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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 23 23
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 0
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,792 2,169 2,488
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.00% 7.79% 7.58%
As % of the General category 10.71% 12.14% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,732 1,475 1,716
10th Percentile £400 £350 £403
25th Percentile £458 £422 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £620
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -8.06% -0.80%
75th Percentile £677 £717 £784
90th Percentile £813 £825 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 34 13
10th Percentile £16.31 £18.22 £13.90
25th Percentile £16.96 - £14.50
Median hourly rate £17.25 £25.15 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.41% +57.19% -13.51%
75th Percentile £20.21 - £27.00
90th Percentile £24.23 £76.13 £61.55
UK median hourly rate £17.25 £25.15 £16.00
% change year-on-year -31.41% +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 26,071 17,868 19,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.02% 64.15% 58.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,297 11,335 11,586
10th Percentile £313 £278 £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 2,287 1,027 933
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.86 £16.17 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.50 £25.15 £38.85
Median % change year-on-year +21.27% -35.26% +41.27%
75th Percentile £57.00 £45.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.79 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £29.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +17.30% -28.14% +27.27%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 2,040 £590 -5.60% 2,524
North of England -10 498 £500 +12.36% 250
Yorkshire -7 251 £512 +11.30% 81
North West -8 239 £500 +16.28% 149
Midlands -33 143 £498 +11.86% 106
West Midlands +1 104 £525 -3.45% 51
South West -29 45 £500 -4.76% 132
East of England +6 42 £558 -20.36% 17
South East -54 42 £503 +18.24% 217
East Midlands -31 39 £465 +16.69% 55
North East -38 12 £875 +108.33% 20
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 (5.55%) Confluence
2 62 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.04%) Apache
4 28 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (0.97%) Apache Spark
6 19 (0.68%) SAS
7 17 (0.61%) Camunda
8 14 (0.50%) CICS
9 13 (0.47%) IIS
10 10 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.32%) Appian
12 8 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
13 6 (0.21%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 5 (0.18%) MTS
15 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
15 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
15 4 (0.14%) WordPress
16 3 (0.11%) Hyperledger
16 3 (0.11%) MQSeries
Applications
1 101 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.00%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.61%) 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 20 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
2 19 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
3 17 (0.61%) Finacle
4 15 (0.54%) Temenos T24
5 14 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
6 13 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
7 12 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
8 10 (0.36%) Aladdin
8 10 (0.36%) FLEXCUBE
9 8 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
9 8 (0.29%) Loan IQ
10 7 (0.25%) OpenText MBPM
10 7 (0.25%) Oracle BPM
10 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
10 7 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
12 5 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
12 5 (0.18%) Oracle FAH
12 5 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 440 (15.76%) Azure
2 363 (13.00%) AWS
3 199 (7.13%) GCP
4 148 (5.30%) Power Platform
5 94 (3.37%) GitHub
6 81 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
7 79 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
8 72 (2.58%) Snowflake
9 70 (2.51%) SaaS
10 56 (2.01%) Entra ID
11 45 (1.61%) OpenShift
12 42 (1.50%) Amazon S3
13 39 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
14 37 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
14 37 (1.33%) Serverless
15 30 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
16 27 (0.97%) dbt
17 26 (0.93%) Microsoft Copilot
