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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -7
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,102 1,997 2,459
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.51% 7.49% 6.67%
As % of the General category 10.78% 12.01% 11.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,324 1,283 1,716
10th Percentile £358 £375 £395
25th Percentile £438 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -2.04% -5.77%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £750
90th Percentile £800 £838 £844
UK median daily rate £535 £600 £610
% change year-on-year -10.83% -1.64% -6.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 11 19
10th Percentile £18.69 £14.75 £12.84
25th Percentile - £15.24 £15.52
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.05
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +16.90% -9.29%
75th Percentile £26.25 £25.76 £27.00
90th Percentile £61.32 £78.75 £34.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £23.21 £19.05
% change year-on-year +8.36% +21.84% -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 19,502 16,626 21,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 60.40% 62.38% 58.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,449 10,030 14,481
10th Percentile £288 £300 £270
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £532 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.97% -3.32% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,206 554 1,266
10th Percentile £14.19 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.57 £19.06 £15.27
Median hourly rate £23.00 £30.00 £28.13
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +6.67% +8.90%
75th Percentile £46.00 £57.59 £56.47
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.83 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £27.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -16.36% - +10.00%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -6 1,433 £600 -4.00% 246
North of England +9 445 £465 +2.54% 87
North West +10 226 £447 +11.75% 39
Yorkshire +3 226 £500 -8.05% 36
Midlands +18 175 £475 -13.64% 59
West Midlands +17 110 £540 -7.49% 27
East Midlands +10 66 £410 -7.87% 30
South East -20 49 £425 -22.73% 186
South West -7 31 £525 -14.29% 38
East of England -13 10 £400 -46.67% 41
North East -12 5 £400 - 12
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
1 148 (7.04%) Confluence
2 53 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.09%) Apache
4 21 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (0.95%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.57%) CICS
6 12 (0.57%) CMS
7 9 (0.43%) IIS
7 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.38%) Mule
9 7 (0.33%) MQSeries
9 7 (0.33%) SAS
10 6 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.19%) HCL Notes
12 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.14%) WebLogic
14 2 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 143 (6.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (3.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 70 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
4 46 (2.19%) MS Visio
5 27 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
6 21 (1.00%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.24%) Adobe Captivate
9 3 (0.14%) Notion
9 3 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.14%) Trello
10 2 (0.095%) Sketch
11 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.048%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 26 (1.24%) Oracle Payables
2 23 (1.09%) Payment Gateway
3 19 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
5 16 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
6 14 (0.67%) Oracle General Ledger
7 12 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
8 11 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 11 (0.52%) Temenos T24
9 9 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
9 9 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
9 9 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 8 (0.38%) Finacle
10 8 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
11 7 (0.33%) Fidessa
11 7 (0.33%) VisionPLUS
12 6 (0.29%) Loan IQ
12 6 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
12 6 (0.29%) Oracle FAH
12 6 (0.29%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 317 (15.08%) Azure
2 310 (14.75%) AWS
3 173 (8.23%) GCP
4 144 (6.85%) Power Platform
5 87 (4.14%) GitHub
6 80 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
7 63 (3.00%) Serverless
8 51 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
