Corporate Banking Contract Job Trends

Corporate Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Corporate Banking in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Corporate Banking over the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 534 496 579
Rank change year-on-year -38 +83 +126
Contract jobs citing Corporate Banking 53 56 26
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.16% 0.059%
As % of the General category 0.23% 0.27% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 13 5
10th Percentile £354 £368 £405
25th Percentile £426 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.26% -7.14% -7.89%
75th Percentile £678 £618 £638
90th Percentile £741 £667 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £358 £400 £425
% change year-on-year -10.50% -5.88% -12.82%

All General Skills
UK

Corporate 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 22,571 20,950 26,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 61.35% 60.89% 59.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,114 12,512 17,267
10th Percentile £275 £288 £280
25th Percentile £400 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,448 737 1,082
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.31 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.13 £16.84
Median hourly rate £23.58 £27.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.27% -16.67% +32.00%
75th Percentile £45.46 £53.75 £59.38
90th Percentile £69.75 £70.65 £70.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £26.13 £30.00
% change year-on-year -15.79% -12.92% +40.19%

Corporate Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Corporate Banking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Corporate Banking job vacancy trend in the UK

Corporate Banking
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Corporate Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Corporate Banking

Corporate Banking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Corporate Banking over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Corporate Banking in the UK

Corporate Banking
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Corporate Banking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Corporate Banking

Corporate Banking
Top 10 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Corporate Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 17 December 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 -38 46 £585 +20.00% 5
London -2 39 £650 +9.24% 3
Work from Home -10 15 £700 +75.00% 4
UK excluding London -65 12 £358 -10.50% 4
Scotland +2 6 £358 -
East Midlands -23 4 £354 -11.50% 1
Midlands -30 4 £354 -11.50% 1
North West -26 3 £402 - 1
North of England -47 3 £402 +7.20% 1
South West - 1 - -

Corporate Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 5 (9.43%) Confluence
1 5 (9.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Chatbot
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.89%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.89%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.89%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.89%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 8 (15.09%) Power Platform
2 6 (11.32%) Azure
3 5 (9.43%) AWS
4 4 (7.55%) Copilot Studio
4 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (5.66%) Azure AI
5 3 (5.66%) Collibra
5 3 (5.66%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.66%) Power Automate
5 3 (5.66%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.77%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.77%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (3.77%) Figma
6 2 (3.77%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.89%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.43%) Metadata
1 5 (9.43%) Power BI
2 4 (7.55%) Tableau
3 3 (5.66%) Data Hub
4 2 (3.77%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.77%) DB2
4 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.89%) Big Data
5 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (15.09%) JIRA
2 4 (7.55%) Git
3 1 (1.89%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.89%) GitLab
3 1 (1.89%) JMeter
3 1 (1.89%) JUnit
3 1 (1.89%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.89%) Maven
3 1 (1.89%) Postman
3 1 (1.89%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.89%) Selenium
General
1 53 (100.00%) Banking
2 38 (71.70%) Finance
3 32 (60.38%) Investment Banking
4 30 (56.60%) Retail Banking
5 29 (54.72%) Retail
6 20 (37.74%) Social Skills
7 10 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (16.98%) Financial Institution
9 2 (3.77%) Games
9 2 (3.77%) Marketing
9 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.89%) Front Office
10 1 (1.89%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.89%) Legal
10 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (24.53%) Analyst
2 9 (16.98%) Project Manager
3 7 (13.21%) Architect
4 6 (11.32%) Developer
5 5 (9.43%) Business Analyst
5 5 (9.43%) Data Analyst
5 5 (9.43%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (7.55%) Senior
7 3 (5.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Power Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Business Manager
8 2 (3.77%) Database Architect
8 2 (3.77%) Designer
8 2 (3.77%) Engagement Manager
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Architect
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Database Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.32%) REST
2 5 (9.43%) React
3 4 (7.55%) FastAPI
3 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (5.66%) JSON
4 3 (5.66%) LangChain
4 3 (5.66%) PySpark
4 3 (5.66%) Semantic Kernel
5 1 (1.89%) CSS
5 1 (1.89%) CSS3
5 1 (1.89%) HTML
5 1 (1.89%) HTML5
5 1 (1.89%) LESS
5 1 (1.89%) OAuth
5 1 (1.89%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.89%) Pandas
5 1 (1.89%) RESTful
5 1 (1.89%) Sass
5 1 (1.89%) SwiftUI
5 1 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.53%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.66%) AI Agents
2 3 (5.66%) Low-Code
2 3 (5.66%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.66%) PMI
3 2 (3.77%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.89%) Derivative
4 1 (1.89%) Equities
4 1 (1.89%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.89%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (56.60%) Wealth Management
2 17 (32.08%) Agile
3 14 (26.42%) AI
3 14 (26.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (22.64%) Project Management
5 11 (20.75%) Analytics
6 9 (16.98%) Data Modelling
6 9 (16.98%) Roadmaps
7 8 (15.09%) Scrum
7 8 (15.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (13.21%) Data Management
8 7 (13.21%) Decision-Making
8 7 (13.21%) Machine Learning
8 7 (13.21%) Regulatory Compliance
8 7 (13.21%) Validation
9 6 (11.32%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (11.32%) Data Analysis
9 6 (11.32%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (11.32%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (33.96%) Python
2 9 (16.98%) SQL
3 5 (9.43%) TypeScript
4 3 (5.66%) C#
5 1 (1.89%) Java
5 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.89%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (15.09%) Degree
2 5 (9.43%) PMI Certification
2 5 (9.43%) PMP
3 4 (7.55%) Master's Degree
4 3 (5.66%) MBA
4 3 (5.66%) SAFe Agilist
5 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.89%) ACCA
6 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.89%) CIMA
6 1 (1.89%) CISA
6 1 (1.89%) CISSP
6 1 (1.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) Data Quality
1 5 (9.43%) QA
2 4 (7.55%) Basel III
3 2 (3.77%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.77%) ISO 20022
3 2 (3.77%) MiFID
3 2 (3.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.89%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (1.89%) EMIR
4 1 (1.89%) GDPR
4 1 (1.89%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.89%) IFRS
4 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.89%) PSD2
4 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (5.66%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.55%) Databricks
2 4 (7.55%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.89%) Oracle
3 1 (1.89%) Pega
3 1 (1.89%) Planview
3 1 (1.89%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.89%) Workday