Wholesale Banking Contracts in the UK excluding London

Wholesale Banking
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Wholesale Banking in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Wholesale Banking over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 386 -
Rank change year-on-year +58 - -
Contract jobs citing Wholesale Banking 8 7 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.034% -
As % of the General category 0.10% 0.063% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 0
10th Percentile £299 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £114 -
Median % change year-on-year +186.14% - -
75th Percentile £357 - -
90th Percentile £389 - -
UK median daily rate £325 £820 £500
% change year-on-year -60.37% +64.00% -18.37%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Wholesale 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 7,984 11,126 13,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 62.42% 54.32% 56.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,931 6,348 9,046
10th Percentile £210 £206 £230
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% -0.80% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £660 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 579 1,652 767
10th Percentile £13.66 £12.50 £13.30
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £24.66 £28.42 £28.16
Median % change year-on-year -13.23% +0.92% +50.59%
75th Percentile £56.58 £53.75 £60.59
90th Percentile £75.00 £66.69 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £32.60
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.96% +48.16%

Wholesale Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Wholesale Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Wholesale Banking in the UK excluding London

Wholesale Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wholesale Banking in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Wholesale Banking in the UK excluding London

Wholesale 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 Wholesale Banking within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Northern Ireland - 6 £325 -
North of England - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
Wholesale Banking
UK

Wholesale Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Git
2 4 (50.00%) Ant
2 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (50.00%) Maven
2 4 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 8 (100.00%) Banking
2 6 (75.00%) Finance
3 4 (50.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 4 (50.00%) .NET Software Developer
2 4 (50.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 4 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 4 (50.00%) C# Software Developer
2 4 (50.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Java Software Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Avro
2 2 (25.00%) JSON
2 2 (25.00%) Kafka
2 2 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (25.00%) React
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
2 2 (25.00%) Spring
2 2 (25.00%) Web Services
2 2 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Derivative
1 6 (75.00%) Equities
1 6 (75.00%) Equity Derivative
2 4 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Unix
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 4 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 4 (50.00%) High Availability
1 4 (50.00%) OO
1 4 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
1 4 (50.00%) SDLC
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Business Case
2 2 (25.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (25.00%) Monte Carlo Method
2 2 (25.00%) Observability
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Use Case
2 2 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C#
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Kotlin
2 2 (25.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Grafana
1 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (25.00%) IBM