Investment Banking Contracts in England

Investment Banking
UK > England

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 104 114
Rank change year-on-year -58 +10 +10
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 561 1,192 1,753
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.51% 2.39% 2.46%
As % of the General category 2.60% 4.03% 4.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 873 1,277
10th Percentile £500 £506 £525
25th Percentile £597 £575 £618
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £700 £713
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -1.75% +9.62%
75th Percentile £850 £806 £800
90th Percentile £900 £950 £875
UK median daily rate £725 £700 £700
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £21.50
25th Percentile £18.25 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £60.00
75th Percentile £20.75 - £74.88
90th Percentile - - £82.30
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £66.56 £53.50
% change year-on-year -70.70% +24.42% +137.78%

All General Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,618 29,557 40,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.31% 59.18% 56.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,947 20,746 28,118
10th Percentile £275 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £686 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,789 968 1,313
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.13 £14.75
Median hourly rate £30.50 £32.40 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.86% +50.70% -4.44%
75th Percentile £51.91 £60.79 £46.50
90th Percentile £65.01 £70.94 £58.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.60 £22.00
% change year-on-year -7.96% +48.16% -2.22%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in England

Investment Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Investment Banking in England

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in England

Investment Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Investment Banking in England

Investment Banking
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 6 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
London -22 535 £750 +7.14% 111
North of England +17 11 £625 +38.89% 6
South East +25 9 - - 1
North West +14 9 £625 +38.89% 5
South West +23 2 £463 +2.78%
Midlands +27 1 - - 2
West Midlands +16 1 - - 2
North East - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £400 - 1
Investment Banking
UK

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 86 (15.33%) Apache
2 85 (15.15%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.60%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.07%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.89%) Confluence
6 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.53%) CMS
7 3 (0.53%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.36%) nginx
9 1 (0.18%) GemFire
9 1 (0.18%) IIS
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.36%) Sketch
5 2 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.18%) InVision
Business Applications
1 12 (2.14%) Aladdin
2 11 (1.96%) ION Anvil
2 11 (1.96%) Loan IQ
3 8 (1.43%) ION MarketView
4 6 (1.07%) IntelliMatch
5 3 (0.53%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.36%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.18%) Finacle
7 1 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle FAH
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.18%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.18%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.18%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 120 (21.39%) AWS
2 84 (14.97%) dbt
3 71 (12.66%) Snowflake
4 62 (11.05%) GCP
5 44 (7.84%) Azure
6 14 (2.50%) Power Platform
7 9 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (1.43%) GitHub
9 7 (1.25%) Serverless
10 6 (1.07%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (1.07%) Power Automate
11 5 (0.89%) npm
11 5 (0.89%) Yarn
12 4 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.71%) Cloud Run
12 4 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (0.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (0.71%) OpenShift
13 3 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (0.53%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.85%) Firewall
2 14 (2.50%) DMZ
2 14 (2.50%) VPN
3 12 (2.14%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (0.71%) FIX Connectivity
4 4 (0.71%) Internet
5 3 (0.53%) LAN
5 3 (0.53%) WAN
6 2 (0.36%) AMQP
6 2 (0.36%) IPsec
6 2 (0.36%) SSH
6 2 (0.36%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.18%) Network Security
7 1 (0.18%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (14.97%) Amazon Athena
1 84 (14.97%) Apache Arrow
1 84 (14.97%) Apache Ignite
1 84 (14.97%) Dremio
2 73 (13.01%) Data Lake
3 36 (6.42%) Relational Database
4 32 (5.70%) SQL Server
5 14 (2.50%) Big Data
6 13 (2.32%) KDB
7 10 (1.78%) Power BI
8 7 (1.25%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.25%) Oracle Database
9 6 (1.07%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.89%) Apache Hive
10 5 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.89%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.89%) Impala
10 5 (0.89%) MySQL
11 4 (0.71%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 30 (5.35%) JIRA
2 25 (4.46%) Git
3 23 (4.10%) TeamCity
4 17 (3.03%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.43%) Cucumber
5 8 (1.43%) Visual Studio
6 7 (1.25%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.07%) GitLab
8 5 (0.89%) MLflow
8 5 (0.89%) TestRail
9 4 (0.71%) Selenium
10 3 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.53%) PHPUnit
10 3 (0.53%) SpecFlow
10 3 (0.53%) webpack
11 2 (0.36%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.36%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.36%) JUnit
11 2 (0.36%) Mocha
11 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 561 (100.00%) Banking
2 312 (55.61%) Finance
3 197 (35.12%) Front Office
4 122 (21.75%) Social Skills
5 60 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (6.60%) Retail
7 35 (6.24%) Retail Banking
8 32 (5.70%) Corporate Banking
9 10 (1.78%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.78%) Wholesale Banking
10 9 (1.60%) Back Office
11 8 (1.43%) Public Sector
12 7 (1.25%) Prime Brokerage
13 6 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.07%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
14 5 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.89%) Legal
15 4 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.36%) French Language
16 2 (0.36%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 194 (34.58%) Developer
2 114 (20.32%) Analyst
3 74 (13.19%) Business Analyst
4 69 (12.30%) Java Developer
5 66 (11.76%) Senior
6 65 (11.59%) Lead
7 54 (9.63%) Software Engineer
8 39 (6.95%) Architect
9 33 (5.88%) C# Developer
9 33 (5.88%) Java Engineer
10 32 (5.70%) Software Developer
11 30 (5.35%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 30 (5.35%) Python Engineer
12 29 (5.17%) Python Developer
12 29 (5.17%) Python Software Engineer
12 29 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
13 28 (4.99%) AWS Engineer
13 28 (4.99%) Banking Analyst
13 28 (4.99%) Java Software Engineer
13 28 (4.99%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (15.15%) gRPC
2 84 (14.97%) Pandas
3 83 (14.80%) NumPy
3 83 (14.80%) Protocol Buffers
3 83 (14.80%) SciPy
4 49 (8.73%) .NET
5 38 (6.77%) FIX Protocol
6 33 (5.88%) React
7 22 (3.92%) WPF
8 15 (2.67%) CSS
9 12 (2.14%) AngularJS
9 12 (2.14%) HTML
9 12 (2.14%) Spring
10 10 (1.78%) .NET Framework
10 10 (1.78%) Redux
11 9 (1.60%) Middleware
12 8 (1.43%) .NET Core
12 8 (1.43%) Kafka
12 8 (1.43%) WCF
13 7 (1.25%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 165 (29.41%) Derivative
2 158 (28.16%) Fixed Income
3 129 (22.99%) Equities
4 125 (22.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 99 (17.65%) Hedge funds
6 42 (7.49%) Product Ownership
7 20 (3.57%) Equity Derivative
8 14 (2.50%) Market Risk
9 9 (1.60%) Algorithms
9 9 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (1.43%) Credit Risk
10 8 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.43%) OTC Derivatives
11 7 (1.25%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.07%) Pricing Data
12 6 (1.07%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (0.89%) Reference Data
14 4 (0.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 47 (8.38%) Linux
2 43 (7.66%) Windows
3 36 (6.42%) Unix
4 4 (0.71%) Android
5 3 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.36%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.18%) VMS
7 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (37.25%) Agile
2 106 (18.89%) Asset Management
3 105 (18.72%) Software Engineering
4 88 (15.69%) Investment Management
5 65 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (9.98%) DevOps
7 49 (8.73%) Electronic Trading
8 48 (8.56%) Test Automation
9 43 (7.66%) Line Management
10 41 (7.31%) Analytics
10 41 (7.31%) Wealth Management
11 40 (7.13%) Project Management
12 39 (6.95%) Stakeholder Management
13 37 (6.60%) SDLC
14 31 (5.53%) CI/CD
15 30 (5.35%) Migration
16 28 (4.99%) Risk Management
17 26 (4.63%) Algorithmic Trading
17 26 (4.63%) Business Analysis
17 26 (4.63%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 183 (32.62%) Python
2 180 (32.09%) Java
3 126 (22.46%) SQL
4 103 (18.36%) TypeScript
5 94 (16.76%) JavaScript
6 88 (15.69%) C#
7 25 (4.46%) PowerShell
8 23 (4.10%) C++
9 22 (3.92%) Scala
10 10 (1.78%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.60%) Ruby
11 9 (1.60%) VBA
12 8 (1.43%) Perl
13 7 (1.25%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.07%) Bash
15 5 (0.89%) PHP
15 5 (0.89%) R
16 4 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.71%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.53%) Go
Qualifications
1 40 (7.13%) Degree
2 13 (2.32%) Numerate Degree
3 11 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.07%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.71%) APMP
5 4 (0.71%) PMP
5 4 (0.71%) Security Cleared
6 3 (0.53%) CISM
6 3 (0.53%) CISSP
6 3 (0.53%) MCSE
6 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.53%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.36%) ISEB
7 2 (0.36%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 2 (0.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.18%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 33 (5.88%) QA
3 18 (3.21%) PMO
4 16 (2.85%) EMIR
5 12 (2.14%) MiFID
6 9 (1.60%) SLA
7 3 (0.53%) Dodd-Frank
7 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.36%) SEPA
9 1 (0.18%) Basel II
9 1 (0.18%) Basel III
9 1 (0.18%) COREP
9 1 (0.18%) GAAP
9 1 (0.18%) GDPR
9 1 (0.18%) GRC
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.18%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (2.85%) Docker
2 10 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.18%) GridGain
3 1 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (2.85%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.50%) Ansible
3 13 (2.32%) ITRS Geneos
4 10 (1.78%) Grafana
5 9 (1.60%) Terraform
6 8 (1.43%) Puppet
7 3 (0.53%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.36%) Consul
8 2 (0.36%) Packer
8 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.36%) Rancher
8 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.18%) Argo
9 1 (0.18%) Control-M
9 1 (0.18%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.18%) Kibana
9 1 (0.18%) Netcool
Vendors
1 37 (6.60%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.35%) Bloomberg
3 18 (3.21%) Oracle
4 14 (2.50%) Cisco
4 14 (2.50%) ION Trading
5 13 (2.32%) Fortinet
6 12 (2.14%) BISAM
7 11 (1.96%) Blue Coat
7 11 (1.96%) CheckPoint
7 11 (1.96%) Juniper
8 10 (1.78%) Databricks
9 8 (1.43%) Refinitiv
10 6 (1.07%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.07%) Google
10 6 (1.07%) IBM
10 6 (1.07%) Murex
11 5 (0.89%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.71%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.71%) SmartStream
12 4 (0.71%) Solace