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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Banking 102 96 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 20.65% 19.35% 19.83%
As % of the General category 30.27% 32.99% 27.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 22 33
10th Percentile £150 £400 £450
25th Percentile £405 £408 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £553
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -14.03% +10.50%
75th Percentile £603 £571 £617
90th Percentile £654 £645 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +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 337 291 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 68.22% 58.67% 73.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 146 233
10th Percentile £278 £297 £300
25th Percentile £380 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £568 £575 £700
90th Percentile £638 £622 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £467 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -6.60% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 1
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.19 -
25th Percentile £15.78 £12.68 -
Median hourly rate £18.21 £13.60 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.91% +23.59% -42.11%
75th Percentile £18.45 £21.63 -
90th Percentile £18.51 £22.00 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £14.63 £19.00
% change year-on-year +51.38% -23.03% +1.60%

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 July 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

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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 July 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 -1 98 £500 +5.26% 55
Barnsley -4 3 £433 +27.21% 2
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 13 (12.75%) Confluence
2 4 (3.92%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.94%) CICS
4 2 (1.96%) CMS
5 1 (0.98%) Apache
5 1 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.98%) SAS
5 1 (0.98%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (19.61%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (7.84%) MS Visio
4 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.96%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 10 (9.80%) GCP
2 7 (6.86%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (3.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 4 (3.92%) AWS
3 4 (3.92%) Azure
3 4 (3.92%) Collibra
4 3 (2.94%) Entra ID
4 3 (2.94%) SaaS
5 2 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (1.96%) Azure AKS
5 2 (1.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (1.96%) OCI
5 2 (1.96%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.98%) GitHub
6 1 (0.98%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (0.98%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.98%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.94%) Firewall
1 3 (2.94%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.96%) DNS
2 2 (1.96%) LAN
2 2 (1.96%) WAN
3 1 (0.98%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.98%) DHCP
3 1 (0.98%) DWDM
3 1 (0.98%) Network Security
3 1 (0.98%) NGN
3 1 (0.98%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.98%) SMTP
3 1 (0.98%) VPN
3 1 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.90%) Oracle Database
2 4 (3.92%) Flink
3 2 (1.96%) DB2
3 2 (1.96%) Easytrieve
3 2 (1.96%) Power BI
3 2 (1.96%) RDBMS
3 2 (1.96%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.98%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.98%) Big Data
4 1 (0.98%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.98%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.98%) Power Query
4 1 (0.98%) Presto
4 1 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (8.82%) JIRA
2 4 (3.92%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.96%) Postman
4 1 (0.98%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.98%) Git
4 1 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.98%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (41.18%) Finance
2 37 (36.27%) Social Skills
3 24 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.90%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.92%) Financial Institution
5 4 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.94%) Retail
6 3 (2.94%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.98%) Back Office
7 1 (0.98%) Billing
7 1 (0.98%) Front Office
7 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.98%) International Banking
7 1 (0.98%) Legal
7 1 (0.98%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 21 (20.59%) Analyst
2 18 (17.65%) Business Analyst
3 15 (14.71%) Architect
3 15 (14.71%) Project Manager
4 11 (10.78%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 9 (8.82%) Lead
6 6 (5.88%) Business Manager
6 6 (5.88%) Business Project Manager
6 6 (5.88%) Lead Business Analyst
6 6 (5.88%) Project Analyst
7 5 (4.90%) Developer
7 5 (4.90%) Lead Project Manager
7 5 (4.90%) Senior
7 5 (4.90%) Test Manager
7 5 (4.90%) Windows Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) 2nd Line Support
8 4 (3.92%) Data Architect
8 4 (3.92%) Data Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) IT Manager
8 4 (3.92%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.90%) Kafka
2 4 (3.92%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (2.94%) Apache Beam
3 3 (2.94%) OAuth
3 3 (2.94%) OpenID
3 3 (2.94%) SAML
3 3 (2.94%) Spark Streaming
4 2 (1.96%) JSON
4 2 (1.96%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.98%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.98%) ISPF
5 1 (0.98%) React
5 1 (0.98%) React Native
5 1 (0.98%) REST
5 1 (0.98%) Spring
5 1 (0.98%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.63%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (6.86%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.92%) Mainframe
3 4 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.94%) Equities
5 2 (1.96%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.96%) Derivative
5 2 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.96%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.96%) VSAM
6 1 (0.98%) AS400
6 1 (0.98%) iSeries
6 1 (0.98%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.98%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.98%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) Robotics
6 1 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (24.51%) Windows
2 12 (11.76%) Apple iOS
3 9 (8.82%) Linux
4 3 (2.94%) Unix
5 2 (1.96%) zOS
6 1 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.98%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (22.55%) Data Protection
2 22 (21.57%) Agile
3 20 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (15.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (13.73%) DevOps
6 13 (12.75%) Coaching
6 13 (12.75%) Project Management
7 12 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 10 (9.80%) Microservices
8 10 (9.80%) Project Delivery
9 9 (8.82%) Change Management
10 8 (7.84%) Data Analysis
10 8 (7.84%) Migration
10 8 (7.84%) Observability
11 7 (6.86%) CI/CD
11 7 (6.86%) Project Governance
11 7 (6.86%) Resource Management
11 7 (6.86%) Risk Management
11 7 (6.86%) Waterfall
12 6 (5.88%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.80%) Python
2 6 (5.88%) SQL
3 4 (3.92%) COBOL
3 4 (3.92%) JCL
4 2 (1.96%) Java
4 2 (1.96%) Kotlin
4 2 (1.96%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.98%) Bash
5 1 (0.98%) CLIST
5 1 (0.98%) Go
5 1 (0.98%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.98%) Objective-C
5 1 (0.98%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.98%) REXX
5 1 (0.98%) Scala
5 1 (0.98%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (3.92%) Degree
2 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.98%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.90%) QA
2 4 (3.92%) PMO
3 3 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.98%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.98%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (4.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.96%) Docker
2 2 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.98%) HDFS
3 1 (0.98%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (0.98%) RACF
3 1 (0.98%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (0.98%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (0.98%) vSphere
3 1 (0.98%) XenApp
3 1 (0.98%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (9.80%) Ansible
2 9 (8.82%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.92%) Grafana
3 4 (3.92%) Prometheus
3 4 (3.92%) Terraform
4 3 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.96%) Puppet
5 2 (1.96%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.98%) Control-M
6 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.98%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 15 (14.71%) Citrix
2 13 (12.75%) Microsoft
3 12 (11.76%) Apple
4 6 (5.88%) Commvault
5 5 (4.90%) Google
5 5 (4.90%) Oracle
6 4 (3.92%) Splunk
7 3 (2.94%) Alibaba
7 3 (2.94%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.96%) Databricks
8 2 (1.96%) IBM
8 2 (1.96%) Veritas
8 2 (1.96%) VMware
9 1 (0.98%) Arista
9 1 (0.98%) Cisco
9 1 (0.98%) Confluent
9 1 (0.98%) Pega
9 1 (0.98%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.98%) Veeam