Banking Contracts in the North West

Banking
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 40 63
Rank change year-on-year +16 +23 -9
Contract jobs citing Banking 136 109 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 6.95% 3.98% 3.33%
As % of the General category 11.80% 7.45% 6.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 83 75
10th Percentile £317 £350 £393
25th Percentile £358 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% -13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £522 £638 £598
90th Percentile £646 £738 £680
England median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - £11.13 £14.76
25th Percentile - £11.34 £14.92
Median hourly rate - £12.42 £15.51
Median % change year-on-year - -19.94% +12.25%
75th Percentile - £12.84 £15.90
90th Percentile - £47.92 £15.93
England median hourly rate £22.27 £19.05 £15.72
% change year-on-year +16.90% +21.18% -39.54%

All General Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,153 1,464 1,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 58.92% 53.47% 52.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 725 877 1,088
10th Percentile £276 £295 £305
25th Percentile £381 £394 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £588
90th Percentile £675 £671 £675
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 197 79
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.50 £14.73
25th Percentile £14.90 £15.00 £16.85
Median hourly rate £28.75 £21.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.90% -16.00% +8.44%
75th Percentile £58.58 £37.25 £35.02
90th Percentile £76.25 £51.89 £53.73
England median hourly rate £27.97 £30.44 £31.92
% change year-on-year -8.10% -4.65% +48.47%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Banking in the North West

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Banking in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Banking in the North West

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in the North West over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in the North West

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Banking in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Banking in the North West

Banking
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Cheshire +5 77 £402 -13.55% 27
Manchester +26 43 £445 -22.61% 55
Merseyside +6 15 £475 +137.50% 14
Banking
England

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 9 (6.62%) WebSphere
2 8 (5.88%) CICS
2 8 (5.88%) Confluence
3 5 (3.68%) SAS
3 5 (3.68%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.94%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (1.47%) JBoss
5 2 (1.47%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.47%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (6.62%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.21%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (5.88%) Kondor
2 4 (2.94%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (2.21%) Finacle
3 3 (2.21%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.74%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (19.85%) AWS
2 17 (12.50%) Azure
3 10 (7.35%) GCP
4 7 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.68%) Serverless
6 4 (2.94%) IBM Cloud
6 4 (2.94%) npm
7 2 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.47%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.74%) Akamai
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.74%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.74%) Google Docs
8 1 (0.74%) Google Sheets
8 1 (0.74%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.74%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.68%) Firewall
2 4 (2.94%) Calico
2 4 (2.94%) VPN
3 3 (2.21%) Skype
4 2 (1.47%) Network Security
4 2 (1.47%) WAN
5 1 (0.74%) ATM
5 1 (0.74%) BGP
5 1 (0.74%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.74%) DMZ
5 1 (0.74%) DNS
5 1 (0.74%) DWDM
5 1 (0.74%) Internet
5 1 (0.74%) IPsec
5 1 (0.74%) L2TP
5 1 (0.74%) MPLS
5 1 (0.74%) OSPF
5 1 (0.74%) SSL
5 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.88%) Siebel EIM
2 7 (5.15%) DB2
3 6 (4.41%) MySQL
4 5 (3.68%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.68%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.68%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.94%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (2.94%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.94%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.47%) Apache Hive
6 2 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.47%) Easytrieve
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.74%) Power BI
7 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (9.56%) Git
1 13 (9.56%) JIRA
2 12 (8.82%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.41%) GitLab
4 5 (3.68%) Selenium
5 4 (2.94%) Gradle
5 4 (2.94%) Maven
5 4 (2.94%) Xcode
6 3 (2.21%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.47%) eggPlant
7 2 (1.47%) SOAtest
8 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.74%) Hudson
General
1 73 (53.68%) Finance
2 48 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 23 (16.91%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.09%) Corporate Banking
6 10 (7.35%) Investment Banking
7 9 (6.62%) Retail Banking
8 7 (5.15%) Legal
9 6 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (3.68%) Financial Institution
10 5 (3.68%) Retail
11 3 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.47%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (25.00%) Architect
2 26 (19.12%) Analyst
3 20 (14.71%) Solutions Architect
4 18 (13.24%) Developer
5 15 (11.03%) Business Analyst
6 13 (9.56%) Payments Architect
7 10 (7.35%) Payments Solutions Architect
8 7 (5.15%) Siebel Developer
9 5 (3.68%) Designer
9 5 (3.68%) iOS Developer
9 5 (3.68%) Lead
9 5 (3.68%) Senior
10 4 (2.94%) AWS Architect
10 4 (2.94%) AWS Solution Architect
10 4 (2.94%) Banking Analyst
10 4 (2.94%) DBA
10 4 (2.94%) PostgreSQL DBA
10 4 (2.94%) Risk Analyst
10 4 (2.94%) Scrum Master
10 4 (2.94%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.03%) SOAP
1 15 (11.03%) Web Services
2 11 (8.09%) REST
3 10 (7.35%) HTML
4 9 (6.62%) CSS
5 8 (5.88%) JMS
6 6 (4.41%) JSON
6 6 (4.41%) Kafka
6 6 (4.41%) XML
7 5 (3.68%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.94%) J2EE
8 4 (2.94%) Spring
8 4 (2.94%) Spring Boot
9 3 (2.21%) OAuth
9 3 (2.21%) OAuth2
9 3 (2.21%) RAML
9 3 (2.21%) React
10 2 (1.47%) Middleware
10 2 (1.47%) RESTful
10 2 (1.47%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.35%) Mainframe
1 10 (7.35%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.15%) Mobile App
3 6 (4.41%) VSAM
4 5 (3.68%) Derivative
4 5 (3.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (3.68%) Mobile Banking
5 3 (2.21%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.21%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.21%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.47%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (1.47%) EMV
6 2 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.47%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.47%) Mobile Payment
6 2 (1.47%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.74%) Replication
7 1 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.24%) Linux
2 11 (8.09%) Apple iOS
3 10 (7.35%) Android
4 8 (5.88%) Unix
4 8 (5.88%) Windows
5 4 (2.94%) Windows 10
6 3 (2.21%) zOS
7 1 (0.74%) HPUX
7 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.74%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (27.94%) Agile
2 30 (22.06%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (17.65%) Migration
4 20 (14.71%) SDLC
4 20 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 16 (11.76%) Change Management
6 16 (11.76%) Risk Management
7 14 (10.29%) DevOps
8 13 (9.56%) Architectural Design
8 13 (9.56%) Performance Tuning
8 13 (9.56%) Scrum
9 12 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (8.09%) Requirements Gathering
11 10 (7.35%) End-to-End Testing
12 9 (6.62%) Analytics
12 9 (6.62%) Mentoring
12 9 (6.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 9 (6.62%) Test Automation
12 9 (6.62%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 19 (13.97%) Java
1 19 (13.97%) SQL
2 15 (11.03%) Python
3 10 (7.35%) JavaScript
4 8 (5.88%) PL/SQL
5 7 (5.15%) JCL
6 6 (4.41%) COBOL
7 4 (2.94%) C
7 4 (2.94%) C++
7 4 (2.94%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.94%) Objective-C
7 4 (2.94%) REXX
7 4 (2.94%) Ruby
7 4 (2.94%) Scala
7 4 (2.94%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.94%) Swift
7 4 (2.94%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.74%) Assembly Language
8 1 (0.74%) Perl
8 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (8.82%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.35%) Degree
3 8 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.47%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.47%) CISM
5 2 (1.47%) CISSP
5 2 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.74%) CBAP
6 1 (0.74%) CCSA
6 1 (0.74%) CCSE
6 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.74%) CSPO
6 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.74%) PMP
6 1 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.41%) PCI DSS
1 6 (4.41%) QA
2 5 (3.68%) Basel III
2 5 (3.68%) MiFID
2 5 (3.68%) SEPA
3 4 (2.94%) GDPR
3 4 (2.94%) GRC
3 4 (2.94%) ISO 20022
4 3 (2.21%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.21%) NIST
4 3 (2.21%) PSD2
5 2 (1.47%) COREP
5 2 (1.47%) FINREP
5 2 (1.47%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.74%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (5.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (5.15%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.41%) Terraform
3 4 (2.94%) Istio
4 3 (2.21%) Ansible
5 2 (1.47%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.47%) Sysdig
6 1 (0.74%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.74%) Grafana
6 1 (0.74%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 22 (16.18%) Oracle
3 8 (5.88%) Siebel
4 7 (5.15%) IBM
5 5 (3.68%) Cisco
5 5 (3.68%) Sybase
6 4 (2.94%) Citrix
7 3 (2.21%) FIS
7 3 (2.21%) Murex
7 3 (2.21%) Remedy
7 3 (2.21%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.21%) Splunk
8 2 (1.47%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.47%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.47%) Darktrace
8 2 (1.47%) Google
8 2 (1.47%) HP
8 2 (1.47%) Informatica
8 2 (1.47%) OneTrust
8 2 (1.47%) Varonis