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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 -7
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,144 1,891 2,411
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.20% 7.33% 6.39%
As % of the General category 10.47% 11.71% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,319 1,197 1,716
10th Percentile £363 £363 £380
25th Percentile £445 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £750
90th Percentile £788 £850 £838
UK median daily rate £527 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.17% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 12 21
10th Percentile £18.34 £15.22 £12.84
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.52 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +14.21% -15.22%
75th Percentile £41.87 £25.81 £30.00
90th Percentile £88.50 £73.80 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £24.17 £19.50
% change year-on-year +4.08% +23.92% -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 20,480 16,151 22,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 59.22% 62.56% 58.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,989 9,855 14,596
10th Percentile £300 £298 £265
25th Percentile £405 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,284 513 1,528
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.62 £13.05
25th Percentile £16.82 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £30.45 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.48% +17.12% -10.34%
75th Percentile £50.00 £60.00 £51.66
90th Percentile £72.35 £75.00 £67.29
UK median hourly rate £22.81 £29.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -21.34% +11.54% -3.70%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -9 1,457 £585 -7.14% 262
North of England +8 462 £473 +5.06% 60
Yorkshire +3 235 £500 -9.30% 14
North West +11 234 £447 +11.75% 39
Midlands +20 177 £492 -10.55% 18
West Midlands +17 120 £540 -7.49% 11
East Midlands +6 57 £430 -0.58% 7
South East -19 47 £438 -20.45% 120
South West -15 31 £525 -16.00% 12
East of England -22 12 £400 -33.33% 5
North East -10 5 £400 - 7
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 (7.37%) Confluence
2 55 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 21 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 14 (0.65%) Apache
5 13 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.47%) IIS
6 10 (0.47%) SAS
7 9 (0.42%) CMS
7 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.37%) CICS
9 7 (0.33%) MQSeries
10 6 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.23%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.23%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.14%) Camunda
12 3 (0.14%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.093%) Mule
13 2 (0.093%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.093%) WebLogic
Applications
1 146 (6.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (3.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 66 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
4 44 (2.05%) MS Visio
5 23 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
6 21 (0.98%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.23%) 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 (0.093%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.093%) Sketch
11 1 (0.047%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.047%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 29 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
2 26 (1.21%) Oracle Payables
3 20 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
4 18 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
5 17 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
6 16 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
7 14 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 11 (0.51%) Temenos T24
9 10 (0.47%) SAP FI
10 9 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
11 8 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 8 (0.37%) SAP CO
11 8 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
12 7 (0.33%) Fidessa
12 7 (0.33%) Finacle
12 7 (0.33%) Loan IQ
13 6 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
14 5 (0.23%) Actimize
14 5 (0.23%) BASE24
14 5 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 333 (15.53%) Azure
2 320 (14.93%) AWS
3 173 (8.07%) GCP
4 140 (6.53%) Power Platform
5 84 (3.92%) GitHub
5 84 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
6 62 (2.89%) Serverless
7 46 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (2.05%) SaaS
9 40 (1.87%) Figma
10 32 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
11 28 (1.31%) PowerApps
12 26 (1.21%) Entra ID
12 26 (1.21%) Power Automate
13 24 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
14 23 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
14 23 (1.07%) Microsoft Copilot
14 23 (1.07%) OCI
15 22 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
15 22 (1.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 60 (2.80%) DNS
2 46 (2.15%) Firewall
3 35 (1.63%) HTTP
4 33 (1.54%) Network Security
5 32 (1.49%) VPN
6 31 (1.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 31 (1.45%) TCP/IP
7 29 (1.35%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 25 (1.17%) DMZ
9 22 (1.03%) SSL
10 20 (0.93%) BIG-IP
10 20 (0.93%) Wireshark
11 19 (0.89%) BGP
11 19 (0.89%) Wireless
12 18 (0.84%) Multicast
13 16 (0.75%) NetScaler
14 15 (0.70%) DHCP
15 12 (0.56%) Internet
15 12 (0.56%) LAN
15 12 (0.56%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (5.36%) Power BI
2 91 (4.24%) SQL Server
3 73 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
4 72 (3.36%) Tableau
5 60 (2.80%) NoSQL
6 44 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
7 43 (2.01%) MongoDB
8 39 (1.82%) Oracle Database
9 38 (1.77%) Relational Database
10 34 (1.59%) Metadata
11 24 (1.12%) Big Data
11 24 (1.12%) BigQuery
12 18 (0.84%) DB2
13 17 (0.79%) Data Lake
14 16 (0.75%) Hadoop
14 16 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 13 (0.61%) MySQL
15 13 (0.61%) Power Query
16 11 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
17 10 (0.47%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 235 (10.96%) JIRA
2 129 (6.02%) Jenkins
3 90 (4.20%) Git
3 90 (4.20%) GitLab
4 30 (1.40%) JUnit
5 29 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 23 (1.07%) Selenium
7 22 (1.03%) Bitbucket
7 22 (1.03%) Liquibase
8 18 (0.84%) Fiddler
8 18 (0.84%) Postman
9 17 (0.79%) Cucumber
9 17 (0.79%) Maven
10 15 (0.70%) REST Assured
11 14 (0.65%) Gradle
12 12 (0.56%) TeamCity
13 11 (0.51%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.47%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.37%) MLflow
16 7 (0.33%) Android Studio
General
1 1,343 (62.64%) Finance
2 751 (35.03%) Social Skills
3 448 (20.90%) Investment Banking
4 288 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
5 179 (8.35%) Front Office
6 127 (5.92%) Financial Institution
7 78 (3.64%) Retail Banking
8 57 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
9 56 (2.61%) Legal
10 55 (2.57%) Retail
11 52 (2.43%) Corporate Banking
12 47 (2.19%) Public Sector
13 35 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
13 35 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
14 29 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
15 26 (1.21%) Back Office
16 25 (1.17%) Marketing
17 24 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 24 (1.12%) International Banking
18 23 (1.07%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 400 (18.66%) Developer
2 376 (17.54%) Analyst
3 290 (13.53%) Senior
4 266 (12.41%) Business Analyst
5 217 (10.12%) Architect
6 131 (6.11%) Project Manager
7 128 (5.97%) Lead
8 122 (5.69%) Solutions Architect
9 111 (5.18%) Java Developer
10 91 (4.24%) Senior Developer
11 75 (3.50%) Banking Analyst
11 75 (3.50%) Consultant
12 54 (2.52%) Banking Business Analyst
13 52 (2.43%) DevOps Engineer
14 50 (2.33%) Data Engineer
14 50 (2.33%) Senior Java Developer
15 46 (2.15%) Senior Analyst
16 45 (2.10%) Designer
16 45 (2.10%) Software Engineer
17 41 (1.91%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (5.41%) Kafka
2 113 (5.27%) REST
3 99 (4.62%) .NET
4 79 (3.68%) Spring
5 73 (3.40%) React
6 70 (3.26%) RESTful
7 65 (3.03%) Spring Boot
8 57 (2.66%) Middleware
9 54 (2.52%) HTML
10 47 (2.19%) AngularJS
11 45 (2.10%) Pandas
12 39 (1.82%) NumPy
12 39 (1.82%) XML
13 36 (1.68%) OAuth
14 33 (1.54%) CSS
15 31 (1.45%) Node.js
16 28 (1.31%) Elastic Stack
16 28 (1.31%) JMS
16 28 (1.31%) JSON
17 27 (1.26%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 130 (6.06%) Product Ownership
2 117 (5.46%) Derivative
3 101 (4.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 100 (4.66%) Onboarding
5 91 (4.24%) Cloud Native
6 89 (4.15%) Management Information System
7 76 (3.54%) Data Protection Act
8 70 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
9 69 (3.22%) Equities
10 61 (2.85%) Fixed Income
11 50 (2.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 49 (2.29%) Public Cloud
13 41 (1.91%) Credit Risk
14 40 (1.87%) Data Centre
14 40 (1.87%) Data Structures
15 39 (1.82%) Market Risk
16 38 (1.77%) Hedge funds
17 34 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
18 32 (1.49%) Mobile App
19 28 (1.31%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 126 (5.88%) Linux
1 126 (5.88%) Windows
2 47 (2.19%) Unix
3 36 (1.68%) Android
4 35 (1.63%) Windows 10
5 21 (0.98%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.89%) Windows Server
7 15 (0.70%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.56%) zOS
9 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.23%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.19%) AIX
11 4 (0.19%) VMS
12 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.093%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.093%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.047%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (25.84%) Agile
2 381 (17.77%) Problem-Solving
3 376 (17.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 308 (14.37%) DevOps
5 307 (14.32%) CI/CD
6 205 (9.56%) Analytics
7 201 (9.38%) Migration
8 185 (8.63%) Microservices
9 184 (8.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 176 (8.21%) AI
11 174 (8.12%) Risk Management
12 160 (7.46%) Project Management
13 157 (7.32%) Decision-Making
14 154 (7.18%) Data Analysis
15 146 (6.81%) Change Management
16 145 (6.76%) Data Modelling
17 144 (6.72%) Business Intelligence
18 139 (6.48%) Roadmaps
19 135 (6.30%) User Acceptance Testing
20 134 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 387 (18.05%) SQL
2 369 (17.21%) Python
3 310 (14.46%) Java
4 134 (6.25%) C#
5 85 (3.96%) JavaScript
6 62 (2.89%) PowerShell
7 59 (2.75%) TypeScript
8 57 (2.66%) Go
9 36 (1.68%) C++
10 35 (1.63%) PL/SQL
11 30 (1.40%) VBA
12 25 (1.17%) Bash
12 25 (1.17%) Shell Script
13 23 (1.07%) T-SQL
14 19 (0.89%) COBOL
15 15 (0.70%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.56%) Perl
16 12 (0.56%) Scala
17 11 (0.51%) Korn
17 11 (0.51%) RPG
Qualifications
1 253 (11.80%) Degree
2 85 (3.96%) Security Cleared
3 84 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 81 (3.78%) Master's Degree
5 56 (2.61%) PMI Certification
6 52 (2.43%) PMP
7 47 (2.19%) SC Cleared
8 40 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (1.31%) Azure Certification
10 25 (1.17%) AWS Certification
11 22 (1.03%) CISSP
12 17 (0.79%) MBA
13 15 (0.70%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.61%) CBAP
14 13 (0.61%) CISM
15 12 (0.56%) DV Cleared
15 12 (0.56%) PhD
16 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
17 10 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
18 8 (0.37%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (6.06%) QA
2 90 (4.20%) Data Quality
3 58 (2.71%) ISO 20022
4 49 (2.29%) GDPR
5 36 (1.68%) PSD2
6 35 (1.63%) Accessibility
6 35 (1.63%) PMO
7 32 (1.49%) SEPA
8 30 (1.40%) PCI DSS
9 26 (1.21%) GRC
9 26 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 26 (1.21%) SLA
10 24 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 24 (1.12%) MiFID
11 23 (1.07%) Basel III
12 22 (1.03%) NIST
13 16 (0.75%) EMIR
13 16 (0.75%) ISO 8583
14 10 (0.47%) IFRS
15 8 (0.37%) COBIT
System Software
1 167 (7.79%) Docker
2 45 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (1.45%) Active Directory
4 20 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (0.89%) Firmware
6 8 (0.37%) 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 (0.093%) ACF2
11 2 (0.093%) GridGain
11 2 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.047%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 1 (0.047%) PowerHA
12 1 (0.047%) SRDF
12 1 (0.047%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.047%) XenApp
12 1 (0.047%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 189 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 102 (4.76%) Terraform
3 79 (3.68%) Ansible
4 52 (2.43%) Grafana
5 42 (1.96%) Prometheus
6 19 (0.89%) SCCM
7 16 (0.75%) Argo
8 12 (0.56%) Control-M
8 12 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.33%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
9 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
9 7 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.23%) CA Endevor
10 5 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
10 5 (0.23%) RSA Archer
11 4 (0.19%) Istio
11 4 (0.19%) Karpenter
11 4 (0.19%) Puppet
12 3 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 236 (11.01%) Microsoft
2 151 (7.04%) Oracle
3 87 (4.06%) Google
4 58 (2.71%) Splunk
5 57 (2.66%) ServiceNow
6 53 (2.47%) VMware
7 48 (2.24%) Cisco
8 45 (2.10%) IBM
8 45 (2.10%) SAP
9 44 (2.05%) F5
10 42 (1.96%) Citrix
11 35 (1.63%) Remedy
12 25 (1.17%) Bloomberg
13 24 (1.12%) Databricks
13 24 (1.12%) Salesforce
14 23 (1.07%) Apple
14 23 (1.07%) CyberArk
14 23 (1.07%) HP
14 23 (1.07%) Murex
15 21 (0.98%) Dell