Banking Contracts in England

Banking
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Banking over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 21 25
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,251 4,058 5,401
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 6.09% 8.03% 7.59%
As % of the General category 10.42% 13.55% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,643 2,899 3,671
10th Percentile £382 £450 £431
25th Percentile £500 £538 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.96% +10.87%
75th Percentile £775 £798 £750
90th Percentile £850 £888 £825
UK median daily rate £618 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 6 22
10th Percentile £12.17 £11.33 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.99 £16.24 £16.38
Median hourly rate £19.50 £21.00 £23.48
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -10.57% +50.96%
75th Percentile £35.25 - £33.87
90th Percentile £81.15 £31.38 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £21.00 £25.71
% change year-on-year -7.14% -18.30% +62.07%

All General Skills
England

Banking is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,593 29,947 40,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.42% 59.25% 56.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,921 20,994 27,954
10th Percentile £275 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,773 988 1,324
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.46 £18.44 £14.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
Median % change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%
75th Percentile £51.50 £61.25 £45.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.26 £57.97
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -17.14% +62.79% -4.44%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Banking in England

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Banking in England.

Daily rate trend for Banking in England

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in England

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Banking in England.

Hourly rate trend for Banking in England

Banking
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Banking in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 -3 1,855 £650 -3.70% 571
North of England +2 175 £500 -9.09% 65
North West +10 95 £500 -3.47% 44
South East +29 83 £513 -14.58% 41
Yorkshire -9 75 £444 -19.32% 17
Midlands -10 42 £484 -12.05% 34
South West +6 26 £630 +9.57% 26
East Midlands +35 24 £450 +9.09% 12
East of England +30 21 £588 +30.56% 13
West Midlands -4 17 £525 -4.55% 22
North East +17 5 £500 -30.56% 4
South Coast - 3 £500 -
Banking
UK

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 125 (5.55%) Apache
2 122 (5.42%) Apache Airflow
3 59 (2.62%) SharePoint
4 39 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 36 (1.60%) Confluence
6 15 (0.67%) Apache Spark
7 13 (0.58%) SAS
8 8 (0.36%) CMS
9 7 (0.31%) IIS
9 7 (0.31%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.22%) JBoss
10 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.22%) Tornado
11 4 (0.18%) Appian
11 4 (0.18%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.18%) nginx
12 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.13%) GemFire
12 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 96 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (1.38%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.27%) Sketch
8 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.13%) InVision
9 2 (0.089%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.089%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.044%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.044%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.044%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.044%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.044%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 19 (0.84%) Aladdin
2 16 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.71%) Loan IQ
3 15 (0.67%) ION Anvil
4 13 (0.58%) Temenos T24
5 10 (0.44%) ION MarketView
5 10 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
6 9 (0.40%) FLEXCUBE
6 9 (0.40%) IntelliMatch
6 9 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
8 6 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
8 6 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
9 5 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
9 5 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
9 5 (0.22%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.18%) Oracle FAH
10 4 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 285 (12.66%) Azure
2 275 (12.22%) AWS
3 146 (6.49%) GCP
4 77 (3.42%) dbt
5 73 (3.24%) Power Platform
6 63 (2.80%) Snowflake
7 49 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
8 30 (1.33%) Entra ID
8 30 (1.33%) GitHub
9 28 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
10 27 (1.20%) Serverless
11 22 (0.98%) SaaS
12 17 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (0.76%) Microsoft Purview
13 16 (0.71%) Power Automate
14 15 (0.67%) PaaS
15 14 (0.62%) Azure Key Vault
15 14 (0.62%) IaaS
15 14 (0.62%) PowerApps
16 13 (0.58%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 74 (3.29%) Firewall
2 46 (2.04%) DMZ
3 23 (1.02%) VPN
4 20 (0.89%) Network Security
5 17 (0.76%) Internet
5 17 (0.76%) SAN
6 16 (0.71%) DNS
7 13 (0.58%) Cisco Nexus
7 13 (0.58%) WAN
8 10 (0.44%) LAN
8 10 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.40%) DHCP
9 9 (0.40%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.36%) HTTP
10 8 (0.36%) Remote Desktop
10 8 (0.36%) SSH
10 8 (0.36%) Wireless
11 7 (0.31%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.27%) SSL
13 5 (0.22%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (5.33%) SQL Server
2 115 (5.11%) Apache Ignite
3 82 (3.64%) Amazon Athena
4 77 (3.42%) Apache Arrow
4 77 (3.42%) Dremio
5 75 (3.33%) Data Lake
6 65 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
7 64 (2.84%) Power BI
8 54 (2.40%) Relational Database
9 41 (1.82%) NoSQL
10 33 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
11 29 (1.29%) Big Data
11 29 (1.29%) Oracle Database
12 28 (1.24%) MongoDB
13 27 (1.20%) MySQL
14 26 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 25 (1.11%) Tableau
16 22 (0.98%) Metadata
17 17 (0.76%) KDB
18 16 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 97 (4.31%) JIRA
2 52 (2.31%) Git
3 45 (2.00%) Jenkins
4 42 (1.87%) TeamCity
5 35 (1.55%) Selenium
6 33 (1.47%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.47%) Cypress.io
7 23 (1.02%) GitLab
8 14 (0.62%) Postman
9 13 (0.58%) Bitbucket
9 13 (0.58%) Visual Studio
10 12 (0.53%) Maven
11 9 (0.40%) Artifactory
11 9 (0.40%) SpecFlow
12 8 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 7 (0.31%) ERwin
13 7 (0.31%) JUnit
13 7 (0.31%) TestRail
14 6 (0.27%) Toad
General
1 1,497 (66.50%) Finance
2 548 (24.34%) Investment Banking
3 450 (19.99%) Social Skills
4 332 (14.75%) Front Office
5 207 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
6 82 (3.64%) Back Office
7 77 (3.42%) Retail Banking
8 73 (3.24%) Retail
9 55 (2.44%) Financial Institution
10 48 (2.13%) Corporate Banking
11 39 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
12 36 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
13 29 (1.29%) Legal
13 29 (1.29%) Wholesale Banking
14 25 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
14 25 (1.11%) Public Sector
15 21 (0.93%) Prime Brokerage
16 20 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 17 (0.76%) International Banking
18 14 (0.62%) Billing
Job Titles
1 479 (21.28%) Developer
2 435 (19.32%) Analyst
3 229 (10.17%) Senior
4 223 (9.91%) Business Analyst
5 211 (9.37%) Architect
6 137 (6.09%) Project Manager
7 136 (6.04%) Banking Analyst
8 132 (5.86%) Lead
9 122 (5.42%) Java Developer
10 115 (5.11%) Software Engineer
11 92 (4.09%) Python Developer
12 88 (3.91%) Financial Analyst
13 84 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
14 76 (3.38%) Consultant
15 75 (3.33%) Data Analyst
16 73 (3.24%) Python Engineer
17 70 (3.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 68 (3.02%) Python Software Engineer
19 67 (2.98%) C# Developer
19 67 (2.98%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (5.46%) gRPC
2 119 (5.29%) Protocol Buffers
3 113 (5.02%) React
4 96 (4.26%) .NET
5 82 (3.64%) Pandas
6 75 (3.33%) NumPy
7 73 (3.24%) SciPy
8 62 (2.75%) FIX Protocol
9 60 (2.67%) Redux
10 53 (2.35%) Spring
11 51 (2.27%) HTML
12 48 (2.13%) CSS
13 47 (2.09%) Kafka
14 43 (1.91%) Material-UI
15 41 (1.82%) WPF
16 37 (1.64%) AngularJS
16 37 (1.64%) REST
17 35 (1.55%) Node.js
18 34 (1.51%) Spring Boot
19 30 (1.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 243 (10.80%) Derivative
2 222 (9.86%) Fixed Income
3 179 (7.95%) Hedge funds
4 163 (7.24%) Equities
5 153 (6.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 86 (3.82%) Product Ownership
7 59 (2.62%) Management Information System
8 53 (2.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 37 (1.64%) Data Centre
10 29 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
10 29 (1.29%) Market Risk
11 28 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
11 28 (1.24%) Public Cloud
12 27 (1.20%) Onboarding
13 23 (1.02%) Equity Derivative
14 22 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
14 22 (0.98%) Security Posture
15 21 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
16 20 (0.89%) Algorithms
16 20 (0.89%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 154 (6.84%) Windows
2 113 (5.02%) Linux
3 83 (3.69%) Unix
4 20 (0.89%) Windows 10
5 19 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (0.67%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.62%) Android
7 14 (0.62%) Windows 7
8 13 (0.58%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
8 13 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (0.49%) zOS
10 7 (0.31%) MVS
11 6 (0.27%) VMS
12 4 (0.18%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.18%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.13%) Kali Linux
14 2 (0.089%) AIX
15 1 (0.044%) Solaris
15 1 (0.044%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 546 (24.26%) Agile
2 243 (10.80%) Change Management
3 229 (10.17%) Problem-Solving
4 219 (9.73%) Software Engineering
5 210 (9.33%) Asset Management
5 210 (9.33%) DevOps
6 193 (8.57%) Migration
7 192 (8.53%) Stakeholder Management
8 171 (7.60%) Investment Management
9 149 (6.62%) Project Management
10 130 (5.78%) CI/CD
11 113 (5.02%) Analytics
11 113 (5.02%) Test Automation
12 106 (4.71%) SDLC
13 100 (4.44%) Microservices
13 100 (4.44%) Roadmaps
14 99 (4.40%) Scrum
15 96 (4.26%) Risk Management
16 90 (4.00%) Computer Science
17 89 (3.95%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 395 (17.55%) SQL
2 389 (17.28%) Python
3 360 (15.99%) Java
4 232 (10.31%) C#
5 164 (7.29%) TypeScript
6 159 (7.06%) JavaScript
7 66 (2.93%) PowerShell
8 55 (2.44%) C++
9 40 (1.78%) Scala
10 27 (1.20%) PL/SQL
11 24 (1.07%) Shell Script
12 16 (0.71%) Perl
13 15 (0.67%) Go
13 15 (0.67%) Ruby
14 14 (0.62%) T-SQL
15 12 (0.53%) Bash
16 11 (0.49%) VBA
17 10 (0.44%) R
18 8 (0.36%) Kotlin
18 8 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 173 (7.69%) Degree
2 66 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 46 (2.04%) Security Cleared
4 42 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
4 42 (1.87%) SC Cleared
5 24 (1.07%) CISSP
5 24 (1.07%) Master's Degree
6 20 (0.89%) CISM
7 19 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (0.84%) PMI Certification
7 19 (0.84%) PMP
8 18 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
9 12 (0.53%) CCNP
10 11 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
11 10 (0.44%) Azure Certification
11 10 (0.44%) Six Sigma Black Belt
11 10 (0.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 9 (0.40%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.36%) CISA
13 8 (0.36%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (4.22%) QA
2 64 (2.84%) PMO
3 56 (2.49%) Data Quality
4 35 (1.55%) SLA
5 31 (1.38%) EMIR
5 31 (1.38%) MiFID
6 25 (1.11%) NIST
7 18 (0.80%) GDPR
8 17 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (0.76%) SEPA
9 11 (0.49%) Dodd-Frank
9 11 (0.49%) ISO 20022
9 11 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.36%) IFRS
10 8 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 7 (0.31%) Basel III
11 7 (0.31%) GAAP
11 7 (0.31%) GRC
12 5 (0.22%) IFRS 9
12 5 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 85 (3.78%) Active Directory
2 38 (1.69%) Docker
3 16 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.31%) KVM
5 7 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
6 5 (0.22%) ACF2
6 5 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.22%) IAG
6 5 (0.22%) RACF
7 4 (0.18%) vSphere
8 3 (0.13%) HDFS
8 3 (0.13%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.089%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.089%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.089%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.044%) GridGain
10 1 (0.044%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.044%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 53 (2.35%) Kubernetes
2 34 (1.51%) Ansible
3 28 (1.24%) Terraform
4 25 (1.11%) SCCM
5 15 (0.67%) Puppet
6 14 (0.62%) Grafana
6 14 (0.62%) ITRS Geneos
7 10 (0.44%) Kibana
8 9 (0.40%) Control-M
8 9 (0.40%) PingFederate
9 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.36%) vCenter Server
10 7 (0.31%) Data Guard
10 7 (0.31%) logstash
10 7 (0.31%) Prometheus
10 7 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.22%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.18%) NetBackup
12 4 (0.18%) QRadar
13 3 (0.13%) Nessus
Vendors
1 228 (10.13%) Microsoft
2 138 (6.13%) Oracle
3 94 (4.18%) Google
4 91 (4.04%) Cisco
5 52 (2.31%) CheckPoint
6 47 (2.09%) Bloomberg
7 40 (1.78%) ServiceNow
8 34 (1.51%) IBM
9 30 (1.33%) Arista
9 30 (1.33%) Databricks
10 27 (1.20%) Citrix
11 25 (1.11%) VMware
12 24 (1.07%) SAP
13 23 (1.02%) Splunk
14 21 (0.93%) ION Trading
15 19 (0.84%) EMC
15 19 (0.84%) HP
15 19 (0.84%) Red Hat
16 18 (0.80%) CyberArk
17 16 (0.71%) Refinitiv