Wholesale Banking Contracts in England

Wholesale Banking
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Wholesale Banking in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Wholesale Banking over the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 497 603
Rank change year-on-year -17 +106 +167
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Wholesale Banking 3 21 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.011% 0.063% 0.021%
As % of the General category 0.017% 0.11% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 7
10th Percentile - £714 £463
25th Percentile £663 £838 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £960 £500
Median % change year-on-year -29.69% +92.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £688 £1,179 £650
90th Percentile - £1,250 £700
UK median daily rate £541 £960 £500
% change year-on-year -43.62% +92.00% -21.57%

All General Skills
England

Wholesale 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 17,732 19,132 25,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.35% 57.59% 59.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,269 12,137 18,054
10th Percentile £275 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £656 £676
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 993 1,117 966
10th Percentile £13.39 £14.18 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £17.44 £16.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £28.07
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +35.80% +12.75%
75th Percentile £50.00 £61.30 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £71.35 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £27.74
% change year-on-year -28.87% +27.47% +13.22%

Wholesale Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Wholesale Banking in England

Wholesale Banking
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Wholesale Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Wholesale Banking

Wholesale Banking
DemandTrendContract 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 Wholesale Banking within the England region over the 6 months to 26 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +15 2 - - 2
North of England -23 1 £675 - 1
North West - 1 £675 - 1
Wholesale Banking
UK

Wholesale 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 1 (33.33%) OpenStack
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Back Office
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) ADO
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Business Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 2 (66.67%) Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Planning
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) AppDynamics
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk