Banking Contracts in the Thames Valley

Banking
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 94 114
Rank change year-on-year +6 +20 +22
Contract jobs citing Banking 14 51 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.93% 1.90% 1.26%
As % of the General category 1.45% 3.43% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 38 18
10th Percentile £409 £114 £500
25th Percentile £484 £366 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £513 £725
Median % change year-on-year +26.83% -29.31% +52.63%
75th Percentile - £519 £800
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £575 £513 £613
% change year-on-year +12.20% -16.33% +22.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £24.66 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.80% - -
South East median hourly rate £24.91 £30.00 -
% change year-on-year -16.98% - -

All General Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 963 1,485 1,831
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 63.73% 55.29% 62.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 787 1,231
10th Percentile £265 £205 £303
25th Percentile £409 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £601
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 137 41
10th Percentile - £17.86 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £22.61 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.38 £48.40 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -45.50% +49.85% +84.57%
75th Percentile £61.37 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.71 £75.24 £75.75
South East median hourly rate £23.34 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -48.13% -5.26% +137.50%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Banking in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Banking in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Banking in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Buckinghamshire +9 10 £650 +52.94% 17
Berkshire +1 4 £525 +2.44% 23
Banking
South East

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (42.86%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) SaaS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (14.29%) IBM InfoSphere
1 2 (14.29%) MySQL
1 2 (14.29%) OLAP
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle OLAP
1 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Cloudera CDH
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Data Modeller
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Credit Risk Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Finance Modeller
2 2 (14.29%) Risk Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Support
3 1 (7.14%) Compliance Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Coordinator
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Credit Risk
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Android
1 1 (7.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Analytics
1 5 (35.71%) Credit Risk Management
1 5 (35.71%) Internal Audit
1 5 (35.71%) Portfolio Management
1 5 (35.71%) Stress Testing
1 5 (35.71%) Validation
2 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
3 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (14.29%) Data Management
3 2 (14.29%) ETL
3 2 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (14.29%) User Stories
4 1 (7.14%) Break/Fix
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Fraud Detection
4 1 (7.14%) ITSM
4 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (7.14%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) IFRS
1 5 (35.71%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) IBM
3 1 (7.14%) Apple
3 1 (7.14%) Cloudera
3 1 (7.14%) Dell
3 1 (7.14%) HP
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Teradata