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 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 423 450
Rank change year-on-year -41 +27 +56
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 69 81 113
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.28% 0.30%
As % of the General category 0.35% 0.46% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 33 58
10th Percentile £394 £508 £459
25th Percentile £500 £569 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £838 £770 £779
UK median daily rate £545 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -14.51% +6.25% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £89.44
UK median hourly rate - - £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 19,440 17,791 22,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 61.81% 61.41% 59.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,289 10,784 15,089
10th Percentile £280 £300 £285
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £627 £650 £664
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,264 620 1,007
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.61 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.68 £18.37 £17.14
Median hourly rate £23.58 £30.31 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.21% -8.17% +32.00%
75th Percentile £46.00 £59.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.65
UK median hourly rate £23.58 £27.50 £32.75
% change year-on-year -14.27% -16.03% +31.00%

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 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 -32 48 £550 -18.52% 8
North of England -46 10 £456 -17.05% 1
Midlands -34 8 £450 -18.18% 1
Yorkshire -38 7 £525 -4.55%
East Midlands - 5 £378 - 1
West Midlands -30 3 £500 -9.09%
North West -27 2 £353 -37.24% 1
South West -7 1 - -
South East -23 1 £550 - 4
North East - 1 - -
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 7 (10.14%) Confluence
2 3 (4.35%) CMS
3 1 (1.45%) Appian
3 1 (1.45%) CICS
3 1 (1.45%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (1.45%) SAS
3 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (4.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (1.45%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.45%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.45%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.70%) AWS
1 6 (8.70%) Power Platform
2 5 (7.25%) Azure
3 4 (5.80%) Figma
3 4 (5.80%) PaaS
4 3 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.90%) Apigee
5 2 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.90%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.90%) PowerApps
5 2 (2.90%) Vercel
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (1.45%) Apple Pay
6 1 (1.45%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.45%) GCP
6 1 (1.45%) Google Pay
6 1 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.45%) OCI
6 1 (1.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.45%) Firewall
1 1 (1.45%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.70%) Power BI
2 4 (5.80%) Metadata
3 3 (4.35%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.35%) Tableau
4 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.45%) Big Data
5 1 (1.45%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 11 (15.94%) JIRA
2 5 (7.25%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.80%) Git
3 4 (5.80%) GitLab
3 4 (5.80%) Gradle
4 3 (4.35%) Cucumber
4 3 (4.35%) JUnit
4 3 (4.35%) REST Assured
4 3 (4.35%) Selenium
5 2 (2.90%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.90%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.45%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.45%) JMeter
6 1 (1.45%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.45%) Maven
6 1 (1.45%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.45%) Postman
General
1 65 (94.20%) Banking
2 36 (52.17%) Finance
3 28 (40.58%) Retail
4 25 (36.23%) Corporate Banking
5 24 (34.78%) Investment Banking
6 19 (27.54%) Social Skills
7 12 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (5.80%) Financial Institution
9 3 (4.35%) Marketing
10 2 (2.90%) Back Office
10 2 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.90%) Legal
11 1 (1.45%) Front Office
11 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (15.94%) Analyst
2 10 (14.49%) Developer
3 9 (13.04%) Project Manager
4 8 (11.59%) Senior
5 6 (8.70%) Data Analyst
6 4 (5.80%) Engineering Manager
6 4 (5.80%) Java Developer
6 4 (5.80%) Programme Manager
7 3 (4.35%) Architect
7 3 (4.35%) Business Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) Designer
7 3 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (4.35%) Junior
7 3 (4.35%) Product Owner
7 3 (4.35%) Senior Developer
7 3 (4.35%) Technical Manager
8 2 (2.90%) Data Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Integration Developer
8 2 (2.90%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (2.90%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.80%) .NET
1 4 (5.80%) Spring
1 4 (5.80%) Spring Boot
2 3 (4.35%) Playwright
2 3 (4.35%) PySpark
2 3 (4.35%) React
3 2 (2.90%) FastAPI
3 2 (2.90%) Gherkin
3 2 (2.90%) Kafka
3 2 (2.90%) React Native
3 2 (2.90%) REST
4 1 (1.45%) CSS
4 1 (1.45%) CSS3
4 1 (1.45%) HTML
4 1 (1.45%) HTML5
4 1 (1.45%) JSON
4 1 (1.45%) LESS
4 1 (1.45%) Node.js
4 1 (1.45%) Sass
4 1 (1.45%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.94%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.14%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (7.25%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.80%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.80%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.35%) PMI
6 2 (2.90%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.45%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.45%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.45%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.45%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.45%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.45%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.45%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.80%) Windows
2 2 (2.90%) Linux
3 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (42.03%) Wealth Management
2 23 (33.33%) Agile
3 17 (24.64%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (18.84%) Decision-Making
4 13 (18.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 11 (15.94%) Software Engineering
6 10 (14.49%) Analytics
7 9 (13.04%) Customer Experience
7 9 (13.04%) Project Management
7 9 (13.04%) Regulatory Compliance
7 9 (13.04%) Roadmaps
8 8 (11.59%) CI/CD
8 8 (11.59%) DevOps
8 8 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (10.14%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (10.14%) Data Management
9 7 (10.14%) Fintech
9 7 (10.14%) Scrum
9 7 (10.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (21.74%) Python
2 11 (15.94%) SQL
3 10 (14.49%) Java
4 6 (8.70%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.90%) Kotlin
5 2 (2.90%) Rust
6 1 (1.45%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.45%) C#
6 1 (1.45%) COBOL
6 1 (1.45%) Go
6 1 (1.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.45%) JCL
6 1 (1.45%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.45%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (10.14%) Degree
2 3 (4.35%) Master's Degree
2 3 (4.35%) MBA
2 3 (4.35%) PMI Certification
2 3 (4.35%) PMP
2 3 (4.35%) SAFe Agilist
3 1 (1.45%) CISA
3 1 (1.45%) CISSP
3 1 (1.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.25%) Data Quality
1 5 (7.25%) QA
2 3 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.35%) Basel III
3 2 (2.90%) IFRS
4 1 (1.45%) COBIT
4 1 (1.45%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.45%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.45%) SEPA
4 1 (1.45%) SLA
4 1 (1.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (2.90%) Docker
2 1 (1.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (5.80%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.35%) Ansible
2 3 (4.35%) Terraform
3 1 (1.45%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 4 (5.80%) Oracle
2 3 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.90%) DocuSign
3 2 (2.90%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.45%) Apple
4 1 (1.45%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.45%) Charles River
4 1 (1.45%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.45%) Citrix
4 1 (1.45%) Dell
4 1 (1.45%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.45%) F5
4 1 (1.45%) Google
4 1 (1.45%) HP
4 1 (1.45%) IBM
4 1 (1.45%) Monzo
4 1 (1.45%) Reuters
4 1 (1.45%) Trayport
4 1 (1.45%) Zopa