18 24 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
19 23 (0.82%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 88 (3.15%) Firewall
2 69 (2.47%) VPN
3 63 (2.26%) Network Security
4 54 (1.93%) DNS
5 38 (1.36%) TCP/IP
6 29 (1.04%) BGP
7 28 (1.00%) Multicast
7 28 (1.00%) SSL
8 25 (0.90%) WAN
9 20 (0.72%) BIG-IP
10 19 (0.68%) HTTP
11 18 (0.64%) LAN
12 17 (0.61%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 17 (0.61%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 16 (0.57%) DMZ
14 15 (0.54%) DHCP
14 15 (0.54%) Wireshark
15 13 (0.47%) SAN
16 12 (0.43%) FIX Connectivity
17 10 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (4.37%) Power BI
1 122 (4.37%) SQL Server
2 95 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
3 76 (2.72%) Metadata
4 73 (2.61%) Relational Database
5 52 (1.86%) Oracle Database
6 51 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
7 41 (1.47%) Data Lake
8 33 (1.18%) MongoDB
9 27 (0.97%) Tableau
10 26 (0.93%) Db2
11 22 (0.79%) BigQuery
12 21 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (0.75%) Big Data
12 21 (0.75%) NoSQL
13 20 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 18 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
14 18 (0.64%) RDBMS
15 16 (0.57%) Data Vault
16 15 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 277 (9.92%) JIRA
2 149 (5.34%) Git
3 113 (4.05%) Jenkins
4 66 (2.36%) GitLab
5 48 (1.72%) Selenium
6 41 (1.47%) JUnit
7 25 (0.90%) Maven
7 25 (0.90%) SonarQube
8 24 (0.86%) Cucumber
9 23 (0.82%) Gradle
10 22 (0.79%) REST Assured
11 20 (0.72%) Mockito
12 19 (0.68%) Bitbucket
13 18 (0.64%) Postman
13 18 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
14 15 (0.54%) Cypress.io
14 15 (0.54%) ER Studio
14 15 (0.54%) ERwin
15 14 (0.50%) TeamCity
16 12 (0.43%) JMeter
General
1 1,855 (66.44%) Finance
2 809 (28.98%) Social Skills
3 529 (18.95%) Investment Banking
4 418 (14.97%) Analytical Skills
5 246 (8.81%) Front Office
6 143 (5.12%) Financial Institution
7 115 (4.12%) Retail Banking
8 112 (4.01%) Retail
9 87 (3.12%) Corporate Banking
10 80 (2.87%) Legal
11 78 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
12 66 (2.36%) Private Banking
13 58 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
14 51 (1.83%) Back Office
15 49 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
16 38 (1.36%) Public Sector
17 35 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
18 33 (1.18%) General Ledger
19 30 (1.07%) Manufacturing
20 29 (1.04%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 471 (16.87%) Developer
2 404 (14.47%) Senior
3 401 (14.36%) Analyst
4 279 (9.99%) Architect
5 271 (9.71%) Lead
6 244 (8.74%) Business Analyst
7 153 (5.48%) Java Developer
8 140 (5.01%) Project Manager
9 108 (3.87%) Data Engineer
10 102 (3.65%) Senior Developer
11 95 (3.40%) Consultant
12 88 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
13 74 (2.65%) Banking Analyst
14 70 (2.51%) Software Engineer
15 64 (2.29%) Network Engineer
16 62 (2.22%) Data Analyst
17 54 (1.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 54 (1.93%) Java Engineer
18 52 (1.86%) Senior Java Developer
19 50 (1.79%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (5.41%) Kafka
2 144 (5.16%) React
3 128 (4.58%) REST
4 112 (4.01%) .NET
4 112 (4.01%) Terraform
5 108 (3.87%) Spring
6 105 (3.76%) Spring Boot
7 89 (3.19%) Middleware
8 63 (2.26%) Redux
9 53 (1.90%) HTML
10 50 (1.79%) RESTful
11 46 (1.65%) CSS
12 40 (1.43%) OAuth
12 40 (1.43%) PySpark
13 39 (1.40%) JSON
14 34 (1.22%) FIX Protocol
14 34 (1.22%) LangChain
15 33 (1.18%) XML
16 29 (1.04%) Web Services
17 28 (1.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 232 (8.31%) Product Ownership
2 196 (7.02%) Onboarding
3 182 (6.52%) Cloud Native
4 135 (4.84%) Derivative
5 125 (4.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 100 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
6 100 (3.58%) Fixed Income
7 88 (3.15%) Data Protection Act
8 82 (2.94%) AI Agents
9 79 (2.83%) Equities
10 76 (2.72%) Management Information System
11 72 (2.58%) Data Structures
12 66 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
13 63 (2.26%) Credit Risk
14 61 (2.18%) Data Centre
15 59 (2.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 57 (2.04%) Mainframe
17 56 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
18 55 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
19 52 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 157 (5.62%) Linux
