Retail Banking Contracts

Retail Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 486 510
Rank change year-on-year +102 +24 -96
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 135 114 203
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.26% 0.34%
As % of the General category 0.73% 0.45% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 56 112
10th Percentile £404 £450 £458
25th Percentile £438 £488 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.96% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £678 £650 £719
90th Percentile £700 £856 £873
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £588 £500
% change year-on-year -23.40% +17.50% +2.25%

All General Skills
UK

Retail Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 18,465 25,387 34,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.16% 58.23% 58.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,795 16,033 24,201
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.23% -0.80% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 794 1,939 1,062
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £13.42
25th Percentile £17.85 £15.50 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -14.29% +59.71%
75th Percentile £56.00 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £28.13 £30.54
% change year-on-year -10.58% -7.91% +65.08%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Retail Banking.

Daily rate trend for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Retail Banking.

Hourly rate trend for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +73 108 £506 -10.00% 44
London +47 86 £650 +13.04% 36
Work from Home +50 45 £480 -4.10% 20
UK excluding London +71 43 £450 -23.40% 11
Scotland +23 25 £527 -16.92% 3
North of England +34 15 £450 -25.00% 3
Yorkshire +22 8 £450 -35.71% 2
North West +9 6 £447 -25.50%
Midlands - 2 £450 - 3
West Midlands - 2 £450 - 1
East of England +32 1 - -
North East - 1 £420 - 1

Retail 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 7 (5.19%) Confluence
2 2 (1.48%) CICS
2 2 (1.48%) SAS
2 2 (1.48%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.74%) CMS
3 1 (0.74%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.48%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 28 (20.74%) AWS
2 12 (8.89%) Amazon EC2
2 12 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
2 12 (8.89%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 12 (8.89%) Amazon S3
2 12 (8.89%) CloudFront
2 12 (8.89%) Route 53
3 10 (7.41%) Azure
4 5 (3.70%) GCP
5 4 (2.96%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (2.22%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.48%) Figma
7 2 (1.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.48%) Firewall
1 2 (1.48%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.37%) NoSQL
2 12 (8.89%) Amazon Aurora
2 12 (8.89%) DocumentDB
2 12 (8.89%) Redis
3 8 (5.93%) Tableau
4 6 (4.44%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.96%) Metadata
6 4 (2.96%) Power BI
7 3 (2.22%) DB2
7 3 (2.22%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.48%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.48%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.48%) InterSystems Cache
8 2 (1.48%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.48%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.48%) TKPROF
9 1 (0.74%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (6.67%) JIRA
2 2 (1.48%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.48%) Selenium
2 2 (1.48%) SOAtest
3 1 (0.74%) Git
3 1 (0.74%) LoadRunner
General
1 127 (94.07%) Banking
2 79 (58.52%) Finance
3 53 (39.26%) Investment Banking
4 46 (34.07%) Retail
5 43 (31.85%) Social Skills
6 41 (30.37%) Corporate Banking
7 27 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (5.93%) Financial Institution
9 5 (3.70%) Legal
10 4 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.22%) General Ledger
11 3 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.48%) Front Office
12 2 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.48%) Marketing
12 2 (1.48%) Retail Finance
13 1 (0.74%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (20.00%) Analyst
2 17 (12.59%) Developer
3 14 (10.37%) Business Analyst
4 10 (7.41%) Project Manager
5 9 (6.67%) Data Engineer
6 8 (5.93%) IT Manager
7 6 (4.44%) C# Developer
8 5 (3.70%) Architect
8 5 (3.70%) Designer
8 5 (3.70%) Product Manager
8 5 (3.70%) Technical Manager
9 4 (2.96%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (2.96%) Consultant
9 4 (2.96%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (2.96%) Incident Manager
9 4 (2.96%) IT Project Manager
9 4 (2.96%) Python Engineer
9 4 (2.96%) Risk Analyst
9 4 (2.96%) Senior
9 4 (2.96%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.63%) GraphQL
2 12 (8.89%) RESTful
3 4 (2.96%) PySpark
4 3 (2.22%) JSON
4 3 (2.22%) React
5 2 (1.48%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.48%) J2EE
5 2 (1.48%) Kafka
5 2 (1.48%) Micronaut
5 2 (1.48%) Node.js
5 2 (1.48%) Spring
5 2 (1.48%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.48%) Web Services
5 2 (1.48%) XML
6 1 (0.74%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.74%) Flask
6 1 (0.74%) Polars
6 1 (0.74%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.74%) Redux
6 1 (0.74%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.89%) Derivative
2 10 (7.41%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (4.44%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.96%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.96%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.22%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.48%) Clustering
7 2 (1.48%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.48%) Mobile Payment
7 2 (1.48%) Replication
7 2 (1.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.48%) VSAM
8 1 (0.74%) Mobile Banking
8 1 (0.74%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.44%) Unix
2 4 (2.96%) Windows
3 3 (2.22%) Linux
4 1 (0.74%) Android
4 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (37.78%) Wealth Management
2 31 (22.96%) Risk Management
2 31 (22.96%) Stakeholder Management
3 28 (20.74%) Agile
4 21 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (14.07%) Decision-Making
6 13 (9.63%) Migration
7 12 (8.89%) Asset Management
7 12 (8.89%) Project Management
7 12 (8.89%) SOLID
7 12 (8.89%) User Experience
8 11 (8.15%) Roadmaps
9 10 (7.41%) Data Engineering
9 10 (7.41%) ETL
10 9 (6.67%) Analytics
10 9 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (6.67%) Data Analysis
10 9 (6.67%) Regulatory Compliance
10 9 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (6.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 25 (18.52%) SQL
2 18 (13.33%) Python
3 12 (8.89%) C#
4 6 (4.44%) Java
5 3 (2.22%) COBOL
5 3 (2.22%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.48%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.48%) JCL
6 2 (1.48%) REXX
7 1 (0.74%) C++
7 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.74%) PROC SQL
7 1 (0.74%) R
7 1 (0.74%) SAS Macro
7 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (5.19%) Degree
2 3 (2.22%) CISSP
2 3 (2.22%) CRISC
2 3 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (2.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (1.48%) APMP
3 2 (1.48%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.48%) CEH
3 2 (1.48%) CISA
3 2 (1.48%) GCIH
3 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.48%) OSCP
4 1 (0.74%) ACCA
4 1 (0.74%) CFA
4 1 (0.74%) GCFA
4 1 (0.74%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.74%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (2.22%) MiFID
3 3 (2.22%) QA
4 2 (1.48%) Basel III
4 2 (1.48%) GDPR
4 2 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.48%) SLA
5 1 (0.74%) COBIT
5 1 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.74%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.74%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.74%) ITGC
5 1 (0.74%) NIST
5 1 (0.74%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (1.48%) FortiGate
1 2 (1.48%) Galera Cluster
1 2 (1.48%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.74%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (0.74%) NetBackup
2 1 (0.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (9.63%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.44%) Oracle
3 5 (3.70%) Cisco
3 5 (3.70%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.22%) Databricks
4 3 (2.22%) Logitech
4 3 (2.22%) Splunk
5 2 (1.48%) Ab Initio
5 2 (1.48%) Adobe
5 2 (1.48%) Calypso
5 2 (1.48%) CheckPoint
5 2 (1.48%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.48%) Google
5 2 (1.48%) Informatica
5 2 (1.48%) Murex
5 2 (1.48%) Parasoft
5 2 (1.48%) Planview
5 2 (1.48%) Workday
6 1 (0.74%) GoldenSource
6 1 (0.74%) Qualys