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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 467 526
Rank change year-on-year -72 +59 +115
Contract jobs citing Corporate Banking 91 57 53
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the General category 0.35% 0.31% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 6 19
10th Percentile £341 £365 £368
25th Percentile £403 £490 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £623 £613
Median % change year-on-year -19.68% +1.63% +2.04%
75th Percentile £631 £713 £663
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £418 £268 £400
% change year-on-year +55.97% -33.00% -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 25,717 18,580 24,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.63% 63.23% 57.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,704 11,812 15,578
10th Percentile £310 £285 £275
25th Percentile £410 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £498
% change year-on-year +2.63% -4.62% -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,655 797 1,927
10th Percentile £13.95 £13.96 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.25 £15.41
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £60.52 £55.93 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £66.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.05 £24.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +14.47% -12.50% -0.57%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -66 84 £500 -19.68% 14
London -37 60 £593 -8.85% 13
Work from Home -15 42 £537 -4.53% 9
UK excluding London -82 30 £418 +55.97% 7
North West -33 14 £444 +65.49%
North of England -70 14 £444 +65.49% 1
East Midlands - 10 £378 -
Midlands - 10 £378 -
Scotland +3 7 - - 4

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 14 (15.38%) Confluence
2 2 (2.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.20%) SAS
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.10%) Appian
3 1 (1.10%) CICS
Applications
1 8 (8.79%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.30%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.20%) Chatbot
3 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.20%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.20%) Finacle
3 1 (1.10%) Actimize
3 1 (1.10%) Loan IQ
3 1 (1.10%) OneSumX
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.10%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 11 (12.09%) Power Platform
2 9 (9.89%) AWS
3 6 (6.59%) Snowflake
4 5 (5.49%) SaaS
5 3 (3.30%) Figma
6 2 (2.20%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (2.20%) Azure
6 2 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.20%) Collibra
6 2 (2.20%) Contentsquare
7 1 (1.10%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (1.10%) GCP
7 1 (1.10%) GitHub
7 1 (1.10%) Google Gemini
7 1 (1.10%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.10%) OCI
7 1 (1.10%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.09%) Power BI
2 6 (6.59%) Tableau
3 2 (2.20%) DataStage
3 2 (2.20%) Metadata
3 2 (2.20%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.20%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.10%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (1.10%) Big Data
4 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.10%) DB2
4 1 (1.10%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.10%) Essbase
4 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.10%) Neo4j
4 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.10%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 1 (1.10%) ThoughtSpot
4 1 (1.10%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 20 (21.98%) JIRA
2 3 (3.30%) GitLab
3 2 (2.20%) Git
4 1 (1.10%) Balsamiq
4 1 (1.10%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.10%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.10%) Gemini Tracker
4 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.10%) Selenium
4 1 (1.10%) TestNG
4 1 (1.10%) webpack
General
1 91 (100.00%) Banking
2 61 (67.03%) Finance
3 45 (49.45%) Retail Banking
4 40 (43.96%) Investment Banking
5 37 (40.66%) Retail
6 20 (21.98%) Social Skills
7 16 (17.58%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (7.69%) Financial Institution
9 6 (6.59%) Legal
10 5 (5.49%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (3.30%) Front Office
11 3 (3.30%) Marketing
11 3 (3.30%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (2.20%) Public Sector
13 1 (1.10%) French Language
13 1 (1.10%) German Language
13 1 (1.10%) Italian Language
13 1 (1.10%) Japanese Language
13 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (17.58%) Analyst
2 11 (12.09%) Architect
3 10 (10.99%) Business Analyst
3 10 (10.99%) Product Owner
3 10 (10.99%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (8.79%) Project Manager
5 7 (7.69%) Lead
6 5 (5.49%) Data Analyst
7 4 (4.40%) Category Manager
7 4 (4.40%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Payments Architect
7 4 (4.40%) Payments Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.40%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Product Manager
7 4 (4.40%) Senior
8 3 (3.30%) Banking Project Manager
8 3 (3.30%) Integration Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Payments Analyst
9 2 (2.20%) Business Systems Analyst
9 2 (2.20%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.59%) Kafka
2 2 (2.20%) GraphQL
2 2 (2.20%) Middleware
2 2 (2.20%) PySpark
2 2 (2.20%) React
3 1 (1.10%) Apollo GraphQL
3 1 (1.10%) DOM
3 1 (1.10%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.10%) GraphX
3 1 (1.10%) Jest
3 1 (1.10%) Micronaut
3 1 (1.10%) NetworkX
3 1 (1.10%) Node.js
3 1 (1.10%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.10%) REST
3 1 (1.10%) RESTful
3 1 (1.10%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.10%) Spring
3 1 (1.10%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.88%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 7 (7.69%) PMI
3 4 (4.40%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.30%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (2.20%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.10%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.10%) EPoS
6 1 (1.10%) Online Banking
6 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.10%) Android
1 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (46.15%) Wealth Management
2 38 (41.76%) Stakeholder Management
3 34 (37.36%) Agile
4 22 (24.18%) Roadmaps
5 19 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (18.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (17.58%) Project Management
8 15 (16.48%) Analytics
8 15 (16.48%) Decision-Making
9 12 (13.19%) AI
9 12 (13.19%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (12.09%) Regulatory Compliance
10 11 (12.09%) Scrum
11 10 (10.99%) Change Management
11 10 (10.99%) Customer Experience
11 10 (10.99%) Fintech
11 10 (10.99%) Migration
11 10 (10.99%) Product Backlog
11 10 (10.99%) Regulatory Change
11 10 (10.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.29%) SQL
2 10 (10.99%) Python
3 4 (4.40%) Java
4 2 (2.20%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.20%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.20%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.10%) Bash
5 1 (1.10%) C#
5 1 (1.10%) Perl
5 1 (1.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (16.48%) Degree
2 10 (10.99%) Master's Degree
2 10 (10.99%) MBA
3 7 (7.69%) PMI Certification
3 7 (7.69%) PMP
3 7 (7.69%) SAFe Agilist
4 3 (3.30%) ACCA
4 3 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.30%) CIMA
4 3 (3.30%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.20%) CFA
6 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.10%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.10%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.38%) QA
2 10 (10.99%) Data Quality
3 7 (7.69%) Basel III
4 3 (3.30%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.30%) GDPR
4 3 (3.30%) PSD2
5 2 (2.20%) IFRS
6 1 (1.10%) COREP
6 1 (1.10%) EMIR
6 1 (1.10%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.10%) FINREP
6 1 (1.10%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.10%) MiFID
6 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.10%) SEPA
6 1 (1.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (1.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.10%) Ansible
1 1 (1.10%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (5.49%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.40%) Oracle
3 3 (3.30%) Databricks
4 2 (2.20%) Adobe
4 2 (2.20%) Google
4 2 (2.20%) IBM
4 2 (2.20%) Pega
4 2 (2.20%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.20%) Temenos
5 1 (1.10%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.10%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.10%) BT
5 1 (1.10%) Fiserv
5 1 (1.10%) Hyperion
5 1 (1.10%) Informatica
5 1 (1.10%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.10%) Progress
5 1 (1.10%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.10%) Splunk
5 1 (1.10%) Teradata