76%) User Acceptance Testing
17 155 (6.71%) Risk Management
18 151 (6.54%) Test Automation
19 134 (5.80%) Scrum
20 133 (5.76%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 377 (16.33%) SQL
2 321 (13.90%) Python
3 296 (12.82%) Java
4 140 (6.06%) C#
5 96 (4.16%) JavaScript
6 71 (3.07%) TypeScript
7 60 (2.60%) PowerShell
8 49 (2.12%) PL/SQL
9 34 (1.47%) Shell Script
10 32 (1.39%) T-SQL
11 30 (1.30%) Bash
12 26 (1.13%) Kotlin
13 24 (1.04%) Go
14 23 (1.00%) C++
15 21 (0.91%) VBA
16 20 (0.87%) Korn
17 16 (0.69%) COBOL
18 15 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 14 (0.61%) Scala
20 13 (0.56%) JCL
Qualifications
1 195 (8.45%) Degree
2 111 (4.81%) Security Cleared
3 72 (3.12%) SC Cleared
4 64 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (2.08%) Master's Degree
5 48 (2.08%) PMP
6 45 (1.95%) PMI Certification
7 39 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 33 (1.43%) CISSP
9 28 (1.21%) Azure Certification
10 23 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (0.74%) AWS Certification
12 16 (0.69%) MBA
13 15 (0.65%) CISM
14 14 (0.61%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.52%) CBAP
16 11 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
17 10 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 9 (0.39%) ACCA
18 9 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (5.80%) QA
2 129 (5.59%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.25%) GDPR
4 50 (2.17%) ISO 20022
4 50 (2.17%) PMO
5 38 (1.65%) SLA
6 35 (1.52%) PSD2
7 33 (1.43%) NIST
8 32 (1.39%) SEPA
9 30 (1.30%) PCI DSS
10 29 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 26 (1.13%) GRC
12 24 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 21 (0.91%) Accessibility
13 21 (0.91%) MiFID
14 15 (0.65%) ISO 8583
15 13 (0.56%) Basel III
16 12 (0.52%) IFRS
17 9 (0.39%) EMIR
18 8 (0.35%) GAAP
System Software
1 126 (5.46%) Docker
2 49 (2.12%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.78%) Firmware
5 15 (0.65%) NFS
6 14 (0.61%) vSphere
7 12 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.26%) Varnish
10 5 (0.22%) Postfix
10 5 (0.22%) RACF
11 4 (0.17%) Sendmail
11 4 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.17%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.13%) SRDF
12 3 (0.13%) XenApp
13 2 (0.087%) ACF2
13 2 (0.087%) GPFS
13 2 (0.087%) GridGain
14 1 (0.043%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 166 (7.19%) Kubernetes
2 87 (3.77%) Terraform
3 70 (3.03%) Ansible
4 36 (1.56%) Grafana
5 28 (1.21%) Prometheus
6 21 (0.91%) SCCM
7 19 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.69%) Argo
9 10 (0.43%) Control-M
9 10 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.39%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.35%) Istio
11 8 (0.35%) Puppet
12 6 (0.26%) SnapMirror
13 5 (0.22%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.22%) NetBackup
13 5 (0.22%) vRealize
13 5 (0.22%) WSUS
14 4 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
14 4 (0.17%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 275 (11.91%) Microsoft
2 170 (7.36%) Oracle
3 85 (3.68%) ServiceNow
4 60 (2.60%) Google
5 56 (2.43%) SAP
6 54 (2.34%) Cisco
6 54 (2.34%) IBM
7 50 (2.17%) F5
8 45 (1.95%) Citrix
8 45 (1.95%) Splunk
8 45 (1.95%) VMware
9 41 (1.78%) Databricks
10 28 (1.21%) Temenos
11 26 (1.13%) Avaloq
12 25 (1.08%) Murex
12 25 (1.08%) NetApp
12 25 (1.08%) Pega
13 24 (1.04%) Bloomberg
14 22 (0.95%) Workday
15 21 (0.91%) Remedy