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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 413 459
Rank change year-on-year -98 +46 +2
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 116 104 77
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.37% 0.23%
As % of the General category 0.45% 0.58% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 38 35
10th Percentile £351 £395 £418
25th Percentile £451 £448 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -16.67% -4.91%
75th Percentile £594 £538 £688
90th Percentile £719 £639 £815
UK median daily rate £492 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -1.60% -16.67% -
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 25,730 17,888 19,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.70% 64.47% 58.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,172 11,324 11,787
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £423 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,169 1,012 1,006
10th Percentile £13.65 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.11 £16.17 £17.63
Median hourly rate £31.10 £25.15 £38.68
Median % change year-on-year +23.66% -34.97% +40.64%
75th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £71.48 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £29.98 £25.15 £37.39
% change year-on-year +19.20% -32.74% +35.96%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -67 96 £488 -2.50% 34
North of England -77 14 £473 +5.11% 10
North West -53 11 £483 +7.58% 2
Yorkshire -47 3 £455 -9.00% 7
South East - 3 £598 - 3
East Midlands -16 2 £388 -37.92%
Midlands -46 2 £388 -22.40% 1
East of England - 1 £688 -
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 16 (13.79%) Confluence
2 10 (8.62%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.86%) Appian
4 1 (0.86%) Camunda
4 1 (0.86%) CICS
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.86%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (2.59%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.72%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.86%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 2 (1.72%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.86%) Finacle
2 1 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 14 (12.07%) AWS
2 6 (5.17%) Azure
2 6 (5.17%) Power Platform
3 5 (4.31%) GCP
3 5 (4.31%) Snowflake
4 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (3.45%) ShareGate
5 3 (2.59%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.72%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (1.72%) Apigee
6 2 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.72%) Contentsquare
6 2 (1.72%) GitHub
6 2 (1.72%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.72%) SaaS
7 1 (0.86%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.86%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.86%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.86%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.72%) SSH
2 1 (0.86%) BGP
2 1 (0.86%) Firewall
2 1 (0.86%) MIMO
2 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.17%) Metadata
2 3 (2.59%) Amazon QuickSight
2 3 (2.59%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.59%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.59%) Power BI
3 2 (1.72%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.72%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.86%) Big Data
4 1 (0.86%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.86%) Db2
4 1 (0.86%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.86%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.86%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (23.28%) JIRA
2 3 (2.59%) Git
3 2 (1.72%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.72%) webpack
4 1 (0.86%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.86%) ERwin
4 1 (0.86%) Flyway
4 1 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.86%) JUnit
4 1 (0.86%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.86%) Selenium
General
1 114 (98.28%) Banking
2 86 (74.14%) Finance
3 57 (49.14%) Retail
4 46 (39.66%) Corporate Banking
5 42 (36.21%) Investment Banking
6 31 (26.72%) Social Skills
7 10 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (8.62%) Private Banking
8 5 (4.31%) Back Office
8 5 (4.31%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.45%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.72%) Front Office
11 2 (1.72%) Legal
11 2 (1.72%) Marketing
12 1 (0.86%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.86%) International Banking
12 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (15.52%) Analyst
2 14 (12.07%) Architect
3 13 (11.21%) Business Analyst
3 13 (11.21%) Product Owner
4 11 (9.48%) Lead
5 7 (6.03%) Analytics Manager
5 7 (6.03%) Data Analytics Manager
5 7 (6.03%) Data Manager
6 6 (5.17%) Designer
6 6 (5.17%) Product Manager
7 5 (4.31%) Developer
7 5 (4.31%) Technical Analyst
7 5 (4.31%) Technical Business Analyst
8 4 (3.45%) Data Analyst
8 4 (3.45%) Java Engineer
8 4 (3.45%) Project Manager
8 4 (3.45%) Service Designer
8 4 (3.45%) Software Engineer
9 3 (2.59%) Junior Architect
9 3 (2.59%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.90%) Spring
1 8 (6.90%) Spring Boot
2 7 (6.03%) Kafka
2 7 (6.03%) React
3 5 (4.31%) REST
4 4 (3.45%) Node.js
5 3 (2.59%) GraphQL
5 3 (2.59%) RESTful
6 2 (1.72%) .NET
6 2 (1.72%) Apollo GraphQL
6 2 (1.72%) DOM
6 2 (1.72%) Jest
6 2 (1.72%) Micronaut
6 2 (1.72%) Sass
6 2 (1.72%) Terraform
7 1 (0.86%) CSS
7 1 (0.86%) JPA
7 1 (0.86%) Middleware
7 1 (0.86%) OAuth
7 1 (0.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 35 (30.17%) Product Ownership
2 14 (12.07%) Onboarding
3 9 (7.76%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.31%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.45%) Credit Risk
7 3 (2.59%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.59%) Mobile Banking
7 3 (2.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (2.59%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.72%) PKI
8 2 (1.72%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.86%) EPoS
9 1 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.86%) FPGA
9 1 (0.86%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.86%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.86%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.86%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.45%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.59%) Android
3 1 (0.86%) AIX
3 1 (0.86%) HPUX
3 1 (0.86%) Linux
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.86%) Solaris
3 1 (0.86%) SUSE
3 1 (0.86%) Unix
3 1 (0.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (46.55%) Agile
2 45 (38.79%) Wealth Management
3 43 (37.07%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (18.10%) Migration
5 18 (15.52%) Analytics
6 17 (14.66%) Microservices
6 17 (14.66%) User Stories
7 15 (12.93%) Acceptance Criteria
8 14 (12.07%) AI
8 14 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (12.07%) Scrum
8 14 (12.07%) Workshop Facilitation
9 13 (11.21%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 12 (10.34%) Roadmaps
11 11 (9.48%) Validation
12 10 (8.62%) Backlog Refinement
12 10 (8.62%) Business Analysis
12 10 (8.62%) Customer Experience
12 10 (8.62%) Event-Driven
12 10 (8.62%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 14 (12.07%) SQL
2 12 (10.34%) Java
3 11 (9.48%) Python
4 6 (5.17%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.31%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.45%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.59%) Korn
8 1 (0.86%) C#
8 1 (0.86%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 5 (4.31%) Degree
2 3 (2.59%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.72%) CISSP
3 2 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.86%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.86%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.86%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.86%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.86%) PMP
4 1 (0.86%) SAFe Agilist
4 1 (0.86%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.86%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.03%) QA
2 3 (2.59%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.59%) GDPR
3 2 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.72%) GRC
3 2 (1.72%) SEPA
4 1 (0.86%) Basel III
4 1 (0.86%) COREP
4 1 (0.86%) FINREP
4 1 (0.86%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.86%) PSD2
4 1 (0.86%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.31%) Docker
2 3 (2.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.86%) Ansible
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.86%) PingFederate
2 1 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (12.07%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.45%) Google
2 4 (3.45%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.59%) Databricks
3 3 (2.59%) IBM
3 3 (2.59%) Oracle
3 3 (2.59%) Temenos
4 2 (1.72%) Adobe
4 2 (1.72%) Pega
4 2 (1.72%) SAP
4 2 (1.72%) Sparx
4 2 (1.72%) Teradata
4 2 (1.72%) Thales
5 1 (0.86%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.86%) Calypso
5 1 (0.86%) Cisco
5 1 (0.86%) HP
5 1 (0.86%) Murex
5 1 (0.86%) Planview
5 1 (0.86%) Progress