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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 447 514
Rank change year-on-year -90 +67 +121
Contract jobs citing Corporate Banking 94 71 53
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.24% 0.12%
As % of the General category 0.36% 0.38% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 9 20
10th Percentile £340 £374 £372
25th Percentile £404 £400 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -14.29% +2.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
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 26,337 18,442 24,728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.81% 63.30% 57.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,946 11,681 15,547
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £756 £764
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.58% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,748 823 1,981
10th Percentile £13.72 £13.50 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.69 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.94 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -6.87% -7.12%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £67.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.07 £24.34 £28.34
% change year-on-year +19.43% -14.10% +3.04%

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 1 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 1 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 -79 86 £500 -15.97% 15
London -55 63 £593 -4.82% 13
Work from Home -34 43 £537 +13.05% 10
UK excluding London -78 30 £423 +5.75% 5
North West -41 14 £444 +65.49% 2
North of England -70 14 £444 +65.49% 2
East Midlands - 9 £402 -
Midlands - 9 £402 -
Scotland -2 8 - - 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 13 (13.83%) Confluence
2 2 (2.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.13%) SAS
3 1 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.06%) Appian
3 1 (1.06%) CICS
Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.19%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.13%) Chatbot
3 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.13%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (5.32%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.13%) Finacle
3 1 (1.06%) Actimize
3 1 (1.06%) Loan IQ
3 1 (1.06%) OneSumX
3 1 (1.06%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (1.06%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.06%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.70%) AWS
2 10 (10.64%) Power Platform
3 6 (6.38%) Snowflake
4 5 (5.32%) SaaS
5 3 (3.19%) Figma
6 2 (2.13%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (2.13%) Azure
6 2 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.13%) Collibra
6 2 (2.13%) Contentsquare
6 2 (2.13%) GCP
7 1 (1.06%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (1.06%) Apigee
7 1 (1.06%) GitHub
7 1 (1.06%) Google Gemini
7 1 (1.06%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.06%) OCI
7 1 (1.06%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.06%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.64%) Power BI
2 6 (6.38%) Tableau
3 2 (2.13%) DataStage
3 2 (2.13%) Metadata
3 2 (2.13%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.13%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.06%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (1.06%) Big Data
4 1 (1.06%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.06%) DB2
4 1 (1.06%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.06%) Essbase
4 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.06%) Neo4j
4 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.06%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 1 (1.06%) ThoughtSpot
4 1 (1.06%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 19 (20.21%) JIRA
2 3 (3.19%) GitLab
3 2 (2.13%) Git
4 1 (1.06%) Balsamiq
4 1 (1.06%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.06%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.06%) Gemini Tracker
4 1 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.06%) Selenium
4 1 (1.06%) TestNG
4 1 (1.06%) webpack
General
1 94 (100.00%) Banking
2 62 (65.96%) Finance
3 47 (50.00%) Retail Banking
4 43 (45.74%) Investment Banking
5 40 (42.55%) Retail
6 21 (22.34%) Social Skills
7 16 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (7.45%) Financial Institution
9 6 (6.38%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (6.38%) Legal
10 3 (3.19%) Front Office
10 3 (3.19%) Marketing
10 3 (3.19%) Wholesale Banking
11 2 (2.13%) Billing
11 2 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (2.13%) Public Sector
12 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (1.06%) International Banking
12 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (18.09%) Analyst
2 11 (11.70%) Architect
2 11 (11.70%) Business Analyst
3 10 (10.64%) Product Owner
3 10 (10.64%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (8.51%) Lead
5 7 (7.45%) Project Manager
6 5 (5.32%) Data Analyst
6 5 (5.32%) Senior
7 4 (4.26%) Category Manager
7 4 (4.26%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Payments Architect
7 4 (4.26%) Payments Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.26%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Product Manager
8 3 (3.19%) Banking Project Manager
8 3 (3.19%) Integration Engineer
8 3 (3.19%) Payments Analyst
8 3 (3.19%) Software Engineer
9 2 (2.13%) Cash Management Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.45%) Kafka
2 2 (2.13%) GraphQL
2 2 (2.13%) Micronaut
2 2 (2.13%) Middleware
2 2 (2.13%) Node.js
2 2 (2.13%) PySpark
2 2 (2.13%) React
2 2 (2.13%) REST
2 2 (2.13%) Spring
2 2 (2.13%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.06%) A2A Protocol
3 1 (1.06%) Apollo GraphQL
3 1 (1.06%) DOM
3 1 (1.06%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.06%) Jest
3 1 (1.06%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (1.06%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.06%) RESTful
3 1 (1.06%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.06%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.21%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.45%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.38%) PMI
4 4 (4.26%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.26%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.19%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.06%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.06%) EPoS
7 1 (1.06%) Online Banking
7 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.06%) Android
1 1 (1.06%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (46.81%) Wealth Management
2 38 (40.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (39.36%) Agile
4 23 (24.47%) Roadmaps
5 19 (20.21%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (18.09%) Analytics
6 17 (18.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (15.96%) Decision-Making
7 15 (15.96%) Project Management
8 14 (14.89%) AI
9 12 (12.77%) Scrum
10 11 (11.70%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (11.70%) Customer Experience
10 11 (11.70%) Migration
10 11 (11.70%) Regulatory Compliance
11 10 (10.64%) Product Backlog
12 9 (9.57%) Backlog Prioritisation
12 9 (9.57%) Fintech
12 9 (9.57%) Product Roadmap
12 9 (9.57%) Regulatory Change
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.89%) SQL
2 11 (11.70%) Python
3 6 (6.38%) Java
4 2 (2.13%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.13%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.13%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.06%) Bash
5 1 (1.06%) C#
5 1 (1.06%) Perl
5 1 (1.06%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (14.89%) Degree
2 9 (9.57%) Master's Degree
2 9 (9.57%) MBA
3 6 (6.38%) PMI Certification
3 6 (6.38%) PMP
3 6 (6.38%) SAFe Agilist
4 3 (3.19%) ACCA
4 3 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.19%) CIMA
4 3 (3.19%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.13%) CFA
6 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.06%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.06%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.83%) QA
2 11 (11.70%) Data Quality
3 6 (6.38%) Basel III
4 3 (3.19%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.19%) GDPR
4 3 (3.19%) PSD2
5 2 (2.13%) IFRS
6 1 (1.06%) COREP
6 1 (1.06%) EMIR
6 1 (1.06%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.06%) FINREP
6 1 (1.06%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.06%) MiFID
6 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.06%) SEPA
6 1 (1.06%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (2.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.19%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.13%) Terraform
3 1 (1.06%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (4.26%) Microsoft
1 4 (4.26%) Oracle
2 3 (3.19%) Databricks
3 2 (2.13%) Adobe
3 2 (2.13%) Google
3 2 (2.13%) IBM
3 2 (2.13%) Pega
3 2 (2.13%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.13%) Temenos
4 1 (1.06%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.06%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.06%) BT
4 1 (1.06%) Fiserv
4 1 (1.06%) Hyperion
4 1 (1.06%) Informatica
4 1 (1.06%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (1.06%) Progress
4 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.06%) Splunk
4 1 (1.06%) Teradata