Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Banking over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 24 27
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,695 4,281 6,320
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 6.33% 7.53% 7.22%
As % of the General category 10.92% 12.85% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,855 3,010 4,164
10th Percentile £386 £450 £425
25th Percentile £500 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +12.11%
75th Percentile £768 £788 £750
90th Percentile £850 £888 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% +16.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 9 24
10th Percentile £12.12 £13.32 £11.70
25th Percentile £12.84 £15.72 £15.66
Median hourly rate £19.05 £21.00 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -18.30% +80.42%
75th Percentile £20.75 £53.75 £44.63
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.00 £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £40.05 £14.64
% change year-on-year -62.54% +173.55% +4.35%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,689 33,314 49,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.95% 58.58% 56.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,578 23,090 34,263
10th Percentile £275 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -0.80% +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,927 1,017 1,407
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.41 £17.72 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £66.45 £72.50 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £28.16 £19.00
% change year-on-year -0.57% +48.21% -4.76%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Banking in the UK

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Banking in the UK

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in the UK

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Banking in the UK

Banking
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Banking over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Banking in the UK

Banking
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 17 May 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
England -4 2,306 £625 -3.85% 790
London -3 1,864 £650 -3.70% 628
Work from Home +3 1,186 £625 -3.85% 352
UK excluding London +10 524 £513 -6.82% 278
North of England +2 181 £476 -13.41% 51
Scotland +5 133 £550 +4.76% 37
North West +20 104 £489 -11.09% 33
South East +26 89 £513 -14.58% 105
Yorkshire -14 74 £475 -13.64% 14
Midlands +13 64 £450 -20.00% 37
East Midlands +42 43 £445 +4.71% 12
South West -9 32 £613 +2.08% 28
East of England +28 27 £575 +21.05% 12
West Midlands -8 19 £525 -12.50% 25
Northern Ireland -8 8 £443 -1.67% 3
North East +11 3 £463 -35.99% 4
Isle of Man - 3 - -

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 174 (6.46%) Apache
2 168 (6.23%) Apache Airflow
3 69 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 45 (1.67%) Confluence
5 40 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 24 (0.89%) Apache Spark
7 19 (0.71%) SAS
8 11 (0.41%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.30%) CMS
9 8 (0.30%) IBM HTTP Server
9 8 (0.30%) WebSphere Application Server
9 8 (0.30%) WebSphere Portal
10 7 (0.26%) JBoss
10 7 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.22%) IIS
11 6 (0.22%) nginx
11 6 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.19%) MQSeries
12 5 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.19%) Tornado
Applications
1 109 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
3 53 (1.97%) MS Visio
4 43 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.30%) Sketch
8 5 (0.19%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.19%) InVision
9 4 (0.15%) CPLEX
10 2 (0.074%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.074%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.074%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.037%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.037%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.037%) InDesign
11 1 (0.037%) Trello
11 1 (0.037%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 25 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (0.85%) Aladdin
3 18 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.56%) ION Anvil
5 14 (0.52%) Temenos T24
6 11 (0.41%) ION MarketView
6 11 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 11 (0.41%) SAP CO
7 10 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
7 10 (0.37%) SAP FI
7 10 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
8 9 (0.33%) FLEXCUBE
8 9 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
9 8 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
10 7 (0.26%) Loan IQ
10 7 (0.26%) Oracle BPM
11 6 (0.22%) IntelliMatch
11 6 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
11 6 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
12 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 393 (14.58%) AWS
2 370 (13.73%) Azure
3 203 (7.53%) GCP
4 103 (3.82%) dbt
5 91 (3.38%) Snowflake
6 88 (3.27%) Power Platform
7 54 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
8 37 (1.37%) Entra ID
9 36 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (1.22%) GitHub
11 31 (1.15%) SaaS
11 31 (1.15%) Serverless
12 26 (0.96%) OpenShift
13 22 (0.82%) Power Automate
14 20 (0.74%) PowerApps
15 19 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (0.71%) IaaS
15 19 (0.71%) Microsoft Purview
16 18 (0.67%) PaaS
17 17 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 86 (3.19%) Firewall
2 47 (1.74%) DMZ
3 25 (0.93%) SAN
4 24 (0.89%) Internet
4 24 (0.89%) VPN
5 21 (0.78%) DNS
6 20 (0.74%) Cisco Nexus
6 20 (0.74%) Network Security
7 17 (0.63%) Intranet
8 16 (0.59%) HTTP
9 14 (0.52%) WAN
10 12 (0.45%) DHCP
11 11 (0.41%) LAN
12 9 (0.33%) SD-WAN
12 9 (0.33%) SSH
12 9 (0.33%) SSL
12 9 (0.33%) Wireless
13 8 (0.30%) ATM
13 8 (0.30%) TCP/IP
14 7 (0.26%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (5.90%) Apache Ignite
2 126 (4.68%) SQL Server
3 114 (4.23%) Data Lake
4 108 (4.01%) Amazon Athena
5 103 (3.82%) Apache Arrow
5 103 (3.82%) Dremio
6 89 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
7 74 (2.75%) Power BI
8 62 (2.30%) Relational Database
9 47 (1.74%) NoSQL
10 36 (1.34%) Big Data
11 35 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
12 32 (1.19%) MongoDB
13 31 (1.15%) MySQL
14 25 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 24 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
15 24 (0.89%) Metadata
15 24 (0.89%) Oracle Database
16 23 (0.85%) Tableau
17 19 (0.71%) DB2
Development Applications
1 141 (5.23%) JIRA
2 83 (3.08%) Git
3 75 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 50 (1.86%) Cypress.io
5 49 (1.82%) Cucumber
6 47 (1.74%) Selenium
7 37 (1.37%) TeamCity
8 30 (1.11%) GitLab
9 18 (0.67%) Maven
10 17 (0.63%) Postman
11 15 (0.56%) Visual Studio
12 14 (0.52%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.48%) JUnit
14 11 (0.41%) SonarQube
14 11 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (0.41%) SpecFlow
15 10 (0.37%) Artifactory
16 9 (0.33%) JMeter
17 8 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
18 7 (0.26%) webpack
General
1 1,814 (67.31%) Finance
2 598 (22.19%) Investment Banking
3 536 (19.89%) Social Skills
4 380 (14.10%) Front Office
5 241 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
6 89 (3.30%) Retail Banking
7 80 (2.97%) Back Office
7 80 (2.97%) Retail
8 58 (2.15%) Financial Institution
9 53 (1.97%) Corporate Banking
10 43 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
11 42 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
12 31 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
13 30 (1.11%) Wholesale Banking
14 28 (1.04%) Legal
14 28 (1.04%) Public Sector
15 22 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 22 (0.82%) Telecoms
16 19 (0.71%) Marketing
16 19 (0.71%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 553 (20.52%) Developer
2 480 (17.81%) Analyst
3 327 (12.13%) Architect
4 271 (10.06%) Senior
5 247 (9.17%) Business Analyst
6 160 (5.94%) Lead
7 154 (5.71%) Software Engineer
8 146 (5.42%) Banking Analyst
9 140 (5.19%) Project Manager
10 132 (4.90%) Java Developer
11 125 (4.64%) Python Developer
12 119 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
13 117 (4.34%) Python Engineer
14 100 (3.71%) Consultant
14 100 (3.71%) Python Software Engineer
15 93 (3.45%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 90 (3.34%) React Developer
17 85 (3.15%) Data Analyst
18 84 (3.12%) Financial Analyst
19 74 (2.75%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (6.23%) gRPC
2 161 (5.97%) Protocol Buffers
3 151 (5.60%) React
4 109 (4.04%) Pandas
5 99 (3.67%) NumPy
6 98 (3.64%) .NET
7 97 (3.60%) SciPy
8 78 (2.89%) Redux
9 74 (2.75%) HTML
10 73 (2.71%) Kafka
11 71 (2.63%) CSS
11 71 (2.63%) Spring
12 63 (2.34%) Material-UI
13 60 (2.23%) FIX Protocol
14 48 (1.78%) AngularJS
14 48 (1.78%) Spring Boot
15 45 (1.67%) Node.js
16 44 (1.63%) Middleware
16 44 (1.63%) Web Services
17 42 (1.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 270 (10.02%) Derivative
2 264 (9.80%) Fixed Income
3 236 (8.76%) Hedge funds
4 206 (7.64%) Equities
5 195 (7.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 94 (3.49%) Product Ownership
7 62 (2.30%) Management Information System
8 60 (2.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 37 (1.37%) Data Centre
10 33 (1.22%) Public Cloud
11 32 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
11 32 (1.19%) Onboarding
12 29 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
13 28 (1.04%) Credit Risk
14 26 (0.96%) Mobile App
14 26 (0.96%) Security Posture
15 25 (0.93%) Mainframe
16 24 (0.89%) Equity Derivative
16 24 (0.89%) Market Risk
16 24 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 160 (5.94%) Windows
2 132 (4.90%) Linux
3 103 (3.82%) Unix
4 25 (0.93%) Android
5 23 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.82%) Windows Server
7 20 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 18 (0.67%) Windows 10
9 16 (0.59%) zOS
10 15 (0.56%) MVS
11 12 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
11 12 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
12 9 (0.33%) Windows 7
13 8 (0.30%) VMS
14 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
15 3 (0.11%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.11%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.074%) AIX
17 1 (0.037%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 663 (24.60%) Agile
2 360 (13.36%) Change Management
3 284 (10.54%) Software Engineering
4 281 (10.43%) DevOps
5 260 (9.65%) Asset Management
6 255 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
7 238 (8.83%) Stakeholder Management
8 221 (8.20%) Migration
9 215 (7.98%) Investment Management
10 159 (5.90%) Project Management
11 157 (5.83%) CI/CD
12 137 (5.08%) Microservices
13 136 (5.05%) Test Automation
14 128 (4.75%) SDLC
15 122 (4.53%) Analytics
16 120 (4.45%) Roadmaps
17 116 (4.30%) Full Stack Development
18 114 (4.23%) Scrum
19 112 (4.16%) Risk Management
20 103 (3.82%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 497 (18.44%) Python
2 433 (16.07%) Java
3 431 (15.99%) SQL
4 227 (8.42%) C#
5 213 (7.90%) TypeScript
6 208 (7.72%) JavaScript
7 81 (3.01%) PowerShell
8 62 (2.30%) C++
9 59 (2.19%) Scala
10 29 (1.08%) Shell Script
11 27 (1.00%) Perl
12 26 (0.96%) PL/SQL
13 21 (0.78%) Go
14 18 (0.67%) Kotlin
15 17 (0.63%) Bash
16 15 (0.56%) T-SQL
17 13 (0.48%) Ruby
18 12 (0.45%) Groovy
18 12 (0.45%) R
19 11 (0.41%) C
Qualifications
1 184 (6.83%) Degree
2 67 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 58 (2.15%) Security Cleared
4 51 (1.89%) SC Cleared
5 46 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
6 31 (1.15%) Master's Degree
7 29 (1.08%) CISSP
8 25 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (0.93%) PMP
9 23 (0.85%) CISM
9 23 (0.85%) PMI Certification
10 16 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
11 15 (0.56%) AWS Certification
11 15 (0.56%) CCNP
12 11 (0.41%) CISA
12 11 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (0.37%) Azure Certification
13 10 (0.37%) MCSE
13 10 (0.37%) Six Sigma Black Belt
13 10 (0.37%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (3.93%) QA
2 67 (2.49%) PMO
3 66 (2.45%) Data Quality
4 31 (1.15%) EMIR
4 31 (1.15%) SLA
5 29 (1.08%) MiFID
5 29 (1.08%) NIST
6 25 (0.93%) GDPR
7 23 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 16 (0.59%) SEPA
9 14 (0.52%) Dodd-Frank
9 14 (0.52%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.37%) GRC
11 9 (0.33%) Basel III
11 9 (0.33%) ISO 20022
11 9 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 7 (0.26%) Accessibility
12 7 (0.26%) IFRS
13 6 (0.22%) GAAP
14 5 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 93 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 69 (2.56%) Docker
3 22 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.41%) vSphere
6 8 (0.30%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.26%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.19%) ACF2
8 5 (0.19%) IAG
8 5 (0.19%) RACF
9 4 (0.15%) NFS
9 4 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.11%) GPFS
10 3 (0.11%) HDFS
10 3 (0.11%) KVM
10 3 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
10 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.074%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 81 (3.01%) Kubernetes
2 63 (2.34%) Ansible
3 41 (1.52%) Terraform
4 24 (0.89%) Grafana
5 23 (0.85%) SCCM
6 17 (0.63%) Puppet
7 15 (0.56%) Progress Chef
7 15 (0.56%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.45%) Control-M
9 11 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
9 11 (0.41%) Kibana
10 9 (0.33%) logstash
10 9 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.30%) PingFederate
12 7 (0.26%) NetBackup
13 6 (0.22%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.15%) Data Guard
14 4 (0.15%) HP Quality Center
14 4 (0.15%) QRadar
Vendors
1 257 (9.54%) Microsoft
2 153 (5.68%) Oracle
3 128 (4.75%) Google
4 103 (3.82%) Cisco
5 75 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 58 (2.15%) CheckPoint
7 55 (2.04%) IBM
8 51 (1.89%) Bloomberg
9 47 (1.74%) SAP
10 46 (1.71%) Splunk
11 34 (1.26%) Databricks
12 33 (1.22%) VMware
13 30 (1.11%) Arista
14 27 (1.00%) Citrix
15 23 (0.85%) F5
15 23 (0.85%) Fortinet
16 22 (0.82%) ION Trading
17 21 (0.78%) CyberArk
17 21 (0.78%) EMC
18 18 (0.67%) Salesforce