Retail Banking Contracts in London

Retail Banking
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail 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 267 319 352
Rank change year-on-year +52 +33 +15
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 86 72 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.69% 0.40% 0.53%
As % of the General category 1.01% 0.64% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 34 72
10th Percentile £447 £450 £513
25th Percentile £500 £478 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £610
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -9.84% -0.41%
75th Percentile £688 £717 £776
90th Percentile £700 £875 £950
England median daily rate £506 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -7.95% -8.33% +2.13%

All General Skills
London

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 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%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail Banking in London

Retail Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Retail Banking in London

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Retail Banking in London

Retail Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail Banking in London

Retail 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 Retail 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 +20 29 £675 -18.18% 1
Retail Banking
England

Retail 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 3 (3.49%) Confluence
2 1 (1.16%) CMS
2 1 (1.16%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.16%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.16%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 23 (26.74%) AWS
2 12 (13.95%) Amazon EC2
2 12 (13.95%) Amazon EKS
2 12 (13.95%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 12 (13.95%) Amazon S3
2 12 (13.95%) CloudFront
2 12 (13.95%) Route 53
3 5 (5.81%) Azure
4 3 (3.49%) GCP
5 2 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.33%) Figma
5 2 (2.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.33%) Serverless
6 1 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.16%) Collibra
6 1 (1.16%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.33%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.28%) NoSQL
2 12 (13.95%) Amazon Aurora
2 12 (13.95%) DocumentDB
2 12 (13.95%) Redis
3 6 (6.98%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.65%) Metadata
4 4 (4.65%) Tableau
5 3 (3.49%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.33%) InterSystems Cache
6 2 (2.33%) MariaDB
6 2 (2.33%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.33%) Power BI
6 2 (2.33%) TKPROF
7 1 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.16%) Base SAS
7 1 (1.16%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.16%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.16%) KDB
Development Applications
1 4 (4.65%) JIRA
2 1 (1.16%) Git
General
1 84 (97.67%) Banking
2 57 (66.28%) Finance
3 45 (52.33%) Investment Banking
4 35 (40.70%) Retail
5 33 (38.37%) Corporate Banking
6 24 (27.91%) Social Skills
7 16 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (8.14%) Financial Institution
9 4 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (3.49%) Legal
11 2 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (2.33%) Marketing
12 1 (1.16%) Front Office
12 1 (1.16%) General Ledger
12 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (17.44%) Developer
2 14 (16.28%) Analyst
3 8 (9.30%) Data Engineer
4 7 (8.14%) Business Analyst
4 7 (8.14%) Project Manager
5 6 (6.98%) C# Developer
6 5 (5.81%) Designer
6 5 (5.81%) Product Manager
7 4 (4.65%) IT Manager
7 4 (4.65%) Python Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) Risk Analyst
8 3 (3.49%) AWS Data Engineer
8 3 (3.49%) Data Modeller
8 3 (3.49%) Electronic Trading Specialist
8 3 (3.49%) Incident Manager
8 3 (3.49%) Infrastructure Manager
8 3 (3.49%) MiFID Specialist
8 3 (3.49%) Python Data Engineer
8 3 (3.49%) Senior
8 3 (3.49%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.12%) GraphQL
2 12 (13.95%) RESTful
3 3 (3.49%) PySpark
3 3 (3.49%) React
4 2 (2.33%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.33%) Kafka
4 2 (2.33%) Micronaut
4 2 (2.33%) Node.js
4 2 (2.33%) Spring
4 2 (2.33%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.16%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.16%) Flask
5 1 (1.16%) HTML
5 1 (1.16%) JSON
5 1 (1.16%) Pandas
5 1 (1.16%) Polars
5 1 (1.16%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.16%) Redux
5 1 (1.16%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (1.16%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.95%) Derivative
2 9 (10.47%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.98%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.49%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.33%) Clustering
5 2 (2.33%) Replication
6 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.16%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.16%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.16%) Equities
6 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.16%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.16%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.16%) Online Banking
6 1 (1.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.16%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.33%) Linux
2 1 (1.16%) Android
2 1 (1.16%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.16%) Unix
2 1 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (50.00%) Wealth Management
2 19 (22.09%) Risk Management
3 17 (19.77%) Agile
4 16 (18.60%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (13.95%) Asset Management
5 12 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (13.95%) SOLID
6 10 (11.63%) Decision-Making
7 9 (10.47%) Project Management
7 9 (10.47%) User Experience
8 8 (9.30%) Roadmaps
9 7 (8.14%) Collaborative Culture
9 7 (8.14%) Data Engineering
9 7 (8.14%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (8.14%) ETL
9 7 (8.14%) Migration
9 7 (8.14%) Regulatory Compliance
9 7 (8.14%) TDD
10 6 (6.98%) Unit Testing
10 6 (6.98%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (22.09%) SQL
2 14 (16.28%) Python
3 12 (13.95%) C#
4 4 (4.65%) Java
5 3 (3.49%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.16%) C++
7 1 (1.16%) PROC SQL
7 1 (1.16%) R
7 1 (1.16%) SAS Macro
7 1 (1.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (5.81%) Degree
2 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.16%) CFA
2 1 (1.16%) CISA
2 1 (1.16%) CISSP
2 1 (1.16%) CRISC
2 1 (1.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (1.16%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.16%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.14%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (3.49%) MiFID
4 2 (2.33%) GDPR
4 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.16%) Basel III
5 1 (1.16%) COBIT
5 1 (1.16%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.16%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.16%) ITGC
5 1 (1.16%) NIST
5 1 (1.16%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.33%) Galera Cluster
1 2 (2.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (10.47%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.65%) Oracle
3 3 (3.49%) Cisco
3 3 (3.49%) Logitech
4 2 (2.33%) Databricks
4 2 (2.33%) Murex
4 2 (2.33%) Workday
5 1 (1.16%) Adobe
5 1 (1.16%) Calypso
5 1 (1.16%) Citrix
5 1 (1.16%) GoldenSource
5 1 (1.16%) Google
5 1 (1.16%) Planview
5 1 (1.16%) TOWER Software
5 1 (1.16%) TSYS