Financial Institution Contracts in the North of England

Financial Institution
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Financial Institution in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Financial Institution over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 136 188
Rank change year-on-year -13 +52 +55
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 34 33 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.85% 0.80% 0.27%
As % of the General category 1.39% 1.47% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 24 12
10th Percentile £394 - £472
25th Percentile £479 £490 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £495 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.04% -10.00% +34.15%
75th Percentile £597 £538 £634
90th Percentile £650 £561 £674
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +9.09%

All General Skills
North of England

Financial Institution 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,450 2,239 2,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 61.57% 54.08% 56.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,550 1,300 1,959
10th Percentile £250 £300 £256
25th Percentile £375 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £685 £688
England median daily rate £512 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.83% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 171 145
10th Percentile £12.80 £13.50 £14.20
25th Percentile £15.75 £16.03 £16.85
Median hourly rate £22.14 £21.00 £21.36
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% -1.69% +12.42%
75th Percentile £44.36 £40.00 £35.75
90th Percentile £75.50 £51.91 £55.94
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £27.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +38.62% +12.24%

Financial Institution
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Financial Institution in the North of England

Financial Institution
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Financial Institution in the North of England

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Institution in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Financial Institution in the North of England

Financial Institution
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Financial Institution in the North of England

Financial Institution
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 Financial Institution within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire +2 27 £500 -3.38% 14
North West -22 7 £612 +24.90% 23
Financial Institution
England

Financial Institution
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 2 (5.88%) CICS
1 2 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Kondor
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.59%) AWS
2 6 (17.65%) GCP
2 6 (17.65%) OCI
2 6 (17.65%) Serverless
3 1 (2.94%) Figma
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Firewall
1 1 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) NoSQL
1 6 (17.65%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.88%) DB2
2 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Liquibase
2 5 (14.71%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.76%) GitLab
3 4 (11.76%) JIRA
4 2 (5.88%) Cucumber
4 2 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (100.00%) Finance
2 22 (64.71%) Social Skills
3 15 (44.12%) Banking
4 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Back Office
5 2 (5.88%) Marketing
6 1 (2.94%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.94%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Retail
6 1 (2.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Data Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Data Protection Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Incident Manager
2 5 (14.71%) Major Incident Manager
3 3 (8.82%) Python Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Programme Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (2.94%) Consultant
5 1 (2.94%) Developer
5 1 (2.94%) Network Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Programmer
5 1 (2.94%) Senior Developer
5 1 (2.94%) Senior Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.94%) Support Consultant
5 1 (2.94%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (2.94%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) REST
2 6 (17.65%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (17.65%) RESTful
3 2 (5.88%) Gherkin
3 2 (5.88%) SOAP
4 1 (2.94%) ISPF
4 1 (2.94%) Micronaut
4 1 (2.94%) Middleware
4 1 (2.94%) Spring
4 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (11.76%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.88%) Credit Derivative
3 2 (5.88%) Derivative
3 2 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (5.88%) Mainframe
3 2 (5.88%) Market Risk
3 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.94%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (23.53%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Unix
3 1 (2.94%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) Containerisation
1 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (29.41%) Change Management
3 9 (26.47%) Agile
3 9 (26.47%) High Availability
3 9 (26.47%) Root Cause Analysis
4 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
5 7 (20.59%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (20.59%) Data Protection
5 7 (20.59%) Data Security
5 7 (20.59%) DevOps
5 7 (20.59%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (17.65%) ITIL
6 6 (17.65%) Microservices
6 6 (17.65%) Software Engineering
7 4 (11.76%) Continuous Delivery
7 4 (11.76%) Cost Optimisation
7 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (11.76%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (44.12%) Python
2 6 (17.65%) Go
3 5 (14.71%) Java
3 5 (14.71%) Shell Script
4 2 (5.88%) SQL
5 1 (2.94%) COBOL
5 1 (2.94%) JCL
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Degree
2 4 (11.76%) AWS Certification
2 4 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (11.76%) Master's Degree
3 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.94%) PMP
4 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) SLA
2 2 (5.88%) Basel III
2 2 (5.88%) GDPR
2 2 (5.88%) MiFID
3 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (35.29%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (2.94%) RACF
2 1 (2.94%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 13 (38.24%) Ansible
2 12 (35.29%) Kubernetes
3 6 (17.65%) Grafana
3 6 (17.65%) Prometheus
3 6 (17.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Oracle
2 6 (17.65%) Commvault
2 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.65%) Splunk
3 4 (11.76%) Google
4 2 (5.88%) Sybase
5 1 (2.94%) AlgoSec
5 1 (2.94%) Cisco
5 1 (2.94%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.94%) F5
5 1 (2.94%) Pega
5 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow