Banking Contracts in London

Banking
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 13 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing Banking 1,497 1,882 3,521
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 11.93% 10.55% 13.02%
As % of the General category 17.67% 16.71% 20.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 964 1,414 2,566
10th Percentile £400 £400 £463
25th Percentile £500 £519 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £788 £788 £800
90th Percentile £875 £875 £900
England median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 5
10th Percentile - - £13.20
25th Percentile £22.27 £18.25 -
Median hourly rate £24.66 £19.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.46% -7.14% -25.00%
75th Percentile - £20.75 -
90th Percentile £95.50 £23.25 £33.45
England median hourly rate £22.27 £19.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +14.21% -7.14% -10.57%

All General Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,474 11,265 17,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 67.53% 63.18% 63.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,727 8,041 12,396
10th Percentile £340 £336 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £725
90th Percentile £825 £813 £825
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 245 221
10th Percentile £15.84 £16.00 £16.61
25th Percentile £22.72 £18.25 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.00 £28.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.30% -10.94% -12.33%
75th Percentile £51.81 £43.75 £58.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £65.02 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Banking in London

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Banking in London

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in London

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Banking in London

Banking
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Banking in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Banking in London

Banking
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +2 278 £600 - 94
South London +28 30 £925 +60.87% 3
East London +8 15 £495 -8.33% 14
West London +12 4 - - 14
Banking
England

