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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 509 613
Rank change year-on-year +17 +104 +110
Contract jobs citing Corporate Banking 76 50 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.13% 0.077%
As % of the General category 0.36% 0.22% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 9
10th Percentile £358 £366 £585
25th Percentile £422 £400 £640
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £488 £700
Median % change year-on-year +17.95% -30.36% +25.00%
75th Percentile £688 £691 £725
90th Percentile £751 £788 £766
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £400 -

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 20,988 22,326 29,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.70% 57.97% 59.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,025 13,386 19,714
10th Percentile £275 £281 £306
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £671
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -4.81% -0.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,199 1,107 1,058
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.70 £13.91
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.08 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% +30.91% +12.24%
75th Percentile £49.63 £60.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £67.70 £70.39 £70.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.35 £35.36 £26.25
% change year-on-year -39.64% +34.70% +25.00%

Corporate Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Corporate Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Corporate Banking 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 18 September 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 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 18 September 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 +35 66 £650 +33.33% 24
London +50 56 £650 -5.45% 23
Work from Home +26 23 £650 +28.40% 9
UK excluding London -7 20 £400 - 5
Scotland +6 10 £400 -
North of England -9 9 £374 -
North West -10 9 £374 -
East Midlands -5 1 - -
Midlands -19 1 - -

Corporate 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 6 (7.89%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.95%) Confluence
3 2 (2.63%) SAS
4 1 (1.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.32%) Apache
4 1 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (9.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.95%) Chatbot
4 2 (2.63%) UserZoom
5 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.32%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.32%) Sketch
5 1 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.21%) AWS
1 7 (9.21%) Figma
2 6 (7.89%) Power Platform
3 5 (6.58%) Azure
4 4 (5.26%) Copilot Studio
4 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (3.95%) Azure AI
5 3 (3.95%) Collibra
5 3 (3.95%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.95%) Power Automate
5 3 (3.95%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.63%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (2.63%) Azure AKS
6 2 (2.63%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (2.63%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.32%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.32%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.32%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.58%) Tableau
2 3 (3.95%) Data Hub
2 3 (3.95%) Metadata
2 3 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.95%) Power BI
3 2 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.63%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.32%) Big Data
4 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.32%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (7.89%) JIRA
2 4 (5.26%) Git
3 1 (1.32%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.32%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.32%) GitLab
3 1 (1.32%) JMeter
3 1 (1.32%) JUnit
3 1 (1.32%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.32%) Maven
3 1 (1.32%) Postman
3 1 (1.32%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.32%) Selenium
General
1 76 (100.00%) Banking
2 52 (68.42%) Investment Banking
3 51 (67.11%) Retail Banking
4 49 (64.47%) Retail
5 45 (59.21%) Finance
6 24 (31.58%) Social Skills
7 11 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (14.47%) Financial Institution
8 4 (5.26%) Legal
8 4 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (3.95%) Marketing
10 2 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.63%) Front Office
10 2 (2.63%) Private Banking
11 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (28.95%) Analyst
2 11 (14.47%) Business Analyst
3 9 (11.84%) Designer
4 8 (10.53%) Data Analyst
5 7 (9.21%) Architect
5 7 (9.21%) Developer
6 5 (6.58%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (6.58%) Project Manager
7 4 (5.26%) Data Architect
7 4 (5.26%) React Developer
7 4 (5.26%) Senior
8 3 (3.95%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 3 (3.95%) Gen AI Developer
8 3 (3.95%) Lead
8 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Payments Architect
8 3 (3.95%) Payments Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.95%) Power Platform Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.58%) React
2 4 (5.26%) FastAPI
2 4 (5.26%) HTML
2 4 (5.26%) JSON
2 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Graph
2 4 (5.26%) PySpark
3 3 (3.95%) Flask
3 3 (3.95%) LangChain
3 3 (3.95%) Semantic Kernel
3 3 (3.95%) SQLAlchemy
4 2 (2.63%) REST
5 1 (1.32%) CSS3
5 1 (1.32%) HTML5
5 1 (1.32%) LESS
5 1 (1.32%) NumPy
5 1 (1.32%) OAuth
5 1 (1.32%) Pandas
5 1 (1.32%) RESTful
5 1 (1.32%) Sass
5 1 (1.32%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.16%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.58%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.95%) AI Agents
3 3 (3.95%) Low-Code
3 3 (3.95%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.95%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.95%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.63%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.63%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.32%) Animation
5 1 (1.32%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.32%) Derivative
5 1 (1.32%) Equities
5 1 (1.32%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.32%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.63%) Android
1 2 (2.63%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (64.47%) Wealth Management
2 17 (22.37%) Agile
3 16 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (19.74%) Analytics
4 15 (19.74%) Artificial Intelligence
4 15 (19.74%) Data Modelling
5 14 (18.42%) Decision-Making
5 14 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (14.47%) Actionable Insight
6 11 (14.47%) Data Analysis
6 11 (14.47%) Risk Management
6 11 (14.47%) User Experience
7 10 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (13.16%) Generative AI
7 10 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (11.84%) UX Design
9 7 (9.21%) Customer Experience
9 7 (9.21%) ETL
9 7 (9.21%) Storytelling
10 6 (7.89%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 21 (27.63%) Python
2 14 (18.42%) SQL
3 4 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.95%) C#
4 3 (3.95%) R
5 2 (2.63%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.32%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (9.21%) Degree
2 2 (2.63%) CISA
2 2 (2.63%) CISSP
2 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 2 (2.63%) Master's Degree
2 2 (2.63%) PMI Certification
2 2 (2.63%) PMP
3 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.32%) CBAP
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.21%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.95%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.95%) GDPR
2 3 (3.95%) QA
3 2 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.32%) Basel III
4 1 (1.32%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.32%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.32%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.32%) MiFID
4 1 (1.32%) NIST
4 1 (1.32%) PSD2
4 1 (1.32%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (1.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.95%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.26%) Databricks
2 4 (5.26%) OpenAI
2 4 (5.26%) Oracle
3 2 (2.63%) Adobe
3 2 (2.63%) Planview
4 1 (1.32%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.32%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.32%) Informatica
4 1 (1.32%) Talend
4 1 (1.32%) Workday