Retail Banking Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Retail Banking
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 6 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 103 106
Rank change year-on-year -34 +3 +49
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.13% 0.063% 0.17%
As % of the General category 0.23% 0.10% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £459 - £392
25th Percentile £473 £525 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £483
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +13.99% +129.76%
75th Percentile £518 £575 £570
90th Percentile £531 - £609
England median daily rate £529 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -18.65% +8.33% +9.09%

All General Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,327 985 958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 57.70% 61.60% 54.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 850 606 653
10th Percentile £219 £200 £220
25th Percentile £400 £374 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +0.75% -
75th Percentile £581 £612 £600
90th Percentile £663 £706 £688
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 38 49
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.46
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.22 £17.25
Median hourly rate £20.25 £23.82 £22.10
Median % change year-on-year -14.99% +7.78% +30.50%
75th Percentile £29.50 £30.68 £42.50
90th Percentile £40.13 £50.75 £70.58
England median hourly rate £23.58 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.42% -9.09% +27.86%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Retail Banking job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Retail Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Retail Banking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 January 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
Birmingham -10 1 £540 -1.82%
Coventry - 1 - - 1
West Bromwich - 1 £450 -
Retail Banking
England

Retail Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Junior
1 1 (33.33%) Junior Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Junior Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Integration Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Test Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test and Integration Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Market Risk
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
1 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Quantitative Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) SDLC
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (33.33%) TDD
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java