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 22 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 148 179
Rank change year-on-year -52 +31 +39
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 15 7 10
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.30% 0.21% 0.21%
As % of the General category 0.51% 0.35% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 7
10th Percentile £306 £403 £500
25th Percentile £313 £438 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £322 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -35.60% -16.67% +96.72%
75th Percentile £459 £569 £625
90th Percentile £575 £710 £660
England median daily rate £518 £675 £570
% change year-on-year -23.33% +18.42% -4.40%

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 2,937 1,989 2,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 59.54% 58.60% 54.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,961 1,088 1,625
10th Percentile £213 £263 £227
25th Percentile £363 £363 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £684
England median daily rate £500 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -6.19% -3.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 119 206
10th Percentile £15.04 £14.95 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.48 £17.25 £13.61
Median hourly rate £29.60 £25.43 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +16.40% +32.10% -9.52%
75th Percentile £52.50 £37.00 £43.59
90th Percentile £71.75 £65.00 £50.00
England median hourly rate £23.00 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -23.33% +9.09% +6.96%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -24 7 £313 -40.38% 2
Yorkshire -48 7 £525 +10.53%
North East - 1 - -
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 8 (53.33%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) CICS
2 1 (6.67%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) GCP
2 1 (6.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
2 1 (6.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) JIRA
General
1 14 (93.33%) Banking
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Legal
5 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Analyst
2 5 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Project Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Data Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Banking Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Change Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Facilities Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Facilities Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Finance Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Finance Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Implementation Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Implementation Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Implementation Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Junior
5 1 (6.67%) Junior Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Programme Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Project Implementation Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (13.33%) PMI
4 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (6.67%) Mainframe
4 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
4 1 (6.67%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Agile
1 9 (60.00%) Change Management
1 9 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (46.67%) Scrum
3 5 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 5 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 5 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
3 5 (33.33%) Epics
3 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 5 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (33.33%) User Stories
3 5 (33.33%) Wireframes
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (26.67%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 2 (13.33%) Lean Six Sigma
6 2 (13.33%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) COBOL
2 1 (6.67%) JCL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
1 2 (13.33%) MBA
1 2 (13.33%) PMI Certification
1 2 (13.33%) PMP
1 2 (13.33%) SAFe Agilist
2 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Basel III
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) COBIT
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) CheckPoint
2 1 (6.67%) Dell
2 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (6.67%) F5
2 1 (6.67%) HP
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle