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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Banking 1,910 3,310 4,627
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.91% 13.01% 11.97%
As % of the General category 17.40% 20.55% 19.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,448 2,489 3,081
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 £800 £800 £775
90th Percentile £877 £900 £850
England median daily rate £625 £650 £640
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.56% +11.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 14
10th Percentile - - £21.00
25th Percentile £18.25 - £24.43
Median hourly rate £19.50 £8.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +143.75% -70.91% +22.22%
75th Percentile £22.31 - £45.94
90th Percentile £50.78 - £77.73
England median hourly rate £19.05 £15.72 £26.00
% change year-on-year +21.18% -39.54% +85.32%

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 10,976 16,110 23,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 62.68% 63.34% 60.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,837 11,743 17,033
10th Percentile £335 £375 £385
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +3.45% +7.91%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 200 283
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £18.09
25th Percentile £18.25 £20.86 £25.68
Median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.49% +23.05%
75th Percentile £48.44 £52.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.90 £70.00 £64.55
England median hourly rate £30.44 £31.92 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.65% +48.47% +2.14%

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 1 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Banking in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 1 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
Central London -2 264 £595 -9.95% 60
East London -8 18 £540 -14.29% 8
South London -19 6 £563 -26.25% 1
West London - 4 £400 - 11
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
1 197 (10.31%) Apache
2 186 (9.74%) Apache Airflow
3 51 (2.67%) SharePoint
4 38 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 35 (1.83%) Confluence
6 15 (0.79%) Apache Spark
7 11 (0.58%) SAS
8 7 (0.37%) nginx
9 6 (0.31%) CMS
9 6 (0.31%) IIS
10 5 (0.26%) JBoss
10 5 (0.26%) MQSeries
10 5 (0.26%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.21%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.16%) Appian
12 3 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.10%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.10%) CICS
13 2 (0.10%) IBM Notes
13 2 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 55 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (1.15%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.26%) Sketch
7 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.16%) InVision
7 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.10%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.10%) Gliffy
8 2 (0.10%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.052%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.052%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.052%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.052%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 24 (1.26%) Aladdin
2 16 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.79%) ION Anvil
4 12 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
5 11 (0.58%) ION MarketView
6 10 (0.52%) SimCorp Dimension
7 8 (0.42%) FLEXCUBE
8 7 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
8 7 (0.37%) Temenos T24
9 6 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
10 5 (0.26%) IntelliMatch
10 5 (0.26%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.21%) Fidessa
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 3 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
12 3 (0.16%) Orchestrade
12 3 (0.16%) SAP CO
12 3 (0.16%) SAP FI
12 3 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 331 (17.33%) AWS
2 283 (14.82%) Azure
3 192 (10.05%) GCP
4 124 (6.49%) dbt
5 104 (5.45%) Snowflake
6 82 (4.29%) Power Platform
7 51 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
8 35 (1.83%) GitHub
9 31 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (1.20%) Power Automate
11 22 (1.15%) Serverless
12 21 (1.10%) PowerApps
12 21 (1.10%) SaaS
13 19 (0.99%) Entra ID
14 18 (0.94%) Microsoft Purview
15 14 (0.73%) PaaS
16 13 (0.68%) Azure Service Bus
17 12 (0.63%) Azure AKS
17 12 (0.63%) Azure Key Vault
17 12 (0.63%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 59 (3.09%) Firewall
2 21 (1.10%) Internet
3 16 (0.84%) Network Security
4 15 (0.79%) SAN
5 12 (0.63%) DNS
6 10 (0.52%) SSH
6 10 (0.52%) WAN
7 9 (0.47%) VPN
8 8 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
9 7 (0.37%) HTTP
9 7 (0.37%) LAN
10 5 (0.26%) DHCP
10 5 (0.26%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.21%) FIX Connectivity
11 4 (0.21%) FTP
11 4 (0.21%) SSL
11 4 (0.21%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.21%) Wireless
12 3 (0.16%) VoIP
12 3 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (9.32%) Apache Ignite
2 125 (6.54%) Data Lake
3 124 (6.49%) Dremio
4 122 (6.39%) Apache Arrow
5 119 (6.23%) Amazon Athena
6 100 (5.24%) SQL Server
7 87 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
8 70 (3.66%) Power BI
9 45 (2.36%) NoSQL
9 45 (2.36%) Relational Database
10 31 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
11 28 (1.47%) Big Data
12 23 (1.20%) MongoDB
12 23 (1.20%) MySQL
12 23 (1.20%) Tableau
13 21 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 20 (1.05%) Oracle Database
15 19 (0.99%) Metadata
16 18 (0.94%) KDB
17 17 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 86 (4.50%) JIRA
2 57 (2.98%) Cypress.io
3 51 (2.67%) Jenkins
4 49 (2.57%) Git
5 45 (2.36%) Selenium
6 34 (1.78%) Cucumber
7 29 (1.52%) TeamCity
8 24 (1.26%) GitLab
9 20 (1.05%) Postman
10 15 (0.79%) Maven
10 15 (0.79%) Visual Studio
11 13 (0.68%) Bitbucket
11 13 (0.68%) JUnit
11 13 (0.68%) SpecFlow
12 8 (0.42%) Artifactory
12 8 (0.42%) ERwin
12 8 (0.42%) JMeter
12 8 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.37%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 1,302 (68.17%) Finance
2 540 (28.27%) Investment Banking
3 388 (20.31%) Front Office
4 359 (18.80%) Social Skills
5 158 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
6 67 (3.51%) Back Office
7 57 (2.98%) Retail
7 57 (2.98%) Retail Banking
8 49 (2.57%) Financial Institution
9 38 (1.99%) Corporate Banking
10 33 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
11 31 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (1.15%) Wholesale Banking
13 21 (1.10%) Public Sector
14 20 (1.05%) Legal
15 17 (0.89%) Prime Brokerage
16 16 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 16 (0.84%) International Banking
17 15 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
18 13 (0.68%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 477 (24.97%) Developer
2 359 (18.80%) Analyst
3 211 (11.05%) Senior
4 198 (10.37%) Business Analyst
5 164 (8.59%) Architect
6 161 (8.43%) Software Engineer
7 128 (6.70%) Lead
8 121 (6.34%) Java Developer
8 121 (6.34%) Python Developer
9 120 (6.28%) Python Engineer
10 110 (5.76%) Python Software Engineer
11 106 (5.55%) Banking Analyst
12 98 (5.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 97 (5.08%) Project Manager
14 94 (4.92%) React Developer
15 81 (4.24%) Financial Analyst
16 72 (3.77%) Consultant
17 60 (3.14%) C# Developer
18 59 (3.09%) Senior Developer
19 56 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (9.69%) gRPC
2 180 (9.42%) Protocol Buffers
3 135 (7.07%) React
4 118 (6.18%) Pandas
5 116 (6.07%) NumPy
6 114 (5.97%) SciPy
7 87 (4.55%) .NET
8 78 (4.08%) Redux
9 67 (3.51%) Material-UI
10 61 (3.19%) FIX Protocol
11 58 (3.04%) HTML
12 51 (2.67%) CSS
13 48 (2.51%) Spring
14 40 (2.09%) Kafka
15 39 (2.04%) AngularJS
16 35 (1.83%) REST
17 33 (1.73%) Node.js
17 33 (1.73%) WPF
18 30 (1.57%) Web Services
19 28 (1.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 286 (14.97%) Fixed Income
2 266 (13.93%) Derivative
3 256 (13.40%) Hedge funds
4 222 (11.62%) Equities
5 208 (10.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 74 (3.87%) Product Ownership
7 49 (2.57%) Management Information System
8 41 (2.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 26 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
10 24 (1.26%) Equity Derivative
11 23 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
12 22 (1.15%) Data Centre
13 21 (1.10%) Credit Risk
13 21 (1.10%) Market Risk
14 20 (1.05%) Algorithms
14 20 (1.05%) Onboarding
14 20 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
15 18 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
16 17 (0.89%) Mobile App
17 16 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 121 (6.34%) Windows
2 105 (5.50%) Linux
3 83 (4.35%) Unix
4 13 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 13 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (0.68%) Windows 10
4 13 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
5 12 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (0.47%) Android
7 7 (0.37%) zOS
8 6 (0.31%) VMS
9 3 (0.16%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.16%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.10%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.052%) AIX
11 1 (0.052%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.052%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 571 (29.90%) Agile
2 288 (15.08%) Software Engineering
3 275 (14.40%) Asset Management
4 224 (11.73%) Investment Management
5 196 (10.26%) DevOps
6 159 (8.32%) Problem-Solving
7 152 (7.96%) Change Management
8 130 (6.81%) Stakeholder Management
9 125 (6.54%) Migration
10 120 (6.28%) CI/CD
11 112 (5.86%) Test Automation
12 111 (5.81%) Full Stack Development
13 105 (5.50%) Analytics
14 103 (5.39%) Artificial Intelligence
15 98 (5.13%) Project Management
16 97 (5.08%) Machine Learning
17 95 (4.97%) Scrum
18 88 (4.61%) Microservices
19 85 (4.45%) SDLC
20 84 (4.40%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 462 (24.19%) Python
2 390 (20.42%) Java
3 359 (18.80%) SQL
4 225 (11.78%) TypeScript
5 202 (10.58%) JavaScript
6 197 (10.31%) C#
7 69 (3.61%) PowerShell
8 65 (3.40%) C++
9 39 (2.04%) Scala
10 24 (1.26%) Shell Script
11 17 (0.89%) PL/SQL
12 16 (0.84%) Bash
12 16 (0.84%) Groovy
13 15 (0.79%) Go
14 13 (0.68%) Perl
14 13 (0.68%) T-SQL
15 11 (0.58%) Kotlin
15 11 (0.58%) PHP
15 11 (0.58%) VBA
16 9 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 133 (6.96%) Degree
2 46 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 44 (2.30%) Security Cleared
4 43 (2.25%) SC Cleared
5 22 (1.15%) CISSP
6 21 (1.10%) Master's Degree
6 21 (1.10%) PMP
7 19 (0.99%) PMI Certification
8 18 (0.94%) CISM
9 17 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (0.79%) CCNP
11 15 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
12 11 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (0.52%) CISA
13 10 (0.52%) Six Sigma Black Belt
13 10 (0.52%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 9 (0.47%) Azure Certification
15 8 (0.42%) AWS Certification
16 7 (0.37%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (3.82%) Data Quality
1 73 (3.82%) QA
2 37 (1.94%) PMO
3 28 (1.47%) EMIR
4 26 (1.36%) MiFID
5 20 (1.05%) SLA
6 16 (0.84%) GDPR
6 16 (0.84%) NIST
7 15 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.73%) Dodd-Frank
9 13 (0.68%) SEPA
10 9 (0.47%) GRC
11 8 (0.42%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.31%) Basel III
12 6 (0.31%) GAAP
12 6 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 5 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.21%) Accessibility
14 4 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.21%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 69 (3.61%) Active Directory
2 49 (2.57%) Docker
3 11 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.42%) vSphere
6 5 (0.26%) ACF2
6 5 (0.26%) IAG
6 5 (0.26%) RACF
7 3 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
7 3 (0.16%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.10%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.052%) Cronacle
9 1 (0.052%) GridGain
9 1 (0.052%) HDFS
9 1 (0.052%) NFS
9 1 (0.052%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 65 (3.40%) Kubernetes
2 41 (2.15%) Ansible
3 30 (1.57%) Terraform
4 21 (1.10%) SCCM
5 20 (1.05%) Grafana
6 17 (0.89%) Puppet
7 11 (0.58%) Control-M
8 10 (0.52%) ITRS Geneos
8 10 (0.52%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.42%) Kibana
9 8 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.42%) PingFederate
10 7 (0.37%) logstash
11 4 (0.21%) SCOM
12 3 (0.16%) Nessus
12 3 (0.16%) QRadar
12 3 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.10%) CASB
13 2 (0.10%) Cisco CUCM
13 2 (0.10%) Istio
Vendors
1 166 (8.69%) Microsoft
2 111 (5.81%) Oracle
3 109 (5.71%) Google
4 54 (2.83%) Cisco
5 44 (2.30%) Bloomberg
6 41 (2.15%) ServiceNow
7 29 (1.52%) IBM
8 26 (1.36%) Citrix
8 26 (1.36%) Databricks
9 25 (1.31%) SAP
10 22 (1.15%) ION Trading
11 21 (1.10%) VMware
12 20 (1.05%) CheckPoint
13 18 (0.94%) Splunk
14 17 (0.89%) EMC
14 17 (0.89%) F5
15 16 (0.84%) Avaya
15 16 (0.84%) HP
16 14 (0.73%) Fortinet
17 13 (0.68%) Refinitiv