Banking Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Banking
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 56 96
Rank change year-on-year +6 +40 +16
Contract jobs citing Banking 97 49 21
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 4.33% 2.95% 1.14%
As % of the General category 7.44% 4.78% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 41 18
10th Percentile £432 £426 £372
25th Percentile £494 £525 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £618 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +2.92% +20.00%
75th Percentile £700 £678 £694
90th Percentile £892 £765 £750
England median daily rate £550 £610 £610
% change year-on-year -9.84% - -6.15%

All General Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,303 1,025 1,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 58.17% 61.64% 54.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 636 689
10th Percentile £211 £207 £224
25th Percentile £400 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £576 £612 £606
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 41 44
10th Percentile £13.78 £14.70 £14.26
25th Percentile £16.00 £17.00 £16.38
Median hourly rate £22.51 £23.82 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.52% +30.52% +3.58%
75th Percentile £30.75 £31.31 £34.50
90th Percentile £42.41 £50.00 £64.63
England median hourly rate £23.58 £30.31 £33.00
% change year-on-year -22.21% -8.17% +32.00%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Banking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Banking job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Banking
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Banking

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in the West Midlands

Banking
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Banking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Banking

Banking
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Birmingham +14 74 £525 -19.23% 14
Coventry -5 14 £575 -6.88% 1
Warwickshire - 5 £900 -
West Bromwich 0 2 £450 -18.18%
Shropshire - 1 - -
Banking
England

Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (7.22%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.06%) Apache
2 2 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.06%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (7.22%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 16 (16.49%) AWS
1 16 (16.49%) GCP
2 9 (9.28%) Serverless
3 4 (4.12%) AWS KMS
4 2 (2.06%) Azure
5 1 (1.03%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.03%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.03%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 35 (36.08%) DNS
2 27 (27.84%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 27 (27.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 20 (20.62%) DMZ
4 14 (14.43%) Network Security
5 13 (13.40%) BIG-IP
5 13 (13.40%) HTTP
5 13 (13.40%) SSL
5 13 (13.40%) TCP/IP
5 13 (13.40%) Wireshark
6 8 (8.25%) BGP
7 7 (7.22%) Cisco ISE
7 7 (7.22%) Cisco Wireless
7 7 (7.22%) DHCP
7 7 (7.22%) NX-OS
7 7 (7.22%) VXLAN
7 7 (7.22%) Wireless
8 1 (1.03%) Multicast
8 1 (1.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.43%) NoSQL
2 9 (9.28%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.12%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.06%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.03%) Big Data
5 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (15.46%) GitLab
2 13 (13.40%) Fiddler
2 13 (13.40%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.22%) Liquibase
4 5 (5.15%) JUnit
5 2 (2.06%) JIRA
6 1 (1.03%) Maven
6 1 (1.03%) Mockito
6 1 (1.03%) Postman
6 1 (1.03%) Selenium
General
1 38 (39.18%) Investment Banking
2 37 (38.14%) Finance
3 26 (26.80%) Social Skills
4 10 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (9.28%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.09%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.06%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.06%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.03%) Legal
8 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (21.65%) Network Engineer
2 14 (14.43%) Operations Engineer
3 11 (11.34%) Cloud Engineer
3 11 (11.34%) Senior
4 9 (9.28%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 9 (9.28%) GCP Engineer
4 9 (9.28%) IP Network Engineer
4 9 (9.28%) Web Engineer
5 8 (8.25%) Cisco Engineer
5 8 (8.25%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 8 (8.25%) Lead
6 7 (7.22%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) RF Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) Software Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) Wireless Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) Wireless Network Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Developer
7 6 (6.19%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.37%) REST
2 10 (10.31%) RESTful
3 9 (9.28%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (5.15%) Kafka
5 4 (4.12%) Gherkin
6 3 (3.09%) Spring
7 2 (2.06%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (2.06%) Middleware
7 2 (2.06%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.03%) Hibernate
8 1 (1.03%) JPA
8 1 (1.03%) JSON
8 1 (1.03%) OpenAPI
8 1 (1.03%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 28 (28.87%) Management Information System
2 13 (13.40%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (10.31%) Data Centre
4 9 (9.28%) Onboarding
4 9 (9.28%) Public Cloud
5 8 (8.25%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.12%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.06%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.03%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (28.87%) Load Balancing
2 20 (20.62%) Agile
3 15 (15.46%) CI/CD
3 15 (15.46%) Design Patterns
3 15 (15.46%) Microservices
4 14 (14.43%) Business Strategy
4 14 (14.43%) Containerisation
4 14 (14.43%) DevOps
5 13 (13.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (13.40%) Root Cause Analysis
6 12 (12.37%) Change Management
7 10 (10.31%) Computer Science
8 9 (9.28%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (9.28%) Cryptography
8 9 (9.28%) Data Encryption
8 9 (9.28%) Data Loss Prevention
8 9 (9.28%) High Availability
8 9 (9.28%) Malware Detection/Protection
8 9 (9.28%) Non-Functional Testing
8 9 (9.28%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (18.56%) Python
2 11 (11.34%) Go
3 8 (8.25%) Java
3 8 (8.25%) SQL
4 7 (7.22%) Lisp
5 2 (2.06%) Scala
6 1 (1.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (10.31%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (10.31%) Degree
1 10 (10.31%) Master's Degree
2 7 (7.22%) CCNP
2 7 (7.22%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (4.12%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.06%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (2.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.06%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.03%) CEH
5 1 (1.03%) CISM
5 1 (1.03%) CISSP
5 1 (1.03%) GCFA
5 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.03%) PMP
5 1 (1.03%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.25%) PMO
2 5 (5.15%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.06%) GDPR
4 1 (1.03%) NIST
4 1 (1.03%) QA
System Software
1 23 (23.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (9.28%) Firmware
3 8 (8.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (13.40%) Ansible
1 13 (13.40%) Terraform
2 10 (10.31%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.28%) Grafana
3 9 (9.28%) Prometheus
4 7 (7.22%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.03%) Kibana
5 1 (1.03%) QRadar
Vendors
1 28 (28.87%) F5
2 25 (25.77%) VMware
3 13 (13.40%) Blue Coat
3 13 (13.40%) McAfee
3 13 (13.40%) NetApp
4 10 (10.31%) Splunk
5 8 (8.25%) Cisco
5 8 (8.25%) Google
6 7 (7.22%) Ekahau
6 7 (7.22%) Remedy
6 7 (7.22%) ServiceNow
7 5 (5.15%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.03%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.03%) BT
8 1 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.03%) Genesys
8 1 (1.03%) Oracle
8 1 (1.03%) Tenable