Retail Banking Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Retail Banking
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 300 356
Rank change year-on-year -36 +56 +70
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 56 44 41
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.32% 0.21%
As % of the General category 0.54% 0.53% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 16 17
10th Percentile £313 £438 £450
25th Percentile £333 £461 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -2.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £540 £631 £606
90th Percentile £575 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £521 £650 £581
% change year-on-year -19.81% +11.83% +5.68%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Retail 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 general skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 10,380 8,288 10,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.26% 60.50% 55.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,406 4,676 6,712
10th Percentile £204 £210 £210
25th Percentile £363 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,108 487 959
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.22 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.13 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.38 £25.43 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.93% -12.31% +28.89%
75th Percentile £44.94 £53.75 £56.95
90th Percentile £69.75 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £27.13 £30.00
% change year-on-year -15.21% -9.58% +20.00%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Retail Banking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Retail Banking job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Retail Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Retail Banking in the UK excluding London

Retail Banking
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Retail Banking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail Banking within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Scotland 0 29 £513 -18.00% 2
Midlands -32 14 £340 -38.18% 2
North of England -49 14 £358 -28.50% 1
East Midlands - 11 £336 -
Yorkshire -41 7 £525 +10.53%
North West -21 6 £313 -40.38% 1
West Midlands -33 3 £495 -10.00% 2
South East -18 1 £550 - 2
South West - 1 - -
Wales - 1 - -
North East - 1 - -
Retail Banking
UK

Retail Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (28.57%) Confluence
2 2 (3.57%) CMS
3 1 (1.79%) CICS
3 1 (1.79%) SAS
3 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (5.36%) Chatbot
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.79%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 13 (23.21%) AWS
2 10 (17.86%) Power Platform
3 7 (12.50%) Azure
4 6 (10.71%) GCP
5 4 (7.14%) OCI
6 3 (5.36%) Snowflake
7 2 (3.57%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.79%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.79%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.79%) SaaS
8 1 (1.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (1.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (1.79%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.86%) Power BI
2 3 (5.36%) Metadata
3 2 (3.57%) Tableau
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.79%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (33.93%) JIRA
2 5 (8.93%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.36%) GitLab
4 2 (3.57%) Gradle
4 2 (3.57%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.79%) JUnit
General
1 55 (98.21%) Banking
2 26 (46.43%) Finance
3 12 (21.43%) Corporate Banking
4 9 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (16.07%) Retail
5 7 (12.50%) Social Skills
6 5 (8.93%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (8.93%) Investment Banking
6 5 (8.93%) Legal
7 2 (3.57%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.79%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (26.79%) Project Manager
2 14 (25.00%) Analyst
3 7 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 7 (12.50%) Senior
4 5 (8.93%) Business Analyst
4 5 (8.93%) Developer
5 4 (7.14%) Implementation Manager
5 4 (7.14%) Implementation Project Manager
5 4 (7.14%) Implementation Specialist
5 4 (7.14%) Project Implementation Manager
5 4 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Architect
6 3 (5.36%) Banking Project Manager
6 3 (5.36%) IT Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) Junior
6 3 (5.36%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Technical Manager
7 2 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (3.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) .NET
1 2 (3.57%) FastAPI
1 2 (3.57%) React
1 2 (3.57%) REST
2 1 (1.79%) Gherkin
2 1 (1.79%) JSON
2 1 (1.79%) Kafka
2 1 (1.79%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (1.79%) Swagger
2 1 (1.79%) SwiftUI
2 1 (1.79%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.21%) Product Ownership
2 7 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (12.50%) PMI
3 4 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.79%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.79%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.79%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.79%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.79%) PKI
5 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.79%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (1.79%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (46.43%) Agile
2 23 (41.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (26.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 14 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (25.00%) Migration
5 13 (23.21%) Change Management
5 13 (23.21%) Scrum
5 13 (23.21%) Wealth Management
6 12 (21.43%) Decision-Making
7 11 (19.64%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (19.64%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 10 (17.86%) Project Management
9 9 (16.07%) Process Improvement
10 8 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (12.50%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
11 7 (12.50%) Fintech
11 7 (12.50%) Kanban
11 7 (12.50%) Lean Six Sigma
11 7 (12.50%) Resource Allocation
11 7 (12.50%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.07%) Python
2 8 (14.29%) SQL
3 4 (7.14%) TypeScript
4 3 (5.36%) Java
5 2 (3.57%) Rust
6 1 (1.79%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.79%) COBOL
6 1 (1.79%) Groovy
6 1 (1.79%) JCL
6 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.79%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (12.50%) Degree
1 7 (12.50%) Master's Degree
1 7 (12.50%) MBA
1 7 (12.50%) PMI Certification
1 7 (12.50%) PMP
1 7 (12.50%) SAFe Agilist
2 3 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.29%) QA
2 7 (12.50%) Basel III
2 7 (12.50%) Data Quality
3 4 (7.14%) COBIT
4 2 (3.57%) PMO
5 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.79%) NCSC
5 1 (1.79%) NIST
5 1 (1.79%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (5.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (16.07%) Ansible
2 7 (12.50%) Terraform
3 3 (5.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (8.93%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.14%) CheckPoint
2 4 (7.14%) Dell
2 4 (7.14%) Dynatrace
2 4 (7.14%) F5
2 4 (7.14%) HP
2 4 (7.14%) Oracle
3 2 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.79%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.79%) IBM
4 1 (1.79%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (1.79%) Qualys
4 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.79%) Thales
4 1 (1.79%) WorldPay