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 advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Banking over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 62 59
Rank change year-on-year +12 -3 -13
Contract jobs citing Banking 97 108 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.60% 3.42% 3.79%
As % of the General category 6.69% 6.59% 7.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 78 114
10th Percentile £350 £388 £250
25th Percentile £413 £413 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.19% +8.74% +6.03%
75th Percentile £656 £588 £588
90th Percentile £740 £675 £684
England median daily rate £625 £650 £645
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.76% +12.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 5
10th Percentile £11.13 - £11.38
25th Percentile £11.56 £14.65 £12.50
Median hourly rate £12.84 £15.31 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +17.73% +4.19%
75th Percentile £15.28 £15.96 £14.64
90th Percentile £43.83 - £19.97
England median hourly rate £19.50 £21.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -7.14% -12.17% +53.71%

All General Skills
North West

Banking is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,449 1,639 2,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.71% 51.93% 49.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 889 1,134 1,410
10th Percentile £300 £305 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.34%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 80 116
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.17 £11.21
25th Percentile £14.50 £19.14 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.35 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year -35.21% +36.31% -10.82%
75th Percentile £36.95 £38.75 £44.03
90th Percentile £51.91 £53.02 £54.41
England median hourly rate £30.16 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -7.20% +51.16% -4.44%

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 4 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Banking in the North West over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 4 May 2024. 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 42 £489 -13.30% 8
Manchester +15 40 £600 +14.29% 29
Merseyside +6 7 £188 -53.13% 2
Cumbria -15 6 £500 +47.06%
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 6 (6.19%) Confluence
2 5 (5.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (5.15%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.03%) Mule
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.03%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (11.34%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (8.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (6.19%) MS Visio
4 2 (2.06%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.03%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (17.53%) AWS
2 15 (15.46%) Azure
3 6 (6.19%) Entra ID
4 5 (5.15%) Apigee
4 5 (5.15%) Kong
5 3 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (3.09%) SaaS
5 3 (3.09%) Serverless
6 2 (2.06%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (2.06%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.03%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.03%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.03%) GCP
7 1 (1.03%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.15%) DMZ
2 4 (4.12%) Firewall
2 4 (4.12%) SD-WAN
2 4 (4.12%) Wireless
3 2 (2.06%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (2.06%) SSL
4 1 (1.03%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.03%) SAN
4 1 (1.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.19%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.15%) MongoDB
2 5 (5.15%) OLAP
2 5 (5.15%) OLTP
2 5 (5.15%) Oracle OLAP
3 3 (3.09%) DB2
4 2 (2.06%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.03%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.03%) Big Data
5 1 (1.03%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.03%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.03%) Essbase
5 1 (1.03%) Impala
5 1 (1.03%) MySQL
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.03%) Power BI
5 1 (1.03%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.03%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 10 (10.31%) JIRA
2 2 (2.06%) Git
3 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.03%) Liquibase
3 1 (1.03%) Log4j
3 1 (1.03%) Mockito
3 1 (1.03%) TeamCity
General
1 49 (50.52%) Finance
2 27 (27.84%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.28%) Investment Banking
5 5 (5.15%) Retail Banking
6 4 (4.12%) Corporate Banking
6 4 (4.12%) Retail
7 3 (3.09%) Billing
8 2 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.06%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.03%) Front Office
9 1 (1.03%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.03%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (22.68%) Architect
2 17 (17.53%) Analyst
3 16 (16.49%) Solutions Architect
4 12 (12.37%) Developer
5 8 (8.25%) Business Analyst
6 7 (7.22%) Senior
7 5 (5.15%) Administrator
7 5 (5.15%) AWS Architect
7 5 (5.15%) Java Developer
7 5 (5.15%) Network Engineer
7 5 (5.15%) Project Manager
8 4 (4.12%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 4 (4.12%) Data Analyst
8 4 (4.12%) Payments Architect
8 4 (4.12%) Payments Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.12%) Scrum Master
8 4 (4.12%) Security Analyst
9 3 (3.09%) AWS Developer
9 3 (3.09%) Commercial Architect
9 3 (3.09%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.22%) Kafka
2 6 (6.19%) Spring
2 6 (6.19%) Web Services
3 5 (5.15%) IBM Integration Bus
3 5 (5.15%) J2EE
3 5 (5.15%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (5.15%) SOAP
4 4 (4.12%) Apache Camel
4 4 (4.12%) React Native
4 4 (4.12%) SailPoint
4 4 (4.12%) Spring Boot
4 4 (4.12%) Spring Integration
5 3 (3.09%) .NET
5 3 (3.09%) React
6 2 (2.06%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (1.03%) Android Jetpack
7 1 (1.03%) Hibernate
7 1 (1.03%) Jetpack Compose
7 1 (1.03%) Middleware
7 1 (1.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.28%) Public Cloud
2 6 (6.19%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.15%) DataPower
3 5 (5.15%) Virtual Team
4 4 (4.12%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.12%) Mainframe
4 4 (4.12%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.06%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.06%) CMDB
6 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.06%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.06%) Derivative
6 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.03%) Life Science
7 1 (1.03%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.03%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.15%) Linux
2 4 (4.12%) Android
2 4 (4.12%) Unix
3 3 (3.09%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.09%) Windows
4 2 (2.06%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.06%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.03%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (22.68%) Agile
2 20 (20.62%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (14.43%) Enterprise Architecture
4 12 (12.37%) Microservices
5 11 (11.34%) Architectural Design
5 11 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (10.31%) Business Strategy
6 10 (10.31%) Risk Management
7 9 (9.28%) Design Patterns
7 9 (9.28%) DevOps
7 9 (9.28%) Identity Access Management
7 9 (9.28%) SDLC
8 8 (8.25%) Project Management
9 7 (7.22%) Change Control
9 7 (7.22%) Decision-Making
9 7 (7.22%) OO
10 6 (6.19%) Data Protection
11 5 (5.15%) Business Analysis
11 5 (5.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (5.15%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.49%) Java
2 6 (6.19%) SQL
3 3 (3.09%) C
3 3 (3.09%) Python
4 1 (1.03%) Bash
4 1 (1.03%) Groovy
4 1 (1.03%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.03%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (10.31%) Degree
2 5 (5.15%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.09%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.06%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.06%) PMP
5 1 (1.03%) CCSA
5 1 (1.03%) CCSE
5 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.19%) QA
2 5 (5.15%) SLA
3 2 (2.06%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.03%) COREP
4 1 (1.03%) FINREP
4 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (1.03%) NIST
4 1 (1.03%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (6.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.12%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.06%) SCCM
2 2 (2.06%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 17 (17.53%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.31%) Oracle
3 5 (5.15%) F5
3 5 (5.15%) IBM
3 5 (5.15%) TSYS
4 4 (4.12%) CyberArk
4 4 (4.12%) Palo Alto
5 3 (3.09%) Cisco
6 2 (2.06%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.06%) CheckPoint
6 2 (2.06%) Refinitiv
6 2 (2.06%) Sage
6 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.03%) Blue Coat
7 1 (1.03%) Google
7 1 (1.03%) Hyperion
7 1 (1.03%) Juniper
7 1 (1.03%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.03%) SAP
7 1 (1.03%) Splunk