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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 25 23
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,289 1,879 2,317
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.85% 7.72% 6.18%
As % of the General category 10.39% 12.12% 10.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,386 1,252 1,665
10th Percentile £369 £362 £381
25th Percentile £438 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £670 £750 £750
90th Percentile £780 £860 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £618
% change year-on-year -12.50% -2.83% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 18 25
10th Percentile £16.78 £17.25 £12.34
25th Percentile £17.74 £19.45 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.47 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.18% +20.33% -7.14%
75th Percentile £57.10 £24.66 £30.00
90th Percentile £96.63 £83.63 £79.30
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £19.50
% change year-on-year +4.01% +24.00% -7.14%

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 22,040 15,500 21,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.35% 63.64% 58.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,893 10,103 14,163
10th Percentile £304 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,403 632 1,738
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.22 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.13 £15.38
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.04 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.29% +5.58% -21.43%
75th Percentile £61.18 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £26.28 £29.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -9.40% +7.41% -22.86%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -10 1,569 £575 -9.80% 331
North of England +4 482 £475 +5.56% 73
North West +16 267 £447 +10.37% 41
Yorkshire -8 215 £500 -6.98% 25
Midlands +16 181 £468 -15.00% 41
West Midlands +18 126 £565 +1.80% 22
East Midlands -8 55 £441 +10.31% 19
South East -33 49 £475 -15.56% 94
South West -24 29 £500 -15.97% 9
East of England -29 16 £450 -25.00% 13
North East -10 9 £400 - 7
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
1 183 (7.99%) Confluence
2 54 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 22 (0.96%) SAS
5 14 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.57%) Apache
6 13 (0.57%) IIS
7 11 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.44%) CICS
9 7 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.22%) CMS
10 5 (0.22%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.22%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.13%) Camunda
11 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.087%) Appian
12 2 (0.087%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.087%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.087%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 153 (6.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 79 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 66 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
4 47 (2.05%) MS Visio
5 29 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.74%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.13%) Notion
7 3 (0.13%) Trello
8 2 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.087%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.087%) InVision
8 2 (0.087%) Sketch
8 2 (0.087%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.044%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.044%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 31 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.09%) Oracle Payables
3 21 (0.92%) Temenos T24
4 20 (0.87%) Oracle Receivables
5 19 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
5 19 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
6 17 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 15 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
7 15 (0.66%) Loan IQ
8 10 (0.44%) Actimize
8 10 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
8 10 (0.44%) SAP FI
9 9 (0.39%) Finacle
10 8 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 8 (0.35%) SAP CO
10 8 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
10 8 (0.35%) Summit
11 7 (0.31%) Aladdin
11 7 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
12 5 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 354 (15.47%) Azure
2 313 (13.67%) AWS
3 153 (6.68%) GCP
4 139 (6.07%) Power Platform
5 98 (4.28%) Microsoft 365
6 87 (3.80%) GitHub
7 62 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (2.32%) SaaS
9 44 (1.92%) Figma
9 44 (1.92%) Serverless
10 35 (1.53%) Entra ID
11 32 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
12 31 (1.35%) Amazon S3
12 31 (1.35%) OpenShift
13 28 (1.22%) Power Automate
14 27 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
14 27 (1.18%) OCI
15 26 (1.14%) PowerApps
15 26 (1.14%) Snowflake
16 24 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 74 (3.23%) DNS
2 50 (2.18%) Firewall
3 47 (2.05%) VPN
4 40 (1.75%) HTTP
4 40 (1.75%) TCP/IP
5 34 (1.49%) Network Security
6 28 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 27 (1.18%) BGP
7 27 (1.18%) Multicast
8 26 (1.14%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 25 (1.09%) BIG-IP
9 25 (1.09%) DMZ
9 25 (1.09%) SSL
10 22 (0.96%) SAN
11 21 (0.92%) Wireshark
12 20 (0.87%) NetScaler
13 19 (0.83%) FIX Connectivity
14 16 (0.70%) DHCP
15 13 (0.57%) Internet
15 13 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (4.72%) Power BI
2 96 (4.19%) SQL Server
3 69 (3.01%) Tableau
4 57 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
5 55 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
6 51 (2.23%) Metadata
7 41 (1.79%) Oracle Database
8 38 (1.66%) MongoDB
9 37 (1.62%) NoSQL
10 36 (1.57%) Relational Database
11 27 (1.18%) Big Data
12 22 (0.96%) BigQuery
13 18 (0.79%) DB2
14 15 (0.66%) Data Lake
14 15 (0.66%) Hadoop
14 15 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 14 (0.61%) Power Query
16 12 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
16 12 (0.52%) RDBMS
17 11 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 264 (11.53%) JIRA
2 108 (4.72%) Jenkins
3 91 (3.98%) Git
4 70 (3.06%) GitLab
5 28 (1.22%) JUnit
6 22 (0.96%) Selenium
7 21 (0.92%) Bitbucket
8 20 (0.87%) Fiddler
8 20 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
9 19 (0.83%) Cucumber
10 17 (0.74%) Postman
11 15 (0.66%) REST Assured
12 14 (0.61%) TeamCity
13 12 (0.52%) Maven
14 10 (0.44%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.44%) SonarQube
15 9 (0.39%) Mockito
16 8 (0.35%) Gradle
17 7 (0.31%) Chocolatey
18 6 (0.26%) webpack
General
1 1,433 (62.60%) Finance
2 698 (30.49%) Social Skills
3 450 (19.66%) Investment Banking
4 321 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
5 184 (8.04%) Front Office
6 104 (4.54%) Financial Institution
7 89 (3.89%) Retail Banking
8 74 (3.23%) Legal
9 69 (3.01%) Corporate Banking
10 68 (2.97%) Retail
11 62 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
12 56 (2.45%) Public Sector
13 44 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
14 35 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
15 34 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
16 31 (1.35%) Marketing
17 24 (1.05%) General Ledger
18 22 (0.96%) Back Office
18 22 (0.96%) International Banking
19 21 (0.92%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 382 (16.69%) Analyst
2 380 (16.60%) Developer
3 286 (12.49%) Senior
4 269 (11.75%) Architect
5 268 (11.71%) Business Analyst
6 157 (6.86%) Lead
7 126 (5.50%) Solutions Architect
8 120 (5.24%) Project Manager
9 102 (4.46%) Java Developer
10 87 (3.80%) Consultant
11 86 (3.76%) Senior Developer
12 83 (3.63%) Banking Analyst
13 72 (3.15%) Data Engineer
14 59 (2.58%) Banking Business Analyst
15 56 (2.45%) Payments Architect
16 55 (2.40%) Network Engineer
17 54 (2.36%) Designer
18 51 (2.23%) DevOps Engineer
19 50 (2.18%) Payments Solutions Architect
20 45 (1.97%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (5.07%) Kafka
2 109 (4.76%) .NET
3 86 (3.76%) REST
4 83 (3.63%) React
5 69 (3.01%) Spring
6 68 (2.97%) Middleware
7 62 (2.71%) Spring Boot
8 60 (2.62%) HTML
9 57 (2.49%) RESTful
10 45 (1.97%) CSS
11 43 (1.88%) AngularJS
12 42 (1.83%) OAuth
13 40 (1.75%) JSON
14 35 (1.53%) Pandas
14 35 (1.53%) XML
15 31 (1.35%) OAuth2
16 30 (1.31%) NumPy
17 29 (1.27%) FIX Protocol
17 29 (1.27%) Node.js
18 26 (1.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 138 (6.03%) Product Ownership
2 110 (4.81%) Derivative
2 110 (4.81%) Onboarding
3 100 (4.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 97 (4.24%) Management Information System
5 91 (3.98%) Cloud Native
6 75 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
6 75 (3.28%) Fixed Income
7 65 (2.84%) Equities
8 55 (2.40%) Data Structures
8 55 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
9 46 (2.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 45 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
11 42 (1.83%) Data Centre
12 41 (1.79%) Market Risk
13 38 (1.66%) Credit Risk
14 33 (1.44%) Mainframe
15 30 (1.31%) Public Cloud
16 29 (1.27%) Algorithms
17 27 (1.18%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 144 (6.29%) Windows
2 109 (4.76%) Linux
3 65 (2.84%) Unix
4 38 (1.66%) Windows 10
5 32 (1.40%) Android
6 23 (1.00%) Apple iOS
7 22 (0.96%) Windows Server
8 17 (0.74%) zOS
9 15 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 13 (0.57%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.35%) AIX
12 7 (0.31%) VMS
13 6 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
13 6 (0.26%) Windows 7
14 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
15 4 (0.17%) Solaris
15 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
16 3 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (0.13%) Ubuntu
16 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (24.20%) Agile
2 416 (18.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 375 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
4 318 (13.89%) CI/CD
5 317 (13.85%) DevOps
6 246 (10.75%) Migration
7 231 (10.09%) AI
8 206 (9.00%) Analytics
9 184 (8.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 176 (7.69%) Data Modelling
11 175 (7.65%) Decision-Making
12 174 (7.60%) Continuous Improvement
13 173 (7.56%) Risk Management
14 169 (7.38%) Roadmaps
15 167 (7.30%) Microservices
16 163 (7.12%) Project Management
17 158 (6.90%) Data Analysis
18 156 (6.82%) Validation
19 154 (6.73%) User Acceptance Testing
20 146 (6.38%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 399 (17.43%) SQL
2 345 (15.07%) Python
3 292 (12.76%) Java
4 140 (6.12%) C#
5 99 (4.33%) JavaScript
6 65 (2.84%) TypeScript
7 61 (2.66%) PowerShell
8 41 (1.79%) PL/SQL
9 35 (1.53%) VBA
10 34 (1.49%) Shell Script
11 31 (1.35%) Go
12 28 (1.22%) Bash
13 26 (1.14%) T-SQL
14 20 (0.87%) C++
15 19 (0.83%) Kotlin
16 18 (0.79%) COBOL
17 13 (0.57%) Korn
17 13 (0.57%) Perl
17 13 (0.57%) Scala
18 12 (0.52%) JCL
Qualifications
1 222 (9.70%) Degree
2 117 (5.11%) Security Cleared
3 71 (3.10%) SC Cleared
4 67 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 61 (2.66%) Master's Degree
6 54 (2.36%) PMP
7 53 (2.32%) PMI Certification
8 45 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (1.35%) CISSP
10 27 (1.18%) Azure Certification
11 18 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (0.74%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.74%) MBA
13 16 (0.70%) CISM
14 15 (0.66%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.52%) CBAP
15 12 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (0.48%) PhD
17 9 (0.39%) ACCA
17 9 (0.39%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (6.03%) QA
2 113 (4.94%) Data Quality
3 54 (2.36%) GDPR
3 54 (2.36%) ISO 20022
4 43 (1.88%) PMO
5 36 (1.57%) SLA
6 33 (1.44%) NIST
6 33 (1.44%) PCI DSS
6 33 (1.44%) PSD2
7 30 (1.31%) SEPA
8 29 (1.27%) GRC
8 29 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 28 (1.22%) Accessibility
10 24 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 21 (0.92%) MiFID
12 19 (0.83%) Basel III
13 15 (0.66%) ISO 8583
14 12 (0.52%) IFRS
15 9 (0.39%) EMIR
16 7 (0.31%) GAAP
System Software
1 133 (5.81%) Docker
2 49 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (2.01%) Active Directory
4 21 (0.92%) Firmware
4 21 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.61%) vSphere
6 13 (0.57%) NFS
7 9 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.26%) RACF
9 5 (0.22%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.17%) Varnish
10 4 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.17%) XenApp
11 3 (0.13%) ACF2
11 3 (0.13%) Postfix
11 3 (0.13%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.13%) SRDF
11 3 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
11 3 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.087%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 176 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 92 (4.02%) Terraform
3 71 (3.10%) Ansible
4 36 (1.57%) Grafana
5 26 (1.14%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.09%) SCCM
7 20 (0.87%) Argo
7 20 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.39%) Istio
8 9 (0.39%) Puppet
8 9 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.35%) Control-M
10 7 (0.31%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.31%) RSA Archer
10 7 (0.31%) vCenter Server
11 6 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
11 6 (0.26%) SnapMirror
11 6 (0.26%) WSUS
12 5 (0.22%) NetBackup
13 4 (0.17%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 281 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 163 (7.12%) Oracle
3 85 (3.71%) ServiceNow
4 72 (3.15%) Google
5 62 (2.71%) Cisco
6 59 (2.58%) VMware
7 57 (2.49%) SAP
8 54 (2.36%) IBM
9 53 (2.32%) F5
10 50 (2.18%) Citrix
11 46 (2.01%) Splunk
12 31 (1.35%) Temenos
13 30 (1.31%) Remedy
14 28 (1.22%) Bloomberg
14 28 (1.22%) Murex
15 27 (1.18%) HP
16 26 (1.14%) NetApp
17 25 (1.09%) Avaloq
18 23 (1.00%) Databricks
19 22 (0.96%) Workday