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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 22 22
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -5
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,192 2,428 3,061
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.37% 7.77% 7.71%
As % of the General category 11.59% 13.13% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,454 1,615 2,144
10th Percentile £358 £400 £413
25th Percentile £425 £488 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £750
90th Percentile £825 £850 £863
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 12 22
10th Percentile £18.69 - £15.72
25th Percentile £22.29 £14.50 £16.89
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.35 £18.72
Median % change year-on-year +53.87% -12.66% -25.14%
75th Percentile - £49.31 £32.81
90th Percentile £56.00 £77.48 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £24.17 £18.93
% change year-on-year +4.08% +27.65% -27.19%

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 18,913 18,490 23,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 63.59% 59.15% 59.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,000 11,095 16,192
10th Percentile £274 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £635 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,202 704 1,022
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.51 £17.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £31.97 £30.48
Median % change year-on-year -21.80% +4.91% +18.53%
75th Percentile £44.94 £60.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £69.96 £71.25 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £24.61 £29.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -16.58% -1.67% +20.00%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -5 1,571 £613 -4.30% 1,198
North of England +2 402 £465 -5.10% 182
Yorkshire -1 219 £500 -6.98% 37
North West +2 190 £438 -3.85% 122
Midlands +16 166 £460 -1.34% 51
West Midlands +11 91 £525 -14.98% 33
East Midlands +9 77 £403 -9.55% 17
South East -33 38 £413 -17.50% 926
South West +15 35 £525 -4.55% 28
East of England -13 9 £450 -25.00% 18
North East -6 6 - - 24
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
1 128 (5.84%) Confluence
2 49 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.01%) Apache
4 43 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.87%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.78%) CMS
7 14 (0.64%) CICS
8 13 (0.59%) WebSphere
9 11 (0.50%) MQSeries
10 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.41%) Tomcat
12 8 (0.36%) Mule
13 7 (0.32%) HCL Notes
13 7 (0.32%) SAS
14 5 (0.23%) IIS
14 5 (0.23%) JBoss
14 5 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 4 (0.18%) Anypoint
15 4 (0.18%) Camunda
15 4 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 116 (5.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 80 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
3 55 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (1.73%) MS Visio
5 22 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
6 18 (0.82%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.36%) Sketch
8 7 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 6 (0.27%) Adobe Captivate
10 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.14%) InVision
11 2 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.091%) Trello
11 2 (0.091%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.046%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 24 (1.09%) Oracle Payables
1 24 (1.09%) Payment Gateway
1 24 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
3 17 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.78%) Oracle Assets
4 16 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
5 12 (0.55%) Oracle EBS R12
5 12 (0.55%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 11 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
7 10 (0.46%) Oracle BPM
7 10 (0.46%) VisionPLUS
8 8 (0.36%) Aladdin
8 8 (0.36%) FLEXCUBE
9 7 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
9 7 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 6 (0.27%) Fidessa
11 5 (0.23%) Loan IQ
11 5 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 4 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 338 (15.42%) AWS
2 328 (14.96%) Azure
3 194 (8.85%) GCP
4 123 (5.61%) Power Platform
5 78 (3.56%) GitHub
6 73 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
7 60 (2.74%) Serverless
8 52 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (2.14%) Snowflake
10 46 (2.10%) Figma
11 41 (1.87%) SaaS
12 38 (1.73%) Entra ID
13 37 (1.69%) PowerApps
14 36 (1.64%) dbt
15 31 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
16 29 (1.32%) Power Automate
17 26 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
18 20 (0.91%) Azure AKS
18 20 (0.91%) OpenShift
19 19 (0.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.42%) Firewall
2 38 (1.73%) DNS
3 32 (1.46%) Network Security
4 24 (1.09%) Wireless
5 23 (1.05%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 23 (1.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 19 (0.87%) Multicast
6 19 (0.87%) TCP/IP
7 18 (0.82%) DMZ
8 15 (0.68%) BGP
9 14 (0.64%) HTTP
10 13 (0.59%) DHCP
10 13 (0.59%) SSL
11 12 (0.55%) Wireshark
12 11 (0.50%) BIG-IP
13 10 (0.46%) VPN
13 10 (0.46%) WAN
14 9 (0.41%) LAN
14 9 (0.41%) NetScaler
14 9 (0.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (4.52%) Power BI
2 94 (4.29%) SQL Server
3 93 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
4 74 (3.38%) NoSQL
5 54 (2.46%) Tableau
6 52 (2.37%) Data Lake
7 51 (2.33%) MongoDB
8 50 (2.28%) Relational Database
9 39 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
10 37 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
11 36 (1.64%) Apache Arrow
11 36 (1.64%) Apache Iceberg
11 36 (1.64%) Apache Ignite
11 36 (1.64%) Dremio
12 34 (1.55%) Metadata
13 30 (1.37%) DB2
14 29 (1.32%) Oracle Database
15 27 (1.23%) Big Data
16 21 (0.96%) Power Query
17 20 (0.91%) Redis
Development Applications
1 219 (9.99%) JIRA
2 167 (7.62%) Jenkins
3 116 (5.29%) Git
4 82 (3.74%) GitLab
5 51 (2.33%) JUnit
6 41 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
7 38 (1.73%) Selenium
8 31 (1.41%) Bitbucket
8 31 (1.41%) Cucumber
9 27 (1.23%) Maven
10 25 (1.14%) Liquibase
10 25 (1.14%) SonarQube
11 23 (1.05%) Postman
12 21 (0.96%) Gradle
13 17 (0.78%) TeamCity
14 16 (0.73%) Xcode
15 15 (0.68%) REST Assured
16 12 (0.55%) Cypress.io
17 10 (0.46%) Fiddler
17 10 (0.46%) webpack
General
1 1,357 (61.91%) Finance
2 808 (36.86%) Social Skills
3 506 (23.08%) Investment Banking
4 302 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
5 212 (9.67%) Front Office
6 136 (6.20%) Financial Institution
7 82 (3.74%) Retail Banking
8 71 (3.24%) Retail
9 55 (2.51%) Corporate Banking
10 49 (2.24%) Back Office
11 46 (2.10%) Legal
12 41 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
13 38 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
15 35 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
16 28 (1.28%) Private Banking
17 25 (1.14%) International Banking
18 24 (1.09%) Public Sector
19 22 (1.00%) General Ledger
20 21 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 449 (20.48%) Developer
2 362 (16.51%) Analyst
3 282 (12.86%) Senior
4 239 (10.90%) Business Analyst
5 197 (8.99%) Architect
6 134 (6.11%) Project Manager
7 121 (5.52%) Java Developer
8 110 (5.02%) Lead
9 100 (4.56%) Software Engineer
10 90 (4.11%) Senior Developer
11 70 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
12 63 (2.87%) Banking Analyst
12 63 (2.87%) Consultant
12 63 (2.87%) Python Engineer
13 62 (2.83%) AWS Engineer
14 58 (2.65%) Data Analyst
15 57 (2.60%) Designer
16 52 (2.37%) DevOps Engineer
17 50 (2.28%) Java Engineer
17 50 (2.28%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (5.61%) Kafka
2 109 (4.97%) REST
3 95 (4.33%) React
4 91 (4.15%) .NET
5 85 (3.88%) Spring
6 84 (3.83%) RESTful
7 73 (3.33%) Pandas
8 70 (3.19%) NumPy
9 68 (3.10%) AngularJS
10 67 (3.06%) Spring Boot
11 65 (2.97%) HTML
12 56 (2.55%) SciPy
13 55 (2.51%) CSS
14 43 (1.96%) Node.js
15 42 (1.92%) gRPC
16 41 (1.87%) Elastic Stack
17 38 (1.73%) Web Services
17 38 (1.73%) XML
18 37 (1.69%) FIX Protocol
19 36 (1.64%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 162 (7.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 153 (6.98%) Derivative
3 111 (5.06%) Onboarding
3 111 (5.06%) Product Ownership
4 110 (5.02%) Cloud Native
5 107 (4.88%) Fixed Income
6 106 (4.84%) Equities
7 81 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
7 81 (3.70%) Hedge funds
8 72 (3.28%) Management Information System
9 64 (2.92%) Data Centre
10 61 (2.78%) Mobile App
11 60 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
12 53 (2.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 46 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
14 43 (1.96%) Market Risk
14 43 (1.96%) Public Cloud
15 40 (1.82%) Data Structures
