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 27 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 -7
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,080 1,968 2,471
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.39% 7.49% 6.55%
As % of the General category 10.66% 11.97% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,284 1,256 1,727
10th Percentile £364 £375 £395
25th Percentile £450 £493 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £600 £610
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% -1.64% -6.15%
75th Percentile £676 £738 £750
90th Percentile £800 £838 £838
UK median daily rate £540 £600 £610
% change year-on-year -10.00% -1.64% -6.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 12 24
10th Percentile £18.87 £14.80 £12.84
25th Percentile - £15.24 £16.18
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +14.21% -7.14%
75th Percentile £35.31 £25.81 £30.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £73.80 £67.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £23.21 £19.50
% change year-on-year +8.36% +19.03% -7.14%

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 19,520 16,439 22,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 59.96% 62.54% 58.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,426 9,889 14,759
10th Percentile £288 £300 £265
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £545
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% -3.21% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,206 540 1,367
10th Percentile £14.04 £15.62 £13.30
25th Percentile £16.50 £19.24 £15.17
Median hourly rate £23.00 £29.12 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.02% +11.98% +1.13%
75th Percentile £47.69 £57.50 £55.20
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.88 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £22.85 £27.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -16.91% +5.77% +4.00%

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 27 January 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 27 January 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 27 January 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 1,434 £600 -4.00% 248
North of England +7 436 £465 +2.37% 91
North West +8 224 £447 +11.75% 41
Yorkshire +3 221 £500 -11.50% 37
Midlands +16 172 £492 -10.55% 50
West Midlands +18 116 £550 -5.78% 26
East Midlands +7 56 £423 -2.31% 23
South East -27 47 £419 -25.56% 197
South West -12 28 £525 -15.15% 28
East of England -13 10 £400 -33.33% 46
North East -13 5 £400 - 13
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
1 152 (7.31%) Confluence
2 53 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 19 (0.91%) Apache
3 19 (0.91%) Apache Spark
4 18 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.48%) CICS
5 10 (0.48%) CMS
6 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.43%) SAS
7 8 (0.38%) IIS
8 7 (0.34%) MQSeries
9 6 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.24%) Mule
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.19%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.19%) Hyperledger
11 4 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.14%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 140 (6.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (3.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 65 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
4 45 (2.16%) MS Visio
5 26 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
6 19 (0.91%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.19%) Adobe Captivate
9 3 (0.14%) Notion
9 3 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.14%) Trello
10 2 (0.096%) Sketch
11 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.048%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.048%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 26 (1.25%) Oracle Payables
1 26 (1.25%) Payment Gateway
2 19 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
4 16 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
6 12 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
7 11 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 11 (0.53%) Temenos T24
8 9 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
8 9 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 8 (0.38%) Finacle
9 8 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
10 7 (0.34%) Fidessa
10 7 (0.34%) Loan IQ
10 7 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
11 6 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
11 6 (0.29%) SAP FI
12 5 (0.24%) BASE24
12 5 (0.24%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 319 (15.34%) Azure
2 310 (14.90%) AWS
3 167 (8.03%) GCP
4 140 (6.73%) Power Platform
5 84 (4.04%) GitHub
6 80 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
7 67 (3.22%) Serverless
8 50 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
9 45 (2.16%) Figma
10 37 (1.78%) SaaS
11 34 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
12 31 (1.49%) PowerApps
13 27 (1.30%) Snowflake
14 26 (1.25%) Power Automate
15 25 (1.20%) Entra ID
16 24 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
16 24 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
17 22 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
17 22 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
18 21 (1.01%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 54 (2.60%) DNS
2 46 (2.21%) Firewall
3 35 (1.68%) HTTP
4 33 (1.59%) Network Security
5 31 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 29 (1.39%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 29 (1.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 26 (1.25%) DMZ
8 24 (1.15%) VPN
9 22 (1.06%) SSL
9 22 (1.06%) Wireless
10 18 (0.87%) BIG-IP
10 18 (0.87%) Wireshark
11 15 (0.72%) NetScaler
12 13 (0.63%) BGP
12 13 (0.63%) Multicast
13 12 (0.58%) DHCP
14 10 (0.48%) FIX Connectivity
14 10 (0.48%) LAN
14 10 (0.48%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (5.53%) Power BI
2 89 (4.28%) SQL Server
3 73 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
4 66 (3.17%) Tableau
5 64 (3.08%) NoSQL
6 43 (2.07%) MongoDB
7 42 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
8 38 (1.83%) Oracle Database
9 37 (1.78%) Relational Database
10 27 (1.30%) Metadata
11 21 (1.01%) Big Data
12 20 (0.96%) Data Lake
12 20 (0.96%) DB2
13 19 (0.91%) BigQuery
14 15 (0.72%) Hadoop
14 15 (0.72%) MySQL
14 15 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 13 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
15 13 (0.63%) Power Query
16 11 (0.53%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 234 (11.25%) JIRA
2 142 (6.83%) Jenkins
3 99 (4.76%) Git
4 84 (4.04%) GitLab
5 36 (1.73%) JUnit
6 35 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
7 27 (1.30%) Bitbucket
8 26 (1.25%) Selenium
9 21 (1.01%) Liquibase
10 20 (0.96%) Cucumber
10 20 (0.96%) Maven
11 18 (0.87%) Postman
12 17 (0.82%) Fiddler
12 17 (0.82%) Gradle
12 17 (0.82%) SonarQube
13 16 (0.77%) REST Assured
14 12 (0.58%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.48%) Cypress.io
16 8 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
16 8 (0.38%) webpack
General
1 1,316 (63.27%) Finance
2 753 (36.20%) Social Skills
3 436 (20.96%) Investment Banking
4 278 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
5 180 (8.65%) Front Office
6 128 (6.15%) Financial Institution
7 73 (3.51%) Retail Banking
8 53 (2.55%) Legal
9 52 (2.50%) Retail
10 49 (2.36%) Corporate Banking
11 47 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
12 36 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
13 35 (1.68%) Public Sector
14 34 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
15 27 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
16 25 (1.20%) General Ledger
16 25 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 24 (1.15%) Back Office
17 24 (1.15%) International Banking
18 22 (1.06%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 410 (19.71%) Developer
2 337 (16.20%) Analyst
3 274 (13.17%) Senior
4 233 (11.20%) Business Analyst
5 197 (9.47%) Architect
6 134 (6.44%) Project Manager
7 125 (6.01%) Lead
8 110 (5.29%) Java Developer
9 106 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
10 88 (4.23%) Senior Developer
11 71 (3.41%) Consultant
12 68 (3.27%) Banking Analyst
13 53 (2.55%) DevOps Engineer
14 51 (2.45%) Banking Business Analyst
15 50 (2.40%) Designer
16 48 (2.31%) Senior Java Developer
17 46 (2.21%) Software Engineer
18 43 (2.07%) Senior Analyst
19 41 (1.97%) Support Engineer
20 40 (1.92%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (5.43%) Kafka
2 110 (5.29%) REST
3 102 (4.90%) .NET
4 89 (4.28%) Spring
5 74 (3.56%) RESTful
5 74 (3.56%) Spring Boot
6 70 (3.37%) React
7 61 (2.93%) HTML
8 51 (2.45%) AngularJS
8 51 (2.45%) Pandas
9 49 (2.36%) Middleware
10 46 (2.21%) NumPy
11 43 (2.07%) XML
12 42 (2.02%) CSS
13 37 (1.78%) Node.js
14 35 (1.68%) OAuth
15 31 (1.49%) JMS
15 31 (1.49%) JSON
16 29 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
17 25 (1.20%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 131 (6.30%) Product Ownership
2 122 (5.87%) Derivative
3 111 (5.34%) Onboarding
4 102 (4.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 96 (4.62%) Cloud Native
6 89 (4.28%) Management Information System
7 73 (3.51%) Equities
8 71 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
9 68 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
10 65 (3.13%) Fixed Income
11 50 (2.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 46 (2.21%) Data Centre
13 45 (2.16%) Hedge funds
14 44 (2.12%) Public Cloud
15 43 (2.07%) Data Structures
16 41 (1.97%) Credit Risk
16 41 (1.97%) Mobile App
17 36 (1.73%) Market Risk
18 33 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
19 28 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 132 (6.35%) Linux
2 118 (5.67%) Windows
3 48 (2.31%) Unix
4 38 (1.83%) Android
5 33 (1.59%) Windows 10
6 22 (1.06%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.96%) Windows Server
8 17 (0.82%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.58%) zOS
10 5 (0.24%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.19%) AIX
11 4 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.048%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.048%) Solaris
13 1 (0.048%) VMS
13 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 582 (27.98%) Agile
2 384 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
3 355 (17.07%) Stakeholder Management
4 318 (15.29%) CI/CD
5 317 (15.24%) DevOps
6 192 (9.23%) Analytics
7 186 (8.94%) Microservices
8 178 (8.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 173 (8.32%) Risk Management
10 172 (8.27%) Migration
11 158 (7.60%) Project Management
12 151 (7.26%) Decision-Making
13 149 (7.16%) AI
14 143 (6.88%) Change Management
15 141 (6.78%) Scrum
16 138 (6.63%) Data Modelling
17 137 (6.59%) Data Analysis
18 135 (6.49%) Business Intelligence
19 134 (6.44%) Containerisation
19 134 (6.44%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 396 (19.04%) SQL
2 359 (17.26%) Python
3 305 (14.66%) Java
4 142 (6.83%) C#
5 93 (4.47%) JavaScript
6 60 (2.88%) Go
7 59 (2.84%) TypeScript
8 56 (2.69%) PowerShell
9 42 (2.02%) C++
10 35 (1.68%) PL/SQL
11 27 (1.30%) Shell Script
11 27 (1.30%) VBA
12 24 (1.15%) Bash
13 20 (0.96%) COBOL
14 19 (0.91%) T-SQL
15 17 (0.82%) Kotlin
16 14 (0.67%) Scala
17 12 (0.58%) Perl
17 12 (0.58%) Rust
18 11 (0.53%) Swift
Qualifications
1 245 (11.78%) Degree
2 81 (3.89%) Security Cleared
3 80 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 77 (3.70%) Master's Degree
5 57 (2.74%) PMI Certification
6 52 (2.50%) PMP
7 44 (2.12%) SC Cleared
8 35 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.30%) CISSP
10 23 (1.11%) AWS Certification
10 23 (1.11%) Azure Certification
11 16 (0.77%) MBA
12 15 (0.72%) CBAP
12 15 (0.72%) DV Cleared
13 12 (0.58%) CISM
13 12 (0.58%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.48%) PhD
15 8 (0.38%) CCA
15 8 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (6.44%) QA
2 82 (3.94%) Data Quality
3 54 (2.60%) GDPR
3 54 (2.60%) ISO 20022
4 43 (2.07%) PMO
5 35 (1.68%) PSD2
6 33 (1.59%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.54%) SEPA
8 29 (1.39%) SLA
9 25 (1.20%) GRC
9 25 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 24 (1.15%) Basel III
10 24 (1.15%) PCI DSS
11 22 (1.06%) MiFID
12 21 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 19 (0.91%) NIST
14 16 (0.77%) ISO 8583
15 15 (0.72%) EMIR
16 12 (0.58%) IFRS
17 8 (0.38%) COBIT
System Software
1 175 (8.41%) Docker
2 44 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (1.35%) Active Directory
4 20 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (0.87%) Firmware
6 6 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.14%) RACF
8 3 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
8 3 (0.14%) vSphere
9 2 (0.096%) ACF2
9 2 (0.096%) GridGain
9 2 (0.096%) NFS
9 2 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.096%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.048%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.048%) GPFS
10 1 (0.048%) KVM
10 1 (0.048%) PowerHA
10 1 (0.048%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 194 (9.33%) Kubernetes
2 111 (5.34%) Terraform
3 77 (3.70%) Ansible
4 50 (2.40%) Grafana
5 43 (2.07%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.87%) SCCM
7 15 (0.72%) Argo
8 11 (0.53%) Control-M
9 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.34%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (0.34%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
10 7 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.24%) CA Endevor
11 5 (0.24%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.19%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.14%) Istio
13 3 (0.14%) Thomson Reuters DACS
13 3 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 225 (10.82%) Microsoft
2 157 (7.55%) Oracle
3 88 (4.23%) Google
4 61 (2.93%) Splunk
5 51 (2.45%) ServiceNow
6 50 (2.40%) IBM
6 50 (2.40%) VMware
7 43 (2.07%) Cisco
8 42 (2.02%) F5
9 41 (1.97%) SAP
10 36 (1.73%) Citrix
11 30 (1.44%) HP
11 30 (1.44%) Remedy
12 28 (1.35%) Dell
12 28 (1.35%) Salesforce
13 27 (1.30%) Databricks
14 25 (1.20%) Apple
14 25 (1.20%) Bloomberg
14 25 (1.20%) CyberArk
15 22 (1.06%) Dynatrace