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 11 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 22 25
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,639 2,171 2,503
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.86% 8.01% 6.78%
As % of the General category 10.59% 12.55% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,601 1,487 1,830
10th Percentile £400 £358 £400
25th Percentile £450 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £688 £745 £788
90th Percentile £800 £838 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £553 £600
% change year-on-year -0.54% -7.83% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 26 24
10th Percentile - £16.43 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.95 £14.50
Median hourly rate £24.89 £24.66 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% +26.46% +11.68%
75th Percentile £66.88 £25.15 £41.31
90th Percentile £96.38 £61.25 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £24.66 £19.50
% change year-on-year -2.68% +26.46% +3.50%

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 24,910 17,305 21,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.31% 63.84% 57.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,047 11,096 13,517
10th Percentile £313 £285 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £533
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.41% -3.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,799 887 1,721
10th Percentile £14.40 £13.25 £13.18
25th Percentile £19.00 £16.39 £16.00
Median hourly rate £33.00 £27.21 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +21.28% -17.72% +8.28%
75th Percentile £63.75 £52.08 £56.25
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.17 £32.50
% change year-on-year +19.63% -16.41% +6.42%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -9 1,860 £577 -10.54% 472
North of England -3 533 £500 +12.11% 80
North West -1 275 £473 +17.46% 44
Yorkshire -7 249 £514 +2.80% 30
Midlands -9 178 £525 +22.09% 25
West Midlands +19 133 £570 +3.64% 15
East Midlands -29 44 £504 +28.96% 10
South East -53 35 £550 +6.54% 75
South West -40 33 £515 -1.90% 14
East of England -3 30 £580 -3.33% 7
North East -25 13 £875 +108.33% 6
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
1 166 (6.29%) Confluence
2 55 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.06%) SAS
4 20 (0.76%) IIS
5 18 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.68%) Apache Spark
6 13 (0.49%) Apache
7 10 (0.38%) Camunda
7 10 (0.38%) CICS
8 8 (0.30%) Appian
8 8 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
9 7 (0.27%) Ethereum
9 7 (0.27%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.15%) WordPress
12 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.076%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.076%) JBoss
13 2 (0.076%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.076%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 109 (4.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (1.33%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.11%) Sketch
8 2 (0.076%) EngageOne
8 2 (0.076%) InVision
8 2 (0.076%) Notion
8 2 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.076%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.038%) Trello
Business Applications
1 26 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
2 23 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
2 23 (0.87%) Oracle Receivables
3 19 (0.72%) Temenos T24
4 18 (0.68%) Finacle
5 16 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
6 14 (0.53%) Loan IQ
7 11 (0.42%) Aladdin
7 11 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 10 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
9 9 (0.34%) Actimize
10 8 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
11 7 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
11 7 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
11 7 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
11 7 (0.27%) Summit
12 6 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
12 6 (0.23%) OpenText MBPM
13 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
13 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 404 (15.31%) Azure
2 355 (13.45%) AWS
3 172 (6.52%) GCP
4 133 (5.04%) Power Platform
5 85 (3.22%) GitHub
6 79 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
7 70 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
8 62 (2.35%) SaaS
9 60 (2.27%) Snowflake
10 44 (1.67%) Entra ID
11 43 (1.63%) OpenShift
12 36 (1.36%) Amazon S3
