Banking Contracts in the North of England

Banking
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Banking over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 44 54
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 -1
Contract jobs citing Banking 179 249 280
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.83% 4.38% 3.95%
As % of the General category 7.01% 7.88% 7.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 148 197
10th Percentile £320 £400 £332
25th Percentile £407 £459 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £550 £489
Median % change year-on-year -11.09% +12.47% +9.64%
75th Percentile £644 £600 £588
90th Percentile £750 £685 £675
England median daily rate £625 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 7
10th Percentile £11.13 - £10.17
25th Percentile £12.00 £14.65 £11.56
Median hourly rate £12.84 £15.31 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +17.73% -7.34%
75th Percentile £18.27 £15.96 £19.08
90th Percentile £33.20 - £27.68
England median hourly rate £19.28 £21.00 £23.48
% change year-on-year -8.21% -10.57% +53.98%

All General Skills
North of England

Banking is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,552 3,160 3,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 54.62% 55.58% 50.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,497 2,177 2,555
10th Percentile £257 £300 £208
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £585 £600 £563
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 90 183
10th Percentile £12.13 £14.23 £11.21
25th Percentile £13.31 £16.95 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.06 £25.50 £19.46
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +31.04% +5.19%
75th Percentile £33.30 £37.30 £34.00
90th Percentile £48.75 £53.54 £54.76
England median hourly rate £30.75 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -5.38% +51.16% -4.17%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Banking in the North of England

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Banking in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Banking in the North of England

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in the North of England

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Banking in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Banking in the North of England

Banking
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Banking in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Banking in the North of England

Banking
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
North West +14 99 £489 -6.86% 37
Yorkshire -4 77 £444 -19.32% 14
North East +11 3 £463 -35.76% 4
Banking
England

