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 24 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 25 25
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,277 1,892 2,278
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.73% 7.69% 6.12%
As % of the General category 10.34% 12.03% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,373 1,245 1,656
10th Percentile £370 £362 £385
25th Percentile £440 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £775
90th Percentile £788 £864 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £618
% change year-on-year -12.50% -2.95% -4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 18 24
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.10 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.87 £19.45 £18.12
Median hourly rate £25.46 £23.47 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.50% +20.33% -7.14%
75th Percentile £66.88 £24.66 £32.63
90th Percentile £97.13 £48.98 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £25.46 £24.18 £19.50
% change year-on-year +5.29% +24.00% -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 22,025 15,728 21,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.43% 63.94% 58.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,806 10,217 14,055
10th Percentile £304 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,426 666 1,772
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.11 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.23 £17.44 £15.39
Median hourly rate £30.08 £28.18 £29.83
Median % change year-on-year +6.72% -5.52% -14.79%
75th Percentile £61.18 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £28.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year +3.57% -1.75% -18.57%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -11 1,567 £575 -11.54% 292
North of England +5 479 £475 +4.86% 319
North West +15 265 £449 +0.79% 270
Yorkshire -6 211 £500 - 45
Midlands +11 177 £468 -14.57% 46
West Midlands +14 123 £565 +1.80% 16
East Midlands -15 54 £430 +8.72% 30
South East -39 42 £500 -13.04% 82
South West -32 33 £500 -15.97% 17
East of England -29 14 £600 - 4
North East -7 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
1 171 (7.51%) Confluence
2 51 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.10%) SAS
4 21 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 14 (0.61%) IIS
6 13 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.53%) CICS
8 11 (0.48%) Apache
8 11 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.22%) CMS
10 5 (0.22%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.22%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.13%) Camunda
11 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.088%) Appian
12 2 (0.088%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.088%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 144 (6.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (3.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 65 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (1.84%) MS Visio
5 29 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.61%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.13%) Notion
8 2 (0.088%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.088%) InVision
8 2 (0.088%) Sketch
8 2 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.088%) Trello
8 2 (0.088%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.044%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 31 (1.36%) Payment Gateway
2 23 (1.01%) Oracle Payables
3 21 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
3 21 (0.92%) Temenos T24
4 19 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
5 18 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
6 16 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 15 (0.66%) Loan IQ
8 11 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
8 11 (0.48%) Finacle
9 10 (0.44%) SAP FI
10 9 (0.40%) Aladdin
10 9 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
11 8 (0.35%) Actimize
11 8 (0.35%) SAP CO
11 8 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
11 8 (0.35%) Summit
12 7 (0.31%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 6 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
14 5 (0.22%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 354 (15.55%) Azure
2 306 (13.44%) AWS
3 152 (6.68%) GCP
4 119 (5.23%) Power Platform
5 104 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
6 77 (3.38%) GitHub
7 60 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (2.33%) SaaS
9 41 (1.80%) Figma
10 40 (1.76%) Serverless
11 32 (1.41%) Entra ID
12 30 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
12 30 (1.32%) OpenShift
13 28 (1.23%) Amazon S3
14 27 (1.19%) Power Automate
15 25 (1.10%) OCI
15 25 (1.10%) Snowflake
16 24 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
17 23 (1.01%) PowerApps
18 22 (0.97%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.12%) DNS
2 52 (2.28%) VPN
3 50 (2.20%) Firewall
4 41 (1.80%) HTTP
4 41 (1.80%) TCP/IP
5 35 (1.54%) Network Security
6 26 (1.14%) Multicast
7 25 (1.10%) BGP
7 25 (1.10%) DMZ
7 25 (1.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 24 (1.05%) BIG-IP
8 24 (1.05%) SSL
9 23 (1.01%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 22 (0.97%) SAN
11 20 (0.88%) FIX Connectivity
11 20 (0.88%) NetScaler
11 20 (0.88%) Wireshark
12 15 (0.66%) DHCP
13 11 (0.48%) Internet
13 11 (0.48%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 94 (4.13%) Power BI
3 58 (2.55%) Tableau
4 50 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (2.20%) Metadata
5 48 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
6 42 (1.84%) Oracle Database
7 36 (1.58%) MongoDB
8 34 (1.49%) Relational Database
9 33 (1.45%) NoSQL
10 25 (1.10%) Big Data
11 21 (0.92%) BigQuery
11 21 (0.92%) DB2
12 16 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 15 (0.66%) Hadoop
14 13 (0.57%) Data Lake
15 12 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
15 12 (0.53%) Power Query
15 12 (0.53%) RDBMS
16 11 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 256 (11.24%) JIRA
2 96 (4.22%) Jenkins
3 87 (3.82%) Git
4 64 (2.81%) GitLab
5 28 (1.23%) JUnit
6 24 (1.05%) Selenium
7 20 (0.88%) Bitbucket
8 19 (0.83%) Fiddler
9 18 (0.79%) Cucumber
10 17 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
11 16 (0.70%) TeamCity
12 15 (0.66%) Postman
13 13 (0.57%) REST Assured
14 12 (0.53%) Maven
15 11 (0.48%) Cypress.io
16 10 (0.44%) SonarQube
17 9 (0.40%) Mockito
18 8 (0.35%) Gradle
18 8 (0.35%) MLflow
18 8 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,416 (62.19%) Finance
2 672 (29.51%) Social Skills
3 448 (19.68%) Investment Banking
4 317 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
5 179 (7.86%) Front Office
6 105 (4.61%) Financial Institution
7 91 (4.00%) Retail Banking
8 75 (3.29%) Corporate Banking
9 72 (3.16%) Legal
9 72 (3.16%) Retail
10 60 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
11 54 (2.37%) Public Sector
12 43 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
13 36 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
14 34 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
15 31 (1.36%) Marketing
16 25 (1.10%) General Ledger
17 23 (1.01%) Back Office
18 20 (0.88%) International Banking
19 19 (0.83%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 381 (16.73%) Analyst
2 377 (16.56%) Developer
3 289 (12.69%) Senior
4 273 (11.99%) Architect
5 268 (11.77%) Business Analyst
6 158 (6.94%) Lead
7 129 (5.67%) Solutions Architect
8 111 (4.87%) Project Manager
9 100 (4.39%) Java Developer
10 91 (4.00%) Banking Analyst
11 86 (3.78%) Senior Developer
12 84 (3.69%) Consultant
13 77 (3.38%) Data Engineer
14 64 (2.81%) Banking Business Analyst
15 59 (2.59%) Payments Architect
16 53 (2.33%) Designer
16 53 (2.33%) Network Engineer
16 53 (2.33%) Payments Solutions Architect
17 48 (2.11%) C# Developer
18 47 (2.06%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (4.74%) .NET
1 108 (4.74%) Kafka
2 82 (3.60%) React
3 74 (3.25%) REST
4 69 (3.03%) Middleware
5 66 (2.90%) Spring
6 62 (2.72%) HTML
7 59 (2.59%) Spring Boot
8 56 (2.46%) RESTful
9 47 (2.06%) CSS
10 44 (1.93%) OAuth
11 41 (1.80%) AngularJS
12 37 (1.62%) JSON
13 34 (1.49%) XML
14 33 (1.45%) OAuth2
15 29 (1.27%) FIX Protocol
16 27 (1.19%) Node.js
17 25 (1.10%) Pandas
18 24 (1.05%) SOAP
19 23 (1.01%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 146 (6.41%) Product Ownership
2 112 (4.92%) Derivative
3 109 (4.79%) Onboarding
4 98 (4.30%) Management Information System
5 94 (4.13%) Cloud Native
6 87 (3.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 77 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
8 69 (3.03%) Fixed Income
9 58 (2.55%) Equities
10 57 (2.50%) Data Structures
10 57 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
11 47 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
12 45 (1.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 43 (1.89%) Data Centre
14 40 (1.76%) Credit Risk
14 40 (1.76%) Market Risk
15 38 (1.67%) Mainframe
16 32 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
17 29 (1.27%) Public Cloud
18 28 (1.23%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 147 (6.46%) Windows
