Banking Contracts in London

Banking
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Banking over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Banking 1,870 3,325 4,602
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.71% 12.85% 11.93%
As % of the General category 16.98% 20.29% 19.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,416 2,462 3,089
10th Percentile £400 £463 £463
25th Percentile £525 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £788 £800 £770
90th Percentile £875 £900 £850
England median daily rate £625 £650 £648
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.39% +12.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 13
10th Percentile - £11.90 £21.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £17.75 £23.91
Median hourly rate £19.50 £21.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -25.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £20.75 - £62.50
90th Percentile £23.25 - £82.90
England median hourly rate £19.05 £21.00 £23.48
% change year-on-year -9.29% -10.57% +64.82%

All General Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,014 16,388 23,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.10% 63.33% 60.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,866 11,862 16,811
10th Percentile £336 £375 £381
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 212 294
10th Percentile £15.60 £16.40 £19.22
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.18 £25.68
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -17.33% +31.88%
75th Percentile £44.75 £55.20 £50.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £30.16 £32.30 £21.50
% change year-on-year -6.63% +50.23% -4.10%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Banking in London

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Banking in London.

Daily rate trend for Banking in London

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in London

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Banking in London.

Hourly rate trend for Banking in London

Banking
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Central London -2 253 £600 -11.11% 51
East London -6 18 £540 +3.85% 17
South London -17 7 £575 -27.01%
West London - 4 £400 - 9
Banking
England

