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 30 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 70 57
Rank change year-on-year -31 -13 -
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 2 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.18% 0.79% 0.87%
As % of the General category 0.30% 1.15% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £344 £410 £508
25th Percentile £362 £416 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £450 £563
Median % change year-on-year -12.44% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £427 £559 £616
90th Percentile £445 £609 £666
Yorkshire median daily rate £394 £450 £563
% change year-on-year -12.44% -20.00% -16.67%

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 676 434 284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 60.57% 68.24% 61.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 291 147
10th Percentile £358 £278 £308
25th Percentile £413 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £505
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.89% -8.18%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £588
90th Percentile £675 £613 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £464 £500
% change year-on-year +7.76% -7.20% -5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 7 6
10th Percentile £21.11 £14.54 £15.88
25th Percentile £24.88 £15.00 £20.13
Median hourly rate £30.96 £18.21 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.04% -13.31% +7.69%
75th Percentile £36.61 £18.40 £21.88
90th Percentile - £18.50 £22.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.89 £22.14 £15.68
% change year-on-year +12.40% +41.20% -17.47%

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 30 August 2026.

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 30 August 2026. 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 -24 2 £394 -12.44%
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 (50.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Wealth Management
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Change
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 20022
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat