Investment Management Contracts in England

Investment Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Investment Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Investment Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 219 337 268
Rank change year-on-year +118 -69 -74
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 393 370 730
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.06% 0.73% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 0.81% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 312 647
10th Percentile £500 £450 £488
25th Percentile £588 £550 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% +2.13%
75th Percentile £850 £775 £738
90th Percentile £888 £838 £831
UK median daily rate £700 £675 £600
% change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £27.35
25th Percentile - £22.00 £32.38
Median hourly rate £40.00 £24.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -42.86% -
75th Percentile - £26.00 £52.88
90th Percentile - - £58.65
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £24.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -44.19% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Investment Management is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Investment Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Management in England

Investment Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Investment Management in England

Investment Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Management in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Management in England

Investment Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Investment Management in England

Investment Management
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 Management within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +91 379 £700 +3.70% 123
North of England +39 10 £425 +141.48% 5
North West +22 10 £425 +141.48% 2
West Midlands +31 2 £605 -3.20% 3
Midlands +23 2 £605 -3.20% 3
Investment Management
UK

Investment Management
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
1 122 (31.04%) Apache Airflow
2 112 (28.50%) Apache
3 4 (1.02%) Confluence
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 23 (5.85%) Aladdin
2 9 (2.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.78%) SAP FI
3 7 (1.78%) SimCorp Dimension
4 4 (1.02%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.51%) thinkFolio
6 1 (0.25%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.25%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 205 (52.16%) AWS
2 140 (35.62%) GCP
3 104 (26.46%) Azure
4 79 (20.10%) dbt
5 68 (17.30%) Snowflake
6 11 (2.80%) Power Platform
7 9 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.27%) Asana
8 5 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.27%) Slack
9 3 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (0.76%) Azure Stack
10 2 (0.51%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.51%) GitHub
11 1 (0.25%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.25%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.53%) Network Security
2 5 (1.27%) VPN
3 3 (0.76%) BGP
3 3 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (0.76%) DHCP
3 3 (0.76%) DNS
3 3 (0.76%) HTTP
3 3 (0.76%) MPLS
3 3 (0.76%) OSPF
3 3 (0.76%) SD-WAN
3 3 (0.76%) SNMP
3 3 (0.76%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.76%) WAN
3 3 (0.76%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (28.50%) Apache Ignite
2 76 (19.34%) Amazon Athena
2 76 (19.34%) Apache Arrow
2 76 (19.34%) Dremio
3 68 (17.30%) Data Lake
4 42 (10.69%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.80%) Big Data
6 10 (2.54%) Power BI
7 6 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.02%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.51%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.51%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.25%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.25%) DBAmp
10 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.25%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 29 (7.38%) Cypress.io
2 10 (2.54%) JIRA
3 5 (1.27%) Git
4 3 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.51%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.51%) webpack
6 1 (0.25%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 318 (80.92%) Finance
2 240 (61.07%) Front Office
3 171 (43.51%) Banking
4 82 (20.87%) Investment Banking
5 47 (11.96%) Back Office
6 43 (10.94%) Social Skills
7 7 (1.78%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.76%) Legal
9 3 (0.76%) Marketing
10 2 (0.51%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.51%) Law
10 2 (0.51%) Retail
11 1 (0.25%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.25%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 138 (35.11%) Developer
2 124 (31.55%) Software Engineer
3 105 (26.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 98 (24.94%) Analyst
5 72 (18.32%) Python Engineer
6 71 (18.07%) Python Developer
7 67 (17.05%) Python Software Engineer
8 62 (15.78%) Senior
9 55 (13.99%) Finance Manager
9 55 (13.99%) React Developer
10 52 (13.23%) Financial Analyst
11 51 (12.98%) Business Analyst
12 34 (8.65%) Lead
13 32 (8.14%) AWS Engineer
14 31 (7.89%) Full Stack Developer
14 31 (7.89%) Full Stack Engineer
14 31 (7.89%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 28 (7.12%) Finance Business Analyst
16 26 (6.62%) .NET Software Developer
16 26 (6.62%) Software Asset Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (30.79%) gRPC
1 121 (30.79%) Protocol Buffers
2 89 (22.65%) React
2 89 (22.65%) Redux
3 70 (17.81%) Pandas
4 67 (17.05%) NumPy
5 65 (16.54%) SciPy
6 53 (13.49%) Material-UI
7 28 (7.12%) .NET
8 22 (5.60%) Node.js
9 19 (4.83%) AngularJS
10 16 (4.07%) .NET Core
10 16 (4.07%) Vue
11 11 (2.80%) ASP.NET
11 11 (2.80%) ASP.NET Core
12 10 (2.54%) GraphQL
13 8 (2.04%) WPF
14 4 (1.02%) RESTful
15 3 (0.76%) ADO
15 3 (0.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 223 (56.74%) Hedge funds
2 197 (50.13%) Fixed Income
3 172 (43.77%) Derivative
4 153 (38.93%) Equities
5 114 (29.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 27 (6.87%) Product Ownership
7 13 (3.31%) Clustering
8 6 (1.53%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.53%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (1.27%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.02%) DTCC
10 4 (1.02%) Pricing Data
11 3 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.51%) Credit Derivative
12 2 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.51%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.25%) Analytical Mindset
13 1 (0.25%) CSOC
13 1 (0.25%) Equity Risk
13 1 (0.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.05%) Windows
2 5 (1.27%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.76%) Linux
4 1 (0.25%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (80.41%) Asset Management
2 214 (54.45%) Agile
3 170 (43.26%) Software Engineering
4 82 (20.87%) Full Stack Development
5 69 (17.56%) Machine Learning
6 68 (17.30%) Artificial Intelligence
7 58 (14.76%) Fintech
8 49 (12.47%) DevOps
9 41 (10.43%) Automated Trading
10 40 (10.18%) Mentoring
11 35 (8.91%) Analytics
12 28 (7.12%) Line Management
13 26 (6.62%) TDD
14 23 (5.85%) Stakeholder Management
15 22 (5.60%) Greeks
15 22 (5.60%) Performance Attribution
15 22 (5.60%) Wealth Management
16 19 (4.83%) Business Intelligence
17 18 (4.58%) Migration
17 18 (4.58%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 227 (57.76%) Python
2 149 (37.91%) TypeScript
3 119 (30.28%) JavaScript
4 98 (24.94%) SQL
5 83 (21.12%) Java
6 77 (19.59%) C#
7 16 (4.07%) R
8 11 (2.80%) Go
9 10 (2.54%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.53%) Ruby
10 6 (1.53%) Scala
11 5 (1.27%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.02%) VBA
13 3 (0.76%) C++
13 3 (0.76%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.51%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 5 (1.27%) Degree
2 4 (1.02%) CCNP
2 4 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (0.76%) CCDP
3 3 (0.76%) CFA
4 2 (0.51%) CIMA
4 2 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.51%) PMP
5 1 (0.25%) CCNA
5 1 (0.25%) ISEB
5 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.63%) Data Quality
1 30 (7.63%) QA
2 3 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (0.51%) MiFID
4 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.25%) EMIR
4 1 (0.25%) FATCA
4 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (2.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.76%) Docker
3 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (3.31%) Terraform
2 11 (2.80%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.54%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.76%) CASB
4 3 (0.76%) Kibana
5 2 (0.51%) SCCM
6 1 (0.25%) Control-M
6 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.25%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 44 (11.20%) Google
2 35 (8.91%) Bloomberg
3 12 (3.05%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.05%) Palo Alto
4 11 (2.80%) BISAM
5 8 (2.04%) Charles River
5 8 (2.04%) SAP
5 8 (2.04%) Zscaler
6 7 (1.78%) SimCorp
7 6 (1.53%) Databricks
8 4 (1.02%) Arista
8 4 (1.02%) Cisco
8 4 (1.02%) Oracle
9 3 (0.76%) Aruba
9 3 (0.76%) Infoblox
9 3 (0.76%) Meraki
9 3 (0.76%) Splunk
10 2 (0.51%) Avaloq
10 2 (0.51%) FactSet
10 2 (0.51%) Salesforce