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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 477 566
Rank change year-on-year -70 +89 +113
Contract jobs citing Corporate Banking 61 51 34
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.17% 0.078%
As % of the General category 0.25% 0.27% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 8 11
10th Percentile £337 £363 £375
25th Percentile £380 £423 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £554 £650
Median % change year-on-year -19.28% -14.81% +22.35%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £681
90th Percentile £700 £667 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +7.20% -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 24,221 19,066 25,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.44% 62.13% 58.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,157 11,654 16,607
10th Percentile £300 £290 £265
25th Percentile £404 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £495
% change year-on-year -0.52% -3.54% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,475 619 1,703
10th Percentile £13.59 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.49 £20.63 £15.27
Median hourly rate £23.58 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.42% +15.38% -7.52%
75th Percentile £53.75 £57.94 £51.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £65.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.27 £27.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -19.04% +10.00% -

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 26 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 26 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 -78 54 £447 -19.28% 5
London -27 34 £575 -3.36% 4
Work from Home -6 27 £418 -37.33% 3
UK excluding London -66 25 £402 +7.20% 3
North of England -53 12 £423 +12.80% 1
North West - 12 £423 - 1
East Midlands - 8 £340 -
Midlands - 8 £340 -
Scotland +7 6 - -
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 (16.39%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.64%) SAS
2 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (13.11%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (6.56%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.64%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (3.28%) Finacle
2 2 (3.28%) Temenos T24
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.75%) Power Platform
2 7 (11.48%) AWS
3 4 (6.56%) Snowflake
4 3 (4.92%) Azure
5 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.28%) Collibra
5 2 (3.28%) Figma
6 1 (1.64%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (1.64%) Azure AI
6 1 (1.64%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.64%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.64%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (1.64%) GCP
6 1 (1.64%) Google Gemini
6 1 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.64%) OCI
6 1 (1.64%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.64%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.64%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.11%) Power BI
2 5 (8.20%) Metadata
3 3 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.28%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (3.28%) DataStage
4 2 (3.28%) DB2
4 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.28%) Tableau
5 1 (1.64%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (1.64%) Big Data
5 1 (1.64%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.64%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.64%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 1 (1.64%) ThoughtSpot
5 1 (1.64%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 10 (16.39%) JIRA
2 2 (3.28%) GitLab
3 1 (1.64%) Balsamiq
3 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.64%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (1.64%) Git
3 1 (1.64%) Selenium
3 1 (1.64%) TestNG
General
1 61 (100.00%) Banking
2 41 (67.21%) Finance
3 32 (52.46%) Retail Banking
4 28 (45.90%) Investment Banking
4 28 (45.90%) Retail
5 22 (36.07%) Social Skills
6 10 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (8.20%) Financial Institution
8 3 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
9 2 (3.28%) Games
9 2 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.64%) Front Office
10 1 (1.64%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.64%) International Banking
10 1 (1.64%) Law
Job Titles
1 15 (24.59%) Analyst
2 12 (19.67%) Architect
3 11 (18.03%) Project Manager
4 9 (14.75%) Business Analyst
5 8 (13.11%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (9.84%) Developer
7 5 (8.20%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (6.56%) Data Analyst
8 4 (6.56%) Data Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Banking Project Manager
9 3 (4.92%) Integration Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Project Analyst
10 2 (3.28%) Database Architect
10 2 (3.28%) Domain Architect
10 2 (3.28%) Payments Solutions Architect
10 2 (3.28%) Platform Engineer
10 2 (3.28%) Product Owner
10 2 (3.28%) Senior Architect
10 2 (3.28%) Senior Database Architect
10 2 (3.28%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.20%) FastAPI
1 5 (8.20%) REST
2 4 (6.56%) React
3 3 (4.92%) Kafka
4 2 (3.28%) JSON
4 2 (3.28%) Middleware
4 2 (3.28%) PySpark
5 1 (1.64%) GraphX
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (1.64%) NetworkX
5 1 (1.64%) NLTK
5 1 (1.64%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.64%) Pandas
5 1 (1.64%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.64%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.64%) SpaCy
5 1 (1.64%) Swagger
5 1 (1.64%) SwiftUI
5 1 (1.64%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (24.59%) Product Ownership
2 8 (13.11%) PMI
3 4 (6.56%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.56%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.28%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.64%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.64%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.64%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (52.46%) Wealth Management
2 26 (42.62%) Agile
3 24 (39.34%) Stakeholder Management
4 17 (27.87%) Project Management
5 15 (24.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (22.95%) Scrum
7 13 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (19.67%) AI
9 11 (18.03%) Fintech
9 11 (18.03%) Roadmaps
9 11 (18.03%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 10 (16.39%) Change Management
10 10 (16.39%) Machine Learning
10 10 (16.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (14.75%) Analytics
11 9 (14.75%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (14.75%) Kanban
11 9 (14.75%) Regulatory Change
12 8 (13.11%) Digital Banking
12 8 (13.11%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 15 (24.59%) Python
2 11 (18.03%) SQL
3 4 (6.56%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.28%) C#
4 2 (3.28%) Java
4 2 (3.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (21.31%) Degree
2 10 (16.39%) Master's Degree
2 10 (16.39%) MBA
3 9 (14.75%) PMI Certification
3 9 (14.75%) PMP
4 8 (13.11%) SAFe Agilist
5 3 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.92%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.64%) ACCA
6 1 (1.64%) CFA
6 1 (1.64%) CIMA
6 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.64%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.64%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (21.31%) QA
2 8 (13.11%) Basel III
2 8 (13.11%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.92%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.28%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.64%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (1.64%) EMIR
5 1 (1.64%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.64%) IFRS
5 1 (1.64%) MiFID
5 1 (1.64%) PSD2
5 1 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.64%) SLA
5 1 (1.64%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (1.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (4.92%) Databricks
1 3 (4.92%) Oracle
2 2 (3.28%) IBM
2 2 (3.28%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.28%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.64%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (1.64%) Google
3 1 (1.64%) Informatica
3 1 (1.64%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (1.64%) Pega
3 1 (1.64%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.64%) Sparx
3 1 (1.64%) Teradata