Banking Contracts with Work from Home Options

Banking
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). 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 19 21 33
Rank change year-on-year +2 +12 +1
Contract jobs citing Banking 1,205 1,945 2,663
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 8.23% 8.07% 6.03%
As % of the General category 13.99% 13.77% 10.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 774 1,273 1,886
10th Percentile £400 £450 £413
25th Percentile £500 £534 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £813 £800 £725
90th Percentile £888 £880 £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% +96.01%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,613 14,127 24,222
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.84% 58.62% 54.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,648 9,975 17,680
10th Percentile £329 £363 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.11%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 461 320 333
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.63 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.71 £19.50
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.50 £33.90
Median % change year-on-year -22.99% +46.02% +50.67%
75th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.79 £65.29
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.12% +43.56% +4.65%

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 1 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 1 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
1 105 (8.71%) Apache
1 105 (8.71%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (1.66%) Confluence
2 20 (1.66%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.75%) WebSphere
5 7 (0.58%) IBM HTTP Server
5 7 (0.58%) WebSphere Application Server
5 7 (0.58%) WebSphere Portal
6 5 (0.41%) CMS
6 5 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.33%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.33%) SAS
8 3 (0.25%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.17%) Appian
9 2 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.17%) IBM Notes
9 2 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.083%) LiveLink
Applications
1 28 (2.32%) MS Visio
2 27 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.17%) Gliffy
7 1 (0.083%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.083%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.083%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.50%) Temenos T24
3 5 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.41%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.33%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
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 (0.17%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.17%) SAP FI-FM
7 1 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.083%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 182 (15.10%) AWS
2 107 (8.88%) dbt
3 91 (7.55%) Snowflake
4 77 (6.39%) GCP
5 69 (5.73%) Azure
6 26 (2.16%) Power Platform
7 12 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (0.91%) GitHub
9 10 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (0.83%) SaaS
10 9 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (0.66%) OpenShift
12 7 (0.58%) Amazon S3
13 6 (0.50%) Collibra
14 5 (0.41%) Apigee
14 5 (0.41%) IaaS
14 5 (0.41%) Kong
15 4 (0.33%) Adobe Analytics
15 4 (0.33%) Amazon SQS
15 4 (0.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.82%) Firewall
2 17 (1.41%) Intranet
3 8 (0.66%) HTTP
3 8 (0.66%) SAN
4 7 (0.58%) ATM
4 7 (0.58%) DNS
4 7 (0.58%) Network Security
5 6 (0.50%) Internet
5 6 (0.50%) VPN
6 5 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (0.41%) DMZ
6 5 (0.41%) WAN
7 4 (0.33%) BGP
7 4 (0.33%) LAN
7 4 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.25%) DHCP
8 3 (0.25%) Multicast
8 3 (0.25%) PuTTY
8 3 (0.25%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.17%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (8.88%) Dremio
2 106 (8.80%) Data Lake
3 105 (8.71%) Apache Arrow
4 104 (8.63%) Amazon Athena
5 96 (7.97%) Apache Ignite
6 44 (3.65%) SQL Server
7 23 (1.91%) Power BI
8 17 (1.41%) MongoDB
8 17 (1.41%) NoSQL
9 16 (1.33%) MySQL
10 13 (1.08%) Oracle Database
11 12 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (1.00%) Tableau
12 11 (0.91%) Relational Database
13 10 (0.83%) Metadata
14 9 (0.75%) Big Data
14 9 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (0.75%) OLAP
14 9 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 8 (0.66%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 54 (4.48%) JIRA
2 27 (2.24%) Git
3 26 (2.16%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.16%) Maven
5 12 (1.00%) GitLab
6 11 (0.91%) Selenium
7 10 (0.83%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.66%) Postman
9 7 (0.58%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (0.50%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.50%) MLflow
11 5 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
12 4 (0.33%) PHPUnit
12 4 (0.33%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.25%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.25%) ERwin
13 3 (0.25%) JMeter
13 3 (0.25%) JUnit
13 3 (0.25%) Toad
General
1 895 (74.27%) Finance
2 246 (20.41%) Investment Banking
3 210 (17.43%) Front Office
4 199 (16.51%) Social Skills
5 79 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (3.49%) Retail Banking
7 41 (3.40%) Back Office
8 29 (2.41%) Retail
9 25 (2.07%) Financial Institution
10 19 (1.58%) Corporate Banking
11 15 (1.24%) Telecoms
12 13 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.75%) Public Sector
16 7 (0.58%) Marketing
16 7 (0.58%) Wholesale Banking
17 5 (0.41%) Billing
17 5 (0.41%) Legal
Job Titles
1 206 (17.10%) Analyst
2 204 (16.93%) Developer
3 180 (14.94%) Architect
4 119 (9.88%) Business Analyst
5 118 (9.79%) Senior
6 102 (8.46%) Lead
7 80 (6.64%) Software Engineer
8 73 (6.06%) Banking Analyst
9 70 (5.81%) Java Developer
10 58 (4.81%) Project Manager
11 55 (4.56%) Solutions Architect
12 50 (4.15%) Financial Analyst
13 48 (3.98%) Java Engineer
14 47 (3.90%) Python Engineer
15 45 (3.73%) Java Software Engineer
16 41 (3.40%) AWS Engineer
16 41 (3.40%) Python Software Engineer
17 38 (3.15%) Senior Software Engineer
18 37 (3.07%) Technical Analyst
19 36 (2.99%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (8.30%) gRPC
1 100 (8.30%) Pandas
2 99 (8.22%) Protocol Buffers
3 98 (8.13%) NumPy
3 98 (8.13%) SciPy
4 42 (3.49%) HTML
5 36 (2.99%) CSS
6 34 (2.82%) React
7 28 (2.32%) .NET
8 26 (2.16%) Web Services
9 25 (2.07%) Spring
10 24 (1.99%) Kafka
11 23 (1.91%) Spring Boot
12 21 (1.74%) AngularJS
12 21 (1.74%) Middleware
13 18 (1.49%) FIX Protocol
14 16 (1.33%) Node.js
14 16 (1.33%) REST
14 16 (1.33%) RESTful
14 16 (1.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 183 (15.19%) Derivative
2 148 (12.28%) Fixed Income
3 143 (11.87%) Hedge funds
4 130 (10.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 125 (10.37%) Equities
6 32 (2.66%) Product Ownership
7 31 (2.57%) Management Information System
8 28 (2.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 20 (1.66%) Mainframe
10 18 (1.49%) Equity Derivative
11 16 (1.33%) Data Centre
12 15 (1.24%) Onboarding
13 14 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.16%) Pricing Data
14 12 (1.00%) Algorithms
15 11 (0.91%) Mobile App
16 10 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
17 9 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
17 9 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
18 8 (0.66%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 48 (3.98%) Windows
2 30 (2.49%) Linux
3 19 (1.58%) Unix
4 15 (1.24%) MVS
5 9 (0.75%) Android
5 9 (0.75%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.50%) VMS
7 6 (0.50%) zOS
8 5 (0.41%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.083%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.083%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (24.07%) Agile
2 256 (21.24%) Change Management
3 146 (12.12%) Asset Management
4 142 (11.78%) Software Engineering
5 125 (10.37%) Investment Management
6 107 (8.88%) DevOps
7 95 (7.88%) Stakeholder Management
8 84 (6.97%) Migration
9 81 (6.72%) Problem-Solving
10 66 (5.48%) CI/CD
11 56 (4.65%) Microservices
12 55 (4.56%) Analytics
13 54 (4.48%) Project Management
13 54 (4.48%) Service Management
13 54 (4.48%) Test Automation
14 52 (4.32%) Mentoring
15 47 (3.90%) SDLC
16 45 (3.73%) Roadmaps
17 42 (3.49%) Scrum
18 39 (3.24%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 238 (19.75%) Python
2 230 (19.09%) Java
3 162 (13.44%) SQL
4 150 (12.45%) JavaScript
5 121 (10.04%) TypeScript
6 88 (7.30%) C#
7 28 (2.32%) C++
8 19 (1.58%) PowerShell
9 16 (1.33%) Scala
10 14 (1.16%) PL/SQL
11 12 (1.00%) Go
12 10 (0.83%) Groovy
12 10 (0.83%) Perl
13 8 (0.66%) PHP
13 8 (0.66%) R
13 8 (0.66%) Ruby
14 7 (0.58%) VBA
15 6 (0.50%) Bash
16 5 (0.41%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 68 (5.64%) Degree
2 24 (1.99%) Security Cleared
3 23 (1.91%) SC Cleared
4 21 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.00%) Master's Degree
5 12 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (0.83%) PMP
7 9 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
8 8 (0.66%) PMI Certification
9 7 (0.58%) CISSP
10 6 (0.50%) CCNA
10 6 (0.50%) CCNP
11 5 (0.41%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.41%) CISM
12 4 (0.33%) MCSE
13 3 (0.25%) PhD
14 2 (0.17%) MCSA
14 2 (0.17%) MCSD
14 2 (0.17%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (4.81%) Data Quality
2 38 (3.15%) QA
3 34 (2.82%) PMO
4 20 (1.66%) MiFID
5 18 (1.49%) EMIR
6 10 (0.83%) GDPR
7 9 (0.75%) Dodd-Frank
7 9 (0.75%) SEPA
8 7 (0.58%) NIST
9 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
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 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.17%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.17%) P3O
12 2 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (2.32%) Active Directory
1 28 (2.32%) Docker
2 8 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (0.66%) vSphere
3 5 (0.41%) ACF2
3 5 (0.41%) IAG
3 5 (0.41%) RACF
3 5 (0.41%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.25%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
5 2 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.17%) VMware Server
6 1 (0.083%) Firmware
6 1 (0.083%) GridGain
6 1 (0.083%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.083%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 24 (1.99%) Kubernetes
2 21 (1.74%) Ansible
3 10 (0.83%) Terraform
4 9 (0.75%) Puppet
5 8 (0.66%) SCCM
6 7 (0.58%) Control-M
6 7 (0.58%) Grafana
7 5 (0.41%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.33%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.25%) Kibana
10 2 (0.17%) logstash
10 2 (0.17%) Nessus
10 2 (0.17%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.083%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.083%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.083%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.083%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.083%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 59 (4.90%) Microsoft
2 55 (4.56%) Oracle
3 51 (4.23%) ServiceNow
4 34 (2.82%) Cisco
5 29 (2.41%) Splunk
6 24 (1.99%) Google
7 22 (1.83%) IBM
8 19 (1.58%) SAP
9 16 (1.33%) CheckPoint
10 13 (1.08%) Citrix
11 12 (1.00%) F5
11 12 (1.00%) VMware
12 11 (0.91%) Databricks
13 10 (0.83%) EMC
13 10 (0.83%) Fortinet
14 9 (0.75%) Avaya
14 9 (0.75%) HP
15 8 (0.66%) Bloomberg
15 8 (0.66%) Palo Alto
15 8 (0.66%) Salesforce