Retail Banking Contracts 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 124 149
Rank change year-on-year +4 +25 +21
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 8 9 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.38% 0.32% 0.13%
As % of the General category 0.65% 0.60% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile - £440 £524
25th Percentile £447 £463 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £600 £569
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +5.49% +6.91%
75th Percentile £461 - £608
90th Percentile £482 - £618
England median daily rate £500 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -13.04% -8.00% +8.70%

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 common skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,225 1,499 1,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 58.64% 54.10% 52.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 783 884 1,099
10th Percentile £300 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £398 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.65% -1.45% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £576 £588
90th Percentile £675 £663 £675
England median daily rate £519 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -3.08% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 193 88
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.00 £14.62
25th Percentile £14.55 £15.50 £16.85
Median hourly rate £29.27 £23.45 £24.08
Median % change year-on-year +24.82% -2.60% -1.73%
75th Percentile £58.42 £42.88 £35.21
90th Percentile £76.25 £51.70 £55.60
England median hourly rate £27.21 £32.90 £30.00
% change year-on-year -17.28% +9.65% +27.13%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail Banking in the North West

Retail Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Retail Banking in the North West

Retail Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail Banking in the North West

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 4 July 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
Manchester +4 5 £495 -17.50% 7
Cheshire - 3 £447 - 1
Retail Banking
England

Retail 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 2 (25.00%) CICS
1 2 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (12.50%) SAS
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Google Docs
1 1 (12.50%) Google Sheets
1 1 (12.50%) Google Workspace
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (25.00%) DB2
1 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) Selenium
1 2 (25.00%) SOAtest
General
1 8 (100.00%) Banking
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
3 4 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
3 4 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 4 (50.00%) Retail
4 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
5 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (25.00%) General Ledger
6 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
6 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Test Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Banking Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Business Change Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Business Change Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Credit Risk Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Head of Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Mainframe Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Retail Banking Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Risk Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Risk Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Risk Manager
2 1 (12.50%) SAS Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Test Leader
2 1 (12.50%) UAT Lead
2 1 (12.50%) UAT Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) J2EE
1 2 (25.00%) JSON
1 2 (25.00%) Web Services
1 2 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (25.00%) Mobile Payment
1 2 (25.00%) VSAM
2 1 (12.50%) Credit Risk
2 1 (12.50%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (50.00%) Wealth Management
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) API Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (25.00%) ETL
4 2 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Management
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (25.00%) Test Planning
4 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) User Stories
5 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) COBOL
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) JCL
1 2 (25.00%) REXX
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Ab Initio
1 2 (25.00%) Informatica
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
1 2 (25.00%) Parasoft
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft