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 14 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 392 477
Rank change year-on-year -92 +85 +6
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 92 93 93
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.38% 0.25%
As % of the General category 0.43% 0.60% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 39 49
10th Percentile £313 £422 £445
25th Percentile £338 £509 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £675 £525
Median % change year-on-year -23.70% +28.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £650
90th Percentile £703 - £788
UK median daily rate £529 £650 £563
% change year-on-year -18.65% +15.56% -6.25%

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 21,278 15,619 22,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.79% 63.21% 58.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,437 10,022 14,551
10th Percentile £300 £300 £266
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £758
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,333 564 1,662
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.02 £13.05
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.00 £15.38
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.90 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.10% +18.86% -22.39%
75th Percentile £58.65 £62.24 £50.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £76.25 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £24.19 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -19.37% +15.38% -21.21%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -79 58 £570 -15.56% 11
Midlands -43 16 £340 -32.00% 1
North of England -59 15 £322 -28.44% 2
North West -24 12 £313 -28.46% 2
East Midlands - 9 £333 -
West Midlands -59 7 £495 -1.00% 1
Yorkshire -58 3 £588 +30.56%
South West - 3 £575 -
South East -49 2 £525 - 4
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 (20.65%) Confluence
2 2 (2.17%) CMS
2 2 (2.17%) SAS
3 1 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.09%) Appian
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (9.78%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.17%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.09%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 13 (14.13%) Oracle Payables
1 13 (14.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 13 (14.13%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.09%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.09%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 13 (14.13%) OCI
2 8 (8.70%) Power Platform
3 7 (7.61%) AWS
4 5 (5.43%) Figma
5 4 (4.35%) Azure
6 3 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.17%) Apigee
7 2 (2.17%) PaaS
7 2 (2.17%) Vercel
8 1 (1.09%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.09%) GCP
8 1 (1.09%) GitHub
8 1 (1.09%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.09%) SaaS
8 1 (1.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.43%) FTP
2 1 (1.09%) Network Security
2 1 (1.09%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.09%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.70%) Power BI
2 4 (4.35%) Metadata
3 2 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.09%) Big Data
4 1 (1.09%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.09%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.09%) Neo4j
4 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.09%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 1 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (21.74%) JIRA
2 5 (5.43%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.35%) Gradle
4 3 (3.26%) GitLab
4 3 (3.26%) Selenium
5 2 (2.17%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.17%) REST Assured
5 2 (2.17%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.09%) HP UFT
6 1 (1.09%) JUnit
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.09%) WebDriver
General
1 91 (98.91%) Banking
2 59 (64.13%) Finance
3 34 (36.96%) Investment Banking
4 28 (30.43%) Corporate Banking
5 24 (26.09%) Retail
6 19 (20.65%) Social Skills
7 12 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (4.35%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.17%) Back Office
9 2 (2.17%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.09%) Legal
10 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (17.39%) Analyst
2 13 (14.13%) Business Analyst
3 10 (10.87%) Project Manager
3 10 (10.87%) Senior
4 9 (9.78%) Developer
5 6 (6.52%) Consultant
5 6 (6.52%) Designer
6 5 (5.43%) Architect
7 4 (4.35%) Engineering Manager
7 4 (4.35%) Java Developer
7 4 (4.35%) Programme Manager
7 4 (4.35%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.26%) Banking Analyst
8 3 (3.26%) Banking Project Manager
8 3 (3.26%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (3.26%) Product Designer
8 3 (3.26%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (2.17%) Integration Developer
9 2 (2.17%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.43%) Spring
1 5 (5.43%) Spring Boot
2 3 (3.26%) .NET
2 3 (3.26%) Playwright
3 2 (2.17%) FastAPI
3 2 (2.17%) PySpark
3 2 (2.17%) React
3 2 (2.17%) React Native
3 2 (2.17%) REST
4 1 (1.09%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.09%) Gherkin
4 1 (1.09%) GraphX
4 1 (1.09%) Kafka
4 1 (1.09%) NetworkX
4 1 (1.09%) NLTK
4 1 (1.09%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.09%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.09%) SpaCy
4 1 (1.09%) SwiftUI
4 1 (1.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 22 (23.91%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.70%) PMI
3 6 (6.52%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.43%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.09%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.09%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.09%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.09%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.09%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.17%) Linux
1 2 (2.17%) Windows
2 1 (1.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (35.87%) Agile
2 32 (34.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 31 (33.70%) Wealth Management
4 19 (20.65%) Scrum
5 16 (17.39%) Change Management
5 16 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 16 (17.39%) User Acceptance Testing
6 13 (14.13%) Accounts Payable
6 13 (14.13%) Accounts Receivable
6 13 (14.13%) Asset Management
6 13 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (14.13%) Process Improvement
6 13 (14.13%) Procure-to-Pay
6 13 (14.13%) Project Management
7 12 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (13.04%) Regulatory Compliance
7 12 (13.04%) Roadmaps
8 10 (10.87%) Software Engineering
8 10 (10.87%) User Stories
8 10 (10.87%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 14 (15.22%) Python
2 11 (11.96%) SQL
3 9 (9.78%) Java
4 6 (6.52%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.17%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.17%) Kotlin
5 2 (2.17%) Rust
6 1 (1.09%) C#
6 1 (1.09%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.09%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (13.04%) Degree
2 8 (8.70%) Master's Degree
2 8 (8.70%) MBA
2 8 (8.70%) PMI Certification
2 8 (8.70%) PMP
2 8 (8.70%) SAFe Agilist
3 3 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.17%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.09%) CEH
5 1 (1.09%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.87%) QA
2 8 (8.70%) Basel III
3 4 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.26%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.17%) IFRS
5 2 (2.17%) ISO 20022
5 2 (2.17%) SEPA
6 1 (1.09%) IFRS 9
6 1 (1.09%) NIST
6 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.26%) Terraform
3 2 (2.17%) Ansible
4 1 (1.09%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (1.09%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 16 (17.39%) Oracle
2 5 (5.43%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.09%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (1.09%) Charles River
3 1 (1.09%) Databricks
3 1 (1.09%) Google
3 1 (1.09%) Micro Focus
3 1 (1.09%) Monzo
3 1 (1.09%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.09%) Teradata
3 1 (1.09%) Zopa