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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 21 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,421 3,819 5,473
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 6.50% 8.07% 7.70%
As % of the General category 11.31% 13.64% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,780 2,796 3,665
10th Percentile £400 £450 £438
25th Percentile £500 £538 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £775 £800 £763
90th Percentile £875 £900 £850
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 5 20
10th Percentile £12.42 £10.66 £12.39
25th Percentile £14.50 £14.65 £19.75
Median hourly rate £19.28 £15.72 £24.96
Median % change year-on-year +22.61% -37.01% +77.87%
75th Percentile £29.25 £53.75 £33.79
90th Percentile £85.50 £63.50 £64.68
UK median hourly rate £19.05 £52.50 £26.75
% change year-on-year -63.71% +96.26% +90.66%

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 21,402 28,000 40,728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.46% 59.16% 57.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,721 19,718 28,625
10th Percentile £281 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% - +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 1,821 893 1,300
10th Percentile £12.88 £13.43 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.83 £31.76 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +47.72% +2.14%
75th Percentile £51.91 £60.00 £47.50
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% +5.88%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 1,941 £650 -3.70% 504
North of England +4 208 £475 -13.64% 61
North West +21 114 £478 -13.18% 47
South East +43 100 £513 -14.58% 42
Yorkshire -10 91 £475 -13.64% 10
Midlands +8 71 £450 -25.00% 31
East Midlands +43 48 £445 -1.11% 14
South West -3 34 £600 -2.04% 38
East of England +16 24 £575 +15.00% 4
West Midlands -24 21 £525 -19.23% 16
North East +7 3 £463 -35.99% 4
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
1 214 (8.84%) Apache
2 200 (8.26%) Apache Airflow
3 65 (2.68%) SharePoint
4 51 (2.11%) Confluence
5 41 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 23 (0.95%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.62%) SAS
8 8 (0.33%) CMS
9 7 (0.29%) nginx
9 7 (0.29%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.25%) IIS
10 6 (0.25%) JBoss
10 6 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.21%) MQSeries
11 5 (0.21%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.17%) Appian
12 4 (0.17%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 82 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.24%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.21%) Sketch
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.12%) InVision
9 2 (0.083%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.083%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.083%) Gliffy
9 2 (0.083%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.041%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.041%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.041%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.041%) InDesign
10 1 (0.041%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (0.99%) Aladdin
2 22 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 18 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.62%) ION Anvil
5 14 (0.58%) Temenos T24
6 12 (0.50%) SAP CO
6 12 (0.50%) SAP FI
6 12 (0.50%) SAP FI/CO
7 11 (0.45%) ION MarketView
8 10 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
8 10 (0.41%) SimCorp Dimension
9 9 (0.37%) FLEXCUBE
9 9 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
10 7 (0.29%) Oracle BPM
10 7 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (0.25%) SAP ERP
12 5 (0.21%) IntelliMatch
12 5 (0.21%) Oracle FAH
12 5 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
12 5 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 417 (17.22%) AWS
2 346 (14.29%) Azure
3 220 (9.09%) GCP
4 140 (5.78%) dbt
5 120 (4.96%) Snowflake
6 96 (3.97%) Power Platform
7 59 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
8 39 (1.61%) GitHub
9 34 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (1.40%) Entra ID
10 33 (1.36%) SaaS
11 30 (1.24%) Serverless
12 23 (0.95%) Power Automate
13 21 (0.87%) PowerApps
14 20 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
15 17 (0.70%) PaaS
16 16 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
16 16 (0.66%) IaaS
17 15 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
17 15 (0.62%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 86 (3.55%) Firewall
2 47 (1.94%) DMZ
3 26 (1.07%) Internet
4 24 (0.99%) VPN
5 23 (0.95%) Cisco Nexus
6 18 (0.74%) DNS
6 18 (0.74%) Network Security
6 18 (0.74%) SAN
7 10 (0.41%) SSH
7 10 (0.41%) WAN
7 10 (0.41%) Wireless
8 9 (0.37%) DHCP
9 8 (0.33%) HTTP
9 8 (0.33%) SD-WAN
10 7 (0.29%) LAN
11 6 (0.25%) BGP
11 6 (0.25%) SSL
11 6 (0.25%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.21%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (7.89%) Apache Ignite
2 154 (6.36%) Data Lake
3 139 (5.74%) Dremio
4 136 (5.62%) Amazon Athena
4 136 (5.62%) Apache Arrow
5 118 (4.87%) SQL Server
6 93 (3.84%) PostgreSQL
7 84 (3.47%) Power BI
8 56 (2.31%) NoSQL
9 51 (2.11%) Relational Database
10 40 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
11 39 (1.61%) Big Data
12 35 (1.45%) MongoDB
13 28 (1.16%) MySQL
14 27 (1.12%) Tableau
15 22 (0.91%) Metadata
15 22 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 21 (0.87%) Oracle Database
17 19 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
18 18 (0.74%) KDB
Development Applications
1 126 (5.20%) JIRA
2 75 (3.10%) Git
3 74 (3.06%) Jenkins
4 57 (2.35%) Cypress.io
5 46 (1.90%) Selenium
6 36 (1.49%) Cucumber
7 31 (1.28%) TeamCity
8 27 (1.12%) GitLab
9 20 (0.83%) Postman
10 18 (0.74%) Maven
11 17 (0.70%) Bitbucket
12 16 (0.66%) JUnit
12 16 (0.66%) Visual Studio
13 13 (0.54%) SpecFlow
14 12 (0.50%) Artifactory
14 12 (0.50%) JMeter
15 9 (0.37%) SonarQube
15 9 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
16 8 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 8 (0.33%) webpack
General
1 1,626 (67.16%) Finance
2 579 (23.92%) Investment Banking
3 478 (19.74%) Social Skills
4 408 (16.85%) Front Office
5 226 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
6 75 (3.10%) Retail
7 74 (3.06%) Retail Banking
8 66 (2.73%) Back Office
9 58 (2.40%) Financial Institution
10 54 (2.23%) Corporate Banking
11 40 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
12 35 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
13 29 (1.20%) Wholesale Banking
14 28 (1.16%) Public Sector
15 25 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
16 23 (0.95%) Legal
17 22 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 19 (0.78%) Marketing
19 17 (0.70%) Prime Brokerage
20 16 (0.66%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 529 (21.85%) Developer
2 425 (17.55%) Analyst
3 270 (11.15%) Senior
4 265 (10.95%) Architect
5 213 (8.80%) Business Analyst
6 173 (7.15%) Software Engineer
7 156 (6.44%) Lead
8 135 (5.58%) Java Developer
9 131 (5.41%) Python Developer
10 129 (5.33%) Python Engineer
11 126 (5.20%) Project Manager
12 117 (4.83%) Python Software Engineer
13 116 (4.79%) Solutions Architect
14 112 (4.63%) Banking Analyst
15 102 (4.21%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 98 (4.05%) React Developer
17 89 (3.68%) Consultant
18 84 (3.47%) Financial Analyst
19 78 (3.22%) Network Engineer
20 63 (2.60%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (8.30%) gRPC
2 193 (7.97%) Protocol Buffers
3 148 (6.11%) React
4 132 (5.45%) Pandas
5 130 (5.37%) NumPy
6 128 (5.29%) SciPy
7 97 (4.01%) .NET
8 79 (3.26%) Redux
9 67 (2.77%) Material-UI
9 67 (2.77%) Spring
10 62 (2.56%) Kafka
11 61 (2.52%) HTML
12 59 (2.44%) FIX Protocol
13 53 (2.19%) CSS
14 44 (1.82%) REST
15 42 (1.73%) Spring Boot
16 41 (1.69%) AngularJS
17 40 (1.65%) Web Services
18 39 (1.61%) Node.js
19 36 (1.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 299 (12.35%) Fixed Income
2 288 (11.90%) Derivative
3 268 (11.07%) Hedge funds
4 241 (9.95%) Equities
5 234 (9.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 90 (3.72%) Product Ownership
7 61 (2.52%) Management Information System
8 48 (1.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 37 (1.53%) Data Centre
10 32 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
11 29 (1.20%) Credit Risk
12 27 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
12 27 (1.12%) Onboarding
13 26 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
14 25 (1.03%) Algorithms
14 25 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
14 25 (1.03%) Mobile App
14 25 (1.03%) Security Posture
15 24 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
15 24 (0.99%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 153 (6.32%) Windows
2 127 (5.25%) Linux
3 99 (4.09%) Unix
4 21 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 20 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.78%) Android
7 17 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (0.70%) Windows 10
8 16 (0.66%) zOS
9 15 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
10 13 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.33%) Windows 7
12 7 (0.29%) MVS
13 6 (0.25%) VMS
14 4 (0.17%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.12%) AIX
15 3 (0.12%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.12%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.041%) Solaris
16 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 672 (27.76%) Agile
2 314 (12.97%) Software Engineering
3 294 (12.14%) Asset Management
4 264 (10.90%) DevOps
5 230 (9.50%) Change Management
5 230 (9.50%) Investment Management
5 230 (9.50%) Problem-Solving
6 197 (8.14%) Migration
7 189 (7.81%) Stakeholder Management
8 151 (6.24%) CI/CD
9 137 (5.66%) Project Management
10 136 (5.62%) Microservices
11 135 (5.58%) Test Automation
12 123 (5.08%) Analytics
13 122 (5.04%) Roadmaps
14 120 (4.96%) Full Stack Development
15 114 (4.71%) SDLC
16 111 (4.58%) Scrum
17 109 (4.50%) Artificial Intelligence
18 107 (4.42%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 513 (21.19%) Python
2 462 (19.08%) Java
3 407 (16.81%) SQL
4 241 (9.95%) TypeScript
5 222 (9.17%) JavaScript
6 202 (8.34%) C#
7 78 (3.22%) PowerShell
8 71 (2.93%) C++
9 41 (1.69%) Scala
10 29 (1.20%) Shell Script
11 21 (0.87%) PL/SQL
12 20 (0.83%) Bash
13 18 (0.74%) Go
14 17 (0.70%) Groovy
15 16 (0.66%) Perl
16 14 (0.58%) T-SQL
17 13 (0.54%) Kotlin
18 12 (0.50%) R
18 12 (0.50%) Ruby
19 11 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 174 (7.19%) Degree
2 61 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 54 (2.23%) Security Cleared
4 47 (1.94%) SC Cleared
5 46 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
6 26 (1.07%) Master's Degree
7 25 (1.03%) CISSP
7 25 (1.03%) PMP
8 22 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (0.91%) PMI Certification
9 21 (0.87%) CISM
10 16 (0.66%) CCNP
11 15 (0.62%) Numerate Degree
12 13 (0.54%) AWS Certification
13 12 (0.50%) Azure Certification
13 12 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
14 11 (0.45%) CISA
15 10 (0.41%) CCNA
15 10 (0.41%) Six Sigma Black Belt
15 10 (0.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (4.34%) QA
2 79 (3.26%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.15%) PMO
4 28 (1.16%) EMIR
5 26 (1.07%) MiFID
6 24 (0.99%) NIST
6 24 (0.99%) SLA
7 23 (0.95%) GDPR
8 20 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 14 (0.58%) Dodd-Frank
9 14 (0.58%) SEPA
10 12 (0.50%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.41%) GRC
12 8 (0.33%) Basel III
12 8 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 7 (0.29%) 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 (3.68%) Active Directory
2 63 (2.60%) Docker
3 13 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.33%) vSphere
5 5 (0.21%) ACF2
5 5 (0.21%) IAG
5 5 (0.21%) RACF
6 4 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
7 3 (0.12%) HDFS
7 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.083%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.083%) KVM
8 2 (0.083%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.083%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.083%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.041%) GridGain
9 1 (0.041%) NFS
9 1 (0.041%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 82 (3.39%) Kubernetes
2 51 (2.11%) Ansible
3 38 (1.57%) Terraform
4 24 (0.99%) SCCM
5 20 (0.83%) Grafana
6 19 (0.78%) Puppet
7 13 (0.54%) Control-M
7 13 (0.54%) Progress Chef
8 10 (0.41%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.37%) Kibana
9 9 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
10 8 (0.33%) PingFederate
11 7 (0.29%) logstash
12 4 (0.17%) NetBackup
12 4 (0.17%) SCOM
13 3 (0.12%) Nessus
13 3 (0.12%) QRadar
13 3 (0.12%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 229 (9.46%) Microsoft
2 137 (5.66%) Oracle
3 121 (5.00%) Google
4 100 (4.13%) Cisco
5 66 (2.73%) ServiceNow
6 62 (2.56%) CheckPoint
7 50 (2.07%) Bloomberg
8 42 (1.73%) SAP
9 41 (1.69%) IBM
10 32 (1.32%) Arista
11 30 (1.24%) Splunk
12 29 (1.20%) Citrix
13 28 (1.16%) Fortinet
14 27 (1.12%) Databricks
15 26 (1.07%) F5
16 24 (0.99%) VMware
17 22 (0.91%) ION Trading
18 19 (0.78%) EMC
18 19 (0.78%) Juniper
19 18 (0.74%) HP