Financial Institution Contracts in the North West

Financial Institution
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Financial Institution in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Financial Institution over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 129 143
Rank change year-on-year +10 +14 +33
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 5 8 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.26% 0.30% 0.58%
As % of the General category 0.45% 0.56% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 12
10th Percentile £328 £508 £463
25th Percentile £345 £513 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £478 £588 £638
90th Percentile £489 £638 £675
England median daily rate £644 £615 £600
% change year-on-year +4.67% +2.50% -

All General Skills
North West

Financial Institution 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 1,115 1,419 1,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 57.39% 53.35% 52.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 688 866 1,129
10th Percentile £250 £300 £306
25th Percentile £375 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £672 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 190 76
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.50 £15.86
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.50 £17.60
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £26.60
Median % change year-on-year +62.25% -33.38% +11.09%
75th Percentile £55.76 £36.95 £37.30
90th Percentile £76.13 £51.91 £53.17
England median hourly rate £27.19 £30.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.86% -6.15% +51.16%

Financial Institution
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Financial Institution in the North West

Financial Institution
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Financial Institution in the North West

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Institution in the North West over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Financial Institution in the North West

Financial Institution
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Financial Institution in the North West

Financial Institution
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 Financial Institution within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 May 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 +2 5 £413 -34.00% 2
Financial Institution
England

Financial Institution
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 1 (20.00%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (80.00%) Banking
3 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Incident Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Major Incident Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Migration Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Security Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Defect Management
2 2 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
2 2 (40.00%) Manual Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Test Management
2 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) HP
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) AlgoSec
2 1 (20.00%) Ping Identity