13 32 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
14 31 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
15 30 (1.14%) Figma
16 29 (1.10%) Serverless
17 26 (0.99%) Power Automate
18 24 (0.91%) PowerApps
19 23 (0.87%) PaaS
20 21 (0.80%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (2.80%) Firewall
2 70 (2.65%) DNS
3 65 (2.46%) VPN
4 60 (2.27%) Network Security
5 40 (1.52%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.25%) Multicast
6 33 (1.25%) SSL
7 32 (1.21%) BGP
8 31 (1.17%) HTTP
9 25 (0.95%) SAN
10 23 (0.87%) BIG-IP
10 23 (0.87%) DMZ
11 22 (0.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 20 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 20 (0.76%) Wireshark
13 19 (0.72%) FIX Connectivity
14 17 (0.64%) DHCP
15 12 (0.45%) Internet
15 12 (0.45%) LAN
15 12 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (4.66%) SQL Server
2 109 (4.13%) Power BI
3 75 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
4 70 (2.65%) Metadata
5 68 (2.58%) Relational Database
6 52 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
7 48 (1.82%) Oracle Database
8 41 (1.55%) Tableau
9 37 (1.40%) MongoDB
10 31 (1.17%) Big Data
11 29 (1.10%) Data Lake
12 23 (0.87%) NoSQL
13 21 (0.80%) Db2
13 21 (0.80%) RDBMS
14 20 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 19 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.72%) BigQuery
16 15 (0.57%) Data Vault
16 15 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 14 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 266 (10.08%) JIRA
2 111 (4.21%) Git
3 110 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 67 (2.54%) GitLab
5 40 (1.52%) JUnit
6 27 (1.02%) Selenium
7 23 (0.87%) Cucumber
8 19 (0.72%) Postman
8 19 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
8 19 (0.72%) TeamCity
9 17 (0.64%) Bitbucket
9 17 (0.64%) Fiddler
10 15 (0.57%) Mockito
10 15 (0.57%) REST Assured
11 14 (0.53%) ERwin
11 14 (0.53%) SonarQube
12 13 (0.49%) ER Studio
13 12 (0.45%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.45%) Maven
14 11 (0.42%) Gradle
General
1 1,629 (61.73%) Finance
2 688 (26.07%) Social Skills
3 552 (20.92%) Investment Banking
4 361 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
5 232 (8.79%) Front Office
6 125 (4.74%) Financial Institution
7 111 (4.21%) Retail Banking
8 107 (4.05%) Retail
9 92 (3.49%) Corporate Banking
10 86 (3.26%) Legal
11 65 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
12 59 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
13 50 (1.89%) Private Banking
13 50 (1.89%) Public Sector
14 44 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
15 31 (1.17%) Back Office
16 30 (1.14%) Marketing
17 26 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
18 22 (0.83%) General Ledger
19 20 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 472 (17.89%) Developer
2 397 (15.04%) Analyst
3 325 (12.32%) Senior
4 309 (11.71%) Architect
5 262 (9.93%) Business Analyst
6 224 (8.49%) Lead
7 166 (6.29%) Java Developer
8 126 (4.77%) Solutions Architect
9 111 (4.21%) Senior Developer
10 110 (4.17%) Project Manager
11 96 (3.64%) Data Engineer
12 87 (3.30%) Banking Analyst
13 83 (3.15%) Consultant
14 69 (2.61%) Senior Java Developer
15 62 (2.35%) Network Engineer
16 59 (2.24%) Data Analyst
17 58 (2.20%) Software Engineer
18 56 (2.12%) C# Developer
19 54 (2.05%) Banking Business Analyst
20 51 (1.93%) Payments Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (5.42%) React
2 124 (4.70%) .NET
3 119 (4.51%) Kafka
4 103 (3.90%) REST
5 95 (3.60%) Middleware
6 94 (3.56%) Spring
7 77 (2.92%) Spring Boot
8 67 (2.54%) RESTful
9 55 (2.08%) Redux
10 52 (1.97%) HTML
11 47 (1.78%) CSS
11 47 (1.78%) OAuth
12 42 (1.59%) AngularJS
13 39 (1.48%) FIX Protocol
14 36 (1.36%) JSON
15 32 (1.21%) Node.js
15 32 (1.21%) OAuth2
16 30 (1.14%) XML
17 26 (0.99%) .NET Framework
17 26 (0.99%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 178 (6.74%) Product Ownership
2 142 (5.38%) Cloud Native
3 140 (5.31%) Onboarding
4 133 (5.04%) Derivative
5 129 (4.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 103 (3.90%) Fixed Income
7 87 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
8 84 (3.18%) Management Information System
9 80 (3.03%) Equities
10 78 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
11 68 (2.58%) Data Structures
12 58 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
13 57 (2.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 52 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
15 51 (1.93%) Mainframe
16 47 (1.78%) AI Agents
16 47 (1.78%) Credit Risk
17 44 (1.67%) Data Centre
18 43 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
19 41 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 155 (5.87%) Windows
2 135 (5.12%) Linux
3 91 (3.45%) Unix
4 32 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 30 (1.14%) zOS
6 25 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 23 (0.87%) Apple iOS
8 22 (0.83%) Android
9 17 (0.64%) Windows 10
10 14 (0.53%) Ubuntu
11 12 (0.45%) AIX
12 9 (0.34%) Solaris
13 8 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
14 6 (0.23%) HPUX
14 6 (0.23%) SUSE
14 6 (0.23%) VMS
15 5 (0.19%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.19%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 595 (22.55%) Agile
2 479 (18.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 395 (14.97%) CI/CD
4 375 (14.21%) Problem-Solving
5 343 (13.00%) AI
6 335 (12.69%) DevOps
7 319 (12.09%) Migration
8 245 (9.28%) Analytics
9 244 (9.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 217 (8.22%) Data Modelling
11 207 (7.84%) Microservices
11 207 (7.84%) Roadmaps
12 196 (7.43%) Validation
13 189 (7.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 180 (6.82%) User Acceptance Testing
15 175 (6.63%) Decision-Making
16 167 (6.33%) Risk Management
16 167 (6.33%) Software Engineering
16 167 (6.33%) Test Automation
17 162 (6.14%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 425 (16.10%) SQL
2 378 (14.32%) Python
3 363 (13.76%) Java
4 183 (6.93%) C#
5 137 (5.19%) JavaScript
6 115 (4.36%) TypeScript
7 77 (2.92%) PowerShell
8 65 (2.46%) PL/SQL
9 45 (1.71%) Bash
10 44 (1.67%) Shell Script
11 43 (1.63%) T-SQL
12 35 (1.33%) Kotlin
13 29 (1.10%) C++
14 28 (1.06%) VBA
15 21 (0.80%) Korn
16 19 (0.72%) Go
17 17 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 15 (0.57%) Scala
19 12 (0.45%) COBOL
19 12 (0.45%) JCL
Qualifications
1 179 (6.78%) Degree
2 128 (4.85%) Security Cleared
3 91 (3.45%) SC Cleared
4 59 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (1.44%) PMP
6 37 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 37 (1.40%) CISSP
7 33 (1.25%) PMI Certification
8 30 (1.14%) Azure Certification
9 28 (1.06%) Master's Degree
10 27 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (0.87%) AWS Certification
12 18 (0.68%) CISM
13 15 (0.57%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 11 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
16 9 (0.34%) CCSP
16 9 (0.34%) CISA
16 9 (0.34%) MBA
17 8 (0.30%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (5.19%) Data Quality
2 131 (4.96%) QA
3 57 (2.16%) PMO
4 54 (2.05%) ISO 20022
5 47 (1.78%) GDPR
6 37 (1.40%) SEPA
7 35 (1.33%) NIST
7 35 (1.33%) SLA
8 32 (1.21%) GRC
8 32 (1.21%) PSD2
9 30 (1.14%) Accessibility
10 29 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 25 (0.95%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.76%) MiFID
13 18 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.34%) EMIR
14 9 (0.34%) IFRS
15 8 (0.30%) COREP
15 8 (0.30%) ISO 8583
16 7 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 125 (4.74%) Docker
2 59 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.72%) RACF
5 17 (0.64%) Firmware
5 17 (0.64%) vSphere
6 16 (0.61%) NFS
7 13 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.23%) Varnish
9 5 (0.19%) Postfix
10 4 (0.15%) ACF2
10 4 (0.15%) Sendmail
10 4 (0.15%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.11%) SRDF
11 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.11%) XenApp
12 2 (0.076%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.076%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 169 (6.40%) Kubernetes
2 93 (3.52%) Terraform
3 88 (3.33%) Ansible
4 32 (1.21%) Prometheus
5 31 (1.17%) Grafana
6 20 (0.76%) SCCM
7 18 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.53%) Control-M
9 14 (0.53%) OMEGAMON
10 12 (0.45%) Argo
11 11 (0.42%) Istio
12 9 (0.34%) FortiGate
13 8 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
14 7 (0.27%) Puppet
14 7 (0.27%) WSUS
15 6 (0.23%) SnapMirror
16 5 (0.19%) Progress Chef
16 5 (0.19%) RSA Archer
16 5 (0.19%) vRealize
Vendors
1 294 (11.14%) Microsoft
2 204 (7.73%) Oracle
3 90 (3.41%) ServiceNow
4 76 (2.88%) IBM
5 64 (2.43%) Cisco
6 63 (2.39%) Databricks
6 63 (2.39%) Google
7 50 (1.89%) SAP
8 49 (1.86%) F5
9 48 (1.82%) Splunk
10 46 (1.74%) Citrix
11 45 (1.71%) VMware
12 40 (1.52%) Salesforce
13 37 (1.40%) Murex
14 28 (1.06%) CyberArk
14 28 (1.06%) OpenAI
15 27 (1.02%) Avaloq
15 27 (1.02%) Temenos
16 26 (0.99%) Fortinet
16 26 (0.99%) NetApp