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

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 24 27
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 2,685 4,329 6,386
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 6.29% 7.51% 7.24%
As % of the General category 10.84% 12.83% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,841 3,035 4,227
10th Percentile £385 £450 £425
25th Percentile £500 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £775 £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 23 9 24
10th Percentile £12.06 £13.32 £11.70
25th Percentile £12.84 £15.72 £15.66
Median hourly rate £19.05 £21.00 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -18.30% +77.70%
75th Percentile £23.88 £53.75 £44.63
90th Percentile £74.50 £67.00 £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £40.05 £14.64
% change year-on-year -62.54% +173.55% +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 24,779 33,735 49,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.07% 58.52% 56.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,628 23,387 34,464
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,929 1,026 1,428
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.98 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £34.00 £22.19
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +53.22% -1.38%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.40
90th Percentile £65.40 £72.50 £59.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £30.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -5.00% +57.89% -4.76%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 2,292 £625 -3.85% 714
London -2 1,865 £650 -3.70% 534
Work from Home +1 1,186 £625 -3.85% 345
UK excluding London +2 512 £513 -6.82% 224
North of England +2 179 £489 -11.09% 58
Scotland +1 134 £550 +4.76% 41
North West +14 98 £489 -11.09% 37
South East +28 87 £513 -14.58% 27
Yorkshire -6 78 £475 -13.64% 15
Midlands -3 52 £468 -16.89% 39
East Midlands +40 32 £445 +4.71% 15
South West -4 32 £625 +6.38% 31
East of England +34 28 £575 +15.00% 18
West Midlands -14 18 £525 -12.50% 24
Northern Ireland -4 8 £443 -1.67% 4
North East +8 3 £463 -35.99% 6
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
1 170 (6.33%) Apache
2 166 (6.18%) Apache Airflow
3 69 (2.57%) SharePoint
4 42 (1.56%) Confluence
5 39 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 24 (0.89%) Apache Spark
7 19 (0.71%) SAS
8 11 (0.41%) WebSphere
9 9 (0.34%) 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
1 109 (4.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (1.90%) MS Visio
4 44 (1.64%) 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 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 24 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (0.86%) Aladdin
3 17 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 16 (0.60%) Loan IQ
5 15 (0.56%) ION Anvil
6 13 (0.48%) Temenos T24
7 12 (0.45%) SAP CO
8 11 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
9 10 (0.37%) FLEXCUBE
9 10 (0.37%) ION MarketView
9 10 (0.37%) SAP FI
9 10 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.34%) SimCorp Dimension
11 8 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
12 7 (0.26%) Oracle BPM
13 6 (0.22%) IntelliMatch
13 6 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
13 6 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
13 6 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
14 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 375 (13.97%) AWS
2 364 (13.56%) Azure
3 201 (7.49%) GCP
4 99 (3.69%) dbt
5 89 (3.31%) Snowflake
6 84 (3.13%) Power Platform
7 53 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
8 36 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (1.34%) Entra ID
9 34 (1.27%) GitHub
10 32 (1.19%) SaaS
10 32 (1.19%) Serverless
11 24 (0.89%) OpenShift
12 22 (0.82%) Power Automate
13 20 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (0.74%) IaaS
13 20 (0.74%) PowerApps
14 19 (0.71%) Microsoft Purview
15 18 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
