Investment Banking Contracts in Central London

Investment Banking
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in contract job vacancies advertised in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Investment Banking over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 44 64
Rank change year-on-year -18 +20 +1
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 75 166 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.11% 4.32% 3.60%
As % of the General category 4.73% 6.94% 6.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 123 112
10th Percentile £424 £492 £558
25th Percentile £563 £604 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £713 £725
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% -1.72% +11.54%
75th Percentile £819 £823 £800
90th Percentile £1,085 £1,063 £913
London median daily rate £750 £700 £713
% change year-on-year +7.14% -1.75% +9.62%

All General Skills
Central London

Investment 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 advertised in Central London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,587 2,393 2,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 65.71% 62.24% 56.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,135 1,689 1,900
10th Percentile £334 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £475 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £600 £573
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% +4.80% +6.51%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £675
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
London median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 26
10th Percentile £20.04 £15.20 £18.50
25th Percentile £21.36 £18.42 £21.00
Median hourly rate £24.00 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% -21.35% +122.50%
75th Percentile £30.25 £53.25 £61.00
90th Percentile £47.65 £58.75 £68.75
London median hourly rate £28.25 £31.92 £37.50
% change year-on-year -11.50% -14.88% +33.93%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Investment Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in Central London

Investment Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Investment Banking in Central London

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in Central London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in Central London

Investment Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Investment Banking in Central London

Investment Banking
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Investment Banking within the Central London region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
City of London -5 74 £700 -1.75% 8
Investment Banking
London

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (5.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.33%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) IntelliMatch
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.67%) AWS
1 8 (10.67%) Azure
2 6 (8.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (5.33%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (5.33%) Power Automate
4 3 (4.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (2.67%) NuGet
6 1 (1.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.67%) SQL Server
2 8 (10.67%) Relational Database
3 7 (9.33%) KDB
4 3 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.00%) MySQL
5 2 (2.67%) Data Mart
5 2 (2.67%) Metadata
5 2 (2.67%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.67%) Power BI
6 1 (1.33%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.33%) Big Data
6 1 (1.33%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.33%) Impala
6 1 (1.33%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.33%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.33%) Sqoop
6 1 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (12.00%) TeamCity
2 4 (5.33%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.00%) Git
3 3 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.00%) PHPUnit
4 2 (2.67%) JIRA
5 1 (1.33%) GitLab
General
1 75 (100.00%) Banking
2 27 (36.00%) Finance
3 21 (28.00%) Social Skills
4 15 (20.00%) Front Office
5 13 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (10.67%) Corporate Banking
7 7 (9.33%) Retail
7 7 (9.33%) Retail Banking
8 3 (4.00%) Back Office
9 2 (2.67%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.67%) Public Speaking
10 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.33%) Legal
10 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.33%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (44.00%) Developer
2 13 (17.33%) Analyst
3 9 (12.00%) C# Developer
3 9 (12.00%) Senior
4 8 (10.67%) Architect
5 7 (9.33%) Business Analyst
5 7 (9.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Java Developer
6 6 (8.00%) Senior DevOps
6 6 (8.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Banking Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) Data Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) Project Manager
7 5 (6.67%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.33%) .NET Developer
8 4 (5.33%) AWS Developer
8 4 (5.33%) Market Analyst
8 4 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.00%) C# .NET Developer
9 3 (4.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.67%) .NET
2 5 (6.67%) .NET Core
2 5 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (6.67%) WCF
2 5 (6.67%) WinForms
3 4 (5.33%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (4.00%) Laravel
4 3 (4.00%) React
4 3 (4.00%) Spring
4 3 (4.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (4.00%) Symfony
4 3 (4.00%) Yii
5 2 (2.67%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.67%) Middleware
5 2 (2.67%) Rendezvous
6 1 (1.33%) CSS
6 1 (1.33%) DAO
6 1 (1.33%) HTML
6 1 (1.33%) Kafka
6 1 (1.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.33%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.00%) Derivative
4 2 (2.67%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.67%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.67%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.67%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.33%) Equities
5 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.33%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.33%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.33%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.33%) Windows
2 7 (9.33%) Linux
3 2 (2.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (18.67%) Agile
3 11 (14.67%) DevOps
3 11 (14.67%) SDLC
4 10 (13.33%) Wealth Management
5 9 (12.00%) OO
5 9 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (10.67%) Risk Management
7 7 (9.33%) Microservices
7 7 (9.33%) OOP
8 6 (8.00%) Configuration Management
8 6 (8.00%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (8.00%) Migration
9 5 (6.67%) Analytics
9 5 (6.67%) Data Analysis
9 5 (6.67%) Electronic Trading
9 5 (6.67%) GAP Analysis
9 5 (6.67%) Project Management
9 5 (6.67%) Test Automation
9 5 (6.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (30.67%) SQL
2 21 (28.00%) C#
3 12 (16.00%) Python
4 10 (13.33%) Java
5 6 (8.00%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.67%) C++
7 3 (4.00%) PHP
8 2 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.67%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.67%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.67%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.67%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.33%) Jython
Qualifications
1 3 (4.00%) Degree
2 1 (1.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.67%) SLA
2 3 (4.00%) PMO
2 3 (4.00%) QA
3 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.33%) EMIR
3 1 (1.33%) MiFID
System Software
1 9 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.33%) Docker
3 1 (1.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (2.67%) Puppet
2 1 (1.33%) Ansible
2 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (10.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.67%) Bloomberg
3 3 (4.00%) GoldenSource
3 3 (4.00%) Murex
3 3 (4.00%) Oracle
4 2 (2.67%) Adobe
4 2 (2.67%) Alteryx
4 2 (2.67%) Citrix
4 2 (2.67%) Solace
4 2 (2.67%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.33%) Progress
5 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow