Banking Contracts in the Midlands

Banking
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 68 75
Rank change year-on-year +28 +7 +38
Contract jobs citing Banking 94 73 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.40% 2.50% 2.64%
As % of the General category 7.03% 4.66% 4.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 60 47
10th Percentile £263 £360 £458
25th Percentile £357 £408 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £453 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% -24.58% +15.94%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £713
90th Percentile £575 £624 £731
England median daily rate £594 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.96% -3.85% +0.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
Median hourly rate £13.78 £28.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.22% -59.64% -
England median hourly rate £22.27 £19.05 £34.11
% change year-on-year +16.90% -44.15% +31.19%

All General Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,337 1,566 1,766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 62.54% 53.67% 54.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 849 1,070 1,259
10th Percentile £200 £206 £231
25th Percentile £331 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -1.66% -2.93% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 178 78
10th Percentile £14.00 £11.75 £12.35
25th Percentile £15.27 £13.93 £14.52
Median hourly rate £22.28 £17.50 £22.86
Median % change year-on-year +27.29% -23.45% +21.92%
75th Percentile £32.29 £34.73 £45.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.23 £52.55
England median hourly rate £27.76 £31.50 £30.65
% change year-on-year -11.87% +2.78% +36.51%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Banking in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Banking in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Banking in the Midlands

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in the Midlands over the 6 months to 11 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in the Midlands

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Banking in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Banking in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
East Midlands +12 69 £390 -12.36% 59
West Midlands +15 25 £555 +5.71% 48
Banking
England

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (3.19%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.13%) Apache
2 2 (2.13%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.06%) Confluence
3 1 (1.06%) JBoss
3 1 (1.06%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.06%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 30 (31.91%) AWS
2 10 (10.64%) Azure
3 4 (4.26%) GCP
3 4 (4.26%) Snowflake
4 2 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.13%) SaaS
5 1 (1.06%) Apigee
5 1 (1.06%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.06%) Kong
5 1 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.06%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.13%) Broadband
1 2 (2.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.32%) MongoDB
2 4 (4.26%) Big Data
3 3 (3.19%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.19%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.19%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.13%) Apache Hudi
4 2 (2.13%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (2.13%) Delta Lake
4 2 (2.13%) Flink
4 2 (2.13%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.13%) Parquet
4 2 (2.13%) Tableau
5 1 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.06%) Metadata
5 1 (1.06%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.06%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (10.64%) Cucumber
1 10 (10.64%) Selenium
2 9 (9.57%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.32%) JUnit
4 4 (4.26%) GitLab
5 2 (2.13%) Introscope
5 2 (2.13%) JIRA
5 2 (2.13%) LoadRunner
5 2 (2.13%) Maven
5 2 (2.13%) REST Assured
5 2 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.06%) ERwin
6 1 (1.06%) Git
6 1 (1.06%) Gradle
6 1 (1.06%) MagicDraw
6 1 (1.06%) Mockito
6 1 (1.06%) Postman
6 1 (1.06%) SonarQube
General
1 51 (54.26%) Finance
2 21 (22.34%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (22.34%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.26%) Investment Banking
4 3 (3.19%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.13%) Games
5 2 (2.13%) Legal
5 2 (2.13%) Marketing
5 2 (2.13%) Retail
5 2 (2.13%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.06%) Advertising
6 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (20.21%) Analyst
1 19 (20.21%) Architect
2 13 (13.83%) Business Analyst
2 13 (13.83%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (7.45%) Automation Tester
3 7 (7.45%) Data Engineer
3 7 (7.45%) Developer
3 7 (7.45%) Tester
4 5 (5.32%) Java Developer
4 5 (5.32%) Junior
4 5 (5.32%) Product Owner
4 5 (5.32%) Programme Manager
5 4 (4.26%) Data Analyst
5 4 (4.26%) Enterprise Architect
5 4 (4.26%) Project Manager
6 3 (3.19%) AWS Architect
6 3 (3.19%) Junior Automation Tester
6 3 (3.19%) Junior Tester
6 3 (3.19%) Programme Director
6 3 (3.19%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.57%) HTML
2 7 (7.45%) jQuery
3 6 (6.38%) DOM
3 6 (6.38%) Kafka
4 5 (5.32%) REST
4 5 (5.32%) Spring
5 4 (4.26%) Gherkin
6 3 (3.19%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.13%) .NET
7 2 (2.13%) Apache Avro
7 2 (2.13%) Hibernate
7 2 (2.13%) J2EE
7 2 (2.13%) JSON
7 2 (2.13%) LDAP
7 2 (2.13%) OAuth
7 2 (2.13%) OpenID
7 2 (2.13%) Playwright
7 2 (2.13%) Web Services
8 1 (1.06%) CSS
8 1 (1.06%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.45%) Onboarding
2 5 (5.32%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.32%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (5.32%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.19%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.06%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.06%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.19%) Unix
2 2 (2.13%) AIX
3 1 (1.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (25.53%) Agile
2 22 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (13.83%) Scrum
5 12 (12.77%) Test Automation
6 11 (11.70%) Business Strategy
6 11 (11.70%) Decision-Making
7 10 (10.64%) Roadmaps
8 9 (9.57%) Data Analysis
8 9 (9.57%) Microservices
8 9 (9.57%) Strategic Thinking
9 8 (8.51%) CI/CD
9 8 (8.51%) Migration
9 8 (8.51%) Project Management
9 8 (8.51%) TOGAF
10 7 (7.45%) Change Management
10 7 (7.45%) SDLC
11 6 (6.38%) Business Analysis
11 6 (6.38%) Domain-Driven Design
11 6 (6.38%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 24 (25.53%) Java
2 15 (15.96%) SQL
3 7 (7.45%) Python
4 2 (2.13%) C
4 2 (2.13%) Scala
5 1 (1.06%) COBOL
5 1 (1.06%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.06%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (3.19%) Degree
1 3 (3.19%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (2.13%) AWS Certification
2 2 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.06%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.13%) COREP
1 2 (2.13%) FINREP
1 2 (2.13%) QA
2 1 (1.06%) Basel III
2 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.06%) GDPR
2 1 (1.06%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.06%) MiFID
2 1 (1.06%) PMO
2 1 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (3.19%) Docker
2 1 (1.06%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.19%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.13%) CA Wily
2 2 (2.13%) Terraform
3 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.06%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 7 (7.45%) Databricks
2 6 (6.38%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.26%) Virgin Media
4 3 (3.19%) Splunk
5 2 (2.13%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.13%) BT
5 2 (2.13%) Google
5 2 (2.13%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.13%) Oracle
5 2 (2.13%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.13%) VMware
6 1 (1.06%) Cognizant
6 1 (1.06%) HP
6 1 (1.06%) IBM
6 1 (1.06%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.06%) Veracode