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 4 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 472 538
Rank change year-on-year -58 +66 +116
Contract jobs citing Corporate Banking 86 55 53
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the General category 0.34% 0.30% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 6 19
10th Percentile £340 £365 £368
25th Percentile £403 £490 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £623 £613
Median % change year-on-year -22.33% +1.63% +2.04%
75th Percentile £616 £713 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £409 £268 £400
% change year-on-year +52.61% -33.00% -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 25,584 18,500 25,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.23% 63.16% 58.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,735 11,804 15,823
10th Percentile £306 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £641 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £766
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £495
% change year-on-year - -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,631 792 1,939
10th Percentile £13.72 £14.00 £12.77
25th Percentile £17.66 £17.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -10.14%
75th Percentile £60.60 £56.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.01
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year +10.00% -11.50% -2.59%

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 4 May 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 9 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 4 May 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 -77 79 £484 -22.33% 17
London -35 55 £575 -11.54% 17
Work from Home -20 36 £447 -20.53% 11
UK excluding London -83 30 £409 +52.61% 2
North West -31 15 £433 +61.66%
North of England -55 15 £433 +61.66%
East Midlands - 10 £347 -
Midlands - 10 £347 -
Scotland -6 7 - -

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 14 (16.28%) Confluence
2 2 (2.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.33%) SAS
3 1 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.16%) Appian
3 1 (1.16%) CICS
Applications
1 9 (10.47%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.49%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.33%) Chatbot
3 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.33%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (5.81%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (3.49%) Temenos T24
3 2 (2.33%) Finacle
4 1 (1.16%) Actimize
4 1 (1.16%) Loan IQ
4 1 (1.16%) OneSumX
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 12 (13.95%) Power Platform
2 9 (10.47%) AWS
3 6 (6.98%) Snowflake
4 5 (5.81%) SaaS
5 3 (3.49%) Figma
6 2 (2.33%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (2.33%) Azure
6 2 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.33%) Collibra
6 2 (2.33%) Contentsquare
7 1 (1.16%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (1.16%) GCP
7 1 (1.16%) GitHub
7 1 (1.16%) Google Gemini
7 1 (1.16%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.16%) OCI
7 1 (1.16%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.16%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.95%) Power BI
2 6 (6.98%) Tableau
3 2 (2.33%) DataStage
3 2 (2.33%) Metadata
3 2 (2.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.16%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (1.16%) Big Data
4 1 (1.16%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.16%) DB2
4 1 (1.16%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.16%) Essbase
4 1 (1.16%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.16%) Neo4j
4 1 (1.16%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.16%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 1 (1.16%) ThoughtSpot
4 1 (1.16%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 18 (20.93%) JIRA
2 3 (3.49%) GitLab
3 1 (1.16%) Balsamiq
3 1 (1.16%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.16%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (1.16%) Git
3 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.16%) Selenium
3 1 (1.16%) TestNG
General
1 86 (100.00%) Banking
2 57 (66.28%) Finance
3 38 (44.19%) Retail Banking
4 33 (38.37%) Investment Banking
5 31 (36.05%) Retail
6 23 (26.74%) Social Skills
7 17 (19.77%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (8.14%) Financial Institution
9 5 (5.81%) Legal
10 4 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (3.49%) Front Office
11 3 (3.49%) Marketing
11 3 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (3.49%) Public Sector
11 3 (3.49%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (2.33%) Games
12 2 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (1.16%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (20.93%) Analyst
2 13 (15.12%) Architect
3 11 (12.79%) Business Analyst
4 10 (11.63%) Project Manager
4 10 (11.63%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (8.14%) Product Owner
6 6 (6.98%) Lead
7 5 (5.81%) Data Analyst
8 4 (4.65%) Banking Project Manager
8 4 (4.65%) Category Manager
8 4 (4.65%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Payments Architect
8 4 (4.65%) Payments Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.65%) Senior
9 3 (3.49%) Integration Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) Payments Analyst
9 3 (3.49%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) Product Manager
10 2 (2.33%) Banking Analyst
10 2 (2.33%) Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.81%) Kafka
2 2 (2.33%) Middleware
2 2 (2.33%) PySpark
3 1 (1.16%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.16%) GraphX
3 1 (1.16%) JSON
3 1 (1.16%) Micronaut
3 1 (1.16%) NetworkX
3 1 (1.16%) OpenAPI
3 1 (1.16%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.16%) REST
3 1 (1.16%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.16%) Spring
3 1 (1.16%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.16%) Swagger
3 1 (1.16%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.44%) Product Ownership
2 8 (9.30%) Onboarding
2 8 (9.30%) PMI
3 3 (3.49%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.49%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.49%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (2.33%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.16%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.16%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (41.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 35 (40.70%) Wealth Management
3 29 (33.72%) Agile
4 22 (25.58%) Roadmaps
5 20 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (19.77%) Project Management
7 14 (16.28%) Analytics
7 14 (16.28%) Decision-Making
8 13 (15.12%) AI
8 13 (15.12%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (13.95%) Regulatory Compliance
10 11 (12.79%) Change Management
10 11 (12.79%) Fintech
10 11 (12.79%) Regulatory Change
10 11 (12.79%) Scrum
10 11 (12.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 10 (11.63%) Cash Management
11 10 (11.63%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 9 (10.47%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 13 (15.12%) SQL
2 10 (11.63%) Python
3 4 (4.65%) Java
4 2 (2.33%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.16%) Bash
5 1 (1.16%) C#
5 1 (1.16%) Perl
5 1 (1.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (18.60%) Degree
2 11 (12.79%) Master's Degree
2 11 (12.79%) MBA
3 8 (9.30%) PMI Certification
3 8 (9.30%) PMP
3 8 (9.30%) SAFe Agilist
4 4 (4.65%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.49%) ACCA
5 3 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.49%) CIMA
6 2 (2.33%) CFA
7 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.16%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.16%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.28%) QA
2 10 (11.63%) Data Quality
3 8 (9.30%) Basel III
4 3 (3.49%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.49%) PSD2
5 2 (2.33%) EMIR
5 2 (2.33%) GDPR
5 2 (2.33%) IFRS
5 2 (2.33%) ISO 20022
5 2 (2.33%) MiFID
6 1 (1.16%) COREP
6 1 (1.16%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (1.16%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.16%) FINREP
6 1 (1.16%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.16%) SEPA
6 1 (1.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (1.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.16%) Ansible
1 1 (1.16%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (5.81%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.65%) Oracle
3 3 (3.49%) Databricks
4 2 (2.33%) Adobe
4 2 (2.33%) Google
4 2 (2.33%) IBM
4 2 (2.33%) Pega
4 2 (2.33%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.33%) Temenos
5 1 (1.16%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.16%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.16%) BT
5 1 (1.16%) Fiserv
5 1 (1.16%) Hyperion
5 1 (1.16%) Informatica
5 1 (1.16%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.16%) Splunk
5 1 (1.16%) StreamSets
5 1 (1.16%) Teradata