Banking Contracts in London

Banking
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Banking over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Banking 1,855 3,530 4,632
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.47% 13.04% 11.90%
As % of the General category 16.57% 20.54% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,387 2,573 3,133
10th Percentile £400 £463 £463
25th Percentile £517 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +10.64%
75th Percentile £788 £800 £763
90th Percentile £875 £900 £838
England median daily rate £625 £650 £638
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.96% +10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 13
10th Percentile - £13.20 £21.00
25th Percentile £18.25 - £23.91
Median hourly rate £19.50 £21.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -25.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £22.31 - £62.50
90th Percentile £41.03 £33.45 £82.90
England median hourly rate £19.50 £21.00 £23.48
% change year-on-year -7.14% -10.57% +50.96%

All General Skills
London

Banking is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,194 17,186 23,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.21% 63.47% 59.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,991 12,426 16,753
10th Percentile £336 £375 £381
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £801 £825 £794
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 225 296
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.69 £19.89
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £28.50 £32.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% -9.72% +30.91%
75th Percentile £43.75 £58.75 £49.38
90th Percentile £65.45 £70.00 £64.56
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
% change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 -3 252 £595 -11.85% 59
East London -6 21 £540 +9.09% 19
South London -15 7 £575 -32.35% 1
West London +23 5 £450 -37.93% 9
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
1 124 (6.68%) Apache
2 122 (6.58%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (2.43%) SharePoint
4 35 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (1.46%) Confluence
6 11 (0.59%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.49%) SAS
8 8 (0.43%) CMS
9 7 (0.38%) IIS
10 6 (0.32%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.27%) Tornado
12 4 (0.22%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.22%) JBoss
12 4 (0.22%) nginx
13 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.16%) Appian
13 3 (0.16%) GemFire
13 3 (0.16%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.11%) IBM Notes
14 2 (0.11%) MQSeries
Applications
1 68 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (1.24%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.32%) Sketch
7 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.16%) InVision
7 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.054%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.054%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.054%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.054%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 19 (1.02%) Aladdin
2 15 (0.81%) ION Anvil
2 15 (0.81%) Loan IQ
3 14 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.54%) ION MarketView
5 9 (0.49%) IntelliMatch
6 8 (0.43%) FLEXCUBE
6 8 (0.43%) Temenos T24
7 7 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
8 6 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
9 5 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
9 5 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.22%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
11 3 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
11 3 (0.16%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 245 (13.21%) Azure
2 231 (12.45%) AWS
3 133 (7.17%) GCP
4 77 (4.15%) dbt
5 65 (3.50%) Power Platform
6 60 (3.23%) Snowflake
7 45 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (1.46%) GitHub
9 26 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (1.02%) Serverless
11 18 (0.97%) SaaS
12 16 (0.86%) Microsoft Purview
12 16 (0.86%) Power Automate
13 15 (0.81%) Entra ID
14 14 (0.75%) Azure Key Vault
14 14 (0.75%) PowerApps
15 13 (0.70%) Collibra
15 13 (0.70%) PaaS
16 11 (0.59%) Figma
16 11 (0.59%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.86%) Firewall
2 18 (0.97%) Network Security
3 16 (0.86%) SAN
4 15 (0.81%) Internet
5 13 (0.70%) VPN
6 12 (0.65%) WAN
7 9 (0.49%) DNS
7 9 (0.49%) LAN
8 8 (0.43%) HTTP
8 8 (0.43%) SSH
9 7 (0.38%) DMZ
10 6 (0.32%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.27%) FTP
11 5 (0.27%) MPLS
11 5 (0.27%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.22%) BGP
12 4 (0.22%) FIX Connectivity
12 4 (0.22%) ICMP
12 4 (0.22%) POP3
12 4 (0.22%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (6.20%) Apache Ignite
2 112 (6.04%) SQL Server
3 79 (4.26%) Amazon Athena
4 77 (4.15%) Apache Arrow
4 77 (4.15%) Dremio
5 72 (3.88%) Data Lake
6 61 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
7 56 (3.02%) Power BI
8 49 (2.64%) Relational Database
9 36 (1.94%) NoSQL
10 28 (1.51%) Oracle Database
11 27 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
12 26 (1.40%) MySQL
12 26 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 23 (1.24%) Big Data
14 22 (1.19%) MongoDB
15 21 (1.13%) Tableau
16 19 (1.02%) Metadata
17 17 (0.92%) KDB
18 15 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 76 (4.10%) JIRA
2 43 (2.32%) Git
3 40 (2.16%) Jenkins
3 40 (2.16%) TeamCity
4 34 (1.83%) Selenium
5 33 (1.78%) Cypress.io
6 32 (1.73%) Cucumber
7 21 (1.13%) GitLab
8 14 (0.75%) Postman
9 12 (0.65%) Maven
9 12 (0.65%) Visual Studio
10 10 (0.54%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.49%) SpecFlow
12 8 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (0.38%) ERwin
13 7 (0.38%) JUnit
13 7 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 6 (0.32%) Artifactory
14 6 (0.32%) NUnit
14 6 (0.32%) TestRail
General
1 1,246 (67.17%) Finance
2 525 (28.30%) Investment Banking
3 356 (19.19%) Social Skills
4 330 (17.79%) Front Office
5 158 (8.52%) Analytical Skills
6 82 (4.42%) Back Office
7 62 (3.34%) Retail Banking
8 56 (3.02%) Retail
9 48 (2.59%) Financial Institution
10 37 (1.99%) Corporate Banking
11 34 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
12 32 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
13 25 (1.35%) Legal
14 22 (1.19%) Public Sector
14 22 (1.19%) Wholesale Banking
15 21 (1.13%) Prime Brokerage
16 20 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
17 17 (0.92%) International Banking
18 15 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 12 (0.65%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 453 (24.42%) Developer
2 361 (19.46%) Analyst
3 201 (10.84%) Business Analyst
4 191 (10.30%) Senior
5 151 (8.14%) Architect
6 118 (6.36%) Banking Analyst
7 115 (6.20%) Java Developer
7 115 (6.20%) Lead
8 114 (6.15%) Project Manager
8 114 (6.15%) Software Engineer
9 89 (4.80%) Python Developer
10 84 (4.53%) Financial Analyst
11 73 (3.94%) Python Engineer
12 70 (3.77%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 68 (3.67%) Python Software Engineer
14 67 (3.61%) C# Developer
15 65 (3.50%) React Developer
16 62 (3.34%) Consultant
17 57 (3.07%) Data Analyst
18 56 (3.02%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (6.52%) gRPC
2 119 (6.42%) Protocol Buffers
3 110 (5.93%) React
4 95 (5.12%) .NET
5 82 (4.42%) Pandas
6 75 (4.04%) NumPy
7 73 (3.94%) SciPy
8 62 (3.34%) FIX Protocol
9 59 (3.18%) Redux
10 51 (2.75%) HTML
11 48 (2.59%) CSS
12 43 (2.32%) Material-UI
12 43 (2.32%) Spring
13 41 (2.21%) WPF
14 37 (1.99%) AngularJS
15 36 (1.94%) Kafka
16 31 (1.67%) REST
17 29 (1.56%) Node.js
18 27 (1.46%) .NET Framework
19 25 (1.35%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 237 (12.78%) Derivative
2 222 (11.97%) Fixed Income
3 179 (9.65%) Hedge funds
4 160 (8.63%) Equities
5 152 (8.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 75 (4.04%) Product Ownership
7 48 (2.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 46 (2.48%) Management Information System
9 29 (1.56%) Market Risk
10 28 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
11 24 (1.29%) Data Centre
11 24 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
12 23 (1.24%) Equity Derivative
13 20 (1.08%) Onboarding
14 19 (1.02%) Credit Risk
14 19 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
15 17 (0.92%) Algorithms
15 17 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
15 17 (0.92%) Video Conferencing
16 16 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 124 (6.68%) Windows
2 96 (5.18%) Linux
3 73 (3.94%) Unix
4 17 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
6 13 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (0.59%) Android
7 11 (0.59%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.49%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.32%) VMS
10 4 (0.22%) zOS
11 3 (0.16%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.16%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.054%) AIX
13 1 (0.054%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.054%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 477 (25.71%) Agile
2 214 (11.54%) Software Engineering
3 204 (11.00%) Asset Management
4 190 (10.24%) Change Management
5 171 (9.22%) Investment Management
6 170 (9.16%) DevOps
7 167 (9.00%) Problem-Solving
8 137 (7.39%) Stakeholder Management
9 127 (6.85%) Migration
10 116 (6.25%) Project Management
11 113 (6.09%) CI/CD
12 101 (5.44%) Analytics
13 97 (5.23%) Test Automation
14 88 (4.74%) SDLC
15 86 (4.64%) Full Stack Development
16 84 (4.53%) Scrum
17 80 (4.31%) Risk Management
18 78 (4.20%) Roadmaps
19 74 (3.99%) Microservices
20 73 (3.94%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 370 (19.95%) Python
2 364 (19.62%) SQL
3 326 (17.57%) Java
4 229 (12.35%) C#
5 161 (8.68%) TypeScript
6 155 (8.36%) JavaScript
7 61 (3.29%) PowerShell
8 51 (2.75%) C++
9 38 (2.05%) Scala
10 23 (1.24%) PL/SQL
11 22 (1.19%) Shell Script
12 13 (0.70%) Perl
12 13 (0.70%) Ruby
12 13 (0.70%) T-SQL
13 12 (0.65%) Go
14 11 (0.59%) VBA
15 9 (0.49%) Bash
15 9 (0.49%) R
16 8 (0.43%) PHP
17 7 (0.38%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 139 (7.49%) Degree
2 51 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (1.94%) SC Cleared
3 36 (1.94%) Security Cleared
4 22 (1.19%) Master's Degree
5 21 (1.13%) CISSP
6 18 (0.97%) Numerate Degree
7 17 (0.92%) CISM
7 17 (0.92%) PMI Certification
8 16 (0.86%) PMP
9 14 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
11 10 (0.54%) Azure Certification
11 10 (0.54%) CCNP
11 10 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (0.54%) Six Sigma Black Belt
11 10 (0.54%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 7 (0.38%) CISA
13 5 (0.27%) CRISC
13 5 (0.27%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (3.50%) QA
2 52 (2.80%) Data Quality
3 49 (2.64%) PMO
4 31 (1.67%) EMIR
4 31 (1.67%) MiFID
5 19 (1.02%) SLA
6 17 (0.92%) NIST
7 16 (0.86%) SEPA
8 13 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 12 (0.65%) GDPR
10 11 (0.59%) Dodd-Frank
11 8 (0.43%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.38%) GRC
12 7 (0.38%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.32%) GAAP
13 6 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 5 (0.27%) Accessibility
14 5 (0.27%) Basel III
14 5 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.22%) IFRS
System Software
1 60 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 34 (1.83%) Docker
3 8 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.27%) ACF2
4 5 (0.27%) IAG
4 5 (0.27%) RACF
5 4 (0.22%) vSphere
6 3 (0.16%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.054%) Cronacle
8 1 (0.054%) GridGain
8 1 (0.054%) HDFS
8 1 (0.054%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 49 (2.64%) Kubernetes
2 26 (1.40%) Ansible
3 25 (1.35%) Terraform
4 23 (1.24%) SCCM
5 14 (0.75%) Grafana
5 14 (0.75%) ITRS Geneos
6 13 (0.70%) Puppet
7 9 (0.49%) Control-M
7 9 (0.49%) Kibana
8 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.43%) PingFederate
9 7 (0.38%) Data Guard
9 7 (0.38%) logstash
9 7 (0.38%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.22%) QRadar
11 3 (0.16%) Nessus
11 3 (0.16%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.16%) Rancher
11 3 (0.16%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.11%) Netcool
Vendors
1 166 (8.95%) Microsoft
2 118 (6.36%) Oracle
3 84 (4.53%) Google
4 49 (2.64%) Cisco
5 46 (2.48%) Bloomberg
6 34 (1.83%) ServiceNow
7 30 (1.62%) Databricks
8 28 (1.51%) IBM
9 26 (1.40%) Citrix
10 21 (1.13%) ION Trading
11 18 (0.97%) EMC
12 17 (0.92%) HP
12 17 (0.92%) Red Hat
12 17 (0.92%) Splunk
13 16 (0.86%) Avaya
13 16 (0.86%) CheckPoint
13 16 (0.86%) SAP
14 15 (0.81%) Refinitiv
14 15 (0.81%) VMware
15 13 (0.70%) Adobe