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 14 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 383 432
Rank change year-on-year +24 +49 +141
Contract jobs citing Wholesale Banking 2 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.015% 0.031% 0.019%
As % of the General category 0.022% 0.050% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £682 £610
25th Percentile - £786 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £960 £650
Median % change year-on-year - +47.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile - £1,055 £675
90th Percentile - £1,112 £690
England median daily rate £675 £960 £650
% change year-on-year -29.69% +47.69% +4.00%

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 common skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,178 10,000 13,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 68.52% 62.54% 64.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,045 6,454 9,789
10th Percentile £331 £330 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £574 £593
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% -3.12% -1.25%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £810
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 116 164
10th Percentile £17.88 £17.75 £18.10
25th Percentile £24.50 £25.62 £20.00
Median hourly rate £31.49 £35.00 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.03% +1.45% +3.76%
75th Percentile £47.25 £53.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £70.40 £73.13 £72.68
England median hourly rate £25.08 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -28.36% +16.67% +20.00%

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
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (100.00%) Back Office
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA