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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 23 24
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,698 2,207 2,481
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.91% 8.00% 7.51%
As % of the General category 10.67% 12.45% 12.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,651 1,518 1,764
10th Percentile £400 £350 £400
25th Percentile £456 £415 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% -
75th Percentile £675 £725 £792
90th Percentile £823 £825 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £613
% change year-on-year - -10.20% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 33 14
10th Percentile £16.55 £18.18 £13.98
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.66 £14.50
Median hourly rate £17.50 £25.15 £17.14
Median % change year-on-year -30.42% +46.78% -4.70%
75th Percentile £41.00 - £27.00
90th Percentile £97.00 £66.50 £59.33
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 25,277 17,733 19,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.35% 64.31% 57.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,970 11,266 11,992
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £424 £400 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -6.88% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £651
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 2,056 987 1,075
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.45 £16.21 £18.00
Median hourly rate £31.93 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +26.94% -34.02% +38.62%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £72.70 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £31.16 £25.15 £36.50
% change year-on-year +23.88% -31.10% +32.73%

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 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 1 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 1 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 1,953 £600 -4.00% 2,144
North of England -6 513 £500 +14.29% 204
North West -4 267 £500 +17.65% 109
Yorkshire -8 237 £501 +11.22% 79
Midlands -29 144 £511 +16.89% 76
West Midlands +2 108 £525 -1.18% 42
South West -40 38 £563 +7.14% 155
South East -48 38 £515 +16.06% 157
East of England +12 37 £600 -14.29% 18
East Midlands -39 36 £478 +19.95% 33
North East -38 13 £875 +108.33% 16
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
1 165 (6.12%) Confluence
2 67 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 26 (0.96%) Apache Spark
4 25 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (0.82%) Apache
5 22 (0.82%) SAS
6 15 (0.56%) Camunda
6 15 (0.56%) IIS
7 10 (0.37%) Appian
8 9 (0.33%) CICS
9 8 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.19%) MTS
11 5 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.15%) WordPress
13 3 (0.11%) CMS
13 3 (0.11%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.11%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 103 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (1.19%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Sketch
8 3 (0.11%) Trello
9 2 (0.074%) EngageOne
9 2 (0.074%) InVision
9 2 (0.074%) Notion
10 1 (0.037%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.037%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.037%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 19 (0.70%) Temenos T24
2 17 (0.63%) Finacle
3 16 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
4 15 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
4 15 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
5 14 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
6 13 (0.48%) Aladdin
7 12 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
8 10 (0.37%) FLEXCUBE
9 9 (0.33%) Loan IQ
9 9 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
10 8 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
10 8 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
11 7 (0.26%) OpenText MBPM
12 6 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
13 5 (0.19%) Actimize
13 5 (0.19%) NetSuite
13 5 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
13 5 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 5 (0.19%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 408 (15.12%) Azure
2 350 (12.97%) AWS
3 166 (6.15%) GCP
4 150 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 83 (3.08%) GitHub
6 82 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
7 78 (2.89%) Microsoft 365
8 72 (2.67%) SaaS
8 72 (2.67%) Snowflake
9 53 (1.96%) Entra ID
10 41 (1.52%) OpenShift
11 40 (1.48%) Amazon S3
12 37 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
13 36 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
14 35 (1.30%) Serverless
15 27 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
16 25 (0.93%) Figma
17 24 (0.89%) Microsoft Copilot
17 24 (0.89%) Power Automate
18 22 (0.82%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 83 (3.08%) Firewall
2 68 (2.52%) VPN
3 62 (2.30%) DNS
4 58 (2.15%) Network Security
5 43 (1.59%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.15%) Multicast
6 31 (1.15%) SSL
7 29 (1.07%) BGP
8 24 (0.89%) HTTP
9 21 (0.78%) BIG-IP
9 21 (0.78%) DMZ
10 19 (0.70%) WAN
11 18 (0.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 18 (0.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 17 (0.63%) Wireshark
13 16 (0.59%) DHCP
13 16 (0.59%) LAN
13 16 (0.59%) SAN
14 15 (0.56%) FIX Connectivity
15 10 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (4.63%) Power BI
2 123 (4.56%) SQL Server
3 91 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
4 74 (2.74%) Metadata
5 70 (2.59%) Relational Database
6 45 (1.67%) Oracle Database
7 41 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (1.37%) Data Lake
9 35 (1.30%) Tableau
10 29 (1.07%) MongoDB
11 24 (0.89%) Db2
12 23 (0.85%) Big Data
13 20 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
13 20 (0.74%) RDBMS
14 19 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 18 (0.67%) NoSQL
16 17 (0.63%) Data Vault
17 16 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
18 15 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
18 15 (0.56%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 278 (10.30%) JIRA
2 125 (4.63%) Git
3 108 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 64 (2.37%) GitLab
5 42 (1.56%) Selenium
6 36 (1.33%) JUnit
7 22 (0.82%) Gradle
7 22 (0.82%) Maven
8 21 (0.78%) SonarQube
9 20 (0.74%) REST Assured
10 19 (0.70%) Bitbucket
10 19 (0.70%) Cucumber
10 19 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
11 18 (0.67%) Mockito
12 17 (0.63%) Postman
13 16 (0.59%) ER Studio
13 16 (0.59%) ERwin
14 15 (0.56%) Fiddler
15 14 (0.52%) TeamCity
16 13 (0.48%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,749 (64.83%) Finance
2 758 (28.09%) Social Skills
3 538 (19.94%) Investment Banking
4 396 (14.68%) Analytical Skills
5 240 (8.90%) Front Office
6 133 (4.93%) Financial Institution
7 121 (4.48%) Retail
8 113 (4.19%) Retail Banking
9 91 (3.37%) Corporate Banking
10 82 (3.04%) Legal
11 67 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
12 62 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
13 61 (2.26%) Private Banking
14 51 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
15 48 (1.78%) Back Office
16 34 (1.26%) Public Sector
17 30 (1.11%) General Ledger
17 30 (1.11%) Marketing
18 29 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
19 26 (0.96%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 464 (17.20%) Developer
2 396 (14.68%) Analyst
3 364 (13.49%) Senior
4 279 (10.34%) Architect
5 264 (9.79%) Lead
6 244 (9.04%) Business Analyst
7 151 (5.60%) Java Developer
8 124 (4.60%) Project Manager
9 100 (3.71%) Senior Developer
10 99 (3.67%) Data Engineer
11 91 (3.37%) Consultant
11 91 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
12 81 (3.00%) Banking Analyst
13 69 (2.56%) Software Engineer
14 62 (2.30%) Network Engineer
15 61 (2.26%) Data Analyst
16 55 (2.04%) Designer
17 54 (2.00%) Senior Java Developer
18 52 (1.93%) Java Engineer
19 49 (1.82%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (5.19%) React
2 129 (4.78%) Kafka
3 120 (4.45%) .NET
4 108 (4.00%) REST
5 93 (3.45%) Spring
6 91 (3.37%) Spring Boot
6 91 (3.37%) Terraform
7 87 (3.22%) Middleware
8 60 (2.22%) Redux
9 44 (1.63%) HTML
9 44 (1.63%) RESTful
10 42 (1.56%) FIX Protocol
11 41 (1.52%) CSS
12 39 (1.45%) PySpark
13 34 (1.26%) JSON
13 34 (1.26%) OAuth
14 32 (1.19%) XML
15 29 (1.07%) AngularJS
16 27 (1.00%) LangChain
17 26 (0.96%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 221 (8.19%) Product Ownership
2 179 (6.63%) Onboarding
3 154 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 135 (5.00%) Derivative
5 123 (4.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 100 (3.71%) Fixed Income
7 85 (3.15%) Equities
8 84 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
9 81 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
10 77 (2.85%) Management Information System
11 75 (2.78%) Data Structures
12 71 (2.63%) AI Agents
13 61 (2.26%) Credit Risk
14 58 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
15 54 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
15 54 (2.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 51 (1.89%) Mainframe
17 50 (1.85%) Data Centre
18 47 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
19 42 (1.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 147 (5.45%) Linux
2 146 (5.41%) Windows
3 92 (3.41%) Unix
4 41 (1.52%) Windows Server
5 26 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (0.96%) zOS
6 24 (0.89%) Apple iOS
7 21 (0.78%) Android
8 16 (0.59%) Ubuntu
9 11 (0.41%) AIX
10 10 (0.37%) Windows 10
11 8 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
11 8 (0.30%) Solaris
12 6 (0.22%) HPUX
12 6 (0.22%) SUSE
13 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.11%) CentOS
14 3 (0.11%) MVS
14 3 (0.11%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 654 (24.24%) Agile
2 641 (23.76%) Stakeholder Management
3 407 (15.09%) CI/CD
4 401 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
5 381 (14.12%) AI
6 334 (12.38%) DevOps
7 306 (11.34%) Migration
8 303 (11.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 259 (9.60%) Analytics
10 237 (8.78%) Roadmaps
11 232 (8.60%) Data Modelling
12 202 (7.49%) Microservices
12 202 (7.49%) Software Engineering
13 200 (7.41%) Decision-Making
13 200 (7.41%) Validation
14 196 (7.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 185 (6.86%) User Acceptance Testing
16 183 (6.78%) Change Management
17 181 (6.71%) Test Automation
18 178 (6.60%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 479 (17.75%) SQL
2 383 (14.20%) Python
3 360 (13.34%) Java
4 179 (6.63%) C#
5 138 (5.11%) JavaScript
6 109 (4.04%) TypeScript
7 87 (3.22%) PowerShell
8 73 (2.71%) PL/SQL
9 52 (1.93%) Bash
10 50 (1.85%) Shell Script
11 43 (1.59%) Kotlin
12 37 (1.37%) T-SQL
13 35 (1.30%) C++
14 26 (0.96%) Korn
15 22 (0.82%) VBA
16 15 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 14 (0.52%) Go
18 11 (0.41%) JCL
19 10 (0.37%) Apex Code
20 9 (0.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 185 (6.86%) Degree
2 139 (5.15%) Security Cleared
3 114 (4.23%) SC Cleared
4 63 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 50 (1.85%) PMP
6 46 (1.70%) PMI Certification
7 37 (1.37%) CISSP
8 31 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (1.00%) Azure Certification
10 23 (0.85%) AWS Certification
11 21 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
12 18 (0.67%) ISTQB
13 17 (0.63%) ACCA
13 17 (0.63%) CISM
14 16 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 16 (0.59%) Master's Degree
15 14 (0.52%) CIMA
16 13 (0.48%) CCSP
17 12 (0.44%) CCNP
18 10 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (6.00%) Data Quality
2 141 (5.23%) QA
3 59 (2.19%) PMO
4 46 (1.70%) ISO 20022
5 39 (1.45%) GRC
6 36 (1.33%) NIST
7 34 (1.26%) GDPR
8 32 (1.19%) SEPA
9 26 (0.96%) SLA
10 25 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 24 (0.89%) Accessibility
12 21 (0.78%) PSD2
13 20 (0.74%) MiFID
14 16 (0.59%) IFRS
15 13 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 12 (0.44%) EMIR
16 12 (0.44%) PCI DSS
17 7 (0.26%) COREP
17 7 (0.26%) FINREP
18 6 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 111 (4.11%) Docker
2 69 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.74%) RACF
5 15 (0.56%) Firmware
6 10 (0.37%) NFS
7 8 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.30%) vSphere
8 5 (0.19%) ACF2
8 5 (0.19%) Varnish
8 5 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.11%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.11%) XenApp
10 3 (0.11%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.074%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.074%) GPFS
11 2 (0.074%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 162 (6.00%) Kubernetes
2 72 (2.67%) Ansible
3 29 (1.07%) Grafana
3 29 (1.07%) Prometheus
4 17 (0.63%) Control-M
4 17 (0.63%) SCCM
4 17 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (0.56%) OMEGAMON
6 12 (0.44%) Istio
7 11 (0.41%) Argo
8 9 (0.33%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
10 6 (0.22%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.22%) WSUS
11 5 (0.19%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.19%) systemd
12 4 (0.15%) CA Endevor
12 4 (0.15%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.15%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 302 (11.19%) Microsoft
2 212 (7.86%) Oracle
3 104 (3.85%) IBM
4 91 (3.37%) Databricks
5 90 (3.34%) ServiceNow
6 59 (2.19%) Cisco
7 54 (2.00%) Salesforce
8 51 (1.89%) Google
9 50 (1.85%) SAP
10 49 (1.82%) Splunk
11 44 (1.63%) F5
12 38 (1.41%) Citrix
13 36 (1.33%) CyberArk
14 35 (1.30%) OpenAI
14 35 (1.30%) VMware
15 29 (1.07%) Murex
16 28 (1.04%) Bloomberg
17 25 (0.93%) Dynatrace
18 24 (0.89%) Avaloq
19 22 (0.82%) Atlassian