Retail Banking Contract Job Trends in the North West

Retail Banking
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 118 123
Rank change year-on-year -46 +5 +28
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 13 8 9
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.35% 0.37% 0.33%
As % of the General category 0.66% 0.63% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 5
10th Percentile £322 - £440
25th Percentile £337 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £449 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.18% -25.25% +5.49%
75th Percentile £481 £461 -
90th Percentile £492 £482 -
England median daily rate £492 £500 £588
% change year-on-year -1.60% -14.89% -2.08%

All General Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,982 1,261 1,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.51% 58.65% 54.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,130 804 883
10th Percentile £275 £297 £283
25th Percentile £393 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £455 £493
Median % change year-on-year +4.45% -7.76% -1.40%
75th Percentile £582 £575 £576
90th Percentile £650 £675 £665
England median daily rate £525 £515 £533
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.41% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 114 189
10th Percentile £17.19 £12.87 £13.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £15.44 £15.92
Median hourly rate £35.91 £29.27 £22.88
Median % change year-on-year +22.69% +27.96% -1.19%
75th Percentile £69.50 £54.12 £42.88
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.25 £51.91
England median hourly rate £33.00 £27.21 £33.07
% change year-on-year +21.28% -17.72% +8.28%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Retail Banking job vacancy trend in the North West

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Retail Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking in the North West over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Retail Banking in the North West

Retail Banking
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Retail Banking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Retail Banking

Retail 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 Retail Banking within the North West region over the 6 months to 11 July 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
Cheshire +3 11 £355 -20.53%
Manchester -50 2 £473 -4.44% 1
Retail Banking
England

Retail Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (61.54%) Confluence
2 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) JIRA
General
1 13 (100.00%) Banking
2 10 (76.92%) Finance
3 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
4 5 (38.46%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (23.08%) Investment Banking
5 3 (23.08%) Retail
6 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Analyst
1 4 (30.77%) Business Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Junior
3 2 (15.38%) Junior Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Engagement Manager
4 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
4 1 (7.69%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Programme Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Unix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Product Ownership
2 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 3 (23.08%) Onboarding
3 2 (15.38%) PKI
4 1 (7.69%) Credit Risk
4 1 (7.69%) FPGA
4 1 (7.69%) Grid Computing
4 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
4 1 (7.69%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) AIX
1 1 (7.69%) HPUX
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Solaris
1 1 (7.69%) SUSE
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) Change Management
2 6 (46.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (38.46%) Scrum
4 4 (30.77%) Customer Experience
4 4 (30.77%) Impact Assessments
4 4 (30.77%) Regulatory Compliance
4 4 (30.77%) User Stories
4 4 (30.77%) Wealth Management
4 4 (30.77%) Wireframes
5 3 (23.08%) Backlog Refinement
5 3 (23.08%) Client Onboarding
5 3 (23.08%) Epics
5 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven
5 3 (23.08%) Microservices
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Project Management
5 3 (23.08%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (15.38%) Cryptography
6 2 (15.38%) Information Security
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
1 1 (7.69%) MBA
1 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
1 1 (7.69%) PMP
1 1 (7.69%) SAFe Agilist
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Basel III
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Thales
3 1 (7.69%) HP
3 1 (7.69%) Mellanox
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Solarflare