Retail Banking Contract Job Trends 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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 159 179
Rank change year-on-year -5 +20 +42
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 22 13 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.55% 0.31% 0.36%
As % of the General category 0.89% 0.57% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 9
10th Percentile £412 £459 £500
25th Percentile £425 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.40% -2.08% +30.43%
75th Percentile £519 £600 £650
90th Percentile £575 £610 £690
England median daily rate £500 £600 £646
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.12% +17.45%
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 2,461 2,284 2,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 61.65% 55.18% 56.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,575 1,271 1,833
10th Percentile £250 £294 £256
25th Percentile £375 £401 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £552 £588 £600
90th Percentile £653 £683 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 132 140
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.76 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.00 £16.68
Median hourly rate £20.55 £23.19 £20.49
Median % change year-on-year -11.37% +13.16% +7.84%
75th Percentile £42.48 £43.10 £35.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £52.44 £50.43
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.85 £27.50
% change year-on-year -35.26% +41.27% +10.93%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Retail Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Retail Banking

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 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail Banking in the North of England

Retail Banking
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Retail Banking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Retail Banking

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 18 September 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 -9 11 £500 -11.11% 3
North West -15 8 £449 -25.25% 1
North East - 3 £420 -
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 4 (18.18%) CICS
2 2 (9.09%) CMS
2 2 (9.09%) Confluence
2 2 (9.09%) WebSphere
3 1 (4.55%) SAS
3 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) AWS
2 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (4.55%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) GCP
2 1 (4.55%) Google Docs
2 1 (4.55%) Google Sheets
2 1 (4.55%) Google Workspace
2 1 (4.55%) Lucidchart
2 1 (4.55%) OCI
2 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) DB2
2 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.09%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.55%) Power BI
3 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.09%) JIRA
1 2 (9.09%) Selenium
1 2 (9.09%) SOAtest
General
1 21 (95.45%) Banking
2 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (45.45%) Finance
4 6 (27.27%) Retail
5 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (18.18%) Corporate Banking
6 4 (18.18%) Investment Banking
7 3 (13.64%) Legal
8 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (9.09%) General Ledger
8 2 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
9 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (4.55%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Analyst
2 3 (13.64%) Business Analyst
2 3 (13.64%) Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Test Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Business Change Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Credit Risk Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Facilities Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Head of Testing
4 1 (4.55%) Implementation Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Mainframe Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Mainframe Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Planning Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Portfolio Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Programme Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Solutions Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) J2EE
1 2 (9.09%) JSON
1 2 (9.09%) Web Services
1 2 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Mainframe
2 4 (18.18%) VSAM
3 3 (13.64%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (9.09%) Credit Risk
4 2 (9.09%) Mobile Payment
4 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (4.55%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.55%) Taxonomies
5 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (22.73%) Agile
2 5 (22.73%) Decision-Making
2 5 (22.73%) Risk Management
2 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (18.18%) Data Protection
3 4 (18.18%) Migration
3 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (18.18%) Wealth Management
4 3 (13.64%) Change Management
4 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (13.64%) Dependency Management
4 3 (13.64%) Risk Assessment
4 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
4 3 (13.64%) User Stories
5 2 (9.09%) Analytics
5 2 (9.09%) Data Analysis
5 2 (9.09%) Performance Management
5 2 (9.09%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) COBOL
2 4 (18.18%) JCL
3 2 (9.09%) Java
3 2 (9.09%) REXX
3 2 (9.09%) SQL
4 1 (4.55%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) COBIT
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (4.55%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) Ab Initio
2 2 (9.09%) Dell
2 2 (9.09%) Informatica
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Parasoft
3 1 (4.55%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.55%) F5
3 1 (4.55%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) HP
3 1 (4.55%) IBM
3 1 (4.55%) Veritas