Banking Contract Job Trends in the South East

Banking
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 120 159
Rank change year-on-year -21 +39 -45
Contract jobs citing Banking 48 50 45
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.10% 1.34% 0.90%
As % of the General category 1.96% 2.33% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 23 32
10th Percentile £312 £323 £351
25th Percentile £371 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £488 £663 £582
90th Percentile £553 £691 £671
England median daily rate £550 £610 £605
% change year-on-year -9.84% +0.83% -6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £25.26 - £25.80
25th Percentile £25.43 £25.75 £28.50
Median hourly rate £26.33 £27.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.27% -8.33% -37.50%
75th Percentile £27.85 £29.25 -
90th Percentile £28.39 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £18.72
% change year-on-year +12.93% +19.00% -10.88%

All General Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,443 2,144 2,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 55.87% 57.59% 56.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,602 1,261 1,776
10th Percentile £204 £210 £205
25th Percentile £358 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £618 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 85 164
10th Percentile £13.00 £19.57 £16.60
25th Percentile £16.17 £24.50 £24.84
Median hourly rate £20.75 £42.50 £49.87
Median % change year-on-year -51.18% -14.77% +63.09%
75th Percentile £40.65 £62.69 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.70 £75.00 £72.33
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.67% -9.09% +32.00%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Banking job vacancy trend in the South East

Banking
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Banking

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in the South East over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in the South East

Banking
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Banking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Banking

Banking
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Thames Valley -22 19 £425 -32.00% 9
Hampshire -14 17 £410 -5.75% 2
Buckinghamshire +5 13 £419 -35.58% 5
Surrey -12 8 £463 -11.90% 2
Berkshire -16 4 £438 -27.08% 2
Kent +3 2 £479 -13.93% 3
Oxfordshire - 2 - - 2
Banking
England

Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (4.17%) Apache
1 2 (4.17%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.17%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (4.17%) SAP FI
1 2 (4.17%) SAP R/3
1 2 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.42%) AWS
2 2 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (4.17%) Amazon S3
2 2 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (4.17%) Azure
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (4.17%) OCI
2 2 (4.17%) OpenShift
2 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
2 2 (4.17%) SaaS
2 2 (4.17%) Serverless
3 1 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.08%) GitHub
3 1 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (2.08%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) SAN
1 2 (4.17%) VSAN
2 1 (2.08%) DNS
2 1 (2.08%) Network Security
2 1 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) Oracle Database
2 3 (6.25%) Oracle Database 12c
2 3 (6.25%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (4.17%) Big Data
3 2 (4.17%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.17%) Data Mining
3 2 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.17%) Hadoop
3 2 (4.17%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (4.17%) Oracle ODI
3 2 (4.17%) Power BI
3 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.08%) Metadata
4 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Bitbucket
1 2 (4.17%) Git
1 2 (4.17%) Gradle
1 2 (4.17%) Maven
2 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.08%) JIRA
2 1 (2.08%) JMeter
2 1 (2.08%) JUnit
2 1 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 32 (66.67%) Finance
2 23 (47.92%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.17%) General Ledger
5 2 (4.17%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Back Office
6 1 (2.08%) Front Office
6 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.08%) Retail
6 1 (2.08%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 5 (10.42%) Analyst
2 5 (10.42%) Senior
3 4 (8.33%) Developer
3 4 (8.33%) Support Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) Architect
4 3 (6.25%) DBA
4 3 (6.25%) IT Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) Java Developer
4 3 (6.25%) Migration Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) Operations Manager
4 3 (6.25%) Oracle DBA
4 3 (6.25%) Product Owner
4 3 (6.25%) Senior Manager
5 2 (4.17%) Data Centre Technician
5 2 (4.17%) Payments Business Analyst
5 2 (4.17%) Project Accountant
5 2 (4.17%) Security Specialist
5 2 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.17%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.42%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (6.25%) Spring
3 2 (4.17%) AngularJS
3 2 (4.17%) REST
3 2 (4.17%) RESTful
3 2 (4.17%) SOAP
3 2 (4.17%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.08%) Hibernate
4 1 (2.08%) Kafka
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.17%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.17%) Replication
2 2 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.08%) Clustering
3 1 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.08%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.08%) SCADA
3 1 (2.08%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.42%) Linux
2 4 (8.33%) Windows
3 3 (6.25%) Unix
4 2 (4.17%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (29.17%) Agile
2 10 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (14.58%) ITIL
4 6 (12.50%) Migration
5 5 (10.42%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (10.42%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (10.42%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (10.42%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (10.42%) User Stories
6 4 (8.33%) Change Management
6 4 (8.33%) ERP
6 4 (8.33%) Microservices
6 4 (8.33%) Roadmaps
6 4 (8.33%) Waterfall
7 3 (6.25%) Customer Service
7 3 (6.25%) Data Analysis
7 3 (6.25%) Data Protection
7 3 (6.25%) Fund Accounting
7 3 (6.25%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.92%) SQL
2 6 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 3 (6.25%) Java
3 3 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.25%) Python
4 2 (4.17%) R
5 1 (2.08%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (10.42%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.25%) Degree
2 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.17%) ACCA
3 2 (4.17%) CIMA
3 2 (4.17%) Server+ Certification
4 1 (2.08%) BC Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.08%) CEH
4 1 (2.08%) CISM
4 1 (2.08%) CISSP
4 1 (2.08%) CSPO
4 1 (2.08%) GCFA
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.08%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.08%) PMP
4 1 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) IFRS
1 3 (6.25%) Solvency II
2 2 (4.17%) QA
3 1 (2.08%) GDPR
3 1 (2.08%) ISO 8583
3 1 (2.08%) NIST
3 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
1 3 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
1 3 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.17%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) NFS
2 2 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.08%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 4 (8.33%) Ansible
2 3 (6.25%) Data Guard
2 3 (6.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (6.25%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.17%) Terraform
3 2 (4.17%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.08%) BladeLogic
4 1 (2.08%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.08%) QRadar
Vendors
1 6 (12.50%) Oracle
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.25%) VMware
4 2 (4.17%) SAP
4 2 (4.17%) Sybase
5 1 (2.08%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.08%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.08%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.08%) Dell
5 1 (2.08%) HP
5 1 (2.08%) IBM
5 1 (2.08%) Mellanox
5 1 (2.08%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.08%) Solarflare
5 1 (2.08%) Splunk
5 1 (2.08%) Tenable