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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 548 465 539
Rank change year-on-year -83 +74 +141
Contract jobs citing Corporate Banking 69 55 42
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.19% 0.095%
As % of the General category 0.28% 0.30% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 10 15
10th Percentile £340 £363 £375
25th Percentile £403 £453 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £595 £625
Median % change year-on-year -20.50% -4.80% +17.65%
75th Percentile £619 £667 £663
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £404 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +7.60% -6.25% -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 24,662 18,370 25,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 56.90% 62.72% 58.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,398 11,700 16,597
10th Percentile £300 £300 £265
25th Percentile £405 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,518 666 1,800
10th Percentile £13.71 £15.20 £12.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.12 £15.32
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +16.50% -24.06%
75th Percentile £57.19 £58.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.40 £75.75 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £27.94 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.68% +11.76% -13.79%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -85 62 £473 -20.50% 10
London -47 41 £575 -8.87% 10
Work from Home -18 29 £423 -36.58% 5
UK excluding London -68 26 £404 +7.60% 4
North West -22 13 £433 -
North of England -63 13 £433 +15.53%
East Midlands - 8 £340 -
Midlands - 8 £340 -
Scotland +4 6 - - 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 14 (20.29%) Confluence
2 2 (2.90%) SAS
3 1 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.45%) Appian
Applications
1 9 (13.04%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (4.35%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.90%) Chatbot
3 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.45%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.90%) Finacle
2 2 (2.90%) Temenos T24
3 1 (1.45%) Actimize
3 1 (1.45%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (1.45%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.39%) Power Platform
2 9 (13.04%) AWS
3 6 (8.70%) Snowflake
4 3 (4.35%) Azure
4 3 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.90%) Collibra
5 2 (2.90%) Figma
6 1 (1.45%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (1.45%) GCP
6 1 (1.45%) GitHub
6 1 (1.45%) Google Gemini
6 1 (1.45%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.39%) Power BI
2 7 (10.14%) Tableau
3 5 (7.25%) Metadata
4 3 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.90%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.90%) DataStage
5 2 (2.90%) DB2
5 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.90%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.45%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.45%) Big Data
6 1 (1.45%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.45%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.45%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 1 (1.45%) ThoughtSpot
6 1 (1.45%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 14 (20.29%) JIRA
2 3 (4.35%) GitLab
3 1 (1.45%) Balsamiq
3 1 (1.45%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.45%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (1.45%) Git
3 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.45%) Selenium
3 1 (1.45%) TestNG
General
1 69 (100.00%) Banking
2 48 (69.57%) Finance
3 34 (49.28%) Retail Banking
4 30 (43.48%) Investment Banking
5 29 (42.03%) Retail
6 25 (36.23%) Social Skills
7 11 (15.94%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (4.35%) Financial Institution
8 3 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (4.35%) Public Sector
8 3 (4.35%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (2.90%) Front Office
9 2 (2.90%) Games
9 2 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.45%) French Language
10 1 (1.45%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.45%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (30.43%) Analyst
2 13 (18.84%) Business Analyst
3 12 (17.39%) Architect
4 11 (15.94%) Project Manager
5 8 (11.59%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (8.70%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.80%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Developer
7 4 (5.80%) Senior
8 3 (4.35%) Banking Project Manager
8 3 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.35%) Integration Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Lead
8 3 (4.35%) Payments Analyst
8 3 (4.35%) Project Analyst
9 2 (2.90%) Banking Analyst
9 2 (2.90%) Business Systems Analyst
9 2 (2.90%) Product Manager
9 2 (2.90%) Programme Manager
9 2 (2.90%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.35%) FastAPI
1 3 (4.35%) Kafka
1 3 (4.35%) REST
2 2 (2.90%) JSON
2 2 (2.90%) Middleware
2 2 (2.90%) PySpark
2 2 (2.90%) React
3 1 (1.45%) GraphX
3 1 (1.45%) NetworkX
3 1 (1.45%) NLTK
3 1 (1.45%) OpenAPI
3 1 (1.45%) Pandas
3 1 (1.45%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.45%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.45%) SpaCy
3 1 (1.45%) Swagger
3 1 (1.45%) SwiftUI
3 1 (1.45%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.84%) Product Ownership
2 8 (11.59%) PMI
3 7 (10.14%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.80%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.90%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.45%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (47.83%) Wealth Management
2 31 (44.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 26 (37.68%) Agile
4 20 (28.99%) Project Management
5 17 (24.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (20.29%) Roadmaps
7 13 (18.84%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (18.84%) Scrum
8 11 (15.94%) Analytics
8 11 (15.94%) Fintech
8 11 (15.94%) Regulatory Compliance
8 11 (15.94%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 11 (15.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (14.49%) AI
9 10 (14.49%) Change Management
9 10 (14.49%) Regulatory Change
10 9 (13.04%) Cash Management
10 9 (13.04%) Data Analysis
10 9 (13.04%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.29%) Python
2 13 (18.84%) SQL
3 2 (2.90%) Java
3 2 (2.90%) PL/SQL
3 2 (2.90%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.45%) Bash
4 1 (1.45%) C#
4 1 (1.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (21.74%) Degree
2 11 (15.94%) Master's Degree
2 11 (15.94%) MBA
3 9 (13.04%) PMI Certification
3 9 (13.04%) PMP
4 8 (11.59%) SAFe Agilist
5 3 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.35%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.90%) CFA
7 1 (1.45%) ACCA
7 1 (1.45%) CIMA
7 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.45%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (21.74%) QA
2 9 (13.04%) Data Quality
3 8 (11.59%) Basel III
4 3 (4.35%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.90%) EMIR
5 2 (2.90%) ISO 20022
5 2 (2.90%) MiFID
6 1 (1.45%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (1.45%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.45%) IFRS
6 1 (1.45%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.45%) PSD2
6 1 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.45%) SLA
6 1 (1.45%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (1.45%) Ansible
1 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (4.35%) Databricks
1 3 (4.35%) Microsoft
1 3 (4.35%) Oracle
2 2 (2.90%) IBM
2 2 (2.90%) Pega
2 2 (2.90%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.45%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.45%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (1.45%) Google
3 1 (1.45%) Informatica
3 1 (1.45%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (1.45%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.45%) Sparx
3 1 (1.45%) Splunk
3 1 (1.45%) Teradata