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 22 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 25 25
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,282 1,891 2,247
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.76% 7.71% 6.07%
As % of the General category 10.35% 12.04% 10.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,381 1,247 1,629
10th Percentile £369 £360 £385
25th Percentile £440 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £773
90th Percentile £788 £863 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £615
% change year-on-year -12.50% -2.44% -5.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 17 24
10th Percentile £17.00 £16.76 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.87 £18.51 £18.12
Median hourly rate £25.46 £22.27 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% +14.21% -7.14%
75th Percentile £66.88 £24.66 £32.63
90th Percentile £97.13 £55.55 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £25.46 £23.23 £19.50
% change year-on-year +9.62% +19.10% -7.14%

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 22,044 15,707 21,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.61% 64.03% 58.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,814 10,205 13,961
10th Percentile £304 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,427 660 1,767
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £17.50 £15.39
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.60 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -1.38% -17.14%
75th Percentile £61.21 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £28.30 £28.44
% change year-on-year -0.16% -0.51% -18.74%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -10 1,572 £575 -10.15% 298
North of England +2 477 £473 +0.32% 323
North West +11 262 £449 +0.79% 276
Yorkshire -5 212 £500 -6.59% 43
Midlands +11 179 £471 -13.58% 67
West Midlands +15 123 £565 +1.80% 19
East Midlands -12 56 £450 +13.78% 48
South East -34 43 £500 -13.04% 92
South West -39 32 £500 -15.97% 13
East of England -27 14 £600 - 4
North East -11 10 £400 -4.76% 4
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
1 173 (7.58%) Confluence
2 52 (2.28%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.10%) SAS
4 22 (0.96%) Apache Spark
5 14 (0.61%) IIS
6 12 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (0.53%) CICS
7 11 (0.48%) Apache
7 11 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.22%) CMS
9 5 (0.22%) Ethereum
9 5 (0.22%) Hyperledger
9 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.13%) Camunda
10 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.088%) Appian
11 2 (0.088%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.088%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 145 (6.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 65 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (1.84%) MS Visio
5 29 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.61%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.13%) Notion
8 2 (0.088%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.088%) InVision
8 2 (0.088%) Sketch
8 2 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.088%) Trello
8 2 (0.088%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.044%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 30 (1.31%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
3 21 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
3 21 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 21 (0.92%) Temenos T24
4 19 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
5 17 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 15 (0.66%) Loan IQ
7 11 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
7 11 (0.48%) Finacle
8 10 (0.44%) SAP FI
9 9 (0.39%) Aladdin
9 9 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
10 8 (0.35%) Actimize
10 8 (0.35%) SAP CO
10 8 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
10 8 (0.35%) Summit
11 7 (0.31%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 6 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
13 5 (0.22%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 358 (15.69%) Azure
2 305 (13.37%) AWS
3 153 (6.70%) GCP
4 125 (5.48%) Power Platform
5 104 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
6 79 (3.46%) GitHub
7 60 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
8 52 (2.28%) SaaS
9 41 (1.80%) Figma
10 40 (1.75%) Serverless
11 33 (1.45%) Entra ID
12 32 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
13 30 (1.31%) OpenShift
14 29 (1.27%) Amazon S3
15 28 (1.23%) Power Automate
16 25 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
16 25 (1.10%) OCI
17 24 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
17 24 (1.05%) PowerApps
18 23 (1.01%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.11%) DNS
2 52 (2.28%) VPN
3 50 (2.19%) Firewall
4 41 (1.80%) HTTP
4 41 (1.80%) TCP/IP
5 35 (1.53%) Network Security
6 26 (1.14%) Multicast
7 25 (1.10%) BGP
7 25 (1.10%) DMZ
7 25 (1.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 24 (1.05%) BIG-IP
8 24 (1.05%) SSL
9 23 (1.01%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 22 (0.96%) SAN
11 20 (0.88%) FIX Connectivity
11 20 (0.88%) NetScaler
11 20 (0.88%) Wireshark
12 15 (0.66%) DHCP
13 11 (0.48%) Internet
13 11 (0.48%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (4.29%) Power BI
2 95 (4.16%) SQL Server
3 60 (2.63%) Tableau
4 50 (2.19%) Metadata
5 49 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
6 48 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
7 41 (1.80%) Oracle Database
8 37 (1.62%) MongoDB
9 33 (1.45%) NoSQL
9 33 (1.45%) Relational Database
10 25 (1.10%) Big Data
11 21 (0.92%) BigQuery
11 21 (0.92%) DB2
12 16 (0.70%) Hadoop
12 16 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 14 (0.61%) Power Query
14 13 (0.57%) Data Lake
15 12 (0.53%) RDBMS
16 11 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 257 (11.26%) JIRA
2 97 (4.25%) Jenkins
3 86 (3.77%) Git
4 65 (2.85%) GitLab
5 28 (1.23%) JUnit
6 24 (1.05%) Selenium
7 21 (0.92%) Bitbucket
8 19 (0.83%) Fiddler
9 18 (0.79%) Cucumber
10 17 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
11 15 (0.66%) Postman
12 14 (0.61%) TeamCity
13 13 (0.57%) REST Assured
14 12 (0.53%) Maven
15 11 (0.48%) Cypress.io
16 10 (0.44%) SonarQube
17 9 (0.39%) Mockito
18 8 (0.35%) Gradle
18 8 (0.35%) MLflow
19 7 (0.31%) Appium
General
1 1,427 (62.53%) Finance
2 678 (29.71%) Social Skills
3 448 (19.63%) Investment Banking
4 320 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
5 181 (7.93%) Front Office
6 107 (4.69%) Financial Institution
7 90 (3.94%) Retail Banking
8 74 (3.24%) Corporate Banking
9 73 (3.20%) Legal
10 70 (3.07%) Retail
11 60 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
12 54 (2.37%) Public Sector
13 44 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
15 34 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
16 31 (1.36%) Marketing
17 26 (1.14%) General Ledger
18 25 (1.10%) Back Office
19 20 (0.88%) International Banking
20 19 (0.83%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 386 (16.91%) Analyst
2 373 (16.35%) Developer
3 292 (12.80%) Senior
4 271 (11.88%) Business Analyst
5 268 (11.74%) Architect
6 162 (7.10%) Lead
7 127 (5.57%) Solutions Architect
8 110 (4.82%) Project Manager
9 99 (4.34%) Java Developer
10 90 (3.94%) Banking Analyst
11 87 (3.81%) Consultant
12 85 (3.72%) Senior Developer
13 76 (3.33%) Data Engineer
14 64 (2.80%) Banking Business Analyst
15 58 (2.54%) Payments Architect
16 53 (2.32%) Designer
17 52 (2.28%) Network Engineer
17 52 (2.28%) Payments Solutions Architect
18 48 (2.10%) DevOps Engineer
19 46 (2.02%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (4.82%) Kafka
2 107 (4.69%) .NET
3 80 (3.51%) React
4 74 (3.24%) REST
5 69 (3.02%) Middleware
6 66 (2.89%) Spring
7 63 (2.76%) HTML
8 59 (2.59%) Spring Boot
9 56 (2.45%) RESTful
10 48 (2.10%) CSS
11 44 (1.93%) OAuth
12 40 (1.75%) AngularJS
13 37 (1.62%) JSON
14 34 (1.49%) XML
15 33 (1.45%) OAuth2
16 29 (1.27%) FIX Protocol
17 27 (1.18%) Node.js
18 25 (1.10%) Pandas
19 24 (1.05%) SOAP
20 23 (1.01%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 143 (6.27%) Product Ownership
2 109 (4.78%) Derivative
2 109 (4.78%) Onboarding
3 96 (4.21%) Management Information System
4 93 (4.08%) Cloud Native
5 91 (3.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 77 (3.37%) Data Protection Act
7 72 (3.16%) Fixed Income
8 60 (2.63%) Equities
9 57 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
10 56 (2.45%) Data Structures
11 47 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
12 45 (1.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 43 (1.88%) Data Centre
14 40 (1.75%) Credit Risk
15 39 (1.71%) Market Risk
16 38 (1.67%) Mainframe
17 31 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
18 29 (1.27%) Public Cloud
19 28 (1.23%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 147 (6.44%) Windows
2 104 (4.56%) Linux
3 68 (2.98%) Unix
4 37 (1.62%) Windows 10
5 26 (1.14%) Android
6 24 (1.05%) Windows Server
7 20 (0.88%) zOS
8 19 (0.83%) Apple iOS
9 17 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (0.53%) Mac OS
11 10 (0.44%) AIX
12 7 (0.31%) VMS
13 6 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
13 6 (0.26%) Solaris
13 6 (0.26%) Windows 7
14 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
14 5 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
15 4 (0.18%) HPUX
15 4 (0.18%) SUSE
15 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (23.75%) Agile
2 416 (18.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 366 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
4 306 (13.41%) CI/CD
5 305 (13.37%) DevOps
6 254 (11.13%) Migration
7 240 (10.52%) AI
8 194 (8.50%) Analytics
9 186 (8.15%) Decision-Making
10 185 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 183 (8.02%) Roadmaps
12 177 (7.76%) Data Modelling
12 177 (7.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 175 (7.67%) Risk Management
14 162 (7.10%) Validation
15 161 (7.06%) Microservices
16 159 (6.97%) User Acceptance Testing
17 156 (6.84%) Data Analysis
18 154 (6.75%) Project Management
19 143 (6.27%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 382 (16.74%) SQL
2 331 (14.50%) Python
3 287 (12.58%) Java
4 141 (6.18%) C#
5 96 (4.21%) JavaScript
6 65 (2.85%) TypeScript
7 61 (2.67%) PowerShell
8 40 (1.75%) PL/SQL
9 34 (1.49%) Shell Script
9 34 (1.49%) VBA
10 29 (1.27%) Go
11 27 (1.18%) T-SQL
12 24 (1.05%) Bash
13 20 (0.88%) Kotlin
14 18 (0.79%) COBOL
15 17 (0.74%) C++
15 17 (0.74%) Korn
16 14 (0.61%) JCL
16 14 (0.61%) Scala
17 13 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 215 (9.42%) Degree
2 112 (4.91%) Security Cleared
3 69 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 67 (2.94%) SC Cleared
5 59 (2.59%) Master's Degree
6 53 (2.32%) PMP
7 52 (2.28%) PMI Certification
8 43 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 36 (1.58%) CISSP
10 29 (1.27%) Azure Certification
11 19 (0.83%) AWS Certification
11 19 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (0.74%) MBA
13 15 (0.66%) CISM
13 15 (0.66%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.53%) CBAP
14 12 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.44%) PhD
16 9 (0.39%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (5.87%) QA
2 112 (4.91%) Data Quality
3 54 (2.37%) GDPR
4 52 (2.28%) ISO 20022
5 43 (1.88%) PMO
6 35 (1.53%) NIST
6 35 (1.53%) PSD2
6 35 (1.53%) SLA
7 32 (1.40%) PCI DSS
8 31 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 30 (1.31%) GRC
9 30 (1.31%) SEPA
10 24 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 21 (0.92%) Accessibility
12 19 (0.83%) Basel III
13 18 (0.79%) MiFID
14 15 (0.66%) ISO 8583
15 12 (0.53%) IFRS
16 8 (0.35%) EMIR
17 7 (0.31%) GAAP
System Software
1 125 (5.48%) Docker
2 46 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 44 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.88%) Firmware
4 20 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.57%) vSphere
6 12 (0.53%) NFS
7 9 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.31%) RACF
9 5 (0.22%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.18%) ACF2
10 4 (0.18%) Varnish
10 4 (0.18%) XenApp
11 3 (0.13%) Postfix
11 3 (0.13%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.13%) SRDF
11 3 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
11 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.088%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 169 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 87 (3.81%) Terraform
3 67 (2.94%) Ansible
4 34 (1.49%) Grafana
5 27 (1.18%) SCCM
6 25 (1.10%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.88%) Argo
7 20 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (0.44%) Control-M
9 9 (0.39%) Istio
10 8 (0.35%) Puppet
10 8 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.31%) WSUS
12 6 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
12 6 (0.26%) RSA Archer
12 6 (0.26%) SnapMirror
12 6 (0.26%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.22%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.18%) NetBackup
15 3 (0.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 283 (12.40%) Microsoft
2 164 (7.19%) Oracle
3 82 (3.59%) ServiceNow
4 69 (3.02%) Google
5 60 (2.63%) IBM
5 60 (2.63%) SAP
6 59 (2.59%) Cisco
7 53 (2.32%) VMware
8 51 (2.23%) Citrix
8 51 (2.23%) F5
9 45 (1.97%) Splunk
10 30 (1.31%) Bloomberg
11 29 (1.27%) Temenos
12 28 (1.23%) HP
12 28 (1.23%) Remedy
13 27 (1.18%) Murex
14 26 (1.14%) Databricks
14 26 (1.14%) Pega
15 25 (1.10%) Avaloq
15 25 (1.10%) NetApp