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

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 374 450
Rank change year-on-year +5 +76 +144
Contract jobs citing Wholesale Banking 2 14 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.015% 0.086% 0.022%
As % of the General category 0.022% 0.14% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 9 3
10th Percentile - £793 £490
25th Percentile - £838 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £960 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +60.00% -
75th Percentile - £1,250 £650
90th Percentile - £1,313 £680
England median daily rate £675 £960 £550
% change year-on-year -29.69% +74.55% -8.33%

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 9,229 10,069 14,360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 69.14% 62.16% 64.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,084 6,737 10,491
10th Percentile £325 £331 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.78% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £706
90th Percentile £796 £825 £813
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 121 178
10th Percentile £16.80 £18.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.64 £24.50 £20.56
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +13.82% -14.58%
75th Percentile £49.75 £53.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £70.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -34.68% +40.00% +10.00%

Wholesale Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Wholesale Banking 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 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:

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