Retail Banking Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Retail Banking
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 39 -
Rank change year-on-year -47 - -
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 5 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.64% 1.00% -
As % of the General category 0.99% 1.52% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £418 £450 -
25th Percentile £436 £469 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% - -
75th Percentile £536 £538 -
90th Percentile £559 £560 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +185.71%

All General Skills
South Yorkshire

Retail 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 general skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 507 198 290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 64.83% 66.00% 66.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 113 176
10th Percentile £313 £209 £400
25th Percentile £404 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £515 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.04% -4.63% +2.86%
75th Percentile £543 £600 £609
90th Percentile £675 £663 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £500 £501
% change year-on-year -2.55% -0.25% -3.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £13.97 £12.79 £12.87
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.35 £13.23
Median hourly rate £14.43 £18.10 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.28% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £14.71 £20.38 £20.00
90th Percentile £14.89 £21.05 £38.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £22.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -5.33% +28.57% -7.89%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Retail Banking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Retail Banking job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail Banking in South Yorkshire

Retail 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 Retail Banking within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 December 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 -42 5 £481 -3.75%
Retail Banking
Yorkshire

Retail Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) CICS
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) VisionPLUS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (20.00%) Metadata
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Planning Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (20.00%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Lineage
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Dependency Management
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) COBOL
2 1 (20.00%) JCL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft