Banking Contract Job Trends 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 25 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 2 3
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Banking 149 110 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 23.46% 24.50% 25.83%
As % of the General category 33.71% 38.60% 36.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 35 38
10th Percentile £262 £400 £400
25th Percentile £358 £455 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.89% -2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £537 £600 £612
90th Percentile £638 £700 £658
Yorkshire median daily rate £460 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -14.42% +2.38% +5.00%
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 442 285 324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 69.61% 63.47% 71.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 149 195
10th Percentile £278 £213 £310
25th Percentile £369 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £507 £561
Median % change year-on-year -8.78% -9.63% +12.20%
75th Percentile £540 £588 £684
90th Percentile £630 £650 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 3
10th Percentile £14.54 £15.88 £18.80
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.13 £19.25
Median hourly rate £18.21 £21.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £18.40 £21.88 £35.00
90th Percentile £18.50 £22.00 £44.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.09 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +0.43% +5.26% +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
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Banking

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in South Yorkshire

Banking
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Banking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Banking

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 25 September 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 -3 146 £450 -15.89% 6
Barnsley - 3 £433 -
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 15 (10.07%) Confluence
2 11 (7.38%) CICS
3 9 (6.04%) CMS
4 5 (3.36%) Mule
5 2 (1.34%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.34%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.67%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (12.75%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (11.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (6.04%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (5.37%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (6.71%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 31 (20.81%) GCP
2 23 (15.44%) AWS
3 13 (8.72%) Serverless
4 10 (6.71%) Azure
5 9 (6.04%) Power Platform
6 6 (4.03%) GitHub
6 6 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.68%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.68%) npm
7 4 (2.68%) PowerApps
8 3 (2.01%) Azure AKS
8 3 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.01%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.01%) SaaS
9 2 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.67%) Figma
10 1 (0.67%) Google Ads
10 1 (0.67%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.71%) Network Security
2 8 (5.37%) DMZ
2 8 (5.37%) DNS
2 8 (5.37%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 8 (5.37%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 4 (2.68%) Firewall
4 2 (1.34%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.67%) SSH
5 1 (0.67%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.74%) NoSQL
2 9 (6.04%) Power BI
3 6 (4.03%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.68%) Data Mining
5 4 (2.68%) Power Query
6 2 (1.34%) Flink
6 2 (1.34%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.34%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.34%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.67%) DB2
7 1 (0.67%) Easytrieve
7 1 (0.67%) Metadata
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.67%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (18.79%) Jenkins
2 21 (14.09%) JIRA
3 17 (11.41%) GitLab
4 15 (10.07%) Liquibase
5 6 (4.03%) ChangeMan
6 5 (3.36%) Git
6 5 (3.36%) Postman
6 5 (3.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.68%) Babel
7 4 (2.68%) webpack
8 2 (1.34%) SonarQube
General
1 82 (55.03%) Social Skills
2 68 (45.64%) Finance
3 29 (19.46%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (12.08%) Financial Institution
5 10 (6.71%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.37%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.03%) Retail Banking
8 3 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.34%) Legal
9 2 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Billing
10 1 (0.67%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.67%) Retail
10 1 (0.67%) Retail Finance
10 1 (0.67%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (20.13%) Analyst
2 20 (13.42%) Business Analyst
3 19 (12.75%) Developer
4 14 (9.40%) Senior
5 12 (8.05%) Project Manager
6 11 (7.38%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 11 (7.38%) Lead
