Retail Banking Contracts in Cheshire

Retail Banking
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail 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 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.89% - -
As % of the General category 1.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £379 - -
25th Percentile £423 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - -
75th Percentile £470 - -
90th Percentile £510 - -
North West median daily rate £447 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -25.50% - +17.36%

All General Skills
Cheshire

Retail 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%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail Banking in Cheshire

Retail Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Retail Banking in Cheshire

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Retail Banking in Cheshire

Retail Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail Banking in Cheshire

Retail 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 Retail 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 - 4 £447 -
Retail Banking
North West

Retail 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 2 (50.00%) CICS
1 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) DB2
1 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
1 2 (50.00%) SOAtest
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) General Ledger
3 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Test Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Change Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) J2EE
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
1 2 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile Payment
1 2 (50.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (75.00%) User Stories
2 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Testing
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) COBOL
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) JCL
1 2 (50.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Ab Initio
1 2 (50.00%) Informatica
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Parasoft
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft