Wholesale Banking Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Wholesale Banking
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Wholesale Banking in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Wholesale Banking over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 338 475
Rank change year-on-year +41 +137 +151
Contract jobs citing Wholesale Banking 7 7 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.046% 0.008%
As % of the General category 0.11% 0.077% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 2
10th Percentile £304 £966 £610
25th Percentile - £975 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £1,250 £650
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% +92.31% +13.04%
75th Percentile £346 £1,325 £675
90th Percentile £385 £1,468 £690
UK median daily rate £325 £820 £500
% change year-on-year -60.37% +64.00% -16.67%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,176 9,033 15,091
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 62.35% 58.87% 58.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,155 5,908 10,633
10th Percentile £325 £331 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 477 347
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.03 £19.04
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.61 £29.31
Median hourly rate £32.05 £38.12 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.92% -23.76% +61.29%
75th Percentile £64.69 £53.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.93 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Wholesale Banking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Wholesale Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Wholesale Banking trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Wholesale Banking
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Wholesale Banking.

Wholesale Banking daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Wholesale Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Git
2 5 (71.43%) Ant
2 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 5 (71.43%) Maven
2 5 (71.43%) Subversion
General
1 7 (100.00%) Banking
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (71.43%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (71.43%) .NET Developer
2 5 (71.43%) .NET Software Developer
2 5 (71.43%) .NET Software Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) C# .NET Developer
2 5 (71.43%) C# Developer
2 5 (71.43%) C# Software Developer
2 5 (71.43%) C# Software Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Java Software Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 2 (28.57%) Apache Avro
2 2 (28.57%) JSON
2 2 (28.57%) React
2 2 (28.57%) RESTful
2 2 (28.57%) Spring
2 2 (28.57%) Web Services
2 2 (28.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Derivative
1 7 (100.00%) Equities
1 7 (100.00%) Equity Derivative
2 5 (71.43%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
1 5 (71.43%) Unix
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Concurrent Programming
1 5 (71.43%) Design Patterns
1 5 (71.43%) High Availability
1 5 (71.43%) OO
1 5 (71.43%) OOA/OOD
1 5 (71.43%) SDLC
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Clean Code
2 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C#
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Kotlin
2 2 (28.57%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft