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 2 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 412 460
Rank change year-on-year -63 +48 +34
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 73 85 96
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.31% 0.26%
As % of the General category 0.38% 0.49% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 36 49
10th Percentile £313 £447 £450
25th Percentile £343 £522 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £594 £700 £688
90th Percentile £793 - £775
UK median daily rate £521 £625 £595
% change year-on-year -16.60% +5.04% +8.18%

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 19,417 17,235 21,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 61.27% 61.91% 59.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,345 10,403 14,588
10th Percentile £284 £300 £275
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% -2.91% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £757
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.31% -1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,218 590 1,035
10th Percentile £14.08 £15.61 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.86 £18.50 £16.54
Median hourly rate £23.58 £30.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.42% -9.09% +29.31%
75th Percentile £46.56 £58.20 £59.71
90th Percentile £71.50 £74.76 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £23.50 £27.50 £32.75
% change year-on-year -14.55% -16.03% +31.00%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 -46 45 £600 -11.11% 8
Midlands -25 14 £340 -38.18% 1
North of England -32 14 £358 -30.24%
East Midlands - 11 £336 -
Yorkshire -48 7 £525 +5.00%
North West -27 6 £313 -40.38%
West Midlands -35 3 £495 -10.00% 1
South East -16 1 £550 - 1
South West - 1 - -
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 15 (20.55%) Confluence
2 3 (4.11%) CMS
3 1 (1.37%) Appian
3 1 (1.37%) CICS
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (1.37%) SAS
3 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (10.96%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (4.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (2.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (2.74%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.37%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.37%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.37%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.70%) Power Platform
2 6 (8.22%) AWS
3 5 (6.85%) Azure
4 4 (5.48%) PaaS
5 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.11%) Figma
5 3 (4.11%) OCI
6 2 (2.74%) Apigee
6 2 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.74%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.74%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.74%) Vercel
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (1.37%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.37%) GCP
7 1 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.37%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) Firewall
1 1 (1.37%) FTP
1 1 (1.37%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.70%) Power BI
2 4 (5.48%) Metadata
3 3 (4.11%) Tableau
4 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.37%) Big Data
5 1 (1.37%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.37%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (1.37%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.37%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 18 (24.66%) JIRA
2 5 (6.85%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.48%) Git
3 4 (5.48%) GitLab
3 4 (5.48%) Gradle
4 3 (4.11%) Cucumber
4 3 (4.11%) REST Assured
4 3 (4.11%) Selenium
5 2 (2.74%) JUnit
5 2 (2.74%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.74%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.37%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.37%) JMeter
6 1 (1.37%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.37%) Maven
6 1 (1.37%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.37%) Postman
General
1 70 (95.89%) Banking
2 41 (56.16%) Finance
3 26 (35.62%) Corporate Banking
4 24 (32.88%) Retail
5 23 (31.51%) Investment Banking
6 17 (23.29%) Social Skills
7 13 (17.81%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (5.48%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.74%) Back Office
9 2 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.74%) Legal
10 1 (1.37%) Front Office
10 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.37%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (20.55%) Analyst
2 11 (15.07%) Project Manager
3 9 (12.33%) Developer
4 8 (10.96%) Senior
5 7 (9.59%) Business Analyst
6 6 (8.22%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.48%) Engineering Manager
7 4 (5.48%) Programme Manager
8 3 (4.11%) Architect
8 3 (4.11%) Banking Project Manager
8 3 (4.11%) Consultant
8 3 (4.11%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.11%) Java Developer
8 3 (4.11%) Junior
8 3 (4.11%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.11%) Technical Manager
9 2 (2.74%) Designer
9 2 (2.74%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.74%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (2.74%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.48%) .NET
1 4 (5.48%) Spring
1 4 (5.48%) Spring Boot
2 3 (4.11%) Playwright
2 3 (4.11%) PySpark
2 3 (4.11%) React
3 2 (2.74%) FastAPI
3 2 (2.74%) React Native
3 2 (2.74%) REST
4 1 (1.37%) CSS
4 1 (1.37%) CSS3
4 1 (1.37%) Gherkin
4 1 (1.37%) HTML5
4 1 (1.37%) JSON
4 1 (1.37%) Kafka
4 1 (1.37%) LESS
4 1 (1.37%) Node.js
4 1 (1.37%) Pandas
4 1 (1.37%) Sass
4 1 (1.37%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.29%) Product Ownership
2 7 (9.59%) PMI
3 6 (8.22%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (6.85%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (5.48%) Onboarding
6 3 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.74%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.37%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.37%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.37%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.37%) Market Risk
8 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.37%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.48%) Windows
2 2 (2.74%) Linux
3 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (41.10%) Wealth Management
2 28 (38.36%) Agile
3 24 (32.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (21.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 14 (19.18%) Scrum
6 13 (17.81%) Change Management
7 12 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (16.44%) Project Management
8 11 (15.07%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (15.07%) Decision-Making
8 11 (15.07%) Software Engineering
9 10 (13.70%) Regulatory Compliance
9 10 (13.70%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 9 (12.33%) Fintech
10 9 (12.33%) Process Improvement
10 9 (12.33%) Roadmaps
11 8 (10.96%) Analytics
11 8 (10.96%) DevOps
11 8 (10.96%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.55%) Python
2 11 (15.07%) SQL
3 9 (12.33%) Java
4 6 (8.22%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.74%) Kotlin
5 2 (2.74%) Rust
6 1 (1.37%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.37%) C#
6 1 (1.37%) COBOL
6 1 (1.37%) Go
6 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.37%) JCL
6 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.37%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (13.70%) Degree
2 7 (9.59%) Master's Degree
2 7 (9.59%) MBA
2 7 (9.59%) PMI Certification
2 7 (9.59%) PMP
2 7 (9.59%) SAFe Agilist
3 3 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.33%) QA
2 7 (9.59%) Basel III
3 5 (6.85%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.74%) IFRS
5 1 (1.37%) COBIT
5 1 (1.37%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.37%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.37%) SEPA
5 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.74%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (5.48%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.11%) Ansible
2 3 (4.11%) Terraform
3 1 (1.37%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 6 (8.22%) Oracle
2 5 (6.85%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.74%) DocuSign
3 2 (2.74%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.37%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.37%) Charles River
4 1 (1.37%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.37%) Citrix
4 1 (1.37%) Dell
4 1 (1.37%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.37%) F5
4 1 (1.37%) HP
4 1 (1.37%) Monzo
4 1 (1.37%) Reuters
4 1 (1.37%) Trayport
4 1 (1.37%) Zopa