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 31 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 660 557 569
Rank change year-on-year -103 +12 +80
Contract jobs citing Online Banking 14 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.026% 0.021% 0.010%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.077% 0.060% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 3
10th Percentile £378 £483 £613
25th Percentile £414 £514 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £538 £675
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -20.37% +12.50%
75th Percentile £547 £567 £744
90th Percentile £579 £609 £778
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £475 -
% change year-on-year -21.05% - -

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 18,083 11,655 11,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.65% 35.37% 30.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,907 7,178 7,343
10th Percentile £324 £300 £300
25th Percentile £423 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% -5.68% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,081 574 545
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.13 £13.24
25th Percentile £19.03 £18.87 £19.38
Median hourly rate £38.72 £29.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -34.44% +7.54%
75th Percentile £67.89 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +46.53% -42.86% +16.67%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -107 13 £463 -13.95% 12
London -65 11 £475 -11.63% 11
Work from Home - 5 £381 - 2
UK excluding London -85 3 £375 -21.05% 7
North of England -68 2 £375 -21.05% 1
North West -48 1 £375 -21.05%
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Scotland - 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 5 (35.71%) CICS
2 2 (14.29%) Confluence
3 1 (7.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
1 4 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (28.57%) Serverless
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) HTTP
1 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Db2
1 4 (28.57%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 14 (100.00%) Banking
2 10 (71.43%) Finance
3 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
4 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (21.43%) Retail
5 1 (7.14%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Business Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Change Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Banking Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Banking Business Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Mainframe Developer
5 1 (7.14%) CICS Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Designer
5 1 (7.14%) Digital Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Digital Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Digital Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Process Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) UX Designer
5 1 (7.14%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) JSON
1 4 (28.57%) RESTful
1 4 (28.57%) SOAP
1 4 (28.57%) Web Services
1 4 (28.57%) WSDL
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Mainframe
2 4 (28.57%) DataPower
3 2 (14.29%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (35.71%) Integration Patterns
1 5 (35.71%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Batch Processing
2 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) SOA
3 3 (21.43%) Change Management
3 3 (21.43%) Data Interpretation
3 3 (21.43%) Financial Modelling
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Map
3 3 (21.43%) Technology Transformation
4 2 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (14.29%) AI
4 2 (14.29%) Digital Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (14.29%) User Experience
4 2 (14.29%) User Stories
4 2 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (7.14%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Korn
2 4 (28.57%) JCL
2 4 (28.57%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) Shell Script
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) PMO
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) RACF
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) IBM
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft