Banking Contracts in Merseyside

Banking
North West > Merseyside

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in Merseyside. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 22 24
Rank change year-on-year +16 +2 +12
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Banking 26 7 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 14.44% 3.40% 4.80%
As % of the General category 25.49% 6.80% 8.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 4 2
10th Percentile £196 - -
25th Percentile £259 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £200 £600
Median % change year-on-year +112.50% -66.67% +242.86%
75th Percentile £672 £264 -
90th Percentile £775 £379 -
North West median daily rate £430 £489 £550
% change year-on-year -12.07% -11.09% +4.76%

All General Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 102 103 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 56.67% 50.00% 58.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 55 92
10th Percentile £180 £155 £267
25th Percentile £393 £209 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £526 £566
90th Percentile £688 £588 £600
North West median daily rate £465 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.00% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 11
10th Percentile - £17.97 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £19.08 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £27.69 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.01% +45.72% +8.57%
75th Percentile £18.08 £39.06 £28.15
90th Percentile £21.37 £54.00 £50.00
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £35.00 £26.60
% change year-on-year -17.86% +31.58% +32.14%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Banking in Merseyside

Banking
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Banking

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in Merseyside over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in Merseyside

Banking
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Banking

Banking
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Liverpool +14 26 £425 +112.50% 2
Banking
North West

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 (15.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Chatbot
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (11.54%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (11.54%) Entra ID
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (3.85%) Firebase
5 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.85%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) DMZ
1 6 (23.08%) DNS
1 6 (23.08%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 6 (23.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 5 (19.23%) Firewall
2 5 (19.23%) Network Security
3 1 (3.85%) BIG-IP
3 1 (3.85%) HTTP
3 1 (3.85%) SSL
3 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.85%) VPN
3 1 (3.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) Siebel EIM
2 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Fiddler
General
1 18 (69.23%) Finance
2 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
3 8 (30.77%) Investment Banking
3 8 (30.77%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Automotive
4 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Developer
1 7 (26.92%) Siebel Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Operations Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Security Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Junior
4 2 (7.69%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Desktop Support
4 2 (7.69%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Junior Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Junior Risk Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Risk Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) JMS
1 8 (30.77%) SOAP
1 8 (30.77%) Web Services
2 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.85%) D3.js
2 1 (3.85%) FastAPI
2 1 (3.85%) Flask
2 1 (3.85%) Flutter
2 1 (3.85%) Gradio
2 1 (3.85%) JSON
2 1 (3.85%) LangChain
2 1 (3.85%) Material-UI
2 1 (3.85%) Next.js
2 1 (3.85%) Node.js
2 1 (3.85%) React
2 1 (3.85%) React Native
2 1 (3.85%) RESTful
2 1 (3.85%) Streamlit
2 1 (3.85%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (30.77%) Linux
1 8 (30.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Migration
2 8 (30.77%) Data Modelling
2 8 (30.77%) EAI
2 8 (30.77%) Fintech
2 8 (30.77%) Information Security
2 8 (30.77%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (30.77%) SDLC
3 6 (23.08%) Change Management
3 6 (23.08%) End-to-End Testing
3 6 (23.08%) Load Balancing
3 6 (23.08%) Requirements Gathering
3 6 (23.08%) System Integration Testing
4 5 (19.23%) Business Strategy
4 5 (19.23%) Cloud Security
4 5 (19.23%) Design Patterns
4 5 (19.23%) Server Hardening
5 4 (15.38%) Data Loss Prevention
5 4 (15.38%) Security Operations
6 3 (11.54%) Data Protection
6 3 (11.54%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) PL/SQL
1 8 (30.77%) SQL
2 2 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (19.23%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) GRC
1 2 (7.69%) NIST
1 2 (7.69%) PMO
2 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Ansible
1 1 (3.85%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Oracle
1 8 (30.77%) Siebel
2 6 (23.08%) F5
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 5 (19.23%) Darktrace
3 5 (19.23%) VMware
4 4 (15.38%) Zscaler
5 3 (11.54%) Varonis
6 2 (7.69%) OneTrust
7 1 (3.85%) Blue Coat
7 1 (3.85%) McAfee
7 1 (3.85%) NetApp
7 1 (3.85%) Netlify
7 1 (3.85%) OpenAI