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 9 (5.03%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.91%) Confluence
3 5 (2.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.12%) Apache
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.56%) Mule
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (6.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (6.70%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.47%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.79%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.56%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (10.61%) Azure
2 17 (9.50%) AWS
3 10 (5.59%) Entra ID
4 5 (2.79%) Apigee
4 5 (2.79%) Kong
5 3 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (1.68%) SaaS
5 3 (1.68%) Serverless
6 2 (1.12%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (1.12%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.12%) GCP
6 2 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (0.56%) GitHub
7 1 (0.56%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.47%) Remote Desktop
2 7 (3.91%) DHCP
2 7 (3.91%) DNS
2 7 (3.91%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (2.79%) DMZ
3 5 (2.79%) Firewall
4 4 (2.23%) SD-WAN
4 4 (2.23%) Wireless
5 2 (1.12%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.12%) SSL
6 1 (0.56%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.56%) RTP
6 1 (0.56%) SAN
6 1 (0.56%) VLAN
6 1 (0.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.47%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.91%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.79%) OLAP
3 5 (2.79%) OLTP
3 5 (2.79%) Oracle OLAP
4 3 (1.68%) Data Vault
4 3 (1.68%) DB2
4 3 (1.68%) MySQL
5 2 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.56%) Big Data
6 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.56%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.56%) Essbase
6 1 (0.56%) Impala
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (6.70%) JIRA
2 4 (2.23%) Git
3 3 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.56%) GitLab
4 1 (0.56%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.56%) Log4j
4 1 (0.56%) Mockito
4 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 110 (61.45%) Finance
2 51 (28.49%) Social Skills
3 17 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.59%) Investment Banking
5 5 (2.79%) Retail Banking
6 4 (2.23%) Billing
6 4 (2.23%) Retail
7 3 (1.68%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.12%) Legal
8 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.12%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.56%) Front Office
9 1 (0.56%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (22.91%) Analyst
2 31 (17.32%) Architect
3 16 (8.94%) Solutions Architect
4 15 (8.38%) Data Analyst
4 15 (8.38%) Developer
5 13 (7.26%) Banking Analyst
6 9 (5.03%) Business Analyst
6 9 (5.03%) Lead
6 9 (5.03%) Technical Analyst
7 8 (4.47%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 8 (4.47%) IT Analyst
7 8 (4.47%) Security Analyst
7 8 (4.47%) Senior
8 6 (3.35%) Administrator
8 6 (3.35%) Data Centre Engineer
8 6 (3.35%) IT Engineer
8 6 (3.35%) Project Manager
9 5 (2.79%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 5 (2.79%) Network Engineer
9 5 (2.79%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.03%) SailPoint
2 7 (3.91%) Kafka
2 7 (3.91%) Spring
3 6 (3.35%) React
3 6 (3.35%) Web Services
4 5 (2.79%) IBM Integration Bus
4 5 (2.79%) J2EE
4 5 (2.79%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (2.79%) SOAP
5 4 (2.23%) Apache Camel
5 4 (2.23%) React Native
5 4 (2.23%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.23%) Spring Integration
6 3 (1.68%) .NET
6 3 (1.68%) XML
7 2 (1.12%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.12%) CSS
7 2 (1.12%) HTML
7 2 (1.12%) jQuery
7 2 (1.12%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.70%) Mainframe
2 11 (6.15%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.59%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.35%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.79%) DataPower
5 5 (2.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 5 (2.79%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.23%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.68%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.12%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.12%) CMDB
8 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.12%) Derivative
8 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.56%) IBM Mainframe
9 1 (0.56%) Life Science
9 1 (0.56%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.82%) Windows
2 9 (5.03%) Windows 10
2 9 (5.03%) Windows 7
3 7 (3.91%) MVS
4 6 (3.35%) Android
4 6 (3.35%) Linux
5 5 (2.79%) Apple iOS
6 4 (2.23%) Unix
7 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.12%) zOS
8 1 (0.56%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (25.70%) Change Management
2 31 (17.32%) Agile
3 30 (16.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (10.06%) DevOps
5 18 (10.06%) Microservices
6 17 (9.50%) Project Management
6 17 (9.50%) Service Management
7 16 (8.94%) Enterprise Architecture
8 15 (8.38%) Design Patterns
9 13 (7.26%) Identity Access Management
9 13 (7.26%) ITSM
10 12 (6.70%) Migration
10 12 (6.70%) Technology Strategy
10 12 (6.70%) Test Automation
11 11 (6.15%) Architectural Design
11 11 (6.15%) Decision-Making
11 11 (6.15%) Risk Management
11 11 (6.15%) SDLC
12 10 (5.59%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 18 (10.06%) Java
2 9 (5.03%) SQL
3 6 (3.35%) Python
4 4 (2.23%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.68%) Bash
5 3 (1.68%) C
5 3 (1.68%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.12%) C#
7 1 (0.56%) Groovy
7 1 (0.56%) JCL
7 1 (0.56%) Perl
7 1 (0.56%) Ruby
7 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (8.38%) Degree
2 7 (3.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 6 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.79%) A+ Certification
4 5 (2.79%) CCNA
4 5 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (2.79%) Network+ Certification
4 5 (2.79%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.68%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.12%) CCSA
7 2 (1.12%) CCSE
7 2 (1.12%) MCSE
7 2 (1.12%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.12%) PMP
8 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.82%) QA
2 11 (6.15%) PMO
3 7 (3.91%) SLA
4 2 (1.12%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.56%) COREP
5 1 (0.56%) FINREP
5 1 (0.56%) GDPR
5 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.56%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) SEPA
System Software
1 17 (9.50%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.91%) KVM
3 7 (3.91%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (3.91%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (3.91%) VMware Workstation
4 5 (2.79%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (3.91%) vCenter Server
2 4 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.68%) Ansible
3 3 (1.68%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (1.12%) SCCM
5 1 (0.56%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.56%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.56%) PingFederate
5 1 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (17.32%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.15%) Oracle
3 10 (5.59%) CyberArk
4 9 (5.03%) VMware
5 6 (3.35%) IBM
6 5 (2.79%) F5
6 5 (2.79%) TSYS
7 4 (2.23%) Cisco
7 4 (2.23%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.23%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.68%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.68%) CA
8 3 (1.68%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.68%) Refinitiv
9 2 (1.12%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (1.12%) Google
9 2 (1.12%) Sage
9 2 (1.12%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.56%) Avaloq
10 1 (0.56%) Blue Coat