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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,268 1,875 2,338
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.94% 7.73% 6.20%
As % of the General category 10.45% 12.18% 10.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,376 1,249 1,666
10th Percentile £372 £360 £375
25th Percentile £438 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £669 £750 £750
90th Percentile £775 £857 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £614
% change year-on-year -12.50% -2.24% -5.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 18 26
10th Percentile £17.00 £15.24 £12.42
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.20 £17.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +14.21% -7.14%
75th Percentile £57.23 £24.66 £30.00
90th Percentile £96.75 £44.10 £78.38
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.50
% change year-on-year +12.93% +14.21% -7.14%

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 21,698 15,388 22,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.84% 63.47% 58.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,693 10,039 14,313
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £410 £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 £767
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,366 623 1,708
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.71 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.50 £15.28
Median hourly rate £25.77 £30.00 £26.03
Median % change year-on-year -14.10% +15.25% -25.63%
75th Percentile £61.18 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.20 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £25.38 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year -12.69% +11.81% -25.71%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -10 1,547 £575 -9.80% 331
North of England +6 488 £475 +5.56% 73
North West +15 267 £447 +11.75% 41
Yorkshire -6 223 £500 -7.41% 25
Midlands +15 183 £492 -10.55% 41
West Midlands +19 128 £550 -0.90% 22
East Midlands -9 55 £436 +8.91% 19
South East -33 48 £472 -16.18% 94
South West -21 33 £525 -11.76% 9
East of England -27 11 £400 -33.33% 13
North East -9 6 £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
1 182 (8.02%) Confluence
2 54 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 20 (0.88%) SAS
5 13 (0.57%) Apache
5 13 (0.57%) IIS
6 12 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 11 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.44%) CICS
9 7 (0.31%) CMS
10 6 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.22%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.22%) Hyperledger
12 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.13%) Camunda
14 2 (0.088%) Appian
14 2 (0.088%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.088%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 154 (6.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 64 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
4 49 (2.16%) MS Visio
5 30 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.66%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.13%) Notion
7 3 (0.13%) Trello
8 2 (0.088%) Adobe Captivate
8 2 (0.088%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.044%) InVision
9 1 (0.044%) Sketch
9 1 (0.044%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 31 (1.37%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
3 20 (0.88%) Oracle Receivables
3 20 (0.88%) Temenos T24
4 19 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
5 18 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
6 17 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 15 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
7 15 (0.66%) Loan IQ
8 10 (0.44%) Actimize
8 10 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
8 10 (0.44%) SAP FI
9 8 (0.35%) Finacle
9 8 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 8 (0.35%) SAP CO
9 8 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
10 7 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
10 7 (0.31%) Summit
11 6 (0.26%) Aladdin
12 5 (0.22%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 355 (15.65%) Azure
2 324 (14.29%) AWS
3 163 (7.19%) GCP
4 137 (6.04%) Power Platform
5 94 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
6 85 (3.75%) GitHub
7 61 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
8 55 (2.43%) Serverless
9 49 (2.16%) SaaS
10 44 (1.94%) Figma
11 32 (1.41%) Entra ID
11 32 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
12 30 (1.32%) Amazon S3
