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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 24 27
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,714 4,304 6,379
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 6.38% 7.52% 7.22%
As % of the General category 11.00% 12.84% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,874 3,028 4,182
10th Percentile £385 £450 £425
25th Percentile £500 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £771 £788 £750
90th Percentile £850 £888 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% +16.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 28
10th Percentile £12.12 £13.99 £12.16
25th Percentile £12.84 £17.04 £19.75
Median hourly rate £19.05 £21.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -19.23% +82.49%
75th Percentile £20.75 £63.36 £41.44
90th Percentile £66.00 £68.88 £67.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £64.38 £15.32
% change year-on-year -76.70% +320.20% +9.19%

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 24,681 33,520 49,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.02% 58.54% 56.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,587 23,230 34,613
10th Percentile £275 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £443 £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 £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,924 1,020 1,422
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.72 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -
75th Percentile £52.78 £61.25 £47.40
90th Percentile £66.59 £72.50 £59.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £29.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -2.59% +52.63% -3.52%

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 20 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 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Banking in the UK

Banking
Top 18 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 20 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 -3 2,324 £625 -3.85% 852
London -3 1,880 £650 -3.70% 669
Work from Home +2 1,197 £625 -3.85% 354
UK excluding London +7 529 £513 -6.82% 312
North of England 0 183 £475 -13.64% 55
Scotland +2 135 £550 +4.76% 47
North West +16 107 £476 -13.41% 35
South East +33 90 £513 -14.58% 116
Yorkshire -13 73 £475 -13.64% 15
Midlands +1 64 £450 -20.00% 39
East Midlands +45 43 £445 +4.71% 13
South West -1 32 £613 +2.08% 31
East of England +29 27 £575 +21.05% 12
West Midlands -12 19 £525 -12.50% 26
Northern Ireland -8 8 £443 -1.67% 4
North East +9 3 £463 -35.99% 5
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Wales +19 1 £550 - 8

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
1 183 (6.74%) Apache
2 176 (6.48%) Apache Airflow
3 68 (2.51%) SharePoint
4 47 (1.73%) Confluence
5 40 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 24 (0.88%) Apache Spark
7 19 (0.70%) SAS
8 11 (0.41%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.29%) CMS
9 8 (0.29%) IBM HTTP Server
9 8 (0.29%) WebSphere Application Server
9 8 (0.29%) 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 (0.18%) Headless CMS
12 5 (0.18%) MQSeries
12 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 109 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
3 53 (1.95%) MS Visio
4 43 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.29%) Sketch
8 5 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.18%) 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 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.88%) Aladdin
3 19 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.55%) 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
7 10 (0.37%) SimCorp Dimension
8 9 (0.33%) FLEXCUBE
9 8 (0.29%) IntelliMatch
9 8 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
10 7 (0.26%) Loan IQ
10 7 (0.26%) Oracle BPM
11 6 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
11 6 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
12 5 (0.18%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 402 (14.81%) AWS
2 371 (13.67%) Azure
3 215 (7.92%) GCP
4 107 (3.94%) dbt
5 95 (3.50%) Snowflake
6 88 (3.24%) Power Platform
7 53 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
