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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,619 2,217 2,437
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.79% 8.04% 7.05%
As % of the General category 10.45% 12.61% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,579 1,528 1,787
10th Percentile £400 £350 £400
25th Percentile £455 £415 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £680 £738 £788
90th Percentile £813 £825 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 27 15
10th Percentile - £18.10 -
25th Percentile £17.00 £19.58 £14.50
Median hourly rate £19.69 £25.15 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.71% +28.97% +5.41%
75th Percentile £41.64 - £42.13
90th Percentile £97.00 £59.50 £76.20
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £24.66 £18.89
% change year-on-year -29.03% +30.58% +0.91%

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 25,061 17,576 19,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.42% 63.73% 57.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,048 11,227 12,824
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £414 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.12% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £653
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 1,844 925 1,403
10th Percentile £14.23 £13.29 £13.87
25th Percentile £19.02 £16.36 £16.81
Median hourly rate £34.00 £25.32 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +34.26% -33.58% +26.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.10 £58.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.50 £70.14
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £25.15 £36.05
% change year-on-year +31.21% -30.23% +18.03%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 26 July 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 1,865 £583 -10.11% 566
North of England -5 521 £500 +13.31% 89
North West -7 267 £485 +14.79% 52
Yorkshire -7 244 £510 +7.37% 35
Midlands -16 165 £525 +26.51% 24
West Midlands +27 126 £538 -2.27% 13
East Midlands -32 39 £519 +32.95% 11
South West -43 35 £515 -1.90% 20
South East -69 33 £540 +20.00% 69
East of England +1 30 £580 -22.67% 5
North East -35 13 £875 +108.33% 2
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
1 161 (6.15%) Confluence
2 59 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 25 (0.95%) Apache Spark
3 25 (0.95%) SAS
4 20 (0.76%) Apache
4 20 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.69%) IIS
6 11 (0.42%) Camunda
7 10 (0.38%) CICS
8 9 (0.34%) Appian
9 8 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.15%) Hyperledger
11 4 (0.15%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.15%) WordPress
12 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.076%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.076%) JBoss
13 2 (0.076%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 91 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (1.18%) MS Visio
5 22 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.11%) Sketch
7 3 (0.11%) Trello
8 2 (0.076%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.076%) EngageOne
8 2 (0.076%) InVision
8 2 (0.076%) Notion
8 2 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.038%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 22 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
1 22 (0.84%) Oracle Receivables
2 20 (0.76%) Temenos T24
3 19 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
4 17 (0.65%) Finacle
4 17 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.50%) Aladdin
6 12 (0.46%) Loan IQ
7 10 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
7 10 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 9 (0.34%) Actimize
9 8 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
10 7 (0.27%) FLEXCUBE
10 7 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
10 7 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
11 6 (0.23%) OpenText MBPM
11 6 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
11 6 (0.23%) SAP CO
11 6 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
11 6 (0.23%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 402 (15.35%) Azure
2 353 (13.48%) AWS
3 169 (6.45%) GCP
4 132 (5.04%) Power Platform
5 84 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
6 81 (3.09%) GitHub
7 71 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
8 67 (2.56%) SaaS
9 65 (2.48%) Snowflake
10 45 (1.72%) Entra ID
11 44 (1.68%) OpenShift
12 38 (1.45%) Amazon S3
13 35 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
14 33 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
15 30 (1.15%) Serverless
16 28 (1.07%) Figma
17 26 (0.99%) Power Automate
18 24 (0.92%) Microsoft Copilot
18 24 (0.92%) PaaS
18 24 (0.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 78 (2.98%) Firewall
2 70 (2.67%) DNS
3 65 (2.48%) VPN
4 59 (2.25%) Network Security
5 41 (1.57%) TCP/IP
6 33 (1.26%) BGP
6 33 (1.26%) Multicast
6 33 (1.26%) SSL
7 26 (0.99%) HTTP
7 26 (0.99%) SAN
8 22 (0.84%) BIG-IP
8 22 (0.84%) DMZ
8 22 (0.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 20 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 19 (0.73%) Wireshark
11 18 (0.69%) DHCP
11 18 (0.69%) FIX Connectivity
12 13 (0.50%) LAN
13 12 (0.46%) WAN
13 12 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (4.70%) SQL Server
2 108 (4.12%) Power BI
3 78 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
4 71 (2.71%) Metadata
5 65 (2.48%) Relational Database
6 52 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
7 46 (1.76%) Oracle Database
8 39 (1.49%) Tableau
9 37 (1.41%) Data Lake
9 37 (1.41%) MongoDB
10 31 (1.18%) Big Data
11 22 (0.84%) Db2
12 21 (0.80%) RDBMS
13 19 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
13 19 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 18 (0.69%) NoSQL
15 17 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
15 17 (0.65%) BigQuery
16 16 (0.61%) Data Vault
17 14 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 268 (10.23%) JIRA
2 107 (4.09%) Git
3 105 (4.01%) Jenkins
4 64 (2.44%) GitLab
5 36 (1.37%) JUnit
6 26 (0.99%) Selenium
7 22 (0.84%) Cucumber
8 19 (0.73%) Bitbucket
8 19 (0.73%) TeamCity
9 18 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
10 16 (0.61%) Fiddler
11 15 (0.57%) ERwin
11 15 (0.57%) Mockito
11 15 (0.57%) Postman
12 14 (0.53%) ER Studio
12 14 (0.53%) REST Assured
12 14 (0.53%) SonarQube
13 12 (0.46%) Gradle
13 12 (0.46%) Maven
14 11 (0.42%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,660 (63.38%) Finance
2 686 (26.19%) Social Skills
3 522 (19.93%) Investment Banking
4 369 (14.09%) Analytical Skills
5 226 (8.63%) Front Office
6 128 (4.89%) Financial Institution
7 109 (4.16%) Retail Banking
8 104 (3.97%) Retail
9 87 (3.32%) Corporate Banking
10 82 (3.13%) Legal
11 64 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
12 61 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
13 54 (2.06%) Private Banking
14 49 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
15 48 (1.83%) Public Sector
16 33 (1.26%) Back Office
17 29 (1.11%) Marketing
18 27 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
19 24 (0.92%) General Ledger
20 20 (0.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 452 (17.26%) Developer
2 391 (14.93%) Analyst
3 337 (12.87%) Senior
4 302 (11.53%) Architect
5 248 (9.47%) Business Analyst
6 242 (9.24%) Lead
7 157 (5.99%) Java Developer
8 115 (4.39%) Project Manager
9 111 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
10 108 (4.12%) Senior Developer
11 99 (3.78%) Data Engineer
12 88 (3.36%) Banking Analyst
13 82 (3.13%) Consultant
14 65 (2.48%) Senior Java Developer
15 62 (2.37%) Data Analyst
16 61 (2.33%) Network Engineer
16 61 (2.33%) Software Engineer
17 51 (1.95%) Banking Business Analyst
17 51 (1.95%) C# Developer
18 50 (1.91%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (5.27%) React
2 124 (4.73%) Kafka
3 119 (4.54%) .NET
4 99 (3.78%) REST
5 95 (3.63%) Middleware
6 87 (3.32%) Spring
7 74 (2.83%) Spring Boot
8 56 (2.14%) RESTful
9 54 (2.06%) Redux
10 44 (1.68%) HTML
11 41 (1.57%) CSS
12 39 (1.49%) FIX Protocol
13 37 (1.41%) PySpark
14 35 (1.34%) JSON
14 35 (1.34%) OAuth
15 34 (1.30%) AngularJS
16 27 (1.03%) LangChain
16 27 (1.03%) XML
17 26 (0.99%) Node.js
18 25 (0.95%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 185 (7.06%) Product Ownership
2 152 (5.80%) Onboarding
3 146 (5.57%) Cloud Native
4 132 (5.04%) Derivative
5 127 (4.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 98 (3.74%) Fixed Income
7 90 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
8 81 (3.09%) Management Information System
9 80 (3.05%) Equities
10 78 (2.98%) Data Protection Act
11 71 (2.71%) Data Structures
12 58 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
13 56 (2.14%) AI Agents
14 52 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
14 52 (1.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 50 (1.91%) Mainframe
16 45 (1.72%) Credit Risk
16 45 (1.72%) Data Centre
17 43 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
18 42 (1.60%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 155 (5.92%) Windows
2 137 (5.23%) Linux
3 88 (3.36%) Unix
4 33 (1.26%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (1.03%) zOS
6 23 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 22 (0.84%) Android
8 15 (0.57%) Ubuntu
8 15 (0.57%) Windows 10
9 12 (0.46%) AIX
10 9 (0.34%) Solaris
11 8 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
12 6 (0.23%) HPUX
12 6 (0.23%) SUSE
12 6 (0.23%) VMS
13 5 (0.19%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.19%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 600 (22.91%) Agile
2 519 (19.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 388 (14.81%) CI/CD
4 378 (14.43%) Problem-Solving
5 360 (13.75%) AI
6 334 (12.75%) DevOps
7 318 (12.14%) Migration
8 258 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 257 (9.81%) Analytics
10 222 (8.48%) Data Modelling
11 214 (8.17%) Roadmaps
12 203 (7.75%) Microservices
13 186 (7.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 184 (7.03%) Validation
15 183 (6.99%) Decision-Making
16 182 (6.95%) Software Engineering
17 173 (6.61%) User Acceptance Testing
18 167 (6.38%) Risk Management
19 166 (6.34%) Test Automation
20 165 (6.30%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 421 (16.07%) SQL
2 378 (14.43%) Python
3 350 (13.36%) Java
4 178 (6.80%) C#
5 130 (4.96%) JavaScript
6 107 (4.09%) TypeScript
7 77 (2.94%) PowerShell
8 64 (2.44%) PL/SQL
9 47 (1.79%) Bash
10 45 (1.72%) Shell Script
11 41 (1.57%) Kotlin
12 40 (1.53%) T-SQL
13 31 (1.18%) C++
14 24 (0.92%) VBA
15 22 (0.84%) Korn
16 17 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 13 (0.50%) Go
17 13 (0.50%) Scala
18 12 (0.46%) Bicep
18 12 (0.46%) JCL
Qualifications
1 179 (6.83%) Degree
2 123 (4.70%) Security Cleared
3 88 (3.36%) SC Cleared
4 57 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (1.68%) PMP
6 40 (1.53%) PMI Certification
7 35 (1.34%) CISSP
8 28 (1.07%) Azure Certification
8 28 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 23 (0.88%) AWS Certification
11 17 (0.65%) CISM
12 14 (0.53%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 10 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (0.34%) ACCA
15 9 (0.34%) CCSP
16 8 (0.31%) CCNA
16 8 (0.31%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (5.38%) Data Quality
2 132 (5.04%) QA
3 58 (2.21%) PMO
4 48 (1.83%) ISO 20022
5 43 (1.64%) GDPR
6 35 (1.34%) NIST
7 33 (1.26%) GRC
7 33 (1.26%) SEPA
8 31 (1.18%) PSD2
9 29 (1.11%) SLA
10 27 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 25 (0.95%) Accessibility
12 20 (0.76%) MiFID
13 18 (0.69%) PCI DSS
14 15 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 9 (0.34%) COREP
15 9 (0.34%) EMIR
15 9 (0.34%) IFRS
16 7 (0.27%) FINREP
17 6 (0.23%) Basel III
System Software
1 118 (4.51%) Docker
2 64 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.73%) RACF
5 17 (0.65%) vSphere
6 16 (0.61%) Firmware
6 16 (0.61%) NFS
7 14 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.23%) Varnish
9 5 (0.19%) Postfix
10 4 (0.15%) ACF2
10 4 (0.15%) Sendmail
10 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.15%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.11%) SRDF
11 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.11%) XenApp
12 2 (0.076%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.076%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 167 (6.38%) Kubernetes
2 88 (3.36%) Terraform
3 85 (3.25%) Ansible
4 33 (1.26%) Prometheus
5 31 (1.18%) Grafana
6 20 (0.76%) SCCM
7 18 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.53%) Control-M
9 14 (0.53%) OMEGAMON
10 13 (0.50%) Argo
11 11 (0.42%) Istio
12 9 (0.34%) FortiGate
13 8 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
14 6 (0.23%) Puppet
14 6 (0.23%) SnapMirror
14 6 (0.23%) WSUS
15 5 (0.19%) HAProxy
15 5 (0.19%) NetBackup
15 5 (0.19%) systemd
Vendors
1 290 (11.07%) Microsoft
2 196 (7.48%) Oracle
3 93 (3.55%) ServiceNow
4 78 (2.98%) IBM
5 69 (2.63%) Databricks
6 65 (2.48%) Cisco
7 58 (2.21%) Google
8 50 (1.91%) Splunk
9 49 (1.87%) F5
9 49 (1.87%) SAP
10 47 (1.79%) VMware
11 46 (1.76%) Citrix
12 45 (1.72%) Salesforce
13 33 (1.26%) Murex
14 31 (1.18%) CyberArk
14 31 (1.18%) OpenAI
15 27 (1.03%) NetApp
16 26 (0.99%) Fortinet
17 25 (0.95%) Avaloq
17 25 (0.95%) Red Hat