International Banking Contracts

International Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term International Banking in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited International 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 505 565 678
Rank change year-on-year +60 +113 +126
Contract jobs citing International Banking 15 17 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.039% 0.067%
As % of the General category 0.081% 0.067% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 29
10th Percentile £313 £514 £402
25th Percentile £453 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £680 £650
Median % change year-on-year -17.28% +4.62% +10.87%
75th Percentile £657 £796 £742
90th Percentile £678 £872 £792
UK excluding London median daily rate £678 - £525

All General Skills
UK

International 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 common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 18,479 25,363 34,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.12% 58.23% 58.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,802 16,004 24,197
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 794 1,943 1,063
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.78 £13.43
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.50 £18.09
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%
75th Percentile £56.00 £52.20 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £28.42 £30.54
% change year-on-year -13.05% -6.94% +65.08%

International Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for International Banking in the UK

International Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for International Banking in the UK

International Banking
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for International Banking in the UK

International Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing International Banking.

Hourly rate trend for International Banking in the UK

International Banking
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing International 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 +55 15 £563 -17.28% 9
London +33 12 £500 -26.47% 9
UK excluding London - 3 £678 - 1
Midlands - 2 £678 -
West Midlands - 2 £678 -
Work from Home +38 1 £625 -10.29% 2
North of England - 1 £650 -
Yorkshire - 1 £650 -

International 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 4 (26.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (13.33%) CMS
3 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (6.67%) Confluence
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (6.67%) GitHub
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DHCP
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
1 2 (13.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Hive
1 1 (6.67%) Big Data
1 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (6.67%) Presto
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
1 1 (6.67%) Subversion
1 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (100.00%) Banking
2 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (53.33%) Finance
4 3 (20.00%) Financial Institution
4 3 (20.00%) Legal
5 2 (13.33%) Front Office
5 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
5 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Communications Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Customer Communications Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Engagement Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Site Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Build Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) IT Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) IT Manager
3 1 (6.67%) IT Risk Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) IT Services Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Service Continuity Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Service Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Testing Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) LDAP
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (6.67%) Equities
2 1 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.67%) Market Risk
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Risk Management
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
4 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
4 2 (13.33%) Business Strategy
4 2 (13.33%) Change Management
4 2 (13.33%) Content Management
4 2 (13.33%) Credit Risk Management
4 2 (13.33%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (13.33%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (13.33%) Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) Service Management
4 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) C#
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (6.67%) MCSE
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) PMO
2 1 (6.67%) COBIT
2 1 (6.67%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) HDFS
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (26.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.67%) Bloomberg
2 1 (6.67%) Citrix
2 1 (6.67%) Refinitiv
2 1 (6.67%) Reuters