International Banking Contracts

International Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term International Banking in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited International Banking over the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 576 665
Rank change year-on-year +57 +89 +140
Contract jobs citing International Banking 15 17 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.050% 0.039% 0.058%
As % of the General category 0.079% 0.068% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 24
10th Percentile £425 £443 £477
25th Percentile £500 £488 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £660 £638
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +3.53% +6.69%
75th Percentile £800 £700 £741
90th Percentile - £744 £789
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%

All General Skills
UK

International Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 19,044 25,002 32,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.55% 56.94% 58.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,967 15,615 22,447
10th Percentile £281 £275 £313
25th Percentile £402 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -4.08% -2.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 914 2,035 1,008
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.78 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.57 £15.50 £16.96
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +27.96%
75th Percentile £53.95 £53.00 £60.03
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £70.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.34 £30.00 £25.98
% change year-on-year -18.87% +15.50% +31.12%

International Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for International Banking in the UK

International Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for International Banking in the UK

International Banking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing International Banking over the 6 months to 21 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for International Banking in the UK

International Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for International Banking in the UK

International Banking
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing International Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 21 June 2025. 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 +49 15 £650 -1.52% 18
London +48 14 £650 -1.52% 10
Yorkshire - 1 £650 -
UK excluding London - 1 £650 - 8
North of England - 1 £650 -

International 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 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (13.33%) CMS
3 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (6.67%) GitHub
1 1 (6.67%) IaaS
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
1 1 (6.67%) PaaS
1 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Multicast
2 2 (13.33%) DHCP
2 2 (13.33%) DNS
2 2 (13.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Hive
1 1 (6.67%) Big Data
1 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (6.67%) Presto
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) GCC
1 3 (20.00%) GDB
2 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Subversion
2 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (100.00%) Banking
2 11 (73.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (46.67%) Finance
4 5 (33.33%) Front Office
5 3 (20.00%) Financial Institution
6 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (6.67%) General Ledger
7 1 (6.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) C++ Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Communications Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Customer Communications Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Engagement Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Site Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Build Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Head of Technology
3 1 (6.67%) IT Manager
3 1 (6.67%) IT Services Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Service Continuity Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Service Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Testing Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Middleware
2 3 (20.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 3 (20.00%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (20.00%) STL
3 2 (13.33%) LDAP
4 1 (6.67%) Kafka
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (20.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (6.67%) Credit Risk
3 1 (6.67%) Equities
3 1 (6.67%) Market Risk
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Linux
3 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Risk Management
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (20.00%) Change Management
4 3 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
4 3 (20.00%) High Availability
4 3 (20.00%) ITIL
4 3 (20.00%) Low Latency
4 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
5 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
5 2 (13.33%) Content Management
5 2 (13.33%) Customer Engagement
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
5 2 (13.33%) Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) C++
2 2 (13.33%) C#
2 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (13.33%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (6.67%) MCSE
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) COBIT
1 1 (6.67%) GAAP
1 1 (6.67%) GRC
1 1 (6.67%) IFRS
1 1 (6.67%) PMO
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) HDFS
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 3 (20.00%) Solace
2 1 (6.67%) Bloomberg
2 1 (6.67%) Citrix
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Refinitiv
2 1 (6.67%) Reuters
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