Banking Contracts 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 4 33
Rank change year-on-year -2 +29 -19
Contract jobs citing Banking 47 43 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 22.27% 16.80% 1.68%
As % of the General category 33.10% 30.50% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 40 2
10th Percentile £228 £356 -
25th Percentile £289 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £445 £400
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% +11.25% +0.38%
75th Percentile £433 £488 -
90th Percentile £495 £515 -
East Midlands median daily rate £390 £445 £450
% change year-on-year -12.36% -1.11% +4.65%

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 142 141 137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 67.30% 55.08% 57.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 110 112
10th Percentile £251 £272 £213
25th Percentile £325 £358 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £445 £400
Median % change year-on-year -12.36% +11.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £457 £550 £500
90th Percentile £500 £620 £575
East Midlands median daily rate £413 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +3.13% -15.79% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 10
10th Percentile £16.81 - £21.61
25th Percentile - £14.00 £50.50
Median hourly rate £21.39 £35.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% -31.37% +45.71%
75th Percentile - £46.61 £51.50
90th Percentile - £58.75 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.39 £17.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +25.82% -24.44% -3.23%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for Banking in Northamptonshire

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Banking in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for Banking in Northamptonshire

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in Northamptonshire

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Banking in Northamptonshire.

Hourly rate trend for Banking in Northamptonshire

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 31 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
Northampton -4 47 £375 -15.73% 13
Banking
East Midlands

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (4.26%) Apache
1 2 (4.26%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.26%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 21 (44.68%) AWS
2 6 (12.77%) Azure
3 4 (8.51%) GCP
4 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.13%) Apigee
5 1 (2.13%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.13%) Kong
5 1 (2.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) Big Data
2 2 (4.26%) Apache Hudi
2 2 (4.26%) Apache Iceberg
2 2 (4.26%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.26%) Delta Lake
2 2 (4.26%) Flink
2 2 (4.26%) Hadoop
2 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.26%) Parquet
2 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (19.15%) Cucumber
1 9 (19.15%) Selenium
2 8 (17.02%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.26%) Introscope
3 2 (4.26%) LoadRunner
3 2 (4.26%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.13%) GitLab
4 1 (2.13%) Postman
General
1 21 (44.68%) Finance
2 10 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (21.28%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.26%) Retail
4 1 (2.13%) Legal
4 1 (2.13%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (27.66%) Architect
2 12 (25.53%) Solutions Architect
3 11 (23.40%) Analyst
4 8 (17.02%) Business Analyst
5 7 (14.89%) Automation Tester
5 7 (14.89%) Tester
6 4 (8.51%) Junior
7 3 (6.38%) Business Data Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) Data Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) Junior Automation Tester
7 3 (6.38%) Junior Tester
7 3 (6.38%) Test Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) AWS Architect
8 2 (4.26%) Developer
8 2 (4.26%) DevOps Manager
8 2 (4.26%) Engineering Manager
8 2 (4.26%) Payments Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.26%) Product Owner
8 2 (4.26%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.02%) HTML
2 7 (14.89%) jQuery
3 6 (12.77%) DOM
4 4 (8.51%) REST
5 3 (6.38%) Kafka
6 2 (4.26%) .NET
6 2 (4.26%) Apache Avro
6 2 (4.26%) J2EE
6 2 (4.26%) JSON
6 2 (4.26%) LDAP
6 2 (4.26%) OAuth
6 2 (4.26%) OpenID
6 2 (4.26%) Playwright
6 2 (4.26%) Spring
6 2 (4.26%) Web Services
7 1 (2.13%) Hibernate
7 1 (2.13%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (2.13%) Middleware
7 1 (2.13%) RESTful
7 1 (2.13%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) AIX
1 2 (4.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (34.04%) Agile
2 13 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (23.40%) Scrum
4 10 (21.28%) Test Automation
5 7 (14.89%) CI/CD
5 7 (14.89%) Migration
5 7 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (14.89%) TOGAF
6 6 (12.77%) Data Analysis
6 6 (12.77%) Decision-Making
6 6 (12.77%) Domain-Driven Design
6 6 (12.77%) Integration Patterns
7 5 (10.64%) Architectural Design
7 5 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (10.64%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
7 5 (10.64%) Requirements Management
7 5 (10.64%) Strategic Thinking
8 4 (8.51%) API Testing
8 4 (8.51%) Business Case
8 4 (8.51%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 16 (34.04%) Java
2 7 (14.89%) SQL
3 3 (6.38%) Python
4 2 (4.26%) C
4 2 (4.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
1 2 (4.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (4.26%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (2.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) COREP
1 2 (4.26%) FINREP
2 1 (2.13%) Basel III
2 1 (2.13%) GDPR
2 1 (2.13%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.13%) MiFID
2 1 (2.13%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (6.38%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (6.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.26%) CA Wily
2 2 (4.26%) Terraform
3 1 (2.13%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.38%) Splunk
3 2 (4.26%) AppDynamics
3 2 (4.26%) Databricks
3 2 (4.26%) Google
3 2 (4.26%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.26%) VMware
4 1 (2.13%) HP
4 1 (2.13%) IBM
4 1 (2.13%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle
4 1 (2.13%) Ping Identity