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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -7
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,101 2,002 2,436
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.47% 7.47% 6.59%
As % of the General category 10.74% 11.97% 11.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,318 1,285 1,701
10th Percentile £363 £368 £394
25th Percentile £443 £489 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.04% -5.77%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £750
90th Percentile £800 £838 £838
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.42% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 12 20
10th Percentile £18.87 £14.80 £12.84
25th Percentile - £15.24 £16.18
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.28
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +15.54% -8.21%
75th Percentile £35.31 £25.81 £25.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £73.80 £32.38
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £24.15 £19.28
% change year-on-year +4.14% +25.29% -8.21%

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 19,559 16,719 21,770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 60.25% 62.38% 58.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,484 10,095 14,489
10th Percentile £286 £299 £267
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% -3.09% -
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 1,216 556 1,290
10th Percentile £14.07 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.50 £19.00 £15.17
Median hourly rate £23.00 £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +11.13% +5.00%
75th Percentile £46.38 £57.53 £55.94
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.93 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £22.85 £27.50 £26.72
% change year-on-year -16.91% +2.92% +6.88%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 1,442 £600 -4.00% 236
North of England +7 441 £465 +2.93% 106
North West +9 227 £447 +11.75% 50
Yorkshire +3 223 £500 -8.05% 41
Midlands +20 174 £475 -13.64% 67
West Midlands +13 113 £550 -5.78% 28
East Midlands +8 61 £410 -7.87% 37
South East -17 48 £419 -24.72% 206
South West -4 29 £525 -14.29% 52
East of England -16 10 £400 -46.67% 60
North East -11 5 £400 - 15
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
1 152 (7.23%) Confluence
2 53 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.09%) Apache
4 21 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (0.95%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.52%) CICS
6 11 (0.52%) CMS
7 9 (0.43%) IIS
7 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.43%) SAS
8 8 (0.38%) Mule
9 7 (0.33%) MQSeries
10 6 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.19%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.19%) HCL Notes
12 4 (0.19%) Hyperledger
12 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 143 (6.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (3.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 66 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
4 46 (2.19%) MS Visio
5 26 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
6 20 (0.95%) 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 25 (1.19%) Payment Gateway
3 19 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 16 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
4 16 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
5 14 (0.67%) Oracle General Ledger
6 12 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
7 11 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 11 (0.52%) Temenos T24
8 9 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
8 9 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 8 (0.38%) Finacle
9 8 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
10 7 (0.33%) Fidessa
11 6 (0.29%) Loan IQ
11 6 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
11 6 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
11 6 (0.29%) SAP FI
11 6 (0.29%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 323 (15.37%) Azure
2 315 (14.99%) AWS
3 173 (8.23%) GCP
4 143 (6.81%) Power Platform
5 86 (4.09%) GitHub
6 80 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
7 66 (3.14%) Serverless
8 51 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (2.24%) Figma
10 37 (1.76%) SaaS
11 35 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
11 35 (1.67%) PowerApps
12 30 (1.43%) Snowflake
13 27 (1.29%) Entra ID
13 27 (1.29%) Power Automate
14 24 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
15 23 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
16 22 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
17 21 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
18 20 (0.95%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 52 (2.48%) DNS
2 46 (2.19%) Firewall
3 34 (1.62%) HTTP
4 33 (1.57%) Network Security
5 30 (1.43%) TCP/IP
6 28 (1.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 28 (1.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 25 (1.19%) DMZ
8 22 (1.05%) VPN
8 22 (1.05%) Wireless
9 21 (1.00%) SSL
10 17 (0.81%) BIG-IP
10 17 (0.81%) Wireshark
11 15 (0.71%) NetScaler
12 12 (0.57%) BGP
12 12 (0.57%) DHCP
12 12 (0.57%) Multicast
13 10 (0.48%) LAN
14 9 (0.43%) Internet
14 9 (0.43%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (5.66%) Power BI
2 91 (4.33%) SQL Server
3 73 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
4 68 (3.24%) Tableau
5 67 (3.19%) NoSQL
6 44 (2.09%) MongoDB
7 41 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
8 39 (1.86%) Oracle Database
9 38 (1.81%) Relational Database
10 28 (1.33%) Metadata
11 24 (1.14%) Data Lake
12 22 (1.05%) Big Data
13 21 (1.00%) DB2
14 19 (0.90%) BigQuery
15 16 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
15 16 (0.76%) Hadoop
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
1 237 (11.28%) JIRA
2 146 (6.95%) Jenkins
3 100 (4.76%) Git
4 85 (4.05%) GitLab
5 37 (1.76%) Sonatype Nexus
6 36 (1.71%) 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
11 18 (0.86%) Postman
11 18 (0.86%) SonarQube
12 17 (0.81%) REST Assured
13 16 (0.76%) Fiddler
13 16 (0.76%) Gradle
14 13 (0.62%) TeamCity
15 11 (0.52%) Cypress.io
16 8 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
16 8 (0.38%) webpack
General
1 1,336 (63.59%) Finance
2 767 (36.51%) Social Skills
3 436 (20.75%) Investment Banking
4 281 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
5 186 (8.85%) Front Office
6 129 (6.14%) Financial Institution
7 71 (3.38%) Retail Banking
8 57 (2.71%) Legal
9 52 (2.48%) Retail
10 50 (2.38%) Corporate Banking
11 47 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
12 37 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
13 34 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
13 34 (1.62%) Public Sector
14 31 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
15 26 (1.24%) Back Office
15 26 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 25 (1.19%) General Ledger
17 24 (1.14%) International Banking
18 23 (1.09%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 411 (19.56%) Developer
2 344 (16.37%) Analyst
3 277 (13.18%) Senior
4 236 (11.23%) Business Analyst
5 193 (9.19%) Architect
6 135 (6.43%) Project Manager
7 127 (6.04%) Lead
8 109 (5.19%) Java Developer
9 102 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
10 87 (4.14%) Senior Developer
11 72 (3.43%) Consultant
12 68 (3.24%) Banking Analyst
13 53 (2.52%) DevOps Engineer
14 52 (2.48%) Banking Business Analyst
15 51 (2.43%) Designer
16 50 (2.38%) Software Engineer
17 47 (2.24%) Senior Java Developer
18 44 (2.09%) Senior Analyst
19 41 (1.95%) Python Engineer
20 40 (1.90%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (5.52%) Kafka
2 109 (5.19%) REST
3 102 (4.85%) .NET
4 92 (4.38%) Spring
5 80 (3.81%) RESTful
6 77 (3.66%) Spring Boot
7 72 (3.43%) React
8 63 (3.00%) HTML
9 54 (2.57%) Pandas
10 50 (2.38%) AngularJS
11 49 (2.33%) Middleware
11 49 (2.33%) NumPy
12 44 (2.09%) CSS
13 43 (2.05%) XML
14 38 (1.81%) Node.js
15 37 (1.76%) OAuth
16 31 (1.48%) JMS
16 31 (1.48%) JSON
17 30 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
18 28 (1.33%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 128 (6.09%) Product Ownership
2 125 (5.95%) Derivative
3 113 (5.38%) Onboarding
4 105 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 95 (4.52%) Cloud Native
6 87 (4.14%) Management Information System
7 75 (3.57%) Equities
8 73 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
9 72 (3.43%) Data Protection Act
10 69 (3.28%) Fixed Income
11 50 (2.38%) Data Centre
12 49 (2.33%) Hedge funds
12 49 (2.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 47 (2.24%) Public Cloud
14 45 (2.14%) Mobile App
15 43 (2.05%) Data Structures
16 40 (1.90%) Credit Risk
17 35 (1.67%) Market Risk
18 32 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
19 28 (1.33%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 133 (6.33%) Linux
2 118 (5.62%) Windows
3 49 (2.33%) Unix
4 39 (1.86%) Android
5 33 (1.57%) Windows 10
6 23 (1.09%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.95%) 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
1 590 (28.08%) Agile
2 391 (18.61%) Problem-Solving
3 360 (17.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 329 (15.66%) DevOps
5 328 (15.61%) CI/CD
6 194 (9.23%) Microservices
7 193 (9.19%) Analytics
8 176 (8.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 173 (8.23%) Risk Management
10 171 (8.14%) Migration
11 158 (7.52%) Project Management
12 154 (7.33%) Change Management
13 151 (7.19%) Decision-Making
14 150 (7.14%) AI
15 142 (6.76%) Scrum
16 139 (6.62%) Containerisation
17 138 (6.57%) Data Modelling
18 137 (6.52%) Business Intelligence
18 137 (6.52%) Data Analysis
19 134 (6.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 396 (18.85%) SQL
2 363 (17.28%) Python
3 308 (14.66%) Java
4 141 (6.71%) C#
5 97 (4.62%) JavaScript
6 62 (2.95%) TypeScript
7 61 (2.90%) Go
8 56 (2.67%) PowerShell
9 42 (2.00%) C++
10 36 (1.71%) PL/SQL
11 28 (1.33%) Shell Script
12 27 (1.29%) VBA
13 25 (1.19%) Bash
14 21 (1.00%) COBOL
15 19 (0.90%) T-SQL
16 17 (0.81%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.71%) Scala
18 12 (0.57%) Perl
18 12 (0.57%) Rust
19 11 (0.52%) Swift
Qualifications
1 247 (11.76%) Degree
2 89 (4.24%) Security Cleared
3 80 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 77 (3.66%) Master's Degree
5 59 (2.81%) PMI Certification
6 54 (2.57%) PMP
7 45 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 42 (2.00%) SC Cleared
9 27 (1.29%) CISSP
10 24 (1.14%) AWS Certification
10 24 (1.14%) Azure Certification
11 16 (0.76%) MBA
12 15 (0.71%) CBAP
12 15 (0.71%) DV Cleared
13 12 (0.57%) CISM
13 12 (0.57%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (0.52%) BC Cleared
15 10 (0.48%) PhD
16 8 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (6.71%) QA
2 83 (3.95%) Data Quality
3 55 (2.62%) GDPR
4 53 (2.52%) ISO 20022
5 46 (2.19%) PMO
6 35 (1.67%) PSD2
7 33 (1.57%) Accessibility
8 31 (1.48%) SEPA
9 29 (1.38%) SLA
10 26 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 25 (1.19%) PCI DSS
12 24 (1.14%) Basel III
12 24 (1.14%) GRC
13 22 (1.05%) MiFID
14 21 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 18 (0.86%) NIST
16 16 (0.76%) ISO 8583
17 15 (0.71%) EMIR
18 12 (0.57%) IFRS
19 7 (0.33%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 181 (8.61%) 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
1 202 (9.61%) Kubernetes
2 114 (5.43%) Terraform
3 80 (3.81%) Ansible
4 51 (2.43%) Grafana
5 44 (2.09%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.86%) SCCM
7 15 (0.71%) Argo
8 11 (0.52%) Control-M
9 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
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%) CA Endevor
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
1 230 (10.95%) Microsoft
2 158 (7.52%) Oracle
3 92 (4.38%) Google
4 60 (2.86%) Splunk
5 52 (2.48%) ServiceNow
6 50 (2.38%) IBM
7 49 (2.33%) VMware
8 43 (2.05%) SAP
9 41 (1.95%) Cisco
10 40 (1.90%) F5
11 36 (1.71%) Citrix
12 30 (1.43%) HP
13 29 (1.38%) Remedy
13 29 (1.38%) Salesforce
14 28 (1.33%) Bloomberg
14 28 (1.33%) Databricks
14 28 (1.33%) Dell
15 25 (1.19%) Apple
15 25 (1.19%) CyberArk
16 22 (1.05%) Dynatrace