Retail Banking Contracts

Retail Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Retail Banking over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 465 503 414
Rank change year-on-year +38 -89 +22
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 120 192 528
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.33% 0.60%
As % of the General category 0.48% 0.57% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 106 247
10th Percentile £438 £444 £371
25th Percentile £488 £500 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £647 £738 £678
90th Percentile £838 £875 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £500 £489
% change year-on-year +15.00% +2.25% +15.06%

All General Skills
UK

Retail Banking is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,872 33,973 49,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.08% 58.48% 56.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,679 23,569 34,307
10th Percentile £275 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £770 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,928 1,040 1,416
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.92 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £33.60 £21.92
Median % change year-on-year -10.24% +53.33% -2.60%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.23
90th Percentile £65.40 £72.50 £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £29.00 £18.70
% change year-on-year -1.72% +55.08% -4.10%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Retail Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
England +52 100 £575 -8.00% 60
London +30 75 £575 -11.54% 50
Work from Home +75 46 £500 -13.04% 30
UK excluding London +56 32 £575 +15.00% 21
Scotland +28 16 £634 +27.39% 9
North of England +28 9 £600 +20.00% 2
North West +27 8 £600 - 2
South West +17 3 - -
South East +20 2 £446 -8.62% 4
East of England - 2 £575 -
Yorkshire +25 1 £700 +40.00%

Retail Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (5.00%) CMS
2 5 (4.17%) Confluence
3 3 (2.50%) Headless CMS
3 3 (2.50%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 8 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.67%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.83%) Gliffy
5 1 (0.83%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.67%) WebTrends
2 1 (0.83%) Finacle
2 1 (0.83%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.83%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 16 (13.33%) AWS
2 10 (8.33%) Azure
3 9 (7.50%) Power Platform
4 4 (3.33%) Figma
5 3 (2.50%) Amazon ECR
5 3 (2.50%) Amazon MSK
5 3 (2.50%) Amazon S3
5 3 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (2.50%) GCP
6 2 (1.67%) GitHub
6 2 (1.67%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.83%) FinancialForce
7 1 (0.83%) IaaS
7 1 (0.83%) PaaS
7 1 (0.83%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.50%) DNS
1 3 (2.50%) VPN
2 2 (1.67%) Firewall
2 2 (1.67%) HTTP
2 2 (1.67%) Internet
3 1 (0.83%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.50%) Power BI
2 5 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.50%) Amazon QuickSight
3 3 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.50%) MariaDB
3 3 (2.50%) Metadata
3 3 (2.50%) MySQL
4 2 (1.67%) Tableau
5 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.83%) OLAP
5 1 (0.83%) OLTP
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (5.00%) JIRA
2 3 (2.50%) Cypress.io
2 3 (2.50%) PHPUnit
2 3 (2.50%) Snyk
3 2 (1.67%) Appium
3 2 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.67%) Postman
3 2 (1.67%) Selenium
3 2 (1.67%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.67%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 1 (0.83%) Axure RP
General
1 91 (75.83%) Banking
2 64 (53.33%) Finance
3 37 (30.83%) Investment Banking
4 34 (28.33%) Corporate Banking
5 33 (27.50%) Retail
6 28 (23.33%) Social Skills
7 20 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (4.17%) Marketing
9 5 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (4.17%) Wholesale Banking
10 4 (3.33%) Front Office
11 2 (1.67%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.83%) French Language
Job Titles
1 32 (26.67%) Analyst
2 18 (15.00%) Developer
3 13 (10.83%) Architect
4 11 (9.17%) Product Owner
4 11 (9.17%) Project Manager
5 9 (7.50%) Data Analyst
6 8 (6.67%) Business Analyst
7 7 (5.83%) Senior
8 6 (5.00%) Banking Analyst
8 6 (5.00%) Qualitative Analyst
8 6 (5.00%) Quantitative Analyst
9 5 (4.17%) Digital Product Owner
9 5 (4.17%) Lead
9 5 (4.17%) Python Developer
9 5 (4.17%) Quantitative Developer
9 5 (4.17%) React Developer
9 5 (4.17%) SQL Developer
10 4 (3.33%) PHP Developer
10 4 (3.33%) Security Analyst
10 4 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.00%) GraphQL
2 5 (4.17%) React
3 4 (3.33%) CSS
3 4 (3.33%) HTML
3 4 (3.33%) Kafka
3 4 (3.33%) React Native
4 3 (2.50%) Laravel
4 3 (2.50%) Symfony
4 3 (2.50%) Yii
5 2 (1.67%) Ajax
5 2 (1.67%) DOM
5 2 (1.67%) JSON
5 2 (1.67%) Node.js
5 2 (1.67%) RESTful
6 1 (0.83%) COM+
6 1 (0.83%) Middleware
6 1 (0.83%) Pandas
6 1 (0.83%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.83%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.00%) Credit Risk
2 6 (5.00%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.50%) Market Risk
4 2 (1.67%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.67%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.67%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.67%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (1.67%) Online Banking
5 1 (0.83%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.00%) Windows
2 3 (2.50%) Android
2 3 (2.50%) Linux
2 3 (2.50%) Unix
3 1 (0.83%) AIX
3 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (35.00%) Agile
2 35 (29.17%) Wealth Management
3 20 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (10.83%) Customer Experience
4 13 (10.83%) DevOps
5 11 (9.17%) Analytics
6 9 (7.50%) Design Patterns
6 9 (7.50%) Migration
6 9 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (7.50%) Test Automation
7 8 (6.67%) Decision-Making
7 8 (6.67%) Software Engineering
7 8 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
8 7 (5.83%) Business Analysis
8 7 (5.83%) Fintech
8 7 (5.83%) Scrum
8 7 (5.83%) SDLC
8 7 (5.83%) User Experience
8 7 (5.83%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.00%) SQL
2 13 (10.83%) Python
3 8 (6.67%) PHP
4 5 (4.17%) C#
5 4 (3.33%) Java
5 4 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.50%) Go
6 3 (2.50%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.50%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.67%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.67%) R
8 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (4.17%) Degree
2 4 (3.33%) CISSP
3 3 (2.50%) CISM
4 1 (0.83%) CISA
4 1 (0.83%) CSSLP
4 1 (0.83%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.17%) QA
2 4 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.50%) PMO
4 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (2.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (2.50%) Grafana
1 3 (2.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.50%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.17%) Google
3 4 (3.33%) Adobe
4 3 (2.50%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.50%) Avaya
4 3 (2.50%) Oracle
4 3 (2.50%) Qualys
5 2 (1.67%) Checkmarx
5 2 (1.67%) CheckPoint
5 2 (1.67%) Maxymiser
5 2 (1.67%) Optimizely
5 2 (1.67%) Symantec
5 2 (1.67%) Veracode
5 2 (1.67%) Zscaler
6 1 (0.83%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.83%) Citrix
6 1 (0.83%) Fiserv
6 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.83%) Temenos