Banking Contracts 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 25 21
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,124 2,506 3,866
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.01% 6.72% 8.06%
As % of the General category 12.54% 11.74% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,456 1,831 2,813
10th Percentile £358 £400 £450
25th Percentile £425 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £750 £788 £800
90th Percentile £838 £875 £900
UK median daily rate £563 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -6.25% -7.69% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 25 12
10th Percentile £14.65 £12.34 £14.76
25th Percentile £18.60 £14.50 £15.72
Median hourly rate £24.66 £19.50 £17.98
Median % change year-on-year +26.46% +8.45% -34.62%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.50 £57.81
90th Percentile £61.25 £86.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.66 £19.50 £18.84
% change year-on-year +26.46% +3.50% -42.03%

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 16,941 21,343 28,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 63.88% 57.27% 59.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,875 13,628 19,915
10th Percentile £281 £300 £315
25th Percentile £404 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 846 1,766 965
10th Percentile £13.36 £13.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.43 £15.92 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.17 £33.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.67% +10.00% +28.26%
75th Percentile £51.16 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.17 £31.97 £30.54
% change year-on-year -15.02% +4.68% +27.12%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Banking in England

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Banking in England.

Daily rate trend for Banking in England

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in England

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Banking in England.

Hourly rate trend for Banking in England

Banking
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Banking in England over the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 July 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 +1 1,618 £650 - 3,581
North of England +12 294 £445 -6.56% 408
North West +8 158 £402 -17.79% 248
Yorkshire +10 130 £493 +3.79% 141
Midlands +17 101 £425 -6.59% 238
East Midlands +11 72 £391 -12.25% 94
South West +35 37 £525 -4.55% 164
West Midlands +10 29 £550 +2.33% 144
South East -37 27 £525 +2.44% 377
East of England +8 7 £600 +4.35% 112
North East +2 6 £420 -9.19% 19
Banking
UK

