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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,259 1,884 2,280
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.76% 7.72% 6.15%
As % of the General category 10.31% 12.10% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,366 1,249 1,644
10th Percentile £368 £358 £380
25th Percentile £438 £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 £750
90th Percentile £780 £860 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £618
% change year-on-year -12.50% -2.83% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 24
10th Percentile £16.63 £15.10 £12.25
25th Percentile £17.47 £18.20 £18.12
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +14.21% -7.14%
75th Percentile £57.37 £24.66 £32.63
90th Percentile £96.88 £48.98 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.50
% change year-on-year +12.93% +14.21% -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 21,907 15,575 21,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.89% 63.85% 58.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,758 10,131 14,014
10th Percentile £304 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £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 1,407 645 1,748
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.61 £15.39
Median hourly rate £28.55 £29.00 £27.59
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% +5.10% -21.16%
75th Percentile £61.18 £58.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £28.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -21.43%

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 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 15 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 15 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 -10 1,558 £575 -9.80% 341
North of England +4 472 £473 +1.72% 58
North West +13 261 £447 +0.45% 30
Yorkshire -9 210 £500 -7.19% 23
Midlands +12 173 £468 -14.95% 55
West Midlands +9 120 £565 +1.80% 20
East Midlands -9 53 £430 +8.72% 35
South East -35 45 £488 -13.33% 94
South West -24 31 £500 -15.97% 8
East of England -24 15 £600 - 3
North East -13 9 £400 - 5
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
1 176 (7.79%) Confluence
2 56 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.02%) Apache Spark
3 23 (1.02%) SAS
4 13 (0.58%) IIS
5 12 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (0.49%) Apache
6 11 (0.49%) CICS
6 11 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.22%) CMS
8 5 (0.22%) Ethereum
8 5 (0.22%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.13%) Camunda
9 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.089%) Appian
10 2 (0.089%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.089%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.089%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 150 (6.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (3.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 66 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
4 46 (2.04%) MS Visio
5 28 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.66%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.13%) Notion
8 2 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.089%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.089%) InVision
8 2 (0.089%) Sketch
8 2 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.089%) Trello
9 1 (0.044%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.044%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 31 (1.37%) Payment Gateway
2 24 (1.06%) Oracle Payables
3 21 (0.93%) Temenos T24
4 19 (0.84%) Oracle Receivables
4 19 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
4 19 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
5 17 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 15 (0.66%) Loan IQ
7 13 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
8 10 (0.44%) Finacle
8 10 (0.44%) SAP FI
9 9 (0.40%) Actimize
9 9 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
10 8 (0.35%) Aladdin
10 8 (0.35%) SAP CO
10 8 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
10 8 (0.35%) Summit
11 7 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
11 7 (0.31%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 5 (0.22%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 351 (15.54%) Azure
2 305 (13.50%) AWS
3 152 (6.73%) GCP
4 133 (5.89%) Power Platform
5 101 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
6 84 (3.72%) GitHub
7 61 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
8 52 (2.30%) SaaS
9 43 (1.90%) Figma
9 43 (1.90%) Serverless
