Retail Banking Contracts 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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 399 457 456
Rank change year-on-year +58 -1 +34
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 112 76 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.23% 0.35%
As % of the General category 0.63% 0.40% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 36 75
10th Percentile £372 £419 £500
25th Percentile £425 £519 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +12.78%
75th Percentile £538 £681 £813
90th Percentile £631 £856 £998
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% +11.47%
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 17,867 19,087 26,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.26% 57.58% 59.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,346 12,263 18,282
10th Percentile £276 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £420 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.20% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £660 £680
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 975 1,202 950
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.48 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.34 £18.00 £16.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +38.62% +12.24%
75th Percentile £50.00 £60.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £71.25 £72.55
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £27.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +38.62% +12.24%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Retail Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Retail Banking in England

Retail Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Retail Banking in England.

Daily rate trend for Retail Banking in England

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking in England over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail Banking in England

Retail Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Retail Banking in England.

Hourly rate trend for Retail Banking in England

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 17 August 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 +46 82 £500 -18.37% 27
North of England -6 19 £450 -23.40% 7
Yorkshire -9 9 £450 -21.74% 2
North West -8 8 £449 -25.25% 3
Midlands -2 6 £500 - 2
West Midlands - 4 £500 - 1
North East - 2 £420 - 2
East Midlands - 2 £625 - 1
Retail Banking
UK

Retail Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (5.36%) Confluence
2 4 (3.57%) CICS
3 2 (1.79%) CMS
3 2 (1.79%) SAS
3 2 (1.79%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.89%) Apache
4 1 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.89%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.79%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.79%) UserZoom
4 1 (0.89%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.89%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (8.04%) AWS
2 8 (7.14%) Figma
3 6 (5.36%) Azure
4 5 (4.46%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.79%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.79%) GCP
6 2 (1.79%) PaaS
6 2 (1.79%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.79%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.89%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.89%) Google Docs
7 1 (0.89%) Google Sheets
7 1 (0.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (0.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.79%) Firewall
2 1 (0.89%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.36%) Tableau
2 5 (4.46%) NoSQL
2 5 (4.46%) Power BI
3 4 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.68%) DB2
4 3 (2.68%) Metadata
4 3 (2.68%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.79%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.89%) Base SAS
6 1 (0.89%) Big Data
6 1 (0.89%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.89%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.89%) TKPROF
Development Applications
1 7 (6.25%) JIRA
2 3 (2.68%) Git
2 3 (2.68%) JUnit
3 2 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.79%) Selenium
3 2 (1.79%) SOAtest
3 2 (1.79%) SonarQube
General
1 106 (94.64%) Banking
2 61 (54.46%) Finance
3 54 (48.21%) Investment Banking
4 53 (47.32%) Retail
5 50 (44.64%) Corporate Banking
6 41 (36.61%) Social Skills
7 28 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (7.14%) Financial Institution
9 6 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (4.46%) Legal
11 4 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (3.57%) Marketing
11 4 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.79%) Front Office
12 2 (1.79%) General Ledger
12 2 (1.79%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.89%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 24 (21.43%) Analyst
2 14 (12.50%) Developer
3 11 (9.82%) Business Analyst
4 10 (8.93%) Designer
4 10 (8.93%) Project Manager
5 7 (6.25%) Data Analyst
5 7 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 6 (5.36%) Risk Analyst
7 5 (4.46%) Architect
8 4 (3.57%) Banking Project Manager
8 4 (3.57%) Consultant
8 4 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (3.57%) Incident Manager
8 4 (3.57%) React Developer
8 4 (3.57%) Senior
9 3 (2.68%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 3 (2.68%) Gen AI Developer
9 3 (2.68%) Lead
9 3 (2.68%) Retail Banking Business Analyst
9 3 (2.68%) Risk Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.46%) JSON
1 5 (4.46%) React
2 4 (3.57%) HTML
2 4 (3.57%) PySpark
3 3 (2.68%) FastAPI
3 3 (2.68%) Flask
3 3 (2.68%) Gherkin
3 3 (2.68%) Kafka
3 3 (2.68%) SQLAlchemy
4 2 (1.79%) .NET
4 2 (1.79%) J2EE
4 2 (1.79%) Node.js
4 2 (1.79%) Web Services
4 2 (1.79%) XML
5 1 (0.89%) CSS
5 1 (0.89%) CSS3
5 1 (0.89%) HTML5
5 1 (0.89%) NumPy
5 1 (0.89%) Sass
5 1 (0.89%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.04%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 7 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.46%) Mainframe
5 4 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (3.57%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.57%) VSAM
6 3 (2.68%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.68%) Mobile Banking
6 3 (2.68%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.79%) Mobile Payment
7 2 (1.79%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.89%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.89%) CMDB
8 1 (0.89%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.89%) Online Banking
8 1 (0.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.57%) Windows
2 3 (2.68%) Unix
3 2 (1.79%) Android
3 2 (1.79%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.79%) Linux
4 1 (0.89%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (47.32%) Wealth Management
2 27 (24.11%) Agile
3 24 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (20.54%) Risk Management
5 21 (18.75%) Decision-Making
5 21 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 15 (13.39%) User Experience
7 14 (12.50%) Analytics
8 13 (11.61%) Actionable Insight
8 13 (11.61%) Customer Experience
9 11 (9.82%) Data Analysis
10 10 (8.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (8.93%) UX Design
11 9 (8.04%) Artificial Intelligence
11 9 (8.04%) Collaborative Culture
11 9 (8.04%) Data Modelling
11 9 (8.04%) Regulatory Compliance
11 9 (8.04%) Software Engineering
11 9 (8.04%) Test Automation
12 8 (7.14%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (19.64%) Python
2 16 (14.29%) SQL
3 7 (6.25%) Java
4 5 (4.46%) COBOL
5 4 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.57%) JCL
6 2 (1.79%) R
6 2 (1.79%) REXX
6 2 (1.79%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.89%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.89%) C#
7 1 (0.89%) Go
7 1 (0.89%) PROC SQL
7 1 (0.89%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 4 (3.57%) Degree
2 3 (2.68%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (1.79%) APMP
3 2 (1.79%) CISA
3 2 (1.79%) CISSP
3 2 (1.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.89%) CFA
4 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.04%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.68%) QA
4 2 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.89%) Basel III
5 1 (0.89%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.89%) GDPR
5 1 (0.89%) MiFID
5 1 (0.89%) NIST
5 1 (0.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.89%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (1.79%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.89%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (0.89%) NetBackup
2 1 (0.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (5.36%) Oracle
2 4 (3.57%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.68%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.79%) Ab Initio
4 2 (1.79%) CheckPoint
4 2 (1.79%) Cisco
4 2 (1.79%) Citrix
4 2 (1.79%) Databricks
4 2 (1.79%) DocuSign
4 2 (1.79%) Fortinet
4 2 (1.79%) Google
4 2 (1.79%) IBM
4 2 (1.79%) Informatica
4 2 (1.79%) Parasoft
4 2 (1.79%) Workday
5 1 (0.89%) Apple
5 1 (0.89%) Planview
5 1 (0.89%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.89%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.89%) Trayport