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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,270 1,889 2,330
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.98% 7.79% 6.19%
As % of the General category 10.49% 12.25% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,375 1,257 1,658
10th Percentile £371 £362 £375
25th Percentile £439 £474 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £665 £750 £750
90th Percentile £775 £850 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -12.50% -2.04% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 18 25
10th Percentile £17.00 £15.24 £12.34
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.20 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +14.21% -7.14%
75th Percentile £57.10 £24.66 £30.00
90th Percentile £96.63 £44.10 £79.30
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 21,649 15,417 22,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.02% 63.56% 58.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,650 10,062 14,321
10th Percentile £303 £300 £270
25th Percentile £408 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £765
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,360 618 1,694
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.88 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.54 £15.17
Median hourly rate £25.46 £30.21 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.72% +16.17% -25.71%
75th Percentile £61.18 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.55 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.53 £26.00
% change year-on-year -14.82% +13.56% -25.71%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 28 March 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 1,548 £575 -10.15% 331
North of England +7 485 £475 +5.15% 73
North West +15 269 £447 +10.37% 41
Yorkshire -4 219 £500 -8.26% 25
Midlands +13 183 £482 -12.36% 41
West Midlands +17 127 £550 -0.90% 22
East Midlands -10 56 £430 +7.50% 19
South East -36 48 £472 -18.00% 94
South West -17 35 £525 -11.76% 9
East of England -29 11 £400 -33.33% 13
North East -7 6 £400 - 7
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
1 182 (8.02%) Confluence
2 58 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.06%) Apache Spark
4 21 (0.93%) SAS
5 13 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (0.53%) Apache
6 12 (0.53%) IIS
7 11 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.44%) CICS
9 7 (0.31%) CMS
10 6 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.22%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.22%) Hyperledger
12 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.088%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.088%) MQSeries
13 2 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.088%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.088%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 154 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 66 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
4 49 (2.16%) MS Visio
5 29 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.70%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.13%) Adobe Captivate
8 3 (0.13%) Notion
8 3 (0.13%) Trello
9 2 (0.088%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.044%) InVision
10 1 (0.044%) Sketch
10 1 (0.044%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 33 (1.45%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
3 20 (0.88%) Oracle Receivables
3 20 (0.88%) Temenos T24
4 19 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
5 18 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
6 17 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 15 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
8 13 (0.57%) Loan IQ
9 10 (0.44%) Actimize
9 10 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
9 10 (0.44%) SAP FI
10 8 (0.35%) Finacle
10 8 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 8 (0.35%) SAP CO
10 8 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
11 7 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
11 7 (0.31%) Summit
12 6 (0.26%) Aladdin
12 6 (0.26%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 358 (15.77%) Azure
2 332 (14.63%) AWS
3 166 (7.31%) GCP
4 143 (6.30%) Power Platform
5 94 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
6 88 (3.88%) GitHub
7 61 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
8 56 (2.47%) Serverless
9 48 (2.11%) SaaS
10 45 (1.98%) Figma
11 33 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
12 32 (1.41%) Entra ID
13 30 (1.32%) Amazon S3
14 28 (1.23%) Power Automate
15 27 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (1.19%) OCI
16 26 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
16 26 (1.15%) OpenShift
16 26 (1.15%) PowerApps
17 24 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 69 (3.04%) DNS
2 48 (2.11%) Firewall
3 43 (1.89%) VPN
4 38 (1.67%) HTTP
5 37 (1.63%) TCP/IP
6 34 (1.50%) Network Security
7 28 (1.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 27 (1.19%) Multicast
9 26 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 25 (1.10%) BGP
11 24 (1.06%) DMZ
11 24 (1.06%) SSL
12 21 (0.93%) BIG-IP
13 20 (0.88%) Wireshark
14 19 (0.84%) NetScaler
14 19 (0.84%) SAN
15 17 (0.75%) FIX Connectivity
16 15 (0.66%) DHCP
16 15 (0.66%) Wireless
17 13 (0.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (5.02%) Power BI
2 99 (4.36%) SQL Server
3 70 (3.08%) Tableau
4 68 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
5 59 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
6 51 (2.25%) NoSQL
7 45 (1.98%) Metadata
8 40 (1.76%) Oracle Database
9 37 (1.63%) MongoDB
10 35 (1.54%) Relational Database
11 31 (1.37%) Big Data
12 22 (0.97%) BigQuery
13 18 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 16 (0.70%) DB2
14 16 (0.70%) Hadoop
15 15 (0.66%) Data Lake
16 14 (0.62%) Power Query
17 12 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
17 12 (0.53%) KDB
18 11 (0.48%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 259 (11.41%) JIRA
2 125 (5.51%) Jenkins
3 90 (3.96%) Git
4 89 (3.92%) GitLab
5 27 (1.19%) JUnit
6 23 (1.01%) Cucumber
6 23 (1.01%) Selenium
7 22 (0.97%) Bitbucket
8 21 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
9 19 (0.84%) Fiddler
9 19 (0.84%) Postman
10 15 (0.66%) REST Assured
11 14 (0.62%) Liquibase
11 14 (0.62%) Maven
11 14 (0.62%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.53%) Gradle
13 9 (0.40%) Cypress.io
14 8 (0.35%) Mockito
14 8 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
15 7 (0.31%) SonarQube
General
1 1,437 (63.30%) Finance
2 722 (31.81%) Social Skills
3 444 (19.56%) Investment Banking
4 311 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
5 180 (7.93%) Front Office
6 116 (5.11%) Financial Institution
7 89 (3.92%) Retail Banking
8 67 (2.95%) Corporate Banking
8 67 (2.95%) Retail
9 66 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
10 65 (2.86%) Legal
11 55 (2.42%) Public Sector
12 45 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
13 38 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
14 34 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
15 30 (1.32%) Marketing
16 25 (1.10%) General Ledger
17 22 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 22 (0.97%) International Banking
17 22 (0.97%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 391 (17.22%) Developer
2 380 (16.74%) Analyst
3 282 (12.42%) Senior
4 261 (11.50%) Architect
5 260 (11.45%) Business Analyst
6 150 (6.61%) Lead
7 132 (5.81%) Solutions Architect
8 127 (5.59%) Project Manager
9 99 (4.36%) Java Developer
10 86 (3.79%) Senior Developer
11 85 (3.74%) Consultant
12 77 (3.39%) Banking Analyst
13 63 (2.78%) Data Engineer
14 56 (2.47%) Designer
15 55 (2.42%) Payments Architect
16 54 (2.38%) Banking Business Analyst
17 52 (2.29%) DevOps Engineer
18 51 (2.25%) Network Engineer
19 49 (2.16%) Payments Solutions Architect
20 46 (2.03%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (5.15%) Kafka
2 111 (4.89%) .NET
3 103 (4.54%) REST
4 78 (3.44%) React
5 68 (3.00%) RESTful
5 68 (3.00%) Spring
6 62 (2.73%) Middleware
7 61 (2.69%) HTML
8 60 (2.64%) Spring Boot
9 48 (2.11%) AngularJS
10 42 (1.85%) CSS
11 40 (1.76%) OAuth
12 37 (1.63%) XML
13 35 (1.54%) JSON
13 35 (1.54%) Pandas
14 31 (1.37%) NumPy
15 29 (1.28%) OAuth2
16 28 (1.23%) FIX Protocol
17 26 (1.15%) Node.js
17 26 (1.15%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 138 (6.08%) Product Ownership
2 109 (4.80%) Derivative
3 106 (4.67%) Onboarding
4 95 (4.19%) Management Information System
5 94 (4.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 90 (3.96%) Cloud Native
7 74 (3.26%) Data Protection Act
8 68 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
8 68 (3.00%) Fixed Income
9 66 (2.91%) Equities
10 50 (2.20%) Data Structures
11 45 (1.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 42 (1.85%) Public Cloud
13 40 (1.76%) Data Centre
14 39 (1.72%) Credit Risk
14 39 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
14 39 (1.72%) Market Risk
15 31 (1.37%) Hedge funds
15 31 (1.37%) Mainframe
16 28 (1.23%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 139 (6.12%) Windows
2 116 (5.11%) Linux
3 59 (2.60%) Unix
4 36 (1.59%) Windows 10
5 32 (1.41%) Android
6 24 (1.06%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.88%) Windows Server
8 16 (0.70%) zOS
9 14 (0.62%) Mac OS
10 13 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.31%) VMS
12 6 (0.26%) AIX
13 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
14 3 (0.13%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.13%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.088%) Solaris
15 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
16 1 (0.044%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 562 (24.76%) Agile
2 405 (17.84%) Stakeholder Management
3 382 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
4 331 (14.58%) DevOps
5 325 (14.32%) CI/CD
6 234 (10.31%) Migration
7 212 (9.34%) AI
7 212 (9.34%) Analytics
8 187 (8.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 177 (7.80%) Microservices
10 176 (7.75%) Data Modelling
11 171 (7.53%) Risk Management
12 169 (7.44%) Decision-Making
13 166 (7.31%) Continuous Improvement
14 161 (7.09%) Project Management
14 161 (7.09%) Roadmaps
15 156 (6.87%) Data Analysis
16 152 (6.70%) Validation
17 150 (6.61%) Business Intelligence
18 149 (6.56%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 399 (17.58%) SQL
2 363 (15.99%) Python
3 290 (12.78%) Java
4 146 (6.43%) C#
5 90 (3.96%) JavaScript
6 61 (2.69%) TypeScript
7 59 (2.60%) PowerShell
8 48 (2.11%) Go
9 37 (1.63%) PL/SQL
10 32 (1.41%) Shell Script
10 32 (1.41%) VBA
11 29 (1.28%) Bash
12 23 (1.01%) T-SQL
13 22 (0.97%) C++
14 18 (0.79%) COBOL
15 17 (0.75%) Kotlin
16 13 (0.57%) Korn
17 12 (0.53%) Perl
17 12 (0.53%) Scala
18 11 (0.48%) JCL
Qualifications
1 238 (10.48%) Degree
2 118 (5.20%) Security Cleared
3 79 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 74 (3.26%) Master's Degree
5 71 (3.13%) SC Cleared
6 57 (2.51%) PMI Certification
7 55 (2.42%) PMP
8 45 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (1.37%) CISSP
10 26 (1.15%) Azure Certification
11 19 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (0.79%) CISM
13 17 (0.75%) AWS Certification
13 17 (0.75%) MBA
14 15 (0.66%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.53%) CBAP
15 12 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.53%) PhD
16 10 (0.44%) DV Cleared
17 9 (0.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (6.08%) QA
2 107 (4.71%) Data Quality
3 56 (2.47%) ISO 20022
4 51 (2.25%) GDPR
5 46 (2.03%) PMO
6 36 (1.59%) PCI DSS
6 36 (1.59%) SLA
7 33 (1.45%) NIST
7 33 (1.45%) PSD2
8 31 (1.37%) Accessibility
8 31 (1.37%) SEPA
9 30 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 29 (1.28%) GRC
10 29 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 22 (0.97%) MiFID
12 21 (0.93%) Basel III
13 15 (0.66%) ISO 8583
14 13 (0.57%) EMIR
15 12 (0.53%) IFRS
16 7 (0.31%) GAAP
System Software
1 145 (6.39%) Docker
2 48 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (1.85%) Active Directory
4 22 (0.97%) Firmware
5 21 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.57%) vSphere
7 10 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.40%) NFS
9 4 (0.18%) RACF
9 4 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.18%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.13%) SRDF
10 3 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
10 3 (0.13%) XenApp
11 2 (0.088%) ACF2
11 2 (0.088%) GridGain
11 2 (0.088%) Varnish
11 2 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.044%) HDFS
12 1 (0.044%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 185 (8.15%) Kubernetes
2 105 (4.63%) Terraform
3 78 (3.44%) Ansible
4 49 (2.16%) Grafana
5 39 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 26 (1.15%) SCCM
7 19 (0.84%) Argo
8 18 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.40%) Puppet
11 8 (0.35%) Control-M
11 8 (0.35%) Istio
12 7 (0.31%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.31%) RSA Archer
13 6 (0.26%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.26%) WSUS
14 5 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
14 5 (0.22%) SnapMirror
15 4 (0.18%) Karpenter
15 4 (0.18%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 269 (11.85%) Microsoft
2 159 (7.00%) Oracle
3 81 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 78 (3.44%) Google
5 58 (2.56%) Cisco
5 58 (2.56%) Splunk
5 58 (2.56%) VMware
6 54 (2.38%) SAP
7 51 (2.25%) IBM
8 49 (2.16%) Citrix
9 47 (2.07%) F5
10 32 (1.41%) Temenos
11 31 (1.37%) Bloomberg
12 30 (1.32%) Remedy
13 27 (1.19%) Murex
14 25 (1.10%) HP
14 25 (1.10%) Salesforce
15 24 (1.06%) NetApp
16 23 (1.01%) Avaloq
16 23 (1.01%) Databricks