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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 62 72
Rank change year-on-year +24 +10 -13
Contract jobs citing Banking 24 16 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 4.30% 1.64% 2.05%
As % of the General category 7.12% 3.00% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 26
10th Percentile £373 £317 £409
25th Percentile £413 £380 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +12.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £730 £750 £550
90th Percentile £780 - £591
Yorkshire median daily rate £494 £491 £550
% change year-on-year +0.56% -10.73% +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 337 533 948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 60.39% 54.78% 60.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 305 672
10th Percentile £246 £300 £351
25th Percentile £350 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £638
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 45 11
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.15 £12.58
Median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.00% -20.59% -9.09%
75th Percentile £32.80 £15.19 £19.50
90th Percentile £40.87 £17.06 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.53 £14.63 £17.86
% change year-on-year +26.70% -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 16 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

Banking
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 16 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 +12 23 £600 -20.00% 15
Halifax -9 1 £413 -21.43% 2
Bradford - 1 £600 - 1
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 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Collibra
2 4 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 4 (16.67%) GCP
3 2 (8.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.17%) Lucidchart
4 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) NAS
1 2 (8.33%) SAN
1 2 (8.33%) SSL
2 1 (4.17%) DHCP
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) BigQuery
2 2 (8.33%) Flink
2 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Big Data
3 1 (4.17%) DB2
3 1 (4.17%) Looker
3 1 (4.17%) Power BI
3 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) ERwin
General
1 10 (41.67%) Finance
2 4 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Retail Banking
3 2 (8.33%) Wholesale Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Architect
2 5 (20.83%) Consultant
2 5 (20.83%) Data Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Mainframe Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Data Modeller
5 1 (4.17%) Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Infoblox Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Quality Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Security Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Service Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) Kafka
2 6 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (12.50%) Middleware
4 2 (8.33%) Apache Beam
4 2 (8.33%) LDAP
4 2 (8.33%) REST
4 2 (8.33%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (4.17%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (4.17%) FpML
5 1 (4.17%) JSON
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Clustering
1 3 (12.50%) Mainframe
2 2 (8.33%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Linux
1 5 (20.83%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) HPUX
2 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Solaris
2 1 (4.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Monte Carlo Method
1 6 (25.00%) Observability
2 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 4 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (16.67%) High Availability
3 4 (16.67%) Microservices
4 3 (12.50%) Use Case
5 2 (8.33%) Agile
5 2 (8.33%) Analytics
5 2 (8.33%) BPMN
5 2 (8.33%) Business Case
5 2 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (8.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (8.33%) DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) Event-Driven
5 2 (8.33%) Key Management
5 2 (8.33%) Migration
5 2 (8.33%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) Python
1 3 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (4.17%) COBOL
2 1 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (4.17%) CCSP
1 1 (4.17%) CEH
1 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (4.17%) CISM
1 1 (4.17%) CISSP
1 1 (4.17%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) COBIT
1 1 (4.17%) NIST
1 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) Grafana
1 8 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 6 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) HP Data Protector
3 1 (4.17%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Splunk
2 5 (20.83%) IBM
3 3 (12.50%) Oracle
4 2 (8.33%) AppDynamics
4 2 (8.33%) Confluent
4 2 (8.33%) Google
5 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco
5 1 (4.17%) Dell
5 1 (4.17%) F5
5 1 (4.17%) HP
5 1 (4.17%) Infoblox
5 1 (4.17%) Sparx
5 1 (4.17%) Sun
5 1 (4.17%) Unisys
5 1 (4.17%) Veritas