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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 456 541
Rank change year-on-year -89 +85 +120
Contract jobs citing Corporate Banking 78 61 47
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.21% 0.11%
As % of the General category 0.31% 0.33% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 10 17
10th Percentile £340 £353 £375
25th Percentile £402 £383 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £613
Median % change year-on-year -5.40% -18.37% +11.36%
75th Percentile £613 £618 £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 25,372 18,487 25,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.33% 63.11% 58.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,738 11,821 16,062
10th Percentile £305 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £642 £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 1,597 765 1,898
10th Percentile £13.67 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.13 £15.39
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.75 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -21.43%
75th Percentile £59.50 £56.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.10 £26.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -5.29% +1.92% -16.85%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -105 71 £473 -5.40% 7
London -47 49 £575 -3.36% 7
Work from Home -18 30 £423 -10.95% 5
UK excluding London -87 27 £404 +7.60% 3
North West -37 14 £433 +61.66%
North of England -66 14 £433 +15.53%
East Midlands - 8 £340 -
Midlands - 8 £340 -
Scotland +4 7 - - 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 (19.23%) Confluence
2 2 (2.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.56%) SAS
3 1 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.28%) Appian
3 1 (1.28%) CICS
Applications
1 9 (11.54%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.85%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.56%) Chatbot
3 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.28%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (3.85%) Temenos T24
3 2 (2.56%) Finacle
4 1 (1.28%) Actimize
4 1 (1.28%) OneSumX
4 1 (1.28%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (1.28%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.38%) Power Platform
2 8 (10.26%) AWS
3 6 (7.69%) Snowflake
4 3 (3.85%) Azure
4 3 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.85%) SaaS
5 2 (2.56%) Adobe Analytics
5 2 (2.56%) Collibra
5 2 (2.56%) Contentsquare
5 2 (2.56%) Figma
6 1 (1.28%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (1.28%) GCP
6 1 (1.28%) GitHub
6 1 (1.28%) Google Gemini
6 1 (1.28%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.28%) OCI
6 1 (1.28%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.28%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.38%) Power BI
2 7 (8.97%) Tableau
3 3 (3.85%) Metadata
4 2 (2.56%) DataStage
4 2 (2.56%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.56%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.28%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (1.28%) Big Data
5 1 (1.28%) DB2
5 1 (1.28%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.28%) Essbase
5 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.28%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.28%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 1 (1.28%) ThoughtSpot
5 1 (1.28%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 15 (19.23%) JIRA
2 3 (3.85%) GitLab
3 1 (1.28%) Balsamiq
3 1 (1.28%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.28%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (1.28%) Git
3 1 (1.28%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.28%) Selenium
3 1 (1.28%) TestNG
General
1 78 (100.00%) Banking
2 53 (67.95%) Finance
3 36 (46.15%) Retail Banking
4 31 (39.74%) Investment Banking
5 29 (37.18%) Retail
6 24 (30.77%) Social Skills
7 15 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (6.41%) Financial Institution
9 4 (5.13%) Legal
10 3 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (3.85%) Marketing
10 3 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (3.85%) Public Sector
10 3 (3.85%) Wholesale Banking
11 2 (2.56%) Front Office
11 2 (2.56%) Games
11 2 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (1.28%) General Ledger
12 1 (1.28%) International Banking
12 1 (1.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 19 (24.36%) Analyst
2 12 (15.38%) Architect
2 12 (15.38%) Business Analyst
3 10 (12.82%) Project Manager
4 9 (11.54%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (6.41%) Data Analyst
5 5 (6.41%) Lead
6 4 (5.13%) Banking Project Manager
6 4 (5.13%) Data Engineer
6 4 (5.13%) Product Owner
6 4 (5.13%) Senior
7 3 (3.85%) Category Manager
7 3 (3.85%) Integration Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) Payments Analyst
7 3 (3.85%) Payments Architect
7 3 (3.85%) Payments Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.85%) Product Manager
8 2 (2.56%) Data Integration Engineer
8 2 (2.56%) Digital Product Owner
8 2 (2.56%) T24 Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.13%) Kafka
2 2 (2.56%) Middleware
2 2 (2.56%) PySpark
3 1 (1.28%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.28%) GraphX
3 1 (1.28%) JSON
3 1 (1.28%) NetworkX
3 1 (1.28%) OpenAPI
3 1 (1.28%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.28%) REST
3 1 (1.28%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.28%) Swagger
3 1 (1.28%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 8 (10.26%) Onboarding
2 8 (10.26%) PMI
3 3 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (2.56%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.28%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.28%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.28%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (43.59%) Stakeholder Management
2 33 (42.31%) Wealth Management
3 26 (33.33%) Agile
4 19 (24.36%) Roadmaps
5 18 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (23.08%) Project Management
6 17 (21.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (15.38%) AI
8 12 (15.38%) Analytics
8 12 (15.38%) Scrum
9 11 (14.10%) Decision-Making
9 11 (14.10%) Fintech
9 11 (14.10%) Regulatory Change
9 11 (14.10%) Regulatory Compliance
9 11 (14.10%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 11 (14.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (12.82%) Change Management
11 9 (11.54%) Cash Management
11 9 (11.54%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.67%) SQL
2 11 (14.10%) Python
3 2 (2.56%) Java
3 2 (2.56%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.28%) Bash
4 1 (1.28%) C#
4 1 (1.28%) Perl
4 1 (1.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (20.51%) Degree
2 11 (14.10%) Master's Degree
2 11 (14.10%) MBA
3 8 (10.26%) PMI Certification
3 8 (10.26%) PMP
3 8 (10.26%) SAFe Agilist
4 3 (3.85%) ACCA
4 3 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.85%) CIMA
4 3 (3.85%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.56%) CFA
6 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.28%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.95%) QA
2 10 (12.82%) Data Quality
3 8 (10.26%) Basel III
4 2 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.56%) EMIR
4 2 (2.56%) IFRS
4 2 (2.56%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.56%) MiFID
5 1 (1.28%) COREP
5 1 (1.28%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (1.28%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.28%) FINREP
5 1 (1.28%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.28%) PSD2
5 1 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.28%) SEPA
5 1 (1.28%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (1.28%) Ansible
1 1 (1.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (6.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.13%) Oracle
3 3 (3.85%) Databricks
4 2 (2.56%) Adobe
4 2 (2.56%) Google
4 2 (2.56%) IBM
4 2 (2.56%) Pega
4 2 (2.56%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.56%) Temenos
5 1 (1.28%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.28%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.28%) BT
5 1 (1.28%) Fiserv
5 1 (1.28%) Hyperion
5 1 (1.28%) Informatica
5 1 (1.28%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.28%) Splunk
5 1 (1.28%) StreamSets
5 1 (1.28%) Teradata