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 25 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 469 508
Rank change year-on-year -104 +39 +92
Contract jobs citing Corporate Banking 97 81 53
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.25% 0.14%
As % of the General category 0.33% 0.39% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 20
10th Percentile £352 £358 £372
25th Percentile £411 £422 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £588 £440
Median % change year-on-year -11.19% +33.52% -36.00%
75th Percentile £650 £706 £656
90th Percentile £840 £751 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £449 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +12.25% - -

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 29,490 20,770 22,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.97% 63.45% 57.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,431 12,916 13,846
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
25th Percentile £415 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £749 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,285 1,168 1,267
10th Percentile £13.89 £13.43 £14.06
25th Percentile £17.11 £16.17 £16.70
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -28.87% +28.58%
75th Percentile £56.21 £50.00 £59.98
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £70.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £22.14 £35.00
% change year-on-year +44.53% -36.74% +34.74%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -95 89 £531 -18.31% 12
London -55 76 £650 -3.70% 12
Work from Home -45 43 £594 -8.69% 6
UK excluding London -100 19 £449 +12.25% 5
North of England -68 9 £389 +3.94%
North West -42 8 £389 +3.94%
Scotland -14 7 £410 +2.50% 3
East Midlands -16 3 £537 -
Midlands -60 3 £537 -
Yorkshire - 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 9 (9.28%) Confluence
2 2 (2.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.03%) Appian
3 1 (1.03%) CICS
3 1 (1.03%) SAS
3 1 (1.03%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (3.09%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.06%) Chatbot
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.03%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Loan IQ
1 4 (4.12%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (3.09%) Temenos T24
3 2 (2.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (1.03%) Actimize
4 1 (1.03%) Finacle
4 1 (1.03%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (1.03%) OneSumX
4 1 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (8.25%) AWS
2 7 (7.22%) Power Platform
3 5 (5.15%) GCP
3 5 (5.15%) SaaS
4 3 (3.09%) Apigee
4 3 (3.09%) Azure
4 3 (3.09%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.06%) Adobe Analytics
5 2 (2.06%) Contentsquare
6 1 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.03%) Figma
6 1 (1.03%) GitHub
6 1 (1.03%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.03%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) SSH
2 1 (1.03%) BGP
2 1 (1.03%) Firewall
2 1 (1.03%) MIMO
2 1 (1.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.22%) Power BI
1 7 (7.22%) Tableau
2 3 (3.09%) Metadata
2 3 (3.09%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.06%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.03%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.03%) Data Vault
4 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.03%) Essbase
4 1 (1.03%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (17.53%) JIRA
2 2 (2.06%) Cypress.io
2 2 (2.06%) Git
2 2 (2.06%) webpack
3 1 (1.03%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.03%) ERwin
3 1 (1.03%) GitLab
3 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.03%) PowerDesigner
General
1 97 (100.00%) Banking
2 73 (75.26%) Finance
3 51 (52.58%) Investment Banking
3 51 (52.58%) Retail Banking
4 44 (45.36%) Retail
5 18 (18.56%) Social Skills
6 15 (15.46%) Financial Institution
7 14 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (13.40%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (11.34%) Legal
10 8 (8.25%) Billing
10 8 (8.25%) Front Office
11 3 (3.09%) Marketing
11 3 (3.09%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (2.06%) Japanese Language
13 1 (1.03%) Aviation
13 1 (1.03%) French Language
13 1 (1.03%) Health Technology
13 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (16.49%) Analyst
1 16 (16.49%) Lead
2 11 (11.34%) Product Owner
3 8 (8.25%) Business Analyst
3 8 (8.25%) Product Lead
4 6 (6.19%) Data Analyst
4 6 (6.19%) Senior
5 4 (4.12%) Architect
5 4 (4.12%) Business Systems Analyst
5 4 (4.12%) Category Manager
5 4 (4.12%) Payments Architect
5 4 (4.12%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 4 (4.12%) Product Manager
5 4 (4.12%) Project Manager
5 4 (4.12%) Software Engineer
5 4 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.09%) Banking Project Manager
6 3 (3.09%) Digital Product Manager
6 3 (3.09%) Documentation Specialist
6 3 (3.09%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.15%) Kafka
1 5 (5.15%) Node.js
1 5 (5.15%) REST
2 4 (4.12%) Terraform
3 3 (3.09%) A2A Protocol
3 3 (3.09%) GraphQL
3 3 (3.09%) Model Context Protocol
3 3 (3.09%) React
4 2 (2.06%) Apollo GraphQL
4 2 (2.06%) DOM
4 2 (2.06%) Jest
4 2 (2.06%) Micronaut
4 2 (2.06%) RESTful
4 2 (2.06%) Sass
4 2 (2.06%) Spring
4 2 (2.06%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.03%) Jakarta EE
5 1 (1.03%) OAuth
5 1 (1.03%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.03%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 27 (27.84%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.25%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.19%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.15%) Mobile App
5 4 (4.12%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.09%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.06%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.06%) PKI
8 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.03%) Derivative
8 1 (1.03%) EPoS
8 1 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.03%) FPGA
8 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.03%) Grid Computing
8 1 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.03%) Online Banking
8 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.09%) Android
1 3 (3.09%) Apple iOS
1 3 (3.09%) Linux
2 2 (2.06%) Unix
3 1 (1.03%) AIX
3 1 (1.03%) HPUX
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.03%) Solaris
3 1 (1.03%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (47.42%) Wealth Management
2 41 (42.27%) Agile
3 40 (41.24%) Stakeholder Management
4 29 (29.90%) AI
5 26 (26.80%) Roadmaps
6 22 (22.68%) Analytics
7 19 (19.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (17.53%) Migration
9 16 (16.49%) Customer Experience
9 16 (16.49%) Scrum
10 15 (15.46%) Decision-Making
11 14 (14.43%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (12.37%) Regulatory Compliance
13 11 (11.34%) Backlog Prioritisation
13 11 (11.34%) Generative AI
14 10 (10.31%) Product Backlog
14 10 (10.31%) Product Vision
14 10 (10.31%) Programme Delivery
15 9 (9.28%) Project Delivery
15 9 (9.28%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 12 (12.37%) Python
1 12 (12.37%) SQL
2 7 (7.22%) Java
3 3 (3.09%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.09%) TypeScript
4 2 (2.06%) Bash
5 1 (1.03%) Perl
5 1 (1.03%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.03%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (9.28%) Degree
2 2 (2.06%) ACCA
2 2 (2.06%) CIMA
3 1 (1.03%) CFA
3 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.03%) MBA
3 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.03%) PMP
3 1 (1.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.22%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.12%) GDPR
2 4 (4.12%) QA
3 3 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.09%) PSD2
4 1 (1.03%) COREP
4 1 (1.03%) EMIR
4 1 (1.03%) FINREP
4 1 (1.03%) IFRS
4 1 (1.03%) MiFID
4 1 (1.03%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.03%) PMO
4 1 (1.03%) SEPA
4 1 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.15%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.06%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (9.28%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.12%) Oracle
2 4 (4.12%) Temenos
3 3 (3.09%) Google
4 2 (2.06%) Adobe
4 2 (2.06%) AppDynamics
4 2 (2.06%) Databricks
4 2 (2.06%) Pega
4 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.06%) SAP
4 2 (2.06%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.06%) Sparx
4 2 (2.06%) Splunk
4 2 (2.06%) Thales
5 1 (1.03%) BT
5 1 (1.03%) Cisco
5 1 (1.03%) HP
5 1 (1.03%) Hyperion
5 1 (1.03%) Interwoven
5 1 (1.03%) Progress