Banking Contracts 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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 97 135
Rank change year-on-year -43 +38 +28
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Banking 26 84 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.74% 1.74% 1.26%
As % of the General category 1.25% 3.54% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 43 49
10th Percentile £347 £328 £450
25th Percentile £376 £394 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £570
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -12.28% +3.64%
75th Percentile £556 £606 £676
90th Percentile £650 £700 £800
England median daily rate £563 £625 £628
% change year-on-year -10.00% -0.40% -3.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £15.60 - -
25th Percentile £17.19 £14.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.85 £15.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +32.30% - -
75th Percentile £22.50 £15.50 -
90th Percentile £24.09 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £18.89 £17.98
% change year-on-year +33.17% +5.03% -27.95%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,079 2,371 3,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 59.00% 49.18% 57.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,278 1,362 2,157
10th Percentile £200 £217 £228
25th Percentile £356 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £713
England median daily rate £508 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.67% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 225 164
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.09 £15.21
25th Percentile £14.30 £26.25 £21.79
Median hourly rate £18.87 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.10% +14.70% +137.53%
75th Percentile £53.50 £70.00 £64.97
90th Percentile £78.00 £75.24 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £27.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +38.62% +14.58%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Banking 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 21 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Banking in the South East over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Banking in the South East

Banking
DemandTrendContract 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 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley -28 12 £438 -12.06% 75
Hampshire +6 9 £450 +32.16% 17
Buckinghamshire -8 9 £538 +26.47% 9
Surrey -19 4 £500 -11.11% 12
Berkshire -14 3 £438 -12.50% 59
Kent -4 1 £308 -54.86% 2
Banking
England

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (11.54%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (3.85%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.54%) AWS
2 2 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (7.69%) Serverless
3 1 (3.85%) Azure
3 1 (3.85%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Oracle Database
2 3 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle Exadata
2 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.85%) Big Data
4 1 (3.85%) IBM InfoSphere
4 1 (3.85%) Metadata
4 1 (3.85%) MySQL
4 1 (3.85%) OLAP
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) Selenium
General
1 15 (57.69%) Finance
2 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Investment Banking
4 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Retail
5 1 (3.85%) Automotive
5 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.85%) Front Office
5 1 (3.85%) General Ledger
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (15.38%) Architect
2 3 (11.54%) DBA
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle DBA
2 3 (11.54%) Product Owner
3 2 (7.69%) Analyst
3 2 (7.69%) Business Analyst
3 2 (7.69%) Data Centre Technician
3 2 (7.69%) Data Technician
3 2 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Data Centre Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Data Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Developer
4 1 (3.85%) IT Support
4 1 (3.85%) IT Support Specialist
4 1 (3.85%) Risk Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (3.85%) Security Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Service Delivery Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (7.69%) Kafka
3 1 (3.85%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (3.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Credit Risk
2 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.69%) Replication
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Agile
2 7 (26.92%) ITIL
3 5 (19.23%) Analytics
4 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (15.38%) Roadmaps
4 4 (15.38%) Validation
5 3 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (11.54%) CI/CD
5 3 (11.54%) Data Governance
5 3 (11.54%) Data Modelling
5 3 (11.54%) DevOps
5 3 (11.54%) ETL
5 3 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (11.54%) Strategic Roadmap
6 2 (7.69%) Data Analytics
6 2 (7.69%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (7.69%) Mentoring
6 2 (7.69%) Microservices
6 2 (7.69%) Portfolio Management
6 2 (7.69%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) SQL
2 4 (15.38%) Java
3 3 (11.54%) PL/SQL
4 2 (7.69%) Python
4 2 (7.69%) Scala
5 1 (3.85%) Apex Code
5 1 (3.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (7.69%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) Server+ Certification
3 1 (3.85%) BC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) CSPO
3 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 2 (7.69%) GDPR
1 2 (7.69%) IFRS
1 2 (7.69%) IFRS 9
2 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Data Guard
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Oracle
2 2 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 2 (7.69%) Sybase
3 1 (3.85%) IBM
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.85%) Remedy