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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 371 439
Rank change year-on-year -115 +68 +58
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 109 109 98
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.45% 0.27%
As % of the General category 0.49% 0.70% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 44 50
10th Percentile £315 £380 £425
25th Percentile £346 £434 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -11.11% -13.46%
75th Percentile £570 £659 £634
90th Percentile £809 £700 £841
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £575
% change year-on-year - -13.04% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.97 -
UK median hourly rate - £19.97 -

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 22,297 15,680 21,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.24% 64.09% 58.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,814 10,164 13,657
10th Percentile £308 £293 £281
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -2.88% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,475 675 1,773
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.81 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.95 £15.46
Median hourly rate £30.58 £27.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.20% -8.82% -6.63%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.25 £51.91
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £66.74
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.96%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 73 £570 +1.83% 15
North of England -67 17 £380 -15.56% 3
Midlands -53 15 £340 -24.44%
North West -30 14 £322 -27.96% 2
East Midlands - 10 £340 -
West Midlands -57 5 - -
South East - 4 £500 - 2
Yorkshire -63 3 £500 +11.11% 1
South West - 2 £575 -
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 23 (21.10%) Confluence
2 2 (1.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.83%) SAS
3 1 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.92%) Appian
3 1 (0.92%) Camunda
3 1 (0.92%) CICS
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 8 (7.34%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.83%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.83%) UserZoom
3 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (11.93%) Oracle Payables
1 13 (11.93%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 13 (11.93%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.92%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.92%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 13 (11.93%) AWS
1 13 (11.93%) OCI
2 7 (6.42%) Power Platform
3 6 (5.50%) Figma
4 4 (3.67%) Azure
5 3 (2.75%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.83%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.83%) Contentsquare
6 2 (1.83%) GitHub
6 2 (1.83%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (1.83%) PaaS
6 2 (1.83%) SaaS
6 2 (1.83%) Vercel
7 1 (0.92%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.92%) GCP
7 1 (0.92%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.92%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.92%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.59%) FTP
2 1 (0.92%) MIMO
2 1 (0.92%) Network Security
2 1 (0.92%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.42%) Power BI
2 2 (1.83%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.83%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.92%) Big Data
3 1 (0.92%) DB2
3 1 (0.92%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.92%) Neo4j
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.92%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 28 (25.69%) JIRA
2 4 (3.67%) Selenium
3 2 (1.83%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.83%) Git
3 2 (1.83%) Gradle
3 2 (1.83%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.83%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.92%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.92%) Flyway
4 1 (0.92%) HP UFT
4 1 (0.92%) JUnit
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.92%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.92%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.92%) webpack
General
1 106 (97.25%) Banking
2 69 (63.30%) Finance
3 41 (37.61%) Investment Banking
4 39 (35.78%) Retail
5 37 (33.94%) Corporate Banking
6 25 (22.94%) Social Skills
7 11 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.67%) Private Banking
9 2 (1.83%) Back Office
9 2 (1.83%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.83%) Legal
9 2 (1.83%) Marketing
9 2 (1.83%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (14.68%) Analyst
1 16 (14.68%) Business Analyst
2 10 (9.17%) Architect
2 10 (9.17%) Product Owner
3 8 (7.34%) Project Manager
4 7 (6.42%) Consultant
4 7 (6.42%) Designer
4 7 (6.42%) Senior
5 5 (4.59%) Developer
6 4 (3.67%) Analytics Manager
6 4 (3.67%) Banking Analyst
6 4 (3.67%) Data Analytics Manager
6 4 (3.67%) Data Manager
6 4 (3.67%) Lead
7 3 (2.75%) Engineering Manager
7 3 (2.75%) Junior
7 3 (2.75%) Junior Architect
7 3 (2.75%) Product Designer
7 3 (2.75%) Product Manager
7 3 (2.75%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.50%) Spring
1 6 (5.50%) Spring Boot
2 4 (3.67%) React
3 3 (2.75%) Kafka
3 3 (2.75%) React Native
3 3 (2.75%) RESTful
4 2 (1.83%) .NET
4 2 (1.83%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.83%) GraphQL
4 2 (1.83%) Playwright
4 2 (1.83%) PySpark
5 1 (0.92%) Apollo GraphQL
5 1 (0.92%) Jest
5 1 (0.92%) Micronaut
5 1 (0.92%) NetworkX
5 1 (0.92%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.92%) Redux
5 1 (0.92%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (0.92%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.92%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 34 (31.19%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.17%) Onboarding
3 7 (6.42%) PMI
4 5 (4.59%) Market Risk
5 4 (3.67%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.83%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.83%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.83%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.92%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.92%) Clustering
7 1 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.92%) EPoS
7 1 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.92%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.92%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.92%) Online Banking
7 1 (0.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.83%) Linux
1 2 (1.83%) Windows
2 1 (0.92%) Android
2 1 (0.92%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (40.37%) Agile
2 39 (35.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (33.94%) Wealth Management
4 18 (16.51%) Scrum
4 18 (16.51%) User Stories
5 17 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (15.60%) User Acceptance Testing
6 16 (14.68%) Change Management
6 16 (14.68%) Roadmaps
7 15 (13.76%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 14 (12.84%) Epics
9 13 (11.93%) Acceptance Criteria
9 13 (11.93%) Accounts Payable
9 13 (11.93%) Accounts Receivable
9 13 (11.93%) Asset Management
9 13 (11.93%) Procure-to-Pay
9 13 (11.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (11.01%) Analytics
10 12 (11.01%) Process Improvement
10 12 (11.01%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.09%) SQL
2 9 (8.26%) Java
2 9 (8.26%) Python
3 5 (4.59%) JavaScript
3 5 (4.59%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.83%) C#
4 2 (1.83%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.92%) Korn
5 1 (0.92%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.92%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.92%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (11.01%) Degree
2 7 (6.42%) Master's Degree
2 7 (6.42%) MBA
2 7 (6.42%) PMI Certification
2 7 (6.42%) PMP
2 7 (6.42%) SAFe Agilist
3 3 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.83%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.92%) CEH
5 1 (0.92%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.92%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.26%) QA
2 8 (7.34%) Basel III
3 3 (2.75%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.75%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.83%) IFRS
5 1 (0.92%) COREP
5 1 (0.92%) FINREP
5 1 (0.92%) GDPR
5 1 (0.92%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.92%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.92%) NIST
5 1 (0.92%) SEPA
5 1 (0.92%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.75%) Terraform
3 1 (0.92%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (0.92%) PingFederate
3 1 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (15.60%) Oracle
2 6 (5.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.83%) Adobe
3 2 (1.83%) Google
3 2 (1.83%) IBM
4 1 (0.92%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.92%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (0.92%) Charles River
4 1 (0.92%) Databricks
4 1 (0.92%) Micro Focus
4 1 (0.92%) Pega
4 1 (0.92%) Progress
4 1 (0.92%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.92%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.92%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.92%) StreamSets
4 1 (0.92%) Temenos
4 1 (0.92%) Teradata
4 1 (0.92%) Zopa