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 5 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 24 23
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,088 2,067 2,480
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.63% 7.57% 6.85%
As % of the General category 10.86% 12.21% 11.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,315 1,332 1,735
10th Percentile £358 £385 £400
25th Percentile £438 £495 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.04% -5.77%
75th Percentile £676 £738 £750
90th Percentile £806 £838 £850
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -10.42% -2.04% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 10 17
10th Percentile £18.78 £15.07 £14.18
25th Percentile - £17.01 £16.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +17.64% -9.86%
75th Percentile £25.98 £27.51 £30.00
90th Percentile £59.14 £80.38 £39.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £24.15 £18.99
% change year-on-year +4.14% +27.17% -9.57%

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 19,219 16,922 21,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 61.05% 61.95% 59.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,223 10,218 14,436
10th Percentile £285 £300 £275
25th Percentile £402 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,203 573 1,034
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.55 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.40 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.58 £30.00 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -21.42% -7.18% +25.71%
75th Percentile £47.00 £57.62 £58.68
90th Percentile £71.50 £74.97 £70.05
UK median hourly rate £23.50 £27.50 £31.71
% change year-on-year -14.55% -13.28% +26.84%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 5 January 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 -5 1,447 £600 -4.00% 372
North of England +6 422 £465 -3.13% 75
Yorkshire +3 228 £488 -11.36% 37
North West +5 203 £450 +5.26% 36
Midlands +25 171 £475 -13.64% 60
West Midlands +12 110 £540 -12.55% 37
East Midlands +9 64 £410 -0.30% 21
South East -23 47 £413 -23.26% 134
South West +1 34 £525 -13.40% 33
East of England -7 12 £400 -46.67% 29
North East -9 5 £400 - 2
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
1 138 (6.61%) Confluence
2 53 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.34%) Apache
4 27 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.91%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.77%) CMS
7 14 (0.67%) CICS
8 11 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.38%) IIS
9 8 (0.38%) MQSeries
9 8 (0.38%) Mule
10 7 (0.34%) HCL Notes
11 6 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.29%) SAS
12 5 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
12 5 (0.24%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.14%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 128 (6.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (3.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (2.16%) MS Visio
5 24 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
6 21 (1.01%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.24%) Adobe Captivate
8 5 (0.24%) Sketch
9 3 (0.14%) Notion
9 3 (0.14%) Trello
10 2 (0.096%) InVision
10 2 (0.096%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.048%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 23 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
2 21 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
3 17 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
5 12 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
6 10 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
7 9 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
7 9 (0.43%) Temenos T24
8 8 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 8 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
8 8 (0.38%) VisionPLUS
9 7 (0.34%) Fidessa
9 7 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
10 6 (0.29%) Aladdin
10 6 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
10 6 (0.29%) Oracle FAH
10 6 (0.29%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle E-Business Tax
Cloud Services
1 326 (15.61%) Azure
2 319 (15.28%) AWS
3 175 (8.38%) GCP
4 151 (7.23%) Power Platform
5 83 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
6 82 (3.93%) GitHub
7 66 (3.16%) Serverless
8 52 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
9 50 (2.39%) Figma
10 40 (1.92%) SaaS
11 39 (1.87%) PowerApps
12 38 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
13 34 (1.63%) Snowflake
14 31 (1.48%) Power Automate
