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 2 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 484 572
Rank change year-on-year -37 +88 +113
Contract jobs citing Corporate Banking 54 56 27
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.17% 0.062%
As % of the General category 0.24% 0.28% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 13 7
10th Percentile £336 £368 £420
25th Percentile £355 £400 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £488 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% -22.00% +9.65%
75th Percentile £678 £618 £669
90th Percentile £700 £667 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £354 £400 £425
% change year-on-year -11.50% -5.88% -12.82%

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 22,509 20,164 25,593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 60.69% 61.39% 59.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,144 12,012 16,860
10th Percentile £283 £285 £275
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.31% -1.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £730 £756 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,393 690 1,126
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.48 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.78 £16.26
Median hourly rate £23.50 £27.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% -16.03% +31.00%
75th Percentile £46.00 £54.69 £59.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.58 £70.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £26.23 £30.48
% change year-on-year -16.13% -13.93% +38.52%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 -50 47 £538 +10.26% 11
London -18 35 £650 +9.24% 10
UK excluding London -56 17 £354 -11.50% 4
Work from Home -7 16 £502 +25.50% 4
East Midlands -16 8 £340 -15.00%
Midlands -33 8 £340 -15.00%
Scotland +4 6 £358 -
North of England -35 4 £441 +17.60% 1
North West - 4 £441 - 1
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 (14.81%) Confluence
2 5 (9.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (12.96%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (9.26%) Chatbot
3 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 11 (20.37%) Power Platform
2 5 (9.26%) AWS
2 5 (9.26%) Azure
3 4 (7.41%) Copilot Studio
3 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (5.56%) Azure AI
4 3 (5.56%) Collibra
4 3 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (5.56%) Power Automate
4 3 (5.56%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.70%) Azure AKS
5 2 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (3.70%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.85%) Figma
6 1 (1.85%) OCI
6 1 (1.85%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.81%) Power BI
2 4 (7.41%) Metadata
3 3 (5.56%) Data Hub
3 3 (5.56%) Tableau
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (3.70%) DataStage
4 2 (3.70%) DB2
4 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.85%) Big Data
5 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (18.52%) JIRA
2 4 (7.41%) Git
3 2 (3.70%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.70%) GitLab
3 2 (3.70%) Selenium
4 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.85%) JMeter
4 1 (1.85%) JUnit
4 1 (1.85%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.85%) Maven
4 1 (1.85%) Postman
4 1 (1.85%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.85%) TestNG
General
1 54 (100.00%) Banking
2 41 (75.93%) Finance
3 30 (55.56%) Retail Banking
4 28 (51.85%) Investment Banking
5 25 (46.30%) Retail
6 18 (33.33%) Social Skills
7 11 (20.37%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (16.67%) Financial Institution
9 2 (3.70%) Games
9 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.85%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.85%) Legal
10 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (22.22%) Analyst
2 11 (20.37%) Project Manager
3 8 (14.81%) Architect
4 6 (11.11%) Developer
5 5 (9.26%) Data Analyst
5 5 (9.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (7.41%) Business Analyst
6 4 (7.41%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Banking Project Manager
7 3 (5.56%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Power Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Senior
8 2 (3.70%) Business Engagement Manager
8 2 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Senior Architect
8 2 (3.70%) T24 Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.11%) REST
2 5 (9.26%) React
3 4 (7.41%) FastAPI
3 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (5.56%) JSON
4 3 (5.56%) LangChain
4 3 (5.56%) PySpark
4 3 (5.56%) Semantic Kernel
5 2 (3.70%) Kafka
5 2 (3.70%) Middleware
6 1 (1.85%) CSS3
6 1 (1.85%) LESS
6 1 (1.85%) NLTK
6 1 (1.85%) OAuth
6 1 (1.85%) OpenAPI
6 1 (1.85%) Pandas
6 1 (1.85%) Sass
6 1 (1.85%) SpaCy
6 1 (1.85%) Swagger
6 1 (1.85%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.07%) Product Ownership
2 7 (12.96%) PMI
3 5 (9.26%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.56%) AI Agents
4 3 (5.56%) Low-Code
5 2 (3.70%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.70%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (55.56%) Wealth Management
2 19 (35.19%) Agile
3 17 (31.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (29.63%) Project Management
5 14 (25.93%) AI
5 14 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (22.22%) Scrum
7 11 (20.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 10 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (16.67%) Data Modelling
10 8 (14.81%) Analytics
10 8 (14.81%) Kanban
10 8 (14.81%) Process Improvement
10 8 (14.81%) Regulatory Compliance
10 8 (14.81%) Roadmaps
10 8 (14.81%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 7 (12.96%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
11 7 (12.96%) Regulatory Change
11 7 (12.96%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 17 (31.48%) Python
2 11 (20.37%) SQL
3 5 (9.26%) TypeScript
4 4 (7.41%) C#
5 2 (3.70%) Java
5 2 (3.70%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.85%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (22.22%) Degree
2 8 (14.81%) PMI Certification
2 8 (14.81%) PMP
3 7 (12.96%) Master's Degree
3 7 (12.96%) MBA
3 7 (12.96%) SAFe Agilist
4 2 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.85%) ACCA
5 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.85%) CFA
5 1 (1.85%) CIMA
5 1 (1.85%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (20.37%) QA
2 7 (12.96%) Basel III
3 6 (11.11%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.70%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.85%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (1.85%) EMIR
5 1 (1.85%) IFRS
5 1 (1.85%) MiFID
5 1 (1.85%) PSD2
5 1 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.85%) SLA
5 1 (1.85%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.26%) Databricks
3 4 (7.41%) OpenAI
4 3 (5.56%) Oracle
5 2 (3.70%) IBM
6 1 (1.85%) Pega
6 1 (1.85%) Planview
6 1 (1.85%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.85%) Workday