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 5 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 477 566
Rank change year-on-year -61 +89 +111
Contract jobs citing Corporate Banking 59 49 32
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.16% 0.072%
As % of the General category 0.25% 0.25% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 8 10
10th Percentile £340 £363 £375
25th Percentile £380 £423 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £554 £638
Median % change year-on-year -18.74% -13.14% +15.91%
75th Percentile £631 £630 £678
90th Percentile £700 £667 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £380 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +1.33% -6.25% -25.58%

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 general skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 23,143 19,316 26,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 59.12% 62.03% 58.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,519 11,556 16,932
10th Percentile £290 £281 £265
25th Percentile £401 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £731 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £481 £500
% change year-on-year -1.14% -3.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,414 622 1,614
10th Percentile £13.72 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.35 £20.12 £15.03
Median hourly rate £22.83 £29.00 £25.61
Median % change year-on-year -21.28% +13.26% -0.04%
75th Percentile £49.50 £54.69 £55.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.65 £67.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.51 £27.06 £24.65
% change year-on-year -20.52% +9.79% +6.48%

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 5 February 2026.

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 5 February 2026. 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 -57 50 £475 -14.22% 13
London -38 33 £585 -1.68% 11
UK excluding London -44 24 £380 +1.33% 6
Work from Home -5 22 £418 -37.33% 3
North of England -52 9 £433 +15.53% 2
North West - 9 £433 - 2
Scotland +12 8 £358 - 1
East Midlands - 8 £340 -
Midlands - 8 £340 -
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 8 (13.56%) Confluence
2 5 (8.47%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.69%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (11.86%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (6.78%) Chatbot
3 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.69%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Finacle
1 2 (3.39%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.69%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.95%) Power Platform
2 5 (8.47%) Azure
3 4 (6.78%) AWS
3 4 (6.78%) Copilot Studio
3 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Copilot
3 4 (6.78%) Snowflake
4 3 (5.08%) Azure AI
4 3 (5.08%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (5.08%) Power Automate
4 3 (5.08%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.39%) Azure AKS
5 2 (3.39%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (3.39%) Collibra
5 2 (3.39%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.69%) Figma
6 1 (1.69%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.86%) Power BI
2 5 (8.47%) Metadata
3 3 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.39%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (3.39%) DataStage
4 2 (3.39%) DB2
4 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.39%) Tableau
5 1 (1.69%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (1.69%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.69%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 1 (1.69%) ThoughtSpot
5 1 (1.69%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 9 (15.25%) JIRA
2 3 (5.08%) GitLab
3 2 (3.39%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.39%) Git
3 2 (3.39%) Selenium
4 1 (1.69%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.69%) JMeter
4 1 (1.69%) JUnit
4 1 (1.69%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.69%) Maven
4 1 (1.69%) Postman
4 1 (1.69%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.69%) TestNG
General
1 59 (100.00%) Banking
2 43 (72.88%) Finance
3 28 (47.46%) Retail Banking
4 25 (42.37%) Investment Banking
4 25 (42.37%) Retail
5 23 (38.98%) Social Skills
6 10 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (11.86%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.39%) Games
8 2 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.69%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.69%) Law
9 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (23.73%) Analyst
2 10 (16.95%) Architect
2 10 (16.95%) Project Manager
3 7 (11.86%) Business Analyst
4 6 (10.17%) Developer
4 6 (10.17%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (8.47%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (6.78%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Banking Project Manager
7 3 (5.08%) Data Analyst
7 3 (5.08%) Integration Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Power Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Project Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) Business Manager
8 2 (3.39%) Database Architect
8 2 (3.39%) Engagement Manager
8 2 (3.39%) Senior Architect
8 2 (3.39%) Senior Database Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.17%) REST
2 5 (8.47%) FastAPI
3 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Graph
3 4 (6.78%) React
4 3 (5.08%) JSON
4 3 (5.08%) Kafka
4 3 (5.08%) LangChain
4 3 (5.08%) Semantic Kernel
5 2 (3.39%) Middleware
6 1 (1.69%) NLTK
6 1 (1.69%) OAuth
6 1 (1.69%) OpenAPI
6 1 (1.69%) Pandas
6 1 (1.69%) RESTful
6 1 (1.69%) SpaCy
6 1 (1.69%) Swagger
6 1 (1.69%) SwiftUI
6 1 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (23.73%) Product Ownership
2 7 (11.86%) PMI
3 5 (8.47%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.08%) AI Agents
4 3 (5.08%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.08%) Low-Code
5 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.39%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (47.46%) Wealth Management
2 24 (40.68%) Agile
3 23 (38.98%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (30.51%) Project Management
5 14 (23.73%) AI
5 14 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (22.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (20.34%) Scrum
8 11 (18.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (16.95%) Fintech
9 10 (16.95%) Roadmaps
9 10 (16.95%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 8 (13.56%) Analytics
10 8 (13.56%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (13.56%) Change Management
10 8 (13.56%) Kanban
10 8 (13.56%) Machine Learning
10 8 (13.56%) Regulatory Change
11 7 (11.86%) Lean Six Sigma
11 7 (11.86%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 14 (23.73%) Python
2 10 (16.95%) SQL
3 4 (6.78%) C#
3 4 (6.78%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.39%) Java
4 2 (3.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (23.73%) Degree
2 9 (15.25%) Master's Degree
2 9 (15.25%) MBA
3 8 (13.56%) PMI Certification
3 8 (13.56%) PMP
4 7 (11.86%) SAFe Agilist
5 3 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.39%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.69%) ACCA
7 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.69%) CFA
7 1 (1.69%) CIMA
7 1 (1.69%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.69%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.34%) QA
2 7 (11.86%) Basel III
2 7 (11.86%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.08%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.39%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.69%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (1.69%) EMIR
5 1 (1.69%) IFRS
5 1 (1.69%) MiFID
5 1 (1.69%) PSD2
5 1 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.69%) SLA
5 1 (1.69%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (5.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.78%) OpenAI
3 3 (5.08%) Databricks
3 3 (5.08%) Oracle
4 2 (3.39%) IBM
5 1 (1.69%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.69%) Informatica
5 1 (1.69%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.69%) Pega
5 1 (1.69%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.69%) Sparx
5 1 (1.69%) Teradata