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

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 469 496
Rank change year-on-year +95 +27 -88
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 149 121 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.28% 0.35%
As % of the General category 0.80% 0.49% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 56 106
10th Percentile £400 £425 £463
25th Percentile £438 £488 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £642 £647 £785
90th Percentile £700 £838 £975
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -21.74% +15.00% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £19.97 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.97 - -

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 18,580 24,892 32,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.37% 57.27% 58.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,679 15,599 22,629
10th Percentile £281 £275 £313
25th Percentile £403 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £769 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 855 1,999 991
10th Percentile £13.48 £12.78 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.94 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +42.22%
75th Percentile £53.98 £52.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £67.38 £71.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 £28.42 £27.50
% change year-on-year -13.79% +3.35% +41.03%

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 8 June 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 13 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 8 June 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 +98 121 £500 -11.11% 76
London +66 92 £531 -7.61% 53
UK excluding London +54 51 £450 -21.74% 32
Work from Home +44 50 £500 - 32
Scotland +11 26 £500 -13.04% 2
North of England +27 21 £450 -25.00% 4
North West +11 10 £449 -25.25% 2
Yorkshire +19 9 £450 -35.71% 2
Midlands - 3 £475 - 8
West Midlands - 3 £475 - 3
North East - 2 £420 -
East of England +21 1 - -
Wales - 1 £495 - 2

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 (4.70%) Confluence
2 4 (2.68%) SAS
3 3 (2.01%) CICS
4 2 (1.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.34%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.67%) Apache
5 1 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.67%) CMS
5 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (5.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.70%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.67%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.67%) Sketch
4 1 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.67%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.67%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 24 (16.11%) AWS
2 10 (6.71%) Amazon EC2
2 10 (6.71%) Amazon EKS
2 10 (6.71%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 10 (6.71%) Amazon S3
2 10 (6.71%) CloudFront
2 10 (6.71%) Route 53
3 6 (4.03%) Azure
4 5 (3.36%) Figma
5 4 (2.68%) GCP
5 4 (2.68%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.34%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.34%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.34%) Firewall
1 2 (1.34%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.72%) NoSQL
2 10 (6.71%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (6.71%) DocumentDB
2 10 (6.71%) Redis
3 7 (4.70%) Tableau
4 5 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.68%) Power BI
5 4 (2.68%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.01%) DB2
6 3 (2.01%) Metadata
6 3 (2.01%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.34%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.34%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.34%) InterSystems Cache
7 2 (1.34%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.34%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.34%) SAS Data Integration Studio
7 2 (1.34%) TKPROF
Development Applications
1 9 (6.04%) JIRA
2 3 (2.01%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.34%) Selenium
3 2 (1.34%) SOAtest
4 1 (0.67%) Git
4 1 (0.67%) GitLab
4 1 (0.67%) JUnit
4 1 (0.67%) LoadRunner
General
1 141 (94.63%) Banking
2 81 (54.36%) Finance
3 63 (42.28%) Investment Banking
4 55 (36.91%) Retail
4 55 (36.91%) Social Skills
5 53 (35.57%) Corporate Banking
6 31 (20.81%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (6.04%) Financial Institution
8 8 (5.37%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (4.03%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (3.36%) Legal
11 4 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (2.01%) General Ledger
13 2 (1.34%) Marketing
14 1 (0.67%) Front Office
14 1 (0.67%) Private Banking
14 1 (0.67%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.67%) Retail Finance
14 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (21.48%) Analyst
2 19 (12.75%) Business Analyst
3 17 (11.41%) Developer
4 12 (8.05%) Data Engineer
5 10 (6.71%) Project Manager
6 8 (5.37%) Designer
6 8 (5.37%) IT Manager
7 7 (4.70%) Risk Analyst
8 5 (3.36%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (3.36%) Incident Manager
8 5 (3.36%) Product Manager
8 5 (3.36%) Technical Manager
9 4 (2.68%) Architect
9 4 (2.68%) C# Developer
9 4 (2.68%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (2.68%) IT Project Manager
9 4 (2.68%) Lead
9 4 (2.68%) Python Engineer
9 4 (2.68%) Risk Business Analyst
9 4 (2.68%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.71%) GraphQL
1 10 (6.71%) RESTful
2 5 (3.36%) JSON
3 4 (2.68%) PySpark
3 4 (2.68%) React
4 3 (2.01%) AWS CDK
4 3 (2.01%) FastAPI
4 3 (2.01%) Flask
4 3 (2.01%) HTML
4 3 (2.01%) SQLAlchemy
5 2 (1.34%) J2EE
5 2 (1.34%) Node.js
5 2 (1.34%) Web Services
5 2 (1.34%) XML
6 1 (0.67%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.67%) Kafka
6 1 (0.67%) Pandas
6 1 (0.67%) Polars
6 1 (0.67%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.05%) Onboarding
2 10 (6.71%) Derivative
3 5 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.36%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.68%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.68%) Mainframe
4 4 (2.68%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.01%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.01%) Taxonomies
5 3 (2.01%) VSAM
6 2 (1.34%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.34%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (1.34%) Mobile Payment
6 2 (1.34%) Replication
6 2 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.34%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.34%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.03%) Unix
2 5 (3.36%) Windows
3 3 (2.01%) Linux
4 2 (1.34%) Android
4 2 (1.34%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (40.94%) Wealth Management
2 37 (24.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 34 (22.82%) Agile
3 34 (22.82%) Risk Management
4 29 (19.46%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (14.09%) Decision-Making
6 14 (9.40%) User Experience
7 13 (8.72%) Analytics
7 13 (8.72%) Project Management
8 12 (8.05%) Actionable Insight
9 11 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (7.38%) Data Engineering
9 11 (7.38%) Roadmaps
9 11 (7.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (6.71%) Asset Management
10 10 (6.71%) Customer Experience
10 10 (6.71%) ETL
10 10 (6.71%) Regulatory Compliance
10 10 (6.71%) SOLID
10 10 (6.71%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 28 (18.79%) SQL
2 22 (14.77%) Python
3 10 (6.71%) C#
4 4 (2.68%) COBOL
4 4 (2.68%) Java
4 4 (2.68%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.01%) JCL
6 2 (1.34%) REXX
6 2 (1.34%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.67%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.67%) PROC SQL
7 1 (0.67%) R
7 1 (0.67%) SAS Macro
7 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (4.03%) Degree
2 3 (2.01%) CISSP
2 3 (2.01%) CRISC
2 3 (2.01%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (2.01%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (1.34%) APMP
3 2 (1.34%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.34%) CEH
3 2 (1.34%) CISA
3 2 (1.34%) GCIH
3 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.34%) OSCP
4 1 (0.67%) ACCA
4 1 (0.67%) CFA
4 1 (0.67%) GCFA
4 1 (0.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (0.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.04%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (2.01%) MiFID
3 3 (2.01%) QA
4 2 (1.34%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.34%) Basel III
4 2 (1.34%) GDPR
4 2 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.34%) SLA
5 1 (0.67%) COBIT
5 1 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.67%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.67%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.67%) ITGC
5 1 (0.67%) NIST
5 1 (0.67%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.67%) Docker
1 1 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (1.34%) FortiGate
1 2 (1.34%) Galera Cluster
1 2 (1.34%) Terraform
2 1 (0.67%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (0.67%) NetBackup
2 1 (0.67%) Podman
Vendors
1 14 (9.40%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.37%) Oracle
3 5 (3.36%) Cisco
3 5 (3.36%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.68%) Adobe
5 3 (2.01%) Databricks
5 3 (2.01%) Logitech
5 3 (2.01%) Splunk
6 2 (1.34%) Ab Initio
6 2 (1.34%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.34%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.34%) Google
6 2 (1.34%) Informatica
6 2 (1.34%) Murex
6 2 (1.34%) Parasoft
6 2 (1.34%) Planview
6 2 (1.34%) Workday
7 1 (0.67%) Calypso
7 1 (0.67%) Dell
7 1 (0.67%) Veritas