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 19 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 23 24
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,768 2,204 2,471
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.95% 7.92% 7.50%
As % of the General category 10.63% 12.30% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,712 1,501 1,711
10th Percentile £400 £350 £400
25th Percentile £453 £420 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £688 £723 £788
90th Percentile £813 £825 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £609
% change year-on-year - -9.69% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 33 13
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.18 £13.90
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.66 £14.50
Median hourly rate £17.50 £25.15 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.42% +57.19% -13.51%
75th Percentile £20.72 - £27.00
90th Percentile £24.50 £77.00 £61.55
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £25.15 £16.00
% change year-on-year -30.42% +57.19% -13.51%

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 26,050 17,915 19,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.96% 64.41% 58.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,340 11,348 11,698
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
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 2,257 1,020 975
10th Percentile £13.63 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.17 £17.44
Median hourly rate £31.16 £25.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.88% -34.68% +29.41%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £71.28 £71.40
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £35.36
% change year-on-year +19.13% -28.87% +28.58%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -8 2,017 £600 -4.00% 2,564
North of England -11 508 £500 +14.29% 245
North West -5 252 £500 +17.65% 146
Yorkshire -9 248 £509 +13.06% 81
Midlands -28 143 £500 +11.86% 115
West Midlands -2 105 £550 +1.15% 61
South West -31 43 £505 -3.81% 112
East of England +12 40 £558 -20.36% 28
South East -44 40 £505 +22.13% 209
East Midlands -34 38 £468 +16.29% 54
North East -45 12 £875 +108.33% 18
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
1 154 (5.56%) Confluence
2 65 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 27 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 25 (0.90%) Apache
5 20 (0.72%) SAS
6 16 (0.58%) Camunda
7 14 (0.51%) IIS
8 12 (0.43%) CICS
9 9 (0.33%) Appian
9 9 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.22%) Jupyter
11 6 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.18%) MTS
13 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.14%) WordPress
14 3 (0.11%) Hyperledger
14 3 (0.11%) MQSeries
Applications
1 103 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.08%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Trello
9 2 (0.072%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.072%) EngageOne
9 2 (0.072%) Notion
9 2 (0.072%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.072%) Sketch
10 1 (0.036%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.036%) InVision
10 1 (0.036%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 19 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
2 18 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
3 17 (0.61%) Finacle
4 14 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
4 14 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.51%) Temenos T24
5 13 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
6 10 (0.36%) Aladdin
6 10 (0.36%) FLEXCUBE
7 8 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
7 8 (0.29%) Loan IQ
7 8 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
8 7 (0.25%) OpenText MBPM
8 7 (0.25%) Oracle BPM
8 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
9 5 (0.18%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
9 5 (0.18%) Oracle FAH
9 5 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 428 (15.46%) Azure
2 360 (13.01%) AWS
3 193 (6.97%) GCP
4 146 (5.27%) Power Platform
5 89 (3.22%) GitHub
6 82 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
7 81 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
8 71 (2.57%) SaaS
8 71 (2.57%) Snowflake
9 54 (1.95%) Entra ID
10 44 (1.59%) OpenShift
11 41 (1.48%) Amazon S3
12 38 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
13 36 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
13 36 (1.30%) Serverless
