Banking Contracts in Birmingham

Banking
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 52 35
Rank change year-on-year +26 -17 +35
Contract jobs citing Banking 24 15 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.60% 1.94% 4.54%
As % of the General category 7.10% 3.67% 7.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 17
10th Percentile - £355 £475
25th Percentile £525 £513 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £576 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.71% -12.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £657 £538 £731
90th Percentile £741 £580 -
West Midlands median daily rate £564 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +7.33% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £40.50 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £13.78 £40.50 -
% change year-on-year -65.98% - -

All General Skills
Birmingham

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 in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 338 409 532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 64.75% 52.91% 58.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 280 361
10th Percentile £163 £212 £263
25th Percentile £375 £373 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +11.05% -12.15% +10.81%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £510 £510
% change year-on-year -6.86% - +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 32 28
10th Percentile - £11.78 £11.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.73 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.70 £25.33 £17.39
Median % change year-on-year -41.95% +45.61% +0.83%
75th Percentile £24.06 £48.75 £29.12
90th Percentile £45.95 £56.25 £74.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £17.85
% change year-on-year -8.12% +9.75% +5.00%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Banking in Birmingham

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Banking in Birmingham

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in Birmingham

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Banking in Birmingham

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (4.17%) Appian
1 1 (4.17%) Confluence
1 1 (4.17%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) AWS
1 4 (16.67%) Snowflake
2 1 (4.17%) Akamai
2 1 (4.17%) Cloudflare
2 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Firewall
1 1 (4.17%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) ERwin
General
1 19 (79.17%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Investment Banking
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (8.33%) International Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Legal
6 1 (4.17%) Advertising
6 1 (4.17%) Marketing
6 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Data Modeller
3 2 (8.33%) IT Manager
3 2 (8.33%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Programme Director
3 2 (8.33%) Programme Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (4.17%) Banking Project Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Cash Management Business Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Finance Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Firewall Architect
4 1 (4.17%) IT Finance Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Lead
4 1 (4.17%) Mortgage Business Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Senior IT Project Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Web Applications Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (8.33%) FpML
1 2 (8.33%) JSON
1 2 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (8.33%) Credit Risk
3 2 (8.33%) Reference Data
4 1 (4.17%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (16.67%) Migration
2 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (12.50%) Agile
3 3 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 3 (12.50%) Risk Management
3 3 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 2 (8.33%) Business Strategy
4 2 (8.33%) Change Management
4 2 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (8.33%) Data Migration
4 2 (8.33%) Data Modelling
4 2 (8.33%) Ontologies
4 2 (8.33%) Programme Management
4 2 (8.33%) Project Management
4 2 (8.33%) RDF
4 2 (8.33%) Supplier Management
4 2 (8.33%) Technology Transformation
4 2 (8.33%) UML
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) SQL
2 6 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) CEH
1 1 (4.17%) CISSP
1 1 (4.17%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
1 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Databricks
1 4 (16.67%) Virgin Media
2 2 (8.33%) Sparx
3 1 (4.17%) Cognizant
3 1 (4.17%) F5
3 1 (4.17%) Imperva