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 16 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 22 23
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,672 2,238 2,457
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.83% 8.05% 7.40%
As % of the General category 10.52% 12.53% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,625 1,553 1,761
10th Percentile £400 £350 £400
25th Percentile £456 £415 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -9.20% -0.40%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £788
90th Percentile £800 £825 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 32 16
10th Percentile £16.63 £18.14 £14.13
25th Percentile £17.00 £23.49 £14.50
Median hourly rate £18.60 £25.15 £18.89
Median % change year-on-year -26.06% +33.17% +5.03%
75th Percentile £33.70 - £41.31
90th Percentile £96.88 £68.25 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £17.25 £25.15 £18.27
% change year-on-year -31.41% +37.66% -1.24%

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 25,402 17,860 19,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.39% 64.26% 57.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,152 11,345 12,286
10th Percentile £313 £276 £300
25th Percentile £419 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.20% -2.18%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £660
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,011 974 1,219
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.25 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.85 £16.36 £18.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +38.62%
75th Percentile £62.00 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £70.56
UK median hourly rate £31.56 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +25.47% -34.02% +38.62%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 16 August 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 1,928 £588 -6.00% 369
North of England -5 520 £500 +12.36% 64
North West -4 266 £500 +17.30% 38
Yorkshire -8 244 £500 +8.11% 23
Midlands -19 154 £515 +21.78% 19
West Midlands +11 118 £550 +3.53% 14
East Midlands -39 36 £470 +19.75% 5
South West -54 35 £563 +7.14% 22
South East -66 34 £525 +16.67% 89
East of England +6 31 £580 - 3
North East -32 13 £875 +108.33% 3
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
1 157 (5.88%) Confluence
2 57 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.97%) SAS
6 24 (0.90%) Apache
7 16 (0.60%) IIS
8 11 (0.41%) CICS
9 10 (0.37%) Appian
9 10 (0.37%) Camunda
10 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.22%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.15%) WordPress
13 3 (0.11%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.11%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.11%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.075%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.075%) CMS
Applications
1 94 (3.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (1.31%) MS Visio
5 22 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Sketch
8 3 (0.11%) Trello
9 2 (0.075%) EngageOne
9 2 (0.075%) InVision
9 2 (0.075%) Notion
10 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.037%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 21 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
1 21 (0.79%) Temenos T24
2 19 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
3 18 (0.67%) Finacle
4 14 (0.52%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
4 14 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.49%) Loan IQ
6 12 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
8 8 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
8 8 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
8 8 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (0.26%) Actimize
9 7 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
9 7 (0.26%) OpenText MBPM
10 6 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
10 6 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
11 5 (0.19%) Summit
12 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 411 (15.38%) Azure
2 349 (13.06%) AWS
3 169 (6.32%) GCP
4 136 (5.09%) Power Platform
5 85 (3.18%) GitHub
6 81 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 80 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
8 74 (2.77%) Snowflake
9 73 (2.73%) SaaS
10 52 (1.95%) Entra ID
11 41 (1.53%) Amazon S3
12 40 (1.50%) OpenShift
13 38 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
13 38 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
14 34 (1.27%) Serverless
15 28 (1.05%) Figma
16 26 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
17 25 (0.94%) Power Automate
18 24 (0.90%) PaaS
19 23 (0.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 80 (2.99%) Firewall
2 71 (2.66%) DNS
3 67 (2.51%) VPN
4 57 (2.13%) Network Security
5 43 (1.61%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.24%) SSL
7 31 (1.16%) Multicast
8 30 (1.12%) BGP
9 25 (0.94%) HTTP
9 25 (0.94%) SAN
10 22 (0.82%) DMZ
11 21 (0.79%) BIG-IP
12 19 (0.71%) DHCP
12 19 (0.71%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 19 (0.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 18 (0.67%) Wireshark
14 17 (0.64%) FIX Connectivity
15 16 (0.60%) LAN
16 15 (0.56%) WAN
17 12 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (4.90%) SQL Server
2 113 (4.23%) Power BI
3 88 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
4 69 (2.58%) Metadata
5 65 (2.43%) Relational Database
6 46 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
7 45 (1.68%) Oracle Database
8 37 (1.38%) Data Lake
9 34 (1.27%) MongoDB
9 34 (1.27%) Tableau
10 27 (1.01%) Big Data
11 23 (0.86%) Db2
12 20 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
12 20 (0.75%) RDBMS
12 20 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 19 (0.71%) Data Vault
14 18 (0.67%) NoSQL
15 17 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
16 15 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
16 15 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 270 (10.10%) JIRA
2 123 (4.60%) Git
3 103 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 61 (2.28%) GitLab
5 37 (1.38%) JUnit
6 35 (1.31%) Selenium
7 24 (0.90%) Cucumber
8 17 (0.64%) Bitbucket
8 17 (0.64%) TeamCity
9 16 (0.60%) ERwin
9 16 (0.60%) Fiddler
9 16 (0.60%) Gradle
9 16 (0.60%) Maven
10 15 (0.56%) ER Studio
10 15 (0.56%) Mockito
10 15 (0.56%) Postman
10 15 (0.56%) SonarQube
10 15 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
11 14 (0.52%) REST Assured
12 12 (0.45%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,722 (64.45%) Finance
2 723 (27.06%) Social Skills
3 537 (20.10%) Investment Banking
4 391 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
5 242 (9.06%) Front Office
6 136 (5.09%) Financial Institution
7 117 (4.38%) Retail
8 110 (4.12%) Retail Banking
9 90 (3.37%) Corporate Banking
10 83 (3.11%) Legal
11 66 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
12 63 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
13 59 (2.21%) Private Banking
14 54 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
15 44 (1.65%) Back Office
16 37 (1.38%) Public Sector
17 29 (1.09%) Marketing
18 27 (1.01%) General Ledger
18 27 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
19 22 (0.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 448 (16.77%) Developer
2 395 (14.78%) Analyst
3 353 (13.21%) Senior
4 292 (10.93%) Architect
5 254 (9.51%) Lead
6 242 (9.06%) Business Analyst
7 148 (5.54%) Java Developer
8 131 (4.90%) Project Manager
9 104 (3.89%) Data Engineer
10 102 (3.82%) Senior Developer
11 97 (3.63%) Solutions Architect
12 90 (3.37%) Consultant
13 86 (3.22%) Banking Analyst
14 68 (2.54%) Software Engineer
15 63 (2.36%) Data Analyst
16 60 (2.25%) Network Engineer
17 59 (2.21%) Designer
18 55 (2.06%) Senior Java Developer
19 52 (1.95%) Java Engineer
20 50 (1.87%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (5.16%) React
2 130 (4.87%) .NET
3 125 (4.68%) Kafka
4 108 (4.04%) REST
5 91 (3.41%) Middleware
5 91 (3.41%) Spring
6 79 (2.96%) Spring Boot
7 55 (2.06%) Redux
8 49 (1.83%) RESTful
9 44 (1.65%) HTML
10 42 (1.57%) PySpark
11 40 (1.50%) CSS
11 40 (1.50%) FIX Protocol
12 36 (1.35%) AngularJS
13 35 (1.31%) JSON
13 35 (1.31%) OAuth
14 33 (1.24%) XML
15 26 (0.97%) Web Services
16 25 (0.94%) Node.js
16 25 (0.94%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 206 (7.71%) Product Ownership
2 172 (6.44%) Onboarding
3 152 (5.69%) Cloud Native
4 138 (5.16%) Derivative
5 124 (4.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 102 (3.82%) Fixed Income
7 86 (3.22%) Equities
8 84 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
9 81 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
10 75 (2.81%) Data Structures
10 75 (2.81%) Management Information System
11 62 (2.32%) AI Agents
12 61 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
13 54 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
14 53 (1.98%) Credit Risk
14 53 (1.98%) Mainframe
15 51 (1.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 47 (1.76%) Data Centre
16 47 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
17 42 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 157 (5.88%) Windows
2 148 (5.54%) Linux
3 90 (3.37%) Unix
4 39 (1.46%) Windows Server
5 30 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 27 (1.01%) zOS
7 24 (0.90%) Apple iOS
8 21 (0.79%) Android
9 16 (0.60%) Ubuntu
10 12 (0.45%) AIX
11 11 (0.41%) Windows 10
12 9 (0.34%) Solaris
13 8 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.22%) HPUX
14 6 (0.22%) SUSE
15 4 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
15 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.11%) CoreOS
16 3 (0.11%) Windows 7
16 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 637 (23.84%) Agile
2 590 (22.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 404 (15.12%) CI/CD
4 396 (14.82%) Problem-Solving
5 370 (13.85%) AI
6 341 (12.76%) DevOps
7 322 (12.05%) Migration
8 283 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 256 (9.58%) Analytics
10 238 (8.91%) Data Modelling
11 220 (8.23%) Roadmaps
12 195 (7.30%) Decision-Making
13 193 (7.22%) Microservices
14 191 (7.15%) Software Engineering
14 191 (7.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 186 (6.96%) Validation
16 176 (6.59%) User Acceptance Testing
17 170 (6.36%) Test Automation
18 169 (6.32%) Risk Management
19 167 (6.25%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 453 (16.95%) SQL
2 383 (14.33%) Python
3 354 (13.25%) Java
4 189 (7.07%) C#
5 136 (5.09%) JavaScript
6 110 (4.12%) TypeScript
7 84 (3.14%) PowerShell
8 67 (2.51%) PL/SQL
9 53 (1.98%) Bash
10 50 (1.87%) Shell Script
11 45 (1.68%) Kotlin
12 40 (1.50%) T-SQL
13 35 (1.31%) C++
14 24 (0.90%) Korn
15 23 (0.86%) VBA
16 15 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 12 (0.45%) Bicep
17 12 (0.45%) Go
17 12 (0.45%) JCL
18 11 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 175 (6.55%) Degree
2 134 (5.01%) Security Cleared
3 103 (3.85%) SC Cleared
4 56 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (1.98%) PMP
6 44 (1.65%) PMI Certification
7 38 (1.42%) CISSP
8 30 (1.12%) Azure Certification
8 30 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
9 25 (0.94%) AWS Certification
10 20 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (0.75%) Master's Degree
11 19 (0.71%) CISM
12 15 (0.56%) ISTQB
13 14 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 11 (0.41%) ACCA
15 10 (0.37%) CCSP
15 10 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
16 9 (0.34%) CCNA
16 9 (0.34%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (5.76%) Data Quality
2 135 (5.05%) QA
3 60 (2.25%) PMO
4 48 (1.80%) ISO 20022
5 40 (1.50%) GDPR
6 37 (1.38%) GRC
6 37 (1.38%) NIST
7 34 (1.27%) SEPA
8 30 (1.12%) SLA
9 27 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 27 (1.01%) PSD2
10 24 (0.90%) Accessibility
11 21 (0.79%) MiFID
12 16 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 13 (0.49%) IFRS
13 13 (0.49%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.37%) EMIR
15 7 (0.26%) COREP
15 7 (0.26%) FINREP
16 6 (0.22%) Basel III
System Software
1 117 (4.38%) Docker
2 72 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.71%) RACF
5 16 (0.60%) Firmware
6 14 (0.52%) NFS
6 14 (0.52%) vSphere
7 11 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.22%) Varnish
9 5 (0.19%) Postfix
10 4 (0.15%) ACF2
10 4 (0.15%) Sendmail
10 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.15%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.11%) SRDF
11 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.11%) XenApp
12 2 (0.075%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.075%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 168 (6.29%) Kubernetes
2 92 (3.44%) Terraform
3 80 (2.99%) Ansible
4 30 (1.12%) Prometheus
5 29 (1.09%) Grafana
6 20 (0.75%) SCCM
7 19 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.60%) Control-M
10 15 (0.56%) OMEGAMON
11 13 (0.49%) Argo
12 12 (0.45%) Istio
13 9 (0.34%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
14 7 (0.26%) Progress Chef
15 6 (0.22%) Puppet
15 6 (0.22%) WSUS
16 5 (0.19%) HAProxy
16 5 (0.19%) RSA Archer
16 5 (0.19%) systemd
Vendors
1 304 (11.38%) Microsoft
2 202 (7.56%) Oracle
3 95 (3.56%) ServiceNow
4 93 (3.48%) IBM
5 81 (3.03%) Databricks
6 61 (2.28%) Cisco
7 55 (2.06%) Google
8 51 (1.91%) SAP
9 50 (1.87%) Splunk
10 48 (1.80%) Salesforce
11 46 (1.72%) VMware
12 45 (1.68%) F5
13 40 (1.50%) Citrix
14 36 (1.35%) CyberArk
15 33 (1.24%) Murex
16 29 (1.09%) OpenAI
17 26 (0.97%) Bloomberg
18 25 (0.94%) Fortinet
18 25 (0.94%) NetApp
19 24 (0.90%) Pega