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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 466 543
Rank change year-on-year -88 +77 +118
Contract jobs citing Corporate Banking 76 59 47
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the General category 0.30% 0.32% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 11 17
10th Percentile £340 £363 £375
25th Percentile £402 £403 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £595 £613
Median % change year-on-year -20.50% -2.86% +12.64%
75th Percentile £613 £667 £650
90th Percentile £690 £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 25,116 18,395 25,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 56.38% 62.82% 58.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,636 11,802 16,411
10th Percentile £303 £300 £266
25th Percentile £406 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,560 717 1,838
10th Percentile £13.71 £15.00 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.11 £19.20 £15.31
Median hourly rate £25.20 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £58.79 £58.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.10 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £27.70 £25.00
% change year-on-year -13.99% +10.80% -20.97%

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 29 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 29 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 68 £473 -20.50% 14
London -53 45 £575 -8.87% 13
Work from Home -10 31 £423 -36.58% 5
UK excluding London -88 28 £404 +7.60% 5
North West -34 14 £433 +61.66% 1
North of England -59 14 £433 +15.53% 1
East Midlands - 8 £340 -
Midlands - 8 £340 -
Scotland +4 7 - - 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 15 (19.74%) Confluence
2 2 (2.63%) SAS
3 1 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.32%) Appian
Applications
1 9 (11.84%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.95%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.32%) Chatbot
4 1 (1.32%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (3.95%) Temenos T24
3 2 (2.63%) Finacle
4 1 (1.32%) Actimize
4 1 (1.32%) OneSumX
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.79%) Power Platform
2 8 (10.53%) AWS
3 6 (7.89%) Snowflake
4 3 (3.95%) Azure
4 3 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.63%) Collibra
5 2 (2.63%) Figma
6 1 (1.32%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (1.32%) GCP
6 1 (1.32%) GitHub
6 1 (1.32%) Google Gemini
6 1 (1.32%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.32%) OCI
6 1 (1.32%) SaaS
6 1 (1.32%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.79%) Power BI
2 7 (9.21%) Tableau
3 3 (3.95%) Metadata
4 2 (2.63%) DataStage
4 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.63%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.32%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (1.32%) Big Data
5 1 (1.32%) DB2
5 1 (1.32%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.32%) Essbase
5 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.32%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.32%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 1 (1.32%) ThoughtSpot
5 1 (1.32%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 15 (19.74%) JIRA
2 3 (3.95%) GitLab
3 1 (1.32%) Balsamiq
3 1 (1.32%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.32%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (1.32%) Git
3 1 (1.32%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.32%) Selenium
3 1 (1.32%) TestNG
General
1 76 (100.00%) Banking
2 50 (65.79%) Finance
3 35 (46.05%) Retail Banking
4 30 (39.47%) Investment Banking
5 28 (36.84%) Retail
6 25 (32.89%) Social Skills
7 13 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (5.26%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (3.95%) Public Sector
9 3 (3.95%) Wholesale Banking
10 2 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.63%) Front Office
10 2 (2.63%) Games
10 2 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.63%) Legal
10 2 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.32%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.32%) Law
Job Titles
1 21 (27.63%) Analyst
2 13 (17.11%) Business Analyst
3 12 (15.79%) Architect
4 11 (14.47%) Project Manager
5 9 (11.84%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (7.89%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.26%) Banking Project Manager
7 4 (5.26%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Developer
7 4 (5.26%) Lead
7 4 (5.26%) Senior
8 3 (3.95%) Integration Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Payments Analyst
8 3 (3.95%) Payments Architect
8 3 (3.95%) Payments Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.95%) Project Analyst
9 2 (2.63%) Banking Analyst
9 2 (2.63%) Business Systems Analyst
9 2 (2.63%) Product Manager
9 2 (2.63%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.95%) Kafka
2 2 (2.63%) FastAPI
2 2 (2.63%) JSON
2 2 (2.63%) Middleware
2 2 (2.63%) PySpark
2 2 (2.63%) REST
3 1 (1.32%) GraphX
3 1 (1.32%) NetworkX
3 1 (1.32%) OpenAPI
3 1 (1.32%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.32%) React
3 1 (1.32%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.32%) Swagger
3 1 (1.32%) SwiftUI
3 1 (1.32%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 8 (10.53%) PMI
3 7 (9.21%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.95%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (2.63%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.32%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (43.42%) Stakeholder Management
2 32 (42.11%) Wealth Management
3 24 (31.58%) Agile
4 19 (25.00%) Project Management
5 18 (23.68%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (19.74%) Roadmaps
8 13 (17.11%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (15.79%) Scrum
10 11 (14.47%) Fintech
10 11 (14.47%) Regulatory Change
10 11 (14.47%) Regulatory Compliance
10 11 (14.47%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 11 (14.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 10 (13.16%) Analytics
11 10 (13.16%) Change Management
11 10 (13.16%) Decision-Making
12 9 (11.84%) AI
12 9 (11.84%) Cash Management
12 9 (11.84%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (17.11%) SQL
2 12 (15.79%) Python
3 2 (2.63%) Java
3 2 (2.63%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.32%) Bash
4 1 (1.32%) C#
4 1 (1.32%) Perl
4 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (21.05%) Degree
2 11 (14.47%) Master's Degree
2 11 (14.47%) MBA
3 9 (11.84%) PMI Certification
3 9 (11.84%) PMP
4 8 (10.53%) SAFe Agilist
5 3 (3.95%) ACCA
5 3 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.95%) CIMA
5 3 (3.95%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.63%) CFA
7 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.32%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.32%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (18.42%) QA
2 10 (13.16%) Data Quality
3 8 (10.53%) Basel III
4 3 (3.95%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.63%) EMIR
5 2 (2.63%) IFRS
5 2 (2.63%) ISO 20022
5 2 (2.63%) MiFID
6 1 (1.32%) COREP
6 1 (1.32%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (1.32%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.32%) FINREP
6 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.32%) PSD2
6 1 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.32%) SEPA
6 1 (1.32%) SLA
6 1 (1.32%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (1.32%) Ansible
1 1 (1.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (6.58%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.26%) Oracle
3 3 (3.95%) Databricks
4 2 (2.63%) Google
4 2 (2.63%) IBM
4 2 (2.63%) Pega
4 2 (2.63%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.63%) Temenos
5 1 (1.32%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.32%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.32%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.32%) BT
5 1 (1.32%) Fiserv
5 1 (1.32%) Hyperion
5 1 (1.32%) Informatica
5 1 (1.32%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.32%) Sparx
5 1 (1.32%) Splunk
5 1 (1.32%) Teradata