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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 369 439
Rank change year-on-year -121 +70 +58
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 97 107 98
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.44% 0.26%
As % of the General category 0.44% 0.69% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 44 51
10th Percentile £313 £380 £450
25th Percentile £340 £434 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £506 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% -11.96% -5.74%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £638
90th Percentile £838 £700 £838
UK median daily rate £500 £506 £575
% change year-on-year -1.23% -11.96% -4.17%

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 22,225 15,607 21,625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.91% 64.03% 58.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,883 10,135 13,933
10th Percentile £305 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,450 667 1,792
10th Percentile £14.24 £14.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.00 £15.49
Median hourly rate £30.50 £27.50 £30.14
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -8.76% -9.72%
75th Percentile £61.88 £55.25 £51.91
90th Percentile £80.06 £75.00 £65.70
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -12.56%

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 3 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 3 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 -82 64 £570 -12.31% 24
North of England -59 17 £340 -24.44% 4
Midlands -57 15 £333 -26.11% 1
North West -29 14 £322 -27.96% 4
East Midlands - 10 £333 -
West Midlands -56 5 - - 1
Yorkshire -55 3 £500 +11.11%
South East - 2 £598 - 2
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 22 (22.68%) Confluence
2 2 (2.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.06%) SAS
3 1 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.03%) Appian
3 1 (1.03%) Camunda
3 1 (1.03%) CICS
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 9 (9.28%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.06%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.06%) UserZoom
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (13.40%) Oracle Payables
1 13 (13.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 13 (13.40%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.03%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.03%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.40%) OCI
2 11 (11.34%) AWS
3 8 (8.25%) Power Platform
4 6 (6.19%) Figma
5 4 (4.12%) Azure
6 2 (2.06%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.06%) Contentsquare
6 2 (2.06%) GitHub
6 2 (2.06%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (2.06%) PaaS
6 2 (2.06%) SaaS
6 2 (2.06%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.06%) Vercel
7 1 (1.03%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (1.03%) Apigee
7 1 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.03%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.03%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.03%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.15%) FTP
2 1 (1.03%) MIMO
2 1 (1.03%) Network Security
2 1 (1.03%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.25%) Power BI
2 2 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.06%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.03%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.03%) Big Data
3 1 (1.03%) DB2
3 1 (1.03%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.03%) Neo4j
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.03%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 25 (25.77%) JIRA
2 4 (4.12%) Selenium
3 3 (3.09%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.06%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.06%) Gradle
4 2 (2.06%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.03%) GitLab
5 1 (1.03%) HP UFT
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (1.03%) Robot Framework
5 1 (1.03%) WebDriver
General
1 94 (96.91%) Banking
2 61 (62.89%) Finance
3 34 (35.05%) Investment Banking
4 31 (31.96%) Corporate Banking
5 29 (29.90%) Retail
6 21 (21.65%) Social Skills
7 11 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.09%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.06%) Back Office
9 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.06%) Marketing
9 2 (2.06%) Private Banking
9 2 (2.06%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Legal
10 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (14.43%) Analyst
1 14 (14.43%) Business Analyst
2 9 (9.28%) Project Manager
3 8 (8.25%) Senior
4 7 (7.22%) Architect
4 7 (7.22%) Consultant
4 7 (7.22%) Designer
5 6 (6.19%) Developer
5 6 (6.19%) Product Owner
6 4 (4.12%) Lead
7 3 (3.09%) Banking Analyst
7 3 (3.09%) Banking Project Manager
7 3 (3.09%) Engineering Manager
7 3 (3.09%) Product Designer
7 3 (3.09%) Programme Manager
7 3 (3.09%) Senior Developer
7 3 (3.09%) UX Designer
8 2 (2.06%) Data Analytics Manager
8 2 (2.06%) Senior Designer
8 2 (2.06%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.19%) Spring
1 6 (6.19%) Spring Boot
2 3 (3.09%) Playwright
3 2 (2.06%) .NET
3 2 (2.06%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.06%) Kafka
3 2 (2.06%) PySpark
3 2 (2.06%) React Native
4 1 (1.03%) GraphX
4 1 (1.03%) Micronaut
4 1 (1.03%) NetworkX
4 1 (1.03%) pytest
4 1 (1.03%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.03%) React
4 1 (1.03%) RESTful
4 1 (1.03%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.03%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 28 (28.87%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.25%) Onboarding
2 8 (8.25%) PMI
3 5 (5.15%) Market Risk
4 3 (3.09%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.06%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.06%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.06%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.03%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.03%) Clustering
6 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.03%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.03%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.03%) Online Banking
6 1 (1.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.06%) Linux
1 2 (2.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (39.18%) Agile
2 35 (36.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 31 (31.96%) Wealth Management
4 18 (18.56%) Scrum
5 17 (17.53%) Change Management
6 16 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (16.49%) User Acceptance Testing
7 15 (15.46%) Roadmaps
7 15 (15.46%) User Stories
8 13 (13.40%) Accounts Payable
8 13 (13.40%) Accounts Receivable
8 13 (13.40%) Asset Management
8 13 (13.40%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 13 (13.40%) Process Improvement
8 13 (13.40%) Procure-to-Pay
8 13 (13.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 12 (12.37%) Epics
9 12 (12.37%) Regulatory Compliance
10 11 (11.34%) Sprint Planning
10 11 (11.34%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.31%) SQL
2 9 (9.28%) Java
2 9 (9.28%) Python
3 3 (3.09%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.09%) TypeScript
4 2 (2.06%) C#
4 2 (2.06%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.03%) Korn
5 1 (1.03%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.03%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.03%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (13.40%) Degree
2 8 (8.25%) Master's Degree
2 8 (8.25%) MBA
2 8 (8.25%) PMI Certification
2 8 (8.25%) PMP
2 8 (8.25%) SAFe Agilist
3 3 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.06%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.03%) CEH
5 1 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.03%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.31%) QA
2 9 (9.28%) Basel III
3 3 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.09%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.06%) IFRS
5 1 (1.03%) COREP
5 1 (1.03%) FINREP
5 1 (1.03%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.03%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.03%) NIST
5 1 (1.03%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (4.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.12%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.09%) Terraform
3 1 (1.03%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 17 (17.53%) Oracle
2 6 (6.19%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.06%) Adobe
3 2 (2.06%) Google
3 2 (2.06%) IBM
4 1 (1.03%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.03%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (1.03%) Charles River
4 1 (1.03%) Databricks
4 1 (1.03%) Micro Focus
4 1 (1.03%) Monzo
4 1 (1.03%) Pega
4 1 (1.03%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.03%) StreamSets
4 1 (1.03%) Temenos
4 1 (1.03%) Teradata
4 1 (1.03%) Zopa