Banking Contracts in Northern Ireland

Banking
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in Northern Ireland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 20 15
Rank change year-on-year +13 -5 -6
Contract jobs citing Banking 40 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 17.02% 4.67% 7.65%
As % of the General category 24.84% 7.95% 11.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 7 11
10th Percentile £324 £285 £310
25th Percentile £405 £405 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £395
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +13.92% -16.84%
75th Percentile £605 £471 £548
90th Percentile £610 £488 £588
UK median daily rate £550 £613 £628
% change year-on-year -10.20% -2.39% -0.40%

All General Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 161 88 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 68.51% 58.67% 64.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 40 55
10th Percentile £255 £147 £157
25th Percentile £319 £169 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £310 £400
Median % change year-on-year +51.86% -22.63% -15.79%
75th Percentile £556 £488 £516
90th Percentile £610 £549 £575
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 23 8
10th Percentile £12.31 £12.90 £13.23
25th Percentile £13.13 - £13.23
Median hourly rate £15.05 £15.48 £13.91
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +11.29% +26.63%
75th Percentile £15.50 £24.18 £14.56
90th Percentile £24.50 £30.34 £16.95
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £30.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% +27.07% +20.70%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Banking in Northern Ireland

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Banking in Northern Ireland

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 10 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in Northern Ireland

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Hourly rate trend for Banking in Northern Ireland

Banking
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 10 August 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
County Antrim +12 40 £525 +16.67% 20
Banking
UK

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 3 (7.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.00%) GemFire
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.50%) Anypoint
3 1 (2.50%) Mule
3 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.50%) Power Platform
2 2 (5.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.50%) AWS
3 1 (2.50%) Azure
3 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.50%) GCP
3 1 (2.50%) GitHub
3 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) DHCP
1 2 (5.00%) DNS
1 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Power BI
1 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
1 3 (7.50%) Tableau
2 2 (5.00%) Apache Ignite
2 2 (5.00%) MySQL
2 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.50%) Big Data
3 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) JIRA
2 2 (5.00%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
General
1 33 (82.50%) Finance
2 23 (57.50%) Investment Banking
3 15 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 11 (27.50%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (22.50%) Front Office
6 7 (17.50%) Financial Institution
7 3 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (5.00%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (2.50%) Legal
9 1 (2.50%) Retail
9 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (55.00%) Analyst
2 9 (22.50%) Data Analyst
2 9 (22.50%) Support Analyst
3 8 (20.00%) IT Analyst
3 8 (20.00%) IT Support
3 8 (20.00%) IT Support Analyst
4 6 (15.00%) Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Java Developer
6 4 (10.00%) Banking Analyst
6 4 (10.00%) Business Data Analyst
6 4 (10.00%) Java Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Risk Analyst
6 4 (10.00%) Software Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Banking Project Manager
7 3 (7.50%) Market Risk Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) Project Manager
7 3 (7.50%) Risk Data Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.00%) Spring
2 4 (10.00%) Kafka
2 4 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (7.50%) JSON
3 3 (7.50%) RESTful
3 3 (7.50%) XML
4 2 (5.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.00%) Apache Avro
4 2 (5.00%) Hibernate
4 2 (5.00%) React
4 2 (5.00%) Web Services
5 1 (2.50%) JMS
5 1 (2.50%) JWT
5 1 (2.50%) OAuth
5 1 (2.50%) OpenAPI
5 1 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.50%) RAML
5 1 (2.50%) SAML
5 1 (2.50%) SOAP
5 1 (2.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Blackberry
2 7 (17.50%) Market Risk
3 6 (15.00%) BYOD
4 5 (12.50%) Equities
5 4 (10.00%) Data Structures
6 3 (7.50%) Derivative
7 2 (5.00%) Algorithms
7 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (5.00%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (5.00%) Reference Data
8 1 (2.50%) Credit Risk
8 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (2.50%) Fixed Income
8 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Windows
2 2 (5.00%) Android
2 2 (5.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (22.50%) Project Management
3 8 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 7 (17.50%) Change Management
5 6 (15.00%) Business Analysis
5 6 (15.00%) DevOps
6 5 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (12.50%) Microservices
6 5 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 4 (10.00%) Agile
7 4 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (10.00%) Project Delivery
7 4 (10.00%) Regulatory Change
7 4 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (7.50%) Data Governance
8 3 (7.50%) Risk Management
9 2 (5.00%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (5.00%) Data Management
9 2 (5.00%) Incident Management
9 2 (5.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (27.50%) SQL
2 10 (25.00%) Java
3 7 (17.50%) Python
4 2 (5.00%) Kotlin
4 2 (5.00%) Scala
5 1 (2.50%) C#
5 1 (2.50%) DataWeave
5 1 (2.50%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (35.00%) Degree
2 4 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 3 (7.50%) ISEB
3 3 (7.50%) PMI Certification
3 3 (7.50%) PMP
4 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.50%) PMO
3 2 (5.00%) MiFID
3 2 (5.00%) QA
4 1 (2.50%) Basel III
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.00%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (7.50%) Oracle
2 2 (5.00%) Apple
2 2 (5.00%) VMware
3 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow