Banking Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Banking
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 14 16
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Banking 245 174 129
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 8.57% 11.34% 8.51%
As % of the General category 16.08% 17.94% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 127 44
10th Percentile £379 £278 £365
25th Percentile £425 £368 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year +12.78% -16.28% +2.38%
75th Percentile £597 £550 £625
90th Percentile £652 £625 £700
England median daily rate £550 £563 £625
% change year-on-year -2.22% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £15.24 - -
25th Percentile £16.91 £18.10 -
Median hourly rate £19.69 £18.21 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year +8.16% -0.36% -
75th Percentile - £18.41 -
90th Percentile - £18.47 -
England median hourly rate £18.60 £25.15 £16.00
% change year-on-year -26.06% +57.19% -11.01%

All General Skills
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 general skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,524 970 813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 53.32% 63.19% 53.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 975 621 455
10th Percentile £313 £220 £309
25th Percentile £406 £360 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £633 £675
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 36 44
10th Percentile £13.79 £14.43 £12.15
25th Percentile £16.62 £17.48 £14.06
Median hourly rate £24.00 £22.14 £18.64
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% +18.81% -1.92%
75th Percentile £36.61 £31.33 £35.00
90th Percentile £43.96 £81.25 £42.50
England median hourly rate £31.10 £25.15 £38.68
% change year-on-year +23.66% -34.97% +40.64%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Banking job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Banking
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Banking

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in Yorkshire

Banking
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Banking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Banking

Banking
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
South Yorkshire -4 177 £500 +11.11% 37
West Yorkshire +3 65 £575 +15.00% 31
Banking
England

Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 16 (6.53%) Confluence
2 3 (1.22%) SAS
2 3 (1.22%) WebSphere
3 2 (0.82%) Apache
3 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.82%) Apache Superset
3 2 (0.82%) CICS
4 1 (0.41%) IBM Transformation Extender
Applications
1 10 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.82%) EngageOne
3 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.82%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.41%) Actimize
2 1 (0.41%) Exstream
2 1 (0.41%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 31 (12.65%) Azure
2 27 (11.02%) AWS
3 26 (10.61%) GCP
4 16 (6.53%) GitHub
5 12 (4.90%) OpenShift
6 9 (3.67%) Power Platform
7 6 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.22%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.22%) Figma
8 3 (1.22%) Google Gemini
9 2 (0.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (0.82%) IaaS
9 2 (0.82%) SaaS
10 1 (0.41%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.41%) Collibra
10 1 (0.41%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.41%) PaaS
10 1 (0.41%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.41%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.98%) Network Security
2 9 (3.67%) SSL
3 6 (2.45%) Firewall
4 5 (2.04%) VPN
5 4 (1.63%) DNS
6 3 (1.22%) BIG-IP
6 3 (1.22%) NAS
6 3 (1.22%) SAN
6 3 (1.22%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.82%) DHCP
7 2 (0.82%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (0.82%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.41%) DWDM
8 1 (0.41%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (0.41%) HTTP
8 1 (0.41%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.41%) LAN
8 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.67%) Power BI
2 8 (3.27%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.45%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.04%) Db2
5 4 (1.63%) Metadata
6 3 (1.22%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.82%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.82%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.82%) Trino
8 1 (0.41%) Big Data
8 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.41%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.41%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.41%) Power Query
8 1 (0.41%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (10.61%) JIRA
2 21 (8.57%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.08%) Git
4 4 (1.63%) JMeter
4 4 (1.63%) LoadRunner
4 4 (1.63%) Selenium
5 3 (1.22%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.82%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.82%) Flyway
6 2 (0.82%) git-flow
6 2 (0.82%) Gradle
6 2 (0.82%) JUnit
6 2 (0.82%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.82%) Mockito
6 2 (0.82%) Postman
6 2 (0.82%) SoapUI
6 2 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.82%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 150 (61.22%) Finance
2 69 (28.16%) Social Skills
3 44 (17.96%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.94%) Legal
5 13 (5.31%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (4.90%) Financial Institution
7 10 (4.08%) Private Banking
8 9 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.45%) Retail
10 5 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.04%) Law
10 5 (2.04%) Marketing
11 4 (1.63%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.22%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.22%) International Banking
12 3 (1.22%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.22%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.82%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.82%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 40 (16.33%) Senior
2 38 (15.51%) Lead
3 37 (15.10%) Architect
4 24 (9.80%) Analyst
5 20 (8.16%) Developer
6 13 (5.31%) Administrator
7 12 (4.90%) Java Developer
8 11 (4.49%) Data Engineer
8 11 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (4.08%) Consultant
10 9 (3.67%) Banking Analyst
10 9 (3.67%) Project Manager
10 9 (3.67%) Technical Manager
10 9 (3.67%) Technical Specialist
11 8 (3.27%) Business Analyst
11 8 (3.27%) Enterprise Architect
11 8 (3.27%) Programme Manager
12 7 (2.86%) Data Analyst
12 7 (2.86%) Designer
12 7 (2.86%) Portfolio Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.16%) REST
2 16 (6.53%) Middleware
3 11 (4.49%) React
4 10 (4.08%) Kafka
5 9 (3.67%) ISPF
5 9 (3.67%) Spring
5 9 (3.67%) Terraform
6 6 (2.45%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.04%) .NET
7 5 (2.04%) OAuth
7 5 (2.04%) RESTful
8 4 (1.63%) JSON
8 4 (1.63%) LangChain
8 4 (1.63%) OAuth2
8 4 (1.63%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (1.22%) Jakarta EE
9 3 (1.22%) LangGraph
9 3 (1.22%) PySpark
9 3 (1.22%) Semantic Kernel
9 3 (1.22%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.61%) Mainframe
2 21 (8.57%) Data Protection Act
3 17 (6.94%) Data Centre
4 16 (6.53%) Cloud Native
5 13 (5.31%) Product Ownership
6 12 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (4.08%) Clustering
8 8 (3.27%) AI Agents
8 8 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.86%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.45%) Replication
11 5 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.63%) Credit Risk
12 4 (1.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 3 (1.22%) Blog
13 3 (1.22%) Enterprise Storage
13 3 (1.22%) PKI
13 3 (1.22%) Private Cloud
13 3 (1.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.12%) zOS
2 13 (5.31%) Linux
3 7 (2.86%) Windows
4 5 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.04%) Unix
5 2 (0.82%) MVS
6 1 (0.41%) AIX
6 1 (0.41%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (25.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 48 (19.59%) Agile
3 46 (18.78%) CI/CD
4 42 (17.14%) DevOps
5 41 (16.73%) Cybersecurity
6 39 (15.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (15.51%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (14.69%) AI
9 28 (11.43%) Roadmaps
10 27 (11.02%) Change Management
10 27 (11.02%) Observability
11 26 (10.61%) Microservices
12 23 (9.39%) Migration
12 23 (9.39%) Risk Management
13 22 (8.98%) Architectural Patterns
13 22 (8.98%) Data Protection
13 22 (8.98%) ITIL
14 21 (8.57%) Enterprise Architecture
15 19 (7.76%) Generative AI
15 19 (7.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 39 (15.92%) Python
2 27 (11.02%) Java
3 23 (9.39%) SQL
4 11 (4.49%) PowerShell
5 10 (4.08%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.27%) Bash
7 6 (2.45%) C#
7 6 (2.45%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.04%) JCL
9 4 (1.63%) COBOL
9 4 (1.63%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.63%) VBA
10 3 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.82%) Go
11 2 (0.82%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.82%) PromQL
11 2 (0.82%) REXX
11 2 (0.82%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.41%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (6.94%) Degree
2 11 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (4.49%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.08%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (2.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 5 (2.04%) CCSP
5 5 (2.04%) CISSP
5 5 (2.04%) JNCIA
5 5 (2.04%) JNCIS
6 4 (1.63%) CISM
7 3 (1.22%) CCSK
7 3 (1.22%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.22%) PMP
8 2 (0.82%) AAT
8 2 (0.82%) CCNA
8 2 (0.82%) CCNP
8 2 (0.82%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.41%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.08%) PMO
2 9 (3.67%) QA
3 5 (2.04%) GDPR
4 3 (1.22%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.22%) ISO 20022
4 3 (1.22%) SLA
5 2 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.82%) GRC
5 2 (0.82%) IFRS
5 2 (0.82%) NIST
5 2 (0.82%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.41%) COBIT
6 1 (0.41%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.41%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.41%) PERC
System Software
1 18 (7.35%) Docker
2 14 (5.71%) RACF
3 5 (2.04%) ACF2
3 5 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.22%) NFS
4 3 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.41%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 23 (9.39%) Ansible
3 11 (4.49%) OMEGAMON
4 8 (3.27%) Grafana
5 6 (2.45%) Control-M
5 6 (2.45%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.63%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.22%) CA Endevor
8 2 (0.82%) Consul
8 2 (0.82%) IBM Guardium
8 2 (0.82%) Nessus
8 2 (0.82%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 2 (0.82%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.41%) EMC VPLEX
9 1 (0.41%) Istio
9 1 (0.41%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.41%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.41%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.41%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (11.84%) IBM
1 29 (11.84%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.49%) Google
3 9 (3.67%) ServiceNow
4 7 (2.86%) Splunk
5 6 (2.45%) Oracle
6 4 (1.63%) Databricks
6 4 (1.63%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.63%) Fortinet
6 4 (1.63%) Juniper
6 4 (1.63%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.22%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.22%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.22%) Broadcom
7 3 (1.22%) Brocade
7 3 (1.22%) Cisco
7 3 (1.22%) F5
7 3 (1.22%) New Relic
7 3 (1.22%) Teradata
7 3 (1.22%) VMware