Banking Contracts in England

Banking
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Banking over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 21 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,369 3,836 5,392
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 6.42% 8.08% 7.65%
As % of the General category 11.15% 13.66% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,744 2,804 3,601
10th Percentile £397 £450 £438
25th Percentile £500 £538 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £640
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.56% +11.30%
75th Percentile £775 £800 £763
90th Percentile £874 £898 £844
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 5 21
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.66 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.50 £14.65 £21.00
Median hourly rate £19.05 £15.72 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.18% -39.54% +85.32%
75th Percentile £27.00 £53.75 £33.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £63.50 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £19.05 £52.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -63.71% +90.91% +96.01%

All General Skills
England

Banking is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,245 28,077 40,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.58% 59.14% 57.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,632 19,766 28,317
10th Percentile £280 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +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 1,818 893 1,284
10th Percentile £12.88 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.70 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.44 £31.92 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +48.47% +2.14%
75th Percentile £52.35 £60.00 £46.81
90th Percentile £67.38 £70.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.12% +43.56% +4.65%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 1,910 £650 -3.70% 546
North of England +1 197 £475 -13.64% 48
North West +23 109 £475 -13.64% 34
South East +29 95 £513 -14.58% 54
Yorkshire -8 85 £475 -13.64% 11
Midlands +10 67 £450 -25.00% 29
East Midlands +41 45 £445 -1.11% 16
South West -7 32 £613 - 30
East of England +17 27 £575 +15.00% 6
West Midlands -19 20 £525 -19.23% 13
North East +8 3 £463 -35.99% 3
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
1 199 (8.40%) Apache
2 186 (7.85%) Apache Airflow
3 65 (2.74%) SharePoint
4 48 (2.03%) Confluence
5 40 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 21 (0.89%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.63%) SAS
8 7 (0.30%) CMS
8 7 (0.30%) nginx
9 6 (0.25%) IIS
9 6 (0.25%) JBoss
9 6 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.21%) MQSeries
10 5 (0.21%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.17%) Appian
11 4 (0.17%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.084%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.084%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 82 (3.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (1.31%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.21%) Sketch
8 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.13%) InVision
9 2 (0.084%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.084%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.084%) Gliffy
9 2 (0.084%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.042%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.042%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.042%) InDesign
10 1 (0.042%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.01%) Aladdin
1 24 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.63%) ION Anvil
4 14 (0.59%) Temenos T24
5 11 (0.46%) ION MarketView
6 10 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
6 10 (0.42%) SAP CO
6 10 (0.42%) SAP FI
6 10 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
6 10 (0.42%) SimCorp Dimension
7 9 (0.38%) FLEXCUBE
8 8 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
9 7 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
9 7 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
10 5 (0.21%) Oracle FAH
10 5 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 395 (16.67%) AWS
2 337 (14.23%) Azure
3 208 (8.78%) GCP
4 124 (5.23%) dbt
5 107 (4.52%) Snowflake
6 93 (3.93%) Power Platform
7 58 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
8 38 (1.60%) GitHub
9 34 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (1.39%) Entra ID
11 32 (1.35%) SaaS
12 30 (1.27%) Serverless
13 23 (0.97%) Power Automate
14 21 (0.89%) PowerApps
15 19 (0.80%) Microsoft Purview
16 16 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
16 16 (0.68%) PaaS
17 15 (0.63%) IaaS
18 14 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
18 14 (0.59%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 84 (3.55%) Firewall
2 47 (1.98%) DMZ
3 24 (1.01%) Internet
3 24 (1.01%) VPN
4 23 (0.97%) Cisco Nexus
5 19 (0.80%) Network Security
6 17 (0.72%) DNS
6 17 (0.72%) SAN
7 12 (0.51%) WAN
8 10 (0.42%) SSH
8 10 (0.42%) Wireless
9 9 (0.38%) DHCP
9 9 (0.38%) LAN
9 9 (0.38%) SD-WAN
10 7 (0.30%) HTTP
10 7 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.25%) BGP
11 6 (0.25%) SSL
12 5 (0.21%) Cisco ISE
13 4 (0.17%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (7.51%) Apache Ignite
2 138 (5.83%) Data Lake
3 124 (5.23%) Dremio
4 122 (5.15%) Amazon Athena
4 122 (5.15%) Apache Arrow
5 114 (4.81%) SQL Server
6 92 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
7 81 (3.42%) Power BI
8 50 (2.11%) NoSQL
8 50 (2.11%) Relational Database
9 36 (1.52%) Big Data
9 36 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
10 33 (1.39%) MongoDB
11 27 (1.14%) MySQL
12 26 (1.10%) Tableau
13 23 (0.97%) Metadata
14 21 (0.89%) Oracle Database
14 21 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 19 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
16 18 (0.76%) KDB
Development Applications
1 123 (5.19%) JIRA
2 73 (3.08%) Git
3 72 (3.04%) Jenkins
4 57 (2.41%) Cypress.io
5 46 (1.94%) Selenium
6 36 (1.52%) Cucumber
7 32 (1.35%) TeamCity
8 27 (1.14%) GitLab
9 20 (0.84%) Postman
10 16 (0.68%) Maven
10 16 (0.68%) Visual Studio
11 15 (0.63%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.59%) JUnit
13 13 (0.55%) SpecFlow
14 11 (0.46%) Artifactory
15 9 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
16 8 (0.34%) ERwin
16 8 (0.34%) JMeter
16 8 (0.34%) SonarQube
16 8 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,582 (66.78%) Finance
2 568 (23.98%) Investment Banking
3 466 (19.67%) Social Skills
4 394 (16.63%) Front Office
5 218 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
6 72 (3.04%) Retail
6 72 (3.04%) Retail Banking
7 67 (2.83%) Back Office
8 55 (2.32%) Financial Institution
9 51 (2.15%) Corporate Banking
10 40 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
11 35 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
12 29 (1.22%) Wholesale Banking
13 27 (1.14%) Public Sector
14 24 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
15 23 (0.97%) Legal
16 22 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 18 (0.76%) Marketing
18 17 (0.72%) Prime Brokerage
19 16 (0.68%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 515 (21.74%) Developer
2 426 (17.98%) Analyst
3 259 (10.93%) Senior
4 257 (10.85%) Architect
5 213 (8.99%) Business Analyst
6 162 (6.84%) Software Engineer
7 148 (6.25%) Lead
8 129 (5.45%) Java Developer
9 127 (5.36%) Python Developer
10 122 (5.15%) Project Manager
10 122 (5.15%) Python Engineer
11 116 (4.90%) Banking Analyst
12 111 (4.69%) Python Software Engineer
12 111 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
13 98 (4.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 96 (4.05%) React Developer
15 89 (3.76%) Consultant
16 84 (3.55%) Financial Analyst
17 77 (3.25%) Network Engineer
18 65 (2.74%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (7.94%) gRPC
2 180 (7.60%) Protocol Buffers
3 145 (6.12%) React
4 118 (4.98%) Pandas
5 116 (4.90%) NumPy
6 114 (4.81%) SciPy
7 93 (3.93%) .NET
8 79 (3.33%) Redux
9 67 (2.83%) Material-UI
10 61 (2.57%) FIX Protocol
10 61 (2.57%) Spring
11 60 (2.53%) HTML
12 56 (2.36%) Kafka
13 53 (2.24%) CSS
14 41 (1.73%) AngularJS
14 41 (1.73%) REST
15 40 (1.69%) Node.js
16 39 (1.65%) Web Services
17 37 (1.56%) Spring Boot
18 36 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 286 (12.07%) Fixed Income
2 276 (11.65%) Derivative
3 256 (10.81%) Hedge funds
4 226 (9.54%) Equities
5 216 (9.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 88 (3.71%) Product Ownership
7 62 (2.62%) Management Information System
8 47 (1.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 37 (1.56%) Data Centre
10 29 (1.22%) Credit Risk
10 29 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
11 27 (1.14%) Onboarding
12 26 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
13 25 (1.06%) Security Posture
13 25 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
14 24 (1.01%) Equity Derivative
14 24 (1.01%) Mobile App
15 23 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
15 23 (0.97%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 148 (6.25%) Windows
2 126 (5.32%) Linux
3 93 (3.93%) Unix
4 20 (0.84%) Apple iOS
5 19 (0.80%) Android
5 19 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 17 (0.72%) Windows 10
7 16 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (0.68%) zOS
8 13 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
9 12 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (0.34%) Windows 7
11 7 (0.30%) MVS
12 6 (0.25%) VMS
13 4 (0.17%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.13%) Kali Linux
14 3 (0.13%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.084%) AIX
16 1 (0.042%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 643 (27.14%) Agile
2 295 (12.45%) Software Engineering
3 280 (11.82%) Asset Management
4 255 (10.76%) DevOps
5 228 (9.62%) Change Management
6 224 (9.46%) Investment Management
7 220 (9.29%) Problem-Solving
8 192 (8.10%) Migration
9 189 (7.98%) Stakeholder Management
10 145 (6.12%) CI/CD
11 135 (5.70%) Project Management
12 128 (5.40%) Microservices
12 128 (5.40%) Test Automation
13 120 (5.07%) Analytics
14 115 (4.85%) Full Stack Development
14 115 (4.85%) Roadmaps
15 111 (4.69%) Scrum
15 111 (4.69%) SDLC
16 108 (4.56%) Artificial Intelligence
17 105 (4.43%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 494 (20.85%) Python
2 439 (18.53%) Java
3 394 (16.63%) SQL
4 227 (9.58%) TypeScript
5 207 (8.74%) JavaScript
6 203 (8.57%) C#
7 77 (3.25%) PowerShell
8 69 (2.91%) C++
9 40 (1.69%) Scala
10 28 (1.18%) Shell Script
11 21 (0.89%) PL/SQL
12 19 (0.80%) Bash
13 17 (0.72%) Go
13 17 (0.72%) Groovy
14 16 (0.68%) Perl
15 14 (0.59%) T-SQL
16 13 (0.55%) Kotlin
17 12 (0.51%) R
17 12 (0.51%) Ruby
18 11 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 164 (6.92%) Degree
2 59 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 54 (2.28%) Security Cleared
4 47 (1.98%) SC Cleared
5 45 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (1.06%) CISSP
7 24 (1.01%) PMP
8 23 (0.97%) Master's Degree
8 23 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (0.89%) CISM
9 21 (0.89%) PMI Certification
10 15 (0.63%) CCNP
10 15 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
11 14 (0.59%) AWS Certification
12 11 (0.46%) CISA
12 11 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (0.42%) Six Sigma Black Belt
13 10 (0.42%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 9 (0.38%) Azure Certification
14 9 (0.38%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (4.26%) QA
2 77 (3.25%) Data Quality
3 50 (2.11%) PMO
4 28 (1.18%) EMIR
5 26 (1.10%) MiFID
5 26 (1.10%) SLA
6 25 (1.06%) NIST
7 23 (0.97%) GDPR
8 20 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 14 (0.59%) Dodd-Frank
9 14 (0.59%) SEPA
10 12 (0.51%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.38%) GRC
12 8 (0.34%) Basel III
12 8 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 7 (0.30%) IFRS
14 6 (0.25%) GAAP
14 6 (0.25%) ISO 20022
15 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 4 (0.17%) HIPAA
System Software
1 89 (3.76%) Active Directory
2 58 (2.45%) Docker
3 13 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.34%) vSphere
6 5 (0.21%) ACF2
6 5 (0.21%) IAG
6 5 (0.21%) RACF
7 4 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
8 3 (0.13%) HDFS
8 3 (0.13%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.084%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.084%) KVM
9 2 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.084%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.084%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.042%) Cronacle
10 1 (0.042%) NFS
10 1 (0.042%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 73 (3.08%) Kubernetes
2 49 (2.07%) Ansible
3 35 (1.48%) Terraform
4 23 (0.97%) SCCM
5 20 (0.84%) Grafana
6 19 (0.80%) Puppet
7 13 (0.55%) Progress Chef
8 12 (0.51%) Control-M
9 10 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
9 10 (0.42%) Prometheus
9 10 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.38%) Kibana
11 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.34%) PingFederate
12 7 (0.30%) logstash
13 4 (0.17%) NetBackup
13 4 (0.17%) SCOM
14 3 (0.13%) Nessus
14 3 (0.13%) Thomson Reuters DACS
14 3 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 228 (9.62%) Microsoft
2 133 (5.61%) Oracle
3 121 (5.11%) Google
4 99 (4.18%) Cisco
5 60 (2.53%) CheckPoint
5 60 (2.53%) ServiceNow
6 47 (1.98%) Bloomberg
7 41 (1.73%) SAP
8 39 (1.65%) IBM
9 31 (1.31%) Arista
10 28 (1.18%) Citrix
10 28 (1.18%) Splunk
11 27 (1.14%) Fortinet
12 26 (1.10%) Databricks
13 25 (1.06%) F5
14 24 (1.01%) VMware
15 22 (0.93%) ION Trading
16 19 (0.80%) Juniper
17 18 (0.76%) EMC
17 18 (0.76%) Salesforce