Retail Banking Contract Job Trends in England

Retail Banking
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 395 459
Rank change year-on-year -84 +64 +27
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 77 91 100
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.35% 0.26%
As % of the General category 0.39% 0.56% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 39 56
10th Percentile £313 £491 £438
25th Percentile £336 £589 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £675 £563
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +20.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £594 £700 £688
90th Percentile £778 - £781
UK median daily rate £521 £675 £575
% change year-on-year -22.78% +17.39% -

All General Skills
England

Retail 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 19,984 16,166 22,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 59.50% 62.55% 58.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,709 9,759 14,822
10th Percentile £294 £297 £264
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,251 512 1,503
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £13.07
25th Percentile £16.62 £19.94 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.85 £30.31 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.60% +20.02% -6.48%
75th Percentile £50.00 £59.06 £52.64
90th Percentile £71.50 £75.00 £67.35
UK median hourly rate £22.83 £29.00 £25.22
% change year-on-year -21.28% +15.01% -3.02%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Retail Banking job vacancy trend in England

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking in England over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Retail Banking in England

Retail Banking
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Retail Banking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Retail Banking

Retail 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 Retail Banking within the England region over the 6 months to 10 February 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 -72 45 £650 -3.70% 12
North of England -52 17 £322 -35.60% 1
Midlands -43 14 £340 -38.18% 1
North West -21 9 £313 -40.38% 1
East Midlands - 9 £333 -
Yorkshire -52 7 £525 +10.53%
West Midlands -44 5 £495 -10.00% 1
South West - 2 £575 -
South East -22 1 £550 - 5
North East - 1 - -
Retail Banking
UK

Retail 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 19 (24.68%) Confluence
2 2 (2.60%) CMS
2 2 (2.60%) SAS
3 1 (1.30%) Appian
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (11.69%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.60%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.30%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (10.39%) Oracle Payables
1 8 (10.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 8 (10.39%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.30%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.99%) Power Platform
2 9 (11.69%) OCI
3 6 (7.79%) Azure
4 4 (5.19%) AWS
4 4 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.19%) PaaS
5 3 (3.90%) Figma
6 2 (2.60%) Apigee
6 2 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.60%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.60%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.60%) Vercel
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.30%) GCP
7 1 (1.30%) GitHub
7 1 (1.30%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) FTP
2 1 (1.30%) Firewall
2 1 (1.30%) Network Security
2 1 (1.30%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.30%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.99%) Power BI
2 4 (5.19%) Metadata
3 2 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.60%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.30%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.30%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.30%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 1 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (27.27%) JIRA
2 5 (6.49%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.19%) GitLab
3 4 (5.19%) Gradle
4 3 (3.90%) Cucumber
4 3 (3.90%) REST Assured
4 3 (3.90%) Selenium
5 2 (2.60%) JUnit
5 2 (2.60%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.60%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.30%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.30%) Git
6 1 (1.30%) JMeter
6 1 (1.30%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.30%) Maven
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.30%) Postman
General
1 74 (96.10%) Banking
2 45 (58.44%) Finance
3 25 (32.47%) Investment Banking
4 23 (29.87%) Corporate Banking
5 20 (25.97%) Social Skills
6 19 (24.68%) Retail
7 9 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (5.19%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.60%) Back Office
9 2 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.30%) Legal
10 1 (1.30%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (19.48%) Analyst
2 12 (15.58%) Project Manager
3 10 (12.99%) Business Analyst
4 9 (11.69%) Developer
5 8 (10.39%) Senior
6 4 (5.19%) Consultant
6 4 (5.19%) Engineering Manager
6 4 (5.19%) Java Developer
6 4 (5.19%) Programme Manager
6 4 (5.19%) Senior Developer
7 3 (3.90%) Architect
7 3 (3.90%) Banking Analyst
7 3 (3.90%) Banking Project Manager
7 3 (3.90%) Data Analyst
7 3 (3.90%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (3.90%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (3.90%) Technical Manager
8 2 (2.60%) Banking Business Analyst
8 2 (2.60%) Designer
8 2 (2.60%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.49%) .NET
1 5 (6.49%) Spring
1 5 (6.49%) Spring Boot
2 3 (3.90%) Playwright
3 2 (2.60%) FastAPI
3 2 (2.60%) React
3 2 (2.60%) React Native
3 2 (2.60%) REST
4 1 (1.30%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.30%) Gherkin
4 1 (1.30%) JSON
4 1 (1.30%) Kafka
4 1 (1.30%) NLTK
4 1 (1.30%) Node.js
4 1 (1.30%) Pandas
4 1 (1.30%) SpaCy
4 1 (1.30%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 19 (24.68%) Product Ownership
2 8 (10.39%) PMI
3 5 (6.49%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (5.19%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.19%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.90%) Market Risk
6 2 (2.60%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.30%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.90%) Windows
2 2 (2.60%) Linux
3 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (38.96%) Agile
2 27 (35.06%) Stakeholder Management
2 27 (35.06%) Wealth Management
3 17 (22.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 16 (20.78%) Scrum
5 14 (18.18%) Change Management
6 13 (16.88%) Project Management
7 12 (15.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (15.58%) Software Engineering
8 11 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (14.29%) Fintech
8 11 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (14.29%) Process Improvement
8 11 (14.29%) Roadmaps
9 10 (12.99%) Regulatory Compliance
9 10 (12.99%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 10 (12.99%) User Acceptance Testing
10 9 (11.69%) Kanban
10 9 (11.69%) Regulatory Change
10 9 (11.69%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.58%) Python
2 11 (14.29%) SQL
3 10 (12.99%) Java
4 6 (7.79%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.60%) C#
5 2 (2.60%) Kotlin
5 2 (2.60%) Rust
6 1 (1.30%) Go
6 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (15.58%) Degree
2 8 (10.39%) Master's Degree
2 8 (10.39%) MBA
2 8 (10.39%) PMI Certification
2 8 (10.39%) PMP
2 8 (10.39%) SAFe Agilist
3 3 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.30%) CEH
4 1 (1.30%) SANS
4 1 (1.30%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.99%) QA
2 8 (10.39%) Basel III
3 4 (5.19%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.90%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.60%) IFRS
6 1 (1.30%) COBIT
6 1 (1.30%) IFRS 9
6 1 (1.30%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.30%) NIST
6 1 (1.30%) SEPA
6 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.19%) Kubernetes
1 4 (5.19%) Terraform
2 3 (3.90%) Ansible
3 1 (1.30%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (1.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 12 (15.58%) Oracle
2 5 (6.49%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.60%) DocuSign
4 1 (1.30%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (1.30%) Charles River
4 1 (1.30%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.30%) Databricks
4 1 (1.30%) Dell
4 1 (1.30%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.30%) F5
4 1 (1.30%) HP
4 1 (1.30%) Monzo
4 1 (1.30%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.30%) Teradata
4 1 (1.30%) Zopa