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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 25 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,255 2,677 4,525
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.71% 6.14% 7.58%
As % of the General category 12.21% 10.54% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,424 1,824 3,129
10th Percentile £357 £385 £450
25th Percentile £444 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £616 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% -5.19% +4.00%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £788
90th Percentile £847 £850 £882
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -10.24% -5.00% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 8
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.12 £12.66
25th Percentile £17.58 £12.84 £19.41
Median hourly rate £22.27 £19.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.21% -7.14% -18.30%
75th Percentile £24.66 £30.00 £47.95
90th Percentile £63.70 £79.30 £67.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.21 £18.27 £64.38
% change year-on-year -0.36% -71.62% +302.34%

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 18,465 25,387 34,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.16% 58.23% 58.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,795 16,033 24,201
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.23% -0.80% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 794 1,939 1,062
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £13.42
25th Percentile £17.85 £15.50 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -14.29% +59.71%
75th Percentile £56.00 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £28.13 £30.54
% change year-on-year -10.58% -7.91% +65.08%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Banking in the UK

Banking
Top 18 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 30 April 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
England +1 1,890 £600 -4.00% 1,276
London 0 1,495 £650 - 962
Work from Home -1 826 £600 -4.00% 626
UK excluding London +47 639 £469 -10.24% 408
Scotland +20 248 £479 -16.70% 67
North of England +21 218 £450 -10.00% 132
North West +19 118 £436 -12.75% 90
Yorkshire +18 98 £500 +12.68% 33
Midlands +45 66 £545 +12.66% 59
South West +54 38 £563 -10.00% 41
Northern Ireland +9 36 £410 -12.53% 15
West Midlands +32 33 £564 +7.33% 36
East Midlands +16 33 £390 -13.33% 21
South East -13 26 £575 +12.20% 62
East of England +22 10 £600 +2.13% 10
Wales - 3 - - 24
Isle of Man +3 2 £400 -
North East -3 2 £420 -16.00% 9

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 82 (3.64%) Confluence
2 64 (2.84%) Apache
2 64 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 43 (1.91%) SharePoint
5 33 (1.46%) SAS
6 19 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
7 16 (0.71%) WebSphere
8 14 (0.62%) CICS
9 10 (0.44%) WebLogic
10 8 (0.35%) JBoss
11 7 (0.31%) Jupyter
11 7 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
12 6 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
13 5 (0.22%) MQSeries
14 4 (0.18%) CMS
14 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
15 3 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 2 (0.089%) GemFire
Applications
1 91 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 88 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (1.51%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.18%) Sketch
8 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.089%) Trello
10 1 (0.044%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.044%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.044%) Notepad++
10 1 (0.044%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.044%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 23 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
3 15 (0.67%) Oracle Assets
3 15 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
4 13 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (0.53%) Kondor
6 9 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
6 9 (0.40%) FLEXCUBE
6 9 (0.40%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 9 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
6 9 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
7 8 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
8 7 (0.31%) Finacle
9 6 (0.27%) Misys Midas
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
11 4 (0.18%) Fidessa
11 4 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
11 4 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 335 (14.86%) AWS
2 271 (12.02%) Azure
3 139 (6.16%) GCP
4 64 (2.84%) Power Platform
4 64 (2.84%) Snowflake
5 63 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
5 63 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
6 58 (2.57%) dbt
7 48 (2.13%) GitHub
8 40 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
9 38 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
10 37 (1.64%) Serverless
11 35 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
11 35 (1.55%) Amazon S3
12 30 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
13 26 (1.15%) Dagster
14 24 (1.06%) OpenShift
15 23 (1.02%) Entra ID
15 23 (1.02%) SaaS
16 22 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 63 (2.79%) Firewall
2 35 (1.55%) DNS
3 26 (1.15%) Network Security
4 22 (0.98%) VPN
5 21 (0.93%) DHCP
5 21 (0.93%) TCP/IP
6 20 (0.89%) HTTP
7 16 (0.71%) SSL
8 15 (0.67%) WAN
9 14 (0.62%) FIX Connectivity
10 13 (0.58%) BGP
10 13 (0.58%) OSPF
11 12 (0.53%) LAN
12 10 (0.44%) Multicast
13 9 (0.40%) SAN
14 8 (0.35%) Wireless
15 7 (0.31%) HSRP
15 7 (0.31%) IGMP
15 7 (0.31%) Internet
15 7 (0.31%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (4.66%) SQL Server
2 73 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (2.57%) Amazon Athena
3 58 (2.57%) Apache Iceberg
3 58 (2.57%) MongoDB
4 56 (2.48%) Data Lake
4 56 (2.48%) Dremio
4 56 (2.48%) Relational Database
5 51 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
5 51 (2.26%) Power BI
6 50 (2.22%) NoSQL
7 46 (2.04%) Tableau
8 45 (2.00%) Apache Arrow
9 44 (1.95%) DB2
10 40 (1.77%) Redis
11 37 (1.64%) Hadoop
12 34 (1.51%) Big Data
13 31 (1.37%) Apache Ignite
14 28 (1.24%) Oracle Database
15 21 (0.93%) KDB
Development Applications
1 158 (7.01%) JIRA
2 115 (5.10%) Jenkins
3 93 (4.12%) Git
4 35 (1.55%) Bitbucket
5 34 (1.51%) GitLab
6 31 (1.37%) TeamCity
7 29 (1.29%) JUnit
8 28 (1.24%) Cucumber
9 25 (1.11%) Selenium
10 18 (0.80%) Maven
11 16 (0.71%) webpack
12 14 (0.62%) JMeter
13 13 (0.58%) Visual Studio
14 12 (0.53%) LoadRunner
14 12 (0.53%) REST Assured
14 12 (0.53%) Subversion
15 11 (0.49%) Ant
15 11 (0.49%) Postman
16 8 (0.35%) Artifactory
16 8 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,443 (63.99%) Finance
2 682 (30.24%) Social Skills
3 614 (27.23%) Investment Banking
4 377 (16.72%) Analytical Skills
5 269 (11.93%) Front Office
6 127 (5.63%) Retail Banking
7 97 (4.30%) Financial Institution
8 65 (2.88%) Retail
9 57 (2.53%) Corporate Banking
10 52 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
11 42 (1.86%) Legal
12 39 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
13 26 (1.15%) General Ledger
14 24 (1.06%) Back Office
15 22 (0.98%) Public Sector
16 21 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
16 21 (0.93%) Marketing
17 19 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
18 16 (0.71%) Private Banking
19 15 (0.67%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 560 (24.83%) Developer
2 361 (16.01%) Analyst
3 249 (11.04%) Senior
4 205 (9.09%) Architect
5 161 (7.14%) Business Analyst
6 143 (6.34%) Project Manager
7 130 (5.76%) Java Developer
8 115 (5.10%) Lead
9 113 (5.01%) Python Developer
10 105 (4.66%) Software Engineer
11 93 (4.12%) Senior Developer
12 90 (3.99%) Consultant
13 71 (3.15%) Banking Analyst
14 70 (3.10%) AWS Engineer
15 69 (3.06%) Python Engineer
15 69 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
16 64 (2.84%) C# Developer
17 62 (2.75%) Data Analyst
18 58 (2.57%) Data Engineer
19 51 (2.26%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (6.08%) React
2 114 (5.06%) .NET
3 108 (4.79%) Kafka
4 87 (3.86%) Spring
5 63 (2.79%) PySpark
6 57 (2.53%) AngularJS
6 57 (2.53%) HTML
7 54 (2.39%) CSS
8 53 (2.35%) Pandas
9 51 (2.26%) NumPy
10 50 (2.22%) Spring Boot
11 49 (2.17%) RESTful
11 49 (2.17%) XML
12 48 (2.13%) SciPy
13 47 (2.08%) Node.js
14 46 (2.04%) REST
15 43 (1.91%) Redux
16 40 (1.77%) Web Services
17 38 (1.69%) FastAPI
17 38 (1.69%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 170 (7.54%) Derivative
2 136 (6.03%) Equities
2 136 (6.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 112 (4.97%) Fixed Income
4 75 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 71 (3.15%) Hedge funds
6 52 (2.31%) Onboarding
7 48 (2.13%) Data Centre
8 46 (2.04%) Data Structures
9 43 (1.91%) Algorithms
9 43 (1.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 42 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
10 42 (1.86%) Management Information System
10 42 (1.86%) Market Risk
11 37 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
11 37 (1.64%) Mainframe
12 36 (1.60%) Credit Risk
12 36 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
13 32 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
14 30 (1.33%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 188 (8.34%) Windows
2 176 (7.80%) Linux
3 80 (3.55%) Unix
4 33 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 25 (1.11%) Windows 10
7 22 (0.98%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.71%) Android
9 10 (0.44%) zOS
10 9 (0.40%) Solaris
11 8 (0.35%) AIX
12 6 (0.27%) CentOS
13 5 (0.22%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.13%) HPUX
14 3 (0.13%) Rocky
14 3 (0.13%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.089%) Oracle Linux
16 1 (0.044%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 573 (25.41%) Agile
2 414 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
3 250 (11.09%) DevOps
4 232 (10.29%) Risk Management
5 216 (9.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 213 (9.45%) CI/CD
7 207 (9.18%) Migration
8 198 (8.78%) Analytics
9 193 (8.56%) Software Engineering
10 173 (7.67%) Project Management
11 169 (7.49%) Change Management
12 167 (7.41%) SDLC
13 130 (5.76%) Microservices
14 129 (5.72%) Asset Management
15 118 (5.23%) Decision-Making
16 117 (5.19%) Data Analysis
17 114 (5.06%) Test Automation
18 109 (4.83%) Fintech
19 104 (4.61%) Continuous Improvement
19 104 (4.61%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 472 (20.93%) Python
2 429 (19.02%) SQL
3 401 (17.78%) Java
4 172 (7.63%) JavaScript
5 157 (6.96%) C#
6 151 (6.70%) TypeScript
7 64 (2.84%) C++
8 48 (2.13%) PowerShell
8 48 (2.13%) Scala
9 42 (1.86%) PL/SQL
10 41 (1.82%) Shell Script
11 29 (1.29%) Bash
12 24 (1.06%) Perl
13 23 (1.02%) R
14 19 (0.84%) Kotlin
15 16 (0.71%) Bicep
16 15 (0.67%) VBA
17 13 (0.58%) COBOL
17 13 (0.58%) Go
17 13 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 163 (7.23%) Degree
2 39 (1.73%) Security Cleared
3 29 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (1.29%) Master's Degree
4 25 (1.11%) CISSP
5 22 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
5 22 (0.98%) SC Cleared
6 21 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
7 20 (0.89%) Azure Certification
8 19 (0.84%) AWS Certification
8 19 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (0.75%) PMI Certification
9 17 (0.75%) PMP
10 16 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
11 14 (0.62%) CISM
12 12 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (0.53%) CCNP
13 11 (0.49%) CEH
14 10 (0.44%) OSCP
15 9 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (3.73%) QA
2 64 (2.84%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.31%) PMO
4 40 (1.77%) GDPR
5 32 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 30 (1.33%) PCI DSS
7 22 (0.98%) NIST
8 21 (0.93%) MiFID
9 17 (0.75%) IFRS
9 17 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 17 (0.75%) SLA
10 16 (0.71%) Basel III
10 16 (0.71%) IFRS 9
10 16 (0.71%) SEPA
11 15 (0.67%) ISO 20022
11 15 (0.67%) PSD2
12 13 (0.58%) Accessibility
13 11 (0.49%) COBIT
14 10 (0.44%) EMIR
15 9 (0.40%) GRC
System Software
1 125 (5.54%) Docker
2 45 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.31%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (0.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 3 (0.13%) HDFS
9 3 (0.13%) Lustre
9 3 (0.13%) NFS
9 3 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
9 3 (0.13%) vSphere
9 3 (0.13%) XenDesktop
10 2 (0.089%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.089%) Veritas File System
10 2 (0.089%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 175 (7.76%) Kubernetes
2 124 (5.50%) Ansible
3 85 (3.77%) Terraform
4 40 (1.77%) Grafana
5 25 (1.11%) SCCM
6 21 (0.93%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.80%) Puppet
8 14 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (0.58%) Argo
10 10 (0.44%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.40%) Control-M
12 8 (0.35%) Istio
13 6 (0.27%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.27%) Rundeck
14 5 (0.22%) HP ALM
14 5 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.22%) ZABBIX
15 4 (0.18%) Podman
15 4 (0.18%) RSA Archer
16 3 (0.13%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 222 (9.84%) Microsoft
2 175 (7.76%) Oracle
3 77 (3.41%) ServiceNow
4 59 (2.62%) Google
5 56 (2.48%) IBM
6 52 (2.31%) Splunk
7 49 (2.17%) SAP
8 47 (2.08%) Databricks
9 45 (2.00%) Cisco
10 34 (1.51%) Citrix
11 30 (1.33%) Sybase
11 30 (1.33%) VMware
12 28 (1.24%) Red Hat
13 20 (0.89%) Apple
14 19 (0.84%) CyberArk
15 18 (0.80%) HP
15 18 (0.80%) Pega
16 17 (0.75%) Informatica
17 16 (0.71%) Murex
17 16 (0.71%) Salesforce