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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -7
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,122 1,933 2,452
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.35% 7.36% 6.45%
As % of the General category 10.65% 11.76% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,305 1,225 1,740
10th Percentile £363 £363 £381
25th Percentile £447 £484 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £675 £731 £746
90th Percentile £800 £838 £838
UK median daily rate £537 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.50% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 12 24
10th Percentile £18.78 £14.80 £12.84
25th Percentile - £15.24 £16.18
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +14.21% -7.14%
75th Percentile £38.59 £25.81 £30.00
90th Percentile £80.38 £73.80 £67.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £23.21 £19.50
% change year-on-year +8.36% +19.03% -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 19,926 16,442 22,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 59.64% 62.59% 58.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,671 9,942 14,826
10th Percentile £294 £297 £265
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,243 526 1,489
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.62 £13.23
25th Percentile £16.50 £19.98 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.81 £30.41 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year -24.98% +18.26% -2.98%
75th Percentile £48.75 £58.63 £53.86
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £22.80 £29.00 £25.61
% change year-on-year -21.38% +13.26% -0.41%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 6 February 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 -7 1,451 £600 -4.00% 337
North of England +6 454 £471 +4.61% 71
Yorkshire +4 233 £500 -11.50% 31
North West +12 229 £446 +11.50% 35
Midlands +19 173 £475 -13.64% 17
West Midlands +19 119 £540 -2.26% 12
East Midlands +3 54 £420 -6.67% 5
South East -21 48 £419 -23.86% 133
South West -13 28 £525 -15.15% 8
East of England -21 12 £400 -33.33% 7
North East -12 5 £400 - 5
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
1 158 (7.45%) Confluence
2 55 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 17 (0.80%) Apache
5 15 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.42%) CMS
6 9 (0.42%) IIS
6 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.42%) SAS
7 8 (0.38%) CICS
8 7 (0.33%) MQSeries
9 6 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.24%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.24%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.14%) Camunda
11 3 (0.14%) HCL Notes
11 3 (0.14%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.094%) Mule
12 2 (0.094%) Tomcat
Applications
1 148 (6.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 79 (3.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 65 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
4 46 (2.17%) MS Visio
5 24 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
6 20 (0.94%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.19%) Adobe Captivate
9 3 (0.14%) Notion
9 3 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.14%) Trello
10 2 (0.094%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.094%) Sketch
11 1 (0.047%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.047%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 29 (1.37%) Payment Gateway
2 24 (1.13%) Oracle Payables
3 19 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 18 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
5 15 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
6 13 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
7 12 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 11 (0.52%) Temenos T24
9 10 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
10 8 (0.38%) Finacle
10 8 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 7 (0.33%) Fidessa
11 7 (0.33%) Loan IQ
11 7 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
11 7 (0.33%) SAP FI
12 5 (0.24%) BASE24
12 5 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
12 5 (0.24%) SAP CO
12 5 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
12 5 (0.24%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 331 (15.60%) Azure
2 315 (14.84%) AWS
3 171 (8.06%) GCP
4 143 (6.74%) Power Platform
5 87 (4.10%) GitHub
6 81 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
7 66 (3.11%) Serverless
8 50 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
9 46 (2.17%) Figma
10 40 (1.89%) SaaS
11 34 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
12 30 (1.41%) PowerApps
13 26 (1.23%) Entra ID
14 25 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
14 25 (1.18%) Power Automate
15 24 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
15 24 (1.13%) Snowflake
16 22 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
16 22 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
16 22 (1.04%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 58 (2.73%) DNS
2 47 (2.21%) Firewall
3 36 (1.70%) HTTP
4 35 (1.65%) Network Security
5 32 (1.51%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 31 (1.46%) TCP/IP
7 30 (1.41%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 27 (1.27%) VPN
9 26 (1.23%) DMZ
10 22 (1.04%) SSL
11 21 (0.99%) Wireless
12 20 (0.94%) BIG-IP
12 20 (0.94%) Wireshark
13 16 (0.75%) BGP
13 16 (0.75%) Multicast
13 16 (0.75%) NetScaler
14 13 (0.61%) DHCP
15 11 (0.52%) FIX Connectivity
15 11 (0.52%) Internet
15 11 (0.52%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (5.56%) Power BI
2 92 (4.34%) SQL Server
3 72 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
3 72 (3.39%) Tableau
4 63 (2.97%) NoSQL
5 46 (2.17%) MongoDB
6 43 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
7 39 (1.84%) Relational Database
8 38 (1.79%) Oracle Database
9 30 (1.41%) Metadata
10 22 (1.04%) Big Data
10 22 (1.04%) BigQuery
11 21 (0.99%) DB2
12 19 (0.90%) Data Lake
13 18 (0.85%) Hadoop
14 16 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 15 (0.71%) MySQL
16 13 (0.61%) Power Query
17 11 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
18 10 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 236 (11.12%) JIRA
2 136 (6.41%) Jenkins
3 94 (4.43%) Git
4 87 (4.10%) GitLab
5 32 (1.51%) JUnit
6 31 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
7 25 (1.18%) Selenium
8 23 (1.08%) Bitbucket
9 21 (0.99%) Liquibase
10 19 (0.90%) Cucumber
10 19 (0.90%) Maven
10 19 (0.90%) Postman
11 18 (0.85%) Fiddler
12 17 (0.80%) Gradle
13 15 (0.71%) REST Assured
14 14 (0.66%) TeamCity
15 12 (0.57%) SonarQube
16 10 (0.47%) Cypress.io
17 9 (0.42%) Xcode
18 7 (0.33%) SoapUI
General
1 1,339 (63.10%) Finance
2 745 (35.11%) Social Skills
3 443 (20.88%) Investment Banking
4 282 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
5 179 (8.44%) Front Office
6 126 (5.94%) Financial Institution
7 71 (3.35%) Retail Banking
8 53 (2.50%) Legal
9 52 (2.45%) Retail
10 50 (2.36%) Corporate Banking
10 50 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
11 43 (2.03%) Public Sector
12 34 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
13 29 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
14 25 (1.18%) Back Office
15 24 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 23 (1.08%) International Banking
16 23 (1.08%) Marketing
17 21 (0.99%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 409 (19.27%) Developer
2 359 (16.92%) Analyst
3 284 (13.38%) Senior
4 249 (11.73%) Business Analyst
5 206 (9.71%) Architect
6 133 (6.27%) Lead
6 133 (6.27%) Project Manager
7 114 (5.37%) Java Developer
7 114 (5.37%) Solutions Architect
8 94 (4.43%) Senior Developer
9 71 (3.35%) Consultant
10 69 (3.25%) Banking Analyst
11 53 (2.50%) Senior Java Developer
12 51 (2.40%) Banking Business Analyst
13 50 (2.36%) Designer
14 49 (2.31%) DevOps Engineer
15 48 (2.26%) Data Engineer
16 45 (2.12%) Senior Analyst
17 43 (2.03%) Software Engineer
18 40 (1.89%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (5.51%) Kafka
2 114 (5.37%) REST
3 104 (4.90%) .NET
4 83 (3.91%) Spring
5 75 (3.53%) RESTful
6 69 (3.25%) React
7 68 (3.20%) Spring Boot
8 57 (2.69%) HTML
9 53 (2.50%) Middleware
10 51 (2.40%) AngularJS
11 48 (2.26%) Pandas
12 42 (1.98%) NumPy
13 39 (1.84%) Node.js
13 39 (1.84%) XML
14 37 (1.74%) CSS
15 35 (1.65%) OAuth
16 30 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
17 29 (1.37%) JMS
18 28 (1.32%) JSON
19 25 (1.18%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 130 (6.13%) Product Ownership
2 120 (5.66%) Derivative
3 108 (5.09%) Onboarding
4 102 (4.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 95 (4.48%) Cloud Native
6 91 (4.29%) Management Information System
7 75 (3.53%) Data Protection Act
8 73 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
9 71 (3.35%) Equities
10 63 (2.97%) Fixed Income
11 52 (2.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 47 (2.21%) Public Cloud
13 43 (2.03%) Data Centre
14 41 (1.93%) Credit Risk
14 41 (1.93%) Data Structures
14 41 (1.93%) Hedge funds
14 41 (1.93%) Mobile App
15 37 (1.74%) Market Risk
16 34 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
17 28 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 131 (6.17%) Linux
2 122 (5.75%) Windows
3 49 (2.31%) Unix
4 39 (1.84%) Android
5 33 (1.56%) Windows 10
6 22 (1.04%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.94%) Windows Server
8 16 (0.75%) Mac OS
9 11 (0.52%) zOS
10 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (0.24%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.19%) AIX
13 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.14%) VMS
13 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.094%) CoreOS
14 2 (0.094%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.047%) Kali Linux
15 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 582 (27.43%) Agile
2 383 (18.05%) Problem-Solving
3 365 (17.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 307 (14.47%) CI/CD
5 306 (14.42%) DevOps
6 207 (9.75%) Analytics
7 188 (8.86%) Microservices
7 188 (8.86%) Migration
8 184 (8.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 173 (8.15%) Risk Management
10 163 (7.68%) Project Management
11 162 (7.63%) AI
12 154 (7.26%) Decision-Making
13 147 (6.93%) Data Analysis
14 144 (6.79%) Scrum
15 142 (6.69%) Business Intelligence
15 142 (6.69%) Data Modelling
16 141 (6.64%) Change Management
17 137 (6.46%) Roadmaps
18 134 (6.31%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 398 (18.76%) SQL
2 365 (17.20%) Python
3 311 (14.66%) Java
4 140 (6.60%) C#
5 86 (4.05%) JavaScript
6 60 (2.83%) PowerShell
7 58 (2.73%) Go
7 58 (2.73%) TypeScript
8 41 (1.93%) C++
9 34 (1.60%) PL/SQL
10 28 (1.32%) VBA
11 26 (1.23%) Bash
11 26 (1.23%) Shell Script
12 22 (1.04%) T-SQL
13 19 (0.90%) COBOL
14 17 (0.80%) Kotlin
15 15 (0.71%) Scala
16 12 (0.57%) Perl
17 11 (0.52%) RPG
17 11 (0.52%) Swift
Qualifications
1 252 (11.88%) Degree
2 86 (4.05%) Security Cleared
3 84 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 81 (3.82%) Master's Degree
5 57 (2.69%) PMI Certification
6 50 (2.36%) PMP
6 50 (2.36%) SC Cleared
7 37 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (1.23%) Azure Certification
8 26 (1.23%) CISSP
9 24 (1.13%) AWS Certification
10 16 (0.75%) MBA
11 15 (0.71%) CBAP
12 14 (0.66%) DV Cleared
12 14 (0.66%) ISTQB
13 13 (0.61%) CISM
14 12 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.57%) PhD
15 9 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
16 8 (0.38%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (6.13%) QA
2 89 (4.19%) Data Quality
3 58 (2.73%) ISO 20022
4 52 (2.45%) GDPR
5 39 (1.84%) PSD2
6 37 (1.74%) PMO
7 34 (1.60%) SEPA
8 33 (1.56%) Accessibility
9 27 (1.27%) SLA
10 26 (1.23%) GRC
11 25 (1.18%) PCI DSS
11 25 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 23 (1.08%) Basel III
13 21 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 21 (0.99%) MiFID
14 19 (0.90%) NIST
15 16 (0.75%) ISO 8583
16 15 (0.71%) EMIR
17 10 (0.47%) IFRS
18 8 (0.38%) COBIT
System Software
1 168 (7.92%) Docker
2 45 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (1.37%) Active Directory
4 20 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (0.90%) Firmware
6 8 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.33%) vSphere
8 6 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.19%) NFS
10 3 (0.14%) RACF
10 3 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.094%) ACF2
11 2 (0.094%) GridGain
11 2 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.047%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.047%) HDFS
12 1 (0.047%) PowerHA
12 1 (0.047%) SRDF
12 1 (0.047%) XenApp
12 1 (0.047%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 194 (9.14%) Kubernetes
2 104 (4.90%) Terraform
3 78 (3.68%) Ansible
4 50 (2.36%) Grafana
5 41 (1.93%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.85%) SCCM
7 16 (0.75%) Argo
8 12 (0.57%) Control-M
9 10 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
11 7 (0.33%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.28%) NetBackup
13 5 (0.24%) CA Endevor
13 5 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
13 5 (0.24%) RSA Archer
14 4 (0.19%) Istio
14 4 (0.19%) Karpenter
14 4 (0.19%) Kibana
15 3 (0.14%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 234 (11.03%) Microsoft
2 150 (7.07%) Oracle
3 87 (4.10%) Google
4 60 (2.83%) Splunk
5 52 (2.45%) ServiceNow
6 51 (2.40%) VMware
7 47 (2.21%) IBM
8 45 (2.12%) Cisco
8 45 (2.12%) F5
9 41 (1.93%) SAP
10 39 (1.84%) Citrix
11 31 (1.46%) Remedy
12 28 (1.32%) HP
13 26 (1.23%) Dell
13 26 (1.23%) Salesforce
14 25 (1.18%) Bloomberg
15 24 (1.13%) Apple
15 24 (1.13%) CyberArk
15 24 (1.13%) Databricks
16 20 (0.94%) NetApp