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 90 (4.24%) Confluence
2 66 (3.11%) Apache
3 59 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
4 38 (1.79%) Apache Spark
5 33 (1.55%) SharePoint
6 28 (1.32%) SAS
7 22 (1.04%) WebSphere
8 15 (0.71%) CICS
9 11 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
10 10 (0.47%) JBoss
11 8 (0.38%) MQSeries
11 8 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
11 8 (0.38%) Tomcat
11 8 (0.38%) WebLogic
12 7 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
13 5 (0.24%) CMS
13 5 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.14%) Camunda
14 3 (0.14%) IIS
15 2 (0.094%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 80 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (1.27%) MS Visio
4 26 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.28%) Sketch
7 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.094%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.094%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.094%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.047%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.047%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.047%) InVision
9 1 (0.047%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.047%) Trello
Business Applications
1 39 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.13%) Oracle Assets
2 24 (1.13%) Oracle EBS
3 23 (1.08%) Oracle General Ledger
3 23 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
3 23 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
4 17 (0.80%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 16 (0.75%) FLEXCUBE
5 16 (0.75%) Oracle BPM
6 14 (0.66%) Oracle EBS R12
7 9 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
8 7 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
8 7 (0.33%) Kondor
9 6 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.24%) ION Anvil
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 4 (0.19%) Misys Midas
11 4 (0.19%) Temenos T24
12 3 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 357 (16.81%) AWS
2 298 (14.03%) Azure
3 163 (7.67%) GCP
4 75 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
5 63 (2.97%) Power Platform
6 62 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
7 60 (2.82%) Snowflake
8 56 (2.64%) dbt
9 44 (2.07%) GitHub
10 43 (2.02%) SaaS
11 30 (1.41%) Serverless
12 26 (1.22%) Figma
13 25 (1.18%) OpenShift
14 24 (1.13%) Entra ID
15 21 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
16 20 (0.94%) Amazon EKS
17 18 (0.85%) Azure AKS
17 18 (0.85%) npm
18 17 (0.80%) Azure Monitor
18 17 (0.80%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 63 (2.97%) Firewall
2 22 (1.04%) DNS
3 21 (0.99%) Network Security
4 20 (0.94%) Multicast
5 19 (0.89%) VPN
6 18 (0.85%) BGP
6 18 (0.85%) OSPF
7 17 (0.80%) TCP/IP
8 15 (0.71%) HTTP
8 15 (0.71%) WAN
9 13 (0.61%) Wireless
10 12 (0.56%) SAN
11 11 (0.52%) LAN
11 11 (0.52%) SSL
12 9 (0.42%) DHCP
13 8 (0.38%) Internet
14 7 (0.33%) MPLS
14 7 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (0.28%) IGMP
15 6 (0.28%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (4.66%) SQL Server
2 97 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (2.82%) Data Lake
4 57 (2.68%) Apache Iceberg
5 56 (2.64%) Amazon Athena
6 55 (2.59%) Dremio
7 51 (2.40%) Apache Arrow
8 50 (2.35%) Power BI
9 49 (2.31%) MongoDB
9 49 (2.31%) NoSQL
10 48 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
11 45 (2.12%) Relational Database
12 37 (1.74%) DB2
13 36 (1.69%) Redis
14 35 (1.65%) Apache Ignite
15 34 (1.60%) Big Data
16 33 (1.55%) Oracle Database
17 28 (1.32%) Tableau
18 26 (1.22%) Hadoop
19 24 (1.13%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 159 (7.49%) JIRA
2 114 (5.37%) Jenkins
3 104 (4.90%) Git
4 33 (1.55%) JUnit
5 32 (1.51%) GitLab
6 30 (1.41%) Bitbucket
7 28 (1.32%) Selenium
8 24 (1.13%) TeamCity
9 22 (1.04%) Cucumber
9 22 (1.04%) Maven
10 16 (0.75%) webpack
11 15 (0.71%) Postman
12 14 (0.66%) Gradle
13 12 (0.56%) JMeter
13 12 (0.56%) LoadRunner
13 12 (0.56%) REST Assured
14 11 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
15 9 (0.42%) SonarQube
15 9 (0.42%) Xcode
16 8 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 1,334 (62.81%) Finance
2 698 (32.86%) Social Skills
3 553 (26.04%) Investment Banking
4 378 (17.80%) Analytical Skills
5 247 (11.63%) Front Office
6 113 (5.32%) Retail Banking
7 91 (4.28%) Financial Institution
8 80 (3.77%) Retail
9 69 (3.25%) Corporate Banking
10 44 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
11 42 (1.98%) Legal
12 37 (1.74%) Back Office
13 35 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
14 34 (1.60%) General Ledger
15 25 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
16 23 (1.08%) Marketing
16 23 (1.08%) Public Sector
17 22 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
17 22 (1.04%) Private Banking
18 17 (0.80%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 506 (23.82%) Developer
2 339 (15.96%) Analyst
3 224 (10.55%) Senior
4 223 (10.50%) Architect
5 187 (8.80%) Business Analyst
6 137 (6.45%) Project Manager
7 128 (6.03%) Software Engineer
8 116 (5.46%) Java Developer
9 111 (5.23%) Lead
10 85 (4.00%) Senior Developer
11 74 (3.48%) Consultant
12 73 (3.44%) Banking Analyst
12 73 (3.44%) Python Developer
12 73 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
13 68 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
14 61 (2.87%) Data Analyst
15 60 (2.82%) Java Engineer
16 57 (2.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 57 (2.68%) React Developer
17 55 (2.59%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (7.11%) React
2 108 (5.08%) Kafka
3 106 (4.99%) .NET
4 70 (3.30%) HTML
5 67 (3.15%) Spring
6 65 (3.06%) AngularJS
7 64 (3.01%) CSS
7 64 (3.01%) Node.js
7 64 (3.01%) REST
8 61 (2.87%) Pandas
9 60 (2.82%) NumPy
10 59 (2.78%) Web Services
11 57 (2.68%) SciPy
12 56 (2.64%) Redux
13 48 (2.26%) gRPC
14 44 (2.07%) PySpark
15 42 (1.98%) Protocol Buffers
15 42 (1.98%) XML
16 41 (1.93%) RESTful
17 40 (1.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 174 (8.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 159 (7.49%) Derivative
3 144 (6.78%) Fixed Income
4 126 (5.93%) Equities
5 86 (4.05%) Hedge funds
5 86 (4.05%) Product Ownership
6 68 (3.20%) Onboarding
7 56 (2.64%) Market Risk
8 54 (2.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 52 (2.45%) Cloud Native
10 50 (2.35%) Data Centre
11 43 (2.02%) Data Structures
12 38 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
13 36 (1.69%) Credit Risk
14 35 (1.65%) Management Information System
14 35 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
15 34 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
16 32 (1.51%) Algorithms
16 32 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
16 32 (1.51%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 173 (8.15%) Windows
2 166 (7.82%) Linux
3 61 (2.87%) Unix
4 36 (1.69%) Android
5 34 (1.60%) Apple iOS
6 27 (1.27%) Windows Server
7 23 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 22 (1.04%) Windows 10
9 12 (0.56%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.56%) zOS
10 5 (0.24%) AIX
10 5 (0.24%) Solaris
11 3 (0.14%) CentOS
11 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.094%) HPUX
13 1 (0.047%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.047%) Rocky
13 1 (0.047%) VMS
13 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 586 (27.59%) Agile
2 394 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
3 250 (11.77%) DevOps
4 243 (11.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 204 (9.60%) Analytics
6 203 (9.56%) CI/CD
7 197 (9.27%) Software Engineering
8 194 (9.13%) Risk Management
9 184 (8.66%) Migration
10 170 (8.00%) Microservices
11 162 (7.63%) Project Management
12 142 (6.69%) SDLC
13 134 (6.31%) Asset Management
14 130 (6.12%) Test Automation
15 125 (5.89%) Roadmaps
16 124 (5.84%) Fintech
17 122 (5.74%) Decision-Making
18 120 (5.65%) Change Management
19 118 (5.56%) Scrum
20 111 (5.23%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 431 (20.29%) SQL
2 425 (20.01%) Python
3 387 (18.22%) Java
4 197 (9.27%) JavaScript
5 150 (7.06%) TypeScript
6 148 (6.97%) C#
7 70 (3.30%) C++
8 52 (2.45%) PL/SQL
9 49 (2.31%) PowerShell
10 43 (2.02%) Shell Script
11 37 (1.74%) Scala
12 30 (1.41%) Bash
13 26 (1.22%) Kotlin
14 22 (1.04%) Bicep
15 19 (0.89%) COBOL
16 17 (0.80%) JCL
17 16 (0.75%) Rust
17 16 (0.75%) VBA
18 15 (0.71%) C
18 15 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 189 (8.90%) Degree
2 45 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 44 (2.07%) Security Cleared
4 31 (1.46%) SC Cleared
5 28 (1.32%) PMP
6 26 (1.22%) Master's Degree
6 26 (1.22%) PMI Certification
7 25 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
8 24 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (1.08%) Azure Certification
10 17 (0.80%) AWS Certification
10 17 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (0.56%) CISSP
13 11 (0.52%) CCNP
13 11 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
14 10 (0.47%) PhD
15 9 (0.42%) CCIE
15 9 (0.42%) DV Cleared
16 6 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (4.14%) QA
2 69 (3.25%) Data Quality
3 40 (1.88%) GDPR
4 28 (1.32%) SEPA
5 27 (1.27%) Accessibility
5 27 (1.27%) MiFID
5 27 (1.27%) PMO
6 22 (1.04%) SLA
7 21 (0.99%) PCI DSS
8 20 (0.94%) Basel III
8 20 (0.94%) IFRS
8 20 (0.94%) NIST
9 18 (0.85%) ISO 20022
9 18 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 16 (0.75%) IFRS 9
10 16 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (0.66%) GRC
11 14 (0.66%) PSD2
12 13 (0.61%) Basel II
13 10 (0.47%) EMIR
System Software
1 101 (4.76%) Docker
2 41 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
6 5 (0.24%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 5 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.19%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 3 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.14%) NFS
8 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.14%) XenApp
8 3 (0.14%) XenDesktop
9 2 (0.094%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.094%) RACF
9 2 (0.094%) Veritas File System
9 2 (0.094%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 133 (6.26%) Kubernetes
2 76 (3.58%) Ansible
3 71 (3.34%) Terraform
4 32 (1.51%) Grafana
5 22 (1.04%) SCCM
6 21 (0.99%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.66%) Puppet
8 12 (0.56%) Argo
8 12 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.47%) Control-M
10 9 (0.42%) Istio
10 9 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
11 6 (0.28%) NetBackup
11 6 (0.28%) Tivoli
12 5 (0.24%) Kibana
12 5 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (0.24%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.24%) QRadar
13 4 (0.19%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.19%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 187 (8.80%) Oracle
2 180 (8.47%) Microsoft
3 65 (3.06%) Google
4 64 (3.01%) IBM
5 52 (2.45%) SAP
6 45 (2.12%) Databricks
7 43 (2.02%) ServiceNow
7 43 (2.02%) Splunk
8 42 (1.98%) Citrix
9 41 (1.93%) Cisco
10 25 (1.18%) Apple
11 24 (1.13%) Red Hat
11 24 (1.13%) VMware
12 23 (1.08%) HP
13 21 (0.99%) Sybase
14 20 (0.94%) Adobe
14 20 (0.94%) Salesforce
15 18 (0.85%) CyberArk
16 17 (0.80%) Arista
17 16 (0.75%) Solace