Banking Contracts in South Yorkshire

Banking
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 12 4
Rank change year-on-year +7 -8 +8
Contract jobs citing Banking 76 53 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 20.38% 11.60% 19.77%
As % of the General category 31.67% 19.41% 26.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 9 39
10th Percentile £150 £316 £444
25th Percentile £413 £356 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £595 £600
90th Percentile £690 £660 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £444 £550
% change year-on-year +12.68% -19.32% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.10 - -
Median hourly rate £18.21 - -
75th Percentile £18.41 - -
90th Percentile £18.47 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £18.27 -
% change year-on-year -0.36% - -

All General Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 240 273 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 64.34% 59.74% 74.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 154 269
10th Percentile £306 £296 £300
25th Percentile £388 £418 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -10.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £585 £675
90th Percentile £650 £634 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 2
10th Percentile - £12.34 £13.90
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.63 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.35 £13.23 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.72% -48.12% +20.97%
75th Percentile £18.50 £13.96 £32.75
90th Percentile £18.51 £22.00 £37.10
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.55 £14.63 £17.86
% change year-on-year +26.84% -18.11% -4.49%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Banking in South Yorkshire

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Banking in South Yorkshire

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in South Yorkshire

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Banking in South Yorkshire

Banking
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Sheffield +4 75 £500 -0.99% 9
Banking
Yorkshire

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 4 (5.26%) Apache Spark
1 4 (5.26%) Confluence
2 1 (1.32%) Apache
2 1 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.32%) Appian
2 1 (1.32%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (18.42%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.63%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.21%) GCP
2 4 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 4 (5.26%) Collibra
2 4 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.63%) GitHub
3 2 (2.63%) OCI
3 2 (2.63%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.32%) AWS
4 1 (1.32%) Azure
4 1 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.32%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (1.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.95%) DNS
2 2 (2.63%) LAN
2 2 (2.63%) Network Security
2 2 (2.63%) SMTP
2 2 (2.63%) WAN
3 1 (1.32%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.32%) DHCP
3 1 (1.32%) DWDM
3 1 (1.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (1.32%) Firewall
3 1 (1.32%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.32%) NGN
3 1 (1.32%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.32%) SSH
3 1 (1.32%) SSL
3 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.32%) VPN
3 1 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.58%) Oracle Database
2 4 (5.26%) Flink
3 2 (2.63%) Power BI
4 1 (1.32%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.32%) Big Data
4 1 (1.32%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.32%) DB2
4 1 (1.32%) Easytrieve
4 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.32%) Presto
4 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (5.26%) JIRA
2 2 (2.63%) ERwin
2 2 (2.63%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.32%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (47.37%) Finance
2 22 (28.95%) Social Skills
3 20 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (5.26%) Investment Banking
4 4 (5.26%) Retail Banking
5 3 (3.95%) Retail
6 2 (2.63%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.32%) Back Office
7 1 (1.32%) Front Office
7 1 (1.32%) International Banking
7 1 (1.32%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (21.05%) Architect
2 10 (13.16%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 9 (11.84%) Project Manager
4 7 (9.21%) Analyst
5 6 (7.89%) Senior
6 5 (6.58%) IT Manager
6 5 (6.58%) IT Project Manager
7 4 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Data Architect
7 4 (5.26%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Support Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Business Analyst
8 3 (3.95%) Data Protection Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Developer
8 3 (3.95%) Windows Engineer
9 2 (2.63%) Desktop Engineer
9 2 (2.63%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 2 (2.63%) IT Architect
9 2 (2.63%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.58%) Kafka
2 4 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (3.95%) Apache Beam
3 3 (3.95%) Spark Streaming
4 2 (2.63%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (2.63%) FpML
4 2 (2.63%) JSON
4 2 (2.63%) REST
4 2 (2.63%) XML
5 1 (1.32%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.32%) React
5 1 (1.32%) Spring
5 1 (1.32%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.42%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (6.58%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.63%) Credit Risk
4 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.63%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.63%) Robotics
4 2 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.32%) AS400
5 1 (1.32%) iSeries
5 1 (1.32%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.32%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (27.63%) Windows
2 11 (14.47%) Apple iOS
3 7 (9.21%) Linux
4 3 (3.95%) Unix
5 1 (1.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (22.37%) Data Protection
3 11 (14.47%) Agile
3 11 (14.47%) Coaching
4 10 (13.16%) Change Management
4 10 (13.16%) Microservices
4 10 (13.16%) Project Management
5 8 (10.53%) CI/CD
5 8 (10.53%) DevOps
5 8 (10.53%) Observability
6 7 (9.21%) Test Automation
7 6 (7.89%) Data Analysis
7 6 (7.89%) Risk Management
8 5 (6.58%) Data Governance
8 5 (6.58%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (6.58%) Technology Strategy
9 4 (5.26%) Chaos Engineering
9 4 (5.26%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (5.26%) Project Delivery
9 4 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.47%) Python
2 5 (6.58%) SQL
3 2 (2.63%) Java
3 2 (2.63%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.63%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.32%) ActionScript
4 1 (1.32%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (1.32%) Bash
4 1 (1.32%) C
4 1 (1.32%) CLIST
4 1 (1.32%) COBOL
4 1 (1.32%) Go
4 1 (1.32%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.32%) JCL
4 1 (1.32%) Kotlin
4 1 (1.32%) REXX
4 1 (1.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (2.63%) Degree
1 2 (2.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (1.32%) CCNP
2 1 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.95%) PMO
2 2 (2.63%) QA
2 2 (2.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.32%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.63%) Docker
2 2 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.32%) HDFS
3 1 (1.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (11.84%) Ansible
2 6 (7.89%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.26%) Grafana
3 4 (5.26%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.63%) Terraform
4 2 (2.63%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.32%) Control-M
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.32%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 13 (17.11%) Citrix
2 11 (14.47%) Apple
3 6 (7.89%) Commvault
4 5 (6.58%) Google
4 5 (6.58%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.58%) Oracle
5 4 (5.26%) Splunk
6 3 (3.95%) IBM
7 2 (2.63%) Cisco
7 2 (2.63%) Databricks
7 2 (2.63%) Sparx
7 2 (2.63%) Veritas
8 1 (1.32%) Arista
8 1 (1.32%) Confluent
8 1 (1.32%) F5
8 1 (1.32%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (1.32%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.32%) Veeam