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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 491 562
Rank change year-on-year -38 +71 +123
Contract jobs citing Corporate Banking 58 46 28
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.15% 0.065%
As % of the General category 0.26% 0.23% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 8 9
10th Percentile £340 £363 £375
25th Percentile £391 £423 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £554 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.48% -14.81% +16.07%
75th Percentile £650 £630 £688
90th Percentile £700 £667 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +7.20% -6.25% -17.95%

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 22,609 19,593 25,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 59.81% 61.80% 58.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,246 11,682 16,524
10th Percentile £285 £285 £270
25th Percentile £401 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £730 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,393 656 1,370
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.62 £13.31
25th Percentile £16.45 £20.00 £15.41
Median hourly rate £22.99 £27.84 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.41% +1.22% +10.00%
75th Percentile £46.00 £53.75 £56.37
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.66 £68.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.30 £26.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -19.62% +1.92% +15.56%

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 January 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 January 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 -35 50 £478 -13.77% 7
London -19 33 £625 +5.04% 4
UK excluding London -62 23 £402 +7.20% 5
Work from Home -5 17 £418 -37.33% 4
North of England -53 9 £444 +18.27% 2
North West - 9 £444 - 2
East Midlands - 8 £340 -
Midlands - 8 £340 -
Scotland 0 7 £358 - 1
South West - 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 8 (13.79%) Confluence
2 5 (8.62%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (6.90%) Chatbot
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Finacle
1 2 (3.45%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.24%) Power Platform
2 5 (8.62%) AWS
2 5 (8.62%) Azure
3 4 (6.90%) Collibra
3 4 (6.90%) Copilot Studio
3 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (5.17%) Azure AI
4 3 (5.17%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (5.17%) Power Automate
4 3 (5.17%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.45%) Azure AKS
5 2 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (3.45%) OneDrive
5 2 (3.45%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.72%) Figma
6 1 (1.72%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.07%) Power BI
2 4 (6.90%) Metadata
3 3 (5.17%) Data Hub
3 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (3.45%) DataStage
4 2 (3.45%) DB2
4 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.72%) Big Data
5 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (15.52%) JIRA
2 4 (6.90%) Git
3 3 (5.17%) GitLab
4 2 (3.45%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.45%) Selenium
5 1 (1.72%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.72%) JMeter
5 1 (1.72%) JUnit
5 1 (1.72%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.72%) Maven
5 1 (1.72%) Postman
5 1 (1.72%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.72%) TestNG
General
1 58 (100.00%) Banking
2 47 (81.03%) Finance
3 28 (48.28%) Retail Banking
4 25 (43.10%) Investment Banking
5 24 (41.38%) Retail
6 21 (36.21%) Social Skills
7 11 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (17.24%) Financial Institution
9 2 (3.45%) Games
9 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.72%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (20.69%) Analyst
2 11 (18.97%) Architect
3 10 (17.24%) Project Manager
4 6 (10.34%) Developer
5 5 (8.62%) Business Analyst
5 5 (8.62%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (6.90%) Data Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Banking Project Manager
7 3 (5.17%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Integration Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Power Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Senior
8 2 (3.45%) Business Engagement Manager
8 2 (3.45%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.34%) REST
2 5 (8.62%) FastAPI
3 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Graph
3 4 (6.90%) React
4 3 (5.17%) JSON
4 3 (5.17%) LangChain
4 3 (5.17%) Semantic Kernel
5 2 (3.45%) Kafka
5 2 (3.45%) Middleware
5 2 (3.45%) PySpark
6 1 (1.72%) NLTK
6 1 (1.72%) OAuth
6 1 (1.72%) OpenAPI
6 1 (1.72%) Pandas
6 1 (1.72%) RESTful
6 1 (1.72%) SpaCy
6 1 (1.72%) Swagger
6 1 (1.72%) SwiftUI
6 1 (1.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (24.14%) Product Ownership
2 7 (12.07%) PMI
3 5 (8.62%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.17%) AI Agents
4 3 (5.17%) Low-Code
5 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.45%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (48.28%) Wealth Management
2 22 (37.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 21 (36.21%) Agile
4 16 (27.59%) Project Management
5 15 (25.86%) AI
6 14 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (22.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (20.69%) Roadmaps
8 12 (20.69%) Scrum
9 10 (17.24%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 10 (17.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (15.52%) Fintech
11 8 (13.79%) Kanban
11 8 (13.79%) Regulatory Change
11 8 (13.79%) Regulatory Compliance
12 7 (12.07%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (12.07%) Change Management
12 7 (12.07%) Data Management
12 7 (12.07%) Data Modelling
12 7 (12.07%) Lean Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 14 (24.14%) Python
2 9 (15.52%) SQL
3 4 (6.90%) C#
3 4 (6.90%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.45%) Java
4 2 (3.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (24.14%) Degree
2 9 (15.52%) Master's Degree
2 9 (15.52%) MBA
3 8 (13.79%) PMI Certification
3 8 (13.79%) PMP
4 7 (12.07%) SAFe Agilist
5 3 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.72%) ACCA
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.72%) CFA
7 1 (1.72%) CIMA
7 1 (1.72%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.72%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.69%) QA
2 7 (12.07%) Basel III
3 6 (10.34%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.45%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.72%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (1.72%) EMIR
5 1 (1.72%) IFRS
5 1 (1.72%) MiFID
5 1 (1.72%) PSD2
5 1 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.72%) SLA
5 1 (1.72%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (5.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.62%) Databricks
3 4 (6.90%) OpenAI
4 3 (5.17%) Oracle
5 2 (3.45%) IBM
6 1 (1.72%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.72%) Pega
6 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.72%) Sparx