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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 11 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 +6
Contract jobs citing Banking 83 57 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 16.60% 10.52% 9.06%
As % of the General category 23.85% 16.52% 15.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 48 38
10th Percentile £317 £385 £400
25th Percentile £358 £413 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £470 £565
Median % change year-on-year -14.47% -16.81% +17.71%
75th Percentile £500 £591 £595
90th Percentile £614 £738 £685
North West median daily rate £402 £478 £550
% change year-on-year -15.81% -13.18% +15.18%

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 348 345 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 69.60% 63.65% 60.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 226 199
10th Percentile £317 £312 £255
25th Percentile £363 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +10.62%
75th Percentile £580 £574 £590
90th Percentile £688 £638 £665
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 22 25
10th Percentile £12.82 £16.89 £14.45
25th Percentile £19.00 £18.92 £22.53
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +25.09% +33.24%
75th Percentile £50.00 £37.25 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £43.75 £38.01
North West median hourly rate £29.01 £21.22 £25.00
% change year-on-year +36.74% -15.14% +7.65%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 -2 56 £375 -15.73% 21
Chester -5 12 £713 -1.72% 5
Northwich - 1 £400 -
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 8 (9.64%) Confluence
2 6 (7.23%) CICS
3 4 (4.82%) WebSphere
4 3 (3.61%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.61%) Tomcat
5 2 (2.41%) JBoss
6 1 (1.20%) Apache
6 1 (1.20%) nginx
6 1 (1.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (7.23%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.61%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (2.41%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.20%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 14 (16.87%) AWS
2 3 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (3.61%) OpenShift
3 2 (2.41%) Azure
4 1 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.20%) GCP
4 1 (1.20%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.82%) VPN
2 3 (3.61%) Skype
3 2 (2.41%) Firewall
3 2 (2.41%) WAN
4 1 (1.20%) BGP
4 1 (1.20%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.20%) DMZ
4 1 (1.20%) DNS
4 1 (1.20%) DWDM
4 1 (1.20%) Internet
4 1 (1.20%) IPsec
4 1 (1.20%) L2TP
4 1 (1.20%) LAN
4 1 (1.20%) MPLS
4 1 (1.20%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.20%) Network Security
4 1 (1.20%) OSPF
4 1 (1.20%) SSL
4 1 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.02%) DB2
2 4 (4.82%) Hadoop
3 3 (3.61%) MySQL
4 2 (2.41%) Apache Hive
4 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.41%) Easytrieve
5 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.20%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.20%) Power BI
5 1 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (13.25%) JIRA
2 10 (12.05%) Jenkins
3 8 (9.64%) Git
4 5 (6.02%) Gradle
4 5 (6.02%) Selenium
5 4 (4.82%) Xcode
6 2 (2.41%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.41%) SOAtest
7 1 (1.20%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.20%) Gerrit
7 1 (1.20%) Hudson
7 1 (1.20%) JUnit
7 1 (1.20%) Maven
7 1 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.20%) Subversion
General
1 36 (43.37%) Finance
2 24 (28.92%) Social Skills
3 15 (18.07%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.43%) Corporate Banking
5 6 (7.23%) Investment Banking
6 5 (6.02%) Legal
6 5 (6.02%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.82%) Financial Institution
7 4 (4.82%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.82%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.41%) General Ledger
8 2 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 25 (30.12%) Architect
2 19 (22.89%) Solutions Architect
3 15 (18.07%) Analyst
4 13 (15.66%) Business Analyst
5 11 (13.25%) Developer
5 11 (13.25%) Payments Architect
6 10 (12.05%) Payments Solutions Architect
7 5 (6.02%) iOS Developer
8 4 (4.82%) AWS Architect
8 4 (4.82%) AWS Solution Architect
8 4 (4.82%) Consultant
8 4 (4.82%) Designer
9 3 (3.61%) Banking Project Manager
9 3 (3.61%) Project Manager
9 3 (3.61%) Scrum Master
9 3 (3.61%) Security Consultant
9 3 (3.61%) Service Desk Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Test Architect
10 2 (2.41%) Salesforce Developer
10 2 (2.41%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.64%) HTML
2 7 (8.43%) CSS
3 6 (7.23%) Web Services
4 5 (6.02%) REST
5 4 (4.82%) Spring
5 4 (4.82%) Spring Boot
6 3 (3.61%) J2EE
6 3 (3.61%) React
7 2 (2.41%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.41%) jQuery
7 2 (2.41%) JSON
7 2 (2.41%) Kafka
7 2 (2.41%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (2.41%) Middleware
7 2 (2.41%) PySpark
7 2 (2.41%) RAML
7 2 (2.41%) RESTful
7 2 (2.41%) SOAP
7 2 (2.41%) XML
8 1 (1.20%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.64%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.43%) Mainframe
3 6 (7.23%) Mobile App
4 5 (6.02%) Mobile Banking
4 5 (6.02%) VSAM
5 3 (3.61%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.41%) Mobile Payment
6 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.41%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.41%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.20%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.23%) Apple iOS
2 5 (6.02%) Android
3 4 (4.82%) Unix
4 3 (3.61%) Windows
4 3 (3.61%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.41%) zOS
6 1 (1.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (27.71%) Agile
2 18 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (20.48%) Roadmaps
4 13 (15.66%) Architectural Design
4 13 (15.66%) Migration
5 12 (14.46%) Scrum
5 12 (14.46%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (12.05%) Change Management
7 10 (12.05%) SDLC
8 8 (9.64%) Business Analysis
8 8 (9.64%) Business Strategy
8 8 (9.64%) Strategic Thinking
8 8 (9.64%) Test Automation
8 8 (9.64%) User Stories
9 7 (8.43%) Microservices
9 7 (8.43%) Process Improvement
9 7 (8.43%) Risk Management
10 6 (7.23%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 6 (7.23%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (21.69%) Java
2 7 (8.43%) JavaScript
3 6 (7.23%) Python
4 5 (6.02%) COBOL
4 5 (6.02%) JCL
5 4 (4.82%) C
5 4 (4.82%) C++
5 4 (4.82%) Kotlin
5 4 (4.82%) Objective-C
5 4 (4.82%) Ruby
5 4 (4.82%) Scala
5 4 (4.82%) SQL
5 4 (4.82%) Swift
6 3 (3.61%) REXX
7 2 (2.41%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.20%) Perl
8 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (10.84%) Degree
2 4 (4.82%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.41%) CISM
3 2 (2.41%) CISSP
3 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.41%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.20%) CBAP
4 1 (1.20%) CCIE
4 1 (1.20%) CCNP
4 1 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.20%) CSPO
4 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.20%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.20%) PMP
4 1 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.82%) QA
2 3 (3.61%) SEPA
3 2 (2.41%) COREP
3 2 (2.41%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.41%) FINREP
3 2 (2.41%) GDPR
3 2 (2.41%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.41%) NIST
3 2 (2.41%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.20%) GRC
4 1 (1.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (3.61%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (3.61%) Ansible
1 3 (3.61%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.41%) HP ALM
2 2 (2.41%) Terraform
3 1 (1.20%) Grafana
3 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (10.84%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.02%) Oracle
3 4 (4.82%) Cisco
3 4 (4.82%) Citrix
4 3 (3.61%) Remedy
5 2 (2.41%) Ab Initio
5 2 (2.41%) Cloudera
5 2 (2.41%) HP
5 2 (2.41%) Informatica
5 2 (2.41%) Parasoft
5 2 (2.41%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.41%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.20%) AlgoSec
6 1 (1.20%) Arista
6 1 (1.20%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.20%) IBM
6 1 (1.20%) McAfee
6 1 (1.20%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.20%) Splunk
6 1 (1.20%) VMware