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 10 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 159 169
Rank change year-on-year -38 +10 +67
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 9 7 17
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.20% 0.18% 0.36%
As % of the General category 0.32% 0.32% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 7
10th Percentile £345 £510 £500
25th Percentile £406 £525 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% +50.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £625
90th Percentile - £765 £660
England median daily rate £545 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -16.15% +8.33% +9.09%

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 2,793 2,156 2,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 60.57% 56.92% 55.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,866 1,161 1,693
10th Percentile £213 £260 £255
25th Percentile £365 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £648 £673 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 137 139
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.13 £15.20
25th Percentile £17.40 £17.44 £16.78
Median hourly rate £24.29 £24.59 £20.28
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% +21.23% +1.40%
75th Percentile £45.46 £41.50 £43.43
90th Percentile £73.75 £60.00 £50.60
England median hourly rate £23.58 £30.45 £32.50
% change year-on-year -22.58% -6.31% +26.41%

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 10 December 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 10 December 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 -38 7 £525 -6.67%
North West -16 1 £304 -49.33% 1
North East - 1 - - 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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) CICS
2 1 (11.11%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
1 1 (11.11%) OCI
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) BigQuery
1 1 (11.11%) Metadata
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 8 (88.89%) Banking
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Legal
3 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Data Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Banking Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Change Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Facilities Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Facilities Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Finance Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Finance Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Implementation Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Implementation Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Implementation Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Junior
3 1 (11.11%) Junior Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Planning Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Programme Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Project Change Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Project Implementation Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
2 1 (11.11%) PMI
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
2 1 (11.11%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Change Management
2 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
3 2 (22.22%) Dependency Management
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (11.11%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
4 1 (11.11%) Data Lineage
4 1 (11.11%) Data Strategy
4 1 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (11.11%) Digital Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (11.11%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (11.11%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) COBOL
2 1 (11.11%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
1 1 (11.11%) MBA
1 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
1 1 (11.11%) PMP
1 1 (11.11%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) Basel III
2 1 (11.11%) COBIT
2 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
1 1 (11.11%) Dell
1 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
1 1 (11.11%) F5
1 1 (11.11%) HP
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle