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 20 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 171 151
Rank change year-on-year -75 -20 +32
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 14 23 14
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.18% 0.58% 0.34%
As % of the General category 0.35% 0.94% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 11
10th Percentile £351 £412 £463
25th Percentile £413 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £519 -
90th Percentile £600 £575 £700
England median daily rate £490 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -2.05% -16.67% -7.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.97 -
England median hourly rate - £19.97 -

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 general skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 3,974 2,447 2,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 52.37% 61.27% 55.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,347 1,571 1,280
10th Percentile £283 £250 £294
25th Percentile £400 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -7.00% -0.10%
75th Percentile £588 £559 £588
90th Percentile £675 £656 £685
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 440 158 133
10th Percentile £14.04 £12.82 £13.77
25th Percentile £19.00 £15.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £33.00 £21.27 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.15% -9.49% +13.53%
75th Percentile £45.00 £43.55 £43.10
90th Percentile £75.10 £73.75 £53.70
England median hourly rate £30.90 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +22.86% -34.02% +27.07%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Retail Banking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Retail Banking job vacancy trend 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 20 September 2026.

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 20 September 2026. 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 -45 10 £492 +9.70% 5
Yorkshire -53 4 £490 -2.00% 3
Retail Banking
England

Retail Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (42.86%) Confluence
2 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) SSH
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Robot Framework
2 1 (7.14%) Selenium
General
1 14 (100.00%) Banking
2 13 (92.86%) Finance
3 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (42.86%) Retail
5 3 (21.43%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (21.43%) Investment Banking
6 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (7.14%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Finance Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Junior
2 2 (14.29%) Junior Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Product Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Agile Product Owner
3 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Manager
3 1 (7.14%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Migration Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Product Owner
3 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Service Owner
3 1 (7.14%) Test Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Middleware
1 1 (7.14%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (28.57%) Credit Risk
3 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
3 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
4 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (14.29%) PKI
5 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (7.14%) FPGA
5 1 (7.14%) Grid Computing
5 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
5 1 (7.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) AIX
1 1 (7.14%) HPUX
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Solaris
1 1 (7.14%) SUSE
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Wealth Management
3 4 (28.57%) Migration
3 4 (28.57%) Scrum
3 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (28.57%) Supplier Management
4 3 (21.43%) Backlog Refinement
4 3 (21.43%) Business Analysis
4 3 (21.43%) Client Onboarding
4 3 (21.43%) Event-Driven
4 3 (21.43%) Kanban
4 3 (21.43%) Microservices
4 3 (21.43%) Product Management
4 3 (21.43%) SDLC
5 2 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (14.29%) Key Management
5 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) COBOL
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) ISO 20022
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Salesforce
3 2 (14.29%) Thales
4 1 (7.14%) HP
4 1 (7.14%) Mellanox
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.14%) Solarflare