Banking Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Banking
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in Northamptonshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 12 3
Rank change year-on-year +4 -9 +21
Contract jobs citing Banking 39 16 31
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 15.12% 9.94% 19.25%
As % of the General category 21.55% 15.24% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 11 26
10th Percentile £313 £313 £456
25th Percentile £357 £396 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £400 £490
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% -18.28% +15.18%
75th Percentile £459 £429 £533
90th Percentile £540 £490 £551
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £403 £490
% change year-on-year +1.86% -17.86% +15.29%

All General Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 181 105 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 70.16% 65.22% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 77 65
10th Percentile £325 £295 £237
25th Percentile £360 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £400 £481
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -16.84% +6.89%
75th Percentile £475 £500 £530
90th Percentile £550 £639 £580
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £438 £450
% change year-on-year -4.05% -2.72% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 11
10th Percentile - - £25.18
25th Percentile - £23.10 £50.50
Median hourly rate - £24.20 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year - -52.55% +100.99%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £22.27 £17.66 £26.34
% change year-on-year +26.08% -32.95% +64.93%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Banking job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Banking
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Banking

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in Northamptonshire

Banking
Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Banking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Banking

Banking
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Northampton +4 39 £402 +0.59% 10
Banking
East Midlands

Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 10 (25.64%) Confluence
2 4 (10.26%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.56%) Apache
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.56%) Mule
Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.56%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.82%) AWS
1 5 (12.82%) Azure
2 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.13%) GCP
4 1 (2.56%) GitHub
4 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) Hadoop
2 3 (7.69%) Apache Hive
2 3 (7.69%) Big Data
2 3 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (7.69%) Power BI
2 3 (7.69%) Tableau
3 2 (5.13%) Metadata
4 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.56%) HBase
4 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.56%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.56%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 11 (28.21%) JIRA
2 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.13%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.13%) Selenium
4 1 (2.56%) Git
4 1 (2.56%) JMeter
4 1 (2.56%) LoadRunner
4 1 (2.56%) Postman
4 1 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (66.67%) Finance
2 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Retail Banking
5 3 (7.69%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Analyst
1 10 (25.64%) Business Analyst
2 9 (23.08%) Architect
3 6 (15.38%) Project Manager
4 5 (12.82%) Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Banking Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) Banking Business Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) Banking Project Manager
6 3 (7.69%) Junior
6 3 (7.69%) Junior Project Manager
6 3 (7.69%) Payments Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) Payments Business Analyst
7 2 (5.13%) Ab Initio Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Payments Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Product Owner
7 2 (5.13%) Salesforce Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Test Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) REST
2 1 (2.56%) DOM
2 1 (2.56%) HTML
2 1 (2.56%) jQuery
2 1 (2.56%) Kafka
2 1 (2.56%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (2.56%) Playwright
2 1 (2.56%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Product Ownership
2 6 (15.38%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.69%) PMI
4 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.56%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.56%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (2.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Unix
2 2 (5.13%) Linux
3 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (51.28%) Agile
2 16 (41.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (35.90%) Scrum
4 9 (23.08%) Change Management
4 9 (23.08%) Roadmaps
5 8 (20.51%) Kanban
5 8 (20.51%) Project Delivery
6 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (17.95%) Regulatory Compliance
7 6 (15.38%) DevOps
7 6 (15.38%) ETL
7 6 (15.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 5 (12.82%) CI/CD
8 5 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (12.82%) Data Transformation
8 5 (12.82%) Microservices
8 5 (12.82%) Regulatory Change
8 5 (12.82%) Resource Allocation
8 5 (12.82%) Risk Management
9 4 (10.26%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.08%) SQL
2 3 (7.69%) Java
3 2 (5.13%) Python
4 1 (2.56%) Apex Code
4 1 (2.56%) Scala
4 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) BPSS Clearance
1 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.26%) Degree
3 3 (7.69%) BC Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 3 (7.69%) MBA
3 3 (7.69%) PMI Certification
3 3 (7.69%) PMP
3 3 (7.69%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) QA
2 3 (7.69%) Basel III
2 3 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.13%) ISO 20022
4 1 (2.56%) GDPR
4 1 (2.56%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Hadoop YARN
1 1 (2.56%) Kibana
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.56%) Oozie
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) Ab Initio
2 3 (7.69%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.56%) AppDynamics
3 1 (2.56%) DocuSign
3 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.56%) Google
3 1 (2.56%) Informatica
3 1 (2.56%) New Relic
3 1 (2.56%) Splunk
3 1 (2.56%) Teradata