Retail Banking Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Retail Banking
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 79 84
Rank change year-on-year -29 +5 +25
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 1 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.059% 0.22% 0.48%
As % of the General category 0.11% 0.39% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £478
25th Percentile £468 - £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 - £600
75th Percentile £478 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £322 £447 £600
% change year-on-year -27.96% -25.50% -

All General Skills
Manchester

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 general skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 944 512 690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 55.30% 57.46% 47.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 336 449
10th Percentile £291 £240 £306
25th Percentile £374 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £474 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.01% -5.25% -
75th Percentile £574 £557 £588
90th Percentile £633 £678 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 35 62
10th Percentile £18.00 - £12.27
25th Percentile £22.68 £13.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £41.06 £18.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +128.08% -24.37% +16.94%
75th Percentile £76.00 £60.00 £34.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £74.00 £59.75
North West median hourly rate £35.00 £28.75 £17.72
% change year-on-year +21.74% +62.25% -33.38%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Retail Banking job vacancy trend in Manchester

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Retail Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Retail Banking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Corporate Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Engagement Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Budget Management
1 1 (100.00%) Contract Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft