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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,179 1,889 2,388
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.96% 7.66% 6.29%
As % of the General category 10.31% 12.11% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,322 1,246 1,706
10th Percentile £368 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £486 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -10.45%
75th Percentile £673 £738 £750
90th Percentile £775 £850 £838
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 13 24
10th Percentile £17.49 £15.23 £12.84
25th Percentile £21.55 - £18.12
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +14.21% -15.22%
75th Percentile £38.59 £24.66 £32.63
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.85 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £23.23 £19.50
% change year-on-year +8.29% +19.10% -15.22%

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 21,129 15,601 22,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.84% 63.24% 58.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,347 10,001 14,541
10th Percentile £300 £300 £266
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,323 560 1,669
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.00 £13.05
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.00 £15.38
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.79 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.81% +18.43% -20.46%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.24 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.65 £76.25 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £24.09 £30.00 £25.90
% change year-on-year -19.70% +15.85% -20.32%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -11 1,485 £575 -9.45% 335
North of England +6 465 £475 +2.15% 71
North West +11 247 £447 +10.37% 42
Yorkshire 0 225 £500 -11.50% 25
Midlands +12 185 £474 -13.82% 28
West Midlands +14 129 £558 -7.66% 19
East Midlands -9 56 £430 +7.50% 9
South East -36 48 £459 -16.55% 100
South West -15 33 £525 -14.29% 9
East of England -25 11 £400 -33.33% 11
North East -12 4 £400 - 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
1 168 (7.71%) Confluence
2 52 (2.39%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.10%) Apache Spark
4 17 (0.78%) SAS
5 14 (0.64%) Apache
5 14 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (0.50%) IIS
6 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.37%) CICS
8 7 (0.32%) CMS
9 6 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.23%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.23%) Hyperledger
11 4 (0.18%) MQSeries
11 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.092%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.092%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.092%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 150 (6.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (3.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 65 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
4 50 (2.29%) MS Visio
5 24 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
6 19 (0.87%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
9 3 (0.14%) Notion
9 3 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.14%) Trello
10 2 (0.092%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.092%) Sketch
11 1 (0.046%) InVision
11 1 (0.046%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 31 (1.42%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.15%) Oracle Payables
3 20 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
4 18 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
4 18 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
5 17 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 16 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
6 16 (0.73%) Temenos T24
7 13 (0.60%) Loan IQ
8 10 (0.46%) SAP FI
9 8 (0.37%) Actimize
9 8 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
9 8 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 8 (0.37%) SAP CO
9 8 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
10 7 (0.32%) Aladdin
10 7 (0.32%) Finacle
11 6 (0.28%) Fidessa
11 6 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
12 5 (0.23%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 339 (15.56%) Azure
2 329 (15.10%) AWS
3 162 (7.43%) GCP
4 136 (6.24%) Power Platform
5 89 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
6 87 (3.99%) GitHub
7 58 (2.66%) Serverless
8 56 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
9 49 (2.25%) SaaS
10 41 (1.88%) Figma
11 33 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
12 28 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
12 28 (1.28%) Amazon S3
13 27 (1.24%) OCI
14 26 (1.19%) Entra ID
15 25 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
16 24 (1.10%) PowerApps
16 24 (1.10%) Snowflake
17 23 (1.06%) Power Automate
18 22 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.26%) DNS
2 46 (2.11%) Firewall
3 39 (1.79%) HTTP
4 38 (1.74%) TCP/IP
4 38 (1.74%) VPN
5 32 (1.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 32 (1.47%) Network Security
6 30 (1.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 27 (1.24%) SSL
8 26 (1.19%) BGP
8 26 (1.19%) DMZ
9 24 (1.10%) Multicast
10 23 (1.06%) BIG-IP
11 22 (1.01%) Wireshark
12 19 (0.87%) Wireless
13 18 (0.83%) NetScaler
14 17 (0.78%) SAN
15 16 (0.73%) DHCP
15 16 (0.73%) FIX Connectivity
16 14 (0.64%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (5.09%) Power BI
2 95 (4.36%) SQL Server
3 75 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
4 68 (3.12%) Tableau
5 53 (2.43%) NoSQL
6 51 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
7 44 (2.02%) Metadata
8 43 (1.97%) Oracle Database
9 39 (1.79%) MongoDB
10 36 (1.65%) Relational Database
11 28 (1.28%) Big Data
12 22 (1.01%) BigQuery
13 17 (0.78%) Data Lake
13 17 (0.78%) DB2
13 17 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 16 (0.73%) Hadoop
15 11 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
15 11 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
15 11 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
15 11 (0.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 245 (11.24%) JIRA
2 127 (5.83%) Jenkins
3 94 (4.31%) Git
4 88 (4.04%) GitLab
5 30 (1.38%) JUnit
6 25 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
7 23 (1.06%) Cucumber
7 23 (1.06%) Selenium
8 22 (1.01%) Bitbucket
9 21 (0.96%) Fiddler
10 19 (0.87%) Postman
11 16 (0.73%) REST Assured
12 15 (0.69%) Liquibase
13 13 (0.60%) Gradle
13 13 (0.60%) Maven
13 13 (0.60%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.41%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.41%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.37%) Mockito
15 8 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,384 (63.52%) Finance
2 701 (32.17%) Social Skills
3 446 (20.47%) Investment Banking
4 294 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
5 173 (7.94%) Front Office
6 119 (5.46%) Financial Institution
7 89 (4.08%) Retail Banking
8 61 (2.80%) Retail
9 59 (2.71%) Corporate Banking
9 59 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
9 59 (2.71%) Legal
10 52 (2.39%) Public Sector
11 41 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
12 39 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
13 35 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (1.28%) Marketing
15 22 (1.01%) International Banking
16 21 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 21 (0.96%) Private Banking
17 20 (0.92%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 384 (17.62%) Developer
2 377 (17.30%) Analyst
3 281 (12.90%) Senior
4 257 (11.79%) Business Analyst
5 236 (10.83%) Architect
6 136 (6.24%) Lead
7 129 (5.92%) Project Manager
7 129 (5.92%) Solutions Architect
8 100 (4.59%) Java Developer
9 84 (3.85%) Senior Developer
10 75 (3.44%) Banking Analyst
10 75 (3.44%) Consultant
11 60 (2.75%) Data Engineer
12 52 (2.39%) Banking Business Analyst
12 52 (2.39%) Network Engineer
13 50 (2.29%) Designer
14 49 (2.25%) DevOps Engineer
15 48 (2.20%) Payments Architect
16 45 (2.07%) C# Developer
16 45 (2.07%) Payments Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (5.64%) Kafka
2 109 (5.00%) .NET
3 106 (4.86%) REST
4 72 (3.30%) React
4 72 (3.30%) Spring
5 65 (2.98%) RESTful
6 63 (2.89%) Middleware
7 61 (2.80%) Spring Boot
8 59 (2.71%) HTML
9 50 (2.29%) AngularJS
10 41 (1.88%) OAuth
11 38 (1.74%) CSS
11 38 (1.74%) Pandas
12 37 (1.70%) XML
13 35 (1.61%) JSON
14 33 (1.51%) NumPy
15 30 (1.38%) OAuth2
16 27 (1.24%) Node.js
17 26 (1.19%) SOAP
18 25 (1.15%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 135 (6.20%) Product Ownership
2 112 (5.14%) Derivative
3 98 (4.50%) Onboarding
4 96 (4.41%) Management Information System
5 95 (4.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 84 (3.85%) Cloud Native
7 69 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
8 66 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
8 66 (3.03%) Equities
9 64 (2.94%) Fixed Income
10 46 (2.11%) Public Cloud
11 44 (2.02%) Data Structures
12 42 (1.93%) Data Centre
13 41 (1.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 40 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
15 39 (1.79%) Market Risk
16 37 (1.70%) Credit Risk
17 34 (1.56%) Hedge funds
18 32 (1.47%) Mobile App
19 29 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 132 (6.06%) Windows
2 120 (5.51%) Linux
3 50 (2.29%) Unix
4 36 (1.65%) Android
4 36 (1.65%) Windows 10
5 22 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.92%) Windows Server
7 15 (0.69%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.64%) zOS
9 12 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.32%) VMS
11 6 (0.28%) AIX
12 5 (0.23%) CoreOS
12 5 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
13 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.14%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.046%) Kali Linux
15 1 (0.046%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 560 (25.70%) Agile
2 394 (18.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 374 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
4 318 (14.59%) DevOps
5 315 (14.46%) CI/CD
6 229 (10.51%) Migration
7 207 (9.50%) Analytics
8 189 (8.67%) AI
9 177 (8.12%) Microservices
9 177 (8.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 171 (7.85%) Risk Management
11 162 (7.43%) Data Modelling
12 161 (7.39%) Decision-Making
13 156 (7.16%) Data Analysis
14 155 (7.11%) Project Management
15 149 (6.84%) Roadmaps
16 147 (6.75%) Continuous Improvement
17 145 (6.65%) Validation
18 144 (6.61%) Business Intelligence
19 140 (6.42%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 391 (17.94%) SQL
2 367 (16.84%) Python
3 297 (13.63%) Java
4 143 (6.56%) C#
5 88 (4.04%) JavaScript
6 61 (2.80%) PowerShell
6 61 (2.80%) TypeScript
7 48 (2.20%) Go
8 36 (1.65%) PL/SQL
9 29 (1.33%) VBA
10 28 (1.28%) Bash
10 28 (1.28%) Shell Script
11 27 (1.24%) C++
12 22 (1.01%) T-SQL
13 18 (0.83%) Kotlin
14 17 (0.78%) COBOL
15 14 (0.64%) Scala
16 13 (0.60%) Perl
17 11 (0.50%) Korn
18 10 (0.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 231 (10.60%) Degree
2 103 (4.73%) Security Cleared
3 76 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 76 (3.49%) Master's Degree
4 60 (2.75%) SC Cleared
5 54 (2.48%) PMI Certification
6 53 (2.43%) PMP
7 41 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 28 (1.28%) Azure Certification
8 28 (1.28%) CISSP
9 24 (1.10%) AWS Certification
10 18 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
10 18 (0.83%) MBA
11 16 (0.73%) CISM
12 15 (0.69%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.55%) CBAP
13 12 (0.55%) PhD
14 10 (0.46%) DV Cleared
14 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (0.37%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (6.24%) QA
2 102 (4.68%) Data Quality
3 55 (2.52%) ISO 20022
4 51 (2.34%) GDPR
5 38 (1.74%) PMO
6 34 (1.56%) PCI DSS
6 34 (1.56%) SLA
7 33 (1.51%) Accessibility
8 31 (1.42%) PSD2
9 30 (1.38%) SEPA
10 28 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 25 (1.15%) GRC
12 24 (1.10%) NIST
13 23 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 22 (1.01%) Basel III
14 22 (1.01%) MiFID
15 14 (0.64%) ISO 8583
16 13 (0.60%) EMIR
17 11 (0.50%) IFRS
18 7 (0.32%) GAAP
System Software
1 151 (6.93%) Docker
2 52 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (1.65%) Active Directory
4 23 (1.06%) Firmware
5 19 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.60%) vSphere
7 11 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (0.37%) NFS
9 6 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.18%) RACF
11 3 (0.14%) SRDF
11 3 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
11 3 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.092%) ACF2
12 2 (0.092%) Varnish
12 2 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.092%) XenApp
13 1 (0.046%) Postfix
13 1 (0.046%) PowerHA
13 1 (0.046%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 183 (8.40%) Kubernetes
2 96 (4.41%) Terraform
3 84 (3.85%) Ansible
4 49 (2.25%) Grafana
5 39 (1.79%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.06%) SCCM
7 18 (0.83%) Argo
8 17 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.41%) Control-M
9 9 (0.41%) Puppet
9 9 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.37%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.28%) Istio
11 6 (0.28%) NetBackup
11 6 (0.28%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
12 5 (0.23%) SnapMirror
13 4 (0.18%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.18%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 242 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 149 (6.84%) Oracle
3 80 (3.67%) Google
4 68 (3.12%) ServiceNow
5 63 (2.89%) VMware
6 60 (2.75%) Cisco
7 56 (2.57%) Splunk
8 49 (2.25%) F5
9 47 (2.16%) IBM
9 47 (2.16%) SAP
10 46 (2.11%) Citrix
11 32 (1.47%) Remedy
12 29 (1.33%) Bloomberg
13 28 (1.28%) Murex
14 26 (1.19%) HP
14 26 (1.19%) NetApp
15 25 (1.15%) Temenos
16 23 (1.06%) Apple
16 23 (1.06%) Salesforce
17 22 (1.01%) McAfee