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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 22 23
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,665 2,218 2,479
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.83% 8.04% 7.46%
As % of the General category 10.53% 12.50% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,624 1,541 1,773
10th Percentile £400 £350 £400
25th Percentile £456 £415 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -10.00% -0.40%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £788
90th Percentile £809 £825 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 32 16
10th Percentile £16.63 £18.14 £14.13
25th Percentile £17.00 £23.49 £14.50
Median hourly rate £18.60 £25.15 £18.89
Median % change year-on-year -26.06% +33.17% +5.03%
75th Percentile £33.70 - £41.31
90th Percentile £96.88 £68.25 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £17.25 £25.15 £18.27
% change year-on-year -31.41% +37.66% -1.24%

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 25,299 17,739 19,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.33% 64.31% 57.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,091 11,249 12,258
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £420 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -5.67% -2.18%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £660
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 2,016 974 1,180
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.25 £14.42
25th Percentile £17.75 £16.36 £17.88
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% -34.02% +38.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £38.07
% change year-on-year +25.25% -33.94% +38.44%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 19 August 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 1,922 £591 -5.44% 1,398
North of England -5 516 £500 +11.86% 142
North West -5 265 £500 +16.28% 82
Yorkshire -6 242 £500 +8.11% 52
Midlands -22 149 £519 +21.46% 48
West Midlands +9 114 £550 +4.76% 25
South West -47 36 £563 +7.14% 72
East Midlands -38 35 £475 +20.25% 23
East of England +4 34 £558 - 17
South East -63 34 £525 +16.67% 120
North East -31 13 £875 +108.33% 8
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
1 162 (6.08%) Confluence
2 58 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 25 (0.94%) SAS
5 24 (0.90%) Apache
6 16 (0.60%) IIS
7 11 (0.41%) CICS
8 10 (0.38%) Appian
8 10 (0.38%) Camunda
9 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.23%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.15%) WordPress
13 3 (0.11%) CMS
13 3 (0.11%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.11%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.11%) MTS
13 3 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 98 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (1.28%) MS Visio
5 22 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Sketch
8 3 (0.11%) Trello
9 2 (0.075%) EngageOne
9 2 (0.075%) InVision
9 2 (0.075%) Notion
10 1 (0.038%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.038%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 20 (0.75%) Temenos T24
2 19 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
3 18 (0.68%) Finacle
4 17 (0.64%) Oracle Receivables
5 15 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
6 14 (0.53%) Aladdin
6 14 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
7 13 (0.49%) Loan IQ
8 11 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
9 9 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
10 8 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
10 8 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
11 7 (0.26%) Actimize
11 7 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
11 7 (0.26%) OpenText MBPM
11 7 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
12 6 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
13 5 (0.19%) Summit
14 4 (0.15%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 412 (15.46%) Azure
2 350 (13.13%) AWS
3 165 (6.19%) GCP
4 139 (5.22%) Power Platform
5 84 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
5 84 (3.15%) GitHub
6 81 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
7 75 (2.81%) Snowflake
8 72 (2.70%) SaaS
9 53 (1.99%) Entra ID
10 39 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
10 39 (1.46%) Amazon S3
10 39 (1.46%) OpenShift
11 37 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
12 34 (1.28%) Serverless
13 27 (1.01%) Figma
14 26 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
15 25 (0.94%) Power Automate
16 23 (0.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 23 (0.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 81 (3.04%) Firewall
2 68 (2.55%) DNS
3 66 (2.48%) VPN
4 58 (2.18%) Network Security
5 43 (1.61%) TCP/IP
6 32 (1.20%) SSL
7 29 (1.09%) Multicast
8 28 (1.05%) BGP
9 24 (0.90%) HTTP
10 22 (0.83%) SAN
11 21 (0.79%) DMZ
12 20 (0.75%) BIG-IP
13 18 (0.68%) DHCP
13 18 (0.68%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 18 (0.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 17 (0.64%) Wireshark
15 16 (0.60%) FIX Connectivity
16 15 (0.56%) LAN
16 15 (0.56%) WAN
17 11 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (4.84%) SQL Server
2 116 (4.35%) Power BI
3 88 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
4 70 (2.63%) Metadata
5 65 (2.44%) Relational Database
6 45 (1.69%) Oracle Database
7 43 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (1.39%) Data Lake
9 33 (1.24%) MongoDB
9 33 (1.24%) Tableau
10 25 (0.94%) Big Data
11 23 (0.86%) Db2
12 20 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
12 20 (0.75%) RDBMS
12 20 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 18 (0.68%) Data Vault
13 18 (0.68%) NoSQL
14 15 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
14 15 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 275 (10.32%) JIRA
2 125 (4.69%) Git
3 106 (3.98%) Jenkins
4 62 (2.33%) GitLab
5 38 (1.43%) Selenium
6 35 (1.31%) JUnit
7 22 (0.83%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.68%) Bitbucket
9 17 (0.64%) TeamCity
10 16 (0.60%) ERwin
10 16 (0.60%) Gradle
10 16 (0.60%) Maven
10 16 (0.60%) REST Assured
11 15 (0.56%) ER Studio
11 15 (0.56%) Fiddler
11 15 (0.56%) Postman
11 15 (0.56%) SonarQube
11 15 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
12 14 (0.53%) Mockito
13 11 (0.41%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,730 (64.92%) Finance
2 726 (27.24%) Social Skills
3 529 (19.85%) Investment Banking
4 397 (14.90%) Analytical Skills
5 243 (9.12%) Front Office
6 132 (4.95%) Financial Institution
7 121 (4.54%) Retail
8 113 (4.24%) Retail Banking
9 91 (3.41%) Corporate Banking
10 82 (3.08%) Legal
11 64 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
12 61 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
12 61 (2.29%) Private Banking
13 55 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
14 45 (1.69%) Back Office
15 35 (1.31%) Public Sector
16 31 (1.16%) Marketing
17 28 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
18 27 (1.01%) General Ledger
19 23 (0.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 449 (16.85%) Developer
2 391 (14.67%) Analyst
3 351 (13.17%) Senior
4 282 (10.58%) Architect
5 251 (9.42%) Lead
6 235 (8.82%) Business Analyst
7 146 (5.48%) Java Developer
8 132 (4.95%) Project Manager
9 102 (3.83%) Data Engineer
10 101 (3.79%) Senior Developer
11 92 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
12 88 (3.30%) Consultant
13 79 (2.96%) Banking Analyst
14 68 (2.55%) Software Engineer
15 61 (2.29%) Data Analyst
16 58 (2.18%) Designer
16 58 (2.18%) Network Engineer
17 54 (2.03%) Senior Java Developer
18 50 (1.88%) C# Developer
18 50 (1.88%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (5.03%) React
2 128 (4.80%) .NET
3 122 (4.58%) Kafka
4 108 (4.05%) REST
5 89 (3.34%) Spring
6 88 (3.30%) Middleware
7 78 (2.93%) Spring Boot
8 55 (2.06%) Redux
9 48 (1.80%) RESTful
10 42 (1.58%) HTML
11 40 (1.50%) FIX Protocol
11 40 (1.50%) PySpark
12 38 (1.43%) CSS
13 36 (1.35%) OAuth
14 35 (1.31%) JSON
15 34 (1.28%) AngularJS
15 34 (1.28%) XML
16 27 (1.01%) Web Services
17 25 (0.94%) Node.js
18 24 (0.90%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 213 (7.99%) Product Ownership
2 176 (6.60%) Onboarding
3 154 (5.78%) Cloud Native
4 139 (5.22%) Derivative
5 124 (4.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 103 (3.86%) Fixed Income
7 87 (3.26%) Equities
8 86 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
9 79 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
10 75 (2.81%) Management Information System
11 73 (2.74%) Data Structures
12 61 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
13 60 (2.25%) AI Agents
14 56 (2.10%) Credit Risk
15 54 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
15 54 (2.03%) Mainframe
16 50 (1.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 47 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
18 45 (1.69%) Data Centre
19 41 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 157 (5.89%) Windows
2 151 (5.67%) Linux
3 90 (3.38%) Unix
4 40 (1.50%) Windows Server
5 30 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 27 (1.01%) zOS
7 23 (0.86%) Apple iOS
8 20 (0.75%) Android
9 16 (0.60%) Ubuntu
10 12 (0.45%) AIX
11 11 (0.41%) Windows 10
12 9 (0.34%) Solaris
13 8 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.23%) HPUX
14 6 (0.23%) SUSE
15 4 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
15 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.11%) CoreOS
16 3 (0.11%) Windows 7
16 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 645 (24.20%) Agile
2 598 (22.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 402 (15.08%) CI/CD
4 399 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
5 367 (13.77%) AI
6 338 (12.68%) DevOps
7 316 (11.86%) Migration
8 286 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 260 (9.76%) Analytics
10 238 (8.93%) Data Modelling
11 224 (8.41%) Roadmaps
12 195 (7.32%) Decision-Making
13 194 (7.28%) Software Engineering
14 192 (7.20%) Microservices
15 190 (7.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 184 (6.90%) Validation
17 179 (6.72%) User Acceptance Testing
18 173 (6.49%) Scrum
18 173 (6.49%) Test Automation
19 172 (6.45%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 462 (17.34%) SQL
2 385 (14.45%) Python
3 349 (13.10%) Java
4 191 (7.17%) C#
5 131 (4.92%) JavaScript
6 107 (4.02%) TypeScript
7 87 (3.26%) PowerShell
8 68 (2.55%) PL/SQL
9 54 (2.03%) Bash
10 52 (1.95%) Shell Script
11 45 (1.69%) Kotlin
12 40 (1.50%) T-SQL
13 36 (1.35%) C++
14 24 (0.90%) Korn
15 23 (0.86%) VBA
16 15 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 13 (0.49%) Go
18 12 (0.45%) Bicep
18 12 (0.45%) JCL
19 11 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 178 (6.68%) Degree
2 134 (5.03%) Security Cleared
3 106 (3.98%) SC Cleared
4 55 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (1.99%) PMP
6 45 (1.69%) PMI Certification
7 40 (1.50%) CISSP
8 32 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
9 29 (1.09%) Azure Certification
10 26 (0.98%) AWS Certification
11 19 (0.71%) CISM
11 19 (0.71%) Master's Degree
12 18 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
12 18 (0.68%) ISTQB
13 15 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 13 (0.49%) ACCA
15 12 (0.45%) CCSP
16 11 (0.41%) CCNP
17 10 (0.38%) CIMA
18 9 (0.34%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (5.82%) Data Quality
2 138 (5.18%) QA
3 61 (2.29%) PMO
4 46 (1.73%) ISO 20022
5 39 (1.46%) NIST
6 38 (1.43%) GRC
7 36 (1.35%) GDPR
8 32 (1.20%) SEPA
9 30 (1.13%) SLA
10 28 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 24 (0.90%) Accessibility
11 24 (0.90%) PSD2
12 19 (0.71%) MiFID
13 14 (0.53%) IFRS
13 14 (0.53%) PCI DSS
13 14 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.38%) EMIR
15 7 (0.26%) COREP
15 7 (0.26%) FINREP
16 6 (0.23%) Solvency II
System Software
1 114 (4.28%) Docker
2 72 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.71%) RACF
5 15 (0.56%) Firmware
6 14 (0.53%) NFS
6 14 (0.53%) vSphere
7 11 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.23%) Varnish
9 5 (0.19%) Postfix
9 5 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.15%) ACF2
10 4 (0.15%) Sendmail
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 (0.075%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.075%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 166 (6.23%) Kubernetes
2 93 (3.49%) Terraform
3 82 (3.08%) Ansible
4 29 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 28 (1.05%) Grafana
6 19 (0.71%) SCCM
6 19 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.60%) Control-M
9 15 (0.56%) OMEGAMON
10 13 (0.49%) Argo
10 13 (0.49%) Istio
11 9 (0.34%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
12 7 (0.26%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.23%) Puppet
13 6 (0.23%) WSUS
14 5 (0.19%) HAProxy
14 5 (0.19%) systemd
14 5 (0.19%) vRealize
Vendors
1 303 (11.37%) Microsoft
2 202 (7.58%) Oracle
3 94 (3.53%) ServiceNow
4 93 (3.49%) IBM
5 84 (3.15%) Databricks
6 59 (2.21%) Cisco
7 54 (2.03%) Google
8 51 (1.91%) Salesforce
9 50 (1.88%) SAP
10 49 (1.84%) Splunk
11 46 (1.73%) VMware
12 43 (1.61%) F5
13 41 (1.54%) Citrix
14 38 (1.43%) CyberArk
15 33 (1.24%) Murex
16 29 (1.09%) OpenAI
17 28 (1.05%) Bloomberg
18 25 (0.94%) Avaloq
19 24 (0.90%) Fortinet
19 24 (0.90%) Pega