Banking Contract Job Trends in Liverpool

Banking
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in Liverpool. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 23 19
Rank change year-on-year +21 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing Banking 42 8 8
As % of all contract jobs in Liverpool 21.00% 4.21% 5.23%
As % of the General category 33.33% 8.16% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 4
10th Percentile - £163 -
25th Percentile £185 £231 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £535 £475
Median % change year-on-year -43.93% +12.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £400 £638 £600
90th Percentile £558 - -
Merseyside median daily rate £300 £535 £475
% change year-on-year -43.93% +12.63% +11.76%

All General Skills
Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 126 98 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 63.00% 51.58% 59.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 49 42
10th Percentile £134 £143 £187
25th Percentile £163 £155 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £263 £481
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -45.45% -3.75%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £563
90th Percentile £626 £638 £623
Merseyside median daily rate £225 £320 £500
% change year-on-year -29.69% -36.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 13
10th Percentile £13.70 £13.49 £11.43
25th Percentile - £17.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £15.18 £18.07 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.97% -2.35% +2.15%
75th Percentile - £23.40 £21.50
90th Percentile - £24.77 £28.89
Merseyside median hourly rate £15.18 £18.07 £18.00
% change year-on-year -15.97% +0.36% -2.70%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Banking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool.

Banking job vacancy trend in Liverpool

Banking
Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Liverpool citing Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Liverpool citing Banking

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Liverpool

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in Liverpool over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in Liverpool

Banking
Hourly Rate Trend in Liverpool

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Liverpool citing Banking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Liverpool citing Banking

Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (19.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (16.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.38%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.76%) Azure
2 1 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (2.38%) Entra ID
2 1 (2.38%) Firebase
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.38%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 35 (83.33%) DNS
2 27 (64.29%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 27 (64.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 20 (47.62%) DMZ
4 14 (33.33%) Network Security
5 13 (30.95%) BIG-IP
5 13 (30.95%) HTTP
5 13 (30.95%) SSL
5 13 (30.95%) TCP/IP
5 13 (30.95%) Wireshark
6 8 (19.05%) BGP
7 7 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
7 7 (16.67%) Cisco Wireless
7 7 (16.67%) DHCP
7 7 (16.67%) NX-OS
7 7 (16.67%) VXLAN
7 7 (16.67%) Wireless
8 2 (4.76%) VPN
9 1 (2.38%) Firewall
9 1 (2.38%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (30.95%) Fiddler
General
1 38 (90.48%) Investment Banking
2 5 (11.90%) Finance
3 3 (7.14%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 21 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 14 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
3 9 (21.43%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 9 (21.43%) IP Network Engineer
3 9 (21.43%) Web Engineer
4 8 (19.05%) Cisco Engineer
4 8 (19.05%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 7 (16.67%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
5 7 (16.67%) RF Engineer
5 7 (16.67%) Wireless Engineer
5 7 (16.67%) Wireless Network Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Python Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Junior
7 3 (7.14%) Junior Network Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Deployment Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Desktop Support
8 2 (4.76%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Security Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.38%) AngularJS
1 1 (2.38%) D3.js
1 1 (2.38%) FastAPI
1 1 (2.38%) Flask
1 1 (2.38%) Flutter
1 1 (2.38%) Gradio
1 1 (2.38%) JSON
1 1 (2.38%) LangChain
1 1 (2.38%) Material-UI
1 1 (2.38%) Middleware
1 1 (2.38%) Next.js
1 1 (2.38%) Node.js
1 1 (2.38%) React
1 1 (2.38%) React Native
1 1 (2.38%) RESTful
1 1 (2.38%) Streamlit
1 1 (2.38%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 28 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 7 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 5 (11.90%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.38%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (66.67%) Load Balancing
2 14 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 14 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 10 (23.81%) Data Loss Prevention
4 9 (21.43%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 8 (19.05%) User Experience
6 5 (11.90%) Migration
6 5 (11.90%) Network Segmentation
6 5 (11.90%) Project Delivery
7 3 (7.14%) Logistics
8 2 (4.76%) Agile
8 2 (4.76%) Customer Service
8 2 (4.76%) Data Entry
8 2 (4.76%) Data Protection
8 2 (4.76%) Fintech
8 2 (4.76%) Information Security
9 1 (2.38%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 1 (2.38%) Cloud Security
9 1 (2.38%) Full-Stack Development
9 1 (2.38%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 7 (16.67%) Lisp
2 6 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) CCNP
1 7 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) NIST
2 1 (2.38%) GRC
2 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.38%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (54.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (21.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (16.67%) FortiGate
2 5 (11.90%) Ansible
3 1 (2.38%) QRadar
3 1 (2.38%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 28 (66.67%) F5
2 23 (54.76%) VMware
3 13 (30.95%) Blue Coat
3 13 (30.95%) McAfee
3 13 (30.95%) NetApp
4 8 (19.05%) Cisco
4 8 (19.05%) ServiceNow
5 7 (16.67%) Ekahau
5 7 (16.67%) Remedy
6 1 (2.38%) Darktrace
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.38%) Netlify
6 1 (2.38%) OneTrust
6 1 (2.38%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.38%) Zscaler