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 15 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,111 2,224 2,714
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.79% 7.65% 7.22%
As % of the General category 10.94% 12.49% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,338 1,454 1,884
10th Percentile £359 £400 £400
25th Percentile £438 £500 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £611
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +0.25% -6.00%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £750
90th Percentile £813 £850 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £612
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.00% -5.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 10 18
10th Percentile £18.51 £15.07 £15.26
25th Percentile £23.75 £17.01 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.64 £18.72
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +31.63% -18.63%
75th Percentile - £56.81 £30.00
90th Percentile £46.12 £80.38 £59.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £18.72
% change year-on-year +4.01% +29.20% -18.63%

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 common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 19,304 17,812 22,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 62.07% 61.26% 59.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,225 10,778 15,181
10th Percentile £280 £300 £285
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £665
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,268 631 1,002
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.49 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.03 £17.25
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.21 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.21% -8.45% +28.35%
75th Percentile £46.00 £58.51 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £23.58 £27.50 £32.75
% change year-on-year -14.27% -16.03% +31.00%

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025. 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 1,510 £600 -5.88% 312
North of England +3 388 £474 -6.60% 92
Yorkshire +4 219 £500 -11.50% 42
North West -2 177 £458 +1.67% 46
Midlands +8 148 £500 -9.09% 55
West Midlands +6 95 £538 -12.96% 27
East Midlands +12 55 £410 +2.18% 25
South East -12 45 £425 -20.93% 219
South West +3 37 £525 -11.76% 43
East of England -11 12 £400 -46.67% 21
North East -7 6 £400 - 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
1 115 (5.45%) Confluence
2 53 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.61%) Apache
4 32 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.85%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.81%) CICS
6 17 (0.81%) CMS
7 11 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.47%) IIS
9 8 (0.38%) MQSeries
9 8 (0.38%) Mule
10 7 (0.33%) HCL Notes
10 7 (0.33%) SAS
10 7 (0.33%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.28%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.19%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.14%) Appian
14 3 (0.14%) Camunda
Applications
1 115 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
3 55 (2.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (1.85%) MS Visio
5 22 (1.04%) Chatbot
5 22 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 6 (0.28%) Adobe Captivate
7 6 (0.28%) Sketch
8 3 (0.14%) InVision
8 3 (0.14%) Notion
8 3 (0.14%) Trello
9 2 (0.095%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.047%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.047%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 21 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
1 21 (0.99%) Oracle Payables
2 20 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
3 14 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
5 12 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
6 11 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
7 10 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
7 10 (0.47%) Temenos T24
8 9 (0.43%) Oracle EBS R12
9 8 (0.38%) Aladdin
9 8 (0.38%) VisionPLUS
10 7 (0.33%) Fidessa
10 7 (0.33%) Oracle E-Business Tax
11 6 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
12 5 (0.24%) FLEXCUBE
12 5 (0.24%) Loan IQ
12 5 (0.24%) thinkFolio
13 4 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 339 (16.06%) Azure
2 331 (15.68%) AWS
3 186 (8.81%) GCP
4 146 (6.92%) Power Platform
5 84 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
6 81 (3.84%) GitHub
7 70 (3.32%) Serverless
8 57 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
9 55 (2.61%) Figma
10 44 (2.08%) SaaS
11 39 (1.85%) PowerApps
11 39 (1.85%) Snowflake
12 34 (1.61%) Entra ID
12 34 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
13 31 (1.47%) Power Automate
14 27 (1.28%) dbt
15 26 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
16 24 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
17 23 (1.09%) Amazon EKS
18 22 (1.04%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.27%) Firewall
2 44 (2.08%) DNS
3 35 (1.66%) Network Security
4 30 (1.42%) Wireless
5 27 (1.28%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 27 (1.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 26 (1.23%) HTTP
7 22 (1.04%) DMZ
8 21 (0.99%) TCP/IP
9 18 (0.85%) SSL
10 17 (0.81%) VPN
11 15 (0.71%) Multicast
11 15 (0.71%) Wireshark
12 14 (0.66%) BIG-IP
13 13 (0.62%) DHCP
14 10 (0.47%) BGP
14 10 (0.47%) NetScaler
15 9 (0.43%) Internet
16 8 (0.38%) LAN
16 8 (0.38%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (5.73%) Power BI
2 95 (4.50%) SQL Server
3 78 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
4 71 (3.36%) NoSQL
5 57 (2.70%) Tableau
6 49 (2.32%) MongoDB
7 39 (1.85%) Relational Database
8 38 (1.80%) Data Lake
8 38 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
9 34 (1.61%) Oracle Database
10 32 (1.52%) Metadata
11 28 (1.33%) DB2
12 27 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
13 26 (1.23%) Apache Arrow
13 26 (1.23%) Apache Iceberg
13 26 (1.23%) Apache Ignite
13 26 (1.23%) Dremio
14 24 (1.14%) Power Query
15 22 (1.04%) Big Data
16 17 (0.81%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 204 (9.66%) JIRA
2 157 (7.44%) Jenkins
3 108 (5.12%) Git
4 80 (3.79%) GitLab
5 42 (1.99%) JUnit
6 35 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
7 34 (1.61%) Selenium
8 29 (1.37%) Bitbucket
9 27 (1.28%) Cucumber
10 26 (1.23%) Liquibase
11 24 (1.14%) SonarQube
12 22 (1.04%) Maven
13 19 (0.90%) Postman
14 18 (0.85%) REST Assured
15 16 (0.76%) TeamCity
16 15 (0.71%) Gradle
17 13 (0.62%) Cypress.io
17 13 (0.62%) Fiddler
18 12 (0.57%) webpack
19 10 (0.47%) SoapUI
General
1 1,356 (64.23%) Finance
2 768 (36.38%) Social Skills
3 458 (21.70%) Investment Banking
4 280 (13.26%) Analytical Skills
5 200 (9.47%) Front Office
6 135 (6.40%) Financial Institution
7 67 (3.17%) Retail Banking
8 57 (2.70%) Retail
9 48 (2.27%) Legal
10 45 (2.13%) Corporate Banking
11 39 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
12 38 (1.80%) Back Office
12 38 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
13 31 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
14 30 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
15 28 (1.33%) Public Sector
16 23 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 23 (1.09%) International Banking
16 23 (1.09%) Marketing
17 22 (1.04%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 426 (20.18%) Developer
2 336 (15.92%) Analyst
3 281 (13.31%) Senior
4 221 (10.47%) Business Analyst
5 177 (8.38%) Architect
6 129 (6.11%) Project Manager
7 115 (5.45%) Java Developer
8 106 (5.02%) Lead
9 93 (4.41%) Senior Developer
10 70 (3.32%) Software Engineer
10 70 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
11 67 (3.17%) Consultant
12 58 (2.75%) Banking Analyst
12 58 (2.75%) Designer
13 55 (2.61%) DevOps Engineer
13 55 (2.61%) Python Engineer
14 53 (2.51%) AWS Engineer
15 49 (2.32%) Data Analyst
15 49 (2.32%) Senior Java Developer
16 44 (2.08%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (5.83%) Kafka
2 115 (5.45%) REST
3 104 (4.93%) .NET
4 86 (4.07%) Spring
5 83 (3.93%) RESTful
6 74 (3.51%) Spring Boot
7 73 (3.46%) React
8 67 (3.17%) Pandas
9 61 (2.89%) NumPy
10 56 (2.65%) HTML
11 55 (2.61%) AngularJS
12 45 (2.13%) CSS
13 44 (2.08%) SciPy
14 40 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
14 40 (1.89%) Middleware
15 38 (1.80%) Node.js
16 35 (1.66%) FIX Protocol
17 34 (1.61%) XML
18 31 (1.47%) gRPC
19 30 (1.42%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 149 (7.06%) Derivative
2 141 (6.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 119 (5.64%) Onboarding
4 111 (5.26%) Cloud Native
5 104 (4.93%) Product Ownership
6 89 (4.22%) Equities
7 85 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
8 82 (3.88%) Fixed Income
9 77 (3.65%) Management Information System
10 70 (3.32%) Hedge funds
11 63 (2.98%) Data Centre
12 60 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
13 51 (2.42%) Mobile App
14 45 (2.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 43 (2.04%) Public Cloud
16 41 (1.94%) Data Structures
17 39 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
18 34 (1.61%) Mainframe
19 33 (1.56%) Market Risk
20 32 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 155 (7.34%) Linux
2 120 (5.68%) Windows
3 49 (2.32%) Android
4 46 (2.18%) Unix
5 26 (1.23%) Mac OS
5 26 (1.23%) Windows 10
6 22 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 22 (1.04%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.52%) zOS
8 5 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.19%) AIX
10 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.095%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.047%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.047%) Solaris
12 1 (0.047%) VMS
12 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 582 (27.57%) Agile
2 389 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
3 333 (15.77%) DevOps
4 320 (15.16%) CI/CD
5 293 (13.88%) Stakeholder Management
6 213 (10.09%) Analytics
7 208 (9.85%) Microservices
8 174 (8.24%) Risk Management
9 173 (8.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 156 (7.39%) Decision-Making
11 154 (7.30%) Project Management
12 151 (7.15%) Migration
13 148 (7.01%) Change Management
14 146 (6.92%) Software Engineering
15 143 (6.77%) Business Intelligence
15 143 (6.77%) Containerisation
16 135 (6.40%) Roadmaps
17 134 (6.35%) AI
18 129 (6.11%) Data Modelling
18 129 (6.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 410 (19.42%) Python
2 383 (18.14%) SQL
3 330 (15.63%) Java
4 153 (7.25%) C#
5 115 (5.45%) JavaScript
6 69 (3.27%) TypeScript
7 59 (2.79%) PowerShell
8 58 (2.75%) Go
9 52 (2.46%) C++
10 30 (1.42%) PL/SQL
11 29 (1.37%) Shell Script
12 27 (1.28%) Bash
13 25 (1.18%) VBA
14 23 (1.09%) Kotlin
15 21 (0.99%) COBOL
16 17 (0.81%) Rust
17 15 (0.71%) Scala
17 15 (0.71%) T-SQL
18 13 (0.62%) JCL
18 13 (0.62%) R
Qualifications
1 254 (12.03%) Degree
2 91 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 84 (3.98%) Security Cleared
4 68 (3.22%) Master's Degree
5 46 (2.18%) PMI Certification
6 43 (2.04%) PMP
7 40 (1.89%) SC Cleared
8 32 (1.52%) CISSP
9 28 (1.33%) AWS Certification
10 25 (1.18%) Azure Certification
11 23 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
12 21 (0.99%) DV Cleared
13 15 (0.71%) CISM
14 14 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 12 (0.57%) BC Cleared
16 11 (0.52%) CBAP
16 11 (0.52%) ISTQB
17 10 (0.47%) PhD
18 9 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (6.54%) QA
2 76 (3.60%) Data Quality
3 54 (2.56%) GDPR
4 48 (2.27%) PMO
5 42 (1.99%) ISO 20022
6 38 (1.80%) Accessibility
7 28 (1.33%) NIST
7 28 (1.33%) SEPA
7 28 (1.33%) SLA
8 27 (1.28%) MiFID
9 26 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 23 (1.09%) PSD2
11 22 (1.04%) PCI DSS
12 21 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 20 (0.95%) Basel III
14 19 (0.90%) GRC
15 17 (0.81%) EMIR
16 12 (0.57%) IFRS
17 7 (0.33%) ISO 8583
17 7 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 183 (8.67%) Docker
2 46 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (1.80%) Active Directory
4 15 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.66%) Firmware
6 6 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.24%) RACF
7 5 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
7 5 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.14%) vSphere
10 2 (0.095%) ACF2
10 2 (0.095%) GridGain
10 2 (0.095%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.095%) NFS
10 2 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.095%) XenApp
10 2 (0.095%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.047%) KVM
11 1 (0.047%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 210 (9.95%) Kubernetes
2 120 (5.68%) Terraform
3 78 (3.69%) Ansible
4 49 (2.32%) Grafana
5 48 (2.27%) Prometheus
6 17 (0.81%) SCCM
7 13 (0.62%) Argo
7 13 (0.62%) ITRS Geneos
8 12 (0.57%) NetBackup
9 11 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (0.47%) Control-M
11 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (0.38%) CA Endevor
13 7 (0.33%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.28%) Kibana
14 6 (0.28%) OMEGAMON
14 6 (0.28%) RSA Archer
15 5 (0.24%) QRadar
15 5 (0.24%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 239 (11.32%) Microsoft
2 139 (6.58%) Oracle
3 99 (4.69%) Google
4 64 (3.03%) Splunk
5 56 (2.65%) VMware
6 53 (2.51%) IBM
7 47 (2.23%) ServiceNow
8 44 (2.08%) Cisco
9 40 (1.89%) F5
9 40 (1.89%) HP
10 34 (1.61%) Dell
11 33 (1.56%) Salesforce
12 32 (1.52%) CyberArk
12 32 (1.52%) SAP
13 31 (1.47%) Apple
13 31 (1.47%) Citrix
14 27 (1.28%) Bloomberg
14 27 (1.28%) Dynatrace
15 26 (1.23%) Databricks
16 25 (1.18%) Remedy