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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 551 672
Rank change year-on-year +57 +121 +165
Contract jobs citing Digital Banking 61 16 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.041% 0.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.047% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 6 4
10th Percentile £452 £366 £604
25th Percentile £506 £409 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £538 £638
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% -15.69% -7.54%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £656
90th Percentile £638 £645 £668
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £710 £625
% change year-on-year -26.06% +13.60% +56.25%

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 29,789 33,708 47,839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.42% 85.44% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,658 21,660 32,826
10th Percentile £300 £308 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,643 1,940 1,572
10th Percentile £14.14 £13.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.80 £18.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +60.38%
75th Percentile £50.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.70 £74.04 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £40.94 £40.00
% change year-on-year -43.82% +2.35% +86.05%

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 August 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 August 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
UK excluding London +44 36 £525 -26.06% 24
England +53 35 £544 +17.57% 46
Scotland - 25 £525 - 2
London +35 24 £563 +40.63% 27
Work from Home +34 23 £556 +1.14% 30
South West - 8 £550 - 7
North West +2 2 £420 -40.85% 7
North of England -7 2 £420 -40.85% 8
East Midlands - 1 £433 - 1
Midlands - 1 £433 - 1

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 (11.48%) SAS
2 6 (9.84%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (6.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.48%) Adobe Analytics
2 4 (6.56%) GCP
2 4 (6.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 3 (4.92%) GitHub
3 3 (4.92%) Miro
4 2 (3.28%) AWS
4 2 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (3.28%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.64%) Azure
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.64%) Figma
5 1 (1.64%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) Firewall
2 2 (3.28%) DNS
2 2 (3.28%) HTTP
3 1 (1.64%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.48%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (11.48%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.64%) Power BI
2 1 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (13.11%) Jenkins
2 6 (9.84%) JIRA
3 4 (6.56%) Git
3 4 (6.56%) SonarQube
3 4 (6.56%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (4.92%) Gatling
5 2 (3.28%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.28%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (3.28%) JMeter
5 2 (3.28%) REST Assured
5 2 (3.28%) Selenium
5 2 (3.28%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.28%) TestCafe
5 2 (3.28%) Vite
5 2 (3.28%) webpack
6 1 (1.64%) LoadRunner
General
1 61 (100.00%) Banking
2 49 (80.33%) Finance
3 26 (42.62%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (37.70%) Documentation Skills
5 19 (31.15%) Social Skills
6 9 (14.75%) Marketing
7 4 (6.56%) Retail
8 3 (4.92%) Back Office
8 3 (4.92%) Publishing
9 1 (1.64%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (47.54%) Analyst
2 13 (21.31%) Fraud Analyst
3 7 (11.48%) Analytics Manager
3 7 (11.48%) Data Analytics Manager
3 7 (11.48%) Data Manager
3 7 (11.48%) Insight Manager
3 7 (11.48%) Strategy Manager
4 5 (8.20%) Java Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Business Analyst
5 4 (6.56%) GCP Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Lead
6 3 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) GCP DevOps
6 3 (4.92%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Process Analyst
6 3 (4.92%) Product Owner
7 2 (3.28%) Architect
7 2 (3.28%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 2 (3.28%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.92%) HTML
1 3 (4.92%) HTML5
2 2 (3.28%) AngularJS
2 2 (3.28%) CSS
2 2 (3.28%) GatsbyJS
2 2 (3.28%) Jest
2 2 (3.28%) Next.js
2 2 (3.28%) Parceljs
2 2 (3.28%) React
2 2 (3.28%) React Native
2 2 (3.28%) Sass
2 2 (3.28%) Vue
3 1 (1.64%) jQuery
3 1 (1.64%) JSON
3 1 (1.64%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.64%) REST
3 1 (1.64%) SOAP
3 1 (1.64%) Spring
3 1 (1.64%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.20%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.56%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.92%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.92%) Mobile Banking
3 3 (4.92%) Online Banking
4 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.28%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (3.28%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.64%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.64%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (1.64%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.64%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.64%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (57.38%) Migration
2 33 (54.10%) Fintech
3 24 (39.34%) Continuous Improvement
3 24 (39.34%) Scenario Testing
4 23 (37.70%) Case Management
4 23 (37.70%) Due Diligence
4 23 (37.70%) Regulatory Compliance
5 14 (22.95%) Agile
6 13 (21.31%) Fraud Detection
7 11 (18.03%) Analytics
7 11 (18.03%) Visualisation
8 10 (16.39%) Anti-Money Laundering
8 10 (16.39%) ETL
9 9 (14.75%) CI/CD
10 8 (13.11%) Storytelling
11 7 (11.48%) Business Transformation
11 7 (11.48%) Critical Thinking
11 7 (11.48%) Data Visualisation
11 7 (11.48%) Digital Strategy
11 7 (11.48%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.39%) SQL
2 9 (14.75%) Java
3 7 (11.48%) R
4 6 (9.84%) JavaScript
4 6 (9.84%) Kotlin
4 6 (9.84%) Python
5 2 (3.28%) RPG
5 2 (3.28%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.64%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.64%) Korn
6 1 (1.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (9.84%) Degree
2 3 (4.92%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 1 (1.64%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) Data Quality
1 3 (4.92%) QA
2 2 (3.28%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.28%) WCAG
3 1 (1.64%) COBIT
3 1 (1.64%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (6.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (13.11%) Adobe
1 8 (13.11%) Teradata
2 6 (9.84%) Google
3 4 (6.56%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.28%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.64%) Databricks
5 1 (1.64%) Qualys
5 1 (1.64%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.64%) Splunk