Banking Contracts with Work from Home Options

Banking
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 20 32
Rank change year-on-year +1 +12 +4
Contract jobs citing Banking 1,223 1,925 2,697
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 8.28% 8.07% 6.15%
As % of the General category 14.15% 13.77% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 791 1,276 1,924
10th Percentile £400 £450 £419
25th Percentile £500 £537 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £825 £800 £738
90th Percentile £888 £884 £825
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile - £8.77 £15.60
25th Percentile - £9.93 £17.04
Median hourly rate £12.84 £11.86 £21.86
Median % change year-on-year +8.26% -45.73% -54.23%
75th Percentile £47.92 £13.79 £29.10
90th Percentile £68.97 £14.95 £31.99
UK median hourly rate £19.05 £52.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -63.71% +90.91% +93.02%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 8,646 13,984 24,171
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.55% 58.60% 55.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,690 9,883 17,673
10th Percentile £325 £363 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £776 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 461 315 341
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.66 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.86 £25.71 £19.50
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £33.90
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +44.54% +52.57%
75th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.45 £65.54
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £31.92 £22.75
% change year-on-year -6.02% +40.31% +8.08%

Banking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Banking trend for jobs with a WFH option

Banking
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Banking.

Banking daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Banking over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Banking daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Banking
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Banking.

Banking hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Banking
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Banking over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Banking hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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:

Application Platforms
1 129 (10.55%) Apache
1 129 (10.55%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (1.80%) Confluence
3 20 (1.64%) SharePoint
4 12 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.74%) WebSphere
6 7 (0.57%) IBM HTTP Server
6 7 (0.57%) WebSphere Application Server
6 7 (0.57%) WebSphere Portal
7 5 (0.41%) CMS
7 5 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.33%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.25%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.25%) SAS
10 2 (0.16%) Appian
10 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.16%) IBM Notes
10 2 (0.16%) JBoss
Applications
1 27 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.96%) MS Visio
3 18 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.16%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.082%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.082%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.49%) SAP CO
2 6 (0.49%) Temenos T24
3 5 (0.41%) SAP FI
3 5 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
4 4 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (0.25%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.25%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.16%) SAP FI-FM
7 1 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.082%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 211 (17.25%) AWS
2 133 (10.87%) dbt
3 113 (9.24%) Snowflake
4 93 (7.60%) GCP
5 71 (5.81%) Azure
6 31 (2.53%) Power Platform
7 13 (1.06%) GitHub
8 11 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (0.90%) SaaS
9 10 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (0.65%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (0.65%) OpenShift
11 7 (0.57%) Amazon S3
12 6 (0.49%) Collibra
12 6 (0.49%) IaaS
12 6 (0.49%) Kong
13 5 (0.41%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 35 (2.86%) Firewall
2 17 (1.39%) Intranet
3 8 (0.65%) HTTP
3 8 (0.65%) Internet
3 8 (0.65%) SAN
4 7 (0.57%) ATM
4 7 (0.57%) DNS
5 6 (0.49%) Network Security
5 6 (0.49%) VPN
6 5 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (0.41%) DMZ
7 4 (0.33%) BGP
8 3 (0.25%) DHCP
8 3 (0.25%) PuTTY
8 3 (0.25%) WAN
9 2 (0.16%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.16%) LAN
9 2 (0.16%) Multicast
9 2 (0.16%) NAS
9 2 (0.16%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (10.87%) Dremio
2 131 (10.71%) Data Lake
3 129 (10.55%) Apache Arrow
4 128 (10.47%) Amazon Athena
5 118 (9.65%) Apache Ignite
6 45 (3.68%) SQL Server
7 27 (2.21%) Power BI
8 18 (1.47%) NoSQL
9 17 (1.39%) MongoDB
10 16 (1.31%) MySQL
10 16 (1.31%) Tableau
11 12 (0.98%) Oracle Database
12 11 (0.90%) Big Data
12 11 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (0.90%) Relational Database
13 10 (0.82%) Metadata
14 9 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (0.74%) OLAP
14 9 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 8 (0.65%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 55 (4.50%) JIRA
2 28 (2.29%) Git
3 27 (2.21%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.23%) Maven
5 12 (0.98%) GitLab
5 12 (0.98%) Selenium
6 10 (0.82%) TeamCity
7 8 (0.65%) Postman
8 7 (0.57%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (0.49%) MLflow
9 6 (0.49%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
10 5 (0.41%) JMeter
11 4 (0.33%) PHPUnit
11 4 (0.33%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.25%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.25%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.25%) Liquibase
12 3 (0.25%) webpack
General
1 910 (74.41%) Finance
2 264 (21.59%) Investment Banking
3 234 (19.13%) Front Office
4 202 (16.52%) Social Skills
5 85 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (3.43%) Retail Banking
7 35 (2.86%) Back Office
8 28 (2.29%) Retail
9 25 (2.04%) Financial Institution
10 18 (1.47%) Corporate Banking
11 14 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (0.98%) Telecoms
13 11 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.65%) Marketing
15 8 (0.65%) Public Sector
16 7 (0.57%) Advertising
16 7 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (0.57%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 209 (17.09%) Developer
2 203 (16.60%) Analyst
3 180 (14.72%) Architect
4 124 (10.14%) Business Analyst
5 122 (9.98%) Senior
6 111 (9.08%) Lead
7 95 (7.77%) Software Engineer
8 73 (5.97%) Java Developer
9 69 (5.64%) Banking Analyst
10 62 (5.07%) Solutions Architect
11 58 (4.74%) Project Manager
12 56 (4.58%) Python Engineer
13 55 (4.50%) Java Engineer
14 52 (4.25%) Java Software Engineer
15 50 (4.09%) AWS Engineer
16 49 (4.01%) Financial Analyst
16 49 (4.01%) Python Software Engineer
17 46 (3.76%) AWS Software Engineer
18 44 (3.60%) Senior Software Engineer
19 39 (3.19%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (10.06%) Pandas
2 122 (9.98%) gRPC
2 122 (9.98%) NumPy
2 122 (9.98%) SciPy
3 121 (9.89%) Protocol Buffers
4 41 (3.35%) HTML
5 35 (2.86%) CSS
6 33 (2.70%) React
7 28 (2.29%) .NET
8 25 (2.04%) Kafka
8 25 (2.04%) Spring
8 25 (2.04%) Web Services
9 24 (1.96%) Spring Boot
10 23 (1.88%) Middleware
11 20 (1.64%) AngularJS
12 18 (1.47%) FIX Protocol
13 16 (1.31%) Node.js
13 16 (1.31%) RESTful
14 15 (1.23%) REST
15 14 (1.14%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 200 (16.35%) Derivative
2 170 (13.90%) Fixed Income
3 160 (13.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 159 (13.00%) Hedge funds
5 149 (12.18%) Equities
6 34 (2.78%) Product Ownership
7 31 (2.53%) Management Information System
8 28 (2.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 20 (1.64%) Mainframe
10 17 (1.39%) Equity Derivative
11 16 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.31%) Onboarding
11 16 (1.31%) Pricing Data
12 15 (1.23%) Data Centre
13 13 (1.06%) Algorithms
14 12 (0.98%) Mobile App
15 10 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
16 9 (0.74%) Credit Risk
16 9 (0.74%) Video Conferencing
17 8 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (4.09%) Windows
2 31 (2.53%) Linux
3 20 (1.64%) Unix
4 15 (1.23%) MVS
5 10 (0.82%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.74%) Android
6 9 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
7 8 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (0.49%) VMS
8 6 (0.49%) zOS
9 5 (0.41%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.082%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (25.67%) Agile
2 248 (20.28%) Change Management
3 168 (13.74%) Software Engineering
4 166 (13.57%) Asset Management
5 132 (10.79%) Investment Management
6 110 (8.99%) DevOps
7 97 (7.93%) Stakeholder Management
8 88 (7.20%) Migration
9 87 (7.11%) Problem-Solving
10 69 (5.64%) CI/CD
11 61 (4.99%) Analytics
12 58 (4.74%) Test Automation
13 57 (4.66%) Microservices
14 53 (4.33%) Line Management
14 53 (4.33%) Project Management
15 52 (4.25%) Service Management
16 51 (4.17%) Roadmaps
17 47 (3.84%) Mentoring
18 46 (3.76%) SDLC
19 43 (3.52%) Greeks
Programming Languages
1 257 (21.01%) Python
2 256 (20.93%) Java
3 175 (14.31%) JavaScript
4 167 (13.65%) SQL
5 143 (11.69%) TypeScript
6 79 (6.46%) C#
7 28 (2.29%) C++
8 20 (1.64%) PowerShell
9 15 (1.23%) Scala
10 14 (1.14%) PL/SQL
11 12 (0.98%) Go
12 10 (0.82%) Groovy
13 9 (0.74%) R
14 8 (0.65%) PHP
14 8 (0.65%) Ruby
15 7 (0.57%) Perl
15 7 (0.57%) VBA
16 6 (0.49%) Bash
16 6 (0.49%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 69 (5.64%) Degree
2 23 (1.88%) Security Cleared
3 22 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (1.80%) SC Cleared
4 13 (1.06%) Master's Degree
5 12 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (0.82%) PMP
7 8 (0.65%) PMI Certification
8 7 (0.57%) CCNA
8 7 (0.57%) CCNP
8 7 (0.57%) CISSP
8 7 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (0.41%) CISM
10 4 (0.33%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.33%) MCSE
11 3 (0.25%) PhD
12 2 (0.16%) MCSA
12 2 (0.16%) MCSD
12 2 (0.16%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (5.15%) Data Quality
2 37 (3.03%) QA
3 34 (2.78%) PMO
4 18 (1.47%) MiFID
5 16 (1.31%) EMIR
6 10 (0.82%) GDPR
7 9 (0.74%) SEPA
8 7 (0.57%) Dodd-Frank
9 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.41%) NIST
9 5 (0.41%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.33%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.33%) PSD2
11 3 (0.25%) GRC
11 3 (0.25%) SLA
12 2 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.16%) P3O
12 2 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (2.29%) Docker
2 26 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.65%) vSphere
4 5 (0.41%) ACF2
4 5 (0.41%) IAG
4 5 (0.41%) RACF
4 5 (0.41%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.16%) VMware Server
7 1 (0.082%) Firmware
7 1 (0.082%) GridGain
7 1 (0.082%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.082%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 24 (1.96%) Kubernetes
2 22 (1.80%) Ansible
3 9 (0.74%) Puppet
3 9 (0.74%) Terraform
4 8 (0.65%) SCCM
5 7 (0.57%) Control-M
6 6 (0.49%) Grafana
7 5 (0.41%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.33%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.25%) Kibana
10 2 (0.16%) logstash
10 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.16%) Nessus
11 1 (0.082%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.082%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.082%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.082%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.082%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.082%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 57 (4.66%) Microsoft
2 54 (4.42%) Oracle
2 54 (4.42%) ServiceNow
3 33 (2.70%) Cisco
4 30 (2.45%) Splunk
5 21 (1.72%) IBM
6 20 (1.64%) Google
7 19 (1.55%) SAP
8 17 (1.39%) CheckPoint
9 16 (1.31%) Bloomberg
10 13 (1.06%) Citrix
11 12 (0.98%) F5
11 12 (0.98%) VMware
12 11 (0.90%) Databricks
12 11 (0.90%) Fortinet
13 10 (0.82%) EMC
13 10 (0.82%) Reuters
14 9 (0.74%) Avaya
14 9 (0.74%) HP
14 9 (0.74%) Palo Alto