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 62 (4.14%) Confluence
2 59 (3.94%) Apache
3 58 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
4 34 (2.27%) Apache Spark
4 34 (2.27%) SharePoint
5 12 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.80%) SAS
6 7 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.33%) MQSeries
8 4 (0.27%) CMS
8 4 (0.27%) WebLogic
8 4 (0.27%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.20%) JBoss
9 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.13%) CICS
10 2 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 61 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (1.34%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.27%) Sketch
8 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.067%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.067%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.067%) Notepad++
9 1 (0.067%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 17 (1.14%) Oracle General Ledger
2 15 (1.00%) Oracle Assets
2 15 (1.00%) Oracle Payables
3 13 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
3 13 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.67%) FLEXCUBE
5 9 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.60%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 9 (0.60%) Oracle Financials
6 8 (0.53%) Oracle EBS R12
7 6 (0.40%) Misys Midas
7 6 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
7 6 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.27%) Fidessa
8 4 (0.27%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.20%) Actimize
9 3 (0.20%) Endur
9 3 (0.20%) ION Anvil
10 2 (0.13%) Alphatax
10 2 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 250 (16.70%) AWS
2 208 (13.89%) Azure
3 108 (7.21%) GCP
4 58 (3.87%) dbt
5 53 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
5 53 (3.54%) Snowflake
6 49 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
7 47 (3.14%) Power Platform
8 39 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
9 34 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
10 32 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
11 31 (2.07%) Amazon S3
12 27 (1.80%) GitHub
13 26 (1.74%) Dagster
14 24 (1.60%) Serverless
15 22 (1.47%) Figma
16 19 (1.27%) Entra ID
17 18 (1.20%) SaaS
18 17 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
19 16 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 47 (3.14%) Firewall
2 20 (1.34%) DNS
3 16 (1.07%) Network Security
4 14 (0.94%) FIX Connectivity
4 14 (0.94%) HTTP
5 12 (0.80%) VPN
6 11 (0.73%) DHCP
6 11 (0.73%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.67%) BGP
7 10 (0.67%) OSPF
7 10 (0.67%) SSL
8 9 (0.60%) Multicast
9 7 (0.47%) HSRP
9 7 (0.47%) IGMP
9 7 (0.47%) VRRP
9 7 (0.47%) WAN
10 5 (0.33%) LAN
10 5 (0.33%) SAN
10 5 (0.33%) Wireless
11 4 (0.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (5.74%) SQL Server
2 56 (3.74%) Amazon Athena
2 56 (3.74%) Apache Iceberg
2 56 (3.74%) Dremio
3 52 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
4 46 (3.07%) Data Lake
5 45 (3.01%) Apache Arrow
6 40 (2.67%) Redis
7 39 (2.61%) NoSQL
8 36 (2.40%) MongoDB
9 34 (2.27%) Power BI
10 33 (2.20%) Tableau
11 29 (1.94%) Apache Ignite
12 28 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
13 24 (1.60%) Relational Database
14 22 (1.47%) Big Data
15 20 (1.34%) DB2
16 18 (1.20%) Hadoop
16 18 (1.20%) Metadata
16 18 (1.20%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 105 (7.01%) JIRA
2 87 (5.81%) Jenkins
3 71 (4.74%) Git
4 28 (1.87%) TeamCity
5 24 (1.60%) Bitbucket
6 19 (1.27%) GitLab
7 16 (1.07%) webpack
8 15 (1.00%) JUnit
9 12 (0.80%) JMeter
10 10 (0.67%) Maven
10 10 (0.67%) Visual Studio
11 9 (0.60%) LoadRunner
11 9 (0.60%) Postman
12 8 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (0.53%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.47%) Ant
13 7 (0.47%) Selenium
13 7 (0.47%) Subversion
14 6 (0.40%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.27%) Zephyr
General
1 1,009 (67.40%) Finance
2 478 (31.93%) Investment Banking
3 434 (28.99%) Social Skills
4 262 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
5 239 (15.97%) Front Office
6 84 (5.61%) Retail Banking
7 75 (5.01%) Financial Institution
8 43 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
9 42 (2.81%) Retail
10 40 (2.67%) Corporate Banking
11 28 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
12 23 (1.54%) Legal
13 22 (1.47%) General Ledger
14 18 (1.20%) Back Office
15 14 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (0.80%) International Banking
17 12 (0.80%) Private Banking
18 10 (0.67%) Marketing
19 8 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 431 (28.79%) Developer
2 246 (16.43%) Analyst
3 199 (13.29%) Senior
4 103 (6.88%) Business Analyst
5 97 (6.48%) Project Manager
6 96 (6.41%) Software Engineer
7 91 (6.08%) Architect
8 90 (6.01%) Java Developer
9 86 (5.74%) Python Developer
10 78 (5.21%) Lead
10 78 (5.21%) Senior Developer
11 66 (4.41%) AWS Engineer
12 61 (4.07%) Python Engineer
13 60 (4.01%) C# Developer
14 57 (3.81%) Banking Analyst
15 53 (3.54%) Consultant
16 50 (3.34%) Data Analyst
17 47 (3.14%) Java Engineer
18 46 (3.07%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 45 (3.01%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (8.28%) React
2 107 (7.15%) .NET
3 70 (4.68%) Kafka
4 58 (3.87%) PySpark
5 53 (3.54%) AngularJS
5 53 (3.54%) Pandas
6 51 (3.41%) NumPy
6 51 (3.41%) Spring
7 48 (3.21%) CSS
7 48 (3.21%) SciPy
8 45 (3.01%) HTML
8 45 (3.01%) Node.js
9 40 (2.67%) gRPC
9 40 (2.67%) Redux
10 38 (2.54%) FastAPI
11 36 (2.40%) Protocol Buffers
12 31 (2.07%) RESTful
13 30 (2.00%) FIX Protocol
13 30 (2.00%) XML
14 29 (1.94%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 153 (10.22%) Derivative
2 130 (8.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 119 (7.95%) Equities
4 110 (7.35%) Fixed Income
5 71 (4.74%) Hedge funds
6 44 (2.94%) Product Ownership
7 41 (2.74%) Market Risk
8 37 (2.47%) Onboarding
9 35 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
10 34 (2.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 33 (2.20%) Data Structures
12 27 (1.80%) Algorithms
12 27 (1.80%) Reference Data
13 25 (1.67%) Credit Risk
14 24 (1.60%) Management Information System
15 23 (1.54%) Data Centre
16 21 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
17 18 (1.20%) Cloud Native
18 17 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
19 16 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 110 (7.35%) Windows
2 88 (5.88%) Linux
3 45 (3.01%) Unix
4 25 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (0.87%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.40%) Android
6 6 (0.40%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.40%) CentOS
7 5 (0.33%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.20%) AIX
9 3 (0.20%) Rocky
9 3 (0.20%) Solaris
10 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.13%) zOS
11 1 (0.067%) Fedora
11 1 (0.067%) SUSE
11 1 (0.067%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (26.79%) Agile
2 250 (16.70%) Problem-Solving
3 187 (12.49%) DevOps
4 165 (11.02%) Risk Management
5 161 (10.75%) Software Engineering
6 156 (10.42%) CI/CD
7 143 (9.55%) Analytics
8 138 (9.22%) Stakeholder Management
9 125 (8.35%) Asset Management
10 120 (8.02%) Migration
11 112 (7.48%) Project Management
12 104 (6.95%) Change Management
13 103 (6.88%) SDLC
14 98 (6.55%) Fintech
15 88 (5.88%) Microservices
16 80 (5.34%) Data Analysis
17 76 (5.08%) Artificial Intelligence
17 76 (5.08%) Decision-Making
18 72 (4.81%) Electronic Trading
18 72 (4.81%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 371 (24.78%) Python
2 332 (22.18%) SQL
3 302 (20.17%) Java
4 151 (10.09%) JavaScript
5 150 (10.02%) C#
6 136 (9.08%) TypeScript
7 53 (3.54%) C++
8 42 (2.81%) PowerShell
9 32 (2.14%) PL/SQL
10 30 (2.00%) Scala
11 25 (1.67%) Bash
12 24 (1.60%) Shell Script
13 16 (1.07%) Perl
14 15 (1.00%) Bicep
15 14 (0.94%) VBA
16 10 (0.67%) Haskell
17 9 (0.60%) Groovy
17 9 (0.60%) Rust
17 9 (0.60%) T-SQL
17 9 (0.60%) VB
Qualifications
1 127 (8.48%) Degree
2 24 (1.60%) Master's Degree
3 22 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (1.40%) Numerate Degree
5 20 (1.34%) Security Cleared
6 14 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (0.94%) SC Cleared
7 13 (0.87%) PMI Certification
7 13 (0.87%) PMP
8 11 (0.73%) AWS Certification
8 11 (0.73%) Azure Certification
9 9 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (0.60%) CISSP
10 8 (0.53%) PhD
11 7 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (0.47%) CCNP
12 5 (0.33%) CCIE
12 5 (0.33%) FFIEC
12 5 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 4 (0.27%) CCAB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (3.87%) QA
2 53 (3.54%) Data Quality
3 40 (2.67%) PMO
4 32 (2.14%) GDPR
5 22 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 14 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (0.94%) MiFID
7 12 (0.80%) Accessibility
8 11 (0.73%) SEPA
9 10 (0.67%) NIST
9 10 (0.67%) SLA
10 9 (0.60%) EMIR
10 9 (0.60%) IFRS
10 9 (0.60%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.60%) PSD2
11 8 (0.53%) IFRS 9
11 8 (0.53%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.47%) Basel III
13 6 (0.40%) Basel II
14 5 (0.33%) HIPAA
System Software
1 94 (6.28%) Docker
2 28 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.33%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.20%) Lustre
6 3 (0.20%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 3 (0.20%) XenDesktop
7 2 (0.13%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.13%) HDFS
7 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.067%) NFS
8 1 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.067%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.067%) Veritas File System
8 1 (0.067%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 1 (0.067%) XenApp
8 1 (0.067%) XYGATE
Systems Management
1 112 (7.48%) Kubernetes
2 72 (4.81%) Ansible
3 49 (3.27%) Terraform
4 22 (1.47%) SCCM
5 18 (1.20%) Grafana
6 14 (0.94%) Puppet
7 12 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.60%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.47%) Control-M
10 6 (0.40%) Istio
10 6 (0.40%) Rundeck
11 5 (0.33%) ZABBIX
12 4 (0.27%) Argo
12 4 (0.27%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.27%) Podman
12 4 (0.27%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.20%) CASB
13 3 (0.20%) HP ALM
13 3 (0.20%) RSA Archer
13 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 135 (9.02%) Microsoft
2 116 (7.75%) Oracle
3 48 (3.21%) ServiceNow
4 35 (2.34%) Databricks
5 34 (2.27%) Google
6 31 (2.07%) Cisco
7 27 (1.80%) Splunk
8 24 (1.60%) SAP
9 23 (1.54%) IBM
10 22 (1.47%) Red Hat
11 16 (1.07%) ION Trading
12 15 (1.00%) CyberArk
13 14 (0.94%) Citrix
13 14 (0.94%) VMware
14 13 (0.87%) Arista
14 13 (0.87%) Atlassian
14 13 (0.87%) Murex
14 13 (0.87%) Sybase
15 12 (0.80%) Bloomberg
16 11 (0.73%) Informatica