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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 563 556 644
Rank change year-on-year -7 +88 +181
Contract jobs citing Online Banking 5 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.008% 0.014%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.043% 0.026% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £469 £676 £500
25th Percentile £480 £697 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £738 £565
Median % change year-on-year -31.36% +30.53% -24.67%
75th Percentile £530 £772 £619
90th Percentile £538 £789 £643
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - £565
% change year-on-year - - -23.39%

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 11,702 11,714 15,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.52% 30.41% 32.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,164 7,180 10,922
10th Percentile £300 £294 £300
25th Percentile £406 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £754 £807 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 587 473 447
10th Percentile £15.13 £14.41 £16.78
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £21.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +11.11% +69.81%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £66.72
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.11 £57.35 £49.00
% change year-on-year -47.51% +17.04% +124.98%

Online Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Online Banking 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 5 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 18 September 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 +18 5 £506 -31.36% 7
London +23 4 £538 -27.12% 4
North West - 1 £475 - 1
UK excluding London - 1 £475 - 5
North of England - 1 £475 - 1

Online 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) IBM HTTP Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Internet
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) DB2
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 5 (100.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) C++ Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Product Owner
1 2 (40.00%) Unix Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Developer
2 1 (20.00%) C++ Applications Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Product Owner
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
1 2 (40.00%) React
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (40.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) AIX
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (40.00%) Digital Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
3 1 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Journey Map
3 1 (20.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Fintech
3 1 (20.00%) Journey Map
3 1 (20.00%) Key Management
3 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C
1 2 (40.00%) C++
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat