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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,643 2,234 2,430
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.79% 8.10% 7.28%
As % of the General category 10.45% 12.63% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,605 1,553 1,753
10th Percentile £400 £351 £400
25th Percentile £458 £415 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £676 £738 £800
90th Percentile £808 £825 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £613
% change year-on-year - -10.20% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 28 16
10th Percentile £16.63 £18.10 £14.13
25th Percentile £17.00 £19.77 £14.50
Median hourly rate £18.60 £25.15 £18.89
Median % change year-on-year -26.06% +33.17% +2.08%
75th Percentile £33.70 - £41.31
90th Percentile £96.88 £57.75 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £17.25 £24.66 £18.27
% change year-on-year -30.05% +34.98% -2.38%

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 25,285 17,686 19,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.41% 64.10% 57.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,101 11,292 12,347
10th Percentile £313 £280 £300
25th Percentile £419 £402 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
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 1,968 943 1,249
10th Percentile £14.10 £13.25 £14.14
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +36.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £74.75 £70.28
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +27.24% -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 7 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 7 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 7 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 1,904 £589 -5.76% 1,016
North of England -6 517 £500 +11.86% 123
North West -3 265 £500 +16.28% 80
Yorkshire -7 242 £502 +8.83% 42
Midlands -22 157 £525 +26.51% 41
West Midlands +13 119 £550 +2.33% 25
East Midlands -33 38 £519 +32.95% 16
South West -39 37 £575 +9.52% 27
East of England +5 30 £580 -22.67% 16
South East -66 30 £545 +21.11% 89
North East -34 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
1 156 (5.90%) Confluence
2 58 (2.19%) SharePoint
3 26 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 25 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (0.95%) SAS
5 23 (0.87%) Apache
6 17 (0.64%) IIS
7 11 (0.42%) CICS
8 10 (0.38%) Appian
8 10 (0.38%) Camunda
9 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.23%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.15%) WordPress
12 3 (0.11%) Ethereum
12 3 (0.11%) Hyperledger
12 3 (0.11%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.076%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.076%) CMS
13 2 (0.076%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 92 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (1.25%) MS Visio
5 22 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Sketch
8 3 (0.11%) Trello
9 2 (0.076%) EngageOne
9 2 (0.076%) InVision
9 2 (0.076%) Notion
10 1 (0.038%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.038%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 21 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
1 21 (0.79%) Temenos T24
2 20 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
3 18 (0.68%) Finacle
4 16 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
5 14 (0.53%) Aladdin
5 14 (0.53%) Loan IQ
6 13 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
7 11 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
8 9 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 8 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
10 7 (0.26%) Actimize
10 7 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
10 7 (0.26%) OpenText MBPM
10 7 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
11 5 (0.19%) SAP CO
11 5 (0.19%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
11 5 (0.19%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 399 (15.10%) Azure
2 343 (12.98%) AWS
3 168 (6.36%) GCP
4 134 (5.07%) Power Platform
5 84 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
6 80 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
6 80 (3.03%) GitHub
7 73 (2.76%) Snowflake
8 69 (2.61%) SaaS
9 49 (1.85%) Entra ID
10 41 (1.55%) OpenShift
11 40 (1.51%) Amazon S3
12 36 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
13 34 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
14 33 (1.25%) Serverless
15 30 (1.14%) Figma
16 28 (1.06%) Power Automate
17 26 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
18 25 (0.95%) PaaS
19 24 (0.91%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 77 (2.91%) Firewall
2 69 (2.61%) DNS
3 66 (2.50%) VPN
4 58 (2.19%) Network Security
5 43 (1.63%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.25%) SSL
7 31 (1.17%) BGP
7 31 (1.17%) Multicast
8 25 (0.95%) HTTP
9 23 (0.87%) SAN
10 22 (0.83%) DMZ
11 21 (0.79%) BIG-IP
12 19 (0.72%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 19 (0.72%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 18 (0.68%) DHCP
13 18 (0.68%) FIX Connectivity
13 18 (0.68%) Wireshark
14 16 (0.61%) LAN
15 15 (0.57%) WAN
16 11 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (4.84%) SQL Server
2 110 (4.16%) Power BI
3 85 (3.22%) Data Warehouse
4 67 (2.53%) Metadata
5 63 (2.38%) Relational Database
6 47 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
7 46 (1.74%) Oracle Database
8 37 (1.40%) Data Lake
9 35 (1.32%) MongoDB
10 34 (1.29%) Tableau
11 28 (1.06%) Big Data
12 22 (0.83%) Db2
13 20 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
13 20 (0.76%) RDBMS
13 20 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 17 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
14 17 (0.64%) Data Vault
14 17 (0.64%) NoSQL
15 16 (0.61%) BigQuery
16 15 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 267 (10.10%) JIRA
2 115 (4.35%) Git
3 102 (3.86%) Jenkins
4 65 (2.46%) GitLab
5 36 (1.36%) JUnit
6 27 (1.02%) Selenium
7 22 (0.83%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.68%) Bitbucket
9 17 (0.64%) TeamCity
10 16 (0.61%) ERwin
10 16 (0.61%) Fiddler
10 16 (0.61%) SonarQube
11 15 (0.57%) ER Studio
11 15 (0.57%) Gradle
11 15 (0.57%) Maven
11 15 (0.57%) Mockito
11 15 (0.57%) REST Assured
11 15 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
12 12 (0.45%) Postman
13 11 (0.42%) Zephyr
General
1 1,700 (64.32%) Finance
2 714 (27.01%) Social Skills
3 531 (20.09%) Investment Banking
4 384 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
5 234 (8.85%) Front Office
6 140 (5.30%) Financial Institution
7 116 (4.39%) Retail Banking
8 115 (4.35%) Retail
9 91 (3.44%) Corporate Banking
10 83 (3.14%) Legal
11 63 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
12 59 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
12 59 (2.23%) Private Banking
13 51 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
14 40 (1.51%) Back Office
15 38 (1.44%) Public Sector
16 31 (1.17%) Marketing
17 27 (1.02%) General Ledger
18 26 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
19 22 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 442 (16.72%) Developer
2 397 (15.02%) Analyst
3 345 (13.05%) Senior
4 296 (11.20%) Architect
5 246 (9.31%) Business Analyst
6 245 (9.27%) Lead
7 146 (5.52%) Java Developer
8 124 (4.69%) Project Manager
9 103 (3.90%) Senior Developer
9 103 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
10 102 (3.86%) Data Engineer
11 91 (3.44%) Consultant
12 85 (3.22%) Banking Analyst
13 67 (2.53%) Software Engineer
14 63 (2.38%) Data Analyst
15 59 (2.23%) Designer
15 59 (2.23%) Network Engineer
16 56 (2.12%) Senior Java Developer
17 50 (1.89%) C# Developer
18 49 (1.85%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (5.18%) React
2 125 (4.73%) .NET
3 119 (4.50%) Kafka
4 103 (3.90%) REST
5 90 (3.41%) Middleware
6 86 (3.25%) Spring
7 74 (2.80%) Spring Boot
8 54 (2.04%) Redux
9 50 (1.89%) RESTful
10 40 (1.51%) FIX Protocol
10 40 (1.51%) HTML
11 39 (1.48%) CSS
12 38 (1.44%) PySpark
13 35 (1.32%) JSON
13 35 (1.32%) OAuth
14 34 (1.29%) AngularJS
15 30 (1.14%) XML
16 27 (1.02%) LangChain
17 25 (0.95%) Node.js
17 25 (0.95%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 206 (7.79%) Product Ownership
2 165 (6.24%) Onboarding
3 149 (5.64%) Cloud Native
4 138 (5.22%) Derivative
5 126 (4.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 97 (3.67%) Fixed Income
7 84 (3.18%) Equities
8 82 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
9 77 (2.91%) Management Information System
10 73 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
10 73 (2.76%) Data Structures
11 58 (2.19%) AI Agents
11 58 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
12 53 (2.01%) Mainframe
13 51 (1.93%) Credit Risk
13 51 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
13 51 (1.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 47 (1.78%) Data Centre
15 46 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
16 41 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 155 (5.86%) Windows
2 137 (5.18%) Linux
3 88 (3.33%) Unix
4 36 (1.36%) Windows Server
5 28 (1.06%) zOS
6 27 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 24 (0.91%) Apple iOS
8 21 (0.79%) Android
9 15 (0.57%) Ubuntu
10 13 (0.49%) Windows 10
11 12 (0.45%) AIX
12 9 (0.34%) Solaris
13 8 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.23%) HPUX
14 6 (0.23%) SUSE
15 5 (0.19%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
16 4 (0.15%) VMS
17 3 (0.11%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 613 (23.19%) Agile
2 575 (21.76%) Stakeholder Management
3 392 (14.83%) CI/CD
4 389 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
5 371 (14.04%) AI
6 341 (12.90%) DevOps
7 312 (11.80%) Migration
8 274 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 256 (9.69%) Analytics
10 232 (8.78%) Data Modelling
11 226 (8.55%) Roadmaps
12 198 (7.49%) Microservices
13 196 (7.42%) Decision-Making
14 189 (7.15%) Software Engineering
15 186 (7.04%) Validation
16 185 (7.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 173 (6.55%) User Acceptance Testing
18 169 (6.39%) Generative AI
19 167 (6.32%) Change Management
20 166 (6.28%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 439 (16.61%) SQL
2 373 (14.11%) Python
3 337 (12.75%) Java
4 182 (6.89%) C#
5 130 (4.92%) JavaScript
6 105 (3.97%) TypeScript
7 80 (3.03%) PowerShell
8 66 (2.50%) PL/SQL
9 48 (1.82%) Bash
9 48 (1.82%) Shell Script
10 44 (1.66%) Kotlin
11 39 (1.48%) T-SQL
12 32 (1.21%) C++
13 23 (0.87%) Korn
13 23 (0.87%) VBA
14 16 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 12 (0.45%) Go
15 12 (0.45%) JCL
15 12 (0.45%) Scala
16 11 (0.42%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 170 (6.43%) Degree
2 125 (4.73%) Security Cleared
3 95 (3.59%) SC Cleared
4 52 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (1.93%) PMP
6 43 (1.63%) PMI Certification
7 34 (1.29%) CISSP
8 27 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
9 26 (0.98%) Azure Certification
10 22 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (0.79%) AWS Certification
12 20 (0.76%) Master's Degree
13 17 (0.64%) CISM
14 14 (0.53%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 11 (0.42%) ACCA
17 10 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
18 9 (0.34%) CCNA
18 9 (0.34%) CCSP
19 8 (0.30%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 128 (4.84%) QA
3 59 (2.23%) PMO
4 48 (1.82%) ISO 20022
5 40 (1.51%) GDPR
6 35 (1.32%) GRC
6 35 (1.32%) NIST
7 32 (1.21%) SEPA
8 29 (1.10%) SLA
9 27 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 26 (0.98%) PSD2
11 25 (0.95%) Accessibility
12 22 (0.83%) MiFID
13 16 (0.61%) PCI DSS
14 15 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 12 (0.45%) IFRS
16 11 (0.42%) EMIR
17 10 (0.38%) COREP
18 8 (0.30%) FINREP
19 6 (0.23%) Solvency II
System Software
1 115 (4.35%) Docker
2 68 (2.57%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.72%) RACF
5 16 (0.61%) Firmware
6 14 (0.53%) NFS
6 14 (0.53%) vSphere
7 11 (0.42%) 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 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.11%) SRDF
11 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.11%) XenApp
12 2 (0.076%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.076%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 164 (6.21%) Kubernetes
2 91 (3.44%) Terraform
3 80 (3.03%) Ansible
4 31 (1.17%) Prometheus
5 27 (1.02%) Grafana
6 19 (0.72%) SCCM
7 18 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (0.57%) Control-M
9 15 (0.57%) OMEGAMON
10 13 (0.49%) Argo
11 11 (0.42%) Istio
12 9 (0.34%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
13 7 (0.26%) Puppet
14 6 (0.23%) WSUS
15 5 (0.19%) HAProxy
15 5 (0.19%) NetBackup
15 5 (0.19%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.19%) systemd
Vendors
1 296 (11.20%) Microsoft
2 200 (7.57%) Oracle
3 96 (3.63%) ServiceNow
4 86 (3.25%) IBM
5 77 (2.91%) Databricks
6 63 (2.38%) Cisco
7 56 (2.12%) Google
8 51 (1.93%) SAP
9 48 (1.82%) Salesforce
10 45 (1.70%) F5
10 45 (1.70%) Splunk
10 45 (1.70%) VMware
11 43 (1.63%) Citrix
12 34 (1.29%) Murex
13 33 (1.25%) CyberArk
14 31 (1.17%) OpenAI
15 25 (0.95%) NetApp
16 24 (0.91%) Avaloq
16 24 (0.91%) Fortinet
16 24 (0.91%) Pega