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 2 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 22 25
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,548 2,077 2,496
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.81% 8.04% 6.69%
As % of the General category 10.57% 12.57% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,542 1,428 1,834
10th Percentile £400 £358 £400
25th Percentile £450 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £688 £750 £788
90th Percentile £796 £838 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £557 £600
% change year-on-year -1.32% -7.11% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 24 25
10th Percentile - £15.76 £12.34
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.78 £14.50
Median hourly rate £24.89 £24.66 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% +26.46% +8.45%
75th Percentile £66.88 £25.15 £27.00
90th Percentile £96.38 £64.75 £86.00
UK median hourly rate £24.89 £24.66 £19.05
% change year-on-year +0.91% +29.45% +1.11%

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 24,102 16,522 21,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.93% 63.97% 57.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,571 10,620 13,652
10th Percentile £313 £282 £298
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £518 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,735 817 1,789
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.31 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -16.40% +9.65%
75th Percentile £63.38 £52.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.35 £31.71
% change year-on-year +17.00% -13.75% +3.97%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 2 July 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 1,799 £580 -10.85% 660
North of England -3 513 £500 +12.36% 83
North West -1 266 £460 +14.29% 55
Yorkshire -5 238 £514 +2.80% 22
Midlands -4 176 £525 +23.53% 53
West Midlands +26 132 £570 +3.64% 23
East Midlands -29 43 £490 +25.48% 30
South East -49 35 £550 +4.76% 96
South West -33 34 £515 +3.00% 14
East of England -5 22 £555 -7.50% 20
North East -23 13 £875 +108.33% 6
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 (6.63%) Confluence
2 56 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.10%) SAS
4 20 (0.78%) IIS
5 17 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (0.67%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.43%) Apache
7 10 (0.39%) Camunda
7 10 (0.39%) CICS
8 8 (0.31%) Appian
9 7 (0.27%) Ethereum
9 7 (0.27%) Hyperledger
9 7 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.16%) WordPress
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.078%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.078%) JBoss
13 2 (0.078%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.078%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 109 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (1.41%) MS Visio
5 22 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.12%) Sketch
7 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.078%) InVision
8 2 (0.078%) Notion
8 2 (0.078%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 27 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
2 24 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
2 24 (0.94%) Oracle Receivables
3 17 (0.67%) Finacle
3 17 (0.67%) Temenos T24
4 16 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
5 15 (0.59%) Loan IQ
6 13 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 11 (0.43%) Aladdin
8 9 (0.35%) Actimize
9 8 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
9 8 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
9 8 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
10 7 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
10 7 (0.27%) Summit
11 6 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
11 6 (0.24%) OpenText MBPM
11 6 (0.24%) SAP CO
11 6 (0.24%) SAP FI
11 6 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 390 (15.31%) Azure
2 337 (13.23%) AWS
3 160 (6.28%) GCP
4 134 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 82 (3.22%) GitHub
6 73 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
7 69 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
8 59 (2.32%) Snowflake
9 56 (2.20%) SaaS
10 41 (1.61%) OpenShift
11 37 (1.45%) Entra ID
12 35 (1.37%) Amazon S3
13 30 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
14 29 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
14 29 (1.14%) Figma
15 28 (1.10%) Serverless