15 29 (1.39%) Entra ID
16 25 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
17 24 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
17 24 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
18 21 (1.01%) dbt
19 20 (0.96%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.54%) DNS
2 47 (2.25%) Firewall
3 34 (1.63%) Network Security
4 29 (1.39%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 29 (1.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 28 (1.34%) HTTP
5 28 (1.34%) TCP/IP
6 25 (1.20%) DMZ
6 25 (1.20%) Wireless
7 20 (0.96%) SSL
7 20 (0.96%) VPN
8 16 (0.77%) BIG-IP
8 16 (0.77%) Wireshark
9 15 (0.72%) NetScaler
10 13 (0.62%) DHCP
11 12 (0.57%) Multicast
12 11 (0.53%) BGP
13 10 (0.48%) LAN
14 9 (0.43%) Skype
15 8 (0.38%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (6.03%) Power BI
2 89 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 80 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
4 69 (3.30%) NoSQL
5 68 (3.26%) Tableau
6 48 (2.30%) MongoDB
7 40 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
8 39 (1.87%) Oracle Database
8 39 (1.87%) Relational Database
9 31 (1.48%) Metadata
10 30 (1.44%) Data Lake
11 23 (1.10%) DB2
12 22 (1.05%) Big Data
13 21 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
14 20 (0.96%) Apache Arrow
14 20 (0.96%) Apache Iceberg
14 20 (0.96%) Apache Ignite
14 20 (0.96%) Dremio
15 17 (0.81%) Hadoop
15 17 (0.81%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 225 (10.78%) JIRA
2 151 (7.23%) Jenkins
3 104 (4.98%) Git
4 83 (3.98%) GitLab
5 37 (1.77%) JUnit
6 34 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
7 32 (1.53%) Selenium
8 30 (1.44%) Bitbucket
9 24 (1.15%) Cucumber
9 24 (1.15%) Liquibase
10 21 (1.01%) SonarQube
11 20 (0.96%) Maven
12 19 (0.91%) Postman
13 18 (0.86%) REST Assured
14 16 (0.77%) TeamCity
15 15 (0.72%) Fiddler
15 15 (0.72%) Gradle
16 11 (0.53%) Cypress.io
16 11 (0.53%) webpack
17 10 (0.48%) Xcode
General
1 1,352 (64.75%) Finance
2 763 (36.54%) Social Skills
3 442 (21.17%) Investment Banking
4 281 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
5 182 (8.72%) Front Office
6 135 (6.47%) Financial Institution
7 69 (3.30%) Retail Banking
8 53 (2.54%) Legal
9 50 (2.39%) Retail
10 46 (2.20%) Corporate Banking
10 46 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
11 38 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
12 35 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
13 34 (1.63%) Back Office
14 33 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
14 33 (1.58%) Public Sector
15 27 (1.29%) International Banking
16 26 (1.25%) General Ledger
16 26 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 21 (1.01%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 400 (19.16%) Developer
2 352 (16.86%) Analyst
3 284 (13.60%) Senior
4 235 (11.25%) Business Analyst
5 175 (8.38%) Architect
6 134 (6.42%) Project Manager
7 114 (5.46%) Lead
8 108 (5.17%) Java Developer
9 87 (4.17%) Senior Developer
10 85 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
11 70 (3.35%) Banking Analyst
12 69 (3.30%) Consultant
13 55 (2.63%) Designer
13 55 (2.63%) DevOps Engineer
13 55 (2.63%) Software Engineer
14 50 (2.39%) Banking Business Analyst
15 47 (2.25%) Python Engineer
15 47 (2.25%) Senior Analyst
15 47 (2.25%) Senior Java Developer
16 46 (2.20%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (5.89%) Kafka
2 105 (5.03%) REST
3 98 (4.69%) .NET
4 85 (4.07%) Spring
5 80 (3.83%) RESTful
6 73 (3.50%) Spring Boot
7 65 (3.11%) React
8 60 (2.87%) Pandas
9 59 (2.83%) HTML
10 54 (2.59%) NumPy
11 49 (2.35%) AngularJS
12 46 (2.20%) XML
13 45 (2.16%) Middleware
14 44 (2.11%) CSS
15 36 (1.72%) SciPy
16 34 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
16 34 (1.63%) Node.js
17 30 (1.44%) JMS
17 30 (1.44%) JSON
18 26 (1.25%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 138 (6.61%) Derivative
2 120 (5.75%) Product Ownership
3 118 (5.65%) Onboarding
4 117 (5.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 99 (4.74%) Cloud Native
6 86 (4.12%) Management Information System
7 83 (3.98%) Equities
8 77 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
9 68 (3.26%) Fixed Income
10 67 (3.21%) Data Protection Act
11 60 (2.87%) Hedge funds
12 57 (2.73%) Data Centre
13 48 (2.30%) Mobile App
13 48 (2.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 43 (2.06%) Public Cloud
15 41 (1.96%) Data Structures
16 35 (1.68%) Market Risk
17 34 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
18 32 (1.53%) Credit Risk
19 28 (1.34%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 137 (6.56%) Linux
2 116 (5.56%) Windows
