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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 23 24
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,717 2,187 2,446
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.95% 8.04% 7.51%
As % of the General category 10.74% 12.48% 12.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,663 1,495 1,732
10th Percentile £400 £350 £405
25th Percentile £456 £415 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% -
75th Percentile £680 £725 £788
90th Percentile £823 £825 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £610
% change year-on-year - -9.84% -2.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 34 14
10th Percentile £16.55 £18.22 £13.98
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.66 £14.50
Median hourly rate £17.50 £25.15 £17.14
Median % change year-on-year -30.42% +46.78% -4.70%
75th Percentile £41.00 - £27.00
90th Percentile £97.00 £76.13 £59.33
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 25,305 17,531 18,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.45% 64.41% 57.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,011 11,116 11,810
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £423 £400 £418
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 2,046 981 1,038
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.46 £14.55
25th Percentile £17.25 £16.17 £18.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -34.02% +38.62%
75th Percentile £57.00 £50.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £72.50 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +21.27% -32.93% +36.36%

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 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 4 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 4 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 -9 1,972 £600 -4.00% 2,416
North of England -6 511 £500 +14.94% 235
North West -3 264 £500 +17.65% 132
Yorkshire -7 238 £502 +11.56% 85
Midlands -25 143 £515 +16.93% 88
West Midlands +5 108 £538 +2.38% 41
East of England +17 38 £580 -17.14% 28
South West -46 38 £563 +7.14% 171
South East -58 38 £515 +16.06% 158
East Midlands -44 35 £478 +18.83% 47
North East -30 13 £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
1 166 (6.11%) Confluence
2 67 (2.47%) SharePoint
3 27 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 26 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
5 23 (0.85%) Apache
6 21 (0.77%) SAS
7 16 (0.59%) Camunda
8 15 (0.55%) IIS
9 10 (0.37%) Appian
9 10 (0.37%) CICS
10 8 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.18%) MTS
11 5 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.15%) WordPress
13 3 (0.11%) CMS
13 3 (0.11%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 106 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.10%) MS Visio
5 22 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Sketch
8 3 (0.11%) Trello
9 2 (0.074%) EngageOne
9 2 (0.074%) InVision
9 2 (0.074%) Notion
10 1 (0.037%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.037%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.037%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 20 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
2 19 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
2 19 (0.70%) Temenos T24
3 18 (0.66%) Finacle
4 15 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
5 14 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
6 13 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
6 13 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
7 10 (0.37%) Aladdin
7 10 (0.37%) FLEXCUBE
8 8 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
8 8 (0.29%) Loan IQ
8 8 (0.29%) Oracle BPM
8 8 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
9 7 (0.26%) OpenText MBPM
9 7 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
10 5 (0.18%) Actimize
10 5 (0.18%) NetSuite
10 5 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
10 5 (0.18%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 408 (15.02%) Azure
2 345 (12.70%) AWS
3 170 (6.26%) GCP
4 145 (5.34%) Power Platform
5 81 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
5 81 (2.98%) GitHub
6 80 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
7 72 (2.65%) SaaS
8 70 (2.58%) Snowflake
9 54 (1.99%) Entra ID
10 43 (1.58%) OpenShift
11 39 (1.44%) Amazon S3
12 36 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
13 35 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
14 34 (1.25%) Serverless
15 27 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
16 24 (0.88%) Figma
16 24 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
17 23 (0.85%) Power Automate
18 22 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 84 (3.09%) Firewall
2 67 (2.47%) VPN
3 59 (2.17%) DNS
4 57 (2.10%) Network Security
5 40 (1.47%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.14%) Multicast
7 29 (1.07%) SSL
8 28 (1.03%) BGP
9 22 (0.81%) HTTP
10 20 (0.74%) BIG-IP
10 20 (0.74%) DMZ
11 18 (0.66%) WAN
12 17 (0.63%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 17 (0.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 16 (0.59%) DHCP
13 16 (0.59%) Wireshark
14 15 (0.55%) LAN
14 15 (0.55%) SAN
15 14 (0.52%) FIX Connectivity
16 11 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (4.56%) SQL Server
2 120 (4.42%) Power BI
3 89 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
4 76 (2.80%) Metadata
5 70 (2.58%) Relational Database
6 47 (1.73%) Oracle Database
7 43 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (1.32%) Data Lake
9 29 (1.07%) Tableau
10 28 (1.03%) MongoDB
11 25 (0.92%) Db2
12 23 (0.85%) Big Data
13 21 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 20 (0.74%) RDBMS
15 19 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
16 17 (0.63%) BigQuery
16 17 (0.63%) NoSQL
17 16 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
17 16 (0.59%) Data Vault
18 14 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 281 (10.34%) JIRA
2 128 (4.71%) Git
3 107 (3.94%) Jenkins
4 64 (2.36%) GitLab
5 41 (1.51%) Selenium
6 37 (1.36%) JUnit
7 22 (0.81%) Gradle
7 22 (0.81%) Maven
7 22 (0.81%) SonarQube
8 21 (0.77%) REST Assured
9 20 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
10 19 (0.70%) Bitbucket
10 19 (0.70%) Mockito
11 18 (0.66%) Cucumber
12 17 (0.63%) Postman
13 16 (0.59%) ER Studio
13 16 (0.59%) ERwin
14 14 (0.52%) Fiddler
15 13 (0.48%) Cypress.io
15 13 (0.48%) TeamCity
General
1 1,773 (65.26%) Finance
2 769 (28.30%) Social Skills
3 536 (19.73%) Investment Banking
4 401 (14.76%) Analytical Skills
5 239 (8.80%) Front Office
6 132 (4.86%) Financial Institution
7 121 (4.45%) Retail
8 117 (4.31%) Retail Banking
9 90 (3.31%) Corporate Banking
10 84 (3.09%) Legal
11 69 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
12 62 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
13 61 (2.25%) Private Banking
14 48 (1.77%) Back Office
14 48 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
15 36 (1.32%) Public Sector
16 32 (1.18%) General Ledger
17 31 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
18 30 (1.10%) Marketing
19 26 (0.96%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 470 (17.30%) Developer
2 401 (14.76%) Analyst
3 373 (13.73%) Senior
4 281 (10.34%) Architect
5 266 (9.79%) Lead
6 244 (8.98%) Business Analyst
7 152 (5.59%) Java Developer
8 128 (4.71%) Project Manager
9 104 (3.83%) Senior Developer
10 99 (3.64%) Data Engineer
11 93 (3.42%) Consultant
12 90 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
13 81 (2.98%) Banking Analyst
14 69 (2.54%) Software Engineer
15 63 (2.32%) Data Analyst
16 60 (2.21%) Network Engineer
17 54 (1.99%) Senior Java Developer
18 53 (1.95%) Designer
19 51 (1.88%) Java Engineer
20 50 (1.84%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (5.15%) React
2 133 (4.90%) Kafka
3 118 (4.34%) .NET
4 111 (4.09%) REST
5 94 (3.46%) Spring
6 92 (3.39%) Spring Boot
6 92 (3.39%) Terraform
7 84 (3.09%) Middleware
8 61 (2.25%) Redux
9 46 (1.69%) HTML
10 44 (1.62%) RESTful
11 43 (1.58%) CSS
12 40 (1.47%) FIX Protocol
13 39 (1.44%) PySpark
14 33 (1.21%) JSON
14 33 (1.21%) OAuth
14 33 (1.21%) XML
15 28 (1.03%) AngularJS
16 27 (0.99%) LangChain
17 25 (0.92%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 220 (8.10%) Product Ownership
2 178 (6.55%) Onboarding
3 156 (5.74%) Cloud Native
4 134 (4.93%) Derivative
5 125 (4.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 100 (3.68%) Fixed Income
7 87 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
8 84 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
9 82 (3.02%) Equities
10 78 (2.87%) Management Information System
11 76 (2.80%) Data Structures
12 71 (2.61%) AI Agents
13 62 (2.28%) Credit Risk
14 59 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
15 57 (2.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 55 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
17 52 (1.91%) Data Centre
18 51 (1.88%) Mainframe
19 47 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
20 44 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 150 (5.52%) Linux
2 146 (5.37%) Windows
