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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 466 515
Rank change year-on-year -121 +49 +97
Contract jobs citing Corporate Banking 95 74 47
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.23% 0.12%
As % of the General category 0.31% 0.36% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 19 16
10th Percentile £351 £392 £366
25th Percentile £410 £446 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £625 £488
Median % change year-on-year -17.04% +28.21% -30.36%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £691
90th Percentile £850 £756 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £448 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +11.88% - -

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 30,427 20,617 22,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.76% 63.48% 58.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,821 12,765 13,200
10th Percentile £313 £275 £283
25th Percentile £420 £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 £738 £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 2,558 1,199 1,073
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.50 £14.73
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.17 £17.25
Median hourly rate £29.78 £25.15 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +18.41% -28.87% +28.58%
75th Percentile £54.36 £47.31 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.00 £71.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £21.00 £35.03
% change year-on-year +42.86% -40.05% +28.79%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -114 88 £525 -19.23% 38
London -61 74 £663 +1.92% 34
Work from Home -37 42 £537 -17.38% 14
UK excluding London -100 19 £448 +11.88% 9
North of England -66 9 £353 -26.56%
Scotland -28 6 £410 +2.50% 1
North West -51 6 £353 -26.56%
East Midlands -11 4 £528 - 1
Midlands -47 4 £528 - 1
Yorkshire - 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 5 (5.26%) Confluence
2 3 (3.16%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (2.11%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.05%) CICS
4 1 (1.05%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.11%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.05%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 4 (4.21%) Loan IQ
2 3 (3.16%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (3.16%) Temenos T24
3 2 (2.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (1.05%) Finacle
4 1 (1.05%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (1.05%) OneSumX
4 1 (1.05%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (1.05%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (1.05%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (1.05%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.05%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.05%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (8.42%) AWS
2 7 (7.37%) GCP
3 5 (5.26%) SaaS
4 4 (4.21%) Apigee
4 4 (4.21%) Azure
4 4 (4.21%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.11%) Adobe Analytics
5 2 (2.11%) Contentsquare
5 2 (2.11%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.05%) Figma
6 1 (1.05%) GitHub
6 1 (1.05%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.05%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.05%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.11%) SSH
2 1 (1.05%) BGP
2 1 (1.05%) Firewall
2 1 (1.05%) MIMO
2 1 (1.05%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.21%) Data Lake
1 4 (4.21%) Power BI
2 3 (3.16%) Metadata
2 3 (3.16%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.11%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.11%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.11%) Tableau
4 1 (1.05%) Big Data
4 1 (1.05%) Data Vault
4 1 (1.05%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.05%) Essbase
4 1 (1.05%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (1.05%) OLAP
4 1 (1.05%) OLTP
4 1 (1.05%) Parquet
4 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (13.68%) JIRA
2 3 (3.16%) Git
3 2 (2.11%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.11%) webpack
4 1 (1.05%) ER Studio
4 1 (1.05%) ERwin
4 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.05%) PowerDesigner
General
1 95 (100.00%) Banking
2 74 (77.89%) Finance
3 50 (52.63%) Investment Banking
3 50 (52.63%) Retail Banking
4 43 (45.26%) Retail
5 19 (20.00%) Social Skills
6 16 (16.84%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (15.79%) Financial Institution
8 11 (11.58%) Legal
9 8 (8.42%) Billing
10 7 (7.37%) Front Office
11 3 (3.16%) Marketing
12 2 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (1.05%) Aviation
13 1 (1.05%) Back Office
13 1 (1.05%) General Ledger
13 1 (1.05%) Health Technology
13 1 (1.05%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 16 (16.84%) Lead
2 13 (13.68%) Product Owner
3 12 (12.63%) Analyst
4 8 (8.42%) Product Lead
5 6 (6.32%) Senior
6 5 (5.26%) Business Analyst
6 5 (5.26%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.21%) Architect
7 4 (4.21%) Category Manager
7 4 (4.21%) Data Analyst
7 4 (4.21%) Software Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.16%) Banking Project Manager
8 3 (3.16%) Digital Product Owner
8 3 (3.16%) Payments Architect
8 3 (3.16%) Payments Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.16%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (3.16%) Product Manager
8 3 (3.16%) SQL Analyst
8 3 (3.16%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.37%) Kafka
2 6 (6.32%) Node.js
2 6 (6.32%) REST
3 4 (4.21%) Terraform
4 3 (3.16%) A2A Protocol
4 3 (3.16%) GraphQL
4 3 (3.16%) Jakarta EE
4 3 (3.16%) Model Context Protocol
4 3 (3.16%) React
4 3 (3.16%) Spring
4 3 (3.16%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.11%) .NET
5 2 (2.11%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.11%) Apollo GraphQL
5 2 (2.11%) DOM
5 2 (2.11%) Jest
5 2 (2.11%) Micronaut
5 2 (2.11%) RESTful
5 2 (2.11%) Sass
6 1 (1.05%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 30 (31.58%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.42%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.32%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.26%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.21%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.21%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.11%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.11%) Derivative
6 2 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.11%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (2.11%) PKI
6 2 (2.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.05%) EPoS
7 1 (1.05%) FPGA
7 1 (1.05%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.05%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.21%) Linux
1 4 (4.21%) Unix
2 3 (3.16%) Android
2 3 (3.16%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.05%) AIX
3 1 (1.05%) HPUX
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.05%) Solaris
3 1 (1.05%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (47.37%) Wealth Management
2 41 (43.16%) Agile
3 39 (41.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 31 (32.63%) AI
5 25 (26.32%) Roadmaps
6 22 (23.16%) Analytics
7 20 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (18.95%) Migration
9 15 (15.79%) Customer Experience
9 15 (15.79%) Scrum
10 14 (14.74%) Decision-Making
10 14 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (12.63%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 12 (12.63%) Product Vision
12 11 (11.58%) Generative AI
13 10 (10.53%) Customer-Centricity
13 10 (10.53%) Project Delivery
14 9 (9.47%) Anti-Money Laundering
14 9 (9.47%) Model Validation
14 9 (9.47%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.84%) SQL
2 15 (15.79%) Python
3 10 (10.53%) Java
4 3 (3.16%) Bash
4 3 (3.16%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.16%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.16%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.05%) C#
5 1 (1.05%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (9.47%) Degree
2 2 (2.11%) ACCA
2 2 (2.11%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.11%) CIMA
2 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.11%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.05%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.05%) PMP
3 1 (1.05%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.37%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.21%) GDPR
2 4 (4.21%) PSD2
3 3 (3.16%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.11%) QA
4 2 (2.11%) SEPA
5 1 (1.05%) COREP
5 1 (1.05%) FINREP
5 1 (1.05%) GRC
5 1 (1.05%) IFRS
5 1 (1.05%) PMO
5 1 (1.05%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (4.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (9.47%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.05%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (8.42%) Microsoft
1 8 (8.42%) Oracle
2 5 (5.26%) Google
2 5 (5.26%) Temenos
3 3 (3.16%) AppDynamics
3 3 (3.16%) Databricks
3 3 (3.16%) SAP
3 3 (3.16%) Splunk
4 2 (2.11%) Adobe
4 2 (2.11%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.11%) Sparx
4 2 (2.11%) Thales
5 1 (1.05%) Cisco
5 1 (1.05%) FIS
5 1 (1.05%) Mellanox
5 1 (1.05%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.05%) Murex
5 1 (1.05%) Progress
5 1 (1.05%) Solarflare
5 1 (1.05%) Wolters Kluwer