2 149 (5.34%) Windows
3 96 (3.44%) Unix
4 44 (1.58%) Windows Server
5 31 (1.11%) zOS
6 26 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 24 (0.86%) Android
8 20 (0.72%) Apple iOS
9 16 (0.57%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.39%) AIX
11 9 (0.32%) Windows 10
12 8 (0.29%) Solaris
13 7 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.21%) HPUX
14 6 (0.21%) 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
1 734 (26.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 676 (24.21%) Agile
3 462 (16.55%) CI/CD
4 427 (15.29%) AI
5 419 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
6 356 (12.75%) Migration
7 354 (12.68%) DevOps
8 314 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 274 (9.81%) Analytics
10 259 (9.28%) Roadmaps
11 241 (8.63%) Validation
12 240 (8.60%) Data Modelling
13 234 (8.38%) Microservices
14 218 (7.81%) Software Engineering
15 211 (7.56%) Decision-Making
16 209 (7.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 199 (7.13%) User Acceptance Testing
18 198 (7.09%) Test Automation
19 197 (7.06%) Risk Management
19 197 (7.06%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 530 (18.98%) SQL
2 432 (15.47%) Python
3 379 (13.57%) Java
4 176 (6.30%) C#
5 149 (5.34%) JavaScript
6 117 (4.19%) TypeScript
7 93 (3.33%) PowerShell
8 74 (2.65%) PL/SQL
9 62 (2.22%) Bash
10 50 (1.79%) Shell Script
11 46 (1.65%) Kotlin
12 38 (1.36%) T-SQL
13 34 (1.22%) C++
14 27 (0.97%) Korn
15 22 (0.79%) VBA
16 19 (0.68%) Go
17 16 (0.57%) JCL
18 13 (0.47%) COBOL
19 12 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 11 (0.39%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 196 (7.02%) Degree
2 134 (4.80%) Security Cleared
3 105 (3.76%) SC Cleared
4 68 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (2.15%) PMP
6 55 (1.97%) PMI Certification
7 41 (1.47%) CISSP
8 30 (1.07%) AWS Certification
9 28 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
10 27 (0.97%) Azure Certification
11 25 (0.90%) ACCA
12 23 (0.82%) Master's Degree
13 22 (0.79%) CIMA
14 20 (0.72%) ISTQB
15 19 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
16 17 (0.61%) CISM
17 16 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 12 (0.43%) CCNP
18 12 (0.43%) CCSP
19 11 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (6.70%) Data Quality
2 154 (5.52%) QA
3 55 (1.97%) ISO 20022
4 54 (1.93%) PMO
5 44 (1.58%) GRC
6 40 (1.43%) SEPA
7 33 (1.18%) NIST
8 31 (1.11%) GDPR
9 28 (1.00%) SLA
10 25 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 22 (0.79%) Accessibility
11 22 (0.79%) MiFID
12 20 (0.72%) PSD2
13 19 (0.68%) IFRS
14 14 (0.50%) PCI DSS
15 13 (0.47%) EMIR
16 11 (0.39%) Basel III
17 9 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 8 (0.29%) COREP
18 8 (0.29%) FINREP
System Software
1 122 (4.37%) Docker
2 65 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.79%) RACF
5 12 (0.43%) Firmware
6 10 (0.36%) vSphere
7 9 (0.32%) NFS
8 8 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.18%) ACF2
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.14%) Postfix
10 4 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
10 4 (0.14%) Varnish
11 3 (0.11%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.072%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.072%) GPFS
12 2 (0.072%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 180 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 82 (2.94%) Ansible
3 27 (0.97%) Grafana
3 27 (0.97%) Prometheus
4 21 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (0.64%) Control-M
6 17 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (0.57%) SCCM
8 15 (0.54%) OMEGAMON
9 12 (0.43%) Argo
10 10 (0.36%) FortiGate
10 10 (0.36%) Istio
11 7 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
11 7 (0.25%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.21%) Tivoli
13 5 (0.18%) HP ALM
13 5 (0.18%) systemd
14 4 (0.14%) HAProxy
15 3 (0.11%) Cisco Prime
15 3 (0.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 294 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 213 (7.63%) Oracle
3 118 (4.23%) IBM
4 102 (3.65%) Databricks
5 92 (3.30%) ServiceNow
6 66 (2.36%) Cisco
7 63 (2.26%) Google
8 57 (2.04%) Salesforce
9 52 (1.86%) Splunk
10 45 (1.61%) SAP
11 41 (1.47%) F5
12 40 (1.43%) Citrix
13 38 (1.36%) OpenAI
14 37 (1.33%) CyberArk
15 35 (1.25%) VMware
16 31 (1.11%) Murex
17 30 (1.07%) Bloomberg
18 26 (0.93%) Avaloq
19 24 (0.86%) Dynatrace
20 22 (0.79%) Fortinet