Digital Banking Contract Job Trends in England

Digital Banking
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Digital Banking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 506 561
Rank change year-on-year -2 +55 +151
Contract jobs citing Digital Banking 31 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.098% 0.024% 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.027% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 3 0
10th Percentile £329 £570 -
25th Percentile £354 £600 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.38% - -
75th Percentile £488 £695 -
90th Percentile £649 £722 -
UK median daily rate £525 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -19.23% +4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Digital Banking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28,018 25,529 32,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.67% 88.68% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,807 15,764 21,976
10th Percentile £300 £312 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,812 837 1,391
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.75
25th Percentile £17.89 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +24.47%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.63 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.90
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.97% +25.43%

Digital Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Digital Banking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Digital Banking job vacancy trend in England

Digital Banking
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Digital Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Digital Banking

Digital Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Banking in England over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Banking in England

Digital 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 Digital Banking within the England region over the 6 months to 24 December 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 +5 20 £475 -20.83% 12
North West -23 8 £349 -50.88% 3
North of England -43 8 £349 -50.88% 10
Midlands - 4 £354 - 10
East Midlands - 3 £354 - 4
South West - 1 - - 8
West Midlands - 1 - - 5
Digital Banking
UK

Digital 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 7 (22.58%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) CICS
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (6.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.23%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) GCP
2 8 (25.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 6 (19.35%) Figma
4 5 (16.13%) Azure
5 4 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (12.90%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.45%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) Power BI
2 2 (6.45%) Tableau
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.23%) DB2
3 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (29.03%) Jenkins
2 8 (25.81%) JIRA
2 8 (25.81%) SonarQube
2 8 (25.81%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (6.45%) Selenium
4 1 (3.23%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.23%) ESLint
4 1 (3.23%) Postman
General
1 31 (100.00%) Banking
2 15 (48.39%) Finance
3 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
4 6 (19.35%) Publishing
5 5 (16.13%) Retail Banking
6 4 (12.90%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (6.45%) Retail
9 1 (3.23%) Arabic Language
9 1 (3.23%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) GCP Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) Analyst
2 5 (16.13%) Business Analyst
2 5 (16.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) GCP DevOps
2 5 (16.13%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Designer
3 4 (12.90%) Project Manager
4 3 (9.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Python Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Digital Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Digital Business Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Lead
5 2 (6.45%) Senior
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Designer
5 2 (6.45%) UI/UX Designer
5 2 (6.45%) Visual Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) CSS
1 1 (3.23%) Flutter
1 1 (3.23%) HTML
1 1 (3.23%) Jest
1 1 (3.23%) JWT
1 1 (3.23%) OAuth
1 1 (3.23%) OAuth2
1 1 (3.23%) React
1 1 (3.23%) React Native
1 1 (3.23%) Redux
1 1 (3.23%) REST
1 1 (3.23%) Spring
1 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
1 1 (3.23%) Web Services
1 1 (3.23%) XSLT
1 1 (3.23%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Cloud Native
1 7 (22.58%) Product Ownership
2 5 (16.13%) Data Centre
3 3 (9.68%) AI Agents
3 3 (9.68%) Autonomous Agent
3 3 (9.68%) Mobile App
3 3 (9.68%) Onboarding
3 3 (9.68%) PMI
4 2 (6.45%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Online Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.23%) DataPower
5 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.23%) Mainframe
5 1 (3.23%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Android
1 1 (3.23%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.23%) Windows
1 1 (3.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) Agile
2 12 (38.71%) DevOps
3 10 (32.26%) CI/CD
4 9 (29.03%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (29.03%) Fintech
4 9 (29.03%) Migration
5 8 (25.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (25.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (22.58%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 6 (19.35%) Kanban
7 6 (19.35%) Scrum
7 6 (19.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (16.13%) AI
8 5 (16.13%) Change Management
8 5 (16.13%) User Experience
9 4 (12.90%) Anti-Money Laundering
9 4 (12.90%) Decision-Making
9 4 (12.90%) KYC
9 4 (12.90%) Prototyping
9 4 (12.90%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 10 (32.26%) Python
2 3 (9.68%) Java
3 1 (3.23%) Assembly Language
3 1 (3.23%) COBOL
3 1 (3.23%) JCL
3 1 (3.23%) Korn
3 1 (3.23%) Kotlin
3 1 (3.23%) REXX
3 1 (3.23%) Rust
3 1 (3.23%) SQL
3 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) SAFe Agilist
2 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 3 (9.68%) Master's Degree
2 3 (9.68%) MBA
2 3 (9.68%) PMI Certification
2 3 (9.68%) PMP
3 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.23%) CBAP
4 1 (3.23%) IIBA
4 1 (3.23%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) Accessibility
1 4 (12.90%) GDPR
1 4 (12.90%) QA
2 3 (9.68%) Basel III
2 3 (9.68%) PSD2
3 1 (3.23%) ISO 20022
3 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (3.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Google
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.45%) Adobe
4 1 (3.23%) IBM
4 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.23%) Xamarin