Banking Contracts in West Yorkshire

Banking
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 56 72
Rank change year-on-year +17 +16 -14
Contract jobs citing Banking 23 21 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 4.20% 2.10% 2.14%
As % of the General category 7.08% 3.83% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 28
10th Percentile £369 £319 £411
25th Percentile £416 £345 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% +5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £773 £750 £550
90th Percentile £780 - £577
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £444 £550
% change year-on-year +12.68% -19.32% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £18.27 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £18.27 -
% change year-on-year -0.36% - -

All General Skills
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 325 548 991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 59.31% 54.85% 60.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 314 702
10th Percentile £260 £265 £350
25th Percentile £350 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £619
90th Percentile £677 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 44 9
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £13.16
Median hourly rate £24.82 £13.50 £17.24
Median % change year-on-year +83.85% -21.69% -7.81%
75th Percentile £36.22 £15.19 £18.00
90th Percentile £91.13 £15.25 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.55 £14.63 £17.86
% change year-on-year +26.84% -18.11% -4.49%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Banking in West Yorkshire

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Banking in West Yorkshire

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in West Yorkshire

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Banking in West Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Leeds +13 23 £625 -16.67% 21
Banking
Yorkshire

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 4 (17.39%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) Collibra
2 4 (17.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 3 (13.04%) GCP
4 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.35%) Lucidchart
5 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) NAS
1 2 (8.70%) SAN
1 2 (8.70%) SSL
2 1 (4.35%) DHCP
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) BigQuery
2 2 (8.70%) Flink
2 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.35%) DB2
3 1 (4.35%) Looker
3 1 (4.35%) Power BI
3 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) ERwin
General
1 9 (39.13%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Retail Banking
3 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Wholesale Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Architect
2 6 (26.09%) Consultant
3 4 (17.39%) Data Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Business Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) DevSecOps Architect
5 2 (8.70%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Mainframe Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Security Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Security Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Data Modeller
6 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Infoblox Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) Service Manager
6 1 (4.35%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Kafka
2 6 (26.09%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (13.04%) Middleware
4 2 (8.70%) Apache Beam
4 2 (8.70%) LDAP
4 2 (8.70%) REST
4 2 (8.70%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (4.35%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (4.35%) FpML
5 1 (4.35%) JSON
5 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Clustering
1 3 (13.04%) Mainframe
2 2 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.70%) IBM Mainframe
2 2 (8.70%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) HPUX
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Solaris
2 1 (4.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) Monte Carlo Method
1 6 (26.09%) Observability
2 4 (17.39%) Data Governance
2 4 (17.39%) Microservices
2 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (13.04%) High Availability
3 3 (13.04%) Use Case
4 2 (8.70%) Agile
4 2 (8.70%) BPMN
4 2 (8.70%) Business Case
4 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (8.70%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (8.70%) DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) DevSecOps
4 2 (8.70%) Migration
4 2 (8.70%) Network Architecture
4 2 (8.70%) OWASP
4 2 (8.70%) Project Planning
4 2 (8.70%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) Python
1 3 (13.04%) SQL
2 1 (4.35%) COBOL
2 1 (4.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (8.70%) CCSP
1 2 (8.70%) CEH
1 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (8.70%) CISM
1 2 (8.70%) CISSP
1 2 (8.70%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) COBIT
1 2 (8.70%) NIST
1 2 (8.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Grafana
1 8 (34.78%) Prometheus
2 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) HP Data Protector
3 1 (4.35%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Splunk
2 5 (21.74%) IBM
3 2 (8.70%) AppDynamics
3 2 (8.70%) Confluent
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle
4 1 (4.35%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco
4 1 (4.35%) Dell
4 1 (4.35%) F5
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) HP
4 1 (4.35%) Infoblox
4 1 (4.35%) Sparx
4 1 (4.35%) Sun
4 1 (4.35%) Unisys
4 1 (4.35%) Veritas