Banking Contracts

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 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 23 27
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,814 4,247 6,460
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 6.48% 7.60% 7.32%
As % of the General category 11.30% 12.98% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,932 3,005 4,237
10th Percentile £389 £450 £425
25th Percentile £500 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £775 £788 £750
90th Percentile £863 £888 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -7.32% +10.00% +15.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 7 24
10th Percentile £12.21 £11.99 £13.14
25th Percentile £14.09 £15.19 £21.00
Median hourly rate £19.05 £52.50 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -63.71% +96.26% +90.66%
75th Percentile £27.75 £67.66 £41.44
90th Percentile £84.50 £69.25 £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £64.38 £23.06
% change year-on-year -76.70% +179.22% +64.33%

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 24,899 32,724 50,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.37% 58.55% 56.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,625 22,703 34,940
10th Percentile £275 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £769 £781 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,992 980 1,408
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +43.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.40
90th Percentile £67.31 £72.50 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.34 £27.84 £19.50
% change year-on-year +1.78% +42.77% +2.63%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 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
England -3 2,421 £625 -3.85% 706
London -3 1,941 £650 -3.70% 504
Work from Home +3 1,233 £625 -3.85% 395
UK excluding London +6 563 £510 -7.32% 220
North of England +4 208 £475 -13.64% 61
Scotland +3 131 £525 +5.00% 35
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
Northern Ireland -5 7 £450 +16.13% 3
North East +7 3 £463 -35.99% 4
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Wales +16 1 £550 - 9

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
1 215 (7.64%) Apache
2 202 (7.18%) Apache Airflow
3 71 (2.52%) SharePoint
4 55 (1.95%) Confluence
5 41 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 30 (1.07%) Apache Spark
7 16 (0.57%) SAS
8 13 (0.46%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.28%) CMS
9 8 (0.28%) IBM HTTP Server
9 8 (0.28%) WebSphere Application Server
9 8 (0.28%) WebSphere Portal
10 7 (0.25%) JBoss
10 7 (0.25%) nginx
10 7 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.25%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.21%) IIS
11 6 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.18%) MQSeries
13 4 (0.14%) Appian
Applications
1 96 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (1.63%) MS Visio
4 36 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.25%) Sketch
8 5 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.18%) CPLEX
8 5 (0.18%) InVision
9 2 (0.071%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.071%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.071%) Gliffy
9 2 (0.071%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.036%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.036%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.036%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.036%) InDesign
10 1 (0.036%) Trello
10 1 (0.036%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 24 (0.85%) Aladdin
1 24 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.53%) ION Anvil
4 14 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
4 14 (0.50%) SAP CO
4 14 (0.50%) Temenos T24
5 13 (0.46%) SAP FI
5 13 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
6 11 (0.39%) ION MarketView
7 10 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
7 10 (0.36%) SimCorp Dimension
8 9 (0.32%) FLEXCUBE
9 7 (0.25%) Oracle BPM
9 7 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.21%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.18%) IntelliMatch
11 5 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
11 5 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
11 5 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 459 (16.31%) AWS
2 389 (13.82%) Azure
3 240 (8.53%) GCP
4 140 (4.98%) dbt
5 122 (4.34%) Snowflake
6 98 (3.48%) Power Platform
7 59 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
8 41 (1.46%) GitHub
9 39 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