16 26 (1.02%) Power Automate
17 24 (0.94%) PowerApps
18 21 (0.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 21 (0.82%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (2.67%) DNS
2 63 (2.47%) Firewall
3 58 (2.28%) VPN
4 57 (2.24%) Network Security
5 38 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.30%) Multicast
6 33 (1.30%) SSL
7 31 (1.22%) BGP
7 31 (1.22%) HTTP
8 24 (0.94%) SAN
9 23 (0.90%) BIG-IP
9 23 (0.90%) DMZ
10 22 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 20 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 20 (0.78%) Wireshark
12 19 (0.75%) FIX Connectivity
13 16 (0.63%) DHCP
14 12 (0.47%) Internet
14 12 (0.47%) WAN
15 11 (0.43%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (4.67%) SQL Server
2 110 (4.32%) Power BI
3 75 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 70 (2.75%) Metadata
5 62 (2.43%) Relational Database
6 49 (1.92%) Oracle Database
6 49 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
7 40 (1.57%) Tableau
8 35 (1.37%) MongoDB
9 31 (1.22%) Big Data
10 28 (1.10%) Data Lake
11 23 (0.90%) NoSQL
12 21 (0.82%) RDBMS
12 21 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 19 (0.75%) BigQuery
13 19 (0.75%) Db2
14 18 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (0.59%) Data Vault
15 15 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 14 (0.55%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 267 (10.48%) JIRA
2 108 (4.24%) Jenkins
3 106 (4.16%) Git
4 65 (2.55%) GitLab
5 39 (1.53%) JUnit
6 26 (1.02%) Selenium
7 23 (0.90%) Cucumber
8 19 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
8 19 (0.75%) TeamCity
9 18 (0.71%) Postman
10 17 (0.67%) Fiddler
11 16 (0.63%) Bitbucket
12 15 (0.59%) Mockito
13 14 (0.55%) ERwin
13 14 (0.55%) REST Assured
13 14 (0.55%) SonarQube
14 13 (0.51%) ER Studio
15 12 (0.47%) Cypress.io
16 11 (0.43%) Maven
17 9 (0.35%) Gradle
General
1 1,569 (61.58%) Finance
2 665 (26.10%) Social Skills
3 546 (21.43%) Investment Banking
4 338 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
5 228 (8.95%) Front Office
6 120 (4.71%) Financial Institution
7 109 (4.28%) Retail Banking
8 105 (4.12%) Retail
9 88 (3.45%) Corporate Banking
10 85 (3.34%) Legal
11 63 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
12 53 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
13 50 (1.96%) Public Sector
14 42 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
14 42 (1.65%) Private Banking
15 30 (1.18%) Back Office
16 28 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
17 24 (0.94%) Marketing
18 19 (0.75%) General Ledger
18 19 (0.75%) Law
Job Titles
1 448 (17.58%) Developer
2 390 (15.31%) Analyst
3 315 (12.36%) Senior
4 292 (11.46%) Architect
5 262 (10.28%) Business Analyst
6 209 (8.20%) Lead
7 153 (6.00%) Java Developer
8 123 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
9 109 (4.28%) Project Manager
10 107 (4.20%) Senior Developer
11 95 (3.73%) Data Engineer
12 86 (3.38%) Banking Analyst
13 80 (3.14%) Consultant
14 68 (2.67%) Senior Java Developer
15 59 (2.32%) Network Engineer
16 57 (2.24%) Data Analyst
17 55 (2.16%) Banking Business Analyst
17 55 (2.16%) C# Developer
18 53 (2.08%) Software Engineer
19 52 (2.04%) Payments Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (5.42%) React
2 123 (4.83%) .NET
3 117 (4.59%) Kafka
4 98 (3.85%) Middleware
5 96 (3.77%) REST
6 90 (3.53%) Spring
7 74 (2.90%) Spring Boot
8 64 (2.51%) RESTful
9 53 (2.08%) Redux
10 50 (1.96%) HTML
11 46 (1.81%) CSS
12 44 (1.73%) OAuth
13 42 (1.65%) AngularJS
14 39 (1.53%) FIX Protocol
15 36 (1.41%) JSON
16 33 (1.30%) OAuth2
17 31 (1.22%) Node.js
17 31 (1.22%) XML
18 26 (1.02%) .NET Framework
18 26 (1.02%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 172 (6.75%) Product Ownership
2 135 (5.30%) Cloud Native
3 127 (4.98%) Derivative
4 126 (4.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 126 (4.95%) Onboarding
5 101 (3.96%) Fixed Income
6 83 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
7 82 (3.22%) Management Information System
8 78 (3.06%) Equities
9 76 (2.98%) Data Protection Act
10 69 (2.71%) Data Structures
11 55 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
12 53 (2.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 51 (2.00%) Mainframe
14 50 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
15 47 (1.84%) Credit Risk
16 46 (1.81%) Data Centre
17 42 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
18 41 (1.61%) AI Agents
19 39 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 147 (5.77%) Windows
2 132 (5.18%) Linux
3 86 (3.38%) Unix
4 30 (1.18%) zOS
5 28 (1.10%) Windows Server
6 24 (0.94%) Apple iOS
6 24 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 23 (0.90%) Android
8 17 (0.67%) Windows 10
9 12 (0.47%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.43%) AIX
11 8 (0.31%) Solaris
12 7 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
13 6 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
13 6 (0.24%) VMS
14 5 (0.20%) CoreOS
14 5 (0.20%) HPUX
14 5 (0.20%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.20%) SUSE
15 4 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 586 (23.00%) Agile
2 467 (18.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 380 (14.91%) CI/CD
4 354 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
5 327 (12.83%) DevOps
6 319 (12.52%) AI
7 302 (11.85%) Migration
8 236 (9.26%) Analytics
9 233 (9.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 219 (8.59%) Data Modelling
11 202 (7.93%) Roadmaps
12 191 (7.50%) Microservices
13 183 (7.18%) Validation
14 179 (7.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 178 (6.99%) User Acceptance Testing
16 167 (6.55%) Decision-Making
17 163 (6.40%) Test Automation
18 161 (6.32%) Risk Management
19 157 (6.16%) Software Engineering
20 154 (6.04%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 420 (16.48%) SQL
2 368 (14.44%) Python
3 344 (13.50%) Java
4 182 (7.14%) C#
5 134 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 112 (4.40%) TypeScript
7 74 (2.90%) PowerShell
8 62 (2.43%) PL/SQL
9 43 (1.69%) Bash
9 43 (1.69%) T-SQL
10 40 (1.57%) Shell Script
11 33 (1.30%) Kotlin
12 26 (1.02%) VBA
13 25 (0.98%) C++
14 21 (0.82%) Korn
15 20 (0.78%) Go
16 17 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 15 (0.59%) Scala
18 12 (0.47%) COBOL
18 12 (0.47%) JCL
Qualifications
1 178 (6.99%) Degree
2 125 (4.91%) Security Cleared
3 89 (3.49%) SC Cleared
4 56 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 39 (1.53%) PMP
6 37 (1.45%) CISSP
7 35 (1.37%) PMI Certification
8 30 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 28 (1.10%) Azure Certification
10 26 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
11 21 (0.82%) AWS Certification
12 18 (0.71%) CISM
13 15 (0.59%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 12 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.39%) CISA
16 9 (0.35%) ACCA
16 9 (0.35%) CCSP
16 9 (0.35%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (5.42%) Data Quality
2 130 (5.10%) QA
3 55 (2.16%) PMO
4 50 (1.96%) ISO 20022
5 46 (1.81%) GDPR
6 33 (1.30%) NIST
6 33 (1.30%) SEPA
7 32 (1.26%) PSD2
7 32 (1.26%) SLA
8 31 (1.22%) GRC
9 29 (1.14%) Accessibility
10 28 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 26 (1.02%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.78%) MiFID
13 17 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.35%) EMIR
14 9 (0.35%) IFRS
15 8 (0.31%) COREP
15 8 (0.31%) GAAP
15 8 (0.31%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 121 (4.75%) Docker
2 51 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.71%) RACF
5 17 (0.67%) Firmware
5 17 (0.67%) vSphere
6 16 (0.63%) NFS
7 13 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.24%) Varnish
9 5 (0.20%) Postfix
10 4 (0.16%) Sendmail
10 4 (0.16%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.12%) ACF2
11 3 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.12%) SRDF
11 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.12%) XenApp
12 2 (0.078%) GridGain
12 2 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 165 (6.48%) Kubernetes
2 91 (3.57%) Terraform
3 86 (3.38%) Ansible
4 30 (1.18%) Grafana
4 30 (1.18%) Prometheus
5 19 (0.75%) SCCM
6 17 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (0.55%) OMEGAMON
8 13 (0.51%) Control-M
9 12 (0.47%) Argo
10 11 (0.43%) Istio
10 11 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.35%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
13 7 (0.27%) Puppet
13 7 (0.27%) WSUS
14 6 (0.24%) SnapMirror
15 5 (0.20%) HAProxy
15 5 (0.20%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 284 (11.15%) Microsoft
2 200 (7.85%) Oracle
3 91 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 73 (2.86%) IBM
5 63 (2.47%) Google
6 62 (2.43%) Databricks
7 57 (2.24%) Cisco
8 51 (2.00%) SAP
9 49 (1.92%) F5
10 48 (1.88%) Splunk
11 43 (1.69%) Citrix
12 42 (1.65%) VMware
13 38 (1.49%) Murex
13 38 (1.49%) Salesforce
14 28 (1.10%) Avaloq
15 27 (1.06%) OpenAI
16 26 (1.02%) Bloomberg
16 26 (1.02%) Temenos
17 24 (0.94%) Fortinet
17 24 (0.94%) NetApp