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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,603 2,239 2,428
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.77% 8.11% 7.25%
As % of the General category 10.43% 12.68% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,575 1,558 1,762
10th Percentile £400 £357 £400
25th Percentile £458 £420 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £684 £738 £793
90th Percentile £812 £825 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £613
% change year-on-year - -10.20% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 28 15
10th Percentile £16.63 £18.10 -
25th Percentile £17.00 £19.77 £14.50
Median hourly rate £18.60 £25.15 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.06% +28.97% +5.41%
75th Percentile £33.70 - £42.13
90th Percentile £96.88 £57.75 £76.20
UK median hourly rate £17.25 £24.66 £18.89
% change year-on-year -30.05% +30.58% +0.91%

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 24,964 17,654 19,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.31% 63.94% 57.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,922 11,267 12,408
10th Percentile £313 £280 £300
25th Percentile £418 £402 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.12% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £662
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 1,914 944 1,252
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.25 £14.06
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.35 £18.00
Median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +35.11% -34.02% +30.32%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £70.39
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +27.07%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 1,877 £590 -7.09% 1,073
North of England -5 506 £500 +11.86% 146
North West -4 262 £493 +14.99% 91
Yorkshire -9 234 £508 +6.84% 51
Midlands -22 155 £525 +25.75% 45
West Midlands +11 117 £558 +2.53% 29
East Midlands -28 38 £519 +32.95% 16
South West -50 36 £563 +7.14% 30
South East -63 31 £550 +22.22% 101
East of England +7 28 £600 -20.00% 13
North East -32 13 £875 +108.33% 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
1 155 (5.95%) Confluence
2 58 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 25 (0.96%) Apache Spark
3 25 (0.96%) SAS
4 23 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (0.85%) Apache
6 17 (0.65%) IIS
7 11 (0.42%) CICS
8 10 (0.38%) Camunda
9 9 (0.35%) Appian
10 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.23%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.15%) WordPress
13 3 (0.12%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.12%) Hyperledger
14 2 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.077%) CMS
14 2 (0.077%) JBoss
14 2 (0.077%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 89 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (1.19%) MS Visio
5 22 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.12%) Sketch
7 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.12%) Trello
8 2 (0.077%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.077%) EngageOne
8 2 (0.077%) InVision
8 2 (0.077%) Notion
9 1 (0.038%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 21 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
1 21 (0.81%) Temenos T24
2 20 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
3 18 (0.69%) Finacle
4 16 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
5 14 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
6 13 (0.50%) Aladdin
6 13 (0.50%) Loan IQ
7 10 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 8 (0.31%) FLEXCUBE
9 8 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
10 7 (0.27%) Actimize
10 7 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
10 7 (0.27%) OpenText MBPM
11 6 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
12 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
12 5 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
12 5 (0.19%) SAP CO
12 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 401 (15.41%) Azure
2 343 (13.18%) AWS
3 166 (6.38%) GCP
4 138 (5.30%) Power Platform
5 84 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
6 79 (3.03%) GitHub
7 76 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
8 71 (2.73%) Snowflake
9 69 (2.65%) SaaS
10 48 (1.84%) Entra ID
11 43 (1.65%) OpenShift
12 39 (1.50%) Amazon S3
13 35 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
14 33 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
15 32 (1.23%) Serverless
16 31 (1.19%) Figma
17 26 (1.00%) Power Automate
18 25 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
18 25 (0.96%) PaaS
19 24 (0.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 76 (2.92%) Firewall
2 67 (2.57%) DNS
3 64 (2.46%) VPN
4 57 (2.19%) Network Security
5 42 (1.61%) TCP/IP
6 32 (1.23%) SSL
7 30 (1.15%) BGP
7 30 (1.15%) Multicast
8 26 (1.00%) SAN
9 24 (0.92%) HTTP
10 21 (0.81%) DMZ
11 20 (0.77%) BIG-IP
12 18 (0.69%) DHCP
12 18 (0.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 18 (0.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 17 (0.65%) FIX Connectivity
13 17 (0.65%) Wireshark
14 16 (0.61%) LAN
15 15 (0.58%) WAN
16 12 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (4.80%) SQL Server
2 113 (4.34%) Power BI
3 84 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (2.61%) Metadata
5 62 (2.38%) Relational Database
6 48 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
7 45 (1.73%) Oracle Database
8 39 (1.50%) Tableau
9 37 (1.42%) Data Lake
10 35 (1.34%) MongoDB
11 28 (1.08%) Big Data
12 22 (0.85%) Db2
13 21 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 20 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
14 20 (0.77%) RDBMS
15 18 (0.69%) Data Vault
16 17 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
16 17 (0.65%) NoSQL
17 16 (0.61%) BigQuery
17 16 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 263 (10.10%) JIRA
2 111 (4.26%) Git
3 101 (3.88%) Jenkins
4 63 (2.42%) GitLab
5 36 (1.38%) JUnit
6 24 (0.92%) Selenium
7 22 (0.85%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.69%) Bitbucket
9 17 (0.65%) TeamCity
10 16 (0.61%) ERwin
11 15 (0.58%) ER Studio
11 15 (0.58%) Fiddler
11 15 (0.58%) Mockito
11 15 (0.58%) REST Assured
11 15 (0.58%) SonarQube
11 15 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
12 14 (0.54%) Gradle
12 14 (0.54%) Maven
13 12 (0.46%) Postman
14 11 (0.42%) Zephyr
General
1 1,669 (64.12%) Finance
2 694 (26.66%) Social Skills
3 519 (19.94%) Investment Banking
4 375 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
5 229 (8.80%) Front Office
6 133 (5.11%) Financial Institution
7 113 (4.34%) Retail Banking
8 112 (4.30%) Retail
9 90 (3.46%) Corporate Banking
10 81 (3.11%) Legal
11 63 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
12 59 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
13 57 (2.19%) Private Banking
14 49 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
15 41 (1.58%) Public Sector
16 35 (1.34%) Back Office
17 31 (1.19%) Marketing
18 26 (1.00%) General Ledger
18 26 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
19 22 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 439 (16.87%) Developer
2 386 (14.83%) Analyst
3 338 (12.99%) Senior
4 296 (11.37%) Architect
5 241 (9.26%) Business Analyst
5 241 (9.26%) Lead
6 145 (5.57%) Java Developer
7 118 (4.53%) Project Manager
8 106 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
9 101 (3.88%) Data Engineer
9 101 (3.88%) Senior Developer
10 91 (3.50%) Consultant
11 85 (3.27%) Banking Analyst
12 64 (2.46%) Software Engineer
13 62 (2.38%) Data Analyst
14 57 (2.19%) Network Engineer
15 56 (2.15%) Designer
15 56 (2.15%) Senior Java Developer
16 50 (1.92%) C# Developer
17 49 (1.88%) Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (5.34%) React
2 120 (4.61%) .NET
3 117 (4.49%) Kafka
4 99 (3.80%) REST
5 91 (3.50%) Middleware
6 87 (3.34%) Spring
7 75 (2.88%) Spring Boot
8 55 (2.11%) Redux
9 51 (1.96%) RESTful
10 43 (1.65%) HTML
11 41 (1.58%) CSS
12 40 (1.54%) PySpark
13 38 (1.46%) FIX Protocol
14 35 (1.34%) JSON
14 35 (1.34%) OAuth
15 34 (1.31%) AngularJS
16 27 (1.04%) LangChain
17 26 (1.00%) Node.js
17 26 (1.00%) XML
18 25 (0.96%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 201 (7.72%) Product Ownership
2 160 (6.15%) Onboarding
3 148 (5.69%) Cloud Native
4 131 (5.03%) Derivative
5 125 (4.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 97 (3.73%) Fixed Income
7 83 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
8 80 (3.07%) Equities
9 76 (2.92%) Management Information System
10 74 (2.84%) Data Structures
11 71 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
12 60 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
13 58 (2.23%) AI Agents
14 53 (2.04%) Mainframe
15 51 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
16 49 (1.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 48 (1.84%) Credit Risk
18 45 (1.73%) Data Centre
19 44 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
20 41 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 155 (5.95%) Windows
2 136 (5.22%) Linux
3 86 (3.30%) Unix
4 35 (1.34%) Windows Server
5 28 (1.08%) zOS
6 27 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 24 (0.92%) Apple iOS
8 21 (0.81%) Android
9 15 (0.58%) Ubuntu
10 13 (0.50%) Windows 10
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 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 608 (23.36%) Agile
2 556 (21.36%) Stakeholder Management
3 388 (14.91%) CI/CD
4 382 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
5 367 (14.10%) AI
6 334 (12.83%) DevOps
7 312 (11.99%) Migration
8 270 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 259 (9.95%) Analytics
10 231 (8.87%) Data Modelling
11 223 (8.57%) Roadmaps
12 197 (7.57%) Microservices
13 192 (7.38%) Decision-Making
14 187 (7.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 184 (7.07%) Software Engineering
16 180 (6.92%) Validation
17 168 (6.45%) Generative AI
18 167 (6.42%) User Acceptance Testing
19 166 (6.38%) Risk Management
20 164 (6.30%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 429 (16.48%) SQL
2 365 (14.02%) Python
3 330 (12.68%) Java
4 180 (6.92%) C#
5 129 (4.96%) JavaScript
6 106 (4.07%) TypeScript
7 78 (3.00%) PowerShell
8 65 (2.50%) PL/SQL
9 47 (1.81%) Bash
9 47 (1.81%) Shell Script
10 44 (1.69%) Kotlin
11 39 (1.50%) T-SQL
12 31 (1.19%) C++
13 23 (0.88%) VBA
14 21 (0.81%) Korn
15 18 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 12 (0.46%) Go
16 12 (0.46%) JCL
16 12 (0.46%) Scala
17 11 (0.42%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 172 (6.61%) Degree
2 122 (4.69%) Security Cleared
3 89 (3.42%) SC Cleared
4 53 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (1.81%) PMP
6 41 (1.58%) PMI Certification
7 34 (1.31%) CISSP
8 27 (1.04%) Azure Certification
8 27 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
9 24 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (0.85%) Master's Degree
11 21 (0.81%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.65%) CISM
13 13 (0.50%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 10 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
16 9 (0.35%) ACCA
16 9 (0.35%) CCNA
16 9 (0.35%) CCSP
17 8 (0.31%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (5.65%) Data Quality
2 129 (4.96%) QA
3 59 (2.27%) PMO
4 44 (1.69%) ISO 20022
5 40 (1.54%) GDPR
6 36 (1.38%) NIST
7 35 (1.34%) GRC
8 31 (1.19%) SEPA
9 30 (1.15%) SLA
10 27 (1.04%) Accessibility
10 27 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 26 (1.00%) PSD2
12 21 (0.81%) MiFID
13 16 (0.61%) PCI DSS
14 15 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.38%) COREP
15 10 (0.38%) EMIR
15 10 (0.38%) IFRS
16 8 (0.31%) FINREP
17 7 (0.27%) Basel III
System Software
1 114 (4.38%) Docker
2 66 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.73%) RACF
5 16 (0.61%) NFS
6 15 (0.58%) Firmware
6 15 (0.58%) vSphere
7 13 (0.50%) 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%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.15%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.12%) SRDF
11 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.12%) XenApp
12 2 (0.077%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.077%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 164 (6.30%) Kubernetes
2 91 (3.50%) Terraform
3 82 (3.15%) Ansible
4 31 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 27 (1.04%) Grafana
6 20 (0.77%) SCCM
7 19 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (0.58%) Control-M
9 15 (0.58%) OMEGAMON
10 13 (0.50%) Argo
11 11 (0.42%) Istio
12 9 (0.35%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
14 6 (0.23%) Puppet
14 6 (0.23%) SnapMirror
14 6 (0.23%) WSUS
15 5 (0.19%) HAProxy
15 5 (0.19%) NetBackup
15 5 (0.19%) systemd
Vendors
1 294 (11.29%) Microsoft
2 195 (7.49%) Oracle
3 95 (3.65%) ServiceNow
4 82 (3.15%) IBM
5 76 (2.92%) Databricks
6 61 (2.34%) Cisco
7 57 (2.19%) Google
8 51 (1.96%) SAP
9 47 (1.81%) Salesforce
10 46 (1.77%) VMware
11 44 (1.69%) Splunk
12 43 (1.65%) Citrix
12 43 (1.65%) F5
13 33 (1.27%) CyberArk
14 32 (1.23%) Murex
15 31 (1.19%) OpenAI
16 26 (1.00%) NetApp
17 25 (0.96%) Avaloq
17 25 (0.96%) Red Hat
18 24 (0.92%) Fortinet