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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 402 455 448
Rank change year-on-year +53 -7 +51
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 99 78 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.24% 0.36%
As % of the General category 0.55% 0.41% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 35 78
10th Percentile £395 £418 £500
25th Percentile £448 £525 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £646
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -7.12% +17.45%
75th Percentile £538 £688 £784
90th Percentile £639 £815 £950
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £19.97 - £89.44
UK median hourly rate £19.97 - £89.44

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 common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 17,881 19,030 25,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.40% 58.21% 59.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,322 11,616 17,339
10th Percentile £275 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £415 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £779
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,012 979 988
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.44 £16.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% +40.00% +10.93%
75th Percentile £47.50 £61.30 £58.59
90th Percentile £71.48 £71.50 £70.84
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% +30.91% +12.24%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Retail Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Retail Banking 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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 +37 69 £500 -20.00% 17
North of England -3 22 £450 -23.40% 5
Yorkshire -4 11 £500 -11.11% 3
North West -15 8 £449 -25.25% 2
Midlands -8 5 £500 -
North East - 3 £420 -
West Midlands - 3 £500 -
East Midlands - 2 £625 -
Retail Banking
UK

Retail 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 4 (4.04%) CICS
1 4 (4.04%) Confluence
2 2 (2.02%) CMS
2 2 (2.02%) SAS
2 2 (2.02%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.01%) Apache
3 1 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.01%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.02%) Chatbot
3 2 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.02%) UserZoom
4 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.01%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (2.02%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.01%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (9.09%) AWS
2 8 (8.08%) Figma
3 4 (4.04%) Azure
3 4 (4.04%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.02%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.02%) GCP
4 2 (2.02%) PaaS
4 2 (2.02%) Power Automate
4 2 (2.02%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.01%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 1 (1.01%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.01%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.01%) Google Workspace
5 1 (1.01%) Lucidchart
5 1 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.01%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (1.01%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.01%) ATM
1 1 (1.01%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.05%) Tableau
2 4 (4.04%) MongoDB
2 4 (4.04%) Power BI
3 3 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.03%) DB2
3 3 (3.03%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.02%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.02%) Metadata
5 1 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.01%) Base SAS
5 1 (1.01%) Big Data
5 1 (1.01%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.01%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.01%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.01%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.01%) TKPROF
Development Applications
1 7 (7.07%) JIRA
2 4 (4.04%) Git
2 4 (4.04%) JUnit
3 3 (3.03%) Selenium
4 2 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.02%) SOAtest
4 2 (2.02%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.01%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.01%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.01%) GitLab
5 1 (1.01%) JMeter
5 1 (1.01%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.01%) Maven
5 1 (1.01%) Postman
5 1 (1.01%) REST Assured
General
1 94 (94.95%) Banking
2 53 (53.54%) Finance
3 49 (49.49%) Retail
4 47 (47.47%) Investment Banking
5 46 (46.46%) Corporate Banking
6 34 (34.34%) Social Skills
7 23 (23.23%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (7.07%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (5.05%) Financial Institution
9 5 (5.05%) Legal
10 4 (4.04%) Marketing
10 4 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (2.02%) Front Office
12 2 (2.02%) General Ledger
12 2 (2.02%) Private Banking
13 1 (1.01%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 23 (23.23%) Analyst
2 12 (12.12%) Developer
3 11 (11.11%) Project Manager
4 10 (10.10%) Business Analyst
4 10 (10.10%) Designer
5 8 (8.08%) Data Analyst
6 5 (5.05%) Architect
6 5 (5.05%) Risk Analyst
7 4 (4.04%) Banking Project Manager
7 4 (4.04%) Consultant
7 4 (4.04%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (4.04%) Incident Manager
7 4 (4.04%) React Developer
7 4 (4.04%) Senior
8 3 (3.03%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 3 (3.03%) Gen AI Developer
8 3 (3.03%) Lead
8 3 (3.03%) Retail Banking Business Analyst
8 3 (3.03%) Risk Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.05%) JSON
2 4 (4.04%) HTML
2 4 (4.04%) PySpark
2 4 (4.04%) React
3 3 (3.03%) FastAPI
3 3 (3.03%) Flask
3 3 (3.03%) Gherkin
3 3 (3.03%) Kafka
3 3 (3.03%) SQLAlchemy
4 2 (2.02%) .NET
4 2 (2.02%) J2EE
4 2 (2.02%) Web Services
4 2 (2.02%) XML
5 1 (1.01%) CSS
5 1 (1.01%) CSS3
5 1 (1.01%) HTML5
5 1 (1.01%) Node.js
5 1 (1.01%) NumPy
5 1 (1.01%) Sass
5 1 (1.01%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.08%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.05%) Mainframe
3 5 (5.05%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.04%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.04%) VSAM
5 3 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.03%) Credit Risk
5 3 (3.03%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.03%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.02%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (2.02%) Mobile Payment
6 2 (2.02%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.01%) Animation
7 1 (1.01%) CMDB
7 1 (1.01%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.01%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.05%) Windows
2 3 (3.03%) Unix
3 2 (2.02%) Android
3 2 (2.02%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.02%) Linux
4 1 (1.01%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (46.46%) Wealth Management
2 24 (24.24%) Agile
3 23 (23.23%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (21.21%) Risk Management
5 19 (19.19%) Decision-Making
5 19 (19.19%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (14.14%) User Experience
7 12 (12.12%) Actionable Insight
7 12 (12.12%) Analytics
8 11 (11.11%) Customer Experience
8 11 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (10.10%) Data Analysis
9 10 (10.10%) Test Automation
9 10 (10.10%) UX Design
10 9 (9.09%) Data Modelling
10 9 (9.09%) Migration
10 9 (9.09%) Regulatory Compliance
11 8 (8.08%) Artificial Intelligence
11 8 (8.08%) Business Case
11 8 (8.08%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 17 (17.17%) Python
2 13 (13.13%) SQL
3 7 (7.07%) Java
4 5 (5.05%) COBOL
5 4 (4.04%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.04%) JCL
6 2 (2.02%) R
6 2 (2.02%) REXX
7 1 (1.01%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.01%) C#
7 1 (1.01%) Go
7 1 (1.01%) PROC SQL
7 1 (1.01%) SAS Macro
7 1 (1.01%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (3.03%) Degree
2 2 (2.02%) CISA
2 2 (2.02%) CISSP
2 2 (2.02%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 2 (2.02%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.01%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.04%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.03%) QA
4 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.01%) Basel III
5 1 (1.01%) COBIT
5 1 (1.01%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.01%) GDPR
5 1 (1.01%) NIST
5 1 (1.01%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.01%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.02%) Terraform
2 1 (1.01%) Ansible
2 1 (1.01%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (1.01%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 7 (7.07%) Oracle
2 2 (2.02%) Ab Initio
2 2 (2.02%) Citrix
2 2 (2.02%) Dell
2 2 (2.02%) DocuSign
2 2 (2.02%) Google
2 2 (2.02%) IBM
2 2 (2.02%) Informatica
2 2 (2.02%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.02%) Parasoft
2 2 (2.02%) ServiceNow
2 2 (2.02%) Workday
3 1 (1.01%) Adobe
3 1 (1.01%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (1.01%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.01%) F5
3 1 (1.01%) Planview
3 1 (1.01%) Snow
3 1 (1.01%) Trayport
3 1 (1.01%) Veritas