12 30 (1.32%) OpenShift
13 27 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
13 27 (1.19%) OCI
14 25 (1.10%) Power Automate
15 24 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
15 24 (1.06%) PowerApps
15 24 (1.06%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 73 (3.22%) DNS
2 48 (2.12%) Firewall
3 43 (1.90%) VPN
4 39 (1.72%) TCP/IP
5 38 (1.68%) HTTP
6 33 (1.46%) Network Security
7 29 (1.28%) Multicast
8 27 (1.19%) BGP
8 27 (1.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 25 (1.10%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 24 (1.06%) BIG-IP
10 24 (1.06%) DMZ
10 24 (1.06%) SSL
11 21 (0.93%) SAN
12 20 (0.88%) Wireshark
13 19 (0.84%) NetScaler
14 18 (0.79%) FIX Connectivity
15 17 (0.75%) DHCP
16 14 (0.62%) Wireless
17 13 (0.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (4.81%) Power BI
2 100 (4.41%) SQL Server
3 71 (3.13%) Tableau
4 69 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
5 57 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
6 49 (2.16%) NoSQL
7 45 (1.98%) Metadata
8 40 (1.76%) Oracle Database
9 38 (1.68%) MongoDB
10 33 (1.46%) Relational Database
11 29 (1.28%) Big Data
12 21 (0.93%) BigQuery
13 17 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 16 (0.71%) DB2
15 15 (0.66%) Data Lake
15 15 (0.66%) Hadoop
16 14 (0.62%) Power Query
17 13 (0.57%) KDB
18 12 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
19 10 (0.44%) Flink
Development Applications
1 263 (11.60%) JIRA
2 123 (5.42%) Jenkins
3 92 (4.06%) Git
4 87 (3.84%) GitLab
5 26 (1.15%) JUnit
6 24 (1.06%) Selenium
7 23 (1.01%) Bitbucket
7 23 (1.01%) Cucumber
8 20 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
9 19 (0.84%) Fiddler
9 19 (0.84%) Postman
10 15 (0.66%) REST Assured
11 14 (0.62%) TeamCity
12 13 (0.57%) Liquibase
12 13 (0.57%) Maven
13 9 (0.40%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.40%) Gradle
14 8 (0.35%) Mockito
15 7 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
15 7 (0.31%) SonarQube
General
1 1,431 (63.10%) Finance
2 716 (31.57%) Social Skills
3 446 (19.66%) Investment Banking
4 311 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
5 186 (8.20%) Front Office
6 111 (4.89%) Financial Institution
7 89 (3.92%) Retail Banking
8 68 (3.00%) Legal
9 67 (2.95%) Corporate Banking
10 66 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
11 65 (2.87%) Retail
12 52 (2.29%) Public Sector
13 45 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
14 38 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
15 34 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
16 30 (1.32%) Marketing
17 25 (1.10%) General Ledger
18 23 (1.01%) Back Office
19 22 (0.97%) International Banking
20 21 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 383 (16.89%) Analyst
2 380 (16.75%) Developer
3 284 (12.52%) Senior
4 264 (11.64%) Architect
4 264 (11.64%) Business Analyst
5 148 (6.53%) Lead
6 131 (5.78%) Solutions Architect
7 125 (5.51%) Project Manager
8 98 (4.32%) Java Developer
9 86 (3.79%) Consultant
10 84 (3.70%) Senior Developer
11 81 (3.57%) Banking Analyst
12 67 (2.95%) Data Engineer
13 58 (2.56%) Banking Business Analyst
14 55 (2.43%) Payments Architect
15 54 (2.38%) Designer
16 53 (2.34%) Network Engineer
17 51 (2.25%) DevOps Engineer
18 49 (2.16%) Payments Solutions Architect
19 47 (2.07%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (5.07%) Kafka
2 111 (4.89%) .NET
3 99 (4.37%) REST
4 79 (3.48%) React
5 67 (2.95%) RESTful
5 67 (2.95%) Spring
6 66 (2.91%) Middleware
7 60 (2.65%) HTML
7 60 (2.65%) Spring Boot
8 45 (1.98%) AngularJS
9 43 (1.90%) CSS
10 41 (1.81%) OAuth
11 38 (1.68%) JSON
12 37 (1.63%) XML
13 34 (1.50%) Pandas
14 30 (1.32%) FIX Protocol
14 30 (1.32%) NumPy
14 30 (1.32%) OAuth2
15 27 (1.19%) Node.js
16 26 (1.15%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 139 (6.13%) Product Ownership
2 111 (4.89%) Derivative
3 105 (4.63%) Onboarding
4 97 (4.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 94 (4.14%) Management Information System
6 90 (3.97%) Cloud Native
7 71 (3.13%) Fixed Income
8 70 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
9 69 (3.04%) Distributed Systems
10 66 (2.91%) Equities
11 48 (2.12%) Data Structures
12 44 (1.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 43 (1.90%) Public Cloud
14 41 (1.81%) Data Centre
15 38 (1.68%) Credit Risk
15 38 (1.68%) Market Risk
16 36 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
17 31 (1.37%) Mainframe
18 29 (1.28%) Hedge funds
19 28 (1.23%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 140 (6.17%) Windows
2 117 (5.16%) Linux
3 62 (2.73%) Unix
4 36 (1.59%) Windows 10
5 30 (1.32%) Android
6 24 (1.06%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.88%) Windows Server
8 16 (0.71%) zOS
9 13 (0.57%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.31%) VMS
11 6 (0.26%) AIX
12 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
12 5 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
13 4 (0.18%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.13%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.088%) Solaris
15 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
16 1 (0.044%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 563 (24.82%) Agile
2 406 (17.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 378 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 331 (14.59%) DevOps
5 324 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 239 (10.54%) Migration
7 216 (9.52%) AI
8 208 (9.17%) Analytics
9 186 (8.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 177 (7.80%) Microservices
11 174 (7.67%) Risk Management
12 173 (7.63%) Data Modelling
13 169 (7.45%) Continuous Improvement
14 168 (7.41%) Decision-Making
15 164 (7.23%) Project Management
16 162 (7.14%) Roadmaps
17 155 (6.83%) Data Analysis
18 152 (6.70%) Validation
19 151 (6.66%) User Acceptance Testing
20 146 (6.44%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 396 (17.46%) SQL
2 364 (16.05%) Python
3 286 (12.61%) Java
4 144 (6.35%) C#
5 94 (4.14%) JavaScript
6 63 (2.78%) TypeScript
7 61 (2.69%) PowerShell
8 46 (2.03%) Go
9 38 (1.68%) PL/SQL
10 35 (1.54%) VBA
11 34 (1.50%) Shell Script
12 30 (1.32%) Bash
13 23 (1.01%) T-SQL
14 21 (0.93%) C++
15 18 (0.79%) COBOL
16 16 (0.71%) Kotlin
17 13 (0.57%) Korn
17 13 (0.57%) Perl
18 11 (0.49%) JCL
18 11 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 238 (10.49%) Degree
2 114 (5.03%) Security Cleared
3 77 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 73 (3.22%) Master's Degree
5 69 (3.04%) SC Cleared
6 57 (2.51%) PMI Certification
7 55 (2.43%) PMP
8 45 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (1.37%) CISSP
10 26 (1.15%) Azure Certification
11 19 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (0.79%) CISM
13 17 (0.75%) MBA
14 16 (0.71%) AWS Certification
15 15 (0.66%) ISTQB
16 12 (0.53%) CBAP
16 12 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (0.53%) PhD
17 9 (0.40%) DV Cleared
18 8 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (6.17%) QA
2 107 (4.72%) Data Quality
3 55 (2.43%) ISO 20022
4 51 (2.25%) GDPR
5 46 (2.03%) PMO
6 36 (1.59%) SLA
7 34 (1.50%) PCI DSS
8 33 (1.46%) NIST
8 33 (1.46%) PSD2
9 30 (1.32%) SEPA
10 29 (1.28%) Accessibility
10 29 (1.28%) GRC
10 29 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 29 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 22 (0.97%) MiFID
12 20 (0.88%) Basel III
13 15 (0.66%) ISO 8583
14 13 (0.57%) EMIR
15 12 (0.53%) IFRS
16 7 (0.31%) GAAP
System Software
1 143 (6.31%) Docker
2 47 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (1.85%) Active Directory
4 21 (0.93%) Firmware
4 21 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.57%) NFS
5 13 (0.57%) vSphere
6 10 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.22%) RACF
8 4 (0.18%) Varnish
8 4 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.18%) XenDesktop
9 3 (0.13%) Postfix
9 3 (0.13%) Sendmail
9 3 (0.13%) SRDF
9 3 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
9 3 (0.13%) XenApp
10 2 (0.088%) ACF2
10 2 (0.088%) GridGain
10 2 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 186 (8.20%) Kubernetes
2 105 (4.63%) Terraform
3 80 (3.53%) Ansible
4 49 (2.16%) Grafana
5 39 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.10%) SCCM
7 18 (0.79%) Argo
7 18 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.40%) Control-M
9 9 (0.40%) Puppet
10 8 (0.35%) Istio
11 7 (0.31%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.31%) RSA Archer
12 6 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
12 6 (0.26%) vCenter Server
12 6 (0.26%) WSUS
13 5 (0.22%) SnapMirror
14 4 (0.18%) Karpenter
14 4 (0.18%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 275 (12.13%) Microsoft
2 159 (7.01%) Oracle
3 83 (3.66%) ServiceNow
4 75 (3.31%) Google
5 61 (2.69%) Cisco
6 57 (2.51%) VMware
7 56 (2.47%) Splunk
8 54 (2.38%) SAP
9 53 (2.34%) IBM
10 50 (2.20%) F5
11 49 (2.16%) Citrix
12 32 (1.41%) Temenos
13 31 (1.37%) Bloomberg
14 30 (1.32%) Remedy
15 28 (1.23%) Murex
16 24 (1.06%) HP
16 24 (1.06%) NetApp
17 23 (1.01%) Avaloq
17 23 (1.01%) Databricks
17 23 (1.01%) Salesforce