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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 653 549 559
Rank change year-on-year -104 +10 +113
Contract jobs citing Online Banking 15 10 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.028% 0.030% 0.020%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.084% 0.087% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 4
10th Percentile £378 £520 £399
25th Percentile £403 £531 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +7.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £513 £638 £525
90th Percentile £558 - £570
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -11.50%

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 17,825 11,449 12,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.43% 34.81% 30.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,861 7,063 7,739
10th Percentile £320 £300 £300
25th Percentile £420 £406 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £820
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 971 549 651
10th Percentile £15.93 £15.13 £12.30
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.87 £17.04
Median hourly rate £43.96 £29.50 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +49.02% -28.48% +14.19%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.50 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -33.33% +1.12%

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 1 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 1 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 -111 14 £450 -16.28% 13
London -69 12 £463 -13.95% 13
Work from Home - 7 £381 - 5
UK excluding London - 3 £375 - 5
North of England - 2 £375 -
North West - 1 £375 -
Scotland - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 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 7 (46.67%) CICS
2 2 (13.33%) Confluence
3 1 (6.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
1 6 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (40.00%) Serverless
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.67%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) HTTP
1 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Db2
1 6 (40.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) GitLab
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 15 (100.00%) Banking
2 11 (73.33%) Finance
3 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Retail
5 1 (6.67%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Business Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Change Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Banking Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Banking Business Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Mainframe Developer
4 2 (13.33%) z/OS Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) CICS Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Designer
5 1 (6.67%) Digital Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Digital Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Process Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) JSON
1 6 (40.00%) RESTful
1 6 (40.00%) SOAP
1 6 (40.00%) Web Services
1 6 (40.00%) WSDL
2 1 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Mainframe
2 6 (40.00%) DataPower
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 7 (46.67%) Integration Patterns
1 7 (46.67%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (40.00%) Batch Processing
2 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (40.00%) SOA
3 4 (26.67%) AI
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) Change Management
4 3 (20.00%) Data Interpretation
4 3 (20.00%) Financial Modelling
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Map
4 3 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
5 2 (13.33%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (13.33%) Digital Banking
5 2 (13.33%) User Stories
5 2 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
6 1 (6.67%) Customer-Centricity
6 1 (6.67%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (6.67%) Interaction Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) JCL
1 6 (40.00%) Python
1 6 (40.00%) Shell Script
1 6 (40.00%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) Korn
3 1 (6.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) PMO
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) RACF
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) IBM
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft