Banking Contracts in London

Banking
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in London. 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 13 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Banking 1,943 3,259 4,678
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.99% 12.96% 12.14%
As % of the General category 17.55% 20.45% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,476 2,456 3,124
10th Percentile £400 £460 £463
25th Percentile £525 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £800 £806 £775
90th Percentile £888 £900 £862
England median daily rate £625 £650 £648
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.37% +12.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 13
10th Percentile - - £21.00
25th Percentile £18.25 - £23.91
Median hourly rate £19.50 £8.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +143.75% -70.91% +22.22%
75th Percentile £27.00 - £50.00
90th Percentile £56.25 - £79.90
England median hourly rate £19.05 £34.11 £26.00
% change year-on-year -44.15% +31.19% +85.32%

All General Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,071 15,940 23,484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 62.60% 63.37% 60.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,910 11,630 17,095
10th Percentile £335 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.93% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 200 275
10th Percentile £15.95 £16.12 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.18 £25.68
Median hourly rate £30.14 £30.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -15.49% +22.41%
75th Percentile £47.81 £52.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.20 £70.00 £65.35
England median hourly rate £31.50 £30.65 £22.45
% change year-on-year +2.78% +36.51% +6.90%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Banking in London

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Banking in London

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Banking in London

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Banking in London

Banking
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Banking in London

Banking
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the London 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
Central London -2 268 £580 -11.45% 65
East London -6 18 £540 -14.29% 13
South London -17 6 £563 -23.73% 2
West London - 4 £400 - 11
Banking
England

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 217 (11.17%) Apache
2 204 (10.50%) Apache Airflow
3 51 (2.62%) SharePoint
4 39 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 35 (1.80%) Confluence
6 16 (0.82%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.51%) SAS
8 7 (0.36%) nginx
8 7 (0.36%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.31%) CMS
9 6 (0.31%) IIS
10 5 (0.26%) JBoss
10 5 (0.26%) MQSeries
10 5 (0.26%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.21%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.15%) Appian
12 3 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.10%) GemFire
13 2 (0.10%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 54 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (1.03%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.26%) Sketch
7 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.15%) InVision
7 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.10%) Gliffy
8 2 (0.10%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.051%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.051%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.051%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.051%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.051%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.051%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 24 (1.24%) Aladdin
2 17 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.77%) ION Anvil
4 11 (0.57%) ION MarketView
4 11 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.51%) SimCorp Dimension
6 8 (0.41%) FLEXCUBE
7 7 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.36%) Temenos T24
8 6 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
8 6 (0.31%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.26%) IntelliMatch
10 4 (0.21%) Distributed Ledger
10 4 (0.21%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 3 (0.15%) Orchestrade
11 3 (0.15%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.15%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 354 (18.22%) AWS
2 289 (14.87%) Azure
3 204 (10.50%) GCP
4 145 (7.46%) dbt
5 121 (6.23%) Snowflake
6 89 (4.58%) Power Platform
7 53 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
8 36 (1.85%) GitHub
9 31 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (1.24%) Power Automate
11 23 (1.18%) SaaS
12 22 (1.13%) PowerApps
12 22 (1.13%) Serverless
13 20 (1.03%) Entra ID
14 19 (0.98%) Microsoft Purview
15 15 (0.77%) PaaS
16 14 (0.72%) Azure Service Bus
17 13 (0.67%) Azure AKS
17 13 (0.67%) Azure Key Vault
17 13 (0.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (3.04%) Firewall
2 21 (1.08%) Internet
3 16 (0.82%) SAN
4 14 (0.72%) Network Security
5 13 (0.67%) DNS
6 10 (0.51%) SSH
7 9 (0.46%) VPN
8 8 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
8 8 (0.41%) HTTP
9 7 (0.36%) WAN
10 6 (0.31%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.26%) DHCP
12 4 (0.21%) AMQP
12 4 (0.21%) FIX Connectivity
12 4 (0.21%) FTP
12 4 (0.21%) LAN
12 4 (0.21%) SSL
12 4 (0.21%) VoIP
12 4 (0.21%) Wireless
13 3 (0.15%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (10.04%) Apache Ignite
2 146 (7.51%) Data Lake
3 144 (7.41%) Dremio
4 141 (7.26%) Apache Arrow
5 137 (7.05%) Amazon Athena
6 102 (5.25%) SQL Server
7 88 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
8 76 (3.91%) Power BI
9 50 (2.57%) NoSQL
10 46 (2.37%) Relational Database
11 34 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
12 31 (1.60%) Big Data
13 26 (1.34%) Tableau
14 25 (1.29%) MongoDB
15 23 (1.18%) MySQL
15 23 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 19 (0.98%) Oracle Database
17 18 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
17 18 (0.93%) KDB
17 18 (0.93%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 85 (4.37%) JIRA
2 57 (2.93%) Cypress.io
3 51 (2.62%) Git
3 51 (2.62%) Jenkins
4 45 (2.32%) Selenium
5 34 (1.75%) Cucumber
6 27 (1.39%) TeamCity
7 24 (1.24%) GitLab
8 20 (1.03%) Maven
8 20 (1.03%) Postman
9 15 (0.77%) JUnit
9 15 (0.77%) Visual Studio
10 13 (0.67%) Bitbucket
10 13 (0.67%) SpecFlow
11 10 (0.51%) JMeter
12 9 (0.46%) Artifactory
13 8 (0.41%) ERwin
13 8 (0.41%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 1,335 (68.71%) Finance
2 553 (28.46%) Investment Banking
3 406 (20.90%) Front Office
4 366 (18.84%) Social Skills
5 158 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
6 64 (3.29%) Back Office
7 61 (3.14%) Retail
8 58 (2.99%) Retail Banking
9 51 (2.62%) Financial Institution
10 40 (2.06%) Corporate Banking
11 33 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
12 29 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (1.13%) Wholesale Banking
14 21 (1.08%) Public Sector
15 20 (1.03%) Legal
16 16 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 16 (0.82%) International Banking
16 16 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
16 16 (0.82%) Prime Brokerage
17 13 (0.67%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 493 (25.37%) Developer
2 352 (18.12%) Analyst
3 218 (11.22%) Senior
4 194 (9.98%) Business Analyst
5 174 (8.96%) Software Engineer
6 170 (8.75%) Architect
7 136 (7.00%) Lead
8 128 (6.59%) Python Engineer
9 127 (6.54%) Java Developer
10 124 (6.38%) Python Developer
11 117 (6.02%) Python Software Engineer
12 104 (5.35%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 101 (5.20%) Banking Analyst
14 97 (4.99%) Project Manager
15 96 (4.94%) React Developer
16 81 (4.17%) Financial Analyst
17 72 (3.71%) Consultant
18 63 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
19 62 (3.19%) Java Engineer
19 62 (3.19%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (10.40%) gRPC
2 197 (10.14%) Protocol Buffers
3 140 (7.21%) React
4 136 (7.00%) Pandas
5 134 (6.90%) NumPy
6 132 (6.79%) SciPy
7 93 (4.79%) .NET
8 77 (3.96%) Redux
9 67 (3.45%) Material-UI
10 63 (3.24%) HTML
11 59 (3.04%) FIX Protocol
12 55 (2.83%) CSS
13 53 (2.73%) Spring
14 45 (2.32%) Kafka
15 39 (2.01%) REST
16 38 (1.96%) AngularJS
17 32 (1.65%) Node.js
18 31 (1.60%) Web Services
19 30 (1.54%) Spring Boot
19 30 (1.54%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 303 (15.59%) Fixed Income
2 278 (14.31%) Derivative
3 270 (13.90%) Hedge funds
4 241 (12.40%) Equities
5 233 (11.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 75 (3.86%) Product Ownership
7 48 (2.47%) Management Information System
8 42 (2.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 27 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
10 25 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
11 23 (1.18%) Equity Derivative
12 22 (1.13%) Algorithms
12 22 (1.13%) Credit Risk
13 21 (1.08%) Data Centre
13 21 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
13 21 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
14 20 (1.03%) Onboarding
15 19 (0.98%) Market Risk
16 18 (0.93%) Mobile App
16 18 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 125 (6.43%) Windows
2 103 (5.30%) Linux
3 87 (4.48%) Unix
4 15 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 14 (0.72%) Windows 10
5 14 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
6 13 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (0.62%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.41%) Android
9 7 (0.36%) zOS
10 6 (0.31%) VMS
11 3 (0.15%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.15%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.10%) AIX
12 2 (0.10%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.051%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.051%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 603 (31.03%) Agile
2 312 (16.06%) Software Engineering
3 293 (15.08%) Asset Management
4 229 (11.79%) Investment Management
5 204 (10.50%) DevOps
6 168 (8.65%) Problem-Solving
7 143 (7.36%) Change Management
8 132 (6.79%) CI/CD
9 130 (6.69%) Migration
10 129 (6.64%) Stakeholder Management
11 119 (6.12%) Test Automation
12 117 (6.02%) Full Stack Development
13 110 (5.66%) Analytics
14 104 (5.35%) Artificial Intelligence
15 99 (5.10%) Machine Learning
16 96 (4.94%) Microservices
16 96 (4.94%) Project Management
17 95 (4.89%) Scrum
18 90 (4.63%) Roadmaps
19 89 (4.58%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 480 (24.70%) Python
2 417 (21.46%) Java
3 370 (19.04%) SQL
4 246 (12.66%) TypeScript
5 224 (11.53%) JavaScript
6 195 (10.04%) C#
7 70 (3.60%) PowerShell
8 66 (3.40%) C++
9 40 (2.06%) Scala
10 25 (1.29%) Shell Script
11 18 (0.93%) Bash
12 17 (0.87%) PL/SQL
13 16 (0.82%) Go
13 16 (0.82%) Groovy
14 13 (0.67%) Perl
14 13 (0.67%) T-SQL
15 11 (0.57%) Kotlin
15 11 (0.57%) PHP
15 11 (0.57%) VBA
16 10 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 140 (7.21%) Degree
2 48 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 44 (2.26%) Security Cleared
4 43 (2.21%) SC Cleared
5 24 (1.24%) Master's Degree
6 22 (1.13%) CISSP
6 22 (1.13%) PMP
7 20 (1.03%) PMI Certification
8 18 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (0.93%) CISM
9 16 (0.82%) CCNP
9 16 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
11 12 (0.62%) Azure Certification
11 12 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
12 10 (0.51%) CISA
12 10 (0.51%) Six Sigma Black Belt
12 10 (0.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 9 (0.46%) CCNA
14 8 (0.41%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (3.96%) Data Quality
1 77 (3.96%) QA
2 36 (1.85%) PMO
3 28 (1.44%) EMIR
4 26 (1.34%) MiFID
5 18 (0.93%) SLA
6 16 (0.82%) GDPR
7 15 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.77%) NIST
8 13 (0.67%) SEPA
9 12 (0.62%) Dodd-Frank
10 9 (0.46%) GRC
11 8 (0.41%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.31%) Basel III
12 6 (0.31%) GAAP
12 6 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 5 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.21%) Accessibility
14 4 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.21%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 68 (3.50%) Active Directory
2 52 (2.68%) Docker
3 11 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.41%) vSphere
5 5 (0.26%) ACF2
5 5 (0.26%) IAG
5 5 (0.26%) RACF
6 3 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.10%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.051%) Cronacle
8 1 (0.051%) GridGain
8 1 (0.051%) HDFS
8 1 (0.051%) NFS
8 1 (0.051%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.051%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 71 (3.65%) Kubernetes
2 43 (2.21%) Ansible
3 33 (1.70%) Terraform
4 22 (1.13%) SCCM
5 20 (1.03%) Grafana
6 17 (0.87%) Puppet
7 11 (0.57%) Control-M
8 10 (0.51%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
10 8 (0.41%) Kibana
10 8 (0.41%) PingFederate
11 7 (0.36%) logstash
12 4 (0.21%) SCOM
13 3 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (0.15%) Nessus
13 3 (0.15%) QRadar
13 3 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.10%) CASB
14 2 (0.10%) Istio
Vendors
1 167 (8.59%) Microsoft
2 114 (5.87%) Oracle
3 107 (5.51%) Google
4 55 (2.83%) Cisco
5 47 (2.42%) Bloomberg
6 42 (2.16%) ServiceNow
7 29 (1.49%) IBM
8 28 (1.44%) Citrix
9 27 (1.39%) Databricks
10 24 (1.24%) SAP
11 22 (1.13%) CheckPoint
11 22 (1.13%) ION Trading
12 21 (1.08%) VMware
13 20 (1.03%) Splunk
14 18 (0.93%) Avaya
14 18 (0.93%) EMC
15 17 (0.87%) HP
16 16 (0.82%) F5
17 15 (0.77%) Fortinet
17 15 (0.77%) Sybase