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 171 (9.14%) Apache
2 166 (8.88%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (2.62%) SharePoint
4 37 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (1.55%) Confluence
6 13 (0.70%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.64%) SAS
8 8 (0.43%) CMS
9 6 (0.32%) IIS
9 6 (0.32%) nginx
10 5 (0.27%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.27%) JBoss
10 5 (0.27%) MQSeries
10 5 (0.27%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.27%) Tornado
11 3 (0.16%) Appian
11 3 (0.16%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.11%) GemFire
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 69 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (1.23%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.32%) Sketch
7 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.16%) InVision
7 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.053%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.053%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.053%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.053%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 23 (1.23%) Aladdin
2 15 (0.80%) ION Anvil
3 14 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
5 11 (0.59%) ION MarketView
6 9 (0.48%) Loan IQ
6 9 (0.48%) SimCorp Dimension
7 8 (0.43%) FLEXCUBE
7 8 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
8 7 (0.37%) Temenos T24
9 6 (0.32%) IntelliMatch
9 6 (0.32%) Oracle BPM
10 5 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.21%) Fidessa
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 4 (0.21%) Orchestrade
11 4 (0.21%) SAP CO
11 4 (0.21%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
12 3 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 286 (15.29%) AWS
2 272 (14.55%) Azure
3 168 (8.98%) GCP
4 102 (5.45%) dbt
5 86 (4.60%) Snowflake
6 74 (3.96%) Power Platform
7 49 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
8 29 (1.55%) GitHub
9 28 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (1.18%) Power Automate
11 20 (1.07%) PowerApps
11 20 (1.07%) SaaS
11 20 (1.07%) Serverless
12 18 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
13 17 (0.91%) Entra ID
14 15 (0.80%) Azure Key Vault
15 14 (0.75%) Collibra
16 13 (0.70%) PaaS
17 12 (0.64%) IaaS
18 10 (0.53%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 57 (3.05%) Firewall
2 18 (0.96%) Internet
2 18 (0.96%) Network Security
3 15 (0.80%) SAN
4 12 (0.64%) WAN
5 10 (0.53%) DNS
5 10 (0.53%) VPN
6 9 (0.48%) LAN
6 9 (0.48%) SSH
7 8 (0.43%) HTTP
8 6 (0.32%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (0.27%) FTP
9 5 (0.27%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.27%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.21%) DMZ
10 4 (0.21%) ICMP
10 4 (0.21%) POP3
10 4 (0.21%) SMTP
10 4 (0.21%) SSL
10 4 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (8.50%) Apache Ignite
2 106 (5.67%) SQL Server
3 102 (5.45%) Amazon Athena
3 102 (5.45%) Apache Arrow
3 102 (5.45%) Dremio
4 99 (5.29%) Data Lake
5 82 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
6 63 (3.37%) Power BI
7 49 (2.62%) Relational Database
8 37 (1.98%) NoSQL
9 27 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
10 25 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 24 (1.28%) MySQL
12 23 (1.23%) Big Data
12 23 (1.23%) Oracle Database
13 21 (1.12%) Metadata
14 20 (1.07%) MongoDB
15 18 (0.96%) KDB
15 18 (0.96%) Tableau
16 16 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 74 (3.96%) JIRA
2 50 (2.67%) Cypress.io
3 45 (2.41%) Git
4 41 (2.19%) Jenkins
5 40 (2.14%) Selenium
6 32 (1.71%) Cucumber
7 31 (1.66%) TeamCity
8 20 (1.07%) GitLab
9 15 (0.80%) Postman
10 14 (0.75%) Visual Studio
11 13 (0.70%) Maven
12 11 (0.59%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.59%) SpecFlow
13 10 (0.53%) JUnit
14 7 (0.37%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.37%) ERwin
14 7 (0.37%) JMeter
14 7 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 7 (0.37%) webpack
15 6 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,291 (69.04%) Finance
2 531 (28.40%) Investment Banking
3 372 (19.89%) Front Office
4 364 (19.47%) Social Skills
5 158 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
6 80 (4.28%) Back Office
7 60 (3.21%) Retail
8 59 (3.16%) Retail Banking
9 53 (2.83%) Financial Institution
10 39 (2.09%) Corporate Banking
11 35 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
12 33 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
13 23 (1.23%) Legal
14 22 (1.18%) Public Sector
14 22 (1.18%) Wholesale Banking
15 19 (1.02%) Prime Brokerage
16 16 (0.86%) International Banking
17 15 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 15 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
18 14 (0.75%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 470 (25.13%) Developer
2 354 (18.93%) Analyst
3 202 (10.80%) Senior
4 198 (10.59%) Business Analyst
5 152 (8.13%) Architect
6 148 (7.91%) Software Engineer
7 119 (6.36%) Lead
8 114 (6.10%) Python Developer
9 113 (6.04%) Banking Analyst
9 113 (6.04%) Java Developer
10 106 (5.67%) Project Manager
11 104 (5.56%) Python Engineer
12 99 (5.29%) Python Software Engineer
13 93 (4.97%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 87 (4.65%) React Developer
15 80 (4.28%) Financial Analyst
16 67 (3.58%) Consultant
17 64 (3.42%) C# Developer
18 56 (2.99%) Data Analyst
19 55 (2.94%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (8.82%) gRPC
2 161 (8.61%) Protocol Buffers
3 135 (7.22%) React
4 106 (5.67%) Pandas
5 99 (5.29%) NumPy
6 97 (5.19%) SciPy
7 88 (4.71%) .NET
8 76 (4.06%) Redux
9 63 (3.37%) Material-UI
10 59 (3.16%) FIX Protocol
11 52 (2.78%) HTML
12 48 (2.57%) CSS
13 43 (2.30%) Spring
14 39 (2.09%) AngularJS
14 39 (2.09%) WPF
15 38 (2.03%) Kafka
16 35 (1.87%) Node.js
17 27 (1.44%) REST
18 26 (1.39%) Web Services
18 26 (1.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 266 (14.22%) Fixed Income
2 261 (13.96%) Derivative
3 234 (12.51%) Hedge funds
4 201 (10.75%) Equities
5 182 (9.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 75 (4.01%) Product Ownership
7 47 (2.51%) Management Information System
8 45 (2.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 28 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
10 25 (1.34%) Market Risk
11 24 (1.28%) Equity Derivative
12 23 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
13 22 (1.18%) Data Centre
14 20 (1.07%) Credit Risk
14 20 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
15 18 (0.96%) Algorithms
15 18 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
16 17 (0.91%) Onboarding
17 16 (0.86%) Mobile Banking
17 16 (0.86%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 123 (6.58%) Windows
2 98 (5.24%) Linux
3 81 (4.33%) Unix
4 16 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (0.70%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
6 12 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (0.59%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.48%) Android
9 7 (0.37%) zOS
10 6 (0.32%) VMS
11 3 (0.16%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.16%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.053%) AIX
13 1 (0.053%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.053%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (28.29%) Agile
2 267 (14.28%) Software Engineering
3 254 (13.58%) Asset Management
4 206 (11.02%) Investment Management
5 179 (9.57%) DevOps
6 170 (9.09%) Change Management
7 167 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
8 132 (7.06%) Stakeholder Management
9 123 (6.58%) Migration
10 110 (5.88%) CI/CD
11 108 (5.78%) Project Management
12 105 (5.61%) Full Stack Development
13 102 (5.45%) Test Automation
14 96 (5.13%) Analytics
15 95 (5.08%) Artificial Intelligence
16 94 (5.03%) Machine Learning
17 88 (4.71%) Scrum
18 84 (4.49%) Roadmaps
19 83 (4.44%) SDLC
20 82 (4.39%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 427 (22.83%) Python
2 369 (19.73%) SQL
3 352 (18.82%) Java
4 214 (11.44%) C#
5 209 (11.18%) TypeScript
6 181 (9.68%) JavaScript
7 69 (3.69%) PowerShell
8 56 (2.99%) C++
9 38 (2.03%) Scala
10 23 (1.23%) Shell Script
11 21 (1.12%) PL/SQL
12 13 (0.70%) Bash
12 13 (0.70%) Go
12 13 (0.70%) T-SQL
13 11 (0.59%) Perl
13 11 (0.59%) VBA
14 10 (0.53%) Groovy
14 10 (0.53%) PHP
14 10 (0.53%) Ruby
15 9 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 136 (7.27%) Degree
2 47 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 45 (2.41%) SC Cleared
3 45 (2.41%) Security Cleared
4 23 (1.23%) CISSP
4 23 (1.23%) Master's Degree
5 21 (1.12%) PMP
6 20 (1.07%) PMI Certification
7 19 (1.02%) CISM
8 17 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (0.91%) Numerate Degree
9 13 (0.70%) CCNP
9 13 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
11 10 (0.53%) Six Sigma Black Belt
11 10 (0.53%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 9 (0.48%) Azure Certification
12 9 (0.48%) CISA
13 6 (0.32%) AWS Certification
14 5 (0.27%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (3.64%) QA
2 61 (3.26%) Data Quality
3 45 (2.41%) PMO
4 29 (1.55%) EMIR
5 27 (1.44%) MiFID
6 21 (1.12%) SLA
7 17 (0.91%) NIST
8 15 (0.80%) GDPR
9 14 (0.75%) Dodd-Frank
9 14 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 13 (0.70%) SEPA
11 9 (0.48%) GRC
12 7 (0.37%) Basel III
12 7 (0.37%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.32%) GAAP
13 6 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 5 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.21%) Accessibility
15 4 (0.21%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.16%) IFRS
System Software
1 66 (3.53%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.03%) Docker
3 11 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.32%) vSphere
6 5 (0.27%) ACF2
6 5 (0.27%) IAG
6 5 (0.27%) RACF
7 3 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
7 3 (0.16%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.11%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.053%) Cronacle
9 1 (0.053%) GridGain
9 1 (0.053%) HDFS
9 1 (0.053%) NFS
Systems Management
1 52 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 31 (1.66%) Ansible
3 26 (1.39%) Terraform
4 21 (1.12%) SCCM
5 17 (0.91%) Grafana
6 15 (0.80%) Puppet
7 11 (0.59%) Control-M
7 11 (0.59%) ITRS Geneos
8 9 (0.48%) Kibana
8 9 (0.48%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.43%) logstash
9 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.43%) PingFederate
10 5 (0.27%) Data Guard
11 4 (0.21%) QRadar
12 3 (0.16%) Nessus
13 2 (0.11%) CASB
13 2 (0.11%) Netcool
13 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 169 (9.04%) Microsoft
2 116 (6.20%) Oracle
3 102 (5.45%) Google
4 50 (2.67%) Cisco
5 46 (2.46%) Bloomberg
6 32 (1.71%) ServiceNow
7 31 (1.66%) Databricks
8 30 (1.60%) IBM
9 25 (1.34%) Citrix
10 24 (1.28%) SAP
11 22 (1.18%) ION Trading
12 19 (1.02%) VMware
13 18 (0.96%) CheckPoint
14 17 (0.91%) EMC
14 17 (0.91%) Splunk
15 16 (0.86%) HP
16 15 (0.80%) Avaya
16 15 (0.80%) Refinitiv
17 14 (0.75%) Red Hat
18 13 (0.70%) F5