Banking Contracts in the Thames Valley

Banking
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Banking over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 106 137
Rank change year-on-year +18 +31 -33
Contract jobs citing Banking 52 40 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.92% 1.37% 0.92%
As % of the General category 3.43% 2.19% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 22 21
10th Percentile £114 £413 £350
25th Percentile £356 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £625 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +31.58% +21.79%
75th Percentile £519 £788 £538
90th Percentile - £800 £638
South East median daily rate £513 £600 £511
% change year-on-year -14.58% +17.48% +23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £16.00
South East median hourly rate £30.00 - £16.00
% change year-on-year - - +17.39%

All General Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,515 1,827 2,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 56.07% 62.38% 59.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 798 1,231 1,311
10th Percentile £205 £305 £205
25th Percentile £325 £406 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £467
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +7.07% +2.64%
75th Percentile £588 £601 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £640
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 41 73
10th Percentile £17.93 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £23.12 £22.50 £12.31
Median hourly rate £48.40 £32.30 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.85% +84.57% -18.83%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £21.97
90th Percentile £75.59 £75.75 £31.80
South East median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.26% +137.50% -20.00%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Banking in the Thames Valley

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Banking in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Banking in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in the Thames Valley

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Banking in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Banking in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 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
Berkshire +8 34 £513 +20.59% 7
Buckinghamshire +17 18 £400 -43.86% 4
Banking
South East

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (3.85%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.85%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (3.85%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.85%) SAS
2 1 (1.92%) Appian
2 1 (1.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (13.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 7 (13.46%) AWS
2 3 (5.77%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.85%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.92%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 26 (50.00%) DMZ
2 8 (15.38%) Cisco Nexus
2 8 (15.38%) Firewall
2 8 (15.38%) VPN
3 2 (3.85%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) Power BI
2 2 (3.85%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.92%) Big Data
3 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.92%) Impala
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (1.92%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 1 (1.92%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 35 (67.31%) Finance
2 8 (15.38%) Investment Banking
2 8 (15.38%) Retail
3 7 (13.46%) Wholesale Banking
4 5 (9.62%) Corporate Banking
4 5 (9.62%) Social Skills
5 4 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.92%) Legal
7 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (48.08%) Network Engineer
2 17 (32.69%) Senior
2 17 (32.69%) Senior Network Engineer
3 9 (17.31%) Analyst
4 8 (15.38%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 8 (15.38%) Cisco Engineer
4 8 (15.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 8 (15.38%) Coordinator
4 8 (15.38%) Juniper Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Business Analyst
6 3 (5.77%) Data Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) Architect
7 2 (3.85%) Financial Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.92%) Consultant
8 1 (1.92%) Data Architect
8 1 (1.92%) Project Manager
8 1 (1.92%) Support Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Systems Analyst
8 1 (1.92%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.92%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.77%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (3.85%) Blackberry
2 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (1.92%) Credit Risk
3 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.92%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.85%) Mac OS X
1 2 (3.85%) Windows
1 2 (3.85%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (40.38%) Migration
2 17 (32.69%) B2B
3 10 (19.23%) Design Patterns
4 8 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
4 8 (15.38%) Change Control
4 8 (15.38%) High Availability
4 8 (15.38%) ITSM
5 7 (13.46%) Data Analysis
5 7 (13.46%) Financial Analysis
5 7 (13.46%) Line Management
6 4 (7.69%) Change Management
6 4 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (5.77%) Data Design
7 3 (5.77%) Decision-Making
7 3 (5.77%) Impact Assessments
7 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (5.77%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (5.77%) Project Management
7 3 (5.77%) Roadmaps
7 3 (5.77%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (13.46%) SQL
2 1 (1.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (32.69%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.92%) Degree
2 1 (1.92%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) SLA
2 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.92%) IFRS
2 1 (1.92%) IFRS 9
2 1 (1.92%) PMO
2 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.92%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (3.85%) AirWatch
2 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (51.92%) Cisco
2 25 (48.08%) CheckPoint
3 17 (32.69%) Arista
4 8 (15.38%) Blue Coat
4 8 (15.38%) Fortinet
4 8 (15.38%) Juniper
4 8 (15.38%) Microsoft
5 7 (13.46%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (3.85%) Apple
6 2 (3.85%) HP
6 2 (3.85%) Informatica
6 2 (3.85%) Remedy
6 2 (3.85%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.92%) Oracle
7 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow