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 18 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 434 453 451
Rank change year-on-year +19 -2 +58
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 83 76 144
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.24% 0.35%
As % of the General category 0.46% 0.40% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 34 76
10th Percentile £443 £428 £500
25th Percentile £456 £525 £539
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £606 £650
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% -6.73% +20.04%
75th Percentile £555 £688 £775
90th Percentile £581 £761 £919
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +18.18%
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 18,043 18,828 24,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 63.86% 58.98% 59.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,439 11,281 16,912
10th Percentile £277 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,088 784 1,019
10th Percentile £13.79 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £17.50 £16.85
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £44.26 £61.60 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.99 £72.50 £71.92
UK median hourly rate £24.34 £31.97 £29.86
% change year-on-year -23.87% +7.07% +19.44%

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 18 October 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 18 October 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 +16 57 £525 -19.23% 23
North of England -20 17 £450 -20.00% 3
Yorkshire -21 8 £525 -6.67% 2
Midlands -7 7 £500 -
North West -9 6 £449 -16.56% 1
West Midlands - 5 £500 -
North East - 3 £420 -
East Midlands - 2 £625 -
South West +15 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 4 (4.82%) CICS
1 4 (4.82%) CMS
2 3 (3.61%) Confluence
3 2 (2.41%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.20%) Apache
4 1 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Chatbot
1 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.41%) UserZoom
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (2.41%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (7.23%) Figma
2 5 (6.02%) AWS
3 4 (4.82%) Azure
4 3 (3.61%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.41%) PaaS
5 2 (2.41%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.41%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.20%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.20%) Apigee
6 1 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.20%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.20%) GCP
6 1 (1.20%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.20%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) ATM
1 1 (1.20%) Firewall
1 1 (1.20%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.02%) MongoDB
2 4 (4.82%) Metadata
2 4 (4.82%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.82%) Tableau
3 3 (3.61%) Power BI
4 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.41%) DB2
4 2 (2.41%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.20%) Big Data
5 1 (1.20%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.20%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (7.23%) JIRA
2 5 (6.02%) JUnit
3 4 (4.82%) Git
3 4 (4.82%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.61%) GitLab
4 3 (3.61%) Selenium
5 2 (2.41%) Gradle
5 2 (2.41%) SOAtest
5 2 (2.41%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.41%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.20%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.20%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.20%) JMeter
6 1 (1.20%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.20%) Maven
6 1 (1.20%) Postman
6 1 (1.20%) REST Assured
General
1 79 (95.18%) Banking
2 43 (51.81%) Retail
3 42 (50.60%) Corporate Banking
3 42 (50.60%) Investment Banking
4 38 (45.78%) Finance
5 21 (25.30%) Social Skills
6 18 (21.69%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (6.02%) Financial Institution
8 4 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (4.82%) Marketing
8 4 (4.82%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (3.61%) Legal
10 2 (2.41%) General Ledger
10 2 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.41%) Private Banking
11 1 (1.20%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 18 (21.69%) Analyst
2 14 (16.87%) Developer
3 10 (12.05%) Data Analyst
4 8 (9.64%) Designer
4 8 (9.64%) Project Manager
5 7 (8.43%) Business Analyst
6 6 (7.23%) Senior
7 5 (6.02%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (6.02%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Architect
9 3 (3.61%) Banking Project Manager
9 3 (3.61%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Lead
9 3 (3.61%) React Developer
9 3 (3.61%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (3.61%) Senior Data Analyst
9 3 (3.61%) UI Designer
10 2 (2.41%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 2 (2.41%) Retail Banking Business Analyst
10 2 (2.41%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.02%) JSON
1 5 (6.02%) React
2 4 (4.82%) .NET
2 4 (4.82%) FastAPI
2 4 (4.82%) Gherkin
2 4 (4.82%) Kafka
2 4 (4.82%) PySpark
3 3 (3.61%) HTML
4 2 (2.41%) Flask
4 2 (2.41%) J2EE
4 2 (2.41%) Pandas
4 2 (2.41%) REST
4 2 (2.41%) SQLAlchemy
4 2 (2.41%) Web Services
4 2 (2.41%) XML
5 1 (1.20%) CSS3
5 1 (1.20%) LESS
5 1 (1.20%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.20%) Sass
5 1 (1.20%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.84%) Product Ownership
1 9 (10.84%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (4.82%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (4.82%) Mainframe
2 4 (4.82%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.82%) VSAM
3 3 (3.61%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.41%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (2.41%) Mobile Payment
4 2 (2.41%) Taxonomies
4 2 (2.41%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.20%) Animation
5 1 (1.20%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.20%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.20%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.82%) Windows
2 3 (3.61%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.41%) Android
3 2 (2.41%) Unix
4 1 (1.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (50.60%) Wealth Management
2 25 (30.12%) Agile
3 15 (18.07%) Analytics
4 14 (16.87%) Decision-Making
5 13 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (15.66%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (14.46%) Test Automation
7 10 (12.05%) Customer Experience
7 10 (12.05%) Software Engineering
7 10 (12.05%) User Experience
8 9 (10.84%) Actionable Insight
8 9 (10.84%) AI
9 8 (9.64%) Data Analysis
9 8 (9.64%) Data Modelling
9 8 (9.64%) DevOps
9 8 (9.64%) Risk Management
9 8 (9.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (9.64%) UX Design
10 7 (8.43%) Business Case
10 7 (8.43%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 20 (24.10%) Python
2 11 (13.25%) Java
2 11 (13.25%) SQL
3 5 (6.02%) TypeScript
4 4 (4.82%) COBOL
4 4 (4.82%) JCL
5 3 (3.61%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.41%) REXX
6 2 (2.41%) Rust
7 1 (1.20%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.20%) C#
7 1 (1.20%) Go
7 1 (1.20%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (1.20%) CISA
1 1 (1.20%) CISSP
1 1 (1.20%) Degree
1 1 (1.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.23%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.02%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.82%) QA
4 1 (1.20%) COBIT
4 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.20%) SLA
4 1 (1.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (2.41%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.61%) Ansible
2 2 (2.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.41%) Terraform
3 1 (1.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 5 (6.02%) Oracle
2 3 (3.61%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.41%) Ab Initio
3 2 (2.41%) DocuSign
3 2 (2.41%) Google
3 2 (2.41%) Informatica
3 2 (2.41%) Parasoft
4 1 (1.20%) Adobe
4 1 (1.20%) Apple
4 1 (1.20%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.20%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.20%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.20%) Citrix
4 1 (1.20%) Dell
4 1 (1.20%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.20%) F5
4 1 (1.20%) HP
4 1 (1.20%) Reuters
4 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.20%) Trayport