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 9 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 396 441
Rank change year-on-year -114 +45 +10
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 118 112 80
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.40% 0.24%
As % of the General category 0.46% 0.63% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 40 40
10th Percentile £352 £367 £413
25th Percentile £454 £425 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £498 £588
Median % change year-on-year -0.30% -15.32% -2.08%
75th Percentile £574 £538 £681
90th Percentile £695 £558 £841
UK median daily rate £500 £498 £575
% change year-on-year +0.50% -13.48% -3.77%
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 25,404 17,837 19,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.52% 64.13% 57.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,161 11,375 12,333
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £419 £401 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,990 954 1,235
10th Percentile £14.09 £13.25 £14.41
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.43 £18.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +38.62%
75th Percentile £63.38 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £74.63 £70.39
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +27.07%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 -77 94 £525 +5.00% 26
North of England -72 13 £455 +1.11%
North West -44 10 £449 +0.06%
Midlands -54 4 £388 -22.40%
South East - 4 £500 - 2
Yorkshire -44 3 £455 +1.11%
East Midlands -10 2 £388 -37.92%
West Midlands -52 2 - -
South West - 2 £575 - 1
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 15 (12.71%) Confluence
2 3 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.85%) Appian
4 1 (0.85%) Camunda
4 1 (0.85%) CICS
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.69%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.85%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (4.24%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (4.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 5 (4.24%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.69%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.85%) Finacle
3 1 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 16 (13.56%) AWS
2 5 (4.24%) OCI
2 5 (4.24%) Snowflake
3 4 (3.39%) Azure
4 3 (2.54%) Figma
4 3 (2.54%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.54%) SaaS
5 2 (1.69%) Adobe Analytics
5 2 (1.69%) Contentsquare
5 2 (1.69%) GCP
6 1 (0.85%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (0.85%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (0.85%) Apigee
6 1 (0.85%) ChatGPT
6 1 (0.85%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.85%) GitHub
6 1 (0.85%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (0.85%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.85%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.69%) FTP
1 2 (1.69%) SSH
2 1 (0.85%) BGP
2 1 (0.85%) Firewall
2 1 (0.85%) MIMO
2 1 (0.85%) Network Security
2 1 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.54%) Amazon QuickSight
1 3 (2.54%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.69%) Metadata
2 2 (1.69%) Neo4j
2 2 (1.69%) Power BI
3 1 (0.85%) Big Data
3 1 (0.85%) Data Vault
3 1 (0.85%) Db2
3 1 (0.85%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (22.03%) JIRA
2 3 (2.54%) Git
3 2 (1.69%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.69%) Selenium
3 2 (1.69%) webpack
4 1 (0.85%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.85%) ERwin
4 1 (0.85%) Flyway
4 1 (0.85%) HP UFT
4 1 (0.85%) JUnit
4 1 (0.85%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.85%) WebDriver
General
1 115 (97.46%) Banking
2 85 (72.03%) Finance
3 55 (46.61%) Retail
4 47 (39.83%) Investment Banking
5 45 (38.14%) Corporate Banking
6 29 (24.58%) Social Skills
7 13 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (7.63%) Private Banking
9 4 (3.39%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.54%) Back Office
10 3 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.54%) Legal
11 2 (1.69%) Front Office
11 2 (1.69%) Marketing
11 2 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.85%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.85%) International Banking
12 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (18.64%) Analyst
2 17 (14.41%) Business Analyst
3 13 (11.02%) Architect
4 12 (10.17%) Product Owner
5 8 (6.78%) Designer
5 8 (6.78%) Lead
6 7 (5.93%) Analytics Manager
6 7 (5.93%) Data Analytics Manager
6 7 (5.93%) Data Manager
7 5 (4.24%) Data Analyst
7 5 (4.24%) Technical Analyst
7 5 (4.24%) Technical Business Analyst
8 4 (3.39%) Java Engineer
8 4 (3.39%) Product Manager
8 4 (3.39%) Project Manager
8 4 (3.39%) Senior
8 4 (3.39%) Software Engineer
9 3 (2.54%) Customer Analyst
9 3 (2.54%) Junior Architect
9 3 (2.54%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.93%) React
1 7 (5.93%) Spring
1 7 (5.93%) Spring Boot
2 6 (5.08%) Kafka
3 4 (3.39%) REST
3 4 (3.39%) RESTful
4 3 (2.54%) GraphQL
4 3 (2.54%) Node.js
5 2 (1.69%) Apollo GraphQL
5 2 (1.69%) DOM
5 2 (1.69%) Jest
5 2 (1.69%) Micronaut
5 2 (1.69%) PySpark
5 2 (1.69%) Sass
6 1 (0.85%) .NET
6 1 (0.85%) CSS
6 1 (0.85%) JPA
6 1 (0.85%) Middleware
6 1 (0.85%) OAuth
6 1 (0.85%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 34 (28.81%) Product Ownership
2 13 (11.02%) Onboarding
3 9 (7.63%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.39%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.39%) Mobile Banking
5 3 (2.54%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.69%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.69%) PKI
6 2 (1.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.69%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.85%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.85%) EPoS
7 1 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.85%) FPGA
7 1 (0.85%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.85%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.85%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.85%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.39%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.54%) Android
3 1 (0.85%) AIX
3 1 (0.85%) HPUX
3 1 (0.85%) Linux
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.85%) Solaris
3 1 (0.85%) SUSE
3 1 (0.85%) Unix
3 1 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (44.92%) Agile
2 45 (38.14%) Wealth Management
3 40 (33.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (16.10%) User Stories
5 17 (14.41%) Analytics
5 17 (14.41%) Microservices
5 17 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (13.56%) Acceptance Criteria
7 15 (12.71%) Roadmaps
8 14 (11.86%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 12 (10.17%) AI
9 12 (10.17%) Migration
9 12 (10.17%) Scrum
9 12 (10.17%) Workshop Facilitation
10 11 (9.32%) Customer Experience
10 11 (9.32%) User Acceptance Testing
11 10 (8.47%) Decision-Making
11 10 (8.47%) Event-Driven
11 10 (8.47%) Product Backlog
11 10 (8.47%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.17%) Java
1 12 (10.17%) Python
1 12 (10.17%) SQL
2 7 (5.93%) JavaScript
3 5 (4.24%) TypeScript
4 3 (2.54%) Korn
5 2 (1.69%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.85%) C#
6 1 (0.85%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (2.54%) Degree
2 2 (1.69%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.85%) CEH
3 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.85%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (0.85%) SANS
3 1 (0.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.93%) QA
2 2 (1.69%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.69%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.69%) GRC
2 2 (1.69%) ISO 20022
2 2 (1.69%) SEPA
3 1 (0.85%) Basel III
3 1 (0.85%) COREP
3 1 (0.85%) FINREP
3 1 (0.85%) GDPR
3 1 (0.85%) NIST
3 1 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.39%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.54%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.85%) Ansible
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.85%) Network Intrusion Detection System
2 1 (0.85%) PingFederate
2 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (8.47%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.93%) Oracle
3 3 (2.54%) Databricks
3 3 (2.54%) IBM
4 2 (1.69%) Adobe
4 2 (1.69%) Google
4 2 (1.69%) Pega
4 2 (1.69%) Temenos
4 2 (1.69%) Teradata
4 2 (1.69%) Thales
5 1 (0.85%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.85%) Cisco
5 1 (0.85%) HP
5 1 (0.85%) Interwoven
5 1 (0.85%) Micro Focus
5 1 (0.85%) Planview
5 1 (0.85%) Progress
5 1 (0.85%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.85%) SAP