16 17 (0.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 83 (3.09%) Firewall
2 46 (1.71%) DMZ
3 24 (0.89%) DNS
3 24 (0.89%) SAN
4 23 (0.86%) Internet
4 23 (0.86%) VPN
5 21 (0.78%) Network Security
6 19 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
7 18 (0.67%) Intranet
8 16 (0.60%) DHCP
8 16 (0.60%) HTTP
9 14 (0.52%) WAN
10 11 (0.41%) LAN
11 9 (0.34%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.34%) SSH
11 9 (0.34%) SSL
11 9 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.34%) Wireless
12 8 (0.30%) ATM
12 8 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (5.85%) Apache Ignite
2 126 (4.69%) SQL Server
3 106 (3.95%) Amazon Athena
4 101 (3.76%) Data Lake
5 99 (3.69%) Apache Arrow
5 99 (3.69%) Dremio
6 89 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
7 71 (2.64%) Power BI
8 62 (2.31%) Relational Database
9 46 (1.71%) NoSQL
10 35 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (1.27%) Big Data
12 32 (1.19%) MySQL
13 30 (1.12%) MongoDB
14 25 (0.93%) Oracle Database
14 25 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 24 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
15 24 (0.89%) Metadata
16 21 (0.78%) Tableau
17 20 (0.74%) DB2
Development Applications
1 136 (5.07%) JIRA
2 75 (2.79%) Git
3 63 (2.35%) Jenkins
4 51 (1.90%) Cypress.io
5 48 (1.79%) Cucumber
6 46 (1.71%) Selenium
7 36 (1.34%) TeamCity
8 29 (1.08%) GitLab
9 19 (0.71%) Maven
10 16 (0.60%) Postman
11 15 (0.56%) Visual Studio
12 14 (0.52%) Bitbucket
13 12 (0.45%) JUnit
14 11 (0.41%) SonarQube
14 11 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (0.37%) Artifactory
15 10 (0.37%) SpecFlow
15 10 (0.37%) TestRail
16 9 (0.34%) JMeter
17 8 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,808 (67.34%) Finance
2 596 (22.20%) Investment Banking
3 551 (20.52%) Social Skills
4 374 (13.93%) Front Office
5 243 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
6 89 (3.31%) Retail Banking
7 80 (2.98%) Back Office
8 79 (2.94%) Retail
9 63 (2.35%) Financial Institution
10 53 (1.97%) Corporate Banking
11 42 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
12 41 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
13 32 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
14 30 (1.12%) Wholesale Banking
15 28 (1.04%) Legal
15 28 (1.04%) Public Sector
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
1 543 (20.22%) Developer
2 491 (18.29%) Analyst
3 312 (11.62%) Architect
4 264 (9.83%) Senior
5 253 (9.42%) Business Analyst
6 163 (6.07%) Lead
7 154 (5.74%) Banking Analyst
8 151 (5.62%) Software Engineer
9 144 (5.36%) Project Manager
10 131 (4.88%) Java Developer
11 120 (4.47%) Python Developer
12 114 (4.25%) Python Engineer
13 108 (4.02%) Solutions Architect
14 104 (3.87%) Consultant
15 98 (3.65%) Python Software Engineer
16 93 (3.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 89 (3.31%) Data Analyst
17 89 (3.31%) React Developer
18 83 (3.09%) Financial Analyst
19 72 (2.68%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (6.18%) gRPC
2 159 (5.92%) Protocol Buffers
3 146 (5.44%) React
4 107 (3.99%) Pandas
5 97 (3.61%) NumPy
6 96 (3.58%) .NET
7 95 (3.54%) SciPy
8 78 (2.91%) Redux
9 72 (2.68%) HTML
10 71 (2.64%) Spring
11 68 (2.53%) Kafka
12 67 (2.50%) CSS
13 63 (2.35%) Material-UI
14 60 (2.23%) FIX Protocol
15 50 (1.86%) AngularJS
16 45 (1.68%) Spring Boot
17 44 (1.64%) Middleware
17 44 (1.64%) Node.js
18 42 (1.56%) REST
19 41 (1.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 269 (10.02%) Derivative
2 263 (9.80%) Fixed Income
3 232 (8.64%) Hedge funds
4 205 (7.64%) Equities
5 188 (7.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 94 (3.50%) Product Ownership
7 63 (2.35%) Management Information System
8 61 (2.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 37 (1.38%) Data Centre
9 37 (1.38%) Public Cloud
10 34 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
11 30 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
11 30 (1.12%) Onboarding
12 26 (0.97%) Market Risk
13 25 (0.93%) Mainframe
13 25 (0.93%) Mobile App
13 25 (0.93%) Security Posture
13 25 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (0.89%) Equity Derivative
15 23 (0.86%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 163 (6.07%) Windows
2 136 (5.07%) Linux
3 102 (3.80%) Unix
4 25 (0.93%) Android
5 23 (0.86%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.86%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (0.74%) Windows 10
8 16 (0.60%) zOS
9 15 (0.56%) MVS
10 12 (0.45%) Windows 7
11 11 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
11 11 (0.41%) 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
1 668 (24.88%) Agile
2 365 (13.59%) Change Management
3 278 (10.35%) Software Engineering
4 263 (9.80%) DevOps
5 262 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
6 252 (9.39%) Asset Management
7 238 (8.86%) Stakeholder Management
8 229 (8.53%) Migration
9 212 (7.90%) Investment Management
10 172 (6.41%) Project Management
11 156 (5.81%) CI/CD
12 142 (5.29%) Test Automation
13 134 (4.99%) SDLC
14 129 (4.80%) Microservices
15 121 (4.51%) Analytics
16 117 (4.36%) Scrum
17 115 (4.28%) Roadmaps
18 113 (4.21%) Full Stack Development
19 108 (4.02%) Risk Management
20 104 (3.87%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 489 (18.21%) Python
2 429 (15.98%) Java
3 426 (15.87%) SQL
4 224 (8.34%) C#
5 211 (7.86%) TypeScript
6 205 (7.64%) JavaScript
7 80 (2.98%) PowerShell
8 59 (2.20%) C++
9 58 (2.16%) Scala
10 29 (1.08%) Perl
11 28 (1.04%) Shell Script
12 26 (0.97%) PL/SQL
13 21 (0.78%) Go
14 18 (0.67%) Kotlin
15 17 (0.63%) Bash
16 15 (0.56%) T-SQL
17 14 (0.52%) Ruby
18 12 (0.45%) Groovy
18 12 (0.45%) R
19 11 (0.41%) C
Qualifications
1 190 (7.08%) Degree
2 70 (2.61%) 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 29 (1.08%) CISSP
8 25 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (0.93%) PMP
9 23 (0.86%) CISM
9 23 (0.86%) PMI Certification
10 17 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
11 14 (0.52%) AWS Certification
11 14 (0.52%) CCNP
12 11 (0.41%) CISA
12 11 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (0.37%) Azure Certification
13 10 (0.37%) MCSE
13 10 (0.37%) Six Sigma Black Belt
13 10 (0.37%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (4.13%) QA
2 72 (2.68%) PMO
3 66 (2.46%) Data Quality
4 35 (1.30%) SLA
5 31 (1.15%) EMIR
6 30 (1.12%) NIST
7 29 (1.08%) MiFID
8 25 (0.93%) GDPR
9 23 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 17 (0.63%) SEPA
11 14 (0.52%) Dodd-Frank
11 14 (0.52%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.37%) GRC
12 10 (0.37%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.34%) Basel III
13 9 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 7 (0.26%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.26%) GAAP
14 7 (0.26%) IFRS
15 5 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 93 (3.46%) Active Directory
2 66 (2.46%) Docker
3 25 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.41%) vSphere
6 8 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.30%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.22%) KVM
7 6 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.22%) 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 80 (2.98%) Kubernetes
2 62 (2.31%) Ansible
3 38 (1.42%) Terraform
4 24 (0.89%) Grafana
5 22 (0.82%) SCCM
6 17 (0.63%) Puppet
7 15 (0.56%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.41%) Control-M
8 11 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
8 11 (0.41%) Kibana
9 9 (0.34%) logstash
9 9 (0.34%) PingFederate
9 9 (0.34%) vCenter Server
10 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.26%) NetBackup
11 7 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.22%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.19%) Data Guard
14 4 (0.15%) HP Quality Center
14 4 (0.15%) QRadar
Vendors
1 263 (9.80%) Microsoft
2 149 (5.55%) Oracle
3 126 (4.69%) Google
4 100 (3.72%) Cisco
5 71 (2.64%) ServiceNow
6 55 (2.05%) CheckPoint
7 54 (2.01%) IBM
8 51 (1.90%) Bloomberg
9 47 (1.75%) SAP
10 45 (1.68%) Splunk
11 36 (1.34%) VMware
12 34 (1.27%) Databricks
13 29 (1.08%) Arista
14 25 (0.93%) Citrix
15 23 (0.86%) CyberArk
16 22 (0.82%) F5
17 21 (0.78%) Fortinet
17 21 (0.78%) ION Trading
18 20 (0.74%) EMC
19 18 (0.67%) Refinitiv