Banking Contracts in the North West

Banking
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Banking over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 63 60
Rank change year-on-year +13 -3 -14
Contract jobs citing Banking 95 111 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.43% 3.45% 3.53%
As % of the General category 6.41% 6.68% 7.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 81 108
10th Percentile £350 £388 £250
25th Percentile £413 £415 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +8.42% +6.50%
75th Percentile £666 £575 £578
90th Percentile £743 £675 £688
England median daily rate £625 £650 £638
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.96% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 6
10th Percentile £11.13 - £11.56
25th Percentile £11.56 £14.65 £12.50
Median hourly rate £12.84 £15.31 £13.82
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +10.75% +10.76%
75th Percentile £15.28 £15.96 £16.79
90th Percentile £43.83 - £20.51
England median hourly rate £19.50 £21.00 £23.48
% change year-on-year -7.14% -10.57% +50.96%

All General Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,483 1,661 1,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.48% 51.58% 49.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 908 1,139 1,400
10th Percentile £300 £305 £213
25th Percentile £398 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £469
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% +10.04%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £569
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £546
% change year-on-year -2.27% +0.67% +9.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 84 117
10th Percentile £12.50 £14.68 £11.98
25th Percentile £14.50 £18.74 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.72 £25.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.51% +27.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £36.95 £37.66 £44.03
90th Percentile £51.91 £52.73 £56.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £21.43
% change year-on-year -11.76% +58.69% -4.78%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Banking in the North West

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Banking in the North West

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in the North West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in the North West

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Banking in the North West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Banking in the North West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Banking in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Manchester +12 41 £600 +14.29% 36
Cheshire +2 39 £495 -5.18% 4
Cumbria -17 7 £500 +47.06%
Merseyside +7 6 £175 -56.25% 3
Banking
England

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 6 (6.32%) Confluence
2 5 (5.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.05%) Mule
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.05%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (11.58%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (8.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (6.32%) MS Visio
4 2 (2.11%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (5.26%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.05%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (14.74%) AWS
2 12 (12.63%) Azure
3 6 (6.32%) Entra ID
4 5 (5.26%) Apigee
4 5 (5.26%) Kong
5 3 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (3.16%) Serverless
6 2 (2.11%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (2.11%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.05%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.05%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.05%) GCP
7 1 (1.05%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.05%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.26%) DMZ
1 5 (5.26%) Firewall
2 4 (4.21%) SD-WAN
2 4 (4.21%) Wireless
3 2 (2.11%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (2.11%) SSL
4 1 (1.05%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.05%) DSL
4 1 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.05%) Network Security
4 1 (1.05%) SAN
4 1 (1.05%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.05%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.26%) MongoDB
1 5 (5.26%) OLAP
1 5 (5.26%) OLTP
1 5 (5.26%) Oracle OLAP
2 3 (3.16%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.05%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.05%) Data Vault
3 1 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.05%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.05%) Essbase
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.05%) Power BI
3 1 (1.05%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (11.58%) JIRA
2 2 (2.11%) Git
2 2 (2.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.05%) Liquibase
3 1 (1.05%) Log4j
3 1 (1.05%) Mockito
3 1 (1.05%) TeamCity
General
1 47 (49.47%) Finance
2 27 (28.42%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.42%) Investment Banking
5 5 (5.26%) Retail Banking
6 4 (4.21%) Corporate Banking
6 4 (4.21%) Retail
7 3 (3.16%) Billing
8 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.05%) Front Office
9 1 (1.05%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.05%) Legal
9 1 (1.05%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (20.00%) Architect
2 16 (16.84%) Analyst
3 13 (13.68%) Solutions Architect
4 11 (11.58%) Developer
5 8 (8.42%) Business Analyst
6 7 (7.37%) Senior
7 6 (6.32%) Network Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) AWS Architect
8 5 (5.26%) Java Developer
8 5 (5.26%) Project Manager
9 4 (4.21%) Administrator
9 4 (4.21%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 4 (4.21%) Payments Architect
9 4 (4.21%) Payments Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.21%) Scrum Master
9 4 (4.21%) Security Analyst
10 3 (3.16%) Data Analyst
10 3 (3.16%) Oracle DBA
10 3 (3.16%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.16%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.37%) Kafka
2 6 (6.32%) Spring
2 6 (6.32%) Web Services
3 5 (5.26%) IBM Integration Bus
3 5 (5.26%) J2EE
3 5 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (5.26%) SOAP
4 4 (4.21%) Apache Camel
4 4 (4.21%) React Native
4 4 (4.21%) SailPoint
4 4 (4.21%) Spring Boot
4 4 (4.21%) Spring Integration
5 2 (2.11%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (1.05%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (1.05%) Hibernate
6 1 (1.05%) Jetpack Compose
6 1 (1.05%) Middleware
6 1 (1.05%) REST
6 1 (1.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.37%) Public Cloud
2 6 (6.32%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.26%) DataPower
3 5 (5.26%) Virtual Team
4 4 (4.21%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.21%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.11%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.11%) CMDB
5 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.11%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.11%) Derivative
5 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.05%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.05%) Life Science
6 1 (1.05%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.05%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.05%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.32%) Linux
2 4 (4.21%) Unix
2 4 (4.21%) Windows
3 2 (2.11%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.11%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.05%) Android
4 1 (1.05%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
2 19 (20.00%) Agile
3 14 (14.74%) Enterprise Architecture
4 12 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (10.53%) Business Strategy
5 10 (10.53%) DevOps
6 9 (9.47%) Design Patterns
6 9 (9.47%) Identity Access Management
6 9 (9.47%) Microservices
6 9 (9.47%) Risk Management
7 8 (8.42%) Architectural Design
8 7 (7.37%) Change Control
8 7 (7.37%) Decision-Making
8 7 (7.37%) OO
9 6 (6.32%) Data Protection
9 6 (6.32%) Migration
9 6 (6.32%) SDLC
10 5 (5.26%) API Management
10 5 (5.26%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 5 (5.26%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.68%) Java
2 5 (5.26%) SQL
3 3 (3.16%) Python
4 1 (1.05%) Bash
4 1 (1.05%) Groovy
4 1 (1.05%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.05%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (10.53%) Degree
2 4 (4.21%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.16%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.11%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.11%) PMP
5 1 (1.05%) CCSA
5 1 (1.05%) CCSE
5 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.32%) QA
2 5 (5.26%) SLA
3 2 (2.11%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.05%) COREP
4 1 (1.05%) FINREP
4 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (1.05%) NIST
4 1 (1.05%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (6.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.21%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.11%) SCCM
3 1 (1.05%) Ansible
3 1 (1.05%) CFEngine
3 1 (1.05%) PowerBroker
3 1 (1.05%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.05%) Puppet
3 1 (1.05%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 17 (17.89%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.47%) Oracle
3 5 (5.26%) F5
3 5 (5.26%) IBM
3 5 (5.26%) TSYS
4 4 (4.21%) CyberArk
4 4 (4.21%) Palo Alto
5 3 (3.16%) Cisco
6 2 (2.11%) CheckPoint
6 2 (2.11%) Sage
6 2 (2.11%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.05%) Avaloq
7 1 (1.05%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.05%) Blue Coat
7 1 (1.05%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.05%) Juniper
7 1 (1.05%) Qualys
7 1 (1.05%) Refinitiv
7 1 (1.05%) SAP