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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 24 23
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,339 2,816 4,218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.87% 6.46% 7.60%
As % of the General category 12.38% 11.33% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,540 1,943 2,964
10th Percentile £354 £391 £436
25th Percentile £415 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £788
90th Percentile £838 £874 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 27 13
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.18 £14.87
25th Percentile £18.10 £13.67 £17.00
Median hourly rate £22.27 £19.05 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year +16.90% -0.68% -30.25%
75th Percentile £24.66 £23.88 £66.56
90th Percentile £43.09 £85.00 £69.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.36 £15.00 £19.18
% change year-on-year +22.38% -21.79% -26.41%

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 18,898 24,848 32,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.55% 57.00% 58.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,894 15,562 22,466
10th Percentile £281 £275 £313
25th Percentile £402 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £768 £785
UK excluding London median daily rate £474 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.77% -2.50% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 901 2,007 1,001
10th Percentile £13.46 £12.78 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.67 £15.50 £17.25
Median hourly rate £27.76 £31.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +1.51% +30.57%
75th Percentile £53.95 £52.78 £60.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £71.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.34 £29.75 £26.50
% change year-on-year -18.18% +12.26% +33.77%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +3 1,996 £585 -6.40% 11,958
London +1 1,514 £650 - 5,445
Work from Home -2 868 £561 -10.20% 5,161
UK excluding London +32 715 £450 -10.00% 8,155
North of England +13 282 £445 -6.32% 1,808
Scotland +15 229 £475 -3.06% 655
North West +16 155 £402 -16.81% 896
Yorkshire +16 122 £488 +2.63% 771
Midlands +26 97 £415 -7.78% 1,231
East Midlands +12 69 £390 -12.36% 575
Northern Ireland +18 44 £470 -0.79% 179
South West +28 29 £500 -13.04% 809
West Midlands +18 28 £550 +4.76% 653
South East -27 27 £525 +2.44% 2,208
East of England +12 8 £600 +4.35% 972
North East +2 5 £420 -9.19% 141
Wales +9 4 £495 -10.00% 305
Isle of Man +3 2 £400 - 5

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 95 (4.06%) Confluence
2 60 (2.57%) Apache
3 57 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
4 46 (1.97%) Apache Spark
5 36 (1.54%) SharePoint
6 31 (1.33%) SAS
7 19 (0.81%) WebSphere
8 15 (0.64%) CICS
9 13 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.47%) JBoss
11 10 (0.43%) WebLogic
12 8 (0.34%) MQSeries
12 8 (0.34%) WebSphere Application Server
13 7 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
14 6 (0.26%) Tomcat
15 5 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 4 (0.17%) CMS
17 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 3 (0.13%) Camunda
18 2 (0.086%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 97 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 86 (3.68%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (1.45%) MS Visio
5 22 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.21%) Sketch
7 3 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.086%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.086%) Trello
9 1 (0.043%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.043%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.043%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.043%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 41 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (0.98%) Oracle Assets
2 23 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
3 22 (0.94%) Oracle General Ledger
3 22 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
4 19 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
5 16 (0.68%) FLEXCUBE
5 16 (0.68%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 14 (0.60%) Oracle BPM
7 13 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
8 11 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
9 8 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
10 7 (0.30%) Kondor
11 6 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
12 5 (0.21%) Finacle
12 5 (0.21%) ION Anvil
12 5 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
12 5 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 4 (0.17%) Misys Midas
14 3 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 350 (14.96%) AWS
2 290 (12.40%) Azure
3 153 (6.54%) GCP
4 73 (3.12%) Power Platform
5 67 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
6 66 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
7 60 (2.57%) Snowflake
8 50 (2.14%) dbt
9 45 (1.92%) GitHub
10 36 (1.54%) SaaS
11 34 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
12 30 (1.28%) OpenShift
12 30 (1.28%) Serverless
13 25 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
14 23 (0.98%) Amazon S3
15 21 (0.90%) Entra ID
15 21 (0.90%) Figma
16 18 (0.77%) npm
17 17 (0.73%) Azure AKS
17 17 (0.73%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 61 (2.61%) Firewall
2 30 (1.28%) DNS
3 21 (0.90%) Network Security
3 21 (0.90%) TCP/IP
4 19 (0.81%) BGP
4 19 (0.81%) OSPF
4 19 (0.81%) VPN
5 16 (0.68%) DHCP
5 16 (0.68%) Multicast
5 16 (0.68%) WAN
6 15 (0.64%) HTTP
7 12 (0.51%) LAN
7 12 (0.51%) SSL
8 10 (0.43%) Wireless
9 9 (0.38%) SAN
10 7 (0.30%) IGMP
10 7 (0.30%) Internet
10 7 (0.30%) MPLS
10 7 (0.30%) VRRP
10 7 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (4.15%) SQL Server
2 95 (4.06%) PostgreSQL
3 68 (2.91%) Relational Database
4 66 (2.82%) MongoDB
5 60 (2.57%) Power BI
6 54 (2.31%) Data Lake
6 54 (2.31%) DB2
7 52 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
8 51 (2.18%) Apache Iceberg
8 51 (2.18%) NoSQL
9 49 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
9 49 (2.09%) Dremio
10 45 (1.92%) Apache Arrow
11 39 (1.67%) Tableau
12 38 (1.62%) Big Data
12 38 (1.62%) Redis
13 36 (1.54%) Oracle Database
14 32 (1.37%) Hadoop
15 31 (1.33%) Apache Ignite
16 24 (1.03%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 180 (7.70%) JIRA
2 117 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 114 (4.87%) Git
4 51 (2.18%) JUnit
5 36 (1.54%) Cucumber
5 36 (1.54%) GitLab
6 32 (1.37%) Bitbucket
7 29 (1.24%) Selenium
8 27 (1.15%) Maven
9 24 (1.03%) TeamCity
10 16 (0.68%) webpack
11 15 (0.64%) Postman
12 14 (0.60%) Gradle
12 14 (0.60%) REST Assured
13 13 (0.56%) JMeter
13 13 (0.56%) LoadRunner
13 13 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
13 13 (0.56%) Subversion
14 12 (0.51%) Ant
15 10 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,476 (63.10%) Finance
2 805 (34.42%) Social Skills
3 631 (26.98%) Investment Banking
4 432 (18.47%) Analytical Skills
5 263 (11.24%) Front Office
6 142 (6.07%) Retail Banking
7 98 (4.19%) Financial Institution
8 77 (3.29%) Retail
9 70 (2.99%) Corporate Banking
10 56 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
11 45 (1.92%) Legal
12 40 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
13 38 (1.62%) Back Office
14 35 (1.50%) General Ledger
15 32 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
16 27 (1.15%) Public Sector
17 24 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
18 23 (0.98%) Private Banking
19 22 (0.94%) Marketing
20 16 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 561 (23.98%) Developer
2 404 (17.27%) Analyst
3 254 (10.86%) Senior
4 223 (9.53%) Architect
5 210 (8.98%) Business Analyst
6 157 (6.71%) Project Manager
7 140 (5.99%) Java Developer
8 124 (5.30%) Software Engineer
9 117 (5.00%) Lead
10 99 (4.23%) Senior Developer
11 93 (3.98%) Python Developer
12 84 (3.59%) Consultant
13 78 (3.33%) Banking Analyst
14 77 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
15 73 (3.12%) Data Analyst
16 60 (2.57%) AWS Engineer
16 60 (2.57%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 57 (2.44%) Java Engineer
17 57 (2.44%) Python Engineer
18 56 (2.39%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (6.41%) React
2 121 (5.17%) Kafka
3 103 (4.40%) .NET
4 98 (4.19%) Spring
5 69 (2.95%) HTML
6 64 (2.74%) AngularJS
7 62 (2.65%) CSS
7 62 (2.65%) Node.js
7 62 (2.65%) Web Services
8 55 (2.35%) Redux
9 54 (2.31%) Pandas
9 54 (2.31%) REST
10 53 (2.27%) NumPy
11 50 (2.14%) RESTful
11 50 (2.14%) Spring Boot
12 49 (2.09%) SciPy
12 49 (2.09%) XML
13 46 (1.97%) PySpark
14 43 (1.84%) JMS
15 42 (1.80%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 160 (6.84%) Derivative
2 150 (6.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 147 (6.28%) Equities
4 132 (5.64%) Fixed Income
5 89 (3.81%) Product Ownership
6 78 (3.33%) Hedge funds
7 62 (2.65%) Data Structures
8 60 (2.57%) Market Risk
9 59 (2.52%) Onboarding
10 57 (2.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 49 (2.09%) Algorithms
12 48 (2.05%) Data Centre
13 47 (2.01%) Management Information System
14 45 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
15 41 (1.75%) Cloud Native
16 38 (1.62%) Credit Risk
17 37 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
18 36 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
19 34 (1.45%) Mainframe
20 32 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 196 (8.38%) Linux
2 195 (8.34%) Windows
3 72 (3.08%) Unix
4 33 (1.41%) Apple iOS
5 31 (1.33%) Android
6 29 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 27 (1.15%) Windows 10
8 24 (1.03%) Windows Server
9 10 (0.43%) zOS
10 8 (0.34%) AIX
10 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.30%) Solaris
12 3 (0.13%) CentOS
12 3 (0.13%) HPUX
12 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.086%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.043%) Rocky
14 1 (0.043%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 649 (27.75%) Agile
2 473 (20.22%) Problem-Solving
3 270 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 264 (11.29%) DevOps
5 227 (9.71%) Risk Management
6 212 (9.06%) CI/CD
7 211 (9.02%) Software Engineering
8 203 (8.68%) Analytics
9 200 (8.55%) Migration
10 191 (8.17%) Project Management
11 184 (7.87%) SDLC
12 152 (6.50%) Change Management
12 152 (6.50%) Microservices
13 138 (5.90%) Test Automation
14 133 (5.69%) Asset Management
14 133 (5.69%) Continuous Improvement
15 130 (5.56%) Scrum
16 129 (5.52%) Data Analysis
17 126 (5.39%) Decision-Making
18 125 (5.34%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 474 (20.27%) SQL
2 455 (19.45%) Python
3 420 (17.96%) Java
4 193 (8.25%) JavaScript
5 153 (6.54%) TypeScript
6 148 (6.33%) C#
7 77 (3.29%) C++
8 62 (2.65%) Shell Script
9 56 (2.39%) Scala
10 53 (2.27%) PL/SQL
11 42 (1.80%) PowerShell
12 27 (1.15%) Bash
13 24 (1.03%) Kotlin
14 20 (0.86%) Bicep
15 16 (0.68%) C
15 16 (0.68%) COBOL
16 15 (0.64%) JCL
16 15 (0.64%) Perl
16 15 (0.64%) R
16 15 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 199 (8.51%) Degree
2 46 (1.97%) Security Cleared
3 42 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 29 (1.24%) Master's Degree
5 28 (1.20%) PMI Certification
5 28 (1.20%) PMP
5 28 (1.20%) SC Cleared
6 23 (0.98%) Azure Certification
6 23 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
8 19 (0.81%) AWS Certification
9 18 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
10 16 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
11 14 (0.60%) CISSP
12 13 (0.56%) CCNP
13 12 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 10 (0.43%) PhD
15 8 (0.34%) CCIE
15 8 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 7 (0.30%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (3.89%) QA
2 78 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 40 (1.71%) GDPR
4 35 (1.50%) PMO
5 27 (1.15%) SEPA
6 26 (1.11%) Accessibility
7 25 (1.07%) MiFID
8 22 (0.94%) PCI DSS
8 22 (0.94%) SLA
9 21 (0.90%) IFRS
10 20 (0.86%) ISO 20022
10 20 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 19 (0.81%) Basel III
12 18 (0.77%) IFRS 9
13 17 (0.73%) NIST
14 16 (0.68%) GRC
15 15 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 14 (0.60%) PSD2
17 13 (0.56%) Basel II
18 9 (0.38%) EMIR
System Software
1 109 (4.66%) Docker
2 39 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
5 9 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.30%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 7 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.17%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 3 (0.13%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
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%) XenApp
9 3 (0.13%) XenDesktop
10 2 (0.086%) Veritas File System
10 2 (0.086%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 146 (6.24%) Kubernetes
2 99 (4.23%) Ansible
3 69 (2.95%) Terraform
4 32 (1.37%) Grafana
5 23 (0.98%) SCCM
6 19 (0.81%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.73%) Puppet
8 11 (0.47%) Argo
8 11 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.43%) Control-M
10 9 (0.38%) Istio
11 7 (0.30%) HP ALM
12 6 (0.26%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.26%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.26%) Tivoli
13 5 (0.21%) Podman
13 5 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
15 3 (0.13%) AirWatch
15 3 (0.13%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 209 (8.94%) Microsoft
2 199 (8.51%) Oracle
3 65 (2.78%) IBM
4 64 (2.74%) Google
5 62 (2.65%) ServiceNow
6 58 (2.48%) SAP
7 49 (2.09%) Databricks
7 49 (2.09%) Splunk
8 47 (2.01%) Cisco
9 38 (1.62%) Citrix
9 38 (1.62%) Sybase
10 26 (1.11%) Red Hat
10 26 (1.11%) Salesforce
11 24 (1.03%) Apple
11 24 (1.03%) VMware
12 19 (0.81%) Adobe
12 19 (0.81%) HP
13 18 (0.77%) Arista
14 17 (0.73%) Informatica
15 15 (0.64%) Murex