10 38 (1.35%) Entra ID
11 36 (1.28%) SaaS
12 32 (1.14%) Serverless
13 28 (1.00%) OpenShift
14 23 (0.82%) Power Automate
15 21 (0.75%) PowerApps
16 20 (0.71%) Microsoft Purview
17 19 (0.68%) PaaS
18 18 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
18 18 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
18 18 (0.64%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 95 (3.38%) Firewall
2 47 (1.67%) DMZ
3 29 (1.03%) Internet
4 24 (0.85%) SAN
4 24 (0.85%) VPN
5 23 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
6 21 (0.75%) DNS
7 18 (0.64%) Network Security
8 17 (0.60%) Intranet
9 15 (0.53%) HTTP
10 11 (0.39%) DHCP
11 10 (0.36%) SSH
11 10 (0.36%) WAN
11 10 (0.36%) Wireless
12 9 (0.32%) SSL
13 8 (0.28%) ATM
13 8 (0.28%) SD-WAN
14 7 (0.25%) LAN
14 7 (0.25%) NAS
14 7 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (6.79%) Apache Ignite
2 154 (5.47%) Data Lake
3 139 (4.94%) Amazon Athena
3 139 (4.94%) Dremio
4 136 (4.83%) Apache Arrow
5 125 (4.44%) SQL Server
6 93 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
7 86 (3.06%) Power BI
8 62 (2.20%) NoSQL
9 60 (2.13%) Relational Database
10 45 (1.60%) Big Data
11 42 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
12 37 (1.31%) MongoDB
13 34 (1.21%) MySQL
14 28 (1.00%) Tableau
15 25 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
16 24 (0.85%) Oracle Database
17 23 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 22 (0.78%) Metadata
19 19 (0.68%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 159 (5.65%) JIRA
2 88 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 87 (3.09%) Git
4 57 (2.03%) Cypress.io
5 53 (1.88%) Selenium
6 52 (1.85%) Cucumber
7 35 (1.24%) GitLab
8 34 (1.21%) TeamCity
9 24 (0.85%) Maven
10 21 (0.75%) Postman
11 18 (0.64%) JUnit
12 17 (0.60%) Bitbucket
13 16 (0.57%) Visual Studio
14 14 (0.50%) JMeter
14 14 (0.50%) SonarQube
15 13 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
15 13 (0.46%) SpecFlow
16 12 (0.43%) Artifactory
17 10 (0.36%) LoadRunner
18 8 (0.28%) ERwin
General
1 1,877 (66.70%) Finance
2 618 (21.96%) Investment Banking
3 557 (19.79%) Social Skills
4 410 (14.57%) Front Office
5 251 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
6 94 (3.34%) Retail Banking
7 78 (2.77%) Retail
8 67 (2.38%) Back Office
9 58 (2.06%) Financial Institution
10 56 (1.99%) Corporate Banking
11 44 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
12 41 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
13 32 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
13 32 (1.14%) Public Sector
14 30 (1.07%) Wholesale Banking
15 25 (0.89%) Legal
16 24 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 21 (0.75%) Marketing
18 19 (0.68%) Telecoms
19 17 (0.60%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 582 (20.68%) Developer
2 481 (17.09%) Analyst
3 351 (12.47%) Architect
4 294 (10.45%) Senior
5 247 (8.78%) Business Analyst
6 180 (6.40%) Lead
7 177 (6.29%) Software Engineer
8 146 (5.19%) Java Developer
9 139 (4.94%) Project Manager
10 138 (4.90%) Python Developer
11 136 (4.83%) Python Engineer
12 132 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
13 131 (4.66%) Banking Analyst
14 117 (4.16%) Python Software Engineer
15 109 (3.87%) Consultant
16 102 (3.62%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 99 (3.52%) React Developer
18 84 (2.99%) Financial Analyst
19 80 (2.84%) Network Engineer
20 71 (2.52%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (7.14%) gRPC
2 193 (6.86%) Protocol Buffers
3 152 (5.40%) React
4 136 (4.83%) Pandas
5 130 (4.62%) NumPy
6 128 (4.55%) SciPy
7 101 (3.59%) .NET
8 84 (2.99%) Kafka
8 84 (2.99%) Spring
9 81 (2.88%) HTML
10 80 (2.84%) Redux
11 74 (2.63%) CSS
12 67 (2.38%) Material-UI
13 60 (2.13%) FIX Protocol
14 57 (2.03%) Spring Boot
15 54 (1.92%) REST
16 48 (1.71%) AngularJS
16 48 (1.71%) Middleware
16 48 (1.71%) Web Services
17 40 (1.42%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 299 (10.63%) Fixed Income
2 291 (10.34%) Derivative
3 269 (9.56%) Hedge funds
4 243 (8.64%) Equities
5 240 (8.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 95 (3.38%) Product Ownership
7 63 (2.24%) Management Information System
8 57 (2.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 38 (1.35%) Data Centre
10 34 (1.21%) Onboarding
11 33 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
12 32 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
13 30 (1.07%) Credit Risk
13 30 (1.07%) Mainframe
14 29 (1.03%) Mobile App
15 28 (1.00%) Public Cloud
16 27 (0.96%) Algorithms
17 26 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
17 26 (0.92%) Security Posture
17 26 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 166 (5.90%) Windows
2 142 (5.05%) Linux
3 113 (4.02%) Unix
4 26 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 23 (0.82%) Android
6 21 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 18 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (0.64%) zOS
8 17 (0.60%) Windows 10
9 15 (0.53%) MVS
9 15 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
10 13 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.28%) VMS
11 8 (0.28%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.11%) AIX
13 3 (0.11%) Kali Linux
13 3 (0.11%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.036%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.036%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 735 (26.12%) Agile
2 356 (12.65%) Change Management
3 324 (11.51%) Software Engineering
4 313 (11.12%) DevOps
5 294 (10.45%) Asset Management
6 265 (9.42%) Problem-Solving
7 235 (8.35%) Stakeholder Management
8 233 (8.28%) Investment Management
9 225 (8.00%) Migration
10 179 (6.36%) CI/CD
11 162 (5.76%) Microservices
12 158 (5.61%) Test Automation
13 155 (5.51%) Project Management
14 133 (4.73%) Analytics
15 131 (4.66%) SDLC
16 129 (4.58%) Roadmaps
17 127 (4.51%) Full Stack Development
18 122 (4.34%) Scrum
19 118 (4.19%) Risk Management
20 114 (4.05%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 547 (19.44%) Python
2 491 (17.45%) Java
3 434 (15.42%) SQL
4 243 (8.64%) TypeScript
5 241 (8.56%) JavaScript
6 208 (7.39%) C#
7 84 (2.99%) PowerShell
8 73 (2.59%) C++
9 62 (2.20%) Scala
10 35 (1.24%) Shell Script
11 24 (0.85%) Perl
12 23 (0.82%) PL/SQL
13 21 (0.75%) Bash
13 21 (0.75%) Go
14 20 (0.71%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.64%) Groovy
16 15 (0.53%) T-SQL
17 12 (0.43%) R
17 12 (0.43%) Ruby
18 11 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 196 (6.97%) Degree
2 71 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 58 (2.06%) Security Cleared
4 48 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
5 47 (1.67%) SC Cleared
6 33 (1.17%) Master's Degree
7 29 (1.03%) CISSP
8 26 (0.92%) PMP
9 24 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (0.82%) PMI Certification
11 22 (0.78%) CISM
12 16 (0.57%) AWS Certification
12 16 (0.57%) CCNP
13 15 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
14 13 (0.46%) Azure Certification
15 12 (0.43%) CISA
15 12 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.36%) CCNA
16 10 (0.36%) Six Sigma Black Belt
16 10 (0.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (4.02%) QA
2 80 (2.84%) Data Quality
3 68 (2.42%) PMO
4 30 (1.07%) EMIR
5 28 (1.00%) MiFID
5 28 (1.00%) NIST
6 26 (0.92%) GDPR
7 25 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 24 (0.85%) SLA
9 16 (0.57%) SEPA
10 15 (0.53%) PCI DSS
11 14 (0.50%) Dodd-Frank
12 11 (0.39%) GRC
13 10 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 8 (0.28%) Basel III
14 8 (0.28%) ISO 20022
15 7 (0.25%) Accessibility
15 7 (0.25%) IFRS
16 6 (0.21%) GAAP
17 5 (0.18%) HIPAA
System Software
1 93 (3.30%) Active Directory
2 81 (2.88%) Docker
3 18 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.46%) vSphere
5 8 (0.28%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.18%) ACF2
6 5 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.18%) IAG
6 5 (0.18%) RACF
7 4 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
8 3 (0.11%) HDFS
9 2 (0.071%) KVM
9 2 (0.071%) NFS
9 2 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.071%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.071%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.036%) Cronacle
10 1 (0.036%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 101 (3.59%) Kubernetes
2 76 (2.70%) Ansible
3 45 (1.60%) Terraform
4 28 (1.00%) Grafana
5 24 (0.85%) SCCM
6 19 (0.68%) Puppet
7 16 (0.57%) Prometheus
8 14 (0.50%) Control-M
8 14 (0.50%) Progress Chef
9 10 (0.36%) Kibana
9 10 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
11 8 (0.28%) logstash
11 8 (0.28%) PingFederate
12 7 (0.25%) NetBackup
13 5 (0.18%) Nessus
13 5 (0.18%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
14 4 (0.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 254 (9.03%) Microsoft
2 156 (5.54%) Oracle
3 135 (4.80%) Google
4 107 (3.80%) Cisco
5 92 (3.27%) ServiceNow
6 63 (2.24%) CheckPoint
7 54 (1.92%) IBM
8 53 (1.88%) Splunk
9 52 (1.85%) Bloomberg
10 51 (1.81%) SAP
11 32 (1.14%) Arista
11 32 (1.14%) VMware
12 30 (1.07%) Citrix
13 29 (1.03%) Databricks
14 28 (1.00%) F5
14 28 (1.00%) Fortinet
15 22 (0.78%) CyberArk
15 22 (0.78%) ION Trading
16 20 (0.71%) EMC
17 19 (0.68%) Juniper