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 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 21 25
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,324 3,861 5,399
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 6.38% 7.97% 7.60%
As % of the General category 10.97% 13.45% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,725 2,803 3,606
10th Percentile £390 £450 £438
25th Percentile £500 £538 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £644
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.97% +11.96%
75th Percentile £775 £800 £750
90th Percentile £874 £893 £838
UK median daily rate £613 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 8 25
10th Percentile £12.17 £12.66 £11.82
25th Percentile £14.50 £15.45 £16.00
Median hourly rate £19.05 £21.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -12.17% +67.82%
75th Percentile £23.88 £29.19 £33.75
90th Percentile £74.50 £58.63 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £19.05 £21.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -9.29% -19.23% +82.49%

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 21,189 28,708 40,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.21% 59.25% 56.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,665 20,155 28,265
10th Percentile £281 £315 £317
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,774 931 1,312
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £32.00 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% +46.91% -0.99%
75th Percentile £52.35 £60.56 £47.50
90th Percentile £66.59 £70.00 £59.90
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 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
London -3 1,880 £650 -3.70% 668
North of England 0 183 £475 -13.64% 55
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
North East +9 3 £463 -35.99% 5
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
1 182 (7.83%) Apache
2 174 (7.49%) Apache Airflow
3 62 (2.67%) SharePoint
4 43 (1.85%) Confluence
5 40 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 19 (0.82%) Apache Spark
7 16 (0.69%) SAS
8 8 (0.34%) CMS
9 6 (0.26%) IIS
9 6 (0.26%) JBoss
9 6 (0.26%) nginx
9 6 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.22%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.22%) MQSeries
10 5 (0.22%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.17%) Appian
12 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.086%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.086%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 94 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (1.42%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.26%) Sketch
8 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.13%) InVision
9 2 (0.086%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.086%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.086%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.043%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.043%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.043%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.043%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.043%) InDesign
10 1 (0.043%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.03%) Aladdin
1 24 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.65%) ION Anvil
4 14 (0.60%) Temenos T24
5 11 (0.47%) ION MarketView
5 11 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
6 10 (0.43%) SAP CO
6 10 (0.43%) SAP FI
6 10 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
6 10 (0.43%) SimCorp Dimension
7 9 (0.39%) FLEXCUBE
8 8 (0.34%) IntelliMatch
8 8 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
9 7 (0.30%) Loan IQ
9 7 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
9 7 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
10 6 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
10 6 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
11 5 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 363 (15.62%) AWS
2 327 (14.07%) Azure
3 195 (8.39%) GCP
4 107 (4.60%) dbt
5 93 (4.00%) Snowflake
6 84 (3.61%) Power Platform
7 52 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
8 34 (1.46%) Entra ID
9 31 (1.33%) GitHub
10 30 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
10 30 (1.29%) SaaS
11 28 (1.20%) Serverless
12 21 (0.90%) Power Automate
13 19 (0.82%) Microsoft Purview
13 19 (0.82%) PowerApps
14 17 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
15 16 (0.69%) PaaS
16 15 (0.65%) IaaS
17 14 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
17 14 (0.60%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 79 (3.40%) Firewall
2 46 (1.98%) DMZ
3 23 (0.99%) VPN
4 22 (0.95%) Internet
5 20 (0.86%) Cisco Nexus
5 20 (0.86%) Network Security
6 17 (0.73%) SAN
7 15 (0.65%) DNS
8 14 (0.60%) WAN
9 11 (0.47%) LAN
10 9 (0.39%) SD-WAN
10 9 (0.39%) SSH
10 9 (0.39%) Wireless
11 8 (0.34%) HTTP
12 7 (0.30%) DHCP
13 6 (0.26%) SSL
13 6 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (0.22%) FTP
14 5 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
14 5 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (7.19%) Apache Ignite
2 117 (5.03%) Data Lake
3 114 (4.91%) SQL Server
4 110 (4.73%) Amazon Athena
5 107 (4.60%) Apache Arrow
5 107 (4.60%) Dremio
6 90 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
7 72 (3.10%) Power BI
8 52 (2.24%) Relational Database
9 42 (1.81%) NoSQL
10 33 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
11 31 (1.33%) Big Data
12 30 (1.29%) MongoDB
13 27 (1.16%) MySQL
14 24 (1.03%) Metadata
15 23 (0.99%) Oracle Database
15 23 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 23 (0.99%) Tableau
16 18 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
16 18 (0.77%) KDB
Development Applications
1 111 (4.78%) JIRA
2 69 (2.97%) Git
3 62 (2.67%) Jenkins
4 54 (2.32%) Cypress.io
5 41 (1.76%) Selenium
6 34 (1.46%) Cucumber
7 33 (1.42%) TeamCity
8 23 (0.99%) GitLab
9 16 (0.69%) Postman
10 15 (0.65%) Visual Studio
11 13 (0.56%) Bitbucket
11 13 (0.56%) Maven
12 11 (0.47%) JUnit
12 11 (0.47%) SpecFlow
13 10 (0.43%) Artifactory
14 8 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 7 (0.30%) ERwin
15 7 (0.30%) JMeter
15 7 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
15 7 (0.30%) webpack
General
1 1,567 (67.43%) Finance
2 557 (23.97%) Investment Banking
3 467 (20.09%) Social Skills
4 387 (16.65%) Front Office
5 213 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
6 78 (3.36%) Back Office
6 78 (3.36%) Retail
7 76 (3.27%) Retail Banking
8 58 (2.50%) Financial Institution
9 52 (2.24%) Corporate Banking
10 42 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
11 36 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
12 29 (1.25%) Wholesale Banking
13 26 (1.12%) Legal
14 25 (1.08%) Public Sector
15 23 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
16 20 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 18 (0.77%) Prime Brokerage
18 17 (0.73%) Marketing
19 16 (0.69%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 508 (21.86%) Developer
2 430 (18.50%) Analyst
3 248 (10.67%) Senior
4 243 (10.46%) Architect
5 216 (9.29%) Business Analyst
6 156 (6.71%) Software Engineer
7 141 (6.07%) Lead
8 127 (5.46%) Banking Analyst
8 127 (5.46%) Project Manager
9 123 (5.29%) Java Developer
9 123 (5.29%) Python Developer
10 110 (4.73%) Python Engineer
11 106 (4.56%) Solutions Architect
12 105 (4.52%) Python Software Engineer
13 99 (4.26%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 93 (4.00%) React Developer
15 85 (3.66%) Financial Analyst
16 83 (3.57%) Consultant
17 74 (3.18%) Data Analyst
18 72 (3.10%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (7.57%) gRPC
2 169 (7.27%) Protocol Buffers
3 146 (6.28%) React
4 107 (4.60%) Pandas
5 103 (4.43%) NumPy
6 101 (4.35%) SciPy
7 92 (3.96%) .NET
8 80 (3.44%) Redux
9 67 (2.88%) Material-UI
10 59 (2.54%) FIX Protocol
11 55 (2.37%) Spring
12 54 (2.32%) HTML
13 50 (2.15%) Kafka
14 49 (2.11%) CSS
15 41 (1.76%) AngularJS
15 41 (1.76%) Node.js
16 38 (1.64%) WPF
17 36 (1.55%) Web Services
18 34 (1.46%) REST
18 34 (1.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 272 (11.70%) Fixed Income
2 271 (11.66%) Derivative
3 244 (10.50%) Hedge funds
4 212 (9.12%) Equities
5 195 (8.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 89 (3.83%) Product Ownership
7 58 (2.50%) Management Information System
8 50 (2.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 34 (1.46%) Data Centre
10 29 (1.25%) Credit Risk
11 27 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
12 26 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
12 26 (1.12%) Onboarding
12 26 (1.12%) Public Cloud
13 25 (1.08%) Security Posture
14 24 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
14 24 (1.03%) Equity Derivative
14 24 (1.03%) Market Risk
14 24 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
15 22 (0.95%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 147 (6.33%) Windows
2 113 (4.86%) Linux
3 89 (3.83%) Unix
4 20 (0.86%) Apple iOS
5 19 (0.82%) Android
6 18 (0.77%) Windows 10
7 17 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (0.65%) Windows Server
8 15 (0.65%) zOS
9 12 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
9 12 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
10 9 (0.39%) Windows 7
11 7 (0.30%) MVS
12 6 (0.26%) VMS
13 4 (0.17%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.13%) Kali Linux
14 3 (0.13%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.086%) AIX
16 1 (0.043%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 616 (26.51%) Agile
2 281 (12.09%) Software Engineering
3 269 (11.57%) Asset Management
4 233 (10.03%) DevOps
5 228 (9.81%) Change Management
6 227 (9.77%) Problem-Solving
7 211 (9.08%) Investment Management
8 191 (8.22%) Migration
8 191 (8.22%) Stakeholder Management
9 145 (6.24%) Project Management
10 131 (5.64%) CI/CD
11 114 (4.91%) Microservices
12 113 (4.86%) Analytics
12 113 (4.86%) Test Automation
13 112 (4.82%) Roadmaps
14 111 (4.78%) Full Stack Development
15 109 (4.69%) SDLC
16 105 (4.52%) Machine Learning
16 105 (4.52%) Scrum
17 103 (4.43%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 466 (20.05%) Python
2 405 (17.43%) Java
3 401 (17.25%) SQL
4 217 (9.34%) C#
5 215 (9.25%) TypeScript
6 188 (8.09%) JavaScript
7 76 (3.27%) PowerShell
8 61 (2.62%) C++
9 39 (1.68%) Scala
10 26 (1.12%) Shell Script
11 25 (1.08%) PL/SQL
12 16 (0.69%) Go
13 15 (0.65%) Bash
14 14 (0.60%) T-SQL
15 13 (0.56%) Perl
16 12 (0.52%) R
16 12 (0.52%) Ruby
17 11 (0.47%) Groovy
17 11 (0.47%) Kotlin
17 11 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 164 (7.06%) Degree
2 60 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 51 (2.19%) Security Cleared
4 46 (1.98%) SC Cleared
5 45 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
6 27 (1.16%) CISSP
7 25 (1.08%) PMP
8 24 (1.03%) Master's Degree
9 23 (0.99%) CISM
9 23 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (0.99%) PMI Certification
10 16 (0.69%) Numerate Degree
11 15 (0.65%) CCNP
12 13 (0.56%) AWS Certification
13 11 (0.47%) CISA
13 11 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
14 10 (0.43%) Six Sigma Black Belt
14 10 (0.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 8 (0.34%) CCNA
15 8 (0.34%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (4.17%) QA
2 66 (2.84%) Data Quality
3 56 (2.41%) PMO
4 30 (1.29%) SLA
5 29 (1.25%) EMIR
6 27 (1.16%) MiFID
7 25 (1.08%) NIST
8 22 (0.95%) GDPR
9 19 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 14 (0.60%) Dodd-Frank
10 14 (0.60%) SEPA
11 11 (0.47%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.39%) Basel III
12 9 (0.39%) GRC
13 8 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 7 (0.30%) IFRS
14 7 (0.30%) ISO 20022
15 6 (0.26%) GAAP
16 5 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 4 (0.17%) HIPAA
System Software
1 90 (3.87%) Active Directory
2 48 (2.07%) Docker
3 15 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.26%) vSphere
6 5 (0.22%) ACF2
6 5 (0.22%) IAG
6 5 (0.22%) RACF
7 4 (0.17%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.13%) HDFS
8 3 (0.13%) KVM
8 3 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
8 3 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.086%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.086%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.086%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.043%) Cronacle
10 1 (0.043%) NFS
Systems Management
1 58 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 39 (1.68%) Ansible
3 34 (1.46%) Terraform
4 23 (0.99%) SCCM
5 17 (0.73%) Grafana
6 16 (0.69%) Puppet
7 14 (0.60%) Progress Chef
8 11 (0.47%) Control-M
8 11 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
9 10 (0.43%) Kibana
9 10 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.39%) Prometheus
11 8 (0.34%) logstash
11 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.34%) PingFederate
12 4 (0.17%) Data Guard
12 4 (0.17%) NetBackup
12 4 (0.17%) QRadar
12 4 (0.17%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.13%) Nessus
Vendors
1 226 (9.72%) Microsoft
2 136 (5.85%) Oracle
3 120 (5.16%) Google
4 95 (4.09%) Cisco
5 57 (2.45%) CheckPoint
6 49 (2.11%) Bloomberg
7 47 (2.02%) ServiceNow
8 39 (1.68%) IBM
8 39 (1.68%) SAP
9 29 (1.25%) Arista
10 28 (1.20%) Databricks
11 27 (1.16%) Splunk
12 26 (1.12%) Citrix
13 24 (1.03%) VMware
14 22 (0.95%) Fortinet
14 22 (0.95%) ION Trading
15 21 (0.90%) F5
16 18 (0.77%) EMC
16 18 (0.77%) Refinitiv
17 17 (0.73%) HP