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 11 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 24 25
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,263 1,909 2,299
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.56% 7.80% 6.25%
As % of the General category 10.21% 12.16% 10.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,363 1,274 1,699
10th Percentile £372 £360 £385
25th Percentile £440 £451 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £775
90th Percentile £780 £864 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -12.50% -2.04% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 22
10th Percentile - £17.10 £12.08
25th Percentile £17.00 £19.45 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £23.47 £19.28
Median % change year-on-year +9.82% +21.74% -8.21%
75th Percentile £95.00 £24.66 £25.44
90th Percentile £97.63 £48.98 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £22.27 £19.05
% change year-on-year +15.72% +16.90% -9.29%

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 22,163 15,699 21,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.49% 64.12% 58.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,733 10,196 13,789
10th Percentile £306 £300 £280
25th Percentile £410 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,467 669 1,786
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.23 £17.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.50 £27.50 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -10.57% -5.38%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.93 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.82% -11.06%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -11 1,548 £575 -11.54% 415
North of England +4 481 £472 +4.78% 77
North West +11 267 £447 +4.87% 43
Yorkshire -6 209 £500 - 30
Midlands +1 179 £491 +5.59% 38
West Midlands +16 125 £558 +0.45% 18
East Midlands -15 54 £455 +16.37% 20
South East -42 40 £520 -9.57% 94
South West -37 35 £500 -6.98% 12
East of England -27 13 £600 - 5
North East -10 10 £400 -4.76% 4
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
1 169 (7.47%) Confluence
2 49 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.06%) SAS
4 17 (0.75%) IIS
5 16 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 13 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.53%) Apache
7 12 (0.53%) CICS
8 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.22%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.22%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.13%) Camunda
11 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.088%) Appian
12 2 (0.088%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.088%) CMS
12 2 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.088%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 132 (5.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 42 (1.86%) MS Visio
4 30 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.49%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.22%) Notion
7 2 (0.088%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.088%) InVision
7 2 (0.088%) Sketch
7 2 (0.088%) UserZoom
8 1 (0.044%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.044%) Trello
Business Applications
1 29 (1.28%) Payment Gateway
2 24 (1.06%) Oracle Payables
3 22 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
4 20 (0.88%) Temenos T24
5 19 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
6 18 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
7 16 (0.71%) Loan IQ
7 16 (0.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 12 (0.53%) Finacle
9 9 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
9 9 (0.40%) SAP FI
10 8 (0.35%) Actimize
10 8 (0.35%) Aladdin
10 8 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
10 8 (0.35%) SAP CO
10 8 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
10 8 (0.35%) Summit
11 6 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 5 (0.22%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 358 (15.82%) Azure
2 314 (13.88%) AWS
3 154 (6.81%) GCP
4 117 (5.17%) Power Platform
5 92 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
6 76 (3.36%) GitHub
7 57 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
8 54 (2.39%) SaaS
9 39 (1.72%) Figma
10 33 (1.46%) Serverless
11 31 (1.37%) OpenShift
12 30 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (1.28%) Entra ID
13 29 (1.28%) Snowflake
14 27 (1.19%) Amazon S3
15 25 (1.10%) OCI
16 24 (1.06%) Power Automate
17 20 (0.88%) Amazon EKS
17 20 (0.88%) PaaS
18 19 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 72 (3.18%) DNS
2 54 (2.39%) VPN
3 50 (2.21%) Firewall
4 42 (1.86%) HTTP
5 41 (1.81%) TCP/IP
6 39 (1.72%) Network Security
7 30 (1.33%) Multicast
8 27 (1.19%) BGP
9 25 (1.10%) DMZ
9 25 (1.10%) SSL
10 24 (1.06%) BIG-IP
10 24 (1.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 22 (0.97%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 22 (0.97%) Wireshark
12 21 (0.93%) FIX Connectivity
12 21 (0.93%) SAN
13 15 (0.66%) NetScaler
14 14 (0.62%) DHCP
15 10 (0.44%) OSPF
15 10 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (4.24%) Power BI
2 94 (4.15%) SQL Server
3 54 (2.39%) Metadata
3 54 (2.39%) Tableau
4 53 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
5 45 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
6 43 (1.90%) Oracle Database
7 36 (1.59%) Relational Database
8 33 (1.46%) MongoDB
9 28 (1.24%) NoSQL
10 23 (1.02%) Big Data
11 22 (0.97%) DB2
12 21 (0.93%) BigQuery
13 17 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 16 (0.71%) Data Lake
15 14 (0.62%) Pinecone
15 14 (0.62%) Power Query
15 14 (0.62%) Weaviate
16 12 (0.53%) DataStage
17 11 (0.49%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 256 (11.31%) JIRA
2 98 (4.33%) Jenkins
3 82 (3.62%) Git
4 58 (2.56%) GitLab
5 30 (1.33%) JUnit
6 22 (0.97%) Selenium
7 19 (0.84%) Fiddler
8 16 (0.71%) Bitbucket
8 16 (0.71%) Cucumber
9 15 (0.66%) TeamCity
10 14 (0.62%) Maven
10 14 (0.62%) Postman
11 13 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
12 12 (0.53%) REST Assured
12 12 (0.53%) SonarQube
13 10 (0.44%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.44%) Mockito
14 9 (0.40%) Gradle
15 8 (0.35%) Appium
15 8 (0.35%) MLflow
General
1 1,404 (62.04%) Finance
2 644 (28.46%) Social Skills
3 459 (20.28%) Investment Banking
4 324 (14.32%) Analytical Skills
5 180 (7.95%) Front Office
6 110 (4.86%) Financial Institution
7 103 (4.55%) Retail Banking
8 87 (3.84%) Corporate Banking
9 82 (3.62%) Retail
10 69 (3.05%) Legal
11 62 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
12 53 (2.34%) Public Sector
13 39 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
15 35 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
16 28 (1.24%) Marketing
17 26 (1.15%) General Ledger
18 23 (1.02%) Back Office
19 20 (0.88%) Private Banking
20 19 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 374 (16.53%) Analyst
2 373 (16.48%) Developer
3 293 (12.95%) Senior
4 268 (11.84%) Architect
5 258 (11.40%) Business Analyst
6 167 (7.38%) Lead
7 127 (5.61%) Solutions Architect
8 108 (4.77%) Project Manager
9 106 (4.68%) Java Developer
10 92 (4.07%) Banking Analyst
11 86 (3.80%) Senior Developer
12 80 (3.54%) Consultant
12 80 (3.54%) Data Engineer
13 61 (2.70%) Banking Business Analyst
14 58 (2.56%) Payments Architect
15 55 (2.43%) Network Engineer
16 53 (2.34%) Payments Solutions Architect
17 52 (2.30%) Designer
18 47 (2.08%) C# Developer
19 44 (1.94%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (4.86%) .NET
1 110 (4.86%) Kafka
2 89 (3.93%) React
3 78 (3.45%) Middleware
4 74 (3.27%) Spring
5 71 (3.14%) REST
6 63 (2.78%) Spring Boot
7 61 (2.70%) HTML
8 58 (2.56%) RESTful
9 47 (2.08%) CSS
10 41 (1.81%) OAuth
11 40 (1.77%) AngularJS
12 37 (1.63%) JSON
12 37 (1.63%) XML
13 35 (1.55%) FIX Protocol
14 31 (1.37%) OAuth2
15 25 (1.10%) HTML5
15 25 (1.10%) Node.js
16 24 (1.06%) Redux
17 22 (0.97%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 160 (7.07%) Product Ownership
2 116 (5.13%) Derivative
3 105 (4.64%) Onboarding
4 101 (4.46%) Cloud Native
5 95 (4.20%) Management Information System
6 87 (3.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 75 (3.31%) Data Protection Act
8 68 (3.00%) Fixed Income
9 63 (2.78%) Data Structures
10 61 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
11 57 (2.52%) Equities
12 48 (2.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 45 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
14 41 (1.81%) Data Centre
15 40 (1.77%) Credit Risk
15 40 (1.77%) Market Risk
16 38 (1.68%) Mainframe
17 32 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
18 30 (1.33%) AI Agents
18 30 (1.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 136 (6.01%) Windows
2 100 (4.42%) Linux
3 69 (3.05%) Unix
4 30 (1.33%) Windows 10
5 23 (1.02%) Android
5 23 (1.02%) Apple iOS
5 23 (1.02%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.97%) zOS
7 17 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.49%) AIX
9 8 (0.35%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.31%) VMS
11 6 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
11 6 (0.27%) Solaris
11 6 (0.27%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
12 5 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.18%) HPUX
13 4 (0.18%) SUSE
14 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 560 (24.75%) Agile
2 413 (18.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 354 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
4 303 (13.39%) CI/CD
5 296 (13.08%) DevOps
6 253 (11.18%) AI
7 251 (11.09%) Migration
8 195 (8.62%) Analytics
8 195 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 187 (8.26%) Decision-Making
9 187 (8.26%) Roadmaps
10 183 (8.09%) Data Modelling
11 174 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 172 (7.60%) Microservices
13 167 (7.38%) Validation
14 166 (7.34%) Risk Management
15 154 (6.81%) User Acceptance Testing
16 148 (6.54%) Test Automation
17 142 (6.27%) Project Management
18 141 (6.23%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 381 (16.84%) SQL
2 320 (14.14%) Python
3 290 (12.81%) Java
4 142 (6.27%) C#
5 104 (4.60%) JavaScript
6 72 (3.18%) TypeScript
7 58 (2.56%) PowerShell
8 45 (1.99%) PL/SQL
9 35 (1.55%) Shell Script
10 30 (1.33%) T-SQL
11 26 (1.15%) Bash
11 26 (1.15%) VBA
12 25 (1.10%) Go
13 23 (1.02%) Kotlin
14 20 (0.88%) C++
15 19 (0.84%) COBOL
16 18 (0.80%) Korn
17 16 (0.71%) JCL
18 15 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 14 (0.62%) Scala
Qualifications
1 197 (8.71%) Degree
2 106 (4.68%) Security Cleared
3 67 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 65 (2.87%) SC Cleared
5 54 (2.39%) PMP
6 53 (2.34%) Master's Degree
7 52 (2.30%) PMI Certification
8 40 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (1.46%) CISSP
10 28 (1.24%) Azure Certification
11 21 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (0.75%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.75%) MBA
13 15 (0.66%) CISM
14 13 (0.57%) CBAP
14 13 (0.57%) ISTQB
15 10 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
16 9 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 8 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
17 8 (0.35%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (5.79%) QA
2 119 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.30%) GDPR
3 52 (2.30%) ISO 20022
4 49 (2.17%) PMO
5 38 (1.68%) PSD2
6 36 (1.59%) SLA
7 34 (1.50%) NIST
7 34 (1.50%) SEPA
8 32 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 30 (1.33%) PCI DSS
10 28 (1.24%) GRC
11 23 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 20 (0.88%) Accessibility
12 20 (0.88%) MiFID
13 17 (0.75%) Basel III
14 15 (0.66%) ISO 8583
15 12 (0.53%) IFRS
16 8 (0.35%) EMIR
17 7 (0.31%) COREP
System Software
1 125 (5.52%) Docker
2 45 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.84%) Firmware
5 14 (0.62%) NFS
6 13 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.57%) vSphere
7 10 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.27%) RACF
9 5 (0.22%) Varnish
9 5 (0.22%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.18%) Postfix
10 4 (0.18%) Sendmail
10 4 (0.18%) XenApp
11 3 (0.13%) ACF2
11 3 (0.13%) SRDF
11 3 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
11 3 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.088%) GPFS
12 2 (0.088%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 167 (7.38%) Kubernetes
2 85 (3.76%) Terraform
3 65 (2.87%) Ansible
4 32 (1.41%) Grafana
5 24 (1.06%) Prometheus
5 24 (1.06%) SCCM
6 18 (0.80%) Argo
6 18 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (0.44%) Control-M
7 10 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.35%) Puppet
9 7 (0.31%) Istio
9 7 (0.31%) WSUS
10 6 (0.27%) SnapMirror
11 5 (0.22%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
11 5 (0.22%) NetBackup
11 5 (0.22%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.18%) CA Endevor
12 4 (0.18%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 271 (11.98%) Microsoft
2 165 (7.29%) Oracle
3 79 (3.49%) ServiceNow
4 64 (2.83%) Google
5 58 (2.56%) IBM
6 57 (2.52%) SAP
7 56 (2.47%) Cisco
8 53 (2.34%) F5
9 47 (2.08%) Citrix
9 47 (2.08%) VMware
10 46 (2.03%) Splunk
11 33 (1.46%) Databricks
12 29 (1.28%) Temenos
13 28 (1.24%) Murex
14 27 (1.19%) Bloomberg
15 26 (1.15%) NetApp
15 26 (1.15%) Pega
16 25 (1.10%) Avaloq
17 23 (1.02%) Remedy
17 23 (1.02%) Salesforce