3 46 (2.20%) Unix
4 43 (2.06%) Android
5 32 (1.53%) Windows 10
6 24 (1.15%) Apple iOS
7 21 (1.01%) Mac OS
7 21 (1.01%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.38%) zOS
9 4 (0.19%) AIX
9 4 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.19%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.048%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.048%) Solaris
11 1 (0.048%) VMS
11 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 588 (28.16%) Agile
2 396 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
3 336 (16.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 327 (15.66%) DevOps
5 314 (15.04%) CI/CD
6 206 (9.87%) Analytics
7 190 (9.10%) Microservices
8 177 (8.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 176 (8.43%) Risk Management
10 163 (7.81%) Project Management
11 157 (7.52%) Change Management
11 157 (7.52%) Migration
12 155 (7.42%) Decision-Making
13 146 (6.99%) AI
14 144 (6.90%) Business Intelligence
15 139 (6.66%) Data Modelling
16 138 (6.61%) Containerisation
17 133 (6.37%) Scrum
17 133 (6.37%) Software Engineering
18 128 (6.13%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 384 (18.39%) SQL
2 367 (17.58%) Python
3 311 (14.89%) Java
4 141 (6.75%) C#
5 102 (4.89%) JavaScript
6 60 (2.87%) TypeScript
7 59 (2.83%) Go
8 56 (2.68%) PowerShell
9 45 (2.16%) C++
10 34 (1.63%) PL/SQL
11 29 (1.39%) Shell Script
12 26 (1.25%) Bash
13 24 (1.15%) VBA
14 19 (0.91%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.86%) COBOL
16 16 (0.77%) T-SQL
17 15 (0.72%) Scala
18 14 (0.67%) Rust
19 13 (0.62%) R
20 12 (0.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 262 (12.55%) Degree
2 90 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 85 (4.07%) Security Cleared
4 78 (3.74%) Master's Degree
5 60 (2.87%) PMI Certification
6 55 (2.63%) PMP
7 37 (1.77%) SC Cleared
8 32 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (1.34%) CISSP
10 27 (1.29%) AWS Certification
11 24 (1.15%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.77%) DV Cleared
13 15 (0.72%) CBAP
14 14 (0.67%) MBA
14 14 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (0.62%) CISM
16 12 (0.57%) BC Cleared
16 12 (0.57%) ISTQB
17 10 (0.48%) PhD
18 9 (0.43%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (6.85%) QA
2 81 (3.88%) Data Quality
3 53 (2.54%) GDPR
4 49 (2.35%) ISO 20022
5 48 (2.30%) PMO
6 34 (1.63%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.44%) PSD2
8 29 (1.39%) SEPA
8 29 (1.39%) SLA
9 24 (1.15%) Basel III
9 24 (1.15%) MiFID
10 23 (1.10%) NIST
11 22 (1.05%) GRC
11 22 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 21 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 21 (1.01%) PCI DSS
13 16 (0.77%) EMIR
14 13 (0.62%) IFRS
15 11 (0.53%) ISO 8583
16 8 (0.38%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 179 (8.57%) Docker
2 45 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (1.48%) Active Directory
4 20 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.77%) Firmware
6 6 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.14%) RACF
8 3 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
8 3 (0.14%) vSphere
9 2 (0.096%) ACF2
9 2 (0.096%) GridGain
9 2 (0.096%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.096%) NFS
9 2 (0.096%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.048%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.048%) HDFS
10 1 (0.048%) KVM
10 1 (0.048%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 205 (9.82%) Kubernetes
2 117 (5.60%) Terraform
3 80 (3.83%) Ansible
4 54 (2.59%) Grafana
5 46 (2.20%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.86%) SCCM
7 15 (0.72%) Argo
8 11 (0.53%) Control-M
9 10 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.38%) CA Endevor
10 8 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
10 8 (0.38%) NetBackup
11 7 (0.34%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
11 7 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.29%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.19%) Istio
13 4 (0.19%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 3 (0.14%) Data Guard
14 3 (0.14%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 242 (11.59%) Microsoft
2 147 (7.04%) Oracle
3 91 (4.36%) Google
4 64 (3.07%) Splunk
5 51 (2.44%) VMware
6 49 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 47 (2.25%) IBM
8 42 (2.01%) Cisco
9 40 (1.92%) F5
9 40 (1.92%) SAP
10 33 (1.58%) Citrix
11 31 (1.48%) HP
12 30 (1.44%) Salesforce
13 29 (1.39%) Databricks
13 29 (1.39%) Dell
14 28 (1.34%) Apple
14 28 (1.34%) Bloomberg
14 28 (1.34%) Remedy
15 27 (1.29%) CyberArk
16 26 (1.25%) Dynatrace