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 26 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 25 24
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,182 2,363 2,911
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.11% 7.61% 7.50%
As % of the General category 11.21% 12.70% 12.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,409 1,572 2,017
10th Percentile £358 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £608 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% -2.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £694 £750 £750
90th Percentile £813 £850 £850
UK median daily rate £540 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -10.00% -3.23% -4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 9 21
10th Percentile £18.69 £14.93 £15.72
25th Percentile £24.45 £15.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £27.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.55% +48.65% -26.00%
75th Percentile - £66.00 £30.00
90th Percentile £56.00 £82.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £27.00 £18.72
% change year-on-year -6.85% +44.27% -25.14%

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 common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 19,458 18,607 23,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 63.44% 59.96% 59.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,321 11,162 15,743
10th Percentile £275 £300 £288
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £627 £650 £670
90th Percentile £738 £775 £769
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,268 697 1,023
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.24 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.94 £18.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £24.48 £31.97 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.44% -3.12% +28.35%
75th Percentile £46.00 £59.57 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £72.50 £71.65
UK median hourly rate £24.09 £29.00 £32.41
% change year-on-year -16.93% -10.52% +29.64%

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 26 November 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 26 November 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 26 November 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 -6 1,544 £600 -5.88% 331
North of England +4 407 £465 -7.00% 89
Yorkshire +1 229 £500 -9.09% 31
North West +2 188 £449 -1.27% 55
Midlands +24 169 £460 -16.36% 74
West Midlands +17 97 £525 -14.98% 47
East Midlands +21 74 £410 -3.24% 25
South East -31 44 £425 -15.00% 213
South West +6 34 £525 -4.98% 23
East of England -8 10 £400 -46.67% 23
North East -6 4 - - 3
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
1 122 (5.59%) Confluence
2 55 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.02%) Apache
4 40 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (1.01%) Apache Spark
6 19 (0.87%) CMS
7 18 (0.82%) CICS
8 12 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
9 11 (0.50%) WebSphere
10 9 (0.41%) MQSeries
10 9 (0.41%) Tomcat
11 8 (0.37%) Mule
11 8 (0.37%) SAS
12 7 (0.32%) HCL Notes
13 6 (0.27%) IIS
14 5 (0.23%) JBoss
14 5 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 4 (0.18%) Anypoint
15 4 (0.18%) Camunda
16 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 117 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 80 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
3 56 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (1.83%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
6 20 (0.92%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 7 (0.32%) Sketch
9 6 (0.27%) Adobe Captivate
10 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.14%) InVision
10 3 (0.14%) Trello
11 2 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.092%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.046%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 23 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
2 21 (0.96%) Oracle Payables
3 20 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
4 13 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
5 12 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
5 12 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
6 11 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
7 10 (0.46%) Oracle EBS R12
7 10 (0.46%) VisionPLUS
8 8 (0.37%) Aladdin
8 8 (0.37%) Oracle E-Business Tax
8 8 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.37%) Temenos T24
9 6 (0.27%) Fidessa
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle Cash Management
10 5 (0.23%) Actimize
10 5 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
10 5 (0.23%) Loan IQ
10 5 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 340 (15.58%) AWS
2 338 (15.49%) Azure
3 196 (8.98%) GCP
4 138 (6.32%) Power Platform
5 84 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
6 77 (3.53%) GitHub
7 65 (2.98%) Serverless
8 50 (2.29%) Figma
9 49 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
10 43 (1.97%) Snowflake
11 41 (1.88%) SaaS
12 38 (1.74%) Entra ID
13 37 (1.70%) PowerApps
14 32 (1.47%) dbt
14 32 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
15 29 (1.33%) Power Automate
16 25 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
17 22 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
18 21 (0.96%) Azure AKS
18 21 (0.96%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 54 (2.47%) Firewall
2 41 (1.88%) DNS
3 36 (1.65%) Network Security
4 29 (1.33%) Wireless
5 25 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 25 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 22 (1.01%) TCP/IP
7 21 (0.96%) DMZ
8 19 (0.87%) HTTP
9 17 (0.78%) Multicast
10 15 (0.69%) SSL
11 13 (0.60%) DHCP
11 13 (0.60%) VPN
11 13 (0.60%) Wireshark
12 12 (0.55%) BIG-IP
13 11 (0.50%) BGP
14 10 (0.46%) LAN
15 9 (0.41%) NetScaler
15 9 (0.41%) SAN
16 8 (0.37%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (5.22%) Power BI
2 95 (4.35%) SQL Server
3 86 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
4 68 (3.12%) NoSQL
5 56 (2.57%) Tableau
6 52 (2.38%) MongoDB
7 46 (2.11%) Data Lake
8 43 (1.97%) Relational Database
9 36 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
10 34 (1.56%) Metadata
11 32 (1.47%) Apache Arrow
11 32 (1.47%) Apache Iceberg
11 32 (1.47%) Apache Ignite
11 32 (1.47%) Dremio
12 31 (1.42%) DB2
13 28 (1.28%) Oracle Database
14 27 (1.24%) Big Data
15 24 (1.10%) Power Query
16 21 (0.96%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 213 (9.76%) JIRA
2 155 (7.10%) Jenkins
3 115 (5.27%) Git
4 83 (3.80%) GitLab
5 50 (2.29%) JUnit
6 38 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
7 34 (1.56%) Bitbucket
7 34 (1.56%) Selenium
8 27 (1.24%) Maven
9 26 (1.19%) Cucumber
9 26 (1.19%) Liquibase
10 23 (1.05%) SonarQube
11 20 (0.92%) Postman
12 15 (0.69%) Gradle
12 15 (0.69%) TeamCity
13 13 (0.60%) REST Assured
14 12 (0.55%) Cypress.io
15 11 (0.50%) Fiddler
15 11 (0.50%) Xcode
16 10 (0.46%) Mockito
General
1 1,382 (63.34%) Finance
2 798 (36.57%) Social Skills
3 487 (22.32%) Investment Banking
4 305 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
5 208 (9.53%) Front Office
6 137 (6.28%) Financial Institution
7 75 (3.44%) Retail Banking
8 67 (3.07%) Retail
9 53 (2.43%) Corporate Banking
10 49 (2.25%) Legal
11 41 (1.88%) Back Office
12 40 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
13 38 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
14 35 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
14 35 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
15 28 (1.28%) Public Sector
16 24 (1.10%) International Banking
16 24 (1.10%) Private Banking
17 20 (0.92%) General Ledger
17 20 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 443 (20.30%) Developer
2 364 (16.68%) Analyst
3 281 (12.88%) Senior
4 238 (10.91%) Business Analyst
5 189 (8.66%) Architect
6 138 (6.32%) Project Manager
7 122 (5.59%) Java Developer
8 105 (4.81%) Lead
9 88 (4.03%) Senior Developer
9 88 (4.03%) Software Engineer
10 74 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
11 68 (3.12%) Banking Analyst
12 62 (2.84%) Consultant
13 60 (2.75%) Python Engineer
14 59 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
15 56 (2.57%) Data Analyst
16 55 (2.52%) Designer
17 52 (2.38%) DevOps Engineer
18 50 (2.29%) Senior Java Developer
19 49 (2.25%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (5.87%) Kafka
2 118 (5.41%) REST
3 101 (4.63%) .NET
4 91 (4.17%) Spring
5 88 (4.03%) React
6 83 (3.80%) RESTful
7 73 (3.35%) Pandas
8 72 (3.30%) Spring Boot
9 69 (3.16%) NumPy
10 59 (2.70%) AngularJS
10 59 (2.70%) HTML
11 52 (2.38%) SciPy
12 48 (2.20%) CSS
13 41 (1.88%) Node.js
14 40 (1.83%) Elastic Stack
15 37 (1.70%) Middleware
16 36 (1.65%) FIX Protocol
16 36 (1.65%) gRPC
17 35 (1.60%) XML
18 32 (1.47%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 156 (7.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 150 (6.87%) Derivative
3 117 (5.36%) Onboarding
4 105 (4.81%) Product Ownership
5 102 (4.67%) Cloud Native
6 97 (4.45%) Equities
7 96 (4.40%) Fixed Income
8 83 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
9 79 (3.62%) Management Information System
10 78 (3.57%) Hedge funds
11 67 (3.07%) Data Centre
12 65 (2.98%) Data Protection Act
13 56 (2.57%) Mobile App
14 50 (2.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 47 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
16 42 (1.92%) Public Cloud
17 39 (1.79%) Market Risk
18 38 (1.74%) Data Structures
19 34 (1.56%) Credit Risk
20 33 (1.51%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 166 (7.61%) Linux
2 125 (5.73%) Windows
3 55 (2.52%) Android
4 46 (2.11%) Unix
5 28 (1.28%) Apple iOS
6 27 (1.24%) Mac OS
7 26 (1.19%) Windows 10
8 20 (0.92%) Windows Server
9 10 (0.46%) zOS
10 6 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.092%) AIX
11 2 (0.092%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.092%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.092%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.046%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.046%) Solaris
12 1 (0.046%) VMS
12 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 617 (28.28%) Agile
2 403 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
3 322 (14.76%) DevOps
4 309 (14.16%) CI/CD
5 301 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 218 (9.99%) Analytics
7 209 (9.58%) Microservices
8 184 (8.43%) Risk Management
9 169 (7.75%) Project Management
9 169 (7.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 162 (7.42%) Software Engineering
11 155 (7.10%) Migration
12 152 (6.97%) Decision-Making
13 150 (6.87%) Change Management
14 139 (6.37%) Containerisation
15 136 (6.23%) Scrum
16 135 (6.19%) Roadmaps
17 132 (6.05%) Business Intelligence
18 130 (5.96%) Data Analysis
19 128 (5.87%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 430 (19.71%) Python
2 377 (17.28%) SQL
3 349 (15.99%) Java
4 151 (6.92%) C#
5 133 (6.10%) JavaScript
6 79 (3.62%) TypeScript
7 57 (2.61%) C++
8 56 (2.57%) PowerShell
9 53 (2.43%) Go
10 36 (1.65%) Shell Script
11 28 (1.28%) Bash
11 28 (1.28%) PL/SQL
12 24 (1.10%) Kotlin
12 24 (1.10%) VBA
13 20 (0.92%) Rust
14 19 (0.87%) COBOL
15 18 (0.82%) Scala
16 15 (0.69%) T-SQL
17 14 (0.64%) JCL
18 13 (0.60%) Swift
Qualifications
1 245 (11.23%) Degree
2 90 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 87 (3.99%) Security Cleared
4 62 (2.84%) Master's Degree
5 48 (2.20%) PMI Certification
6 44 (2.02%) PMP
7 43 (1.97%) SC Cleared
8 31 (1.42%) CISSP
9 30 (1.37%) Azure Certification
10 29 (1.33%) AWS Certification
11 26 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
12 21 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (0.92%) DV Cleared
14 14 (0.64%) CISM
15 12 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 12 (0.55%) BC Cleared
15 12 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
16 9 (0.41%) CCNP
16 9 (0.41%) PhD
17 7 (0.32%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (5.82%) QA
2 79 (3.62%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.38%) GDPR
4 44 (2.02%) Accessibility
4 44 (2.02%) PMO
5 43 (1.97%) ISO 20022
6 31 (1.42%) SEPA
7 29 (1.33%) NIST
8 27 (1.24%) MiFID
8 27 (1.24%) SLA
9 22 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 22 (1.01%) PSD2
10 19 (0.87%) GRC
10 19 (0.87%) PCI DSS
11 18 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 16 (0.73%) EMIR
13 15 (0.69%) Basel III
14 11 (0.50%) IFRS
15 7 (0.32%) SOC 2
16 6 (0.27%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 176 (8.07%) Docker
2 45 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (1.92%) Active Directory
4 14 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.55%) Firmware
6 6 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.23%) RACF
7 5 (0.23%) Time Sharing Option
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.092%) ACF2
9 2 (0.092%) GridGain
9 2 (0.092%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.092%) NFS
9 2 (0.092%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 2 (0.092%) vSphere
9 2 (0.092%) XenApp
9 2 (0.092%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.046%) KVM
10 1 (0.046%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 204 (9.35%) Kubernetes
2 117 (5.36%) Terraform
3 82 (3.76%) Ansible
4 45 (2.06%) Grafana
5 44 (2.02%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.82%) SCCM
7 13 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
8 12 (0.55%) Argo
8 12 (0.55%) NetBackup
9 11 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
10 9 (0.41%) Control-M
10 9 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.37%) CA Endevor
11 8 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.32%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.27%) Istio
13 6 (0.27%) Kibana
13 6 (0.27%) RSA Archer
14 5 (0.23%) OMEGAMON
14 5 (0.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 253 (11.59%) Microsoft
2 142 (6.51%) Oracle
3 100 (4.58%) Google
4 60 (2.75%) Splunk
5 55 (2.52%) IBM
6 52 (2.38%) VMware
7 42 (1.92%) Cisco
8 40 (1.83%) ServiceNow
9 38 (1.74%) F5
10 37 (1.70%) Salesforce
11 36 (1.65%) HP
12 32 (1.47%) Apple
12 32 (1.47%) Dell
13 31 (1.42%) CyberArk
14 29 (1.33%) SAP
15 27 (1.24%) Citrix
15 27 (1.24%) Databricks
16 25 (1.15%) Bloomberg
16 25 (1.15%) Dynatrace
17 23 (1.05%) Solace