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 30 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 459 534
Rank change year-on-year -97 +75 +91
Contract jobs citing Corporate Banking 96 73 51
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.24% 0.12%
As % of the General category 0.34% 0.38% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 11 21
10th Percentile £348 £400 £375
25th Percentile £393 £415 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £525 £613
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% -14.29% -9.26%
75th Percentile £631 £700 £675
90th Percentile £711 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £423 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +5.75% - -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 27,939 19,359 24,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.44% 63.27% 57.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,796 12,166 15,404
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £490
% change year-on-year +6.38% -4.08% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,916 953 1,974
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.47 £12.79
25th Percentile £18.14 £16.41 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.50 £31.61
Median % change year-on-year +16.36% -12.99% +5.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £53.50 £53.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.53 £23.55 £30.37
% change year-on-year +33.87% -22.46% +20.88%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -93 88 £487 -17.19% 8
London -75 66 £600 -7.69% 5
Work from Home -32 43 £537 -4.53% 6
UK excluding London -85 29 £423 +5.75% 6
North West -42 15 £423 +57.84%
North of England -72 15 £423 +57.84%
Scotland -11 8 - - 1
East Midlands - 6 £462 - 3
Midlands - 6 £462 - 3

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 12 (12.50%) Confluence
2 2 (2.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.08%) SAS
2 2 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.04%) Appian
3 1 (1.04%) CICS
Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (3.13%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.08%) Chatbot
3 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.08%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (6.25%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.08%) Finacle
3 1 (1.04%) Actimize
3 1 (1.04%) Loan IQ
3 1 (1.04%) OneSumX
3 1 (1.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.04%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.46%) AWS
2 8 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 6 (6.25%) Snowflake
4 5 (5.21%) SaaS
5 4 (4.17%) GCP
6 3 (3.13%) Apigee
6 3 (3.13%) Azure
6 3 (3.13%) Figma
7 2 (2.08%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.08%) Collibra
7 2 (2.08%) Contentsquare
8 1 (1.04%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (1.04%) GitHub
8 1 (1.04%) Google Gemini
8 1 (1.04%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.04%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.08%) SSH
2 1 (1.04%) BGP
2 1 (1.04%) Firewall
2 1 (1.04%) MIMO
2 1 (1.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.33%) Power BI
2 7 (7.29%) Tableau
3 2 (2.08%) Metadata
3 2 (2.08%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.08%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.04%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (1.04%) Big Data
4 1 (1.04%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.04%) DataStage
4 1 (1.04%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.04%) Essbase
4 1 (1.04%) Neo4j
4 1 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.04%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.04%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.04%) ThoughtSpot
4 1 (1.04%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 18 (18.75%) JIRA
2 3 (3.13%) Git
3 2 (2.08%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.08%) GitLab
3 2 (2.08%) webpack
4 1 (1.04%) Balsamiq
4 1 (1.04%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.04%) Gemini Tracker
4 1 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.04%) Selenium
4 1 (1.04%) TestNG
General
1 96 (100.00%) Banking
2 61 (63.54%) Finance
3 50 (52.08%) Retail Banking
4 48 (50.00%) Investment Banking
5 44 (45.83%) Retail
6 18 (18.75%) Social Skills
7 13 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (9.38%) Financial Institution
9 8 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (6.25%) Legal
11 4 (4.17%) Billing
12 3 (3.13%) Front Office
12 3 (3.13%) Marketing
12 3 (3.13%) Wholesale Banking
13 2 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (2.08%) Public Sector
14 1 (1.04%) French Language
14 1 (1.04%) German Language
14 1 (1.04%) International Banking
14 1 (1.04%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 16 (16.67%) Analyst
2 11 (11.46%) Business Analyst
3 10 (10.42%) Architect
3 10 (10.42%) Lead
3 10 (10.42%) Product Owner
3 10 (10.42%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (6.25%) Senior
5 5 (5.21%) Data Analyst
5 5 (5.21%) Payments Architect
5 5 (5.21%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 5 (5.21%) Project Manager
6 4 (4.17%) Category Manager
6 4 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
6 4 (4.17%) Product Lead
6 4 (4.17%) Product Manager
6 4 (4.17%) Software Engineer
7 3 (3.13%) Banking Project Manager
7 3 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (3.13%) Data Engineer
8 2 (2.08%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.29%) Kafka
2 5 (5.21%) Node.js
2 5 (5.21%) REST
3 3 (3.13%) A2A Protocol
3 3 (3.13%) GraphQL
3 3 (3.13%) Model Context Protocol
3 3 (3.13%) React
4 2 (2.08%) Apollo GraphQL
4 2 (2.08%) DOM
4 2 (2.08%) Jest
4 2 (2.08%) Micronaut
4 2 (2.08%) PySpark
4 2 (2.08%) RESTful
4 2 (2.08%) Sass
4 2 (2.08%) Spring
4 2 (2.08%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.04%) GraphX
5 1 (1.04%) Middleware
5 1 (1.04%) OAuth
5 1 (1.04%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.88%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.21%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.21%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.17%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.13%) PMI
5 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.08%) PKI
6 1 (1.04%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.04%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.04%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.04%) EPoS
6 1 (1.04%) Online Banking
6 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.04%) Android
1 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (48.96%) Wealth Management
2 39 (40.63%) Agile
3 35 (36.46%) Stakeholder Management
4 26 (27.08%) Roadmaps
5 19 (19.79%) Analytics
6 18 (18.75%) AI
7 15 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (15.63%) Decision-Making
7 15 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (13.54%) Customer Experience
8 13 (13.54%) Scrum
9 12 (12.50%) Migration
10 11 (11.46%) Product Backlog
10 11 (11.46%) Project Management
11 10 (10.42%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 10 (10.42%) Regulatory Compliance
12 9 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (9.38%) Mentoring
12 9 (9.38%) Product Roadmap
13 8 (8.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.58%) Python
2 13 (13.54%) SQL
3 8 (8.33%) Java
4 3 (3.13%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.13%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.04%) Bash
5 1 (1.04%) C#
5 1 (1.04%) Perl
5 1 (1.04%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.04%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (11.46%) Degree
2 6 (6.25%) Master's Degree
2 6 (6.25%) MBA
3 3 (3.13%) PMI Certification
3 3 (3.13%) PMP
3 3 (3.13%) SAFe Agilist
3 3 (3.13%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.08%) ACCA
4 2 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.08%) CFA
4 2 (2.08%) CIMA
5 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.04%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.04%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.42%) QA
2 8 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.13%) Basel III
3 3 (3.13%) GDPR
3 3 (3.13%) PSD2
4 1 (1.04%) COREP
4 1 (1.04%) EMIR
4 1 (1.04%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.04%) FINREP
4 1 (1.04%) IFRS
4 1 (1.04%) MiFID
4 1 (1.04%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.04%) SEPA
4 1 (1.04%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (2.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 4 (4.17%) Terraform
2 2 (2.08%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (7.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.13%) Databricks
3 2 (2.08%) Adobe
3 2 (2.08%) Google
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle
3 2 (2.08%) Pega
3 2 (2.08%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.08%) Temenos
3 2 (2.08%) Thales
4 1 (1.04%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.04%) BT
4 1 (1.04%) Cisco
4 1 (1.04%) Hyperion
4 1 (1.04%) IBM
4 1 (1.04%) Informatica
4 1 (1.04%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (1.04%) Progress
4 1 (1.04%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.04%) SAP
4 1 (1.04%) Teradata