Retail Banking Contracts 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 458 479
Rank change year-on-year +78 +21 +15
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 119 98 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.46% 0.26% 0.34%
As % of the General category 0.71% 0.46% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 54 77
10th Percentile £408 £425 £500
25th Percentile £447 £488 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £564 £666 £850
90th Percentile £688 £838 £1,038
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% +4.35%
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 16,686 21,397 28,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 63.91% 57.25% 59.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,713 13,675 19,649
10th Percentile £282 £299 £315
25th Percentile £404 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 831 1,776 947
10th Percentile £13.37 £13.00 £13.92
25th Percentile £16.53 £15.62 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.38 £32.90 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.78% +9.65% +26.04%
75th Percentile £51.22 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £68.82 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.28 £31.76 £30.50
% change year-on-year -14.09% +4.11% +24.90%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Retail Banking in England.

Daily rate trend for Retail Banking in England

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail Banking in England

Retail Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Retail Banking in England.

Hourly rate trend for Retail Banking in England

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 3 July 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 +68 92 £525 -12.50% 156
North of England +13 17 £450 -25.00% 15
North West +6 8 £449 -25.25% 9
Yorkshire +10 7 £450 -29.41% 3
Midlands - 5 £500 - 12
West Midlands - 5 £500 - 7
North East - 2 £420 - 3
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 6 (5.04%) Confluence
2 3 (2.52%) CICS
3 2 (1.68%) SAS
3 2 (1.68%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.84%) Apache
4 1 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.84%) CMS
4 1 (0.84%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (6.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.68%) UserZoom
4 1 (0.84%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.84%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.84%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.84%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.84%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 18 (15.13%) AWS
2 7 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
2 7 (5.88%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 7 (5.88%) Amazon S3
2 7 (5.88%) CloudFront
2 7 (5.88%) Figma
2 7 (5.88%) Route 53
3 4 (3.36%) Azure
4 3 (2.52%) GCP
4 3 (2.52%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.68%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (1.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.68%) Serverless
6 1 (0.84%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (0.84%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.68%) Firewall
2 1 (0.84%) ATM
2 1 (0.84%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.08%) NoSQL
2 7 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (5.88%) DocumentDB
2 7 (5.88%) Redis
3 5 (4.20%) Tableau
4 4 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.36%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.52%) DB2
5 3 (2.52%) Metadata
5 3 (2.52%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.52%) Power BI
6 2 (1.68%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.68%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.68%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.68%) TKPROF
7 1 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.84%) Base SAS
7 1 (0.84%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.84%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 7 (5.88%) JIRA
2 3 (2.52%) JUnit
3 2 (1.68%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.68%) Selenium
3 2 (1.68%) SOAtest
4 1 (0.84%) Git
General
1 113 (94.96%) Banking
2 69 (57.98%) Finance
3 58 (48.74%) Investment Banking
4 53 (44.54%) Retail
5 51 (42.86%) Corporate Banking
6 40 (33.61%) Social Skills
7 28 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (8.40%) Financial Institution
9 6 (5.04%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (3.36%) Legal
10 4 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.52%) General Ledger
11 3 (2.52%) Marketing
12 2 (1.68%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.84%) Front Office
13 1 (0.84%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 25 (21.01%) Analyst
2 17 (14.29%) Developer
3 13 (10.92%) Business Analyst
4 11 (9.24%) Project Manager
5 9 (7.56%) Designer
6 8 (6.72%) Data Engineer
7 6 (5.04%) Risk Analyst
8 5 (4.20%) Data Analyst
9 4 (3.36%) Banking Project Manager
9 4 (3.36%) Incident Manager
9 4 (3.36%) Senior
10 3 (2.52%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (2.52%) Electronic Trading Specialist
10 3 (2.52%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 3 (2.52%) Gen AI Developer
10 3 (2.52%) MiFID Specialist
10 3 (2.52%) Python Engineer
10 3 (2.52%) React Developer
10 3 (2.52%) Retail Banking Business Analyst
10 3 (2.52%) Risk Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.88%) GraphQL
1 7 (5.88%) RESTful
2 5 (4.20%) JSON
3 4 (3.36%) React
4 3 (2.52%) FastAPI
4 3 (2.52%) Flask
4 3 (2.52%) Gherkin
4 3 (2.52%) HTML
4 3 (2.52%) Kafka
4 3 (2.52%) PySpark
4 3 (2.52%) SQLAlchemy
5 2 (1.68%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.68%) J2EE
5 2 (1.68%) Node.js
5 2 (1.68%) Pandas
5 2 (1.68%) Web Services
5 2 (1.68%) XML
6 1 (0.84%) Polars
6 1 (0.84%) Redux
6 1 (0.84%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.72%) Onboarding
2 7 (5.88%) Derivative
2 7 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.36%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.36%) Mainframe
3 4 (3.36%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.52%) Mobile Banking
4 3 (2.52%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.52%) Taxonomies
4 3 (2.52%) VSAM
5 2 (1.68%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.68%) Mobile Payment
6 1 (0.84%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.84%) CMDB
6 1 (0.84%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.52%) Unix
1 3 (2.52%) Windows
2 2 (1.68%) Android
2 2 (1.68%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (47.06%) Wealth Management
2 29 (24.37%) Agile
3 28 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (20.17%) Risk Management
5 22 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (16.81%) Decision-Making
7 15 (12.61%) User Experience
8 12 (10.08%) Analytics
9 11 (9.24%) Actionable Insight
10 10 (8.40%) Customer Experience
10 10 (8.40%) Data Analysis
10 10 (8.40%) Project Management
11 9 (7.56%) ETL
11 9 (7.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (7.56%) Test Automation
11 9 (7.56%) UX Design
12 8 (6.72%) Artificial Intelligence
12 8 (6.72%) Migration
12 8 (6.72%) Roadmaps
12 8 (6.72%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 22 (18.49%) SQL
2 20 (16.81%) Python
3 7 (5.88%) C#
4 6 (5.04%) Java
5 4 (3.36%) COBOL
5 4 (3.36%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.52%) JCL
7 2 (1.68%) REXX
7 2 (1.68%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.84%) PROC SQL
8 1 (0.84%) R
8 1 (0.84%) SAS Macro
8 1 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (3.36%) Degree
2 3 (2.52%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (1.68%) APMP
3 2 (1.68%) CISA
3 2 (1.68%) CISSP
3 2 (1.68%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (0.84%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.84%) CFA
4 1 (0.84%) CRISC
4 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.56%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (2.52%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.52%) MiFID
3 3 (2.52%) QA
4 2 (1.68%) GDPR
5 1 (0.84%) Basel III
5 1 (0.84%) COBIT
5 1 (0.84%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.84%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.84%) ITGC
5 1 (0.84%) NIST
5 1 (0.84%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (1.68%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.84%) Galera Cluster
2 1 (0.84%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (0.84%) NetBackup
2 1 (0.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (6.72%) Oracle
2 7 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.36%) Cisco
4 3 (2.52%) Google
4 3 (2.52%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.68%) Ab Initio
5 2 (1.68%) CheckPoint
5 2 (1.68%) Databricks
5 2 (1.68%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.68%) IBM
5 2 (1.68%) Informatica
5 2 (1.68%) Logitech
5 2 (1.68%) Murex
5 2 (1.68%) Parasoft
5 2 (1.68%) Workday
6 1 (0.84%) Calypso
6 1 (0.84%) Citrix
6 1 (0.84%) Dell
6 1 (0.84%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.84%) Veritas