Investment Banking Contracts in Cheshire

Investment Banking
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Investment Banking over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 53 58
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 -4
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 6 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.35% 0.99% 0.76%
As % of the General category 1.94% 1.59% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile - £455 £513
25th Percentile £713 £613 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £725 £545
Median % change year-on-year - +33.03% +14.74%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £571
90th Percentile - - £581
North West median daily rate £725 £625 £450
% change year-on-year +16.00% +38.89% -10.00%

All General Skills
Cheshire

Investment 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 310 315 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 69.51% 62.13% 58.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 202 204
10th Percentile £324 £278 £227
25th Percentile £387 £390 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £580 £564 £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 28 22 19
10th Percentile £19.00 £16.57 £14.65
25th Percentile £29.43 £17.72 £23.15
Median hourly rate £32.95 £24.58 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +34.05% -19.52% +45.43%
75th Percentile £73.81 £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%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in Cheshire

Investment Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Investment Banking in Cheshire

Investment 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 Investment Banking within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Chester -1 6 £725 - 4
Investment Banking
North West

Investment 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 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Skype
1 3 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Hive
1 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) Tableau
General
1 6 (100.00%) Banking
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Service Desk Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Service Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) PySpark
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Chat Support
1 3 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (50.00%) ITSM
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
3 1 (16.67%) Backlog Management
3 1 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
1 3 (50.00%) Citrix
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) Remedy
2 2 (33.33%) Cloudera