7 9 (6.04%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (6.04%) Software Engineer
8 8 (5.37%) Architect
8 8 (5.37%) Data Analyst
8 8 (5.37%) Operations Engineer
9 7 (4.70%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (4.03%) Business Manager
10 6 (4.03%) Business Project Manager
10 6 (4.03%) Lead Business Analyst
10 6 (4.03%) Project Analyst
11 5 (3.36%) Lead Project Manager
11 5 (3.36%) Major Incident Manager
11 5 (3.36%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.75%) REST
2 15 (10.07%) RESTful
3 13 (8.72%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (3.36%) CSS
4 5 (3.36%) CSS3
4 5 (3.36%) HTML
4 5 (3.36%) HTML5
4 5 (3.36%) React
5 4 (2.68%) Redux
6 3 (2.01%) Bootstrap
6 3 (2.01%) Jest
6 3 (2.01%) Kafka
6 3 (2.01%) lodash
6 3 (2.01%) OAuth
6 3 (2.01%) OpenID
6 3 (2.01%) SAML
7 2 (1.34%) DOM
7 2 (1.34%) JSON
7 2 (1.34%) Middleware
7 2 (1.34%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.08%) Cloud Native
2 17 (11.41%) Data Protection Act
3 15 (10.07%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (10.07%) Mainframe
3 15 (10.07%) Public Cloud
4 9 (6.04%) Data Centre
4 9 (6.04%) Onboarding
5 8 (5.37%) Management Information System
6 7 (4.70%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (3.36%) Distributed Applications
8 4 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (2.01%) Credit Risk
9 3 (2.01%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.01%) Equities
9 3 (2.01%) VSAM
10 2 (1.34%) Derivative
10 2 (1.34%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.34%) IVR
10 2 (1.34%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.75%) Windows
2 17 (11.41%) Linux
3 12 (8.05%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.34%) zOS
5 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.67%) Solaris
5 1 (0.67%) Unix
5 1 (0.67%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (31.54%) Agile
2 43 (28.86%) DevOps
3 30 (20.13%) Change Management
4 27 (18.12%) CI/CD
4 27 (18.12%) Stakeholder Management
5 25 (16.78%) Cybersecurity
6 22 (14.77%) Microservices
6 22 (14.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 20 (13.42%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (12.75%) Computer Science
8 19 (12.75%) Cost Optimisation
8 19 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (12.08%) Containerisation
9 18 (12.08%) Data Protection
10 16 (10.74%) ITIL
11 15 (10.07%) Software Engineering
12 13 (8.72%) Coaching
12 13 (8.72%) Cryptography
12 13 (8.72%) Data Security
12 13 (8.72%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (20.13%) Python
2 16 (10.74%) Go
3 13 (8.72%) SQL
4 10 (6.71%) COBOL
4 10 (6.71%) Java
5 5 (3.36%) JCL
6 4 (2.68%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.34%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.34%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.34%) VBA
8 1 (0.67%) Bash
8 1 (0.67%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.67%) REXX
8 1 (0.67%) Scala
8 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 24 (16.11%) Degree
2 17 (11.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (10.07%) Master's Degree
4 10 (6.71%) AWS Certification
5 8 (5.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.34%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.34%) CISA
6 2 (1.34%) CISM
7 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.67%) RIBA
7 1 (0.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.40%) QA
2 4 (2.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (2.68%) SLA
3 3 (2.01%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.34%) GDPR
4 2 (1.34%) GRC
4 2 (1.34%) PMO
5 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (10.07%) Docker
2 11 (7.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.01%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.67%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (0.67%) KVM
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.67%) RACF
4 1 (0.67%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (0.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.67%) XenApp
4 1 (0.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 26 (17.45%) Kubernetes
2 20 (13.42%) Terraform
3 19 (12.75%) Ansible
4 14 (9.40%) Grafana
4 14 (9.40%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.03%) CA Endevor
6 3 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.34%) Puppet
8 1 (0.67%) Control-M
8 1 (0.67%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.67%) IBM Guardium
8 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.67%) Nessus
8 1 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.67%) yum
Vendors
1 24 (16.11%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.41%) Google
3 13 (8.72%) Citrix
3 13 (8.72%) Splunk
4 12 (8.05%) Apple
5 11 (7.38%) VMware
6 9 (6.04%) F5
7 3 (2.01%) Alibaba
7 3 (2.01%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.01%) Oracle
8 2 (1.34%) Genesys
9 1 (0.67%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.67%) Cisco
9 1 (0.67%) Commvault
9 1 (0.67%) Confluent
9 1 (0.67%) Databricks
9 1 (0.67%) EMC
9 1 (0.67%) NetApp
9 1 (0.67%) Pega
9 1 (0.67%) Tenable