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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 24 27
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,692 4,354 6,305
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 6.26% 7.52% 7.22%
As % of the General category 10.79% 12.85% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,848 3,039 4,180
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% +13.64%
75th Percentile £750 £788 £744
90th Percentile £850 £888 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% +17.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 8 24
10th Percentile £12.09 £12.66 £11.70
25th Percentile £12.84 £19.41 £15.66
Median hourly rate £19.05 £21.00 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -18.30% +65.25%
75th Percentile £22.31 £56.95 £44.63
90th Percentile £70.25 £67.22 £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £64.38 £14.64
% change year-on-year -76.70% +339.72% +4.35%

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 24,955 33,889 49,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.03% 58.54% 56.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,747 23,499 34,070
10th Percentile £275 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £440 £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 £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,935 1,038 1,413
10th Percentile £12.76 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £33.91 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% +54.14% -2.22%
75th Percentile £52.89 £61.25 £47.40
90th Percentile £65.55 £72.50 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £29.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -1.72% +54.07% -5.50%

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 10 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 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Banking in the UK

Banking
Top 17 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 10 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 -4 2,299 £625 -3.85% 686
London -2 1,873 £650 -3.70% 517
Work from Home +1 1,188 £625 -3.85% 309
UK excluding London +4 512 £513 -6.82% 207
North of England +1 179 £489 -11.09% 57
Scotland -2 134 £550 +4.76% 34
North West +14 99 £489 -6.86% 38
South East +31 89 £513 -14.58% 29
Yorkshire -4 77 £444 -19.32% 15
Midlands -4 51 £471 -16.22% 33
East Midlands +44 32 £445 +4.71% 10
South West +4 32 £625 +6.38% 24
East of England +36 27 £575 +21.05% 19
West Midlands -18 18 £525 -12.50% 23
Northern Ireland -6 8 £443 -1.67% 5
North East +11 3 £463 -35.76% 4
Isle of Man - 3 - -

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
1 159 (5.91%) Apache
2 155 (5.76%) Apache Airflow
3 69 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 42 (1.56%) Confluence
5 40 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 24 (0.89%) Apache Spark
7 20 (0.74%) SAS
8 12 (0.45%) WebSphere
9 9 (0.33%) CMS
10 8 (0.30%) IBM HTTP Server
10 8 (0.30%) WebSphere Application Server
10 8 (0.30%) WebSphere Portal
11 7 (0.26%) JBoss
11 7 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
12 6 (0.22%) nginx
13 5 (0.19%) Headless CMS
13 5 (0.19%) IIS
13 5 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 5 (0.19%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.19%) Tornado
Applications
1 111 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
3 52 (1.93%) MS Visio
4 45 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.30%) Sketch
8 5 (0.19%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.19%) InVision
9 3 (0.11%) 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 24 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (0.85%) Aladdin
3 17 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 16 (0.59%) Loan IQ
5 15 (0.56%) ION Anvil
6 13 (0.48%) Temenos T24
7 11 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
8 10 (0.37%) FLEXCUBE
8 10 (0.37%) ION MarketView
8 10 (0.37%) SAP CO
9 9 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
10 8 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
10 8 (0.30%) SAP FI
10 8 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
11 7 (0.26%) Oracle BPM
11 7 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
12 6 (0.22%) IntelliMatch
12 6 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
12 6 (0.22%) Oracle FAH
12 6 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 357 (13.26%) Azure
2 354 (13.15%) AWS
3 187 (6.95%) GCP
4 92 (3.42%) dbt
5 85 (3.16%) Power Platform
6 82 (3.05%) Snowflake
7 54 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
8 37 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (1.34%) Entra ID
10 34 (1.26%) GitHub
11 33 (1.23%) SaaS
12 31 (1.15%) Serverless
13 24 (0.89%) OpenShift
14 22 (0.82%) Power Automate
15 20 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
15 20 (0.74%) IaaS
15 20 (0.74%) PowerApps
16 19 (0.71%) Microsoft Purview
17 17 (0.63%) PaaS
18 16 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 83 (3.08%) Firewall
2 48 (1.78%) DMZ
3 25 (0.93%) DNS
3 25 (0.93%) SAN
4 24 (0.89%) VPN
5 21 (0.78%) Internet
5 21 (0.78%) Network Security
6 18 (0.67%) Intranet
7 17 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
7 17 (0.63%) DHCP
7 17 (0.63%) HTTP
8 14 (0.52%) WAN
9 11 (0.41%) LAN
10 10 (0.37%) SSL
10 10 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.33%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.33%) SSH
11 9 (0.33%) TCP/IP
12 8 (0.30%) ATM
12 8 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (5.42%) Apache Ignite
2 128 (4.75%) SQL Server
3 98 (3.64%) Amazon Athena
4 94 (3.49%) Data Lake
5 92 (3.42%) Apache Arrow
5 92 (3.42%) Dremio
6 85 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
7 72 (2.67%) Power BI
8 63 (2.34%) Relational Database
9 45 (1.67%) NoSQL
10 38 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
11 35 (1.30%) Big Data
12 32 (1.19%) MySQL
13 30 (1.11%) MongoDB
14 27 (1.00%) Oracle Database
15 26 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 24 (0.89%) Metadata
17 23 (0.85%) Tableau
18 22 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
19 20 (0.74%) DB2
Development Applications
1 137 (5.09%) JIRA
2 73 (2.71%) Git
3 62 (2.30%) Jenkins
4 48 (1.78%) Cucumber
5 47 (1.75%) Cypress.io
6 43 (1.60%) Selenium
7 37 (1.37%) TeamCity
8 28 (1.04%) GitLab
9 19 (0.71%) Maven
10 16 (0.59%) Postman
11 15 (0.56%) Visual Studio
12 13 (0.48%) Bitbucket
13 12 (0.45%) JUnit
14 11 (0.41%) SonarQube
15 10 (0.37%) Artifactory
15 10 (0.37%) SpecFlow
15 10 (0.37%) TestRail
16 9 (0.33%) JMeter
16 9 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
17 8 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,804 (67.01%) Finance
2 599 (22.25%) Investment Banking
3 546 (20.28%) Social Skills
4 365 (13.56%) Front Office
5 243 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
6 90 (3.34%) Retail Banking
7 79 (2.93%) Back Office
8 76 (2.82%) Retail
9 60 (2.23%) Financial Institution
10 53 (1.97%) Corporate Banking
11 42 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
12 41 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
13 32 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
14 30 (1.11%) Public Sector
14 30 (1.11%) Wholesale Banking
15 29 (1.08%) Legal
16 22 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 22 (0.82%) Telecoms
17 21 (0.78%) Prime Brokerage
18 19 (0.71%) Billing
Job Titles
1 539 (20.02%) Developer
2 496 (18.42%) Analyst
3 305 (11.33%) Architect
4 264 (9.81%) Senior
5 256 (9.51%) Business Analyst
6 162 (6.02%) Lead
7 156 (5.79%) Banking Analyst
8 145 (5.39%) Project Manager
9 143 (5.31%) Software Engineer
10 131 (4.87%) Java Developer
11 116 (4.31%) Python Developer
12 108 (4.01%) Python Engineer
13 103 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
14 102 (3.79%) Consultant
15 92 (3.42%) Python Software Engineer
16 89 (3.31%) Data Analyst
17 87 (3.23%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 85 (3.16%) React Developer
19 84 (3.12%) Financial Analyst
20 72 (2.67%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (5.72%) gRPC
2 148 (5.50%) Protocol Buffers
3 143 (5.31%) React
4 99 (3.68%) Pandas
5 97 (3.60%) .NET
6 90 (3.34%) NumPy
7 88 (3.27%) SciPy
8 75 (2.79%) Redux
9 72 (2.67%) HTML
10 71 (2.64%) Spring
11 68 (2.53%) CSS
12 65 (2.41%) Kafka
13 59 (2.19%) FIX Protocol
13 59 (2.19%) Material-UI
14 50 (1.86%) AngularJS
15 45 (1.67%) Middleware
15 45 (1.67%) Spring Boot
16 44 (1.63%) Node.js
17 43 (1.60%) REST
18 41 (1.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 262 (9.73%) Derivative
2 252 (9.36%) Fixed Income
3 219 (8.14%) Hedge funds
4 195 (7.24%) Equities
5 182 (6.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 94 (3.49%) Product Ownership
7 63 (2.34%) Management Information System
8 59 (2.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 40 (1.49%) Data Centre
10 38 (1.41%) Public Cloud
11 36 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
12 30 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
12 30 (1.11%) Onboarding
13 29 (1.08%) Market Risk
14 25 (0.93%) Credit Risk
14 25 (0.93%) Mainframe
14 25 (0.93%) Mobile App
14 25 (0.93%) Security Posture
15 24 (0.89%) Equity Derivative
15 24 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 166 (6.17%) Windows
2 139 (5.16%) Linux
3 104 (3.86%) Unix
4 25 (0.93%) Android
5 23 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (0.82%) Windows Server
7 20 (0.74%) Windows 10
8 16 (0.59%) zOS
9 15 (0.56%) MVS
10 13 (0.48%) Windows 7
11 12 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
11 12 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.30%) VMS
13 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
14 3 (0.11%) Kali Linux
14 3 (0.11%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.074%) AIX
16 1 (0.037%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 653 (24.26%) Agile
2 367 (13.63%) Change Management
3 264 (9.81%) Software Engineering
4 262 (9.73%) Problem-Solving
5 258 (9.58%) DevOps
6 242 (8.99%) Asset Management
7 240 (8.92%) Stakeholder Management
8 229 (8.51%) Migration
9 208 (7.73%) Investment Management
10 175 (6.50%) Project Management
11 154 (5.72%) CI/CD
12 141 (5.24%) Test Automation
13 134 (4.98%) SDLC
14 129 (4.79%) Microservices
15 119 (4.42%) Analytics
16 116 (4.31%) Scrum
17 115 (4.27%) Roadmaps
18 110 (4.09%) Full Stack Development
18 110 (4.09%) Risk Management
19 101 (3.75%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 471 (17.50%) Python
2 429 (15.94%) SQL
3 417 (15.49%) Java
4 227 (8.43%) C#
5 201 (7.47%) TypeScript
6 198 (7.36%) JavaScript
7 78 (2.90%) PowerShell
8 60 (2.23%) Scala
9 59 (2.19%) C++
10 30 (1.11%) Perl
11 28 (1.04%) PL/SQL
12 26 (0.97%) Shell Script
13 20 (0.74%) Go
14 18 (0.67%) Kotlin
15 16 (0.59%) T-SQL
16 15 (0.56%) Bash
17 14 (0.52%) Ruby
18 12 (0.45%) R
19 11 (0.41%) C
19 11 (0.41%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 193 (7.17%) Degree
2 70 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 60 (2.23%) Security Cleared
4 53 (1.97%) SC Cleared
5 46 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
6 32 (1.19%) Master's Degree
7 27 (1.00%) CISSP
8 25 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (0.93%) PMP
9 23 (0.85%) PMI Certification
10 22 (0.82%) CISM
11 17 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
12 14 (0.52%) CCNP
13 11 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
14 10 (0.37%) AWS Certification
14 10 (0.37%) Azure Certification
14 10 (0.37%) CISA
14 10 (0.37%) MCSE
14 10 (0.37%) Six Sigma Black Belt
14 10 (0.37%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (4.05%) QA
2 78 (2.90%) PMO
3 63 (2.34%) Data Quality
4 35 (1.30%) SLA
5 31 (1.15%) EMIR
6 30 (1.11%) NIST
7 29 (1.08%) MiFID
8 23 (0.85%) GDPR
9 22 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 17 (0.63%) SEPA
11 14 (0.52%) Dodd-Frank
12 13 (0.48%) PCI DSS
13 12 (0.45%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.37%) GRC
15 9 (0.33%) Basel III
15 9 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 8 (0.30%) IFRS
17 7 (0.26%) Accessibility
17 7 (0.26%) GAAP
18 5 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 94 (3.49%) Active Directory
2 64 (2.38%) Docker
3 25 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.41%) vSphere
6 8 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.30%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.26%) KVM
7 7 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
8 5 (0.19%) ACF2
8 5 (0.19%) IAG
8 5 (0.19%) RACF
9 4 (0.15%) NFS
9 4 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.11%) Firmware
10 3 (0.11%) GPFS
10 3 (0.11%) HDFS
10 3 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
10 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 79 (2.93%) Kubernetes
2 59 (2.19%) Ansible
3 36 (1.34%) Terraform
4 24 (0.89%) Grafana
5 23 (0.85%) SCCM
6 15 (0.56%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.52%) Puppet
8 12 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
9 11 (0.41%) Kibana
10 10 (0.37%) Control-M
10 10 (0.37%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.33%) logstash
11 9 (0.33%) PingFederate
12 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.26%) NetBackup
13 7 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.22%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.19%) Data Guard
16 4 (0.15%) HP Quality Center
16 4 (0.15%) QRadar
Vendors
1 263 (9.77%) Microsoft
2 153 (5.68%) Oracle
3 118 (4.38%) Google
4 102 (3.79%) Cisco
5 69 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 56 (2.08%) CheckPoint
7 54 (2.01%) IBM
8 52 (1.93%) Bloomberg
9 46 (1.71%) SAP
10 45 (1.67%) Splunk
11 37 (1.37%) VMware
12 34 (1.26%) Databricks
13 31 (1.15%) Arista
14 27 (1.00%) Citrix
15 23 (0.85%) CyberArk
16 21 (0.78%) EMC
16 21 (0.78%) F5
16 21 (0.78%) ION Trading
17 20 (0.74%) Fortinet
18 18 (0.67%) Refinitiv