Banking Contracts

Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 23 21
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,701 3,286 6,357
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.50% 7.26% 8.25%
As % of the General category 12.48% 12.20% 13.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,672 2,171 4,024
10th Percentile £390 £400 £421
25th Percentile £482 £510 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £615 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £769
90th Percentile £850 £850 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £524
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.06% +7.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 24 16
10th Percentile £15.23 £15.73 £14.78
25th Percentile £24.15 £17.35 £16.75
Median hourly rate £27.00 £18.72 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.27% -18.63% +45.20%
75th Percentile £44.04 £30.00 £46.00
90th Percentile £76.20 £65.13 £52.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.17 £19.18 £18.37
% change year-on-year +25.99% +4.44% +20.43%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,647 26,929 45,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 60.15% 59.53% 59.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,856 17,859 31,216
10th Percentile £292 £281 £316
25th Percentile £413 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £756 £750 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 783 1,127 1,209
10th Percentile £15.21 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.80 £16.30
Median hourly rate £27.50 £31.71 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% +26.84% +28.21%
75th Percentile £53.75 £58.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £70.25 £70.56 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.13 £28.92 £22.00
% change year-on-year -9.66% +31.45% +27.54%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Banking in the UK

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Banking in the UK

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking over the 6 months to 6 December 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in the UK

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Banking in the UK

Banking
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Banking over the 6 months to 6 December 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Banking in the UK

Banking
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 6 December 2024. 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
England -1 2,320 £610 -0.81% 723
London -1 1,854 £638 -0.39% 564
Work from Home +1 1,102 £650 +4.00% 337
UK excluding London +8 614 £525 -4.55% 218
North of England +8 267 £505 -3.81% 77
Scotland +5 172 £500 -20.00% 32
North West +24 141 £455 -17.27% 32
Yorkshire 0 124 £550 +10.00% 21
Midlands +14 78 £550 +3.00% 29
South East +38 62 £500 -9.09% 31
West Midlands +24 50 £618 +2.92% 18
South West +25 29 £574 -4.38% 23
East Midlands -5 25 £445 -9.18% 11
Northern Ireland -12 13 £450 -8.63% 11
East of England -5 4 £750 +36.67% 8
North East -16 3 - - 25
Wales -2 2 £290 -46.10% 8

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 136 (5.04%) Apache
2 132 (4.89%) Apache Airflow
3 125 (4.63%) Confluence
4 67 (2.48%) SharePoint
5 44 (1.63%) Apache Spark
6 31 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
7 25 (0.93%) SAS
8 17 (0.63%) WebSphere
9 13 (0.48%) Tomcat
10 11 (0.41%) CICS
11 9 (0.33%) Jupyter
12 8 (0.30%) IIS
12 8 (0.30%) MQSeries
13 6 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.22%) Camunda
13 6 (0.22%) CMS
13 6 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.19%) Ethereum
15 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 81 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
3 55 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (1.26%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 6 (0.22%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.22%) Sketch
9 2 (0.074%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.074%) InVision
10 1 (0.037%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.037%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.037%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 29 (1.07%) Aladdin
2 14 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.44%) FLEXCUBE
3 12 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.33%) Oracle BPM
5 8 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
6 7 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
7 6 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.19%) Kondor
8 5 (0.19%) Oracle FAH
8 5 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.19%) SAP CO
8 5 (0.19%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.15%) Actimize
9 4 (0.15%) BASE24
9 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 3 (0.11%) Oracle iProcurement
Cloud Services
1 421 (15.59%) AWS
2 302 (11.18%) Azure
3 188 (6.96%) GCP
4 128 (4.74%) dbt
5 120 (4.44%) Snowflake
6 101 (3.74%) Power Platform
7 83 (3.07%) Amazon EC2
8 73 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
9 72 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
10 68 (2.52%) Amazon EKS
11 61 (2.26%) Serverless
12 53 (1.96%) GitHub
13 50 (1.85%) Amazon S3
14 40 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
15 34 (1.26%) Dagster
16 32 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
17 29 (1.07%) PowerApps
18 27 (1.00%) Azure AKS
18 27 (1.00%) Figma
18 27 (1.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 91 (3.37%) Firewall
2 33 (1.22%) SAN
3 31 (1.15%) DNS
4 27 (1.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 26 (0.96%) TCP/IP
6 25 (0.93%) Network Security
7 23 (0.85%) VPN
8 22 (0.81%) LAN
9 20 (0.74%) DHCP
10 19 (0.70%) FIX Connectivity
10 19 (0.70%) WAN
11 16 (0.59%) BGP
12 15 (0.56%) ATM
12 15 (0.56%) SSL
13 12 (0.44%) Multicast
14 11 (0.41%) Cisco IOS
14 11 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
14 11 (0.41%) DMZ
14 11 (0.41%) HTTP
14 11 (0.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 129 (4.78%) Data Lake
3 128 (4.74%) Dremio
4 126 (4.66%) Apache Iceberg
5 119 (4.41%) Amazon Athena
6 104 (3.85%) Apache Arrow
7 94 (3.48%) Apache Ignite
8 87 (3.22%) Power BI
9 77 (2.85%) NoSQL
10 59 (2.18%) Tableau
11 56 (2.07%) MongoDB
12 55 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
13 53 (1.96%) DB2
14 49 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
15 43 (1.59%) Big Data
16 40 (1.48%) Relational Database
17 39 (1.44%) Hadoop
18 36 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
19 30 (1.11%) BigQuery
20 25 (0.93%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 171 (6.33%) JIRA
2 140 (5.18%) Jenkins
3 110 (4.07%) Git
4 65 (2.41%) GitLab
5 52 (1.93%) Maven
6 49 (1.81%) Bitbucket
7 37 (1.37%) TeamCity
8 35 (1.30%) Cucumber
9 31 (1.15%) Selenium
10 22 (0.81%) Artifactory
11 14 (0.52%) Zephyr
12 13 (0.48%) JUnit
12 13 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
13 12 (0.44%) LoadRunner
13 12 (0.44%) Postman
14 11 (0.41%) Eclipse
14 11 (0.41%) Gradle
14 11 (0.41%) JMeter
15 10 (0.37%) NUnit
16 9 (0.33%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,728 (63.98%) Finance
2 656 (24.29%) Investment Banking
3 575 (21.29%) Social Skills
4 354 (13.11%) Front Office
5 299 (11.07%) Analytical Skills
6 109 (4.04%) Retail Banking
7 100 (3.70%) Financial Institution
8 81 (3.00%) Retail
9 53 (1.96%) Corporate Banking
10 46 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
11 41 (1.52%) Legal
12 36 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
13 34 (1.26%) Public Sector
14 30 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
15 29 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
16 24 (0.89%) International Banking
17 22 (0.81%) Back Office
18 20 (0.74%) Marketing
19 17 (0.63%) General Ledger
19 17 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 611 (22.62%) Developer
2 449 (16.62%) Analyst
3 308 (11.40%) Senior
4 284 (10.51%) Architect
5 271 (10.03%) Business Analyst
6 175 (6.48%) Lead
7 171 (6.33%) Java Developer
8 124 (4.59%) Project Manager
9 117 (4.33%) Software Engineer
10 116 (4.29%) Banking Analyst
11 111 (4.11%) Python Engineer
12 106 (3.92%) Consultant
12 106 (3.92%) Senior Developer
13 95 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
14 94 (3.48%) AWS Engineer
15 89 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
16 88 (3.26%) Data Engineer
17 80 (2.96%) Java Engineer
18 79 (2.92%) Python Developer
19 76 (2.81%) Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (4.48%) Pandas
2 118 (4.37%) NumPy
3 115 (4.26%) SciPy
4 114 (4.22%) React
5 113 (4.18%) .NET
6 106 (3.92%) HTML
7 98 (3.63%) Kafka
8 96 (3.55%) Spring
9 94 (3.48%) gRPC
10 93 (3.44%) Protocol Buffers
11 85 (3.15%) PySpark
12 84 (3.11%) CSS
13 81 (3.00%) AngularJS
14 60 (2.22%) Spring Boot
15 49 (1.81%) Middleware
15 49 (1.81%) REST
16 44 (1.63%) HTML5
16 44 (1.63%) RESTful
17 42 (1.55%) FIX Protocol
18 40 (1.48%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 248 (9.18%) Derivative
2 227 (8.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 219 (8.11%) Equities
4 185 (6.85%) Fixed Income
5 155 (5.74%) Hedge funds
6 107 (3.96%) Product Ownership
7 57 (2.11%) Algorithms
7 57 (2.11%) Data Centre
8 55 (2.04%) Management Information System
9 50 (1.85%) Data Structures
9 50 (1.85%) Mobile App
10 48 (1.78%) Onboarding
10 48 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
11 44 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
12 41 (1.52%) Credit Risk
12 41 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
13 37 (1.37%) Public Cloud
14 34 (1.26%) Market Risk
15 32 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
16 31 (1.15%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 157 (5.81%) Windows
2 136 (5.04%) Linux
3 114 (4.22%) Unix
4 39 (1.44%) Android
5 31 (1.15%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.04%) Apple iOS
7 26 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 21 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
9 19 (0.70%) Windows 10
10 12 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.30%) Solaris
12 7 (0.26%) zOS
13 5 (0.19%) AIX
13 5 (0.19%) VMS
13 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.15%) MVS
14 4 (0.15%) OS/400
15 3 (0.11%) CentOS
15 3 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
16 2 (0.074%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 663 (24.55%) Agile
2 343 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
3 308 (11.40%) Change Management
4 294 (10.88%) DevOps
5 272 (10.07%) CI/CD
6 265 (9.81%) Software Engineering
7 252 (9.33%) Migration
8 221 (8.18%) Asset Management
9 201 (7.44%) Stakeholder Management
10 190 (7.03%) Risk Management
11 179 (6.63%) Analytics
11 179 (6.63%) SDLC
12 160 (5.92%) Project Management
13 159 (5.89%) Investment Management
14 158 (5.85%) Test Automation
15 132 (4.89%) Roadmaps
16 130 (4.81%) Business Intelligence
17 127 (4.70%) Microservices
18 124 (4.59%) Design Patterns
19 103 (3.81%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 533 (19.73%) Java
2 516 (19.10%) Python
3 463 (17.14%) SQL
4 250 (9.26%) JavaScript
5 172 (6.37%) TypeScript
6 145 (5.37%) C#
7 69 (2.55%) PowerShell
8 56 (2.07%) Scala
9 41 (1.52%) Shell Script
10 39 (1.44%) Bash
11 37 (1.37%) C++
11 37 (1.37%) PL/SQL
12 28 (1.04%) Kotlin
13 27 (1.00%) Go
14 24 (0.89%) Perl
15 23 (0.85%) R
16 20 (0.74%) Groovy
17 17 (0.63%) T-SQL
18 12 (0.44%) COBOL
19 10 (0.37%) RPG
Qualifications
1 195 (7.22%) Degree
2 56 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 54 (2.00%) Security Cleared
4 47 (1.74%) Master's Degree
5 42 (1.55%) SC Cleared
6 36 (1.33%) CISSP
7 30 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
8 27 (1.00%) CISM
9 20 (0.74%) PMI Certification
10 16 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (0.59%) PMP
11 14 (0.52%) AWS Certification
11 14 (0.52%) Azure Certification
12 13 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 12 (0.44%) CEH
14 11 (0.41%) CCSP
14 11 (0.41%) OSCP
15 9 (0.33%) CCNA
15 9 (0.33%) CCNP
15 9 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (3.18%) Data Quality
2 71 (2.63%) QA
3 51 (1.89%) PMO
4 27 (1.00%) GDPR
5 25 (0.93%) NIST
6 22 (0.81%) Accessibility
7 20 (0.74%) PCI DSS
7 20 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 17 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 16 (0.59%) COBIT
10 13 (0.48%) MiFID
11 11 (0.41%) EMIR
11 11 (0.41%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.30%) Basel III
12 8 (0.30%) PSD2
13 7 (0.26%) IFRS
14 6 (0.22%) SEPA
15 4 (0.15%) GAAP
15 4 (0.15%) ISO 8583
15 4 (0.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 137 (5.07%) Docker
2 66 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.44%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.30%) XenDesktop
6 7 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.26%) XenApp
7 6 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.19%) Lustre
9 4 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.11%) HDFS
10 3 (0.11%) NFS
10 3 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 3 (0.11%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 2 (0.074%) Ceph
11 2 (0.074%) GPFS
11 2 (0.074%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.074%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.074%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.037%) XYGATE
Systems Management
1 210 (7.77%) Kubernetes
2 138 (5.11%) Ansible
3 109 (4.04%) Terraform
4 38 (1.41%) Grafana
5 29 (1.07%) SCCM
6 27 (1.00%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.56%) Puppet
8 12 (0.44%) Control-M
8 12 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.37%) ZABBIX
10 9 (0.33%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.26%) Podman
11 7 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.22%) Argo
12 6 (0.22%) CASB
12 6 (0.22%) Istio
12 6 (0.22%) Kibana
12 6 (0.22%) NetBackup
12 6 (0.22%) Rancher
13 5 (0.19%) Nessus
Vendors
1 256 (9.48%) Microsoft
2 181 (6.70%) Oracle
3 92 (3.41%) ServiceNow
4 75 (2.78%) Cisco
5 67 (2.48%) Google
6 65 (2.41%) IBM
7 62 (2.30%) Bloomberg
8 57 (2.11%) Splunk
9 51 (1.89%) VMware
10 46 (1.70%) SAP
11 45 (1.67%) CheckPoint
11 45 (1.67%) Citrix
12 28 (1.04%) Databricks
12 28 (1.04%) F5
13 27 (1.00%) BISAM
14 25 (0.93%) Reuters
15 24 (0.89%) Murex
16 23 (0.85%) AppDynamics
17 22 (0.81%) Red Hat
18 21 (0.78%) Fortinet