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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 23 24
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,749 2,159 2,466
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.94% 7.87% 7.59%
As % of the General category 10.62% 12.26% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,700 1,465 1,707
10th Percentile £400 £350 £400
25th Percentile £456 £420 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -9.60% -
75th Percentile £688 £719 £788
90th Percentile £823 £825 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 34 13
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.22 £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 £76.13 £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 25,874 17,612 18,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.90% 64.23% 58.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,203 11,142 11,529
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 2,256 1,011 945
10th Percentile £13.63 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.17 £17.50
Median hourly rate £31.16 £25.15 £38.85
Median % change year-on-year +23.88% -35.26% +33.97%
75th Percentile £57.00 £46.47 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £72.10
UK median hourly rate £29.78 £25.15 £35.36
% change year-on-year +18.41% -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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -7 2,006 £600 -4.00% 2,114
North of England -10 503 £500 +14.29% 213
Yorkshire -8 253 £511 +13.56% 68
North West -5 242 £500 +17.65% 128
Midlands -33 138 £500 +11.86% 126
West Midlands -8 100 £538 -1.15% 60
South West -32 43 £505 -3.81% 111
East of England +6 41 £555 -20.71% 18
South East -49 39 £503 +21.52% 200
East Midlands -33 38 £468 +16.29% 66
North East -30 12 £875 +108.33% 17
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
1 152 (5.53%) Confluence
2 63 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 27 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 26 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (0.91%) Apache
6 19 (0.69%) SAS
7 16 (0.58%) Camunda
8 13 (0.47%) IIS
9 12 (0.44%) CICS
10 10 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.33%) Appian
12 8 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
13 6 (0.22%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 5 (0.18%) MTS
15 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
15 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
15 4 (0.15%) WordPress
16 3 (0.11%) Hyperledger
16 3 (0.11%) MQSeries
Applications
1 101 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (1.05%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Trello
9 2 (0.073%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.073%) EngageOne
9 2 (0.073%) Notion
9 2 (0.073%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.073%) 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 (0.62%) 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 12 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
6 10 (0.36%) Aladdin
6 10 (0.36%) FLEXCUBE
7 8 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
7 8 (0.29%) Loan IQ
8 7 (0.25%) OpenText MBPM
8 7 (0.25%) Oracle BPM
8 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
8 7 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
9 5 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
9 5 (0.18%) Oracle FAH
9 5 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 425 (15.46%) Azure
2 357 (12.99%) AWS
3 194 (7.06%) GCP
4 146 (5.31%) Power Platform
5 88 (3.20%) GitHub
6 80 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
7 79 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
8 71 (2.58%) SaaS
8 71 (2.58%) Snowflake
9 55 (2.00%) Entra ID
10 44 (1.60%) OpenShift
11 41 (1.49%) Amazon S3
12 38 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
13 36 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
13 36 (1.31%) Serverless
14 29 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
15 26 (0.95%) dbt
15 26 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
16 23 (0.84%) Amazon ECS
16 23 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 87 (3.16%) Firewall
2 67 (2.44%) VPN
3 62 (2.26%) Network Security
4 55 (2.00%) DNS
5 37 (1.35%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.09%) Multicast
7 28 (1.02%) BGP
7 28 (1.02%) SSL
8 24 (0.87%) WAN
9 20 (0.73%) BIG-IP
10 19 (0.69%) HTTP
11 17 (0.62%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 17 (0.62%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 17 (0.62%) LAN
12 16 (0.58%) DMZ
13 15 (0.55%) DHCP
13 15 (0.55%) Wireshark
14 14 (0.51%) SAN
15 12 (0.44%) FIX Connectivity
16 11 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (4.47%) SQL Server
2 119 (4.33%) Power BI
3 94 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
4 76 (2.76%) Metadata
5 72 (2.62%) Relational Database
6 52 (1.89%) Oracle Database
7 49 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
8 39 (1.42%) Data Lake
9 32 (1.16%) MongoDB
10 27 (0.98%) Tableau
11 24 (0.87%) Db2
12 22 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 21 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
13 21 (0.76%) Big Data
13 21 (0.76%) BigQuery
14 20 (0.73%) NoSQL
15 18 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
15 18 (0.65%) RDBMS
16 16 (0.58%) Data Vault
17 15 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 274 (9.97%) JIRA
2 146 (5.31%) Git
3 111 (4.04%) Jenkins
4 64 (2.33%) GitLab
5 47 (1.71%) Selenium
6 38 (1.38%) JUnit
7 23 (0.84%) SonarQube
8 22 (0.80%) Cucumber
8 22 (0.80%) Gradle
8 22 (0.80%) Maven
9 21 (0.76%) REST Assured
10 19 (0.69%) Bitbucket
11 17 (0.62%) Mockito
11 17 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
12 15 (0.55%) Cypress.io
12 15 (0.55%) ER Studio
12 15 (0.55%) ERwin
12 15 (0.55%) Postman
13 14 (0.51%) TeamCity
14 12 (0.44%) Fiddler
General
1 1,819 (66.17%) Finance
2 794 (28.88%) Social Skills
3 523 (19.03%) Investment Banking
4 413 (15.02%) Analytical Skills
5 244 (8.88%) Front Office
6 139 (5.06%) Financial Institution
7 115 (4.18%) Retail Banking
8 113 (4.11%) Retail
9 88 (3.20%) Corporate Banking
10 81 (2.95%) Legal
11 75 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
12 65 (2.36%) Private Banking
13 59 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
14 51 (1.86%) Back Office
15 48 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
16 34 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
16 34 (1.24%) Public Sector
17 32 (1.16%) General Ledger
18 29 (1.05%) Marketing
19 28 (1.02%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 464 (16.88%) Developer
2 400 (14.55%) Analyst
3 390 (14.19%) Senior
4 280 (10.19%) Architect
5 267 (9.71%) Lead
6 246 (8.95%) Business Analyst
7 151 (5.49%) Java Developer
8 133 (4.84%) Project Manager
9 105 (3.82%) Data Engineer
10 100 (3.64%) Senior Developer
11 96 (3.49%) Consultant
12 89 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
13 75 (2.73%) Banking Analyst
14 69 (2.51%) Software Engineer
15 62 (2.26%) Network Engineer
16 61 (2.22%) Data Analyst
17 52 (1.89%) Java Engineer
17 52 (1.89%) Senior Java Developer
18 50 (1.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 50 (1.82%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (5.20%) Kafka
2 142 (5.17%) React
3 124 (4.51%) REST
4 109 (3.97%) .NET
5 106 (3.86%) Terraform
6 103 (3.75%) Spring
7 99 (3.60%) Spring Boot
8 84 (3.06%) Middleware
9 62 (2.26%) Redux
10 51 (1.86%) HTML
11 45 (1.64%) CSS
11 45 (1.64%) RESTful
12 38 (1.38%) PySpark
13 36 (1.31%) FIX Protocol
13 36 (1.31%) JSON
13 36 (1.31%) OAuth
14 31 (1.13%) LangChain
14 31 (1.13%) XML
15 29 (1.05%) Web Services
16 28 (1.02%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 234 (8.51%) Product Ownership
2 190 (6.91%) Onboarding
3 173 (6.29%) Cloud Native
4 132 (4.80%) Derivative
5 126 (4.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 97 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
7 96 (3.49%) Fixed Income
8 85 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
9 80 (2.91%) Equities
10 77 (2.80%) AI Agents
11 75 (2.73%) Management Information System
12 72 (2.62%) Data Structures
13 65 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
14 64 (2.33%) Credit Risk
15 60 (2.18%) Data Centre
16 58 (2.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 56 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
17 56 (2.04%) Mainframe
18 53 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
19 51 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 153 (5.57%) Linux
2 148 (5.38%) Windows
3 95 (3.46%) Unix
4 42 (1.53%) Windows Server
5 29 (1.05%) zOS
6 26 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 24 (0.87%) Android
8 20 (0.73%) 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 (0.15%) 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
1 708 (25.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 665 (24.19%) Agile
3 453 (16.48%) CI/CD
4 413 (15.02%) AI
4 413 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
5 348 (12.66%) DevOps
5 348 (12.66%) Migration
6 308 (11.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 267 (9.71%) Analytics
8 251 (9.13%) Roadmaps
9 238 (8.66%) Data Modelling
9 238 (8.66%) Validation
10 227 (8.26%) Microservices
11 213 (7.75%) Software Engineering
12 207 (7.53%) Decision-Making
13 206 (7.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 197 (7.17%) Risk Management
15 196 (7.13%) Change Management
16 195 (7.09%) User Acceptance Testing
17 189 (6.88%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 518 (18.84%) SQL
2 416 (15.13%) Python
3 374 (13.60%) Java
4 171 (6.22%) C#
5 141 (5.13%) JavaScript
6 115 (4.18%) TypeScript
7 88 (3.20%) PowerShell
8 74 (2.69%) PL/SQL
9 59 (2.15%) Bash
10 48 (1.75%) Shell Script
11 45 (1.64%) Kotlin
12 39 (1.42%) T-SQL
13 34 (1.24%) C++
14 26 (0.95%) Korn
15 22 (0.80%) VBA
16 18 (0.65%) Go
17 14 (0.51%) JCL
18 12 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 11 (0.40%) COBOL
20 10 (0.36%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 193 (7.02%) Degree
2 126 (4.58%) Security Cleared
3 101 (3.67%) SC Cleared
4 65 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (2.11%) PMP
6 53 (1.93%) PMI Certification
7 38 (1.38%) CISSP
8 29 (1.05%) AWS Certification
9 28 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (0.95%) Azure Certification
11 23 (0.84%) Master's Degree
12 22 (0.80%) ACCA
13 21 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
14 20 (0.73%) ISTQB
15 19 (0.69%) CIMA
16 17 (0.62%) CISM
17 15 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 12 (0.44%) CCNP
18 12 (0.44%) CCSP
19 11 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (6.73%) Data Quality
2 157 (5.71%) QA
3 56 (2.04%) PMO
4 54 (1.96%) ISO 20022
5 44 (1.60%) GRC
6 39 (1.42%) SEPA
7 34 (1.24%) NIST
8 30 (1.09%) GDPR
9 27 (0.98%) SLA
10 26 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 22 (0.80%) Accessibility
11 22 (0.80%) MiFID
12 20 (0.73%) PSD2
13 19 (0.69%) IFRS
14 13 (0.47%) EMIR
14 13 (0.47%) PCI DSS
15 11 (0.40%) Basel III
15 11 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.29%) COREP
16 8 (0.29%) FINREP
System Software
1 116 (4.22%) Docker
2 68 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.80%) RACF
5 12 (0.44%) Firmware
6 10 (0.36%) vSphere
7 9 (0.33%) NFS
8 8 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.18%) ACF2
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 4 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
10 4 (0.15%) Varnish
11 3 (0.11%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.073%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.073%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.073%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 170 (6.18%) Kubernetes
2 81 (2.95%) Ansible
3 26 (0.95%) Grafana
3 26 (0.95%) Prometheus
4 23 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.62%) Control-M
5 17 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.62%) SCCM
6 15 (0.55%) OMEGAMON
7 11 (0.40%) Argo
8 10 (0.36%) Istio
9 9 (0.33%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (0.25%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.18%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.18%) systemd
11 5 (0.18%) Tivoli
12 4 (0.15%) HAProxy
13 3 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
13 3 (0.11%) QRadar
Vendors
1 292 (10.62%) Microsoft
2 214 (7.78%) Oracle
3 112 (4.07%) IBM
4 101 (3.67%) Databricks
5 90 (3.27%) ServiceNow
6 65 (2.36%) Cisco
7 58 (2.11%) Google
8 54 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 52 (1.89%) Splunk
10 45 (1.64%) SAP
11 41 (1.49%) F5
12 39 (1.42%) Citrix
13 38 (1.38%) CyberArk
14 37 (1.35%) OpenAI
15 35 (1.27%) VMware
16 29 (1.05%) Bloomberg
16 29 (1.05%) Murex
17 24 (0.87%) Avaloq
18 23 (0.84%) Dynatrace
19 21 (0.76%) Fortinet