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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,196 1,893 2,374
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.95% 7.73% 6.26%
As % of the General category 10.33% 12.22% 10.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,323 1,255 1,700
10th Percentile £368 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -2.04% -8.58%
75th Percentile £650 £745 £750
90th Percentile £775 £850 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 13 24
10th Percentile £17.69 £15.23 £12.84
25th Percentile £23.02 - £18.12
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +14.21% -7.14%
75th Percentile £51.74 £24.66 £32.63
90th Percentile £95.38 £68.85 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £19.50
% change year-on-year +12.93% +14.21% -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 21,266 15,486 22,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.58% 63.20% 58.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,416 10,011 14,532
10th Percentile £300 £300 £269
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,331 580 1,667
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.00 £13.03
25th Percentile £17.69 £19.96 £15.38
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.79 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.81% +18.43% -23.12%
75th Percentile £59.00 £60.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £76.25 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £24.55 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -18.17% +15.38% -23.53%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 18 March 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 1,496 £575 -9.80% 320
North of England +7 470 £480 +5.49% 68
North West +13 256 £447 +5.18% 40
Yorkshire -2 220 £500 -10.31% 21
Midlands +13 181 £471 -14.36% 41
West Midlands +16 125 £540 -10.56% 21
East Midlands -14 56 £430 +6.97% 20
South East -35 46 £459 -20.17% 97
South West -13 34 £525 -14.29% 6
East of England -21 11 £400 -33.33% 11
North East -10 4 £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
1 176 (8.01%) Confluence
2 52 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.09%) Apache Spark
4 17 (0.77%) SAS
5 13 (0.59%) Apache
5 13 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (0.50%) IIS
6 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.41%) CICS
8 7 (0.32%) CMS
9 6 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.23%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.23%) Hyperledger
11 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.14%) MQSeries
13 2 (0.091%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.091%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.091%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 149 (6.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 80 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 66 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
4 51 (2.32%) MS Visio
5 26 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.77%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
9 3 (0.14%) Notion
9 3 (0.14%) Trello
10 2 (0.091%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.046%) InVision
11 1 (0.046%) Sketch
11 1 (0.046%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 31 (1.41%) Payment Gateway
2 25 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
3 20 (0.91%) Oracle Receivables
4 19 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
5 18 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
5 18 (0.82%) Temenos T24
6 17 (0.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 16 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
8 13 (0.59%) Loan IQ
9 10 (0.46%) SAP FI
10 9 (0.41%) Actimize
11 8 (0.36%) Finacle
11 8 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
11 8 (0.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 8 (0.36%) SAP CO
11 8 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
12 7 (0.32%) Aladdin
13 6 (0.27%) Fidessa
13 6 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
14 5 (0.23%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 340 (15.48%) Azure
2 324 (14.75%) AWS
3 161 (7.33%) GCP
4 137 (6.24%) Power Platform
5 89 (4.05%) GitHub
5 89 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
6 59 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
7 58 (2.64%) Serverless
8 47 (2.14%) SaaS
9 41 (1.87%) Figma
10 34 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
11 30 (1.37%) Amazon S3
12 29 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
13 28 (1.28%) Entra ID
14 27 (1.23%) OCI
15 26 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
16 24 (1.09%) PowerApps
16 24 (1.09%) Snowflake
17 23 (1.05%) Power Automate
18 22 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 68 (3.10%) DNS
2 47 (2.14%) Firewall
3 40 (1.82%) VPN
4 37 (1.68%) HTTP
5 36 (1.64%) TCP/IP
6 34 (1.55%) Network Security
7 29 (1.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 27 (1.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 26 (1.18%) BGP
10 25 (1.14%) SSL
11 24 (1.09%) Multicast
12 23 (1.05%) DMZ
13 21 (0.96%) BIG-IP
14 20 (0.91%) Wireshark
15 19 (0.87%) Wireless
16 18 (0.82%) NetScaler
17 17 (0.77%) SAN
18 16 (0.73%) DHCP
18 16 (0.73%) FIX Connectivity
19 14 (0.64%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (5.15%) Power BI
2 91 (4.14%) SQL Server
3 73 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
4 70 (3.19%) Tableau
5 52 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
5 52 (2.37%) NoSQL
6 45 (2.05%) Metadata
7 43 (1.96%) Oracle Database
8 39 (1.78%) MongoDB
9 35 (1.59%) Relational Database
10 30 (1.37%) Big Data
11 23 (1.05%) BigQuery
12 17 (0.77%) DB2
12 17 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 16 (0.73%) Hadoop
14 15 (0.68%) Data Lake
15 12 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
16 11 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
16 11 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 255 (11.61%) JIRA
2 128 (5.83%) Jenkins
3 91 (4.14%) Git
4 90 (4.10%) GitLab
5 30 (1.37%) JUnit
6 24 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
7 23 (1.05%) Bitbucket
7 23 (1.05%) Cucumber
7 23 (1.05%) Selenium
8 20 (0.91%) Postman
9 19 (0.87%) Fiddler
10 16 (0.73%) REST Assured
11 14 (0.64%) Liquibase
12 13 (0.59%) Gradle
12 13 (0.59%) Maven
12 13 (0.59%) TeamCity
13 10 (0.46%) Mockito
14 9 (0.41%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
15 8 (0.36%) SonarQube
General
1 1,399 (63.71%) Finance
2 697 (31.74%) Social Skills
3 439 (19.99%) Investment Banking
4 293 (13.34%) Analytical Skills
5 175 (7.97%) Front Office
6 116 (5.28%) Financial Institution
7 91 (4.14%) Retail Banking
8 65 (2.96%) Retail
9 62 (2.82%) Corporate Banking
9 62 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
10 57 (2.60%) Legal
11 54 (2.46%) Public Sector
12 42 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
13 40 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
14 34 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
15 30 (1.37%) Marketing
16 23 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 22 (1.00%) General Ledger
18 21 (0.96%) International Banking
18 21 (0.96%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 381 (17.35%) Analyst
1 381 (17.35%) Developer
2 279 (12.70%) Senior
3 262 (11.93%) Business Analyst
4 238 (10.84%) Architect
5 143 (6.51%) Lead
6 130 (5.92%) Project Manager
7 126 (5.74%) Solutions Architect
8 96 (4.37%) Java Developer
9 83 (3.78%) Senior Developer
10 76 (3.46%) Banking Analyst
11 75 (3.42%) Consultant
12 62 (2.82%) Data Engineer
13 53 (2.41%) Banking Business Analyst
14 51 (2.32%) Designer
14 51 (2.32%) DevOps Engineer
14 51 (2.32%) Network Engineer
15 49 (2.23%) Payments Architect
16 46 (2.09%) Payments Solutions Architect
17 45 (2.05%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (5.56%) Kafka
2 107 (4.87%) .NET
3 105 (4.78%) REST
4 72 (3.28%) React
5 70 (3.19%) Spring
6 64 (2.91%) RESTful
7 62 (2.82%) Middleware
8 61 (2.78%) Spring Boot
9 57 (2.60%) HTML
10 48 (2.19%) AngularJS
11 40 (1.82%) OAuth
12 38 (1.73%) CSS
13 36 (1.64%) Pandas
13 36 (1.64%) XML
14 34 (1.55%) JSON
15 31 (1.41%) NumPy
16 29 (1.32%) OAuth2
17 28 (1.28%) Node.js
18 27 (1.23%) SOAP
19 25 (1.14%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 133 (6.06%) Product Ownership
2 108 (4.92%) Derivative
3 99 (4.51%) Onboarding
4 95 (4.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 92 (4.19%) Management Information System
6 89 (4.05%) Cloud Native
7 70 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
8 65 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
8 65 (2.96%) Equities
8 65 (2.96%) Fixed Income
9 46 (2.09%) Data Structures
10 45 (2.05%) Public Cloud
11 43 (1.96%) Data Centre
11 43 (1.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 40 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
13 38 (1.73%) Market Risk
14 37 (1.68%) Credit Risk
15 32 (1.46%) Hedge funds
16 29 (1.32%) Mobile App
16 29 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 131 (5.97%) Windows
2 116 (5.28%) Linux
3 51 (2.32%) Unix
4 36 (1.64%) Windows 10
5 34 (1.55%) Android
6 23 (1.05%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.91%) Windows Server
8 16 (0.73%) Mac OS
9 15 (0.68%) zOS
10 13 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.32%) VMS
12 6 (0.27%) AIX
13 5 (0.23%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
14 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.14%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.091%) Solaris
15 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
16 1 (0.046%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (25.23%) Agile
2 398 (18.12%) Stakeholder Management
3 369 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
4 322 (14.66%) DevOps
5 316 (14.39%) CI/CD
6 233 (10.61%) Migration
7 211 (9.61%) Analytics
8 190 (8.65%) AI
9 178 (8.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 177 (8.06%) Microservices
11 168 (7.65%) Data Modelling
12 167 (7.60%) Risk Management
13 163 (7.42%) Decision-Making
14 158 (7.19%) Data Analysis
14 158 (7.19%) Project Management
15 153 (6.97%) Roadmaps
16 149 (6.79%) Business Intelligence
17 148 (6.74%) Continuous Improvement
17 148 (6.74%) Validation
18 142 (6.47%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 394 (17.94%) SQL
2 366 (16.67%) Python
3 292 (13.30%) Java
4 141 (6.42%) C#
5 89 (4.05%) JavaScript
6 61 (2.78%) TypeScript
7 56 (2.55%) PowerShell
8 48 (2.19%) Go
9 36 (1.64%) PL/SQL
10 29 (1.32%) VBA
11 28 (1.28%) Bash
11 28 (1.28%) Shell Script
12 24 (1.09%) C++
13 22 (1.00%) T-SQL
14 18 (0.82%) COBOL
15 17 (0.77%) Kotlin
16 14 (0.64%) Scala
17 13 (0.59%) Korn
17 13 (0.59%) Perl
18 10 (0.46%) JCL
Qualifications
1 227 (10.34%) Degree
2 111 (5.05%) Security Cleared
3 74 (3.37%) Master's Degree
4 73 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (3.01%) SC Cleared
6 54 (2.46%) PMI Certification
7 53 (2.41%) PMP
8 41 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (1.18%) Azure Certification
9 26 (1.18%) CISSP
10 20 (0.91%) AWS Certification
11 19 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (0.77%) MBA
13 15 (0.68%) CISM
13 15 (0.68%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.55%) CBAP
14 12 (0.55%) PhD
15 10 (0.46%) DV Cleared
15 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
16 8 (0.36%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (6.06%) QA
2 106 (4.83%) Data Quality
3 55 (2.50%) ISO 20022
4 50 (2.28%) GDPR
5 37 (1.68%) PMO
6 34 (1.55%) PCI DSS
6 34 (1.55%) SLA
7 31 (1.41%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.41%) PSD2
8 29 (1.32%) SEPA
9 28 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 26 (1.18%) NIST
11 24 (1.09%) GRC
12 23 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 22 (1.00%) Basel III
13 22 (1.00%) MiFID
14 14 (0.64%) ISO 8583
15 13 (0.59%) EMIR
16 11 (0.50%) IFRS
17 7 (0.32%) GAAP
System Software
1 145 (6.60%) Docker
2 48 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (1.64%) Active Directory
4 23 (1.05%) Firmware
5 20 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.59%) vSphere
7 11 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (0.36%) NFS
9 6 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.18%) RACF
11 3 (0.14%) SRDF
11 3 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
11 3 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.091%) ACF2
12 2 (0.091%) Varnish
12 2 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.091%) XenApp
13 1 (0.046%) Postfix
13 1 (0.046%) PowerHA
13 1 (0.046%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 181 (8.24%) Kubernetes
2 100 (4.55%) Terraform
3 80 (3.64%) Ansible
4 49 (2.23%) Grafana
5 40 (1.82%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.05%) SCCM
7 19 (0.87%) Argo
8 17 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.41%) Puppet
9 9 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.36%) Control-M
10 8 (0.36%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.36%) Istio
11 6 (0.27%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
12 5 (0.23%) SnapMirror
13 4 (0.18%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.18%) NetBackup
13 4 (0.18%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.14%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 254 (11.57%) Microsoft
2 149 (6.79%) Oracle
3 78 (3.55%) Google
4 71 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 61 (2.78%) Cisco
6 58 (2.64%) VMware
7 56 (2.55%) Splunk
8 50 (2.28%) SAP
9 49 (2.23%) IBM
10 46 (2.09%) Citrix
10 46 (2.09%) F5
11 32 (1.46%) Remedy
12 29 (1.32%) Bloomberg
12 29 (1.32%) Murex
13 28 (1.28%) Temenos
14 26 (1.18%) HP
15 24 (1.09%) NetApp
15 24 (1.09%) Salesforce
16 23 (1.05%) Apple
16 23 (1.05%) Avaloq