Wholesale Banking Contract Job Trends in London

Wholesale Banking
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Wholesale Banking in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Wholesale Banking over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 444 364 376
Rank change year-on-year -80 +12 +80
Contract jobs citing Wholesale Banking 4 2 19
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.020% 0.015% 0.12%
As % of the General category 0.033% 0.022% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 12
10th Percentile £560 - £714
25th Percentile £594 - £838
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £960
Median % change year-on-year - - +102.11%
75th Percentile - - £1,179
90th Percentile - - £1,250
England median daily rate £650 £675 £960
% change year-on-year -3.70% -29.69% +92.00%

All General Skills
London

Wholesale 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 general skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 12,223 9,242 10,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.88% 68.94% 62.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,797 6,135 7,055
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £508 £538
% change year-on-year +3.45% -5.67% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 186 143
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.30
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.54 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.00 £29.54 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.20% -16.80% +2.54%
75th Percentile £43.75 £47.50 £51.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.50 £67.60
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +38.62%

Wholesale Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Wholesale Banking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Wholesale Banking job vacancy trend in London

Wholesale Banking
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Wholesale Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Wholesale Banking

Wholesale 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 Wholesale Banking within the London region over the 6 months to 21 August 2026. 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 - 1 £650 - 1
Wholesale Banking
England

Wholesale Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Power BI
1 3 (75.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Banking Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Banking Business Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Business Systems Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Cash Management
1 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (25.00%) B2B
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Epics
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) User Stories
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow