Banking Contracts in the North West

Banking
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 55 57
Rank change year-on-year +18 +2 -16
Contract jobs citing Banking 115 106 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 4.11% 3.52% 3.89%
As % of the General category 7.78% 6.70% 7.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 77 113
10th Percentile £350 £395 £259
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £550 £485
Median % change year-on-year -12.14% +13.40% +7.78%
75th Percentile £633 £600 £625
90th Percentile £738 £679 £685
England median daily rate £625 £650 £648
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.37% +12.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £11.13 £14.76 £11.43
25th Percentile £11.34 £14.92 £12.63
Median hourly rate £12.42 £15.51 £14.64
Median % change year-on-year -19.94% +5.96% +33.09%
75th Percentile £12.84 £15.90 £19.08
90th Percentile £47.92 £15.93 £21.75
England median hourly rate £19.05 £34.11 £26.00
% change year-on-year -44.15% +31.19% +85.32%

All General Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,478 1,582 2,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 52.82% 52.51% 50.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 871 1,098 1,407
10th Percentile £300 £308 £230
25th Percentile £394 £406 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +8.20%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £586
90th Percentile £663 £675 £660
England median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.93% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 80 112
10th Percentile £12.50 £14.74 £10.69
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.85 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.43 £23.15 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -7.43% -0.31% +17.58%
75th Percentile £37.25 £35.00 £50.68
90th Percentile £51.70 £53.54 £64.80
England median hourly rate £31.50 £30.65 £22.45
% change year-on-year +2.78% +36.51% +6.90%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Banking in the North West

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Banking in the North West

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in the North West over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in the North West

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Banking in the North West

Banking
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Banking in the North West over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Banking in the North West

Banking
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the North West region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
Cheshire +2 58 £475 -15.93% 4
Manchester +12 42 £550 - 34
Merseyside +9 8 £200 -60.00% 5
Cumbria - 6 £500 - 1
Banking
England

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 12 (10.43%) Confluence
2 6 (5.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (4.35%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.74%) Apache
5 1 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.87%) Mule
5 1 (0.87%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.87%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (9.57%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (6.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.96%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.74%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (6.09%) Temenos T24
2 3 (2.61%) SAP CO
2 3 (2.61%) SAP FI
2 3 (2.61%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.87%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.00%) AWS
2 17 (14.78%) Azure
3 7 (6.09%) Apigee
3 7 (6.09%) Kong
4 6 (5.22%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (2.61%) SaaS
5 3 (2.61%) Serverless
6 2 (1.74%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (1.74%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.87%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.87%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.87%) GCP
7 1 (0.87%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.87%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.35%) DMZ
2 4 (3.48%) Firewall
2 4 (3.48%) SD-WAN
2 4 (3.48%) Wireless
3 2 (1.74%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (1.74%) SSL
4 1 (0.87%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.87%) SAN
4 1 (0.87%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.83%) MongoDB
2 7 (6.09%) OLAP
2 7 (6.09%) OLTP
3 6 (5.22%) Oracle OLAP
3 6 (5.22%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.48%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.61%) Data Vault
5 3 (2.61%) DB2
5 3 (2.61%) MySQL
6 2 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.87%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.87%) Big Data
7 1 (0.87%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.87%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.87%) Essbase
7 1 (0.87%) Impala
7 1 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.87%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (17.39%) JIRA
2 7 (6.09%) Git
3 6 (5.22%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.61%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.74%) GitLab
5 2 (1.74%) Liquibase
5 2 (1.74%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.87%) Log4j
6 1 (0.87%) Mockito
General
1 55 (47.83%) Finance
2 33 (28.70%) Social Skills
3 14 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.96%) Investment Banking
5 5 (4.35%) Retail Banking
6 4 (3.48%) Corporate Banking
6 4 (3.48%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.61%) Retail
8 2 (1.74%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.87%) Front Office
9 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Legal
9 1 (0.87%) Marketing
9 1 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (26.09%) Architect
2 22 (19.13%) Solutions Architect
3 18 (15.65%) Analyst
4 14 (12.17%) Developer
5 8 (6.96%) Senior
6 7 (6.09%) AWS Architect
7 6 (5.22%) Administrator
7 6 (5.22%) Business Analyst
7 6 (5.22%) Lead
7 6 (5.22%) Project Manager
8 5 (4.35%) Data Analyst
8 5 (4.35%) Java Developer
8 5 (4.35%) Network Engineer
8 5 (4.35%) Payments Architect
8 5 (4.35%) Payments Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.48%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 4 (3.48%) Risk Analyst
9 4 (3.48%) Scrum Master
9 4 (3.48%) Security Analyst
10 3 (2.61%) Data Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.83%) Kafka
2 8 (6.96%) Spring
2 8 (6.96%) Web Services
3 7 (6.09%) IBM Integration Bus
3 7 (6.09%) J2EE
3 7 (6.09%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (6.09%) SOAP
4 6 (5.22%) Apache Camel
4 6 (5.22%) Spring Boot
4 6 (5.22%) Spring Integration
5 5 (4.35%) React
6 4 (3.48%) React Native
6 4 (3.48%) SailPoint
7 3 (2.61%) .NET
7 3 (2.61%) XML
8 2 (1.74%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.74%) CSS
8 2 (1.74%) HTML
8 2 (1.74%) jQuery
8 2 (1.74%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.09%) DataPower
2 6 (5.22%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.48%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.48%) Mainframe
4 4 (3.48%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.48%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.61%) Credit Risk
5 3 (2.61%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.74%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.74%) CMDB
6 2 (1.74%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.74%) Derivative
6 2 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.87%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.09%) Unix
2 6 (5.22%) Android
2 6 (5.22%) Linux
2 6 (5.22%) Windows
3 5 (4.35%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.74%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.74%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.87%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (20.00%) Agile
2 22 (19.13%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (14.78%) DevOps
4 16 (13.91%) Architectural Design
4 16 (13.91%) Enterprise Architecture
5 14 (12.17%) Microservices
6 13 (11.30%) Risk Management
7 12 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (9.57%) Design Patterns
8 11 (9.57%) Identity Access Management
8 11 (9.57%) SDLC
9 10 (8.70%) Business Strategy
10 9 (7.83%) OO
10 9 (7.83%) Project Management
11 8 (6.96%) Cybersecurity
12 7 (6.09%) API Management
12 7 (6.09%) CQRS
12 7 (6.09%) Event-Driven
12 7 (6.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 7 (6.09%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 20 (17.39%) Java
2 9 (7.83%) SQL
3 7 (6.09%) Python
4 3 (2.61%) C
4 3 (2.61%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.74%) Bash
5 2 (1.74%) C#
6 1 (0.87%) Groovy
6 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.87%) Ruby
6 1 (0.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (11.30%) Degree
2 6 (5.22%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.61%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.74%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.74%) PMP
5 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.87%) CCSA
5 1 (0.87%) CCSE
5 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.22%) QA
2 5 (4.35%) PMO
3 2 (1.74%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.74%) SLA
4 1 (0.87%) GRC
4 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.87%) NIST
4 1 (0.87%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (5.22%) Active Directory
1 6 (5.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.22%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (3.48%) Progress Chef
3 3 (2.61%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (1.74%) SCCM
5 1 (0.87%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.87%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (13.91%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.43%) Oracle
3 7 (6.09%) IBM
3 7 (6.09%) TSYS
4 5 (4.35%) F5
5 4 (3.48%) CyberArk
5 4 (3.48%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.61%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.61%) Bloomberg
6 3 (2.61%) Cisco
6 3 (2.61%) Refinitiv
6 3 (2.61%) SAP
7 2 (1.74%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.74%) Sage
7 2 (1.74%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.87%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.87%) Hyperion
8 1 (0.87%) Intel
8 1 (0.87%) Juniper
8 1 (0.87%) Red Hat