Banking Contracts 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 25 21
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Banking 1,901 2,301 3,889
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 7.82% 6.26% 7.96%
As % of the General category 12.18% 10.75% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,267 1,699 2,811
10th Percentile £360 £385 £450
25th Percentile £450 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £750 £775 £800
90th Percentile £869 £850 £888
UK median daily rate £600 £613 £650
% change year-on-year -2.04% -5.77% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 22 7
10th Percentile £14.56 £12.08 £11.99
25th Percentile £18.31 £14.50 £15.19
Median hourly rate £22.27 £19.28 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.54% -8.21% -10.57%
75th Percentile £24.66 £25.44 -
90th Percentile £42.40 £78.75 £34.10
UK median hourly rate £22.27 £19.05 £21.00
% change year-on-year +16.90% -9.29% -18.30%

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 common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 15,605 21,399 28,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.16% 58.20% 59.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,128 13,790 20,332
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 668 1,786 943
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.00 £13.54
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.50 £18.13
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.75 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% -5.38% +51.16%
75th Percentile £56.25 £52.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.50 £71.02
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £34.00
% change year-on-year -8.82% -11.29% +54.55%

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 12 May 2025.

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 12 May 2025.

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 12 May 2025. 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 0 1,495 £650 - 1,453
North of England +16 221 £447 -8.59% 208
North West +17 121 £425 -13.09% 148
Yorkshire +16 97 £500 +12.68% 53
Midlands +37 71 £458 -2.92% 110
East Midlands +12 42 £391 -12.13% 42
South West +47 37 £525 -16.00% 63
West Midlands +32 29 £555 +5.71% 64
South East -21 24 £575 +12.20% 399
East of England +6 10 £600 +4.35% 28
North East -6 3 £420 -9.19% 9
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 75 (3.95%) Confluence
2 66 (3.47%) Apache
3 62 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
4 50 (2.63%) Apache Spark
5 36 (1.89%) SharePoint
6 32 (1.68%) SAS
7 14 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 14 (0.74%) WebSphere
8 11 (0.58%) CICS
9 8 (0.42%) WebLogic
10 7 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.32%) JBoss
12 5 (0.26%) MQSeries
12 5 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
13 4 (0.21%) CMS
13 4 (0.21%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.16%) Jupyter
15 2 (0.11%) Appian
15 2 (0.11%) Headless CMS
15 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 74 (3.89%) Microsoft Office
2 68 (3.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.47%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.21%) Sketch
8 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.053%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.053%) Notepad++
9 1 (0.053%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.053%) Trello
Business Applications
1 33 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.05%) Oracle General Ledger
3 19 (1.00%) Oracle Assets
3 19 (1.00%) Oracle Payables
4 17 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
5 13 (0.68%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 12 (0.63%) Kondor
7 11 (0.58%) Oracle EBS R12
7 11 (0.58%) Oracle Financials
8 10 (0.53%) FLEXCUBE
8 10 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
9 9 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
10 7 (0.37%) Oracle BPM
11 6 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
12 5 (0.26%) Misys Midas
13 4 (0.21%) Fidessa
13 4 (0.21%) Finacle
13 4 (0.21%) ION Anvil
13 4 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
13 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 315 (16.57%) AWS
2 248 (13.05%) Azure
3 133 (7.00%) GCP
4 63 (3.31%) Snowflake
5 62 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
6 61 (3.21%) dbt
7 57 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
8 52 (2.74%) Power Platform
9 36 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
10 34 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
11 31 (1.63%) Amazon ECS
11 31 (1.63%) GitHub
12 29 (1.53%) Amazon S3
13 28 (1.47%) SaaS
13 28 (1.47%) Serverless
14 25 (1.32%) Dagster
15 22 (1.16%) Figma
16 21 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
16 21 (1.10%) Entra ID
17 18 (0.95%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (3.10%) Firewall
2 27 (1.42%) DNS
3 24 (1.26%) Network Security
4 20 (1.05%) VPN
5 18 (0.95%) HTTP
6 15 (0.79%) SSL
6 15 (0.79%) TCP/IP
7 14 (0.74%) DHCP
7 14 (0.74%) WAN
8 13 (0.68%) BGP
8 13 (0.68%) FIX Connectivity
8 13 (0.68%) OSPF
9 11 (0.58%) LAN
10 10 (0.53%) Multicast
11 7 (0.37%) HSRP
11 7 (0.37%) IGMP
11 7 (0.37%) SAN
11 7 (0.37%) VRRP
11 7 (0.37%) Wireless
12 6 (0.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (5.05%) SQL Server
2 74 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (3.21%) Apache Iceberg
4 59 (3.10%) Amazon Athena
4 59 (3.10%) Dremio
5 57 (3.00%) Data Lake
6 49 (2.58%) Apache Arrow
7 46 (2.42%) NoSQL
8 42 (2.21%) Redis
9 41 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
10 40 (2.10%) MongoDB
11 38 (2.00%) Power BI
11 38 (2.00%) Relational Database
12 34 (1.79%) Big Data
12 34 (1.79%) Hadoop
13 33 (1.74%) Apache Ignite
14 30 (1.58%) DB2
14 30 (1.58%) Tableau
15 27 (1.42%) Oracle Database
16 17 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 128 (6.73%) JIRA
2 100 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 81 (4.26%) Git
4 29 (1.53%) TeamCity
5 28 (1.47%) Bitbucket
6 24 (1.26%) GitLab
7 20 (1.05%) Selenium
8 16 (0.84%) JUnit
8 16 (0.84%) webpack
9 14 (0.74%) Cucumber
9 14 (0.74%) Maven
10 12 (0.63%) JMeter
11 11 (0.58%) LoadRunner
11 11 (0.58%) REST Assured
12 10 (0.53%) Visual Studio
13 9 (0.47%) Postman
14 8 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
14 8 (0.42%) Subversion
15 7 (0.37%) Ant
16 6 (0.32%) Artifactory
General
1 1,214 (63.86%) Finance
2 575 (30.25%) Social Skills
3 507 (26.67%) Investment Banking
4 325 (17.10%) Analytical Skills
5 240 (12.62%) Front Office
6 101 (5.31%) Retail Banking
7 82 (4.31%) Financial Institution
8 55 (2.89%) Retail
9 51 (2.68%) Corporate Banking
10 50 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
11 37 (1.95%) Legal
12 34 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
13 30 (1.58%) General Ledger
14 22 (1.16%) Back Office
14 22 (1.16%) Public Sector
15 20 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
15 20 (1.05%) Marketing
16 15 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
17 13 (0.68%) International Banking
18 12 (0.63%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 453 (23.83%) Developer
2 306 (16.10%) Analyst
3 209 (10.99%) Senior
4 180 (9.47%) Architect
5 146 (7.68%) Business Analyst
6 120 (6.31%) Project Manager
7 103 (5.42%) Lead
8 102 (5.37%) Software Engineer
9 94 (4.94%) Java Developer
10 88 (4.63%) Python Developer
11 80 (4.21%) Consultant
12 76 (4.00%) Senior Developer
13 71 (3.73%) AWS Engineer
14 67 (3.52%) Banking Analyst
15 58 (3.05%) C# Developer
15 58 (3.05%) Python Engineer
16 56 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
17 53 (2.79%) Data Analyst
18 49 (2.58%) AWS Software Engineer
18 49 (2.58%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (7.26%) React
2 105 (5.52%) .NET
3 85 (4.47%) Kafka
4 60 (3.16%) PySpark
5 57 (3.00%) Pandas
5 57 (3.00%) Spring
6 56 (2.95%) HTML
7 55 (2.89%) AngularJS
7 55 (2.89%) NumPy
8 53 (2.79%) CSS
9 52 (2.74%) Node.js
9 52 (2.74%) SciPy
10 50 (2.63%) Web Services
11 46 (2.42%) Redux
12 45 (2.37%) REST
13 44 (2.31%) gRPC
14 40 (2.10%) FastAPI
14 40 (2.10%) Protocol Buffers
15 39 (2.05%) RESTful
16 37 (1.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 160 (8.42%) Derivative
2 138 (7.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 122 (6.42%) Equities
4 120 (6.31%) Fixed Income
5 76 (4.00%) Hedge funds
6 58 (3.05%) Product Ownership
7 49 (2.58%) Market Risk
8 48 (2.52%) Onboarding
9 39 (2.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 37 (1.95%) Data Structures
11 36 (1.89%) Credit Risk
12 34 (1.79%) Data Centre
12 34 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
13 31 (1.63%) Management Information System
14 28 (1.47%) Algorithms
14 28 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
14 28 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
15 27 (1.42%) Cloud Native
15 27 (1.42%) Mainframe
15 27 (1.42%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 149 (7.84%) Windows
2 127 (6.68%) Linux
3 57 (3.00%) Unix
4 28 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (1.37%) Windows Server
6 24 (1.26%) Apple iOS
7 22 (1.16%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.63%) Android
9 9 (0.47%) zOS
10 7 (0.37%) Solaris
11 6 (0.32%) AIX
11 6 (0.32%) CentOS
11 6 (0.32%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.16%) Rocky
14 2 (0.11%) HPUX
14 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.053%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.053%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (25.30%) Agile
2 336 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
3 222 (11.68%) DevOps
4 195 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
5 192 (10.10%) Risk Management
6 183 (9.63%) CI/CD
7 181 (9.52%) Migration
8 179 (9.42%) Analytics
9 170 (8.94%) Software Engineering
10 147 (7.73%) Project Management
11 132 (6.94%) SDLC
12 131 (6.89%) Change Management
13 130 (6.84%) Asset Management
14 115 (6.05%) Microservices
15 111 (5.84%) Fintech
16 98 (5.16%) Data Analysis
17 96 (5.05%) Decision-Making
17 96 (5.05%) Test Automation
18 90 (4.73%) Continuous Improvement
19 85 (4.47%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 399 (20.99%) Python
2 388 (20.41%) SQL
3 339 (17.83%) Java
4 165 (8.68%) JavaScript
5 147 (7.73%) C#
5 147 (7.73%) TypeScript
6 51 (2.68%) C++
7 47 (2.47%) PowerShell
8 38 (2.00%) PL/SQL
9 33 (1.74%) Scala
10 30 (1.58%) Shell Script
11 28 (1.47%) Bash
12 17 (0.89%) Bicep
12 17 (0.89%) Perl
13 15 (0.79%) R
14 14 (0.74%) COBOL
15 13 (0.68%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.63%) JCL
16 12 (0.63%) T-SQL
16 12 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 148 (7.79%) Degree
2 35 (1.84%) Security Cleared
3 26 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (1.21%) Master's Degree
4 23 (1.21%) SC Cleared
5 21 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (1.10%) Numerate Degree
6 20 (1.05%) CISSP
7 18 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (0.89%) AWS Certification
8 17 (0.89%) PMP
9 16 (0.84%) PMI Certification
10 14 (0.74%) Azure Certification
11 12 (0.63%) CCNP
11 12 (0.63%) CISM
12 10 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 8 (0.42%) CEH
13 8 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (3.73%) QA
2 57 (3.00%) Data Quality
3 42 (2.21%) PMO
4 40 (2.10%) GDPR
5 26 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 25 (1.32%) PCI DSS
7 20 (1.05%) MiFID
7 20 (1.05%) NIST
8 18 (0.95%) Basel III
8 18 (0.95%) IFRS
8 18 (0.95%) SEPA
9 17 (0.89%) IFRS 9
10 16 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 16 (0.84%) SLA
11 14 (0.74%) Accessibility
11 14 (0.74%) PSD2
12 13 (0.68%) ISO 20022
13 11 (0.58%) GRC
14 10 (0.53%) Basel II
14 10 (0.53%) COBIT
System Software
1 96 (5.05%) Docker
2 40 (2.10%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.26%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.21%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 3 (0.16%) HDFS
9 3 (0.16%) Lustre
9 3 (0.16%) NFS
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.11%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.11%) Veritas File System
10 2 (0.11%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (0.11%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 131 (6.89%) Kubernetes
2 94 (4.94%) Ansible
3 68 (3.58%) Terraform
4 36 (1.89%) Grafana
5 22 (1.16%) SCCM
6 18 (0.95%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.74%) Argo
7 14 (0.74%) Puppet
8 13 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.47%) Control-M
10 8 (0.42%) Istio
11 6 (0.32%) HP ALM
11 6 (0.32%) Rundeck
12 5 (0.26%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.26%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.26%) ZABBIX
13 4 (0.21%) Podman
13 4 (0.21%) Tivoli
14 3 (0.16%) Data Guard
14 3 (0.16%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 185 (9.73%) Microsoft
2 160 (8.42%) Oracle
3 53 (2.79%) SAP
3 53 (2.79%) ServiceNow
4 49 (2.58%) IBM
5 46 (2.42%) Google
6 45 (2.37%) Databricks
7 41 (2.16%) Cisco
8 39 (2.05%) Splunk
9 34 (1.79%) Citrix
10 24 (1.26%) Red Hat
11 21 (1.10%) VMware
12 19 (1.00%) Sybase
13 18 (0.95%) ION Trading
14 16 (0.84%) Apple
14 16 (0.84%) Arista
14 16 (0.84%) CyberArk
14 16 (0.84%) HP
14 16 (0.84%) Murex
15 15 (0.79%) Adobe