9 48 (2.28%) Figma
10 39 (1.86%) SaaS
11 37 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
12 35 (1.67%) PowerApps
13 29 (1.38%) Snowflake
14 27 (1.28%) Entra ID
14 27 (1.28%) Power Automate
15 24 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
16 23 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
17 22 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
18 21 (1.00%) Amazon S3
18 21 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 52 (2.47%) DNS
2 47 (2.24%) Firewall
3 33 (1.57%) Network Security
4 30 (1.43%) HTTP
4 30 (1.43%) TCP/IP
5 28 (1.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 28 (1.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 25 (1.19%) DMZ
7 22 (1.05%) VPN
7 22 (1.05%) Wireless
8 21 (1.00%) SSL
9 17 (0.81%) BIG-IP
9 17 (0.81%) Wireshark
10 15 (0.71%) NetScaler
11 12 (0.57%) BGP
11 12 (0.57%) DHCP
11 12 (0.57%) Multicast
12 10 (0.48%) LAN
13 9 (0.43%) Internet
13 9 (0.43%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (5.71%) Power BI
2 90 (4.28%) SQL Server
3 73 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
4 68 (3.24%) Tableau
5 63 (3.00%) NoSQL
6 42 (2.00%) MongoDB
7 40 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
8 39 (1.86%) Oracle Database
9 37 (1.76%) Relational Database
10 27 (1.28%) Metadata
11 24 (1.14%) Data Lake
12 22 (1.05%) Big Data
13 21 (1.00%) DB2
14 17 (0.81%) Hadoop
15 16 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
15 16 (0.76%) BigQuery
16 15 (0.71%) MySQL
16 15 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 14 (0.67%) Apache Ignite
17 14 (0.67%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 233 (11.08%) JIRA
2 150 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 99 (4.71%) Git
4 84 (4.00%) GitLab
5 38 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
6 33 (1.57%) JUnit
7 28 (1.33%) Bitbucket
7 28 (1.33%) Selenium
8 22 (1.05%) Cucumber
9 21 (1.00%) Liquibase
10 19 (0.90%) Maven
10 19 (0.90%) SonarQube
11 17 (0.81%) Postman
12 16 (0.76%) Fiddler
12 16 (0.76%) Gradle
12 16 (0.76%) REST Assured
13 14 (0.67%) TeamCity
14 11 (0.52%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.48%) webpack
16 8 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,346 (64.03%) Finance
2 766 (36.44%) Social Skills
3 437 (20.79%) Investment Banking
4 283 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
5 182 (8.66%) Front Office
6 132 (6.28%) Financial Institution
7 71 (3.38%) Retail Banking
8 56 (2.66%) Legal
9 52 (2.47%) Retail
10 51 (2.43%) Corporate Banking
11 47 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
12 38 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
13 37 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
14 34 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
14 34 (1.62%) Public Sector
15 32 (1.52%) Back Office
16 25 (1.19%) General Ledger
16 25 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 24 (1.14%) International Banking
18 23 (1.09%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 404 (19.22%) Developer
2 344 (16.37%) Analyst
3 273 (12.99%) Senior
4 238 (11.32%) Business Analyst
5 193 (9.18%) Architect
6 135 (6.42%) Project Manager
7 125 (5.95%) Lead
8 106 (5.04%) Java Developer
9 105 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
10 83 (3.95%) Senior Developer
11 71 (3.38%) Consultant
12 67 (3.19%) Banking Analyst
13 55 (2.62%) DevOps Engineer
14 52 (2.47%) Designer
15 51 (2.43%) Banking Business Analyst
16 50 (2.38%) Software Engineer
17 44 (2.09%) Senior Analyst
17 44 (2.09%) Senior Java Developer
18 41 (1.95%) Python Engineer
19 40 (1.90%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (5.42%) Kafka
2 105 (5.00%) REST
3 102 (4.85%) .NET
4 89 (4.23%) Spring
5 75 (3.57%) RESTful
6 74 (3.52%) Spring Boot
7 71 (3.38%) React
8 61 (2.90%) HTML
9 54 (2.57%) Pandas
10 49 (2.33%) Middleware
10 49 (2.33%) NumPy
11 46 (2.19%) AngularJS
11 46 (2.19%) XML
12 44 (2.09%) CSS
13 38 (1.81%) Node.js
14 32 (1.52%) OAuth
15 31 (1.47%) JMS
16 30 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
17 28 (1.33%) JSON
17 28 (1.33%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 125 (5.95%) Derivative
1 125 (5.95%) Product Ownership
2 115 (5.47%) Onboarding
3 105 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 95 (4.52%) Cloud Native
5 84 (4.00%) Management Information System
6 74 (3.52%) Equities
7 71 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
7 71 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
8 65 (3.09%) Fixed Income
9 51 (2.43%) Data Centre
10 50 (2.38%) Hedge funds
11 49 (2.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 47 (2.24%) Public Cloud
13 46 (2.19%) Mobile App
14 44 (2.09%) Data Structures
15 38 (1.81%) Credit Risk
16 35 (1.67%) Market Risk
17 31 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
18 29 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 130 (6.18%) Linux
2 116 (5.52%) Windows
3 46 (2.19%) Unix
4 39 (1.86%) Android
5 33 (1.57%) Windows 10
6 23 (1.09%) Apple iOS
7 19 (0.90%) Windows Server
8 17 (0.81%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.57%) zOS
10 5 (0.24%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.19%) AIX
11 4 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.048%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.048%) Solaris
13 1 (0.048%) VMS
13 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 589 (28.02%) Agile
2 397 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
3 357 (16.98%) Stakeholder Management
4 331 (15.75%) DevOps
5 323 (15.37%) CI/CD
6 195 (9.28%) Analytics
7 192 (9.13%) Microservices
8 180 (8.56%) Risk Management
8 180 (8.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 175 (8.33%) Migration
10 158 (7.52%) Project Management
11 157 (7.47%) Decision-Making
12 154 (7.33%) Change Management
13 149 (7.09%) AI
14 142 (6.76%) Scrum
15 139 (6.61%) Business Intelligence
16 138 (6.57%) Data Modelling
17 137 (6.52%) Containerisation
18 136 (6.47%) Data Analysis
18 136 (6.47%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 393 (18.70%) SQL
2 355 (16.89%) Python
3 303 (14.41%) Java
4 141 (6.71%) C#
5 96 (4.57%) JavaScript
6 57 (2.71%) Go
7 56 (2.66%) PowerShell
7 56 (2.66%) TypeScript
8 42 (2.00%) C++
9 36 (1.71%) PL/SQL
10 27 (1.28%) Shell Script
10 27 (1.28%) VBA
11 24 (1.14%) Bash
12 21 (1.00%) COBOL
13 19 (0.90%) T-SQL
14 17 (0.81%) Kotlin
15 15 (0.71%) Scala
16 13 (0.62%) R
17 12 (0.57%) Korn
17 12 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 253 (12.04%) Degree
2 89 (4.23%) Security Cleared
3 85 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 78 (3.71%) Master's Degree
5 60 (2.85%) PMI Certification
6 55 (2.62%) PMP
7 43 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 41 (1.95%) SC Cleared
9 25 (1.19%) CISSP
10 23 (1.09%) AWS Certification
10 23 (1.09%) Azure Certification
11 16 (0.76%) MBA
12 15 (0.71%) DV Cleared
13 14 (0.67%) CBAP
14 12 (0.57%) BC Cleared
14 12 (0.57%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (0.52%) CISM
16 10 (0.48%) PhD
17 9 (0.43%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (6.71%) QA
2 89 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 55 (2.62%) GDPR
4 53 (2.52%) ISO 20022
5 47 (2.24%) PMO
6 36 (1.71%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.57%) PSD2
8 31 (1.47%) SEPA
9 30 (1.43%) SLA
10 26 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 24 (1.14%) Basel III
11 24 (1.14%) GRC
12 22 (1.05%) MiFID
12 22 (1.05%) PCI DSS
13 20 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 18 (0.86%) NIST
15 15 (0.71%) EMIR
16 14 (0.67%) ISO 8583
17 13 (0.62%) IFRS
18 8 (0.38%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 177 (8.42%) Docker
2 43 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (1.43%) Active Directory
4 20 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (0.81%) 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 (0.095%) ACF2
9 2 (0.095%) GridGain
9 2 (0.095%) NFS
9 2 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.048%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.048%) GPFS
10 1 (0.048%) HDFS
10 1 (0.048%) KVM
10 1 (0.048%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 201 (9.56%) Kubernetes
2 115 (5.47%) Terraform
3 79 (3.76%) Ansible
4 51 (2.43%) Grafana
5 44 (2.09%) Prometheus
6 17 (0.81%) SCCM
7 15 (0.71%) Argo
8 11 (0.52%) Control-M
9 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.33%) CA Endevor
10 7 (0.33%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
10 7 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.29%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.19%) Istio
12 4 (0.19%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.14%) Thomson Reuters DACS
13 3 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 233 (11.08%) Microsoft
2 155 (7.37%) Oracle
3 92 (4.38%) Google
4 60 (2.85%) Splunk
5 51 (2.43%) ServiceNow
6 50 (2.38%) IBM
7 49 (2.33%) VMware
8 44 (2.09%) SAP
9 41 (1.95%) Cisco
10 40 (1.90%) F5
11 36 (1.71%) Citrix
12 32 (1.52%) HP
13 29 (1.38%) Dell
13 29 (1.38%) Remedy
14 28 (1.33%) Bloomberg
15 27 (1.28%) Databricks
15 27 (1.28%) Salesforce
16 25 (1.19%) Apple
16 25 (1.19%) CyberArk
17 22 (1.05%) Dynatrace