14 29 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
15 26 (0.94%) dbt
15 26 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
16 24 (0.87%) Power Automate
17 23 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 89 (3.22%) Firewall
2 69 (2.49%) VPN
3 62 (2.24%) Network Security
4 58 (2.10%) DNS
5 40 (1.45%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.12%) Multicast
7 29 (1.05%) BGP
7 29 (1.05%) SSL
8 24 (0.87%) WAN
9 21 (0.76%) BIG-IP
9 21 (0.76%) HTTP
10 19 (0.69%) DMZ
11 18 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 18 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 17 (0.61%) LAN
13 16 (0.58%) Wireshark
14 15 (0.54%) DHCP
15 14 (0.51%) SAN
16 13 (0.47%) FIX Connectivity
17 11 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (4.62%) SQL Server
2 118 (4.26%) Power BI
3 95 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
4 76 (2.75%) Metadata
5 72 (2.60%) Relational Database
6 52 (1.88%) Oracle Database
7 49 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
8 39 (1.41%) Data Lake
9 32 (1.16%) MongoDB
10 26 (0.94%) Tableau
11 24 (0.87%) Db2
12 22 (0.79%) Big Data
12 22 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 21 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
13 21 (0.76%) BigQuery
13 21 (0.76%) NoSQL
14 18 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
14 18 (0.65%) RDBMS
15 16 (0.58%) Data Vault
16 15 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 279 (10.08%) JIRA
2 148 (5.35%) Git
3 112 (4.05%) Jenkins
4 65 (2.35%) GitLab
5 47 (1.70%) Selenium
6 38 (1.37%) JUnit
7 23 (0.83%) SonarQube
8 22 (0.79%) Cucumber
8 22 (0.79%) Gradle
8 22 (0.79%) Maven
9 21 (0.76%) REST Assured
10 20 (0.72%) Bitbucket
11 17 (0.61%) Mockito
11 17 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
12 15 (0.54%) Cypress.io
12 15 (0.54%) ER Studio
12 15 (0.54%) ERwin
12 15 (0.54%) Postman
12 15 (0.54%) TeamCity
13 13 (0.47%) Fiddler
General
1 1,822 (65.82%) Finance
2 804 (29.05%) Social Skills
3 536 (19.36%) Investment Banking
4 415 (14.99%) Analytical Skills
5 248 (8.96%) Front Office
6 137 (4.95%) Financial Institution
7 116 (4.19%) Retail Banking
8 113 (4.08%) Retail
9 89 (3.22%) Corporate Banking
10 83 (3.00%) Legal
11 76 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
12 64 (2.31%) Private Banking
13 58 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
14 52 (1.88%) Back Office
15 50 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
16 35 (1.26%) Public Sector
17 32 (1.16%) General Ledger
18 30 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
19 29 (1.05%) Marketing
20 28 (1.01%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 470 (16.98%) Developer
2 406 (14.67%) Analyst
3 396 (14.31%) Senior
4 283 (10.22%) Architect
5 270 (9.75%) Lead
6 246 (8.89%) Business Analyst
7 152 (5.49%) Java Developer
8 132 (4.77%) Project Manager
9 107 (3.87%) Data Engineer
10 103 (3.72%) Senior Developer
11 96 (3.47%) Consultant
12 92 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
13 75 (2.71%) Banking Analyst
14 70 (2.53%) Software Engineer
15 65 (2.35%) Network Engineer
16 62 (2.24%) Data Analyst
17 52 (1.88%) Java Engineer
17 52 (1.88%) Python Developer
17 52 (1.88%) Senior Java Developer
18 50 (1.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (5.31%) React
2 142 (5.13%) Kafka
3 125 (4.52%) REST
4 114 (4.12%) .NET
5 107 (3.87%) Terraform
6 103 (3.72%) Spring
7 99 (3.58%) Spring Boot
8 86 (3.11%) Middleware
9 63 (2.28%) Redux
10 53 (1.91%) HTML
11 47 (1.70%) CSS
11 47 (1.70%) RESTful
12 39 (1.41%) FIX Protocol
13 38 (1.37%) PySpark
14 36 (1.30%) JSON
15 35 (1.26%) OAuth
16 31 (1.12%) LangChain
17 30 (1.08%) AngularJS
17 30 (1.08%) XML
18 29 (1.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 232 (8.38%) Product Ownership
2 192 (6.94%) Onboarding
3 175 (6.32%) Cloud Native
4 134 (4.84%) Derivative
5 127 (4.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 97 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
7 96 (3.47%) Fixed Income
8 85 (3.07%) Data Protection Act
9 80 (2.89%) Equities
10 78 (2.82%) Management Information System
11 77 (2.78%) AI Agents
12 73 (2.64%) Data Structures
13 65 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
14 63 (2.28%) Credit Risk
15 59 (2.13%) Data Centre
15 59 (2.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 56 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
17 54 (1.95%) Mainframe
18 53 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
19 50 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 155 (5.60%) Linux
2 151 (5.46%) Windows
3 96 (3.47%) Unix
4 42 (1.52%) Windows Server
5 29 (1.05%) zOS
6 26 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 25 (0.90%) Android
8 21 (0.76%) Apple iOS
9 16 (0.58%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.40%) AIX
11 9 (0.33%) Windows 10
12 8 (0.29%) Solaris
13 7 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.22%) HPUX
14 6 (0.22%) SUSE
15 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.11%) CentOS
16 3 (0.11%) MVS
16 3 (0.11%) Windows 7
16 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 706 (25.51%) Stakeholder Management
2 673 (24.31%) Agile
3 456 (16.47%) CI/CD
4 421 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
5 412 (14.88%) AI
6 354 (12.79%) DevOps
7 349 (12.61%) Migration
8 310 (11.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 266 (9.61%) Analytics
10 245 (8.85%) Roadmaps
11 238 (8.60%) Data Modelling
12 235 (8.49%) Validation
13 227 (8.20%) Microservices
14 215 (7.77%) Software Engineering
15 208 (7.51%) Decision-Making
16 207 (7.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 197 (7.12%) Change Management
18 195 (7.04%) User Acceptance Testing
19 194 (7.01%) Risk Management
20 190 (6.86%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 523 (18.89%) SQL
2 423 (15.28%) Python
3 377 (13.62%) Java
4 177 (6.39%) C#
5 143 (5.17%) JavaScript
6 117 (4.23%) TypeScript
7 92 (3.32%) PowerShell
8 74 (2.67%) PL/SQL
9 60 (2.17%) Bash
10 49 (1.77%) Shell Script
11 45 (1.63%) Kotlin
12 39 (1.41%) T-SQL
13 35 (1.26%) C++
14 26 (0.94%) Korn
15 22 (0.79%) VBA
16 18 (0.65%) Go
17 14 (0.51%) JCL
18 12 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 11 (0.40%) COBOL
20 10 (0.36%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 194 (7.01%) Degree
2 129 (4.66%) Security Cleared
3 104 (3.76%) SC Cleared
4 69 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (2.10%) PMP
6 53 (1.91%) PMI Certification
7 40 (1.45%) CISSP
8 30 (1.08%) AWS Certification
9 28 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
10 27 (0.98%) Azure Certification
11 22 (0.79%) ACCA
11 22 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (0.79%) Master's Degree
12 20 (0.72%) ISTQB
13 19 (0.69%) CIMA
14 18 (0.65%) CISM
15 15 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 12 (0.43%) CCNP
16 12 (0.43%) CCSP
17 11 (0.40%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (6.54%) Data Quality
2 155 (5.60%) QA
3 58 (2.10%) PMO
4 55 (1.99%) ISO 20022
5 44 (1.59%) GRC
6 40 (1.45%) SEPA
7 35 (1.26%) NIST
8 30 (1.08%) GDPR
9 27 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 27 (0.98%) SLA
10 22 (0.79%) Accessibility
10 22 (0.79%) MiFID
11 21 (0.76%) PSD2
12 19 (0.69%) IFRS
13 13 (0.47%) EMIR
13 13 (0.47%) PCI DSS
14 11 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.36%) Basel III
16 8 (0.29%) COREP
16 8 (0.29%) FINREP
System Software
1 120 (4.34%) Docker
2 67 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.79%) RACF
5 13 (0.47%) Firmware
6 9 (0.33%) NFS
7 8 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.29%) vSphere
8 5 (0.18%) ACF2
8 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.14%) Postfix
9 4 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
9 4 (0.14%) Varnish
10 3 (0.11%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.072%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.072%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.072%) XenApp
11 2 (0.072%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 175 (6.32%) Kubernetes
2 84 (3.03%) Ansible
3 27 (0.98%) Grafana
4 26 (0.94%) Prometheus
5 22 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.69%) Control-M
7 16 (0.58%) SCCM
8 15 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
8 15 (0.54%) OMEGAMON
9 11 (0.40%) Argo
10 10 (0.36%) FortiGate
10 10 (0.36%) Istio
11 8 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
12 7 (0.25%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.22%) HP ALM
13 6 (0.22%) WSUS
14 5 (0.18%) systemd
14 5 (0.18%) Tivoli
15 4 (0.14%) HAProxy
15 4 (0.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 296 (10.69%) Microsoft
2 217 (7.84%) Oracle
3 111 (4.01%) IBM
4 104 (3.76%) Databricks
5 90 (3.25%) ServiceNow
6 66 (2.38%) Cisco
7 58 (2.10%) Google
8 54 (1.95%) Salesforce
9 53 (1.91%) Splunk
10 47 (1.70%) SAP
11 44 (1.59%) F5
12 40 (1.45%) Citrix
13 37 (1.34%) CyberArk
13 37 (1.34%) OpenAI
14 35 (1.26%) VMware
15 30 (1.08%) Bloomberg
15 30 (1.08%) Murex
16 24 (0.87%) Avaloq
17 23 (0.83%) Dynatrace
18 22 (0.79%) Fortinet