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 3 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 510 573
Rank change year-on-year -101 +63 +138
Contract jobs citing Online Banking 14 8 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.031% 0.028% 0.025%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.095% 0.081% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 8
10th Percentile £337 £522 £361
25th Percentile £373 £531 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £569 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.75% -
75th Percentile £538 £628 £600
90th Percentile £740 £638 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 - £488
% change year-on-year - - +14.71%
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 14,665 9,844 13,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.69% 33.85% 30.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,210 6,304 8,569
10th Percentile £300 £288 £263
25th Percentile £410 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £536
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% -2.55%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -4.34% -0.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 687 376 885
10th Percentile £15.74 £16.95 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.34 £22.26 £15.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +18.18% +22.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.81 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.40 £83.20 £66.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £31.76 £25.39
% change year-on-year +43.14% +25.10% +15.40%

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 3 April 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 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 3 April 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 -95 14 £525 -7.69% 2
UK excluding London - 9 £375 - 1
North of England - 9 £375 -
Work from Home -31 6 - - 1
London -67 5 £688 +20.88% 1
Yorkshire - 5 £525 -
North West - 4 £350 -

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 3 (21.43%) CICS
2 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
1 4 (28.57%) GitHub
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (21.43%) Serverless
3 2 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) MySQL
1 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
1 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (28.57%) RDBMS
1 4 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 3 (21.43%) DB2
2 3 (21.43%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 4 (28.57%) PyCharm
2 3 (21.43%) GitLab
3 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 14 (100.00%) Banking
2 10 (71.43%) Social Skills
3 9 (64.29%) Finance
4 2 (14.29%) Retail
5 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Banking Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Digital Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Digital Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Process Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Programme Manager
4 1 (7.14%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) NumPy
1 4 (28.57%) Pandas
1 4 (28.57%) TensorFlow
2 3 (21.43%) JSON
2 3 (21.43%) RESTful
2 3 (21.43%) SOAP
2 3 (21.43%) Web Services
2 3 (21.43%) WSDL
3 1 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Algorithms
2 3 (21.43%) Clustering
2 3 (21.43%) DataPower
2 3 (21.43%) Mainframe
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (7.14%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
1 7 (50.00%) AI
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) Microservices
3 4 (28.57%) Application Security
3 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 4 (28.57%) Conversational UI
3 4 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 4 (28.57%) Data Munging
3 4 (28.57%) Data Science
3 4 (28.57%) Data Security
3 4 (28.57%) Deep Learning
3 4 (28.57%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 4 (28.57%) Natural Language Processing
3 4 (28.57%) Pattern Matching
3 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) Batch Processing
4 3 (21.43%) Digital Banking
4 3 (21.43%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) JCL
2 3 (21.43%) Shell Script
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Korn
4 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft