Banking Contracts in Cheshire

Banking
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 11 21 25
Rank change year-on-year +10 +4 -5
Contract jobs citing Banking 59 42 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 13.14% 8.33% 7.17%
As % of the General category 18.85% 13.42% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 34 31
10th Percentile £316 £391 £400
25th Percentile £358 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £489 £518
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% -5.60% +10.21%
75th Percentile £503 £666 £594
90th Percentile £665 £738 £688
North West median daily rate £445 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -11.00% -2.91% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.72 -
North West median hourly rate - £12.84 £15.31
% change year-on-year - -16.11% +10.75%

All General Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 313 313 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 69.71% 62.10% 58.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 200 205
10th Percentile £325 £276 £219
25th Percentile £388 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £580 £563 £566
90th Percentile £688 £627 £650
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 22 19
10th Percentile £19.00 £16.57 £14.65
25th Percentile £27.20 £17.72 £23.15
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.58 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.22% -19.52% +45.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £37.25 £33.95
90th Percentile £86.00 £43.75 £36.00
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £26.00
% change year-on-year +62.25% -31.85% +30.00%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Banking in Cheshire

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Banking in Cheshire

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Banking in Cheshire

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Banking in Cheshire

Banking
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Knutsford -1 33 £360 -19.10% 5
Chester -3 15 £650 -10.34% 12
Wilmslow - 1 £618 -
Banking
North West

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (10.17%) CICS
2 4 (6.78%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.78%) WebSphere
3 2 (3.39%) Confluence
4 1 (1.69%) JBoss
4 1 (1.69%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.69%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (6.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (3.39%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.69%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.95%) AWS
2 4 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.39%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.69%) Azure
4 1 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.69%) GCP
4 1 (1.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.47%) VPN
2 4 (6.78%) Skype
2 4 (6.78%) WAN
3 3 (5.08%) LAN
4 2 (3.39%) Firewall
5 1 (1.69%) BGP
5 1 (1.69%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.69%) DMZ
5 1 (1.69%) DNS
5 1 (1.69%) DWDM
5 1 (1.69%) Internet
5 1 (1.69%) IPsec
5 1 (1.69%) L2TP
5 1 (1.69%) MPLS
5 1 (1.69%) Multicast
5 1 (1.69%) Network Security
5 1 (1.69%) OSPF
5 1 (1.69%) SSL
5 1 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.47%) DB2
2 4 (6.78%) Hadoop
3 3 (5.08%) MySQL
4 2 (3.39%) Apache Hive
4 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.39%) Easytrieve
5 1 (1.69%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (8.47%) Selenium
2 4 (6.78%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.78%) JIRA
3 2 (3.39%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.39%) Git
3 2 (3.39%) SOAtest
4 1 (1.69%) Cucumber
General
1 28 (47.46%) Finance
2 17 (28.81%) Social Skills
3 10 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.86%) Corporate Banking
5 6 (10.17%) Investment Banking
6 5 (8.47%) Legal
7 4 (6.78%) Financial Institution
7 4 (6.78%) Public Sector
8 3 (5.08%) General Ledger
8 3 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (5.08%) Retail Banking
9 2 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (32.20%) Architect
2 17 (28.81%) Solutions Architect
3 15 (25.42%) Analyst
4 10 (16.95%) Business Analyst
5 8 (13.56%) Payments Architect
5 8 (13.56%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 5 (8.47%) Service Analyst
7 4 (6.78%) AWS Architect
7 4 (6.78%) AWS Solution Architect
7 4 (6.78%) Consultant
8 3 (5.08%) Banking Project Manager
8 3 (5.08%) Network Analyst
8 3 (5.08%) Project Manager
8 3 (5.08%) Risk Analyst
8 3 (5.08%) Security Consultant
8 3 (5.08%) Service Desk Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) Designer
9 2 (3.39%) Developer
9 2 (3.39%) Service Desk Analyst
9 2 (3.39%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.17%) Web Services
2 4 (6.78%) REST
3 3 (5.08%) HTML
3 3 (5.08%) J2EE
3 3 (5.08%) Spring
3 3 (5.08%) Spring Boot
4 2 (3.39%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.39%) CSS
4 2 (3.39%) JSON
4 2 (3.39%) Kafka
4 2 (3.39%) Middleware
4 2 (3.39%) PySpark
4 2 (3.39%) React
4 2 (3.39%) RESTful
4 2 (3.39%) XML
5 1 (1.69%) CSS3
5 1 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.69%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.69%) jQuery
5 1 (1.69%) NgRx
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.86%) Mainframe
2 5 (8.47%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.47%) VSAM
3 2 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.39%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.39%) Mobile Payment
3 2 (3.39%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.39%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.69%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.78%) Windows
1 4 (6.78%) Windows 10
2 3 (5.08%) Unix
3 2 (3.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (20.34%) Agile
3 11 (18.64%) Architectural Design
3 11 (18.64%) Roadmaps
4 10 (16.95%) Migration
4 10 (16.95%) SDLC
5 9 (15.25%) Change Management
5 9 (15.25%) Risk Management
6 8 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (11.86%) Test Automation
8 6 (10.17%) Analytics
8 6 (10.17%) Business Analysis
8 6 (10.17%) ITSM
8 6 (10.17%) User Stories
9 5 (8.47%) Business Case
9 5 (8.47%) Business Strategy
9 5 (8.47%) Data Analytics
9 5 (8.47%) Process Improvement
9 5 (8.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.95%) Java
2 5 (8.47%) COBOL
2 5 (8.47%) JCL
3 3 (5.08%) REXX
4 2 (3.39%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.39%) Python
4 2 (3.39%) SQL
5 1 (1.69%) Perl
5 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (15.25%) Degree
2 4 (6.78%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.39%) CISM
3 2 (3.39%) CISSP
3 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.69%) CBAP
4 1 (1.69%) CCIE
4 1 (1.69%) CCNP
4 1 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.69%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.69%) PMP
4 1 (1.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) QA
2 2 (3.39%) COREP
2 2 (3.39%) FINREP
2 2 (3.39%) GDPR
2 2 (3.39%) ISO 20022
2 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.39%) NIST
2 2 (3.39%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.39%) SEPA
3 1 (1.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.69%) GRC
3 1 (1.69%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (5.08%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (5.08%) Ansible
1 3 (5.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.39%) HP ALM
2 2 (3.39%) Terraform
3 1 (1.69%) Grafana
3 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.47%) Cisco
3 4 (6.78%) Citrix
3 4 (6.78%) Oracle
3 4 (6.78%) Remedy
4 2 (3.39%) Ab Initio
4 2 (3.39%) Cloudera
4 2 (3.39%) HP
4 2 (3.39%) Informatica
4 2 (3.39%) Parasoft
4 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.69%) AlgoSec
5 1 (1.69%) Arista
5 1 (1.69%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.69%) IBM
5 1 (1.69%) McAfee
5 1 (1.69%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.69%) Splunk
5 1 (1.69%) VMware