8 38 (1.40%) Entra ID
9 36 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (1.22%) GitHub
11 31 (1.14%) SaaS
12 30 (1.11%) Serverless
13 26 (0.96%) OpenShift
14 21 (0.77%) Power Automate
15 19 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (0.70%) IaaS
15 19 (0.70%) Microsoft Purview
15 19 (0.70%) PowerApps
16 18 (0.66%) PaaS
17 17 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 85 (3.13%) Firewall
2 46 (1.69%) DMZ
3 25 (0.92%) Internet
3 25 (0.92%) SAN
4 23 (0.85%) VPN
5 21 (0.77%) DNS
6 20 (0.74%) Cisco Nexus
6 20 (0.74%) Network Security
7 17 (0.63%) Intranet
8 15 (0.55%) HTTP
9 14 (0.52%) WAN
10 12 (0.44%) 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 (0.29%) ATM
14 7 (0.26%) NAS
14 7 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (6.15%) Apache Ignite
2 121 (4.46%) SQL Server
3 118 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 112 (4.13%) Amazon Athena
5 107 (3.94%) Apache Arrow
5 107 (3.94%) Dremio
6 92 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
7 74 (2.73%) Power BI
8 61 (2.25%) Relational Database
9 47 (1.73%) NoSQL
10 35 (1.29%) Big Data
10 35 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (1.18%) MongoDB
12 31 (1.14%) MySQL
13 24 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
13 24 (0.88%) Metadata
13 24 (0.88%) Oracle Database
13 24 (0.88%) Tableau
14 23 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 19 (0.70%) DB2
Development Applications
1 142 (5.23%) JIRA
2 83 (3.06%) Git
3 76 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 54 (1.99%) Cypress.io
5 49 (1.81%) Cucumber
6 47 (1.73%) Selenium
7 36 (1.33%) TeamCity
8 30 (1.11%) GitLab
9 18 (0.66%) Maven
10 17 (0.63%) Postman
11 15 (0.55%) Visual Studio
12 13 (0.48%) Bitbucket
12 13 (0.48%) JUnit
13 11 (0.41%) SonarQube
13 11 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (0.41%) SpecFlow
14 10 (0.37%) Artifactory
15 9 (0.33%) JMeter
16 8 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
17 7 (0.26%) webpack
General
1 1,826 (67.28%) Finance
2 599 (22.07%) Investment Banking
3 536 (19.75%) Social Skills
4 390 (14.37%) Front Office
5 240 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
6 89 (3.28%) Retail Banking
7 81 (2.98%) Retail
8 78 (2.87%) Back Office
9 58 (2.14%) Financial Institution
10 54 (1.99%) Corporate Banking
11 45 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
12 41 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
13 31 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
14 30 (1.11%) Wholesale Banking
15 28 (1.03%) Legal
15 28 (1.03%) Public Sector
16 22 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 22 (0.81%) Telecoms
17 19 (0.70%) Marketing
18 18 (0.66%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 554 (20.41%) Developer
2 486 (17.91%) Analyst
3 334 (12.31%) Architect
4 271 (9.99%) Senior
5 249 (9.17%) Business Analyst
6 164 (6.04%) Lead
7 160 (5.90%) Software Engineer
8 147 (5.42%) Banking Analyst
9 142 (5.23%) Project Manager
10 134 (4.94%) Java Developer
11 129 (4.75%) Python Developer
12 121 (4.46%) Python Engineer
12 121 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
13 105 (3.87%) Python Software Engineer
14 100 (3.68%) Consultant
15 99 (3.65%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 94 (3.46%) React Developer
17 85 (3.13%) Financial Analyst
18 84 (3.10%) Data Analyst
19 73 (2.69%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (6.48%) gRPC
2 169 (6.23%) Protocol Buffers
3 151 (5.56%) React
4 110 (4.05%) Pandas
5 103 (3.80%) NumPy
6 101 (3.72%) SciPy
7 96 (3.54%) .NET
8 81 (2.98%) Redux
9 74 (2.73%) HTML
10 71 (2.62%) Kafka
10 71 (2.62%) Spring
11 70 (2.58%) CSS
12 67 (2.47%) Material-UI
13 60 (2.21%) FIX Protocol
14 48 (1.77%) AngularJS
14 48 (1.77%) Spring Boot
15 44 (1.62%) Middleware
15 44 (1.62%) Web Services
16 42 (1.55%) Node.js
16 42 (1.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 274 (10.10%) Derivative
2 272 (10.02%) Fixed Income
3 245 (9.03%) Hedge funds
4 214 (7.89%) Equities
5 201 (7.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 95 (3.50%) Product Ownership
7 61 (2.25%) Management Information System
8 58 (2.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 35 (1.29%) Data Centre
10 33 (1.22%) Onboarding
10 33 (1.22%) Public Cloud
11 32 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
12 30 (1.11%) Credit Risk
13 28 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
14 27 (0.99%) Mobile App
15 26 (0.96%) Security Posture
16 25 (0.92%) Mainframe
17 24 (0.88%) Equity Derivative
17 24 (0.88%) Market Risk
17 24 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 160 (5.90%) Windows
2 130 (4.79%) Linux
3 101 (3.72%) Unix
4 25 (0.92%) Android
5 23 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.81%) Windows Server
7 20 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 18 (0.66%) Windows 10
9 16 (0.59%) zOS
10 15 (0.55%) MVS
11 12 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
11 12 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
12 9 (0.33%) Windows 7
13 8 (0.29%) 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
1 679 (25.02%) Agile
2 361 (13.30%) Change Management
3 290 (10.69%) Software Engineering
4 279 (10.28%) DevOps
5 269 (9.91%) Asset Management
6 258 (9.51%) Problem-Solving
7 239 (8.81%) Stakeholder Management
8 223 (8.22%) Migration
9 219 (8.07%) Investment Management
10 162 (5.97%) Project Management
11 156 (5.75%) CI/CD
12 139 (5.12%) Microservices
13 136 (5.01%) Test Automation
14 129 (4.75%) SDLC
15 123 (4.53%) Analytics
16 119 (4.38%) Roadmaps
17 117 (4.31%) Full Stack Development
18 116 (4.27%) Scrum
19 112 (4.13%) Risk Management
20 107 (3.94%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 504 (18.57%) Python
2 437 (16.10%) Java
3 428 (15.77%) SQL
4 224 (8.25%) C#
5 217 (8.00%) TypeScript
6 209 (7.70%) JavaScript
7 81 (2.98%) PowerShell
8 62 (2.28%) C++
9 59 (2.17%) Scala
10 28 (1.03%) Shell Script
11 26 (0.96%) Perl
11 26 (0.96%) PL/SQL
12 21 (0.77%) Go
13 19 (0.70%) Kotlin
14 16 (0.59%) Bash
15 15 (0.55%) T-SQL
16 13 (0.48%) Ruby
17 12 (0.44%) Groovy
17 12 (0.44%) R
18 11 (0.41%) C
Qualifications
1 185 (6.82%) Degree
2 68 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 55 (2.03%) Security Cleared
4 48 (1.77%) SC Cleared
5 46 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
6 31 (1.14%) Master's Degree
7 30 (1.11%) CISSP
8 26 (0.96%) PMP
9 25 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (0.88%) CISM
10 24 (0.88%) PMI Certification
11 16 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
12 15 (0.55%) AWS Certification
12 15 (0.55%) CCNP
13 12 (0.44%) CISA
14 11 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.37%) MCSE
15 10 (0.37%) Six Sigma Black Belt
15 10 (0.37%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 9 (0.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (3.94%) QA
2 71 (2.62%) PMO
3 67 (2.47%) Data Quality
4 31 (1.14%) EMIR
4 31 (1.14%) SLA
5 29 (1.07%) MiFID
5 29 (1.07%) NIST
6 25 (0.92%) 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 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 94 (3.46%) Active Directory
2 70 (2.58%) Docker
3 22 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.41%) vSphere
6 8 (0.29%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.26%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.18%) ACF2
8 5 (0.18%) IAG
8 5 (0.18%) 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 80 (2.95%) Kubernetes
2 63 (2.32%) Ansible
3 43 (1.58%) Terraform
4 24 (0.88%) Grafana
5 23 (0.85%) SCCM
6 17 (0.63%) Puppet
7 15 (0.55%) Progress Chef
7 15 (0.55%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.44%) Control-M
9 11 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
9 11 (0.41%) Kibana
10 10 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.33%) logstash
12 8 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (0.29%) PingFederate
13 7 (0.26%) NetBackup
14 6 (0.22%) vCenter Server
15 4 (0.15%) Data Guard
15 4 (0.15%) HP Quality Center
15 4 (0.15%) QRadar
Vendors
1 254 (9.36%) Microsoft
2 152 (5.60%) Oracle
3 134 (4.94%) Google
4 102 (3.76%) Cisco
5 76 (2.80%) ServiceNow
6 58 (2.14%) CheckPoint
7 55 (2.03%) IBM
8 51 (1.88%) Bloomberg
9 47 (1.73%) SAP
10 46 (1.69%) Splunk
11 33 (1.22%) VMware
12 31 (1.14%) Databricks
13 29 (1.07%) Arista
14 27 (0.99%) Citrix
15 22 (0.81%) F5
15 22 (0.81%) Fortinet
15 22 (0.81%) ION Trading
16 21 (0.77%) CyberArk
16 21 (0.77%) EMC
17 18 (0.66%) Salesforce