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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 478 574
Rank change year-on-year -49 +96 +102
Contract jobs citing Corporate Banking 62 49 32
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.16% 0.072%
As % of the General category 0.26% 0.26% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 8 10
10th Percentile £340 £363 £375
25th Percentile £358 £423 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £554 £638
Median % change year-on-year -19.28% -13.14% +20.62%
75th Percentile £619 £630 £678
90th Percentile £700 £667 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £358 £375 £400
% change year-on-year -4.53% -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 23,425 19,190 25,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.82% 61.95% 58.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,675 11,532 16,769
10th Percentile £290 £281 £265
25th Percentile £402 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,429 610 1,620
10th Percentile £13.69 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.35 £20.12 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.81 £29.00 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.34% +14.85% -2.88%
75th Percentile £50.00 £57.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £71.60 £75.00 £67.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.80 £27.13 £24.00
% change year-on-year -19.63% +13.02% -1.03%

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 12 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 12 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 -64 53 £450 -18.74% 9
London -37 34 £580 -2.52% 6
UK excluding London -46 26 £358 -4.53% 5
Work from Home -2 24 £418 -37.33% 3
North of England -53 11 £423 +12.80% 3
North West - 11 £423 - 3
Scotland +8 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 10 (16.13%) Confluence
2 4 (6.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.61%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (12.90%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (6.45%) Chatbot
3 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.61%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Finacle
1 2 (3.23%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (3.23%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 11 (17.74%) Power Platform
2 5 (8.06%) AWS
2 5 (8.06%) Azure
3 4 (6.45%) Snowflake
4 3 (4.84%) Azure AI
4 3 (4.84%) Copilot Studio
4 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (4.84%) Power Automate
4 3 (4.84%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.23%) Azure AKS
5 2 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (3.23%) Collibra
5 2 (3.23%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.23%) Figma
5 2 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.23%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.61%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (1.61%) Google Gemini
6 1 (1.61%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.90%) Power BI
2 5 (8.06%) Metadata
3 3 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (3.23%) DataStage
4 2 (3.23%) DB2
4 2 (3.23%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.23%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.23%) Tableau
5 1 (1.61%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (1.61%) Big Data
5 1 (1.61%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.61%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.61%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 1 (1.61%) ThoughtSpot
5 1 (1.61%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 11 (17.74%) JIRA
2 3 (4.84%) GitLab
3 2 (3.23%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.23%) Git
3 2 (3.23%) Selenium
4 1 (1.61%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.61%) Balsamiq
4 1 (1.61%) Gemini Tracker
4 1 (1.61%) JMeter
4 1 (1.61%) JUnit
4 1 (1.61%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.61%) Maven
4 1 (1.61%) Postman
4 1 (1.61%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.61%) TestNG
General
1 62 (100.00%) Banking
2 44 (70.97%) Finance
3 30 (48.39%) Retail Banking
4 27 (43.55%) Investment Banking
5 26 (41.94%) Retail
6 24 (38.71%) Social Skills
7 10 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (9.68%) Financial Institution
9 3 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
10 2 (3.23%) Games
11 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.61%) Front Office
11 1 (1.61%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.61%) International Banking
11 1 (1.61%) Law
11 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (24.19%) Analyst
2 11 (17.74%) Architect
2 11 (17.74%) Project Manager
3 8 (12.90%) Business Analyst
4 7 (11.29%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (9.68%) Developer
6 5 (8.06%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (6.45%) Data Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Banking Project Manager
8 3 (4.84%) Data Analyst
8 3 (4.84%) Integration Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Power Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Project Analyst
9 2 (3.23%) Business Manager
9 2 (3.23%) Database Architect
9 2 (3.23%) Engagement Manager
9 2 (3.23%) Senior Architect
9 2 (3.23%) Senior Database Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.06%) FastAPI
1 5 (8.06%) REST
2 4 (6.45%) React
3 3 (4.84%) Kafka
3 3 (4.84%) LangChain
3 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (4.84%) Semantic Kernel
4 2 (3.23%) JSON
4 2 (3.23%) Middleware
5 1 (1.61%) GraphX
5 1 (1.61%) NetworkX
5 1 (1.61%) NLTK
5 1 (1.61%) Pandas
5 1 (1.61%) PySpark
5 1 (1.61%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.61%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.61%) SpaCy
5 1 (1.61%) Swagger
5 1 (1.61%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (24.19%) Product Ownership
2 8 (12.90%) PMI
3 4 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.84%) AI Agents
4 3 (4.84%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.84%) Low-Code
5 2 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.23%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (48.39%) Wealth Management
2 26 (41.94%) Agile
3 25 (40.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (30.65%) Project Management
5 15 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (22.58%) AI
6 14 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (22.58%) Scrum
7 12 (19.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 11 (17.74%) Fintech
8 11 (17.74%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 10 (16.13%) Roadmaps
10 9 (14.52%) Analytics
10 9 (14.52%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (14.52%) Change Management
10 9 (14.52%) Kanban
10 9 (14.52%) Machine Learning
10 9 (14.52%) Regulatory Change
11 8 (12.90%) Lean Six Sigma
11 8 (12.90%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 15 (24.19%) Python
2 10 (16.13%) SQL
3 4 (6.45%) C#
3 4 (6.45%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.23%) Java
4 2 (3.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (24.19%) Degree
2 10 (16.13%) Master's Degree
2 10 (16.13%) MBA
3 9 (14.52%) PMI Certification
3 9 (14.52%) PMP
4 8 (12.90%) SAFe Agilist
5 3 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.84%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.61%) ACCA
6 1 (1.61%) CFA
6 1 (1.61%) CIMA
6 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.61%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.97%) QA
2 8 (12.90%) Basel III
3 7 (11.29%) Data Quality
4 3 (4.84%) Accessibility
5 2 (3.23%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.61%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (1.61%) EMIR
6 1 (1.61%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.61%) IFRS
6 1 (1.61%) MiFID
6 1 (1.61%) PSD2
6 1 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.61%) SLA
6 1 (1.61%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 3 (4.84%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.45%) OpenAI
3 3 (4.84%) Databricks
3 3 (4.84%) Oracle
4 2 (3.23%) IBM
5 1 (1.61%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.61%) Informatica
5 1 (1.61%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.61%) Pega
5 1 (1.61%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.61%) Sparx
5 1 (1.61%) Teradata