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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 331 353
Rank change year-on-year +40 +22 +36
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 82 55 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.61% 0.34% 0.48%
As % of the General category 0.88% 0.54% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 23 50
10th Percentile £408 £420 £500
25th Percentile £466 £513 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £613 £713
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% -14.04% +23.91%
75th Percentile £541 £763 £884
90th Percentile £631 £875 £1,038
England median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +12.62%

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 9,289 10,119 15,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 68.72% 62.51% 64.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,167 7,105 11,005
10th Percentile £325 £338 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +1.69%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £723
90th Percentile £800 £825 £825
England median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 145 170
10th Percentile £15.84 £17.25 £17.86
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.31
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.49% +1.43% -2.10%
75th Percentile £49.63 £51.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £67.20 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £27.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +38.62% +12.24%

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 15 August 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 15 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +5 19 £500 -4.76% 2
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 (3.66%) Confluence
2 1 (1.22%) Apache
2 1 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.22%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.44%) UserZoom
3 1 (1.22%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.22%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.76%) Figma
2 7 (8.54%) AWS
3 6 (7.32%) Azure
4 3 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.66%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.44%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.44%) GCP
5 2 (2.44%) PaaS
5 2 (2.44%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.44%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.22%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (1.22%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.22%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.22%) GitHub
6 1 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.22%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.88%) Tableau
2 3 (3.66%) Metadata
2 3 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.66%) Power BI
3 2 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.44%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.22%) Base SAS
4 1 (1.22%) Big Data
4 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.22%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.22%) TKPROF
Development Applications
1 4 (4.88%) JIRA
2 3 (3.66%) Git
3 2 (2.44%) SonarQube
General
1 78 (95.12%) Banking
2 49 (59.76%) Finance
2 49 (59.76%) Investment Banking
3 47 (57.32%) Retail
4 45 (54.88%) Corporate Banking
5 28 (34.15%) Social Skills
6 18 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (8.54%) Financial Institution
8 5 (6.10%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.66%) Marketing
10 2 (2.44%) Front Office
10 2 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.44%) Private Banking
11 1 (1.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (21.95%) Analyst
2 10 (12.20%) Designer
2 10 (12.20%) Project Manager
3 8 (9.76%) Business Analyst
3 8 (9.76%) Developer
4 7 (8.54%) Data Engineer
5 6 (7.32%) Data Analyst
6 5 (6.10%) Risk Analyst
7 4 (4.88%) Banking Project Manager
7 4 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (4.88%) Incident Manager
7 4 (4.88%) React Developer
7 4 (4.88%) Senior
8 3 (3.66%) Applications Manager
8 3 (3.66%) Digital Project Manager
8 3 (3.66%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 3 (3.66%) Gen AI Developer
8 3 (3.66%) Python Developer
8 3 (3.66%) UI Designer
8 3 (3.66%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.10%) React
2 4 (4.88%) HTML
2 4 (4.88%) PySpark
3 3 (3.66%) FastAPI
3 3 (3.66%) Flask
3 3 (3.66%) JSON
3 3 (3.66%) SQLAlchemy
4 2 (2.44%) .NET
4 2 (2.44%) Node.js
5 1 (1.22%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.22%) CSS
5 1 (1.22%) CSS3
5 1 (1.22%) HTML5
5 1 (1.22%) LESS
5 1 (1.22%) NumPy
5 1 (1.22%) Pandas
5 1 (1.22%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.22%) Sass
5 1 (1.22%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.76%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.54%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (4.88%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.66%) Mobile Banking
4 3 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.44%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.22%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.22%) Animation
6 1 (1.22%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.22%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.22%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.22%) Online Banking
6 1 (1.22%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.88%) Windows
2 2 (2.44%) Android
2 2 (2.44%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.44%) Linux
3 1 (1.22%) Unix
3 1 (1.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (58.54%) Wealth Management
2 21 (25.61%) Agile
3 18 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (21.95%) Risk Management
4 15 (18.29%) Decision-Making
5 12 (14.63%) User Experience
6 11 (13.41%) Actionable Insight
6 11 (13.41%) Analytics
7 10 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (12.20%) UX Design
8 9 (10.98%) Artificial Intelligence
8 9 (10.98%) Collaborative Culture
8 9 (10.98%) Customer Experience
8 9 (10.98%) Regulatory Compliance
8 9 (10.98%) Software Engineering
9 8 (9.76%) Data Engineering
9 8 (9.76%) Data Modelling
9 8 (9.76%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (8.54%) Business Case
10 7 (8.54%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (24.39%) Python
2 14 (17.07%) SQL
3 4 (4.88%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.44%) Java
4 2 (2.44%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.22%) C#
5 1 (1.22%) Go
5 1 (1.22%) PROC SQL
5 1 (1.22%) R
5 1 (1.22%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 4 (4.88%) Degree
2 2 (2.44%) CISA
2 2 (2.44%) CISSP
2 2 (2.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.22%) CFA
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.76%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.88%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.22%) Basel III
4 1 (1.22%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.22%) GDPR
4 1 (1.22%) MiFID
4 1 (1.22%) NIST
4 1 (1.22%) QA
4 1 (1.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.22%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 4 (4.88%) Oracle
2 2 (2.44%) Citrix
2 2 (2.44%) Databricks
2 2 (2.44%) DocuSign
2 2 (2.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.44%) Workday
3 1 (1.22%) Adobe
3 1 (1.22%) Apple
3 1 (1.22%) Bloomberg
3 1 (1.22%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (1.22%) Calypso
3 1 (1.22%) Google
3 1 (1.22%) Murex
3 1 (1.22%) Planview
3 1 (1.22%) Reuters
3 1 (1.22%) TOWER Software
3 1 (1.22%) Trayport