16 36 (1.64%) Pricing Data
17 31 (1.41%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 172 (7.85%) Linux
2 115 (5.25%) Windows
3 59 (2.69%) Android
4 46 (2.10%) Unix
5 32 (1.46%) Apple iOS
6 22 (1.00%) Mac OS
6 22 (1.00%) Windows 10
7 17 (0.78%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.27%) zOS
9 5 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.091%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.046%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.046%) Solaris
11 1 (0.046%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 637 (29.06%) Agile
2 413 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
3 326 (14.87%) DevOps
4 309 (14.10%) CI/CD
5 305 (13.91%) Stakeholder Management
6 218 (9.95%) Analytics
7 213 (9.72%) Microservices
8 182 (8.30%) Risk Management
9 176 (8.03%) Software Engineering
10 174 (7.94%) Project Management
11 161 (7.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 154 (7.03%) Migration
13 148 (6.75%) Change Management
14 144 (6.57%) Decision-Making
14 144 (6.57%) Scrum
15 132 (6.02%) Computer Science
15 132 (6.02%) Roadmaps
16 128 (5.84%) Containerisation
17 122 (5.57%) Test Automation
18 121 (5.52%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 434 (19.80%) Python
2 383 (17.47%) SQL
3 356 (16.24%) Java
4 149 (6.80%) JavaScript
5 137 (6.25%) C#
6 89 (4.06%) TypeScript
7 62 (2.83%) C++
8 53 (2.42%) Go
9 51 (2.33%) PowerShell
10 39 (1.78%) Shell Script
11 32 (1.46%) PL/SQL
12 31 (1.41%) Kotlin
13 27 (1.23%) Bash
13 27 (1.23%) Scala
14 21 (0.96%) Rust
15 19 (0.87%) VBA
16 17 (0.78%) COBOL
17 15 (0.68%) Swift
18 14 (0.64%) Objective-C
19 13 (0.59%) C
Qualifications
1 243 (11.09%) Degree
2 85 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 74 (3.38%) Security Cleared
4 55 (2.51%) Master's Degree
5 44 (2.01%) PMI Certification
6 43 (1.96%) PMP
7 35 (1.60%) SC Cleared
8 31 (1.41%) AWS Certification
9 28 (1.28%) Azure Certification
10 27 (1.23%) CISSP
11 25 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 20 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (0.73%) DV Cleared
14 14 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 12 (0.55%) BC Cleared
15 12 (0.55%) CISM
16 11 (0.50%) CCNP
17 9 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
18 8 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (5.66%) QA
2 74 (3.38%) Data Quality
3 51 (2.33%) GDPR
4 50 (2.28%) Accessibility
5 42 (1.92%) PMO
6 39 (1.78%) ISO 20022
7 34 (1.55%) SEPA
8 28 (1.28%) NIST
9 27 (1.23%) SLA
10 26 (1.19%) MiFID
11 20 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 20 (0.91%) PSD2
12 18 (0.82%) PCI DSS
13 17 (0.78%) GRC
14 16 (0.73%) EMIR
14 16 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 11 (0.50%) Basel III
16 7 (0.32%) IFRS
16 7 (0.32%) SOC 2
17 5 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 169 (7.71%) Docker
2 43 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 41 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.55%) Firmware
6 6 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (0.18%) RACF
8 4 (0.18%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 3 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.091%) GridGain
10 2 (0.091%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.091%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.091%) NFS
10 2 (0.091%) vSphere
10 2 (0.091%) XenApp
10 2 (0.091%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.046%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 191 (8.71%) Kubernetes
2 112 (5.11%) Terraform
3 80 (3.65%) Ansible
4 44 (2.01%) Prometheus
5 43 (1.96%) Grafana
6 14 (0.64%) ITRS Geneos
7 13 (0.59%) SCCM
8 12 (0.55%) NetBackup
9 11 (0.50%) Argo
9 11 (0.50%) Control-M
9 11 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
10 9 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.32%) CA Endevor
12 7 (0.32%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.27%) Kibana
14 5 (0.23%) Istio
14 5 (0.23%) logstash
14 5 (0.23%) QRadar
14 5 (0.23%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 240 (10.95%) Microsoft
2 148 (6.75%) Oracle
3 103 (4.70%) Google
4 59 (2.69%) Splunk
5 53 (2.42%) IBM
6 48 (2.19%) VMware
7 39 (1.78%) SAP
8 37 (1.69%) Cisco
9 36 (1.64%) F5
9 36 (1.64%) Salesforce
9 36 (1.64%) ServiceNow
10 32 (1.46%) HP
11 28 (1.28%) Databricks
12 27 (1.23%) Apple
12 27 (1.23%) CyberArk
13 26 (1.19%) Dell
14 25 (1.14%) Citrix
14 25 (1.14%) Dynatrace
14 25 (1.14%) Solace
15 23 (1.05%) Bloomberg