Banking Contracts in Chester

Banking
Cheshire > Chester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in Chester. 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 7 4 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 +3
Contract jobs citing Banking 15 10 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester 22.06% 18.52% 15.29%
As % of the General category 25.86% 28.57% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 9
10th Percentile £421 - £395
25th Percentile £425 £625 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +20.83% +22.76%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £688
90th Percentile - £740 £700
Cheshire median daily rate £404 £489 £518
% change year-on-year -17.48% -5.60% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.72 -
Cheshire median hourly rate - £17.72 -

All General Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 58 35 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 85.29% 64.81% 61.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 25
10th Percentile £425 £475 £288
25th Percentile £534 £545 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +30.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £600
90th Percentile £738 - £688
Cheshire median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 11
10th Percentile £19.00 £29.49 £23.15
25th Percentile £24.19 £41.25 £29.58
Median hourly rate £50.00 £42.50 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +39.16% +45.43%
75th Percentile £86.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £32.50 £24.58 £30.54
% change year-on-year +32.22% -19.52% +45.43%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for Banking in Chester

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Daily rate trend for Banking in Chester

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Chester

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

Daily rate histogram for Banking in Chester

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Chester

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

Hourly rate trend for Banking in Chester

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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 4 (26.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (26.67%) MS Visio
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (6.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) VPN
2 4 (26.67%) Skype
2 4 (26.67%) WAN
3 3 (20.00%) LAN
4 1 (6.67%) BGP
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (6.67%) DMZ
4 1 (6.67%) DNS
4 1 (6.67%) DWDM
4 1 (6.67%) Firewall
4 1 (6.67%) Internet
4 1 (6.67%) IPsec
4 1 (6.67%) L2TP
4 1 (6.67%) MPLS
4 1 (6.67%) Multicast
4 1 (6.67%) Network Security
4 1 (6.67%) OSPF
4 1 (6.67%) SSL
4 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (6.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Apache Hive
1 2 (13.33%) Hadoop
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) Tableau
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Finance
3 6 (40.00%) Investment Banking
4 3 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Analyst
1 5 (33.33%) Architect
1 5 (33.33%) Service Analyst
1 5 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Network Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Risk Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Service Desk Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Payments Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Payments Solutions Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Middleware
1 2 (13.33%) PySpark
2 1 (6.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
1 4 (26.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Architectural Design
1 4 (26.67%) Chat Support
1 4 (26.67%) Customer Service
1 4 (26.67%) ITSM
1 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (20.00%) Analytics
2 3 (20.00%) Data Analytics
2 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (20.00%) Internal Audit
2 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (13.33%) Agile
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (13.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (13.33%) Business Strategy
3 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (13.33%) SDLC
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
3 2 (13.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Perl
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) CCIE
2 1 (6.67%) CCNP
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) Cisco
3 4 (26.67%) Citrix
3 4 (26.67%) Remedy
4 2 (13.33%) Cloudera
5 1 (6.67%) Arista
5 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
5 1 (6.67%) McAfee
5 1 (6.67%) Splunk