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 25 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Banking 1,960 3,251 4,673
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 11.09% 12.93% 12.14%
As % of the General category 17.68% 20.39% 19.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 2,452 3,125
10th Percentile £400 £456 £463
25th Percentile £525 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £671 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +3.15% +8.33%
75th Percentile £800 £806 £775
90th Percentile £888 £900 £862
England median daily rate £625 £650 £648
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.37% +12.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 13
10th Percentile - - £21.00
25th Percentile £18.25 - £23.91
Median hourly rate £19.50 £8.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +143.75% -70.91% +22.22%
75th Percentile £27.00 - £50.00
90th Percentile £56.25 - £79.90
England median hourly rate £19.05 £25.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -25.29% -1.92% +85.32%

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 11,086 15,941 23,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 62.70% 63.38% 60.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,920 11,650 17,094
10th Percentile £335 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.96% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 201 275
10th Percentile £15.90 £16.13 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £30.16 £30.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -15.49% +22.41%
75th Percentile £48.13 £52.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.40 £70.00 £65.35
England median hourly rate £31.97 £30.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.32% +36.21% +7.14%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -2 269 £590 -9.23% 55
East London -7 18 £540 -7.69% 16
South London -15 6 £563 -23.73% 1
West London - 4 £400 - 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
1 225 (11.48%) Apache
2 212 (10.82%) Apache Airflow
3 53 (2.70%) SharePoint
4 38 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 36 (1.84%) Confluence
6 18 (0.92%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.46%) SAS
8 7 (0.36%) nginx
8 7 (0.36%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.31%) CMS
9 6 (0.31%) IIS
9 6 (0.31%) MQSeries
10 5 (0.26%) JBoss
10 5 (0.26%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.20%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.15%) Appian
12 3 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.10%) GemFire
13 2 (0.10%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 53 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.97%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.26%) Sketch
7 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.15%) InVision
7 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.10%) Gliffy
8 2 (0.10%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.051%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.051%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.051%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.051%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.051%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.051%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 24 (1.22%) Aladdin
2 17 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.77%) ION Anvil
4 11 (0.56%) ION MarketView
4 11 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.51%) SimCorp Dimension
6 8 (0.41%) FLEXCUBE
7 7 (0.36%) Temenos T24
8 6 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
8 6 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
8 6 (0.31%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.26%) IntelliMatch
10 4 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 3 (0.15%) Fidessa
11 3 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
11 3 (0.15%) Orchestrade
11 3 (0.15%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.15%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 364 (18.57%) AWS
2 295 (15.05%) Azure
3 211 (10.77%) GCP
4 153 (7.81%) dbt
5 128 (6.53%) Snowflake
6 90 (4.59%) Power Platform
7 54 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
8 40 (2.04%) GitHub
9 33 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (1.28%) Power Automate
11 23 (1.17%) PowerApps
11 23 (1.17%) SaaS
12 22 (1.12%) Serverless
13 19 (0.97%) Entra ID
14 18 (0.92%) Microsoft Purview
15 16 (0.82%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (0.77%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (0.77%) PaaS
17 14 (0.71%) Azure AKS
17 14 (0.71%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.06%) Firewall
2 21 (1.07%) Internet
3 15 (0.77%) SAN
4 14 (0.71%) Network Security
5 13 (0.66%) DNS
6 10 (0.51%) SSH
7 9 (0.46%) VPN
8 8 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
8 8 (0.41%) HTTP
9 7 (0.36%) WAN
10 6 (0.31%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.26%) DHCP
12 4 (0.20%) AMQP
12 4 (0.20%) Cisco ISE
12 4 (0.20%) FTP
12 4 (0.20%) LAN
12 4 (0.20%) SSL
12 4 (0.20%) VoIP
13 3 (0.15%) SD-WAN
13 3 (0.15%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (10.31%) Apache Ignite
2 153 (7.81%) Data Lake
3 152 (7.76%) Dremio
4 148 (7.55%) Apache Arrow
5 145 (7.40%) Amazon Athena
6 103 (5.26%) SQL Server
7 89 (4.54%) PostgreSQL
8 77 (3.93%) Power BI
9 53 (2.70%) NoSQL
10 46 (2.35%) Relational Database
11 36 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
12 33 (1.68%) Big Data
13 26 (1.33%) Tableau
14 25 (1.28%) MongoDB
15 24 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 23 (1.17%) MySQL
17 19 (0.97%) KDB
17 19 (0.97%) Oracle Database
18 18 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
18 18 (0.92%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 85 (4.34%) JIRA
2 57 (2.91%) Cypress.io
3 53 (2.70%) Git
4 52 (2.65%) Jenkins
5 45 (2.30%) Selenium
6 34 (1.73%) Cucumber
7 28 (1.43%) TeamCity
8 26 (1.33%) GitLab
9 22 (1.12%) Maven
10 20 (1.02%) Postman
11 15 (0.77%) JUnit
11 15 (0.77%) Visual Studio
12 13 (0.66%) Bitbucket
12 13 (0.66%) SpecFlow
13 10 (0.51%) JMeter
14 9 (0.46%) Artifactory
15 8 (0.41%) ERwin
15 8 (0.41%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 1,349 (68.83%) Finance
2 557 (28.42%) Investment Banking
3 412 (21.02%) Front Office
4 367 (18.72%) Social Skills
5 161 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
6 62 (3.16%) Back Office
7 60 (3.06%) Retail
8 55 (2.81%) Retail Banking
9 53 (2.70%) Financial Institution
10 38 (1.94%) Corporate Banking
11 33 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (1.12%) Wholesale Banking
14 21 (1.07%) Public Sector
15 20 (1.02%) Legal
16 18 (0.92%) International Banking
17 16 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 16 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
18 15 (0.77%) Prime Brokerage
19 14 (0.71%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 499 (25.46%) Developer
2 346 (17.65%) Analyst
3 220 (11.22%) Senior
4 196 (10.00%) Business Analyst
5 178 (9.08%) Software Engineer
6 173 (8.83%) Architect
7 140 (7.14%) Lead
8 131 (6.68%) Python Engineer
9 128 (6.53%) Java Developer
10 125 (6.38%) Python Developer
11 119 (6.07%) Python Software Engineer
12 106 (5.41%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 99 (5.05%) Project Manager
14 96 (4.90%) Banking Analyst
14 96 (4.90%) React Developer
15 77 (3.93%) Financial Analyst
16 70 (3.57%) Consultant
17 66 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
18 65 (3.32%) Java Engineer
19 62 (3.16%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (10.66%) gRPC
2 204 (10.41%) Protocol Buffers
3 143 (7.30%) Pandas
4 142 (7.24%) NumPy
5 141 (7.19%) React
6 140 (7.14%) SciPy
7 93 (4.74%) .NET
8 77 (3.93%) Redux
9 67 (3.42%) Material-UI
10 63 (3.21%) HTML
11 58 (2.96%) FIX Protocol
12 55 (2.81%) CSS
13 53 (2.70%) Spring
14 45 (2.30%) Kafka
15 39 (1.99%) AngularJS
15 39 (1.99%) REST
16 32 (1.63%) Node.js
17 30 (1.53%) Spring Boot
17 30 (1.53%) Web Services
17 30 (1.53%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 307 (15.66%) Fixed Income
2 280 (14.29%) Derivative
3 275 (14.03%) Hedge funds
4 249 (12.70%) Equities
5 240 (12.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 74 (3.78%) Product Ownership
7 49 (2.50%) Management Information System
8 42 (2.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 27 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
10 24 (1.22%) Algorithms
10 24 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
11 23 (1.17%) Credit Risk
11 23 (1.17%) Equity Derivative
11 23 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
12 22 (1.12%) Data Centre
13 21 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
14 20 (1.02%) Mobile App
14 20 (1.02%) Onboarding
15 19 (0.97%) Market Risk
16 17 (0.87%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 124 (6.33%) Windows
2 102 (5.20%) Linux
3 86 (4.39%) Unix
4 15 (0.77%) Windows 10
4 15 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
6 12 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (0.46%) Android
8 7 (0.36%) zOS
9 6 (0.31%) VMS
10 3 (0.15%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.15%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.10%) AIX
11 2 (0.10%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.051%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.051%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 617 (31.48%) Agile
2 323 (16.48%) Software Engineering
3 298 (15.20%) Asset Management
4 232 (11.84%) Investment Management
5 209 (10.66%) DevOps
6 169 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
7 144 (7.35%) Change Management
8 136 (6.94%) CI/CD
9 134 (6.84%) Migration
10 130 (6.63%) Stakeholder Management
11 119 (6.07%) Full Stack Development
11 119 (6.07%) Test Automation
12 112 (5.71%) Analytics
13 105 (5.36%) Artificial Intelligence
14 101 (5.15%) Machine Learning
15 100 (5.10%) Project Management
16 97 (4.95%) Microservices
17 95 (4.85%) Scrum
18 89 (4.54%) Roadmaps
19 88 (4.49%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 486 (24.80%) Python
2 429 (21.89%) Java
3 371 (18.93%) SQL
4 253 (12.91%) TypeScript
5 233 (11.89%) JavaScript
6 192 (9.80%) C#
7 71 (3.62%) PowerShell
8 65 (3.32%) C++
9 39 (1.99%) Scala
10 26 (1.33%) Shell Script
11 19 (0.97%) Bash
12 17 (0.87%) Groovy
12 17 (0.87%) PL/SQL
13 16 (0.82%) Go
14 14 (0.71%) T-SQL
15 13 (0.66%) Perl
16 11 (0.56%) Kotlin
16 11 (0.56%) PHP
16 11 (0.56%) R
16 11 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 141 (7.19%) Degree
2 50 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 47 (2.40%) Security Cleared
4 46 (2.35%) SC Cleared
5 25 (1.28%) Master's Degree
6 23 (1.17%) PMP
7 22 (1.12%) CISSP
8 21 (1.07%) PMI Certification
9 19 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
10 18 (0.92%) CISM
11 17 (0.87%) CCNP
11 17 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (0.71%) Azure Certification
13 13 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
14 12 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.51%) CCNA
15 10 (0.51%) CISA
15 10 (0.51%) Six Sigma Black Belt
15 10 (0.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 8 (0.41%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (4.08%) Data Quality
2 77 (3.93%) QA
3 36 (1.84%) PMO
4 28 (1.43%) EMIR
5 26 (1.33%) MiFID
6 18 (0.92%) SLA
7 16 (0.82%) GDPR
7 16 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (0.77%) NIST
9 13 (0.66%) SEPA
10 12 (0.61%) Dodd-Frank
11 9 (0.46%) GRC
12 8 (0.41%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.36%) Basel III
14 6 (0.31%) GAAP
14 6 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 4 (0.20%) Accessibility
16 4 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 4 (0.20%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 65 (3.32%) Active Directory
2 53 (2.70%) Docker
3 12 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.41%) vSphere
6 5 (0.26%) ACF2
6 5 (0.26%) IAG
6 5 (0.26%) RACF
7 3 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
7 3 (0.15%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.10%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.051%) Cronacle
9 1 (0.051%) GridGain
9 1 (0.051%) HDFS
9 1 (0.051%) NFS
9 1 (0.051%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.051%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 71 (3.62%) Kubernetes
2 45 (2.30%) Ansible
3 36 (1.84%) Terraform
4 20 (1.02%) Grafana
4 20 (1.02%) SCCM
5 17 (0.87%) Puppet
6 11 (0.56%) Control-M
7 10 (0.51%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.41%) Kibana
9 8 (0.41%) PingFederate
10 7 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (0.36%) logstash
11 4 (0.20%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.20%) SCOM
12 3 (0.15%) Nessus
12 3 (0.15%) QRadar
13 2 (0.10%) CASB
13 2 (0.10%) Istio
13 2 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 168 (8.57%) Microsoft
2 113 (5.77%) Oracle
3 110 (5.61%) Google
4 56 (2.86%) Cisco
5 51 (2.60%) Bloomberg
6 44 (2.24%) ServiceNow
7 30 (1.53%) IBM
8 29 (1.48%) Databricks
9 28 (1.43%) Citrix
10 24 (1.22%) SAP
11 22 (1.12%) CheckPoint
11 22 (1.12%) ION Trading
12 21 (1.07%) VMware
13 20 (1.02%) Splunk
14 17 (0.87%) Avaya
14 17 (0.87%) EMC
14 17 (0.87%) F5
15 16 (0.82%) Fortinet
15 16 (0.82%) HP
15 16 (0.82%) Sybase