10 35 (1.55%) Entra ID
11 33 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
12 31 (1.37%) Amazon S3
12 31 (1.37%) OpenShift
13 28 (1.24%) Power Automate
14 27 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
15 26 (1.15%) OCI
16 25 (1.11%) PowerApps
17 24 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
17 24 (1.06%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.14%) DNS
2 49 (2.17%) Firewall
2 49 (2.17%) VPN
3 40 (1.77%) HTTP
4 39 (1.73%) TCP/IP
5 32 (1.42%) Network Security
6 26 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 26 (1.15%) Multicast
7 25 (1.11%) BGP
8 24 (1.06%) BIG-IP
8 24 (1.06%) DMZ
8 24 (1.06%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 24 (1.06%) SSL
9 22 (0.97%) SAN
10 20 (0.89%) NetScaler
10 20 (0.89%) Wireshark
11 19 (0.84%) FIX Connectivity
12 15 (0.66%) DHCP
13 12 (0.53%) Wireless
14 11 (0.49%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (4.60%) Power BI
2 95 (4.21%) SQL Server
3 65 (2.88%) Tableau
4 54 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
5 50 (2.21%) Metadata
5 50 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
6 42 (1.86%) Oracle Database
7 37 (1.64%) MongoDB
8 34 (1.51%) NoSQL
9 33 (1.46%) Relational Database
10 27 (1.20%) Big Data
11 22 (0.97%) BigQuery
12 17 (0.75%) DB2
13 16 (0.71%) Hadoop
13 16 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 14 (0.62%) Power Query
15 12 (0.53%) Data Lake
16 11 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (0.49%) RDBMS
17 10 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 255 (11.29%) JIRA
2 103 (4.56%) Jenkins
3 88 (3.90%) Git
4 68 (3.01%) GitLab
5 27 (1.20%) JUnit
6 21 (0.93%) Selenium
7 20 (0.89%) Bitbucket
7 20 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
8 19 (0.84%) Cucumber
8 19 (0.84%) Fiddler
9 16 (0.71%) Postman
10 15 (0.66%) REST Assured
11 14 (0.62%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.53%) Maven
13 10 (0.44%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.44%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.40%) Mockito
15 8 (0.35%) Gradle
16 7 (0.31%) Chocolatey
17 6 (0.27%) webpack
General
1 1,410 (62.42%) Finance
2 681 (30.15%) Social Skills
3 440 (19.48%) Investment Banking
4 317 (14.03%) Analytical Skills
5 179 (7.92%) Front Office
6 102 (4.52%) Financial Institution
7 89 (3.94%) Retail Banking
8 74 (3.28%) Legal
9 71 (3.14%) Corporate Banking
10 69 (3.05%) Retail
11 61 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
12 56 (2.48%) Public Sector
13 44 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
15 34 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
16 31 (1.37%) Marketing
17 24 (1.06%) General Ledger
18 23 (1.02%) Back Office
19 22 (0.97%) Private Banking
20 21 (0.93%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 383 (16.95%) Analyst
2 369 (16.33%) Developer
3 284 (12.57%) Senior
4 269 (11.91%) Business Analyst
5 263 (11.64%) Architect
6 160 (7.08%) Lead
7 124 (5.49%) Solutions Architect
8 113 (5.00%) Project Manager
9 100 (4.43%) Java Developer
10 88 (3.90%) Consultant
11 84 (3.72%) Banking Analyst
12 83 (3.67%) Senior Developer
13 74 (3.28%) Data Engineer
14 60 (2.66%) Banking Business Analyst
15 56 (2.48%) Payments Architect
16 53 (2.35%) Designer
17 52 (2.30%) Network Engineer
18 51 (2.26%) DevOps Engineer
19 50 (2.21%) Payments Solutions Architect
20 45 (1.99%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (5.00%) Kafka
2 106 (4.69%) .NET
3 83 (3.67%) React
4 82 (3.63%) REST
5 69 (3.05%) Middleware
6 67 (2.97%) Spring
7 61 (2.70%) HTML
8 60 (2.66%) Spring Boot
9 55 (2.43%) RESTful
10 46 (2.04%) CSS
11 42 (1.86%) OAuth
12 41 (1.81%) AngularJS
13 39 (1.73%) JSON
14 35 (1.55%) XML
15 31 (1.37%) OAuth2
16 30 (1.33%) FIX Protocol
17 29 (1.28%) Node.js
17 29 (1.28%) Pandas
18 25 (1.11%) SOAP
19 24 (1.06%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 134 (5.93%) Product Ownership
2 111 (4.91%) Onboarding
3 108 (4.78%) Derivative
4 95 (4.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 94 (4.16%) Management Information System
6 91 (4.03%) Cloud Native
7 75 (3.32%) Data Protection Act
8 72 (3.19%) Fixed Income
9 61 (2.70%) Equities
10 56 (2.48%) Data Structures
11 55 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
12 45 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
12 45 (1.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 41 (1.81%) Data Centre
14 39 (1.73%) Market Risk
15 38 (1.68%) Credit Risk
16 33 (1.46%) Mainframe
17 30 (1.33%) Algorithms
17 30 (1.33%) Public Cloud
18 27 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 144 (6.37%) Windows
2 106 (4.69%) Linux
3 65 (2.88%) Unix
4 36 (1.59%) Windows 10
5 28 (1.24%) Android
6 23 (1.02%) Windows Server
7 20 (0.89%) Apple iOS
8 17 (0.75%) zOS
9 15 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (0.49%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.35%) AIX
12 7 (0.31%) VMS
13 6 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
13 6 (0.27%) Windows 7
14 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
15 4 (0.18%) Solaris
15 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
16 3 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (0.13%) Ubuntu
16 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 541 (23.95%) Agile
2 411 (18.19%) Stakeholder Management
3 368 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
4 312 (13.81%) CI/CD
5 309 (13.68%) DevOps
6 246 (10.89%) Migration
7 234 (10.36%) AI
8 200 (8.85%) Analytics
9 179 (7.92%) Decision-Making
9 179 (7.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 174 (7.70%) Roadmaps
11 173 (7.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 173 (7.66%) Data Modelling
12 168 (7.44%) Risk Management
13 165 (7.30%) Microservices
14 158 (6.99%) Data Analysis
15 157 (6.95%) Project Management
16 156 (6.91%) Validation
17 150 (6.64%) User Acceptance Testing
18 142 (6.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 389 (17.22%) SQL
2 334 (14.79%) Python
3 285 (12.62%) Java
4 137 (6.06%) C#
5 96 (4.25%) JavaScript
6 64 (2.83%) TypeScript
7 61 (2.70%) PowerShell
8 41 (1.81%) PL/SQL
9 34 (1.51%) VBA
10 33 (1.46%) Shell Script
11 30 (1.33%) Go
12 28 (1.24%) T-SQL
13 27 (1.20%) Bash
14 20 (0.89%) C++
15 18 (0.80%) COBOL
15 18 (0.80%) Kotlin
16 15 (0.66%) Korn
17 13 (0.58%) Perl
17 13 (0.58%) Scala
18 12 (0.53%) JCL
Qualifications
1 216 (9.56%) Degree
2 113 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 68 (3.01%) SC Cleared
4 66 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 61 (2.70%) Master's Degree
6 53 (2.35%) PMP
7 52 (2.30%) PMI Certification
8 43 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (1.37%) CISSP
10 27 (1.20%) Azure Certification
11 17 (0.75%) AWS Certification
11 17 (0.75%) MBA
12 16 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (0.71%) CISM
13 15 (0.66%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.53%) CBAP
15 11 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (0.49%) PhD
16 9 (0.40%) ACCA
16 9 (0.40%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (6.06%) QA
2 113 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 53 (2.35%) ISO 20022
4 52 (2.30%) GDPR
5 45 (1.99%) PMO
6 34 (1.51%) SLA
7 32 (1.42%) NIST
7 32 (1.42%) PCI DSS
7 32 (1.42%) PSD2
8 29 (1.28%) SEPA
9 28 (1.24%) GRC
9 28 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 25 (1.11%) Accessibility
11 24 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 20 (0.89%) MiFID
13 19 (0.84%) Basel III
14 15 (0.66%) ISO 8583
15 12 (0.53%) IFRS
16 8 (0.35%) EMIR
17 7 (0.31%) GAAP
System Software
1 131 (5.80%) Docker
2 46 (2.04%) Active Directory
2 46 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (0.89%) Firmware
3 20 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (0.62%) vSphere
5 12 (0.53%) NFS
6 9 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.27%) RACF
8 5 (0.22%) XenDesktop
9 4 (0.18%) Varnish
9 4 (0.18%) XenApp
10 3 (0.13%) ACF2
10 3 (0.13%) Postfix
10 3 (0.13%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.13%) SRDF
10 3 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
10 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.089%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 175 (7.75%) Kubernetes
2 91 (4.03%) Terraform
3 71 (3.14%) Ansible
4 36 (1.59%) Grafana
5 26 (1.15%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.11%) SCCM
7 21 (0.93%) Argo
8 20 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.40%) Istio
9 9 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.35%) Control-M
10 8 (0.35%) Puppet
11 6 (0.27%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
11 6 (0.27%) RSA Archer
11 6 (0.27%) SnapMirror
11 6 (0.27%) vCenter Server
11 6 (0.27%) WSUS
12 4 (0.18%) Karpenter
12 4 (0.18%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 279 (12.35%) Microsoft
2 162 (7.17%) Oracle
3 82 (3.63%) ServiceNow
4 73 (3.23%) Google
5 59 (2.61%) Cisco
6 57 (2.52%) SAP
7 56 (2.48%) IBM
7 56 (2.48%) VMware
8 51 (2.26%) F5
9 50 (2.21%) Citrix
10 47 (2.08%) Splunk
11 29 (1.28%) Remedy
11 29 (1.28%) Temenos
12 28 (1.24%) Bloomberg
13 27 (1.20%) Murex
14 26 (1.15%) Pega
15 25 (1.11%) Avaloq
15 25 (1.11%) HP
15 25 (1.11%) NetApp
16 24 (1.06%) Databricks