2 105 (4.61%) Linux
3 69 (3.03%) Unix
4 38 (1.67%) Windows 10
5 26 (1.14%) Android
6 24 (1.05%) Windows Server
7 20 (0.88%) zOS
8 19 (0.83%) Apple iOS
9 17 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (0.53%) Mac OS
11 10 (0.44%) AIX
12 7 (0.31%) VMS
13 6 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
13 6 (0.26%) Solaris
13 6 (0.26%) Windows 7
14 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
14 5 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
15 4 (0.18%) SUSE
15 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 543 (23.85%) Agile
2 412 (18.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 361 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
4 305 (13.39%) CI/CD
4 305 (13.39%) DevOps
5 250 (10.98%) Migration
6 238 (10.45%) AI
7 191 (8.39%) Analytics
8 184 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 184 (8.08%) Decision-Making
8 184 (8.08%) Roadmaps
9 176 (7.73%) Risk Management
10 175 (7.69%) Data Modelling
11 173 (7.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 165 (7.25%) Microservices
13 162 (7.11%) Validation
14 158 (6.94%) User Acceptance Testing
15 153 (6.72%) Project Management
16 151 (6.63%) Data Analysis
17 142 (6.24%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 378 (16.60%) SQL
2 326 (14.32%) Python
3 287 (12.60%) Java
4 141 (6.19%) C#
5 96 (4.22%) JavaScript
6 65 (2.85%) TypeScript
7 61 (2.68%) PowerShell
8 41 (1.80%) PL/SQL
9 35 (1.54%) Shell Script
10 32 (1.41%) VBA
11 29 (1.27%) Go
12 27 (1.19%) T-SQL
13 24 (1.05%) Bash
14 20 (0.88%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.79%) COBOL
16 17 (0.75%) Korn
17 16 (0.70%) C++
18 14 (0.61%) JCL
18 14 (0.61%) Scala
19 13 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 213 (9.35%) Degree
2 112 (4.92%) Security Cleared
3 69 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 67 (2.94%) SC Cleared
5 58 (2.55%) Master's Degree
6 53 (2.33%) PMP
7 52 (2.28%) PMI Certification
8 42 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 36 (1.58%) CISSP
10 29 (1.27%) Azure Certification
11 19 (0.83%) AWS Certification
11 19 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (0.75%) MBA
13 15 (0.66%) CISM
13 15 (0.66%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.53%) CBAP
14 12 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
16 9 (0.40%) ACCA
16 9 (0.40%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (5.80%) QA
2 114 (5.01%) Data Quality
3 54 (2.37%) GDPR
4 50 (2.20%) ISO 20022
5 43 (1.89%) PMO
6 35 (1.54%) NIST
6 35 (1.54%) PSD2
7 34 (1.49%) SLA
8 32 (1.41%) PCI DSS
9 31 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 30 (1.32%) GRC
10 30 (1.32%) SEPA
11 24 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 21 (0.92%) Accessibility
13 19 (0.83%) Basel III
14 18 (0.79%) MiFID
15 15 (0.66%) ISO 8583
16 12 (0.53%) IFRS
17 8 (0.35%) EMIR
18 7 (0.31%) COBIT
System Software
1 125 (5.49%) Docker
2 46 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 44 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.88%) Firmware
4 20 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.57%) vSphere
6 12 (0.53%) NFS
7 9 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.31%) RACF
9 5 (0.22%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.18%) ACF2
10 4 (0.18%) Varnish
10 4 (0.18%) XenApp
11 3 (0.13%) Postfix
11 3 (0.13%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.13%) SRDF
11 3 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
11 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.088%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 168 (7.38%) Kubernetes
2 87 (3.82%) Terraform
3 67 (2.94%) Ansible
4 34 (1.49%) Grafana
5 27 (1.19%) SCCM
6 25 (1.10%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (0.83%) Argo
9 10 (0.44%) Control-M
10 9 (0.40%) Istio
11 8 (0.35%) Puppet
11 8 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.31%) WSUS
13 6 (0.26%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
13 6 (0.26%) RSA Archer
13 6 (0.26%) SnapMirror
13 6 (0.26%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.18%) NetBackup
15 3 (0.13%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 283 (12.43%) Microsoft
2 162 (7.11%) Oracle
3 80 (3.51%) ServiceNow
4 69 (3.03%) Google
5 60 (2.64%) IBM
6 59 (2.59%) Cisco
7 56 (2.46%) SAP
8 53 (2.33%) VMware
9 52 (2.28%) F5
10 51 (2.24%) Citrix
11 45 (1.98%) Splunk
12 30 (1.32%) Bloomberg
13 29 (1.27%) Temenos
14 28 (1.23%) HP
15 27 (1.19%) Murex
15 27 (1.19%) Remedy
16 26 (1.14%) Databricks
16 26 (1.14%) Pega
17 25 (1.10%) Avaloq
17 25 (1.10%) NetApp