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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 22 25
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,588 2,176 2,462
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.78% 8.00% 6.81%
As % of the General category 10.45% 12.56% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,561 1,487 1,803
10th Percentile £400 £358 £400
25th Percentile £456 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £618
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -6.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £688 £739 £788
90th Percentile £800 £838 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £553 £600
% change year-on-year -0.54% -7.83% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 27 21
10th Percentile - £18.10 -
25th Percentile £17.00 £19.58 £14.50
Median hourly rate £19.69 £25.15 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.71% +28.97% +8.45%
75th Percentile £95.00 - £43.75
90th Percentile £96.75 £59.50 £88.00
UK median hourly rate £19.69 £24.66 £19.50
% change year-on-year -20.15% +26.46% +5.41%

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 24,762 17,330 20,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.29% 63.70% 57.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,893 11,096 13,302
10th Percentile £313 £282 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -3.30% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,804 899 1,606
10th Percentile £14.37 £13.25 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.36 £16.06
Median hourly rate £34.00 £26.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.53% -24.43% +14.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.22 £57.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £26.21 £33.29
% change year-on-year +25.91% -21.26% +8.61%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 1,840 £575 -11.40% 423
North of England -3 508 £500 +12.36% 68
North West -3 256 £475 +18.09% 44
Yorkshire -6 244 £514 +4.84% 23
Midlands -7 171 £525 +23.53% 23
West Midlands +21 128 £570 +3.64% 13
East Midlands -25 42 £522 +33.44% 10
South East -54 35 £545 +7.39% 63
South West -47 34 £515 -1.90% 8
East of England 0 30 £580 -3.33% 6
North East -29 13 £875 +108.33% 1
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 (6.07%) Confluence
2 54 (2.09%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.08%) SAS
4 19 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (0.73%) Apache Spark
4 19 (0.73%) IIS
5 14 (0.54%) Apache
6 11 (0.43%) Camunda
7 10 (0.39%) CICS
8 8 (0.31%) Appian
8 8 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
9 7 (0.27%) Ethereum
9 7 (0.27%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.15%) WordPress
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.077%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.077%) CMS
13 2 (0.077%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.077%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 96 (3.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.16%) MS Visio
5 23 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.12%) Sketch
8 2 (0.077%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.077%) EngageOne
8 2 (0.077%) InVision
8 2 (0.077%) Notion
8 2 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.077%) Trello
8 2 (0.077%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 23 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
1 23 (0.89%) Oracle Receivables
2 22 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
3 19 (0.73%) Temenos T24
4 17 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
5 16 (0.62%) Finacle
6 14 (0.54%) Loan IQ
7 12 (0.46%) Aladdin
8 11 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 10 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
10 9 (0.35%) Actimize
11 7 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
11 7 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
11 7 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
11 7 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
11 7 (0.27%) Summit
12 6 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
12 6 (0.23%) OpenText MBPM
12 6 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
13 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 393 (15.19%) Azure
2 347 (13.41%) AWS
3 165 (6.38%) GCP
4 132 (5.10%) Power Platform
5 83 (3.21%) GitHub
6 79 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
7 68 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
8 63 (2.43%) SaaS
9 61 (2.36%) Snowflake
10 45 (1.74%) OpenShift
11 43 (1.66%) Entra ID
12 36 (1.39%) Amazon S3
13 33 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
14 32 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
15 29 (1.12%) Figma
15 29 (1.12%) Serverless
16 26 (1.00%) Power Automate
17 24 (0.93%) PowerApps
18 23 (0.89%) PaaS
19 21 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 75 (2.90%) Firewall
2 69 (2.67%) DNS
3 63 (2.43%) VPN
4 61 (2.36%) Network Security
5 41 (1.58%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.28%) BGP
6 33 (1.28%) Multicast
6 33 (1.28%) SSL
7 30 (1.16%) HTTP
8 25 (0.97%) SAN
9 22 (0.85%) BIG-IP
9 22 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 21 (0.81%) DMZ
11 20 (0.77%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 19 (0.73%) Wireshark
13 18 (0.70%) FIX Connectivity
14 17 (0.66%) DHCP
15 13 (0.50%) LAN
15 13 (0.50%) WAN
16 11 (0.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (4.68%) SQL Server
2 108 (4.17%) Power BI
3 75 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
4 71 (2.74%) Metadata
5 65 (2.51%) Relational Database
6 50 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
7 47 (1.82%) Oracle Database
8 39 (1.51%) Tableau
9 38 (1.47%) MongoDB
10 31 (1.20%) Big Data
11 30 (1.16%) Data Lake
12 23 (0.89%) NoSQL
13 21 (0.81%) RDBMS
14 20 (0.77%) Db2
15 19 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.73%) BigQuery
15 19 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 15 (0.58%) Data Vault
17 14 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
17 14 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 265 (10.24%) JIRA
2 110 (4.25%) Git
3 106 (4.10%) Jenkins
4 64 (2.47%) GitLab
5 41 (1.58%) JUnit
6 26 (1.00%) Selenium
7 23 (0.89%) Cucumber
8 19 (0.73%) TeamCity
9 18 (0.70%) Bitbucket
9 18 (0.70%) Postman
10 17 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
11 16 (0.62%) Fiddler
11 16 (0.62%) Mockito
12 15 (0.58%) REST Assured
13 14 (0.54%) ERwin
13 14 (0.54%) SonarQube
14 13 (0.50%) ER Studio
14 13 (0.50%) Gradle
15 12 (0.46%) Maven
16 11 (0.43%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,608 (62.13%) Finance
2 667 (25.77%) Social Skills
3 530 (20.48%) Investment Banking
4 357 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
5 224 (8.66%) Front Office
6 125 (4.83%) Financial Institution
7 110 (4.25%) Retail Banking
8 106 (4.10%) Retail
9 90 (3.48%) Corporate Banking
10 82 (3.17%) Legal
11 63 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
12 58 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
13 51 (1.97%) Private Banking
14 47 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
14 47 (1.82%) Public Sector
15 32 (1.24%) Back Office
16 30 (1.16%) Marketing
17 28 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
18 23 (0.89%) General Ledger
19 20 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 453 (17.50%) Developer
2 389 (15.03%) Analyst
3 326 (12.60%) Senior
4 300 (11.59%) Architect
5 254 (9.81%) Business Analyst
6 226 (8.73%) Lead
7 159 (6.14%) Java Developer
8 119 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
9 112 (4.33%) Project Manager
10 108 (4.17%) Senior Developer
11 92 (3.55%) Data Engineer
12 83 (3.21%) Banking Analyst
13 78 (3.01%) Consultant
14 67 (2.59%) Senior Java Developer
15 62 (2.40%) Network Engineer
16 60 (2.32%) Software Engineer
17 59 (2.28%) Data Analyst
18 52 (2.01%) C# Developer
19 50 (1.93%) Banking Business Analyst
19 50 (1.93%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (5.29%) React
2 123 (4.75%) Kafka
3 118 (4.56%) .NET
4 103 (3.98%) REST
5 95 (3.67%) Middleware
6 88 (3.40%) Spring
7 76 (2.94%) Spring Boot
8 62 (2.40%) RESTful
9 55 (2.13%) Redux
10 45 (1.74%) HTML
11 42 (1.62%) OAuth
12 40 (1.55%) CSS
13 39 (1.51%) FIX Protocol
14 38 (1.47%) AngularJS
15 36 (1.39%) JSON
16 30 (1.16%) XML
17 29 (1.12%) PySpark
18 28 (1.08%) OAuth2
19 26 (1.00%) Node.js
20 24 (0.93%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 173 (6.68%) Product Ownership
2 142 (5.49%) Onboarding
3 139 (5.37%) Cloud Native
4 130 (5.02%) Derivative
5 124 (4.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 100 (3.86%) Fixed Income
7 88 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
8 80 (3.09%) Management Information System
9 79 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
10 78 (3.01%) Equities
11 68 (2.63%) Data Structures
12 57 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
13 56 (2.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 53 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
15 51 (1.97%) Mainframe
16 47 (1.82%) AI Agents
17 45 (1.74%) Credit Risk
18 44 (1.70%) Data Centre
18 44 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
19 39 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 155 (5.99%) Windows
2 136 (5.26%) Linux
3 90 (3.48%) Unix
4 33 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 26 (1.00%) zOS
7 22 (0.85%) Apple iOS
8 21 (0.81%) Android
9 17 (0.66%) Windows 10
10 14 (0.54%) Ubuntu
11 12 (0.46%) AIX
12 9 (0.35%) Solaris
13 8 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
14 6 (0.23%) HPUX
14 6 (0.23%) SUSE
14 6 (0.23%) VMS
15 5 (0.19%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.19%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 582 (22.49%) Agile
2 480 (18.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 384 (14.84%) CI/CD
4 369 (14.26%) Problem-Solving
5 346 (13.37%) AI
6 321 (12.40%) DevOps
7 308 (11.90%) Migration
8 241 (9.31%) Analytics
8 241 (9.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 213 (8.23%) Data Modelling
10 202 (7.81%) Roadmaps
11 199 (7.69%) Microservices
12 190 (7.34%) Validation
13 188 (7.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 178 (6.88%) Decision-Making
15 175 (6.76%) User Acceptance Testing
16 172 (6.65%) Software Engineering
17 162 (6.26%) Generative AI
17 162 (6.26%) Risk Management
17 162 (6.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 415 (16.04%) SQL
2 371 (14.34%) Python
3 347 (13.41%) Java
4 178 (6.88%) C#
5 129 (4.98%) JavaScript
6 111 (4.29%) TypeScript
7 76 (2.94%) PowerShell
8 65 (2.51%) PL/SQL
9 46 (1.78%) Bash
10 43 (1.66%) Shell Script
11 41 (1.58%) T-SQL
12 39 (1.51%) Kotlin
13 30 (1.16%) C++
14 25 (0.97%) VBA
15 22 (0.85%) Korn
16 18 (0.70%) Go
17 17 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 14 (0.54%) Scala
19 12 (0.46%) Bicep
19 12 (0.46%) JCL
Qualifications
1 177 (6.84%) Degree
2 124 (4.79%) Security Cleared
3 89 (3.44%) SC Cleared
4 59 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (1.62%) PMP
6 37 (1.43%) CISSP
6 37 (1.43%) PMI Certification
7 30 (1.16%) Azure Certification
7 30 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 27 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
9 26 (1.00%) Master's Degree
10 23 (0.89%) AWS Certification
11 18 (0.70%) CISM
12 14 (0.54%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 10 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (0.35%) ACCA
15 9 (0.35%) CCSP
16 8 (0.31%) CCNA
16 8 (0.31%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (4.98%) Data Quality
1 129 (4.98%) QA
2 57 (2.20%) PMO
3 52 (2.01%) ISO 20022
4 42 (1.62%) GDPR
5 36 (1.39%) SEPA
6 35 (1.35%) NIST
7 31 (1.20%) GRC
8 29 (1.12%) PSD2
9 28 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 28 (1.08%) SLA
10 26 (1.00%) Accessibility
11 21 (0.81%) PCI DSS
12 19 (0.73%) MiFID
13 15 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.35%) COREP
14 9 (0.35%) EMIR
14 9 (0.35%) IFRS
15 7 (0.27%) FINREP
16 6 (0.23%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 118 (4.56%) Docker
2 61 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.73%) RACF
5 17 (0.66%) vSphere
6 16 (0.62%) Firmware
6 16 (0.62%) NFS
7 14 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.23%) Varnish
9 5 (0.19%) Postfix
10 4 (0.15%) ACF2
10 4 (0.15%) Sendmail
10 4 (0.15%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.12%) SRDF
11 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.12%) XenApp
12 2 (0.077%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 163 (6.30%) Kubernetes
2 87 (3.36%) Ansible
2 87 (3.36%) Terraform
3 32 (1.24%) Prometheus
4 30 (1.16%) Grafana
5 20 (0.77%) SCCM
6 18 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.54%) Control-M
8 14 (0.54%) OMEGAMON
9 12 (0.46%) Argo
10 11 (0.43%) Istio
11 9 (0.35%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
13 6 (0.23%) Puppet
13 6 (0.23%) SnapMirror
13 6 (0.23%) WSUS
14 5 (0.19%) HAProxy
14 5 (0.19%) NetBackup
14 5 (0.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 288 (11.13%) Microsoft
2 202 (7.81%) Oracle
3 89 (3.44%) ServiceNow
4 75 (2.90%) IBM
5 65 (2.51%) Cisco
5 65 (2.51%) Databricks
6 58 (2.24%) Google
7 52 (2.01%) SAP
8 49 (1.89%) F5
8 49 (1.89%) Splunk
9 45 (1.74%) Citrix
9 45 (1.74%) VMware
10 40 (1.55%) Salesforce
11 34 (1.31%) Murex
12 28 (1.08%) CyberArk
12 28 (1.08%) OpenAI
13 27 (1.04%) Avaloq
13 27 (1.04%) Temenos
14 26 (1.00%) Fortinet
14 26 (1.00%) NetApp