Retail Banking Contracts

Retail Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Retail Banking over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 455 492 417
Rank change year-on-year +37 -75 +26
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 120 192 524
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.34% 0.60%
As % of the General category 0.48% 0.59% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 105 230
10th Percentile £425 £459 £350
25th Percentile £488 £500 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £778 £650
90th Percentile £838 £973 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £500 £489
% change year-on-year +15.00% +2.25% +15.06%

All General Skills
UK

Retail Banking is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,753 32,807 49,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.49% 58.53% 56.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,550 22,755 34,565
10th Percentile £275 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +8.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,984 981 1,390
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +43.56% +4.65%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.36
90th Percentile £67.38 £72.50 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.42 £27.84 £19.50
% change year-on-year +2.08% +42.77% +2.63%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Retail Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +31 95 £575 -11.54% 39
London +35 71 £575 -14.81% 29
Work from Home +74 48 £500 -10.67% 19
UK excluding London +26 36 £575 +15.00% 21
Scotland +26 22 £575 +15.58% 9
North of England +24 8 £600 +11.63% 2
North West +25 7 £600 +5.49% 1
South West +8 3 - - 1
East of England - 2 £575 -
Yorkshire +15 1 £700 +40.00% 1
South East +9 1 £341 -31.80% 2

Retail Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (4.17%) Confluence
2 3 (2.50%) CMS
2 3 (2.50%) Headless CMS
2 3 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 6 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.67%) Gliffy
3 2 (1.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.67%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 16 (13.33%) AWS
2 10 (8.33%) Azure
3 7 (5.83%) Power Platform
4 4 (3.33%) Amazon S3
4 4 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (2.50%) Amazon ECR
5 3 (2.50%) Amazon MSK
5 3 (2.50%) Figma
5 3 (2.50%) GCP
6 2 (1.67%) GitHub
6 2 (1.67%) Google Analytics
6 2 (1.67%) SaaS
7 1 (0.83%) FinancialForce
7 1 (0.83%) IaaS
7 1 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.83%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.50%) DNS
1 3 (2.50%) VPN
2 2 (1.67%) Firewall
2 2 (1.67%) HTTP
2 2 (1.67%) Internet
3 1 (0.83%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.83%) Power BI
2 5 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.33%) MySQL
4 3 (2.50%) Amazon QuickSight
4 3 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.50%) MariaDB
4 3 (2.50%) Metadata
5 2 (1.67%) Tableau
6 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.83%) OLAP
6 1 (0.83%) OLTP
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (5.00%) JIRA
2 4 (3.33%) PHPUnit
3 3 (2.50%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.50%) Snyk
4 2 (1.67%) Appium
4 2 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.67%) Postman
4 2 (1.67%) Selenium
4 2 (1.67%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.67%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 91 (75.83%) Banking
2 66 (55.00%) Finance
3 33 (27.50%) Investment Banking
4 31 (25.83%) Corporate Banking
4 31 (25.83%) Social Skills
5 30 (25.00%) Retail
6 16 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (5.00%) Marketing
9 5 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (4.17%) Wholesale Banking
10 4 (3.33%) Front Office
11 2 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.83%) French Language
Job Titles
1 28 (23.33%) Analyst
2 19 (15.83%) Developer
3 15 (12.50%) Architect
4 14 (11.67%) Project Manager
5 11 (9.17%) Product Owner
6 9 (7.50%) Data Analyst
7 8 (6.67%) Senior
8 6 (5.00%) Qualitative Analyst
8 6 (5.00%) Quantitative Analyst
9 5 (4.17%) Banking Analyst
9 5 (4.17%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.17%) Lead
9 5 (4.17%) PHP Developer
9 5 (4.17%) Python Developer
9 5 (4.17%) Quantitative Developer
9 5 (4.17%) React Developer
9 5 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.17%) SQL Developer
10 4 (3.33%) AWS Developer
10 4 (3.33%) Digital Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.00%) GraphQL
2 5 (4.17%) React
3 4 (3.33%) CSS
3 4 (3.33%) HTML
3 4 (3.33%) Kafka
3 4 (3.33%) Laravel
3 4 (3.33%) React Native
3 4 (3.33%) Symfony
3 4 (3.33%) Yii
4 2 (1.67%) Ajax
4 2 (1.67%) DOM
4 2 (1.67%) JSON
4 2 (1.67%) Node.js
4 2 (1.67%) RESTful
5 1 (0.83%) COM+
5 1 (0.83%) Middleware
5 1 (0.83%) Pandas
5 1 (0.83%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.17%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.83%) Mobile App
3 6 (5.00%) Credit Risk
4 3 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.50%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.67%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.67%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.67%) Mobile Banking
5 2 (1.67%) Online Banking
6 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.83%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.83%) Windows
2 3 (2.50%) Android
2 3 (2.50%) Linux
2 3 (2.50%) Unix
3 1 (0.83%) AIX
3 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.83%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (35.00%) Agile
2 33 (27.50%) Wealth Management
3 16 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (10.83%) DevOps
5 12 (10.00%) Analytics
5 12 (10.00%) Customer Experience
6 11 (9.17%) Test Automation
7 10 (8.33%) Design Patterns
7 10 (8.33%) Migration
7 10 (8.33%) Project Management
7 10 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (6.67%) CI/CD
8 8 (6.67%) Decision-Making
8 8 (6.67%) Software Engineering
9 7 (5.83%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (5.83%) Data Analytics
9 7 (5.83%) Risk Management
9 7 (5.83%) Scrum
9 7 (5.83%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (15.83%) SQL
2 13 (10.83%) Python
3 9 (7.50%) PHP
4 5 (4.17%) C#
5 4 (3.33%) Java
5 4 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.50%) Go
6 3 (2.50%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.50%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.67%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.67%) R
8 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (4.17%) Degree
2 2 (1.67%) CISSP
3 1 (0.83%) CISA
3 1 (0.83%) CISM
3 1 (0.83%) CSSLP
3 1 (0.83%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.33%) Data Quality
1 4 (3.33%) QA
2 3 (2.50%) PMO
3 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (3.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (2.50%) Grafana
1 3 (2.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.50%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.17%) Google
3 4 (3.33%) Adobe
4 3 (2.50%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.50%) Oracle
5 2 (1.67%) Checkmarx
5 2 (1.67%) CheckPoint
5 2 (1.67%) Maxymiser
5 2 (1.67%) Optimizely
5 2 (1.67%) Symantec
5 2 (1.67%) Veracode
5 2 (1.67%) Zscaler
6 1 (0.83%) Avaloq
6 1 (0.83%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.83%) Citrix
6 1 (0.83%) Qualys
6 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.83%) TSYS