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

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 565 547 633
Rank change year-on-year -18 +86 +171
Contract jobs citing Online Banking 9 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.026% 0.011% 0.011%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.073% 0.035% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £468 £603 -
25th Percentile £475 £625 £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +12.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £525 £744 £638
90th Percentile £533 £778 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - £565
% change year-on-year - - +32.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.62 - -
Median hourly rate £16.71 - -
75th Percentile £17.79 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.71 - -

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 12,245 11,272 15,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.78% 30.71% 32.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,529 6,689 10,204
10th Percentile £283 £275 £288
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £660 £673
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 662 357 492
10th Percentile £13.54 £16.99 £16.69
25th Percentile £18.22 £22.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £42.50 £43.92
Median % change year-on-year -36.47% -3.23% +64.68%
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.16 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £46.03
% change year-on-year -44.11% -2.24% +102.22%

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
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 7 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 October 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 +3 9 £500 -25.93% 3
UK excluding London - 6 £500 - 3
North of England - 6 £500 - 1
London +12 3 - -
Yorkshire - 3 £525 -
North West - 3 £475 - 1
Work from Home +3 2 - - 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 1 (11.11%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Internet
2 2 (22.22%) LAN
2 2 (22.22%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Relational Database
2 3 (33.33%) MySQL
2 3 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 2 (22.22%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 3 (33.33%) PyCharm
2 2 (22.22%) Git
General
1 9 (100.00%) Banking
2 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (55.56%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) C++ Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Product Owner
2 2 (22.22%) Unix Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C++ Applications Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Product Owner
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) NumPy
1 3 (33.33%) Pandas
1 3 (33.33%) TensorFlow
2 2 (22.22%) HTML
2 2 (22.22%) JSON
2 2 (22.22%) Node.js
2 2 (22.22%) React
2 2 (22.22%) Spring
2 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
2 2 (22.22%) XML
3 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 2 (22.22%) Clustering
2 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Unix
2 1 (11.11%) AIX
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
1 5 (55.56%) Microservices
2 3 (33.33%) AI
2 3 (33.33%) Application Security
2 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 3 (33.33%) Conversational UI
2 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 3 (33.33%) Data Munging
2 3 (33.33%) Data Science
2 3 (33.33%) Data Security
2 3 (33.33%) Deep Learning
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 3 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
2 3 (33.33%) Pattern Matching
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Digital Banking
3 2 (22.22%) LLM
3 2 (22.22%) Observability
3 2 (22.22%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) C
2 2 (22.22%) C++
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Dynatrace
1 2 (22.22%) IBM
1 2 (22.22%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat