Online Banking Contract Job Trends

Online Banking (Internet Banking)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Online Banking in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Online Banking over the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 670 549 563
Rank change year-on-year -121 +14 +90
Contract jobs citing Online Banking 13 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.024% 0.012% 0.011%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.069% 0.034% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £403 - £603
25th Percentile £425 £463 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £675
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -29.63% +15.88%
75th Percentile £553 £488 £744
90th Percentile £581 - £778
UK excluding London median daily rate - £475 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £16.83 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.83 - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Online Banking falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,836 11,776 11,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.32% 35.86% 30.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,271 7,212 6,891
10th Percentile £320 £293 £281
25th Percentile £425 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £672
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,259 599 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.78 £15.28
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.87 £22.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.27 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.99% -41.46% +11.73%
75th Percentile £67.50 £52.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.45 £72.50 £75.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £29.30 £57.35
% change year-on-year +27.99% -48.91% +14.70%

Online Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Online Banking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Online Banking job vacancy trend in the UK

Online Banking
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Online Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Online Banking

Online Banking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Online Banking over the 6 months to 30 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Online Banking in the UK

Online Banking
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Online Banking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Online Banking

Online Banking
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Online Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 30 September 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 -116 12 £463 -2.63% 21
London -78 9 £463 - 16
UK excluding London -98 4 - - 7
Work from Home - 4 £381 - 6
South East - 2 - - 2
North of England -81 1 - - 2
Scotland - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1

Online 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 4 (30.77%) CICS
2 1 (7.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.69%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (23.08%) Serverless
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) HTTP
1 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Db2
1 3 (23.08%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) GitLab
General
1 13 (100.00%) Banking
2 10 (76.92%) Finance
3 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (15.38%) General Ledger
6 1 (7.69%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
6 1 (7.69%) Retail
6 1 (7.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Change Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Accounts Assistant
3 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) IT Assistant
3 2 (15.38%) Mainframe Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) CICS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Designer
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) UX Designer
4 1 (7.69%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) JSON
1 3 (23.08%) RESTful
1 3 (23.08%) SOAP
1 3 (23.08%) Web Services
1 3 (23.08%) WSDL
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Mainframe
2 3 (23.08%) DataPower
3 2 (15.38%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (15.38%) NHS
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (30.77%) Integration Patterns
1 4 (30.77%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (23.08%) Batch Processing
2 3 (23.08%) Change Management
2 3 (23.08%) Data Interpretation
2 3 (23.08%) Financial Modelling
2 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (23.08%) SOA
2 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Map
2 3 (23.08%) Technology Transformation
3 2 (15.38%) Agile
3 2 (15.38%) User Experience
4 1 (7.69%) AI
4 1 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (7.69%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 1 (7.69%) Interaction Design
4 1 (7.69%) Prototyping
4 1 (7.69%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Korn
2 3 (23.08%) JCL
2 3 (23.08%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Shell Script
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) AAT
1 2 (15.38%) ACCA
1 2 (15.38%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) PMO
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) RACF
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) IBM