Financial Institution Contracts in Cheshire

Financial Institution
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Financial Institution in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Financial Institution over the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 50 46
Rank change year-on-year -15 -4 +14
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 4 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.65% 0.61% 1.34%
As % of the General category 0.94% 0.93% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £497 £408 £506
25th Percentile £556 £432 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £658 £476 £625
Median % change year-on-year +38.20% -23.88% +13.64%
75th Percentile £756 £522 £675
90th Percentile £812 £548 -
North West median daily rate £612 £490 £575
% change year-on-year +24.90% -14.78% +6.98%

All General Skills
Cheshire

Financial Institution 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 426 324 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 69.27% 66.12% 62.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 218 159
10th Percentile £313 £320 £255
25th Percentile £363 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £588
90th Percentile £676 £675 £641
North West median daily rate £468 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.40% - +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 7 35
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.10 £15.86
25th Percentile £19.66 £25.50 £22.53
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +14.60% +56.62%
75th Percentile £38.60 - £35.00
90th Percentile £50.00 - £36.65
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £31.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% +22.22%

Financial Institution
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Financial Institution in Cheshire

Financial Institution
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Financial Institution in Cheshire

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Institution in Cheshire over the 6 months to 13 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Financial Institution in Cheshire

Financial Institution
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Financial Institution in Cheshire

Financial Institution
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 Financial Institution within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 13 August 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
Chester -6 1 - - 4
Knutsford -17 1 £465 +18.77%
Financial Institution
North West

Financial Institution
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 1 (25.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Banking
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Implementation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Major Incident Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Migration Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Network Implementation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Management
2 1 (25.00%) LLM
2 1 (25.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Major Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) AlgoSec
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (25.00%) F5
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft