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 27 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 428 447
Rank change year-on-year -91 +19 +15
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 116 95 76
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.34% 0.23%
As % of the General category 0.45% 0.53% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 33 37
10th Percentile £351 £407 £420
25th Percentile £413 £456 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £540 £700
90th Percentile £775 £575 £845
UK median daily rate £492 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -1.60% -16.67% -2.44%
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 26,014 17,915 19,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.11% 64.16% 58.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,244 11,357 11,532
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £536
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.63% -2.64%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
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 2,316 1,033 912
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.77 £16.17 £18.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -33.38% +34.82%
75th Percentile £56.25 £45.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.65 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £29.01 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.35% -28.14% +27.27%

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 -50 95 £500 -2.44% 37
North of England -73 14 £492 +9.33% 17
North West -50 10 £492 +9.70% 9
East Midlands -13 4 £402 -35.68%
Midlands -39 4 £402 -19.60%
Yorkshire -51 4 £490 -6.67% 8
South East - 2 £500 - 2
East of England - 1 £688 - 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 15 (12.93%) Confluence
2 10 (8.62%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.86%) Appian
4 1 (0.86%) Camunda
4 1 (0.86%) CICS
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.86%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (2.59%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.72%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.86%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.86%) Finacle
2 1 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.86%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 17 (14.66%) AWS
2 6 (5.17%) GCP
2 6 (5.17%) Power Platform
3 5 (4.31%) Azure
3 5 (4.31%) Snowflake
4 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (3.45%) ShareGate
5 3 (2.59%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.59%) GitHub
5 3 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.72%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (1.72%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (1.72%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.72%) Apigee
6 2 (1.72%) Contentsquare
6 2 (1.72%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.72%) SaaS
7 1 (0.86%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.86%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.86%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.72%) SSH
2 1 (0.86%) BGP
2 1 (0.86%) Firewall
2 1 (0.86%) MIMO
2 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.17%) Metadata
2 3 (2.59%) Amazon QuickSight
2 3 (2.59%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.59%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.59%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.59%) Power BI
3 2 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.72%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.72%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.86%) Big Data
4 1 (0.86%) Db2
4 1 (0.86%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.86%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.86%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (21.55%) JIRA
2 3 (2.59%) Git
3 2 (1.72%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.72%) GitLab
3 2 (1.72%) webpack
4 1 (0.86%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.86%) ERwin
4 1 (0.86%) Flyway
4 1 (0.86%) Gradle
4 1 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.86%) JUnit
4 1 (0.86%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.86%) Selenium
4 1 (0.86%) Xcode
General
1 114 (98.28%) Banking
2 87 (75.00%) Finance
3 55 (47.41%) Retail
4 42 (36.21%) Corporate Banking
5 40 (34.48%) Investment Banking
6 31 (26.72%) Social Skills
7 10 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (8.62%) Private Banking
8 6 (5.17%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (4.31%) Back Office
10 4 (3.45%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.72%) Front Office
12 2 (1.72%) Legal
12 2 (1.72%) Marketing
13 1 (0.86%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.86%) International Banking
13 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (16.38%) Architect
2 18 (15.52%) Analyst
3 13 (11.21%) Business Analyst
3 13 (11.21%) Product Owner
4 10 (8.62%) Lead
5 8 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (6.03%) Analytics Manager
6 7 (6.03%) Data Analytics Manager
6 7 (6.03%) Data Manager
7 6 (5.17%) Designer
8 5 (4.31%) Product Manager
8 5 (4.31%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (4.31%) Technical Business Analyst
9 4 (3.45%) Data Analyst
9 4 (3.45%) Java Engineer
9 4 (3.45%) Project Manager
9 4 (3.45%) Service Designer
9 4 (3.45%) Software Engineer
10 3 (2.59%) Junior Architect
10 3 (2.59%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.90%) Spring
1 8 (6.90%) Spring Boot
2 7 (6.03%) Kafka
2 7 (6.03%) React
3 6 (5.17%) REST
4 4 (3.45%) GraphQL
4 4 (3.45%) Node.js
4 4 (3.45%) Terraform
5 3 (2.59%) RESTful
6 2 (1.72%) Apollo GraphQL
6 2 (1.72%) DOM
6 2 (1.72%) gRPC
6 2 (1.72%) Jest
6 2 (1.72%) Micronaut
6 2 (1.72%) OAuth
6 2 (1.72%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.72%) OpenID
6 2 (1.72%) React Native
6 2 (1.72%) Sass
7 1 (0.86%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 36 (31.03%) Product Ownership
2 15 (12.93%) Onboarding
3 10 (8.62%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.31%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.45%) Credit Risk
6 4 (3.45%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.45%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.59%) Mobile Banking
7 3 (2.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.72%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.72%) PKI
8 2 (1.72%) Replication
8 2 (1.72%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.86%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.86%) EPoS
9 1 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.86%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.31%) Apple iOS
2 4 (3.45%) Android
3 1 (0.86%) AIX
3 1 (0.86%) HPUX
3 1 (0.86%) Linux
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.86%) Solaris
3 1 (0.86%) SUSE
3 1 (0.86%) Unix
3 1 (0.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (44.83%) Agile
2 45 (38.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 43 (37.07%) Wealth Management
4 22 (18.97%) Migration
5 20 (17.24%) Analytics
6 19 (16.38%) Microservices
7 17 (14.66%) User Stories
8 15 (12.93%) Acceptance Criteria
9 14 (12.07%) AI
9 14 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (12.07%) Roadmaps
9 14 (12.07%) Workshop Facilitation
10 13 (11.21%) Scrum
10 13 (11.21%) Validation
11 12 (10.34%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 12 (10.34%) Event-Driven
12 11 (9.48%) Anti-Money Laundering
12 11 (9.48%) CI/CD
13 10 (8.62%) Backlog Refinement
13 10 (8.62%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 15 (12.93%) SQL
2 12 (10.34%) Java
3 11 (9.48%) Python
4 5 (4.31%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.45%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.45%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.59%) Korn
7 2 (1.72%) COBOL
8 1 (0.86%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.86%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (3.45%) Degree
2 3 (2.59%) Master's Degree
2 3 (2.59%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (1.72%) CISSP
3 2 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.86%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.86%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.86%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.86%) PMP
4 1 (0.86%) SAFe Agilist
4 1 (0.86%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.03%) QA
2 3 (2.59%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.59%) GDPR
3 2 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.72%) GRC
3 2 (1.72%) SEPA
4 1 (0.86%) Basel III
4 1 (0.86%) COREP
4 1 (0.86%) FINREP
4 1 (0.86%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.86%) PSD2
4 1 (0.86%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.45%) Docker
2 3 (2.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.86%) Ansible
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.86%) PingFederate
2 1 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (11.21%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.45%) Google
2 4 (3.45%) Oracle
2 4 (3.45%) Salesforce
2 4 (3.45%) Teradata
3 3 (2.59%) Databricks
3 3 (2.59%) IBM
3 3 (2.59%) SAP
3 3 (2.59%) Temenos
4 2 (1.72%) Adobe
4 2 (1.72%) Calypso
4 2 (1.72%) FIS
4 2 (1.72%) Murex
4 2 (1.72%) Pega
4 2 (1.72%) Sparx
4 2 (1.72%) Thales
5 1 (0.86%) Cisco
5 1 (0.86%) HP
5 1 (0.86%) Interwoven
5 1 (0.86%) Planview