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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 25 23
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 -5
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,028 2,000 2,484
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.54% 7.49% 6.82%
As % of the General category 10.77% 12.07% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,274 1,283 1,733
10th Percentile £358 £382 £400
25th Percentile £441 £490 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £609 £613
Median % change year-on-year -10.51% -0.57% -5.77%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £750
90th Percentile £804 £838 £850
UK median daily rate £540 £600 £612
% change year-on-year -10.00% -1.96% -5.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 10 17
10th Percentile £18.60 £15.07 £13.64
25th Percentile £24.80 £17.01 £16.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +17.64% -9.86%
75th Percentile £25.43 £27.51 £30.00
90th Percentile £63.50 £80.38 £39.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £24.15 £18.93
% change year-on-year +4.14% +27.58% -9.86%

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 18,828 16,570 21,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 60.71% 62.03% 59.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,944 9,986 14,444
10th Percentile £284 £295 £275
25th Percentile £402 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% -2.91% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,180 542 1,087
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.49 £14.05
25th Percentile £16.74 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.19 £29.12 £30.48
Median % change year-on-year -20.35% -4.46% +18.53%
75th Percentile £46.00 £55.88 £57.50
90th Percentile £70.07 £74.65 £70.03
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £27.19 £30.00
% change year-on-year -15.40% -9.38% +20.00%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -5 1,399 £600 -4.76% 251
North of England +6 416 £465 +2.20% 106
Yorkshire +6 221 £481 -13.68% 52
North West +8 203 £450 +5.88% 45
Midlands +19 166 £475 -13.64% 75
West Midlands +17 105 £540 -10.56% 32
East Midlands +12 63 £410 -0.30% 42
South East -17 47 £413 -25.00% 197
South West -11 32 £525 -13.40% 60
East of England -12 11 £400 -46.67% 51
North East -5 5 £400 - 9
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
1 138 (6.80%) Confluence
2 53 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.23%) Apache
4 24 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.94%) Apache Spark
6 14 (0.69%) CICS
6 14 (0.69%) CMS
7 10 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.39%) IIS
8 8 (0.39%) MQSeries
8 8 (0.39%) Mule
9 7 (0.35%) HCL Notes
10 6 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.30%) SAS
11 5 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.25%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.15%) WebLogic
14 2 (0.099%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 128 (6.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (2.17%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
6 21 (1.04%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.25%) Adobe Captivate
9 3 (0.15%) Notion
9 3 (0.15%) Sketch
9 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.15%) Trello
10 1 (0.049%) InVision
10 1 (0.049%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 24 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
2 19 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
4 16 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
5 15 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
6 13 (0.64%) Oracle General Ledger
7 10 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
8 9 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
8 9 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 9 (0.44%) Temenos T24
9 8 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
9 8 (0.39%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 8 (0.39%) VisionPLUS
10 6 (0.30%) Fidessa
10 6 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
10 6 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
10 6 (0.30%) Oracle FAH
11 5 (0.25%) Oracle E-Business Tax
11 5 (0.25%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 311 (15.34%) Azure
2 304 (14.99%) AWS
3 168 (8.28%) GCP
4 146 (7.20%) Power Platform
5 82 (4.04%) GitHub
6 80 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
7 63 (3.11%) Serverless
8 49 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (2.32%) Figma
10 39 (1.92%) PowerApps
10 39 (1.92%) SaaS
11 38 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
12 31 (1.53%) Snowflake
13 30 (1.48%) Power Automate
14 27 (1.33%) Entra ID
15 24 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
15 24 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
16 22 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
17 20 (0.99%) Amazon S3
17 20 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 51 (2.51%) DNS
2 47 (2.32%) Firewall
3 33 (1.63%) Network Security
4 28 (1.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 28 (1.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 28 (1.38%) HTTP
4 28 (1.38%) TCP/IP
5 24 (1.18%) DMZ
5 24 (1.18%) Wireless
6 20 (0.99%) SSL
6 20 (0.99%) VPN
7 16 (0.79%) BIG-IP
7 16 (0.79%) Wireshark
8 15 (0.74%) NetScaler
9 12 (0.59%) DHCP
10 11 (0.54%) BGP
10 11 (0.54%) Multicast
11 10 (0.49%) LAN
12 9 (0.44%) Skype
13 8 (0.39%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (6.02%) Power BI
2 88 (4.34%) SQL Server
3 74 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
4 67 (3.30%) Tableau
5 64 (3.16%) NoSQL
6 45 (2.22%) MongoDB
7 41 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
8 38 (1.87%) Oracle Database
9 36 (1.78%) Relational Database
10 31 (1.53%) Metadata
11 27 (1.33%) Data Lake
12 22 (1.08%) Big Data
12 22 (1.08%) DB2
13 18 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
13 18 (0.89%) Hadoop
14 17 (0.84%) Apache Arrow
14 17 (0.84%) Apache Iceberg
14 17 (0.84%) Apache Ignite
14 17 (0.84%) Dremio
15 16 (0.79%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 220 (10.85%) JIRA
2 143 (7.05%) Jenkins
3 98 (4.83%) Git
4 79 (3.90%) GitLab
5 34 (1.68%) JUnit
5 34 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
6 30 (1.48%) Bitbucket
6 30 (1.48%) Selenium
7 23 (1.13%) Cucumber
8 22 (1.08%) Liquibase
9 19 (0.94%) SonarQube
10 18 (0.89%) Maven
11 17 (0.84%) Postman
12 16 (0.79%) REST Assured
13 15 (0.74%) Fiddler
13 15 (0.74%) Gradle
13 15 (0.74%) TeamCity
14 11 (0.54%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.49%) webpack
16 8 (0.39%) SoapUI
General
1 1,311 (64.64%) Finance
2 745 (36.74%) Social Skills
3 427 (21.06%) Investment Banking
4 277 (13.66%) Analytical Skills
5 178 (8.78%) Front Office
6 133 (6.56%) Financial Institution
7 67 (3.30%) Retail Banking
8 53 (2.61%) Legal
9 48 (2.37%) Retail
10 45 (2.22%) Corporate Banking
10 45 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
11 37 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
12 35 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
13 33 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
14 32 (1.58%) Back Office
14 32 (1.58%) Public Sector
15 25 (1.23%) General Ledger
15 25 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 24 (1.18%) International Banking
17 21 (1.04%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 390 (19.23%) Developer
2 337 (16.62%) Analyst
3 276 (13.61%) Senior
4 227 (11.19%) Business Analyst
5 173 (8.53%) Architect
6 132 (6.51%) Project Manager
7 117 (5.77%) Lead
8 104 (5.13%) Java Developer
9 87 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
10 85 (4.19%) Senior Developer
11 67 (3.30%) Banking Analyst
12 66 (3.25%) Consultant
13 53 (2.61%) DevOps Engineer
14 52 (2.56%) Designer
14 52 (2.56%) Software Engineer
15 49 (2.42%) Banking Business Analyst
16 45 (2.22%) Senior Analyst
16 45 (2.22%) Senior Java Developer
17 43 (2.12%) AWS Engineer
18 42 (2.07%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (5.77%) Kafka
2 97 (4.78%) .NET
2 97 (4.78%) REST
3 80 (3.94%) Spring
4 74 (3.65%) RESTful
5 69 (3.40%) Spring Boot
6 63 (3.11%) React
7 56 (2.76%) Pandas
8 55 (2.71%) HTML
9 50 (2.47%) NumPy
10 48 (2.37%) XML
11 47 (2.32%) Middleware
12 44 (2.17%) AngularJS
13 39 (1.92%) CSS
14 32 (1.58%) Node.js
14 32 (1.58%) SciPy
15 31 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
16 30 (1.48%) JSON
17 29 (1.43%) JMS
18 25 (1.23%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 131 (6.46%) Derivative
2 116 (5.72%) Product Ownership
3 115 (5.67%) Onboarding
4 107 (5.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 93 (4.59%) Cloud Native
6 83 (4.09%) Management Information System
7 78 (3.85%) Equities
8 71 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
9 68 (3.35%) Data Protection Act
10 63 (3.11%) Fixed Income
11 55 (2.71%) Hedge funds
12 51 (2.51%) Data Centre
13 47 (2.32%) Mobile App
13 47 (2.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 42 (2.07%) Data Structures
14 42 (2.07%) Public Cloud
15 33 (1.63%) Market Risk
16 31 (1.53%) Credit Risk
17 29 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
18 28 (1.38%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 131 (6.46%) Linux
2 113 (5.57%) Windows
3 42 (2.07%) Unix
4 41 (2.02%) Android
5 32 (1.58%) Windows 10
6 23 (1.13%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.99%) Mac OS
7 20 (0.99%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.39%) zOS
9 4 (0.20%) AIX
9 4 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.20%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.049%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.049%) Solaris
11 1 (0.049%) VMS
11 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 575 (28.35%) Agile
2 392 (19.33%) Problem-Solving
3 336 (16.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 317 (15.63%) DevOps
5 304 (14.99%) CI/CD
6 194 (9.57%) Analytics
7 180 (8.88%) Microservices
8 174 (8.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 171 (8.43%) Risk Management
10 157 (7.74%) Migration
10 157 (7.74%) Project Management
11 152 (7.50%) Decision-Making
12 148 (7.30%) Change Management
13 143 (7.05%) AI
14 140 (6.90%) Business Intelligence
15 138 (6.80%) Data Modelling
16 136 (6.71%) Scrum
17 133 (6.56%) Containerisation
18 127 (6.26%) Data Analysis
18 127 (6.26%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 375 (18.49%) SQL
2 350 (17.26%) Python
3 293 (14.45%) Java
4 139 (6.85%) C#
5 94 (4.64%) JavaScript
6 58 (2.86%) Go
7 54 (2.66%) PowerShell
8 53 (2.61%) TypeScript
9 43 (2.12%) C++
10 33 (1.63%) PL/SQL
11 26 (1.28%) Bash
11 26 (1.28%) Shell Script
12 23 (1.13%) VBA
13 18 (0.89%) COBOL
13 18 (0.89%) Kotlin
14 16 (0.79%) T-SQL
15 14 (0.69%) Scala
16 13 (0.64%) R
16 13 (0.64%) Rust
17 12 (0.59%) Korn
Qualifications
1 256 (12.62%) Degree
2 89 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 83 (4.09%) Security Cleared
4 77 (3.80%) Master's Degree
5 60 (2.96%) PMI Certification
6 55 (2.71%) PMP
7 36 (1.78%) SC Cleared
8 32 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (1.28%) CISSP
10 25 (1.23%) AWS Certification
11 23 (1.13%) Azure Certification
12 15 (0.74%) CBAP
12 15 (0.74%) DV Cleared
13 14 (0.69%) MBA
14 12 (0.59%) BC Cleared
14 12 (0.59%) CISM
14 12 (0.59%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.49%) PhD
16 9 (0.44%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (6.80%) QA
2 81 (3.99%) Data Quality
3 53 (2.61%) GDPR
4 48 (2.37%) ISO 20022
5 46 (2.27%) PMO
6 34 (1.68%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.48%) PSD2
8 28 (1.38%) SEPA
8 28 (1.38%) SLA
9 24 (1.18%) Basel III
10 23 (1.13%) MiFID
10 23 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 22 (1.08%) GRC
12 20 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 19 (0.94%) NIST
13 19 (0.94%) PCI DSS
14 16 (0.79%) EMIR
15 13 (0.64%) IFRS
16 11 (0.54%) ISO 8583
17 8 (0.39%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 170 (8.38%) Docker
2 43 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (1.43%) Active Directory
4 20 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.79%) Firmware
6 6 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.15%) RACF
8 3 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
8 3 (0.15%) vSphere
9 2 (0.099%) ACF2
9 2 (0.099%) GridGain
9 2 (0.099%) NFS
9 2 (0.099%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.049%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.049%) GPFS
10 1 (0.049%) HDFS
10 1 (0.049%) KVM
10 1 (0.049%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 196 (9.66%) Kubernetes
2 113 (5.57%) Terraform
3 77 (3.80%) Ansible
4 52 (2.56%) Grafana
5 44 (2.17%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.79%) SCCM
7 15 (0.74%) Argo
8 11 (0.54%) Control-M
9 8 (0.39%) CA Endevor
9 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.35%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (0.35%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
10 7 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.30%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.20%) Istio
13 3 (0.15%) Thomson Reuters DACS
13 3 (0.15%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 3 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 229 (11.29%) Microsoft
2 149 (7.35%) Oracle
3 89 (4.39%) Google
4 61 (3.01%) Splunk
5 49 (2.42%) ServiceNow
5 49 (2.42%) VMware
6 45 (2.22%) IBM
7 41 (2.02%) Cisco
7 41 (2.02%) SAP
8 39 (1.92%) F5
9 33 (1.63%) Citrix
10 30 (1.48%) HP
11 29 (1.43%) Salesforce
12 28 (1.38%) Dell
12 28 (1.38%) Remedy
13 27 (1.33%) Apple
13 27 (1.33%) Bloomberg
13 27 (1.33%) Databricks
14 26 (1.28%) CyberArk
15 24 (1.18%) Dynatrace