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 4 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 431 458
Rank change year-on-year -102 +27 -19
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 113 91 74
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.32% 0.23%
As % of the General category 0.43% 0.51% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 31 33
10th Percentile £351 £406 £415
25th Percentile £441 £453 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £581 £553 £700
90th Percentile £783 £575 £865
UK median daily rate £492 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -1.60% -16.67% -7.12%
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 26,093 17,954 19,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.32% 63.95% 58.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,217 11,378 11,456
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £748 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,385 1,050 868
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.51 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.62 £16.26 £18.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.11 £36.08
Median % change year-on-year +15.76% -30.40% +22.31%
75th Percentile £56.00 £45.56 £61.33
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £25.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.67% -28.36% +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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -58 91 £512 -2.43% 51
North of England -71 14 £492 +9.33% 15
North West -41 10 £492 +9.70% 9
East Midlands -7 4 £402 -35.68%
Yorkshire -44 4 £502 -4.48% 5
Midlands -45 4 £402 -19.60% 2
South East - 2 £500 - 7
East of England - 2 £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 (13.27%) Confluence
2 10 (8.85%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.88%) Appian
3 1 (0.88%) CICS
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.88%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (2.65%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.88%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.88%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.88%) Finacle
2 1 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.88%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 17 (15.04%) AWS
2 7 (6.19%) Azure
3 6 (5.31%) GCP
3 6 (5.31%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.42%) Snowflake
5 4 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (3.54%) ShareGate
6 3 (2.65%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.65%) GitHub
7 2 (1.77%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (1.77%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.77%) Apigee
7 2 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.77%) SaaS
8 1 (0.88%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.88%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.88%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.77%) SSH
2 1 (0.88%) BGP
2 1 (0.88%) Firewall
2 1 (0.88%) MIMO
2 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.31%) Metadata
2 3 (2.65%) Amazon QuickSight
2 3 (2.65%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.65%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.65%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.65%) Power BI
3 2 (1.77%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.77%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.77%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.88%) Big Data
4 1 (0.88%) Db2
4 1 (0.88%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.88%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (22.12%) JIRA
2 3 (2.65%) Git
3 2 (1.77%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.77%) GitLab
3 2 (1.77%) webpack
4 1 (0.88%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.88%) ERwin
4 1 (0.88%) Flyway
4 1 (0.88%) Gradle
4 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.88%) JUnit
4 1 (0.88%) Xcode
General
1 111 (98.23%) Banking
2 84 (74.34%) Finance
3 53 (46.90%) Retail
4 39 (34.51%) Corporate Banking
5 38 (33.63%) Investment Banking
6 29 (25.66%) Social Skills
7 11 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (8.85%) Private Banking
9 6 (5.31%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (4.42%) Back Office
11 3 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.65%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.77%) Front Office
12 2 (1.77%) Legal
13 1 (0.88%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.88%) International Banking
13 1 (0.88%) Marketing
13 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (16.81%) Analyst
1 19 (16.81%) Architect
2 13 (11.50%) Business Analyst
3 12 (10.62%) Product Owner
4 11 (9.73%) Lead
5 8 (7.08%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (6.19%) Analytics Manager
6 7 (6.19%) Data Analytics Manager
6 7 (6.19%) Data Manager
7 6 (5.31%) Designer
8 5 (4.42%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (4.42%) Technical Business Analyst
9 4 (3.54%) Data Analyst
9 4 (3.54%) Java Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Product Manager
9 4 (3.54%) Project Manager
9 4 (3.54%) Service Designer
9 4 (3.54%) Software Engineer
10 3 (2.65%) Delivery Manager
10 3 (2.65%) Junior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.19%) Kafka
1 7 (6.19%) Spring
1 7 (6.19%) Spring Boot
2 6 (5.31%) React
2 6 (5.31%) REST
3 4 (3.54%) GraphQL
3 4 (3.54%) Node.js
3 4 (3.54%) Terraform
4 3 (2.65%) RESTful
5 2 (1.77%) Apollo GraphQL
5 2 (1.77%) DOM
5 2 (1.77%) gRPC
5 2 (1.77%) Jest
5 2 (1.77%) Micronaut
5 2 (1.77%) OAuth
5 2 (1.77%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.77%) OpenID
5 2 (1.77%) React Native
5 2 (1.77%) Sass
6 1 (0.88%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 35 (30.97%) Product Ownership
2 14 (12.39%) Onboarding
3 10 (8.85%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.42%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.42%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.54%) Credit Risk
5 4 (3.54%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.54%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.65%) Mobile Banking
6 3 (2.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.77%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.77%) PKI
7 2 (1.77%) Replication
7 2 (1.77%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.88%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.88%) EPoS
8 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.88%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.42%) Apple iOS
2 4 (3.54%) Android
3 1 (0.88%) AIX
3 1 (0.88%) HPUX
3 1 (0.88%) Linux
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.88%) Solaris
3 1 (0.88%) SUSE
3 1 (0.88%) Unix
3 1 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (45.13%) Agile
2 45 (39.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (36.28%) Wealth Management
4 22 (19.47%) Migration
5 19 (16.81%) Analytics
6 18 (15.93%) Microservices
7 17 (15.04%) User Stories
8 15 (13.27%) Acceptance Criteria
9 14 (12.39%) Workshop Facilitation
10 13 (11.50%) AI
10 13 (11.50%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (11.50%) Roadmaps
10 13 (11.50%) Scrum
10 13 (11.50%) Validation
11 11 (9.73%) Anti-Money Laundering
11 11 (9.73%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 11 (9.73%) Business Analysis
11 11 (9.73%) Event-Driven
12 10 (8.85%) Backlog Refinement
12 10 (8.85%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.27%) SQL
2 11 (9.73%) Java
3 10 (8.85%) Python
4 5 (4.42%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.54%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.65%) Korn
6 3 (2.65%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.77%) COBOL
8 1 (0.88%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.88%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (3.54%) Degree
2 3 (2.65%) Master's Degree
2 3 (2.65%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (1.77%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (1.77%) CISSP
3 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.77%) PMI Certification
3 2 (1.77%) PMP
4 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.88%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.88%) SAFe Agilist
4 1 (0.88%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.31%) QA
2 3 (2.65%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.65%) GDPR
3 2 (1.77%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.77%) GRC
3 2 (1.77%) SEPA
4 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.88%) Basel III
4 1 (0.88%) COREP
4 1 (0.88%) FINREP
4 1 (0.88%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.88%) PSD2
4 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.65%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.65%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.88%) Ansible
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.88%) PingFederate
2 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (10.62%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.54%) Oracle
2 4 (3.54%) Salesforce
2 4 (3.54%) Teradata
3 3 (2.65%) Databricks
3 3 (2.65%) Google
3 3 (2.65%) SAP
3 3 (2.65%) Temenos
4 2 (1.77%) Calypso
4 2 (1.77%) FIS
4 2 (1.77%) IBM
4 2 (1.77%) Murex
4 2 (1.77%) Pega
4 2 (1.77%) Sparx
4 2 (1.77%) Thales
5 1 (0.88%) Adobe
5 1 (0.88%) Cisco
5 1 (0.88%) HP
5 1 (0.88%) Interwoven
5 1 (0.88%) Progress