Banking Contracts in the North of England

Banking
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Banking over the 6 months to 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 39 55
Rank change year-on-year +2 +16 -1
Contract jobs citing Banking 208 252 297
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 4.32% 4.59% 4.13%
As % of the General category 7.95% 8.24% 8.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 144 193
10th Percentile £350 £400 £300
25th Percentile £413 £494 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £490
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +12.24% +8.89%
75th Percentile £638 £602 £595
90th Percentile £748 £688 £675
England median daily rate £625 £650 £643
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.17% +11.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 5
10th Percentile £11.13 £14.76 £11.38
25th Percentile £11.78 £14.92 £12.50
Median hourly rate £12.84 £15.51 £14.64
Median % change year-on-year -17.23% +5.96% +16.98%
75th Percentile £18.89 £15.90 £23.53
90th Percentile £39.43 £15.93 £29.76
England median hourly rate £19.28 £34.11 £24.96
% change year-on-year -43.49% +36.69% +77.87%

All General Skills
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,617 3,059 3,698
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 54.34% 55.75% 51.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,498 2,106 2,607
10th Percentile £263 £278 £213
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £688 £650
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 96 183
10th Percentile £12.13 £13.98 £10.75
25th Percentile £13.45 £16.59 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £22.25 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.82% +15.61% +6.92%
75th Percentile £35.23 £35.00 £33.91
90th Percentile £48.75 £51.19 £57.50
England median hourly rate £31.25 £31.00 £21.63
% change year-on-year +0.81% +43.35% +2.73%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Banking in the North of England

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Banking in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Banking in the North of England

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in the North of England

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Banking in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Banking in the North of England

Banking
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Banking in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Banking in the North of England

Banking
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the North of England region over the 6 months to 7 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
North West +23 114 £478 -13.18% 47
Yorkshire -10 91 £475 -13.64% 11
North East +5 3 £463 -35.99% 4
Banking
England

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 12 (5.77%) Confluence
2 9 (4.33%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (1.44%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.96%) Apache
5 2 (0.96%) SAS
6 1 (0.48%) Mule
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (5.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.33%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (3.37%) Temenos T24
2 3 (1.44%) SAP CO
2 3 (1.44%) SAP FI
2 3 (1.44%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.48%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 27 (12.98%) AWS
2 24 (11.54%) Azure
3 10 (4.81%) Entra ID
4 8 (3.85%) Kong
5 7 (3.37%) Apigee
6 6 (2.88%) GCP
7 4 (1.92%) SaaS
7 4 (1.92%) Serverless
8 3 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.96%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (0.96%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.96%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.48%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.48%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
10 1 (0.48%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.48%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.33%) Firewall
2 5 (2.40%) DMZ
3 4 (1.92%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.92%) Wireless
4 3 (1.44%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.96%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.96%) DHCP
5 2 (0.96%) DNS
5 2 (0.96%) SSL
5 2 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.48%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.48%) RTP
6 1 (0.48%) SAN
6 1 (0.48%) VLAN
6 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.33%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.85%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.37%) OLAP
3 7 (3.37%) OLTP
4 6 (2.88%) Oracle OLAP
5 5 (2.40%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.44%) Big Data
6 3 (1.44%) Data Vault
6 3 (1.44%) DB2
6 3 (1.44%) MySQL
7 2 (0.96%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.96%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.48%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.48%) Essbase
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.48%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.48%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 21 (10.10%) JIRA
2 12 (5.77%) Git
3 10 (4.81%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.96%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.96%) GitLab
4 2 (0.96%) Liquibase
4 2 (0.96%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.48%) Log4j
5 1 (0.48%) Mockito
General
1 125 (60.10%) Finance
2 50 (24.04%) Social Skills
3 19 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.81%) Investment Banking
5 6 (2.88%) Retail Banking
6 4 (1.92%) Corporate Banking
6 4 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (1.92%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.44%) Retail
8 2 (0.96%) General Ledger
8 2 (0.96%) Legal
8 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.48%) Front Office
9 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.48%) Law
9 1 (0.48%) Marketing
9 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 53 (25.48%) Architect
2 29 (13.94%) Analyst
3 24 (11.54%) Solutions Architect
4 21 (10.10%) Developer
5 14 (6.73%) Senior
6 13 (6.25%) Lead
7 11 (5.29%) Problem Manager
8 9 (4.33%) Project Manager
9 8 (3.85%) AWS Architect
9 8 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 8 (3.85%) Security Analyst
10 7 (3.37%) Data Analyst
11 6 (2.88%) Administrator
11 6 (2.88%) Business Analyst
11 6 (2.88%) Senior Manager
12 5 (2.40%) Business Manager
12 5 (2.40%) Consultant
12 5 (2.40%) Java Developer
12 5 (2.40%) Network Engineer
12 5 (2.40%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.29%) Kafka
2 10 (4.81%) Spring
3 8 (3.85%) SailPoint
3 8 (3.85%) Web Services
4 7 (3.37%) IBM Integration Bus
4 7 (3.37%) J2EE
4 7 (3.37%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (3.37%) SOAP
4 7 (3.37%) Spring Boot
5 6 (2.88%) Apache Camel
5 6 (2.88%) React
5 6 (2.88%) Spring Integration
6 4 (1.92%) React Native
7 3 (1.44%) .NET
7 3 (1.44%) XML
8 2 (0.96%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.96%) CSS
8 2 (0.96%) HTML
8 2 (0.96%) jQuery
8 2 (0.96%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.25%) Mainframe
2 7 (3.37%) DataPower
3 6 (2.88%) Data Centre
3 6 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (2.88%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.40%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.92%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.92%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.44%) Credit Risk
6 3 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.44%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.96%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.96%) CMDB
7 2 (0.96%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.96%) Derivative
7 2 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.48%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.29%) Windows
2 7 (3.37%) MVS
3 6 (2.88%) Android
3 6 (2.88%) Linux
3 6 (2.88%) Unix
4 5 (2.40%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.92%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.92%) Windows 7
6 3 (1.44%) zOS
7 2 (0.96%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.48%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (30.29%) Change Management
2 33 (15.87%) Stakeholder Management
3 31 (14.90%) Agile
3 31 (14.90%) DevOps
4 23 (11.06%) Microservices
5 20 (9.62%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (9.13%) Design Patterns
7 18 (8.65%) Enterprise Architecture
8 16 (7.69%) Architectural Design
8 16 (7.69%) Project Management
9 15 (7.21%) Identity Access Management
10 14 (6.73%) CI/CD
10 14 (6.73%) Risk Management
10 14 (6.73%) Technology Strategy
10 14 (6.73%) Test Automation
11 13 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (6.25%) Service Management
12 12 (5.77%) Cybersecurity
13 11 (5.29%) SDLC
14 10 (4.81%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 25 (12.02%) Java
2 12 (5.77%) Python
3 11 (5.29%) SQL
4 5 (2.40%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.44%) Bash
5 3 (1.44%) C
5 3 (1.44%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.96%) C#
6 2 (0.96%) JCL
6 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.48%) Assembly Language
7 1 (0.48%) CLIST
7 1 (0.48%) Groovy
7 1 (0.48%) Perl
7 1 (0.48%) REXX
7 1 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (7.21%) Degree
2 6 (2.88%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.44%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.96%) A+ Certification
6 2 (0.96%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.96%) CCNA
6 2 (0.96%) CCSA
6 2 (0.96%) CCSE
6 2 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.96%) MCSE
6 2 (0.96%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (0.96%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.96%) PMP
6 2 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.77%) QA
2 9 (4.33%) PMO
3 3 (1.44%) SLA
4 2 (0.96%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.96%) GDPR
5 1 (0.48%) GRC
5 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.48%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.48%) NIST
5 1 (0.48%) SEPA
System Software
1 12 (5.77%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.37%) Docker
3 2 (0.96%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.96%) KVM
3 2 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.96%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (0.48%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 6 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (1.92%) Ansible
2 4 (1.92%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.92%) Progress Chef
3 3 (1.44%) Terraform
3 3 (1.44%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (0.96%) Puppet
4 2 (0.96%) SCCM
4 2 (0.96%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.48%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.48%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 27 (12.98%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.13%) ServiceNow
3 13 (6.25%) Oracle
4 9 (4.33%) IBM
5 8 (3.85%) CyberArk
6 7 (3.37%) TSYS
7 5 (2.40%) F5
8 4 (1.92%) CA
8 4 (1.92%) Cisco
8 4 (1.92%) Google
8 4 (1.92%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.44%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.44%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.44%) Refinitiv
9 3 (1.44%) SAP
9 3 (1.44%) VMware
10 2 (0.96%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.96%) Sage
10 2 (0.96%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.48%) Qualys