Retail Banking Contracts in the North of England

Retail Banking
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 169 188
Rank change year-on-year +11 +19 +34
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 17 11 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.46% 0.23% 0.22%
As % of the General category 0.76% 0.42% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 5
10th Percentile £421 £448 -
25th Percentile £425 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +11.63% +9.81%
75th Percentile £480 - £625
90th Percentile £539 £640 £700
England median daily rate £500 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -13.04% -8.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £19.97 - -
England median hourly rate £19.97 - £89.44

All General Skills
North of England

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 common skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,242 2,621 3,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 60.08% 54.64% 56.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,420 1,502 2,104
10th Percentile £263 £270 £275
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £493 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -3.80% +4.59%
75th Percentile £570 £576 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £688
England median daily rate £518 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -3.27% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 300 118
10th Percentile £12.76 £12.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.86 £13.94 £16.85
Median hourly rate £22.39 £17.19 £21.34
Median % change year-on-year +30.20% -19.42% +12.29%
75th Percentile £47.12 £35.36 £35.00
90th Percentile £75.13 £48.75 £51.07
England median hourly rate £27.17 £33.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -17.67% +10.00% +28.26%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail Banking in the North of England

Retail Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Retail Banking in the North of England

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail Banking in the North of England

Retail Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail Banking in the North of England

Retail 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 Retail Banking within the North of England region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
North West +3 8 £449 -25.25% 9
Yorkshire +9 7 £450 -29.41% 3
North East - 2 £420 - 1
Retail Banking
England

Retail 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 3 (17.65%) CICS
1 3 (17.65%) Confluence
2 2 (11.76%) WebSphere
3 1 (5.88%) CMS
3 1 (5.88%) SAS
3 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.88%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (5.88%) Google Docs
2 1 (5.88%) Google Sheets
2 1 (5.88%) Google Workspace
2 1 (5.88%) Lucidchart
2 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) DB2
2 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.88%) Power BI
3 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) Selenium
2 2 (11.76%) SOAtest
General
1 15 (88.24%) Banking
2 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
3 7 (41.18%) Finance
4 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (29.41%) Retail
5 4 (23.53%) Corporate Banking
5 4 (23.53%) Investment Banking
6 2 (11.76%) General Ledger
6 2 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
7 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (5.88%) Legal
7 1 (5.88%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Business Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Network Delivery Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Test Architect
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Business Change Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Head of Testing
4 1 (5.88%) HR Advisor
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Retail Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Risk Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) UAT Lead
4 1 (5.88%) UAT Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) J2EE
1 2 (11.76%) JSON
1 2 (11.76%) Web Services
1 2 (11.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Mainframe
2 3 (17.65%) VSAM
3 2 (11.76%) Credit Risk
3 2 (11.76%) Mobile Payment
4 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.88%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (35.29%) Agile
3 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
3 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) Risk Management
3 4 (23.53%) Wealth Management
4 3 (17.65%) Migration
4 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
4 3 (17.65%) User Stories
5 2 (11.76%) API Testing
5 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis
5 2 (11.76%) Data Protection
5 2 (11.76%) ETL
5 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.76%) Performance Management
5 2 (11.76%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (11.76%) Test Planning
5 2 (11.76%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) COBOL
2 3 (17.65%) JCL
3 2 (11.76%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) REXX
4 1 (5.88%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.88%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (5.88%) NetBackup
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Ab Initio
1 2 (11.76%) CheckPoint
1 2 (11.76%) Cisco
1 2 (11.76%) Fortinet
1 2 (11.76%) Informatica
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle
1 2 (11.76%) Parasoft
2 1 (5.88%) Dell
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) IBM
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Veritas