Digital Banking Contracts

Digital Banking
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Digital Banking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Banking over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 569 700
Rank change year-on-year +73 +131 +114
Contract jobs citing Digital Banking 24 13 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.030% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.090% 0.035% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 10
10th Percentile £418 £366 £578
25th Percentile £464 £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.47% -20.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £666 £550 £628
90th Percentile £713 £588 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Digital Banking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Digital Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Digital Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Banking in the UK

Digital Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Banking.

Daily rate trend for Digital Banking in the UK

Digital Banking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Banking over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Banking in the UK

Digital Banking
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +70 21 £550 +37.50% 72
Work from Home +50 14 £544 -1.14% 53
UK excluding London +75 13 £538 - 44
London +42 11 £550 +37.50% 40
South West - 8 £550 - 3
Scotland +15 3 £538 - 4
East Midlands - 1 £433 -
Midlands - 1 £433 - 2
North West - 1 - - 16
North of England - 1 - - 18

Digital Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (29.17%) SAS
2 2 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Adobe XD
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Adobe Analytics
2 2 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (4.17%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) Azure
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (4.17%) Figma
3 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.17%) Google Analytics
3 1 (4.17%) IaaS
3 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) DNS
1 1 (4.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (29.17%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Git
1 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (8.33%) Gatling
2 2 (8.33%) JMeter
2 2 (8.33%) REST Assured
2 2 (8.33%) Selenium
2 2 (8.33%) TeamCity
2 2 (8.33%) TestCafe
3 1 (4.17%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (4.17%) Vite
3 1 (4.17%) webpack
General
1 24 (100.00%) Banking
2 21 (87.50%) Finance
3 14 (58.33%) Social Skills
4 8 (33.33%) Marketing
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Analytics Manager
1 7 (29.17%) Data Analytics Manager
1 7 (29.17%) Data Manager
1 7 (29.17%) Insight Manager
1 7 (29.17%) Strategy Manager
2 4 (16.67%) Java Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Designer
3 2 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (4.17%) Banking Project Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Product Designer
4 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Technical Leader
4 1 (4.17%) Senior
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Product Designer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior UI/UX Designer
4 1 (4.17%) Service Designer
4 1 (4.17%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) HTML
1 2 (8.33%) HTML5
1 2 (8.33%) Middleware
2 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.17%) CSS
2 1 (4.17%) GatsbyJS
2 1 (4.17%) Jest
2 1 (4.17%) jQuery
2 1 (4.17%) JSON
2 1 (4.17%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (4.17%) Next.js
2 1 (4.17%) OAuth
2 1 (4.17%) Parceljs
2 1 (4.17%) REST
2 1 (4.17%) Sass
2 1 (4.17%) SOAP
2 1 (4.17%) Spring
2 1 (4.17%) Visualforce
2 1 (4.17%) Vue
2 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.33%) Mobile Banking
2 2 (8.33%) Online Banking
2 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.17%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) AIX
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Analytics
2 9 (37.50%) ETL
3 8 (33.33%) Agile
3 8 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 7 (29.17%) Business Transformation
4 7 (29.17%) Critical Thinking
4 7 (29.17%) Data Extraction
4 7 (29.17%) Data Visualisation
4 7 (29.17%) Digital Strategy
4 7 (29.17%) Migration
4 7 (29.17%) Storytelling
4 7 (29.17%) Web Analytics
5 5 (20.83%) Fintech
6 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (16.67%) User Experience
7 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
7 3 (12.50%) Scrum
7 3 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 3 (12.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) SQL
2 7 (29.17%) Java
2 7 (29.17%) R
3 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (16.67%) Kotlin
4 2 (8.33%) RPG
5 1 (4.17%) Apex Code
5 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) WCAG
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Adobe
2 7 (29.17%) Teradata
3 1 (4.17%) Amplitude
3 1 (4.17%) Databricks
3 1 (4.17%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) IBM
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Qualys
3 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.17%) Splunk
3 1 (4.17%) Temenos