Banking Contracts in England

Banking
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 21 23
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,426 3,787 5,448
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 6.47% 8.05% 7.76%
As % of the General category 11.29% 13.61% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,790 2,776 3,648
10th Percentile £400 £450 £438
25th Percentile £500 £538 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £648
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.37% +12.62%
75th Percentile £775 £800 £763
90th Percentile £875 £900 £850
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 6 19
10th Percentile £12.34 £11.33 £13.98
25th Percentile £14.50 £14.92 £21.00
Median hourly rate £19.05 £34.11 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.15% +31.19% +85.32%
75th Percentile £27.00 £65.94 £33.83
90th Percentile £86.00 £70.00 £66.85
UK median hourly rate £19.05 £52.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -63.71% +90.91% +93.02%

All General Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,479 27,824 40,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.31% 59.12% 57.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,766 19,590 28,334
10th Percentile £281 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.93% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,832 910 1,276
10th Percentile £12.88 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £31.50 £30.65 £22.45
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +36.51% +6.90%
75th Percentile £52.50 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.00 £22.51
% change year-on-year -6.25% +42.14% +6.95%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Banking in England

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Banking in England

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in England over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in England

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Banking in England

Banking
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Banking in England over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Banking in England

Banking
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the England region over the 6 months to 10 June 2024. 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
London -3 1,943 £650 -3.70% 499
North of England +3 209 £476 -13.41% 64
North West +18 115 £483 -12.14% 47
South East +37 103 £513 -14.58% 47
Yorkshire -11 91 £488 -11.36% 13
Midlands +7 73 £453 -24.58% 31
East Midlands +45 50 £445 -1.11% 13
South West -8 35 £575 -8.00% 33
East of England +16 24 £575 +15.00% 6
West Midlands -16 21 £525 -17.65% 17
North East +10 3 £463 -36.21% 4
South Coast - 3 £500 -
Banking
UK

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 219 (9.03%) Apache
2 204 (8.41%) Apache Airflow
3 65 (2.68%) SharePoint
4 53 (2.18%) Confluence
5 40 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 23 (0.95%) Apache Spark
7 14 (0.58%) SAS
8 8 (0.33%) CMS
9 7 (0.29%) nginx
9 7 (0.29%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.25%) IIS
10 6 (0.25%) JBoss
10 6 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.21%) MQSeries
11 5 (0.21%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.16%) Appian
12 4 (0.16%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.082%) GemFire
Applications
1 81 (3.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (1.20%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.21%) Sketch
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.12%) InVision
9 2 (0.082%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.082%) Gliffy
9 2 (0.082%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.041%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.041%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.041%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.041%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.041%) InDesign
10 1 (0.041%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (0.99%) Aladdin
2 21 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.62%) ION Anvil
5 14 (0.58%) Temenos T24
6 12 (0.49%) SAP CO
6 12 (0.49%) SAP FI
6 12 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
7 11 (0.45%) ION MarketView
8 10 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
8 10 (0.41%) SimCorp Dimension
9 9 (0.37%) FLEXCUBE
9 9 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
10 7 (0.29%) Oracle BPM
10 7 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (0.25%) SAP ERP
12 5 (0.21%) IntelliMatch
12 5 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
12 5 (0.21%) Oracle FAH
12 5 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 420 (17.31%) AWS
2 347 (14.30%) Azure
3 222 (9.15%) GCP
4 145 (5.98%) dbt
5 124 (5.11%) Snowflake
6 100 (4.12%) Power Platform
7 60 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
8 38 (1.57%) GitHub
9 35 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (1.40%) Entra ID
10 34 (1.40%) SaaS
11 29 (1.20%) Serverless
12 24 (0.99%) Power Automate
13 22 (0.91%) PowerApps
14 20 (0.82%) Microsoft Purview
15 17 (0.70%) PaaS
16 16 (0.66%) IaaS
17 15 (0.62%) AWS Lambda
17 15 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
17 15 (0.62%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 85 (3.50%) Firewall
2 47 (1.94%) DMZ
3 26 (1.07%) Internet
4 24 (0.99%) VPN
5 23 (0.95%) Cisco Nexus
6 18 (0.74%) DNS
6 18 (0.74%) SAN
7 17 (0.70%) Network Security
8 10 (0.41%) SSH
8 10 (0.41%) Wireless
9 9 (0.37%) DHCP
9 9 (0.37%) WAN
10 8 (0.33%) HTTP
11 7 (0.29%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.25%) BGP
12 6 (0.25%) LAN
12 6 (0.25%) SSL
12 6 (0.25%) TCP/IP
13 5 (0.21%) Cisco ISE
13 5 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (8.04%) Apache Ignite
2 159 (6.55%) Data Lake
3 144 (5.94%) Dremio
4 141 (5.81%) Apache Arrow
5 139 (5.73%) Amazon Athena
6 116 (4.78%) SQL Server
7 93 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
8 87 (3.59%) Power BI
9 56 (2.31%) NoSQL
10 51 (2.10%) Relational Database
11 39 (1.61%) Big Data
11 39 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
12 35 (1.44%) MongoDB
13 29 (1.20%) Tableau
14 27 (1.11%) MySQL
15 23 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 21 (0.87%) Metadata
17 20 (0.82%) Oracle Database
18 19 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
19 18 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 128 (5.28%) JIRA
2 76 (3.13%) Git
3 73 (3.01%) Jenkins
4 57 (2.35%) Cypress.io
5 46 (1.90%) Selenium
6 36 (1.48%) Cucumber
7 30 (1.24%) TeamCity
8 27 (1.11%) GitLab
9 22 (0.91%) Maven
10 20 (0.82%) Postman
11 17 (0.70%) Bitbucket
12 16 (0.66%) JUnit
12 16 (0.66%) Visual Studio
13 13 (0.54%) SpecFlow
14 12 (0.49%) Artifactory
14 12 (0.49%) JMeter
15 9 (0.37%) SonarQube
15 9 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
16 8 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 8 (0.33%) webpack
General
1 1,624 (66.94%) Finance
2 581 (23.95%) Investment Banking
3 477 (19.66%) Social Skills
4 412 (16.98%) Front Office
5 226 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
6 78 (3.22%) Retail
7 75 (3.09%) Retail Banking
8 64 (2.64%) Back Office
9 58 (2.39%) Financial Institution
10 54 (2.23%) Corporate Banking
11 40 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
12 35 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
13 29 (1.20%) Wholesale Banking
14 27 (1.11%) Public Sector
15 25 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
16 23 (0.95%) Legal
17 22 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 19 (0.78%) Marketing
19 16 (0.66%) International Banking
19 16 (0.66%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 535 (22.05%) Developer
2 420 (17.31%) Analyst
3 271 (11.17%) Senior
4 268 (11.05%) Architect
5 215 (8.86%) Business Analyst
6 175 (7.21%) Software Engineer
7 158 (6.51%) Lead
8 136 (5.61%) Java Developer
9 132 (5.44%) Python Developer
10 130 (5.36%) Python Engineer
11 125 (5.15%) Project Manager
12 120 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
13 118 (4.86%) Python Software Engineer
14 110 (4.53%) Banking Analyst
15 104 (4.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 98 (4.04%) React Developer
17 91 (3.75%) Consultant
18 84 (3.46%) Financial Analyst
19 78 (3.22%) Network Engineer
20 67 (2.76%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (8.45%) gRPC
2 197 (8.12%) Protocol Buffers
3 150 (6.18%) React
4 136 (5.61%) Pandas
5 134 (5.52%) NumPy
6 132 (5.44%) SciPy
7 99 (4.08%) .NET
8 78 (3.22%) Redux
9 68 (2.80%) Spring
10 67 (2.76%) Material-UI
11 65 (2.68%) HTML
12 62 (2.56%) Kafka
13 59 (2.43%) FIX Protocol
14 57 (2.35%) CSS
15 45 (1.85%) REST
16 43 (1.77%) Spring Boot
17 40 (1.65%) AngularJS
17 40 (1.65%) Web Services
18 38 (1.57%) Node.js
19 36 (1.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 303 (12.49%) Fixed Income
2 289 (11.91%) Derivative
3 270 (11.13%) Hedge funds
4 245 (10.10%) Equities
5 242 (9.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 89 (3.67%) Product Ownership
7 61 (2.51%) Management Information System
8 48 (1.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 37 (1.53%) Data Centre
10 33 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
11 30 (1.24%) Credit Risk
12 27 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
12 27 (1.11%) Onboarding
13 26 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
14 25 (1.03%) Algorithms
14 25 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
14 25 (1.03%) Mobile App
14 25 (1.03%) Security Posture
15 24 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
15 24 (0.99%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 154 (6.35%) Windows
2 126 (5.19%) Linux
3 101 (4.16%) Unix
4 21 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 19 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.74%) Android
6 18 (0.74%) Windows 10
7 16 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (0.66%) zOS
8 15 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
9 13 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.29%) MVS
10 7 (0.29%) Windows 7
11 6 (0.25%) VMS
12 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.12%) AIX
13 3 (0.12%) Kali Linux
14 2 (0.082%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.041%) Solaris
15 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 679 (27.99%) Agile
2 320 (13.19%) Software Engineering
3 297 (12.24%) Asset Management
4 265 (10.92%) DevOps
5 234 (9.65%) Problem-Solving
6 229 (9.44%) Investment Management
7 224 (9.23%) Change Management
8 196 (8.08%) Migration
9 190 (7.83%) Stakeholder Management
10 158 (6.51%) CI/CD
11 140 (5.77%) Microservices
12 138 (5.69%) Test Automation
13 135 (5.56%) Project Management
14 127 (5.23%) Analytics
14 127 (5.23%) Roadmaps
15 121 (4.99%) Full Stack Development
16 115 (4.74%) SDLC
17 110 (4.53%) Scrum
18 109 (4.49%) Artificial Intelligence
19 106 (4.37%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 513 (21.15%) Python
2 468 (19.29%) Java
3 405 (16.69%) SQL
4 248 (10.22%) TypeScript
5 229 (9.44%) JavaScript
6 200 (8.24%) C#
7 79 (3.26%) PowerShell
8 69 (2.84%) C++
9 42 (1.73%) Scala
10 29 (1.20%) Shell Script
11 21 (0.87%) Bash
11 21 (0.87%) PL/SQL
12 18 (0.74%) Go
13 17 (0.70%) Groovy
14 16 (0.66%) Perl
15 14 (0.58%) T-SQL
16 13 (0.54%) Kotlin
16 13 (0.54%) R
17 12 (0.49%) Ruby
18 11 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 173 (7.13%) Degree
2 61 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 54 (2.23%) Security Cleared
4 47 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
4 47 (1.94%) SC Cleared
5 26 (1.07%) Master's Degree
6 25 (1.03%) CISSP
6 25 (1.03%) PMP
7 22 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (0.91%) PMI Certification
8 21 (0.87%) CISM
9 16 (0.66%) CCNP
10 13 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
10 13 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
11 12 (0.49%) AWS Certification
11 12 (0.49%) Azure Certification
12 11 (0.45%) CCNA
12 11 (0.45%) CISA
13 10 (0.41%) Six Sigma Black Belt
13 10 (0.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (4.33%) QA
2 80 (3.30%) Data Quality
3 50 (2.06%) PMO
4 28 (1.15%) EMIR
5 26 (1.07%) MiFID
6 24 (0.99%) NIST
7 23 (0.95%) GDPR
7 23 (0.95%) SLA
8 20 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 14 (0.58%) SEPA
10 12 (0.49%) Dodd-Frank
10 12 (0.49%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.41%) GRC
12 8 (0.33%) Basel III
12 8 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 7 (0.29%) IFRS
14 6 (0.25%) GAAP
14 6 (0.25%) ISO 20022
15 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 4 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 88 (3.63%) Active Directory
2 64 (2.64%) Docker
3 13 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.33%) vSphere
5 5 (0.21%) ACF2
5 5 (0.21%) IAG
5 5 (0.21%) RACF
6 4 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
7 3 (0.12%) HDFS
7 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.082%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.082%) KVM
8 2 (0.082%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.082%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.082%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.041%) Cronacle
9 1 (0.041%) NFS
9 1 (0.041%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 80 (3.30%) Kubernetes
2 51 (2.10%) Ansible
3 39 (1.61%) Terraform
4 24 (0.99%) SCCM
5 20 (0.82%) Grafana
6 19 (0.78%) Puppet
7 13 (0.54%) Control-M
7 13 (0.54%) Progress Chef
8 10 (0.41%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.37%) Kibana
9 9 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
10 8 (0.33%) PingFederate
11 7 (0.29%) logstash
12 4 (0.16%) NetBackup
12 4 (0.16%) SCOM
13 3 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (0.12%) Nessus
13 3 (0.12%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 230 (9.48%) Microsoft
2 136 (5.61%) Oracle
3 119 (4.91%) Google
4 99 (4.08%) Cisco
5 65 (2.68%) ServiceNow
6 62 (2.56%) CheckPoint
7 50 (2.06%) Bloomberg
8 41 (1.69%) SAP
9 40 (1.65%) IBM
10 32 (1.32%) Arista
11 30 (1.24%) Citrix
11 30 (1.24%) Splunk
12 28 (1.15%) Fortinet
13 27 (1.11%) Databricks
14 25 (1.03%) F5
15 24 (0.99%) VMware
16 22 (0.91%) ION Trading
17 19 (0.78%) EMC
17 19 (0.78%) Juniper
18 18 (0.74%) Avaya