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 28 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 379 452
Rank change year-on-year -129 +73 +27
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 115 118 96
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.46% 0.26%
As % of the General category 0.48% 0.72% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 44 53
10th Percentile £322 £408 £425
25th Percentile £353 £445 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £570 £564 £675
90th Percentile £693 £688 £838
UK median daily rate £492 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -1.60% -13.04% -4.17%
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 23,886 16,328 21,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.92% 64.11% 57.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,492 10,492 13,660
10th Percentile £313 £282 £291
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -2.85% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,707 803 1,802
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.27 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.76 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% -15.61% +9.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £52.08 £54.89
90th Percentile £81.53 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.50 £31.76
% change year-on-year +16.36% -13.40% +3.98%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 -83 81 £538 +2.38% 9
North of England -67 18 £355 -21.06% 1
North West -42 14 £353 -21.40% 1
Midlands -53 10 £336 -32.75%
West Midlands -58 5 - -
East Midlands - 5 £336 -
Yorkshire -51 4 £478 +6.11%
South East - 4 £500 - 1
South West - 2 £575 -
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 21 (18.26%) Confluence
2 2 (1.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.87%) Camunda
3 1 (0.87%) CICS
3 1 (0.87%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.74%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.74%) UserZoom
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (10.43%) Oracle Payables
1 12 (10.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 12 (10.43%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.87%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 14 (12.17%) AWS
2 12 (10.43%) OCI
3 6 (5.22%) Azure
3 6 (5.22%) Snowflake
4 5 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.48%) Figma
6 2 (1.74%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.74%) Contentsquare
6 2 (1.74%) GCP
6 2 (1.74%) GitHub
6 2 (1.74%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (1.74%) SaaS
7 1 (0.87%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (0.87%) Apigee
7 1 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.87%) ChatGPT
7 1 (0.87%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.87%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.87%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.35%) FTP
2 2 (1.74%) SSH
3 1 (0.87%) BGP
3 1 (0.87%) Firewall
3 1 (0.87%) MIMO
3 1 (0.87%) Network Security
3 1 (0.87%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.35%) Power BI
2 3 (2.61%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (1.74%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.87%) Big Data
4 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.87%) Db2
4 1 (0.87%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.87%) Metadata
4 1 (0.87%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.87%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 1 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (23.48%) JIRA
2 3 (2.61%) Git
3 2 (1.74%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.74%) Selenium
3 2 (1.74%) webpack
4 1 (0.87%) Flyway
4 1 (0.87%) HP UFT
4 1 (0.87%) JUnit
4 1 (0.87%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.87%) WebDriver
General
1 112 (97.39%) Banking
2 75 (65.22%) Finance
3 49 (42.61%) Investment Banking
4 48 (41.74%) Retail
5 42 (36.52%) Corporate Banking
6 26 (22.61%) Social Skills
7 7 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (6.09%) Private Banking
8 3 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.61%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.74%) Legal
9 2 (1.74%) Marketing
9 2 (1.74%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.87%) Back Office
10 1 (0.87%) Front Office
10 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.87%) International Banking
10 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (13.04%) Analyst
1 15 (13.04%) Business Analyst
2 12 (10.43%) Architect
3 11 (9.57%) Product Owner
4 7 (6.09%) Analytics Manager
4 7 (6.09%) Data Analytics Manager
4 7 (6.09%) Data Manager
5 6 (5.22%) Consultant
5 6 (5.22%) Designer
6 5 (4.35%) Lead
7 4 (3.48%) Developer
7 4 (3.48%) Project Manager
7 4 (3.48%) Senior
8 3 (2.61%) Banking Analyst
8 3 (2.61%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (2.61%) Java Engineer
8 3 (2.61%) Junior
8 3 (2.61%) Junior Architect
8 3 (2.61%) Product Manager
8 3 (2.61%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.22%) Kafka
1 6 (5.22%) React
1 6 (5.22%) Spring
1 6 (5.22%) Spring Boot
2 4 (3.48%) RESTful
3 3 (2.61%) GraphQL
3 3 (2.61%) Node.js
3 3 (2.61%) REST
4 2 (1.74%) .NET
4 2 (1.74%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.74%) Apollo GraphQL
4 2 (1.74%) DOM
4 2 (1.74%) Jest
4 2 (1.74%) Micronaut
4 2 (1.74%) PySpark
4 2 (1.74%) Sass
5 1 (0.87%) CSS
5 1 (0.87%) D3.js
5 1 (0.87%) Middleware
5 1 (0.87%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 32 (27.83%) Product Ownership
2 10 (8.70%) Onboarding
3 7 (6.09%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.35%) Market Risk
5 3 (2.61%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.61%) Mobile Banking
5 3 (2.61%) PMI
6 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.74%) PKI
6 2 (1.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.87%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.87%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.87%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.87%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.87%) Online Banking
7 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.74%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.87%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (40.87%) Agile
2 41 (35.65%) Wealth Management
3 34 (29.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (15.65%) Analytics
5 17 (14.78%) User Acceptance Testing
6 16 (13.91%) Scrum
6 16 (13.91%) User Stories
7 15 (13.04%) Microservices
7 15 (13.04%) Roadmaps
8 14 (12.17%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 13 (11.30%) Epics
10 12 (10.43%) Acceptance Criteria
10 12 (10.43%) Accounts Payable
10 12 (10.43%) Accounts Receivable
10 12 (10.43%) Asset Management
10 12 (10.43%) Change Management
10 12 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (10.43%) Procure-to-Pay
11 11 (9.57%) Customer Experience
12 10 (8.70%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.43%) SQL
2 11 (9.57%) Java
2 11 (9.57%) Python
3 7 (6.09%) JavaScript
4 6 (5.22%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.74%) C#
6 1 (0.87%) Korn
6 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.87%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (5.22%) Degree
2 4 (3.48%) Master's Degree
3 3 (2.61%) MBA
3 3 (2.61%) PMI Certification
3 3 (2.61%) PMP
3 3 (2.61%) SAFe Agilist
3 3 (2.61%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.87%) CEH
5 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.87%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.87%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.87%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.87%) SANS
5 1 (0.87%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.96%) QA
2 4 (3.48%) Basel III
3 3 (2.61%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.74%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.74%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.74%) SEPA
5 1 (0.87%) COREP
5 1 (0.87%) FINREP
5 1 (0.87%) GDPR
5 1 (0.87%) GRC
5 1 (0.87%) NIST
5 1 (0.87%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.61%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.74%) Terraform
3 1 (0.87%) Ansible
3 1 (0.87%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (0.87%) PingFederate
3 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (11.30%) Oracle
2 8 (6.96%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.61%) Databricks
4 2 (1.74%) Adobe
4 2 (1.74%) Google
4 2 (1.74%) IBM
4 2 (1.74%) Thales
5 1 (0.87%) Arista
5 1 (0.87%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.87%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (0.87%) Cisco
5 1 (0.87%) Micro Focus
5 1 (0.87%) Pega
5 1 (0.87%) Progress
5 1 (0.87%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.87%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.87%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.87%) StreamSets
5 1 (0.87%) Temenos
5 1 (0.87%) Teradata