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 6 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 434 439 443
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +79
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 85 80 138
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.26% 0.35%
As % of the General category 0.45% 0.44% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 35 71
10th Percentile £450 £478 £500
25th Percentile £496 £525 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £613 £642
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.60% +16.73%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £750
90th Percentile £650 £795 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £606 £625
% change year-on-year -13.40% -3.00% +13.64%
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 18,732 18,388 23,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 63.59% 59.13% 59.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,880 11,025 16,080
10th Percentile £275 £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 £632 £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 1,191 700 1,016
10th Percentile £13.85 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.00 £16.90
Median hourly rate £25.00 £31.97 £30.48
Median % change year-on-year -21.80% +4.91% +18.53%
75th Percentile £44.94 £60.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £69.99 £71.25 £70.96
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £29.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -15.25% -1.67% +20.00%

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 6 November 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 6 November 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 -12 60 £538 -17.31% 31
North of England -27 14 £498 -11.56% 3
Yorkshire -25 8 £525 -6.67% 2
Midlands -26 7 £500 -9.09%
West Midlands -20 5 £500 -9.09%
North West -14 4 £473 -12.09% 1
North East - 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 £625 -
South West +10 1 - - 1
South East +2 1 £550 - 18
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 (4.71%) CMS
1 4 (4.71%) Confluence
2 2 (2.35%) CICS
2 2 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.18%) Apache
3 1 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.18%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Chatbot
1 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.35%) UserZoom
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.18%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.18%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (7.06%) Figma
2 5 (5.88%) Azure
3 4 (4.71%) AWS
4 3 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.53%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.35%) PaaS
5 2 (2.35%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.35%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.18%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (1.18%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (1.18%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.18%) Apple Pay
6 1 (1.18%) Google Docs
6 1 (1.18%) Google Pay
6 1 (1.18%) Google Sheets
6 1 (1.18%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.18%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.18%) ATM
1 1 (1.18%) Firewall
1 1 (1.18%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.88%) Metadata
1 5 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 4 (4.71%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.71%) Tableau
3 3 (3.53%) Power BI
4 1 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.18%) Big Data
4 1 (1.18%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.18%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (9.41%) JIRA
2 5 (5.88%) JUnit
3 4 (4.71%) Git
3 4 (4.71%) GitLab
4 3 (3.53%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.35%) Gradle
5 2 (2.35%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.35%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.18%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.18%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.18%) JMeter
6 1 (1.18%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.18%) Maven
6 1 (1.18%) Postman
6 1 (1.18%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.18%) Selenium
General
1 81 (95.29%) Banking
2 44 (51.76%) Finance
2 44 (51.76%) Retail
3 42 (49.41%) Corporate Banking
3 42 (49.41%) Investment Banking
4 24 (28.24%) Social Skills
5 16 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (7.06%) Financial Institution
7 4 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.53%) Legal
8 3 (3.53%) Marketing
8 3 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.35%) Private Banking
10 1 (1.18%) Back Office
10 1 (1.18%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 19 (22.35%) Analyst
2 13 (15.29%) Developer
3 10 (11.76%) Data Analyst
4 8 (9.41%) Business Analyst
4 8 (9.41%) Project Manager
5 7 (8.24%) Designer
6 6 (7.06%) Senior
7 5 (5.88%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (3.53%) Architect
9 3 (3.53%) Banking Project Manager
9 3 (3.53%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Lead
9 3 (3.53%) Programme Manager
9 3 (3.53%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (3.53%) Senior Data Analyst
9 3 (3.53%) UI Designer
10 2 (2.35%) Applications Project Manager
10 2 (2.35%) Customer Analyst
10 2 (2.35%) Head of Testing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.71%) .NET
1 4 (4.71%) Gherkin
1 4 (4.71%) Kafka
1 4 (4.71%) PySpark
1 4 (4.71%) React
2 3 (3.53%) FastAPI
3 2 (2.35%) HTML
3 2 (2.35%) JSON
3 2 (2.35%) Pandas
3 2 (2.35%) REST
4 1 (1.18%) CSS
4 1 (1.18%) CSS3
4 1 (1.18%) HTML5
4 1 (1.18%) LESS
4 1 (1.18%) Node.js
4 1 (1.18%) NumPy
4 1 (1.18%) Sass
4 1 (1.18%) Spring
4 1 (1.18%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (1.18%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.59%) Product Ownership
1 9 (10.59%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (4.71%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (4.71%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.53%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.35%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.35%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (2.35%) Taxonomies
4 2 (2.35%) VSAM
5 1 (1.18%) Animation
5 1 (1.18%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.18%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.18%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.71%) Windows
2 2 (2.35%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.18%) Android
3 1 (1.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (49.41%) Wealth Management
2 24 (28.24%) Agile
3 16 (18.82%) Decision-Making
4 15 (17.65%) Analytics
4 15 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (11.76%) Customer Experience
6 10 (11.76%) Software Engineering
6 10 (11.76%) Test Automation
7 9 (10.59%) Actionable Insight
7 9 (10.59%) AI
7 9 (10.59%) DevOps
7 9 (10.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (10.59%) User Experience
8 8 (9.41%) Data Analysis
8 8 (9.41%) Risk Management
8 8 (9.41%) UX Design
9 7 (8.24%) Data Modelling
9 7 (8.24%) Project Management
9 7 (8.24%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (22.35%) Python
2 11 (12.94%) SQL
3 9 (10.59%) Java
4 6 (7.06%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.35%) COBOL
5 2 (2.35%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.35%) JCL
5 2 (2.35%) Rust
6 1 (1.18%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.18%) C#
6 1 (1.18%) Go
6 1 (1.18%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (1.18%) CISA
1 1 (1.18%) CISSP
1 1 (1.18%) Degree
1 1 (1.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.06%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.35%) QA
4 1 (1.18%) COBIT
4 1 (1.18%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.18%) SEPA
4 1 (1.18%) SLA
4 1 (1.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (2.35%) Docker
2 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.53%) Ansible
2 2 (2.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (3.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.35%) DocuSign
2 2 (2.35%) Google
2 2 (2.35%) Oracle
2 2 (2.35%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.18%) Adobe
3 1 (1.18%) Apple
3 1 (1.18%) Bloomberg
3 1 (1.18%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (1.18%) CheckPoint
3 1 (1.18%) Citrix
3 1 (1.18%) Dell
3 1 (1.18%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.18%) F5
3 1 (1.18%) HP
3 1 (1.18%) IBM
3 1 (1.18%) Monzo
3 1 (1.18%) Reuters
3 1 (1.18%) Trayport