Retail Banking Contracts in England

Retail Banking
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in contract job vacancies in England. 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 377 446 492
Rank change year-on-year +69 +46 -9
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 108 96 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.44% 0.26% 0.32%
As % of the General category 0.69% 0.44% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 49 80
10th Percentile £380 £445 £500
25th Percentile £434 £488 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% -8.33% +2.13%
75th Percentile £688 £625 £756
90th Percentile £700 £845 £950
UK median daily rate £506 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -11.96% -4.17% +4.35%

All General Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 15,588 21,714 29,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.01% 58.38% 59.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,124 13,995 20,957
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 672 1,789 975
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.00 £13.97
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%
75th Percentile £56.25 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.01 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail Banking in England

Retail Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Retail Banking in England

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Retail Banking in England

Retail Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail Banking in England

Retail Banking
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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
London +52 86 £650 +18.18% 40
North of England +25 15 £450 -25.00% 3
Yorkshire +15 8 £450 -35.71% 2
North West +15 6 £447 -25.50%
West Midlands - 2 £450 - 1
Midlands - 2 £450 - 3
East of England +29 1 - -
North East - 1 £420 - 1
Retail Banking
UK

Retail Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (5.56%) Confluence
2 2 (1.85%) CICS
2 2 (1.85%) SAS
2 2 (1.85%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.93%) CMS
3 1 (0.93%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.85%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 25 (23.15%) AWS
2 12 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 12 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
2 12 (11.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 12 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 12 (11.11%) CloudFront
2 12 (11.11%) Route 53
3 5 (4.63%) Azure
4 4 (3.70%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.78%) GCP
6 2 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.85%) Figma
6 2 (1.85%) Serverless
6 2 (1.85%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.85%) Firewall
1 2 (1.85%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.96%) NoSQL
2 12 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
2 12 (11.11%) DocumentDB
2 12 (11.11%) Redis
3 6 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 6 (5.56%) Tableau
4 4 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.70%) Metadata
4 4 (3.70%) Power BI
5 3 (2.78%) DB2
5 3 (2.78%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.85%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.85%) InterSystems Cache
6 2 (1.85%) MariaDB
6 2 (1.85%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.85%) TKPROF
7 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.93%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.93%) KDB
Development Applications
1 7 (6.48%) JIRA
2 2 (1.85%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.85%) Selenium
2 2 (1.85%) SOAtest
3 1 (0.93%) Git
General
1 102 (94.44%) Banking
2 65 (60.19%) Finance
3 48 (44.44%) Investment Banking
4 39 (36.11%) Retail
5 36 (33.33%) Corporate Banking
6 34 (31.48%) Social Skills
7 22 (20.37%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (6.48%) Financial Institution
9 5 (4.63%) Legal
10 4 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.78%) General Ledger
12 2 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.85%) Marketing
12 2 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.93%) Front Office
13 1 (0.93%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.93%) Retail Finance
13 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (17.59%) Analyst
2 16 (14.81%) Developer
3 9 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 9 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 8 (7.41%) Data Engineer
5 6 (5.56%) C# Developer
5 6 (5.56%) IT Manager
6 5 (4.63%) Designer
6 5 (4.63%) Product Manager
7 4 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (3.70%) Consultant
7 4 (3.70%) IT Project Manager
7 4 (3.70%) Python Engineer
7 4 (3.70%) Risk Analyst
8 3 (2.78%) AWS Data Engineer
8 3 (2.78%) Compliance Specialist
8 3 (2.78%) Electronic Trading Specialist
8 3 (2.78%) Python Data Engineer
8 3 (2.78%) Senior
8 3 (2.78%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.04%) GraphQL
2 12 (11.11%) RESTful
3 3 (2.78%) JSON
3 3 (2.78%) PySpark
3 3 (2.78%) React
4 2 (1.85%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.85%) J2EE
4 2 (1.85%) Kafka
4 2 (1.85%) Micronaut
4 2 (1.85%) Node.js
4 2 (1.85%) Spring
4 2 (1.85%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.85%) Web Services
4 2 (1.85%) XML
5 1 (0.93%) Flask
5 1 (0.93%) HTML
5 1 (0.93%) Pandas
5 1 (0.93%) Redux
5 1 (0.93%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (0.93%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.11%) Derivative
2 10 (9.26%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.78%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.85%) Clustering
6 2 (1.85%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.85%) Mobile Payment
6 2 (1.85%) Replication
6 2 (1.85%) VSAM
7 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.93%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.78%) Unix
2 2 (1.85%) Linux
3 1 (0.93%) Android
3 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (42.59%) Wealth Management
2 24 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 23 (21.30%) Risk Management
4 22 (20.37%) Agile
5 17 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (14.81%) Decision-Making
7 12 (11.11%) Asset Management
7 12 (11.11%) SOLID
7 12 (11.11%) User Experience
8 11 (10.19%) Project Management
9 10 (9.26%) Migration
9 10 (9.26%) Roadmaps
10 9 (8.33%) ETL
11 7 (6.48%) Collaborative Culture
11 7 (6.48%) Collaborative Working
11 7 (6.48%) Customer Experience
11 7 (6.48%) Data Analysis
11 7 (6.48%) Data Pipeline
11 7 (6.48%) TDD
11 7 (6.48%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (19.44%) SQL
2 15 (13.89%) Python
3 12 (11.11%) C#
4 6 (5.56%) Java
5 3 (2.78%) COBOL
5 3 (2.78%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.85%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.85%) JCL
6 2 (1.85%) REXX
7 1 (0.93%) C++
7 1 (0.93%) PROC SQL
7 1 (0.93%) R
7 1 (0.93%) SAS Macro
7 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (4.63%) Degree
2 3 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (2.78%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (1.85%) APMP
4 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.93%) CFA
4 1 (0.93%) CISA
4 1 (0.93%) CISSP
4 1 (0.93%) CRISC
4 1 (0.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.93%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.48%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (2.78%) MiFID
3 3 (2.78%) QA
4 2 (1.85%) GDPR
4 2 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.93%) Basel III
5 1 (0.93%) COBIT
5 1 (0.93%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.93%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.93%) ITGC
5 1 (0.93%) NIST
5 1 (0.93%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.85%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (1.85%) FortiGate
1 2 (1.85%) Galera Cluster
1 2 (1.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.93%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (0.93%) NetBackup
2 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (10.19%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.56%) Oracle
3 5 (4.63%) Cisco
4 3 (2.78%) Logitech
4 3 (2.78%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.85%) Ab Initio
5 2 (1.85%) CheckPoint
5 2 (1.85%) Databricks
5 2 (1.85%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.85%) Informatica
5 2 (1.85%) Murex
5 2 (1.85%) Parasoft
5 2 (1.85%) Workday
6 1 (0.93%) Calypso
6 1 (0.93%) GoldenSource
6 1 (0.93%) Google
6 1 (0.93%) Planview
6 1 (0.93%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.93%) TSYS
6 1 (0.93%) Veritas