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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 23 24
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,736 2,204 2,446
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.93% 7.94% 7.48%
As % of the General category 10.63% 12.33% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,689 1,504 1,694
10th Percentile £400 £350 £406
25th Percentile £455 £415 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £788
90th Percentile £823 £825 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £610
% change year-on-year - -9.84% -2.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 33 13
10th Percentile £16.33 £18.18 £13.90
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.66 £14.50
Median hourly rate £17.25 £25.15 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.41% +57.19% -13.51%
75th Percentile £20.21 - £27.00
90th Percentile £24.23 £77.00 £61.55
UK median hourly rate £17.25 £25.15 £16.00
% change year-on-year -31.41% +57.19% -13.51%

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 25,743 17,881 19,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.83% 64.40% 58.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,164 11,322 11,616
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,195 1,012 979
10th Percentile £13.71 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.11 £16.17 £17.44
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -34.68% +40.00%
75th Percentile £57.74 £47.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £71.48 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £36.00
% change year-on-year +19.28% -30.14% +30.91%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -8 1,998 £600 -4.00% 3,229
North of England -9 504 £500 +14.29% 338
North West -5 251 £500 +17.65% 188
Yorkshire -12 244 £508 +12.78% 126
Midlands -30 139 £515 +15.68% 142
West Midlands -5 104 £550 +1.15% 75
South West -47 40 £515 -1.90% 156
East of England +14 39 £560 -20.00% 24
South East -55 38 £515 +24.55% 192
East Midlands -37 35 £475 +18.09% 67
North East -33 13 £875 +108.33% 22
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
1 157 (5.74%) Confluence
2 68 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 27 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 25 (0.91%) Apache
5 20 (0.73%) SAS
6 16 (0.58%) Camunda
7 14 (0.51%) IIS
8 11 (0.40%) CICS
9 9 (0.33%) Appian
9 9 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.22%) Jupyter
11 6 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.18%) MTS
13 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.15%) WordPress
14 3 (0.11%) Hyperledger
14 3 (0.11%) MQSeries
Applications
1 101 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (1.06%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Trello
9 2 (0.073%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.073%) EngageOne
9 2 (0.073%) Notion
9 2 (0.073%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.073%) Sketch
10 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.037%) InVision
10 1 (0.037%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 19 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
2 18 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
3 17 (0.62%) Finacle
4 15 (0.55%) Temenos T24
5 14 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
6 13 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
6 13 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
6 13 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
7 10 (0.37%) Aladdin
7 10 (0.37%) FLEXCUBE
8 8 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
8 8 (0.29%) Loan IQ
8 8 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
9 7 (0.26%) OpenText MBPM
9 7 (0.26%) Oracle BPM
9 7 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
10 5 (0.18%) NetSuite
10 5 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
10 5 (0.18%) Oracle FAH
10 5 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 420 (15.35%) Azure
2 350 (12.79%) AWS
3 185 (6.76%) GCP
4 149 (5.45%) Power Platform
5 84 (3.07%) GitHub
6 83 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
7 78 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
8 70 (2.56%) SaaS
8 70 (2.56%) Snowflake
9 52 (1.90%) Entra ID
10 44 (1.61%) OpenShift
11 39 (1.43%) Amazon S3
12 36 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
13 35 (1.28%) Serverless
14 33 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
15 28 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
16 27 (0.99%) Microsoft Copilot
17 25 (0.91%) Power Automate
18 24 (0.88%) dbt
18 24 (0.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 87 (3.18%) Firewall
2 68 (2.49%) VPN
3 60 (2.19%) Network Security
4 58 (2.12%) DNS
5 39 (1.43%) TCP/IP
6 32 (1.17%) Multicast
7 29 (1.06%) SSL
8 28 (1.02%) BGP
9 21 (0.77%) BIG-IP
9 21 (0.77%) HTTP
10 20 (0.73%) WAN
11 19 (0.69%) DMZ
12 18 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 18 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 16 (0.58%) Wireshark
14 15 (0.55%) DHCP
14 15 (0.55%) LAN
14 15 (0.55%) SAN
15 13 (0.48%) FIX Connectivity
16 11 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (4.75%) SQL Server
2 120 (4.39%) Power BI
3 93 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
4 76 (2.78%) Metadata
5 72 (2.63%) Relational Database
6 51 (1.86%) Oracle Database
7 48 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
8 38 (1.39%) Data Lake
9 31 (1.13%) MongoDB
10 26 (0.95%) Tableau
11 24 (0.88%) Db2
12 23 (0.84%) Big Data
13 22 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 20 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
14 20 (0.73%) BigQuery
14 20 (0.73%) NoSQL
15 19 (0.69%) RDBMS
16 17 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
17 16 (0.58%) Data Vault
18 14 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 279 (10.20%) JIRA
2 142 (5.19%) Git
3 112 (4.09%) Jenkins
4 64 (2.34%) GitLab
5 43 (1.57%) Selenium
6 38 (1.39%) JUnit
7 24 (0.88%) Maven
8 23 (0.84%) SonarQube
9 22 (0.80%) Gradle
10 21 (0.77%) REST Assured
11 20 (0.73%) Cucumber
11 20 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
12 18 (0.66%) Bitbucket
12 18 (0.66%) Mockito
13 15 (0.55%) ER Studio
13 15 (0.55%) ERwin
13 15 (0.55%) TeamCity
14 14 (0.51%) Postman
15 13 (0.48%) Cypress.io
15 13 (0.48%) Fiddler
General
1 1,796 (65.64%) Finance
2 787 (28.76%) Social Skills
3 530 (19.37%) Investment Banking
4 407 (14.88%) Analytical Skills
5 248 (9.06%) Front Office
6 137 (5.01%) Financial Institution
7 114 (4.17%) Retail
7 114 (4.17%) Retail Banking
8 86 (3.14%) Corporate Banking
9 84 (3.07%) Legal
10 72 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
11 61 (2.23%) Private Banking
12 59 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
13 50 (1.83%) Back Office
14 47 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
15 34 (1.24%) Public Sector
16 33 (1.21%) General Ledger
17 30 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
18 29 (1.06%) Marketing
19 26 (0.95%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 468 (17.11%) Developer
2 401 (14.66%) Analyst
3 391 (14.29%) Senior
4 284 (10.38%) Architect
5 267 (9.76%) Lead
6 243 (8.88%) Business Analyst
7 156 (5.70%) Java Developer
8 130 (4.75%) Project Manager
9 103 (3.76%) Data Engineer
9 103 (3.76%) Senior Developer
10 95 (3.47%) Consultant
11 90 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
12 75 (2.74%) Banking Analyst
13 70 (2.56%) Software Engineer
14 62 (2.27%) Data Analyst
15 61 (2.23%) Network Engineer
16 55 (2.01%) Senior Java Developer
17 53 (1.94%) Java Engineer
18 51 (1.86%) Python Developer
19 49 (1.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (5.34%) React
2 140 (5.12%) Kafka
3 122 (4.46%) REST
4 116 (4.24%) .NET
5 104 (3.80%) Spring
6 101 (3.69%) Spring Boot
7 97 (3.55%) Terraform
8 85 (3.11%) Middleware
9 63 (2.30%) Redux
10 50 (1.83%) HTML
11 46 (1.68%) CSS
12 45 (1.64%) RESTful
13 39 (1.43%) FIX Protocol
14 38 (1.39%) PySpark
15 34 (1.24%) JSON
16 32 (1.17%) OAuth
16 32 (1.17%) XML
17 30 (1.10%) AngularJS
17 30 (1.10%) LangChain
18 28 (1.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 228 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 181 (6.62%) Onboarding
3 169 (6.18%) Cloud Native
4 135 (4.93%) Derivative
5 127 (4.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 101 (3.69%) Fixed Income
7 94 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
8 84 (3.07%) Data Protection Act
9 80 (2.92%) Equities
10 77 (2.81%) AI Agents
11 76 (2.78%) Management Information System
12 74 (2.70%) Data Structures
13 64 (2.34%) Credit Risk
13 64 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
14 60 (2.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 57 (2.08%) Data Centre
16 54 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
17 53 (1.94%) Mainframe
18 51 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
19 47 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 155 (5.67%) Linux
2 148 (5.41%) Windows
3 98 (3.58%) Unix
4 40 (1.46%) Windows Server
5 28 (1.02%) zOS
6 26 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 23 (0.84%) Android
8 22 (0.80%) Apple iOS
9 16 (0.58%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.40%) AIX
11 9 (0.33%) Solaris
11 9 (0.33%) Windows 10
12 8 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
13 6 (0.22%) HPUX
13 6 (0.22%) SUSE
14 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.11%) CentOS
15 3 (0.11%) MVS
15 3 (0.11%) Windows 7
15 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 682 (24.93%) Stakeholder Management
2 662 (24.20%) Agile
3 440 (16.08%) CI/CD
4 414 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
5 404 (14.77%) AI
6 343 (12.54%) DevOps
7 340 (12.43%) Migration
8 304 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 266 (9.72%) Analytics
10 243 (8.88%) Roadmaps
11 233 (8.52%) Data Modelling
12 225 (8.22%) Validation
13 219 (8.00%) Microservices
14 212 (7.75%) Software Engineering
15 203 (7.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 202 (7.38%) Decision-Making
17 195 (7.13%) Change Management
18 190 (6.94%) User Acceptance Testing
19 188 (6.87%) Risk Management
20 184 (6.73%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 515 (18.82%) SQL
2 407 (14.88%) Python
3 374 (13.67%) Java
4 177 (6.47%) C#
5 141 (5.15%) JavaScript
6 115 (4.20%) TypeScript
7 88 (3.22%) PowerShell
8 75 (2.74%) PL/SQL
9 57 (2.08%) Bash
10 52 (1.90%) Shell Script
11 45 (1.64%) Kotlin
12 40 (1.46%) T-SQL
13 35 (1.28%) C++
14 25 (0.91%) Korn
15 22 (0.80%) VBA
16 14 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 14 (0.51%) Go
17 13 (0.48%) JCL
18 10 (0.37%) Apex Code
19 9 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 192 (7.02%) Degree
2 132 (4.82%) Security Cleared
3 108 (3.95%) SC Cleared
4 67 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (2.08%) PMP
6 52 (1.90%) PMI Certification
7 37 (1.35%) CISSP
8 29 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (0.99%) AWS Certification
9 27 (0.99%) Azure Certification
10 21 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (0.77%) Master's Degree
11 19 (0.69%) ISTQB
12 18 (0.66%) ACCA
13 16 (0.58%) CISM
14 15 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 15 (0.55%) CIMA
15 13 (0.48%) CCNP
16 12 (0.44%) CCSP
17 9 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (6.43%) Data Quality
2 151 (5.52%) QA
3 58 (2.12%) PMO
4 55 (2.01%) ISO 20022
5 42 (1.54%) GRC
6 39 (1.43%) SEPA
7 31 (1.13%) GDPR
7 31 (1.13%) NIST
8 26 (0.95%) SLA
9 24 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 22 (0.80%) Accessibility
10 22 (0.80%) MiFID
10 22 (0.80%) PSD2
11 17 (0.62%) IFRS
12 13 (0.48%) EMIR
13 11 (0.40%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.33%) Basel III
15 7 (0.26%) COREP
15 7 (0.26%) FINREP
System Software
1 120 (4.39%) Docker
2 66 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.77%) RACF
5 13 (0.48%) Firmware
6 10 (0.37%) NFS
7 8 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.29%) vSphere
8 5 (0.18%) ACF2
8 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.15%) Postfix
9 4 (0.15%) Varnish
10 3 (0.11%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
10 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.073%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.073%) GPFS
11 2 (0.073%) GridGain
11 2 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 173 (6.32%) Kubernetes
2 80 (2.92%) Ansible
3 27 (0.99%) Grafana
4 26 (0.95%) Prometheus
5 21 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.69%) Control-M
7 15 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (0.55%) OMEGAMON
7 15 (0.55%) SCCM
8 11 (0.40%) Argo
9 10 (0.37%) Istio
10 9 (0.33%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
12 6 (0.22%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.22%) WSUS
13 5 (0.18%) HP ALM
13 5 (0.18%) systemd
14 4 (0.15%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.15%) RSA Archer
14 4 (0.15%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 293 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 219 (8.00%) Oracle
3 108 (3.95%) IBM
4 104 (3.80%) Databricks
5 89 (3.25%) ServiceNow
6 63 (2.30%) Cisco
7 54 (1.97%) Salesforce
8 53 (1.94%) Google
9 51 (1.86%) Splunk
10 48 (1.75%) SAP
11 44 (1.61%) F5
12 39 (1.43%) Citrix
13 38 (1.39%) OpenAI
14 36 (1.32%) CyberArk
15 35 (1.28%) VMware
16 30 (1.10%) Bloomberg
16 30 (1.10%) Murex
17 24 (0.88%) Avaloq
18 23 (0.84%) Dynatrace
19 21 (0.77%) Fortinet