Banking Contracts in Leeds

Banking
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in Leeds. 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 37 50 64
Rank change year-on-year +13 +14 -2
Contract jobs citing Banking 23 13 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 4.95% 1.63% 2.41%
As % of the General category 8.75% 3.13% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 25
10th Percentile £369 £376 £433
25th Percentile £416 £468 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £750 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +50.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £773 - £550
90th Percentile £780 - £595
West Yorkshire median daily rate £625 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +19.05% +5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £18.27 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £18.27 -

All General Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 263 416 811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 56.56% 52.07% 60.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 245 599
10th Percentile £240 £264 £363
25th Percentile £340 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £631
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -5.61% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 34 6
10th Percentile £31.59 £11.87 £12.00
25th Percentile £31.76 £12.15 £13.31
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.53 £17.62
Median % change year-on-year +227.21% -28.89% -21.59%
75th Percentile £96.64 £15.19 £57.00
90th Percentile £97.79 - £70.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.82 £13.50 £17.24
% change year-on-year +83.85% -21.69% -7.81%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Banking in Leeds

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Banking in Leeds

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for Banking in Leeds

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Banking in Leeds

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (17.39%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) Collibra
2 4 (17.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 3 (13.04%) GCP
4 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.35%) Lucidchart
5 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) NAS
1 2 (8.70%) SAN
1 2 (8.70%) SSL
2 1 (4.35%) DHCP
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) BigQuery
2 2 (8.70%) Flink
2 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.35%) DB2
3 1 (4.35%) Looker
3 1 (4.35%) Power BI
3 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) ERwin
General
1 9 (39.13%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Retail Banking
3 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Wholesale Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Architect
2 6 (26.09%) Consultant
3 4 (17.39%) Data Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Business Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) DevSecOps Architect
5 2 (8.70%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Mainframe Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Security Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Security Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Data Modeller
6 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Infoblox Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) Service Manager
6 1 (4.35%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Kafka
2 6 (26.09%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (13.04%) Middleware
4 2 (8.70%) Apache Beam
4 2 (8.70%) LDAP
4 2 (8.70%) REST
4 2 (8.70%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (4.35%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (4.35%) FpML
5 1 (4.35%) JSON
5 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Clustering
1 3 (13.04%) Mainframe
2 2 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.70%) IBM Mainframe
2 2 (8.70%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) HPUX
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Solaris
2 1 (4.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) Monte Carlo Method
1 6 (26.09%) Observability
2 4 (17.39%) Data Governance
2 4 (17.39%) Microservices
2 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (13.04%) High Availability
3 3 (13.04%) Use Case
4 2 (8.70%) Agile
4 2 (8.70%) BPMN
4 2 (8.70%) Business Case
4 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (8.70%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (8.70%) DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) DevSecOps
4 2 (8.70%) Migration
4 2 (8.70%) Network Architecture
4 2 (8.70%) OWASP
4 2 (8.70%) Project Planning
4 2 (8.70%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) Python
1 3 (13.04%) SQL
2 1 (4.35%) COBOL
2 1 (4.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (8.70%) CCSP
1 2 (8.70%) CEH
1 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (8.70%) CISM
1 2 (8.70%) CISSP
1 2 (8.70%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) COBIT
1 2 (8.70%) NIST
1 2 (8.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Grafana
1 8 (34.78%) Prometheus
2 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) HP Data Protector
3 1 (4.35%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Splunk
2 5 (21.74%) IBM
3 2 (8.70%) AppDynamics
3 2 (8.70%) Confluent
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle
4 1 (4.35%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco
4 1 (4.35%) Dell
4 1 (4.35%) F5
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) HP
4 1 (4.35%) Infoblox
4 1 (4.35%) Sparx
4 1 (4.35%) Sun
4 1 (4.35%) Unisys
4 1 (4.35%) Veritas