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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 24 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,291 1,906 2,309
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.57% 7.79% 6.35%
As % of the General category 10.27% 12.16% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,395 1,274 1,707
10th Percentile £375 £358 £390
25th Percentile £447 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £775
90th Percentile £780 £850 £855
UK median daily rate £525 £595 £613
% change year-on-year -11.69% -2.94% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 23
10th Percentile - £17.43 £12.17
25th Percentile £17.00 £19.24 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £22.27 £19.05
Median % change year-on-year +15.72% +16.90% -9.29%
75th Percentile £95.00 £24.66 £23.88
90th Percentile £97.63 £42.40 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £30.39 £22.27 £19.05
% change year-on-year +36.44% +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 22,297 15,680 21,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.24% 64.09% 58.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,814 10,164 13,657
10th Percentile £308 £293 £281
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -2.88% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,475 675 1,773
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.81 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.95 £15.46
Median hourly rate £30.58 £27.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.20% -8.82% -6.63%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.25 £51.91
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £66.74
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.96%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -9 1,573 £575 -11.54% 421
North of England 0 485 £474 +6.04% 85
North West +12 263 £447 +4.87% 44
Yorkshire -5 216 £500 +1.27% 35
Midlands +2 181 £495 +10.00% 25
West Midlands +23 128 £575 +2.04% 17
East Midlands -15 53 £465 +19.23% 8
South East -42 40 £540 -6.09% 110
South West -34 35 £500 -4.76% 19
East of England -21 14 £553 -7.92% 5
North East -15 10 £400 -4.76% 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
1 167 (7.29%) Confluence
2 49 (2.14%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.05%) SAS
4 18 (0.79%) IIS
5 14 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.44%) Apache
6 10 (0.44%) CICS
6 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.22%) Ethereum
8 5 (0.22%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.13%) Camunda
9 3 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.087%) Appian
10 2 (0.087%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.087%) CMS
10 2 (0.087%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 128 (5.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (2.71%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (2.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (1.88%) MS Visio
5 27 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.39%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.22%) Notion
8 2 (0.087%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.087%) InVision
8 2 (0.087%) Sketch
8 2 (0.087%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 28 (1.22%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.09%) Oracle Payables
3 23 (1.00%) Oracle Receivables
4 20 (0.87%) Temenos T24
5 19 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
6 18 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
7 16 (0.70%) Loan IQ
7 16 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 12 (0.52%) Finacle
9 9 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
9 9 (0.39%) SAP FI
10 8 (0.35%) Actimize
10 8 (0.35%) Aladdin
10 8 (0.35%) SAP CO
10 8 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
10 8 (0.35%) Summit
11 7 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
12 6 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
12 6 (0.26%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 5 (0.22%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 366 (15.98%) Azure
2 314 (13.71%) AWS
3 151 (6.59%) GCP
4 118 (5.15%) Power Platform
5 89 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
6 77 (3.36%) GitHub
7 57 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
8 55 (2.40%) SaaS
9 38 (1.66%) Figma
10 33 (1.44%) Snowflake
11 32 (1.40%) Entra ID
11 32 (1.40%) OpenShift
12 30 (1.31%) Serverless
13 29 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
14 25 (1.09%) Amazon S3
15 24 (1.05%) OCI
15 24 (1.05%) Power Automate
16 20 (0.87%) PaaS
16 20 (0.87%) PowerApps
17 19 (0.83%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (3.06%) DNS
2 54 (2.36%) VPN
3 50 (2.18%) Firewall
4 40 (1.75%) Network Security
5 38 (1.66%) HTTP
5 38 (1.66%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.31%) Multicast
7 27 (1.18%) BGP
8 24 (1.05%) SSL
9 23 (1.00%) BIG-IP
10 22 (0.96%) DMZ
10 22 (0.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 22 (0.96%) SAN
11 21 (0.92%) Wireshark
12 20 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 20 (0.87%) FIX Connectivity
13 15 (0.65%) NetScaler
14 14 (0.61%) DHCP
15 10 (0.44%) Internet
15 10 (0.44%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (4.28%) SQL Server
2 96 (4.19%) Power BI
3 58 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
4 57 (2.49%) Metadata
5 52 (2.27%) Tableau
6 46 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
7 42 (1.83%) Oracle Database
8 39 (1.70%) Relational Database
9 32 (1.40%) MongoDB
10 29 (1.27%) NoSQL
11 23 (1.00%) Big Data
12 20 (0.87%) BigQuery
12 20 (0.87%) DB2
13 17 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 16 (0.70%) Data Lake
15 14 (0.61%) Pinecone
15 14 (0.61%) Weaviate
16 12 (0.52%) DataStage
16 12 (0.52%) Power Query
17 11 (0.48%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 253 (11.04%) JIRA
2 99 (4.32%) Jenkins
3 84 (3.67%) Git
4 58 (2.53%) GitLab
5 30 (1.31%) JUnit
6 24 (1.05%) Selenium
7 18 (0.79%) Cucumber
7 18 (0.79%) Fiddler
8 16 (0.70%) Bitbucket
8 16 (0.70%) Postman
8 16 (0.70%) TeamCity
9 15 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
10 14 (0.61%) SonarQube
11 13 (0.57%) Maven
12 12 (0.52%) REST Assured
13 10 (0.44%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.39%) Mockito
15 8 (0.35%) Appium
15 8 (0.35%) ERwin
15 8 (0.35%) Gradle
General
1 1,403 (61.24%) Finance
2 628 (27.41%) Social Skills
3 466 (20.34%) Investment Banking
4 325 (14.19%) Analytical Skills
5 179 (7.81%) Front Office
6 111 (4.85%) Financial Institution
7 106 (4.63%) Retail Banking
8 85 (3.71%) Corporate Banking
8 85 (3.71%) Retail
9 70 (3.06%) Legal
10 62 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
11 57 (2.49%) Public Sector
12 39 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
13 38 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
14 37 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
15 27 (1.18%) General Ledger
16 26 (1.13%) Marketing
17 23 (1.00%) Back Office
17 23 (1.00%) Private Banking
18 19 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 376 (16.41%) Developer
2 375 (16.37%) Analyst
3 301 (13.14%) Senior
4 274 (11.96%) Architect
5 262 (11.44%) Business Analyst
6 172 (7.51%) Lead
7 131 (5.72%) Solutions Architect
8 110 (4.80%) Java Developer
9 101 (4.41%) Project Manager
10 93 (4.06%) Banking Analyst
11 90 (3.93%) Senior Developer
12 83 (3.62%) Consultant
13 82 (3.58%) Data Engineer
14 63 (2.75%) Banking Business Analyst
15 58 (2.53%) Payments Architect
16 54 (2.36%) Network Engineer
17 53 (2.31%) Payments Solutions Architect
18 51 (2.23%) Designer
19 49 (2.14%) C# Developer
20 45 (1.96%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (4.71%) .NET
1 108 (4.71%) Kafka
2 89 (3.88%) React
3 79 (3.45%) Middleware
4 73 (3.19%) Spring
5 72 (3.14%) REST
6 61 (2.66%) Spring Boot
7 59 (2.58%) HTML
8 57 (2.49%) RESTful
9 46 (2.01%) CSS
10 39 (1.70%) AngularJS
10 39 (1.70%) OAuth
11 38 (1.66%) XML
12 37 (1.62%) JSON
13 36 (1.57%) FIX Protocol
14 29 (1.27%) OAuth2
15 25 (1.09%) HTML5
16 24 (1.05%) Node.js
17 23 (1.00%) PySpark
17 23 (1.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 162 (7.07%) Product Ownership
2 118 (5.15%) Derivative
3 110 (4.80%) Onboarding
4 102 (4.45%) Cloud Native
5 91 (3.97%) Management Information System
6 90 (3.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 77 (3.36%) Data Protection Act
8 70 (3.06%) Fixed Income
9 66 (2.88%) Data Structures
10 62 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
11 57 (2.49%) Equities
12 49 (2.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 46 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
14 41 (1.79%) Data Centre
15 40 (1.75%) Credit Risk
15 40 (1.75%) Market Risk
16 35 (1.53%) Mainframe
17 32 (1.40%) Public Cloud
18 31 (1.35%) Algorithms
18 31 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 136 (5.94%) Windows
2 104 (4.54%) Linux
3 73 (3.19%) Unix
4 29 (1.27%) Windows 10
5 23 (1.00%) Android
5 23 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 21 (0.92%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.87%) zOS
8 16 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.39%) AIX
10 8 (0.35%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
11 6 (0.26%) Solaris
11 6 (0.26%) VMS
11 6 (0.26%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
12 5 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.17%) HPUX
13 4 (0.17%) SUSE
14 3 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 549 (23.96%) Agile
2 415 (18.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 346 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
4 313 (13.66%) CI/CD
5 293 (12.79%) DevOps
6 259 (11.31%) Migration
7 252 (11.00%) AI
8 198 (8.64%) Analytics
9 197 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 188 (8.21%) Roadmaps
11 185 (8.08%) Data Modelling
12 179 (7.81%) Decision-Making
13 178 (7.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 170 (7.42%) Microservices
15 166 (7.25%) Validation
16 161 (7.03%) Risk Management
17 153 (6.68%) User Acceptance Testing
18 150 (6.55%) Test Automation
19 138 (6.02%) Project Management
20 137 (5.98%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 388 (16.94%) SQL
2 326 (14.23%) Python
3 291 (12.70%) Java
4 143 (6.24%) C#
5 100 (4.36%) JavaScript
6 72 (3.14%) TypeScript
7 60 (2.62%) PowerShell
8 49 (2.14%) PL/SQL
9 35 (1.53%) Shell Script
10 33 (1.44%) T-SQL
11 29 (1.27%) Bash
12 25 (1.09%) C++
12 25 (1.09%) Go
13 23 (1.00%) Kotlin
13 23 (1.00%) VBA
14 19 (0.83%) Korn
15 16 (0.70%) COBOL
16 15 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 13 (0.57%) JCL
17 13 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 198 (8.64%) Degree
2 114 (4.98%) Security Cleared
3 72 (3.14%) SC Cleared
4 65 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (2.23%) Master's Degree
5 51 (2.23%) PMP
6 49 (2.14%) PMI Certification
7 39 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 33 (1.44%) CISSP
9 26 (1.13%) Azure Certification
10 22 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (0.74%) AWS Certification
12 16 (0.70%) MBA
13 15 (0.65%) CISM
14 14 (0.61%) ISTQB
15 13 (0.57%) CBAP
16 10 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 10 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
17 9 (0.39%) CCSP
18 8 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (5.72%) QA
2 125 (5.46%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.27%) GDPR
3 52 (2.27%) ISO 20022
4 51 (2.23%) PMO
5 37 (1.62%) PSD2
6 36 (1.57%) SLA
7 34 (1.48%) SEPA
8 33 (1.44%) NIST
9 30 (1.31%) PCI DSS
10 29 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 28 (1.22%) GRC
12 25 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 20 (0.87%) Accessibility
13 20 (0.87%) MiFID
14 16 (0.70%) Basel III
15 15 (0.65%) ISO 8583
16 11 (0.48%) IFRS
17 7 (0.31%) COREP
17 7 (0.31%) EMIR
System Software
1 126 (5.50%) Docker
2 48 (2.10%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.79%) Firmware
5 15 (0.65%) NFS
6 14 (0.61%) vSphere
7 13 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.22%) RACF
9 5 (0.22%) Varnish
9 5 (0.22%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.17%) Postfix
10 4 (0.17%) Sendmail
10 4 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.17%) XenApp
11 3 (0.13%) GPFS
11 3 (0.13%) SRDF
12 2 (0.087%) ACF2
12 2 (0.087%) GridGain
13 1 (0.044%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 165 (7.20%) Kubernetes
2 83 (3.62%) Terraform
3 68 (2.97%) Ansible
4 33 (1.44%) Grafana
5 25 (1.09%) Prometheus
6 22 (0.96%) SCCM
7 19 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (0.74%) Argo
9 10 (0.44%) Control-M
9 10 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.35%) Istio
10 8 (0.35%) Puppet
11 6 (0.26%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.26%) SnapMirror
12 5 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
12 5 (0.22%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.22%) vRealize
12 5 (0.22%) WSUS
13 4 (0.17%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 276 (12.05%) Microsoft
2 167 (7.29%) Oracle
3 83 (3.62%) ServiceNow
4 59 (2.58%) Google
5 57 (2.49%) SAP
6 56 (2.44%) Cisco
7 55 (2.40%) IBM
8 51 (2.23%) F5
9 48 (2.10%) Splunk
10 47 (2.05%) VMware
11 46 (2.01%) Citrix
12 42 (1.83%) Databricks
13 29 (1.27%) Temenos
14 26 (1.13%) Murex
14 26 (1.13%) Pega
15 25 (1.09%) Avaloq
15 25 (1.09%) Bloomberg
15 25 (1.09%) NetApp
16 23 (1.00%) Remedy
16 23 (1.00%) Workday