3 94 (3.46%) Unix
4 41 (1.51%) Windows Server
5 27 (0.99%) zOS
6 25 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 24 (0.88%) Apple iOS
8 22 (0.81%) Android
9 16 (0.59%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.37%) AIX
10 10 (0.37%) Windows 10
11 8 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
11 8 (0.29%) Solaris
12 6 (0.22%) HPUX
12 6 (0.22%) SUSE
13 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.11%) CentOS
14 3 (0.11%) MVS
14 3 (0.11%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 657 (24.18%) Agile
2 654 (24.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 412 (15.16%) CI/CD
4 405 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
5 387 (14.24%) AI
6 331 (12.18%) DevOps
7 319 (11.74%) Migration
8 301 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 260 (9.57%) Analytics
10 237 (8.72%) Roadmaps
11 230 (8.47%) Data Modelling
12 208 (7.66%) Validation
13 205 (7.55%) Microservices
13 205 (7.55%) Software Engineering
14 202 (7.43%) Decision-Making
14 202 (7.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 188 (6.92%) User Acceptance Testing
16 187 (6.88%) Change Management
17 178 (6.55%) Scrum
18 177 (6.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 491 (18.07%) SQL
2 388 (14.28%) Python
3 361 (13.29%) Java
4 176 (6.48%) C#
5 140 (5.15%) JavaScript
6 109 (4.01%) TypeScript
7 88 (3.24%) PowerShell
8 75 (2.76%) PL/SQL
9 54 (1.99%) Bash
10 50 (1.84%) Shell Script
11 45 (1.66%) Kotlin
12 40 (1.47%) T-SQL
13 35 (1.29%) C++
14 26 (0.96%) Korn
15 22 (0.81%) VBA
16 15 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 14 (0.52%) Go
18 12 (0.44%) JCL
19 10 (0.37%) Apex Code
20 9 (0.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 185 (6.81%) Degree
2 139 (5.12%) Security Cleared
3 112 (4.12%) SC Cleared
4 62 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (1.95%) PMP
6 48 (1.77%) PMI Certification
7 38 (1.40%) CISSP
8 30 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (0.99%) Azure Certification
10 23 (0.85%) AWS Certification
11 22 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
12 18 (0.66%) ISTQB
12 18 (0.66%) Master's Degree
13 17 (0.63%) ACCA
13 17 (0.63%) CISM
14 16 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 14 (0.52%) CIMA
16 13 (0.48%) CCSP
17 12 (0.44%) CCNP
18 10 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (6.22%) Data Quality
2 143 (5.26%) QA
3 62 (2.28%) PMO
4 50 (1.84%) ISO 20022
5 42 (1.55%) GRC
6 35 (1.29%) SEPA
7 34 (1.25%) NIST
8 32 (1.18%) GDPR
9 26 (0.96%) SLA
10 24 (0.88%) Accessibility
10 24 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 21 (0.77%) MiFID
11 21 (0.77%) PSD2
12 16 (0.59%) IFRS
13 13 (0.48%) EMIR
14 11 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.37%) PCI DSS
16 7 (0.26%) Basel III
16 7 (0.26%) COREP
16 7 (0.26%) FINREP
System Software
1 111 (4.09%) Docker
2 69 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.70%) RACF
5 14 (0.52%) Firmware
6 10 (0.37%) NFS
7 8 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.29%) vSphere
8 6 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.18%) ACF2
10 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 4 (0.15%) Varnish
11 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.11%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.11%) XenApp
11 3 (0.11%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.074%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.074%) GPFS
12 2 (0.074%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 163 (6.00%) Kubernetes
2 72 (2.65%) Ansible
3 28 (1.03%) Grafana
3 28 (1.03%) Prometheus
4 18 (0.66%) Control-M
4 18 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
5 16 (0.59%) SCCM
6 15 (0.55%) OMEGAMON
7 14 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.44%) Istio
9 11 (0.40%) Argo
10 9 (0.33%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
12 6 (0.22%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.22%) WSUS
13 5 (0.18%) HP ALM
13 5 (0.18%) systemd
14 4 (0.15%) CA Endevor
14 4 (0.15%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.15%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 305 (11.23%) Microsoft
2 215 (7.91%) Oracle
3 106 (3.90%) IBM
4 95 (3.50%) Databricks
5 90 (3.31%) ServiceNow
6 59 (2.17%) Cisco
7 54 (1.99%) Salesforce
8 51 (1.88%) Google
9 50 (1.84%) SAP
10 48 (1.77%) Splunk
11 43 (1.58%) F5
12 40 (1.47%) Citrix
13 35 (1.29%) CyberArk
13 35 (1.29%) OpenAI
14 34 (1.25%) VMware
15 28 (1.03%) Bloomberg
16 27 (0.99%) Murex
17 24 (0.88%) Avaloq
17 24 (0.88%) Dynatrace
18 23 (0.85%) Pega