Investment Management Contracts in London

Investment Management
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 209 171
Rank change year-on-year +98 -38 -64
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 379 349 681
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.14% 1.29% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 1.42% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 300 617
10th Percentile £500 £454 £495
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 £764 £738
90th Percentile £888 £838 £835
England median daily rate £700 £675 £600
% change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £24.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -42.86% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,676 24,638 35,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 91.11% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,227 17,712 26,145
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 278 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £62.64 £50.88
90th Percentile £66.30 £76.78 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Investment Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Management in London

Investment Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Investment Management in London

Investment Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Management in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Management in London

Investment Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Investment Management in London

Investment Management
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Central London +30 20 £700 -3.45% 5
West London - 2 £684 -
Investment Management
England

Investment Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 122 (32.19%) Apache Airflow
2 112 (29.55%) Apache
3 4 (1.06%) Confluence
4 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.53%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 23 (6.07%) Aladdin
2 7 (1.85%) SimCorp Dimension
3 3 (0.79%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.53%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.26%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 205 (54.09%) AWS
2 140 (36.94%) GCP
3 102 (26.91%) Azure
4 78 (20.58%) dbt
5 68 (17.94%) Snowflake
6 10 (2.64%) Power Platform
7 9 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.32%) Asana
8 5 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.32%) Slack
9 3 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (0.79%) Azure Stack
10 2 (0.53%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.53%) GitHub
11 1 (0.26%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.26%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.26%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.58%) Network Security
2 5 (1.32%) VPN
3 3 (0.79%) BGP
3 3 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (0.79%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (0.79%) DHCP
3 3 (0.79%) DNS
3 3 (0.79%) HTTP
3 3 (0.79%) MPLS
3 3 (0.79%) OSPF
3 3 (0.79%) SD-WAN
3 3 (0.79%) SNMP
3 3 (0.79%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.79%) WAN
3 3 (0.79%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (29.55%) Apache Ignite
2 76 (20.05%) Amazon Athena
2 76 (20.05%) Apache Arrow
2 76 (20.05%) Dremio
3 68 (17.94%) Data Lake
4 42 (11.08%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.90%) Big Data
6 9 (2.37%) Power BI
7 6 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.06%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.53%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.53%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.26%) DBAmp
10 1 (0.26%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.26%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (7.65%) Cypress.io
2 10 (2.64%) JIRA
3 4 (1.06%) Git
4 3 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.53%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.53%) webpack
6 1 (0.26%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.26%) Zephyr
General
1 305 (80.47%) Finance
2 240 (63.32%) Front Office
3 171 (45.12%) Banking
4 82 (21.64%) Investment Banking
5 47 (12.40%) Back Office
6 36 (9.50%) Social Skills
7 6 (1.58%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.79%) Legal
9 3 (0.79%) Marketing
10 2 (0.53%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.53%) Law
10 2 (0.53%) Retail
11 1 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.26%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 137 (36.15%) Developer
2 124 (32.72%) Software Engineer
3 105 (27.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 98 (25.86%) Analyst
5 71 (18.73%) Python Developer
5 71 (18.73%) Python Engineer
6 67 (17.68%) Python Software Engineer
7 62 (16.36%) Senior
8 55 (14.51%) Finance Manager
8 55 (14.51%) React Developer
9 52 (13.72%) Financial Analyst
10 51 (13.46%) Business Analyst
11 34 (8.97%) Lead
12 32 (8.44%) AWS Engineer
13 31 (8.18%) Full Stack Developer
13 31 (8.18%) Full Stack Engineer
13 31 (8.18%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 28 (7.39%) Finance Business Analyst
15 26 (6.86%) .NET Software Developer
15 26 (6.86%) Software Asset Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (31.93%) gRPC
1 121 (31.93%) Protocol Buffers
2 89 (23.48%) React
2 89 (23.48%) Redux
3 69 (18.21%) Pandas
4 67 (17.68%) NumPy
5 65 (17.15%) SciPy
6 53 (13.98%) Material-UI
7 28 (7.39%) .NET
8 22 (5.80%) Node.js
9 19 (5.01%) AngularJS
10 16 (4.22%) .NET Core
10 16 (4.22%) Vue
11 11 (2.90%) ASP.NET
11 11 (2.90%) ASP.NET Core
12 10 (2.64%) GraphQL
13 8 (2.11%) WPF
14 4 (1.06%) RESTful
15 3 (0.79%) PySpark
16 2 (0.53%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 223 (58.84%) Hedge funds
2 197 (51.98%) Fixed Income
3 172 (45.38%) Derivative
4 153 (40.37%) Equities
5 114 (30.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 27 (7.12%) Product Ownership
7 13 (3.43%) Clustering
8 6 (1.58%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.58%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (1.32%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.06%) DTCC
10 4 (1.06%) Pricing Data
11 3 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.53%) Credit Derivative
12 2 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.53%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.26%) CSOC
13 1 (0.26%) Equity Risk
13 1 (0.26%) FMCG
13 1 (0.26%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.17%) Windows
2 5 (1.32%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.79%) Linux
4 1 (0.26%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (80.74%) Asset Management
2 214 (56.46%) Agile
3 169 (44.59%) Software Engineering
4 82 (21.64%) Full Stack Development
5 69 (18.21%) Machine Learning
6 68 (17.94%) Artificial Intelligence
7 58 (15.30%) Fintech
8 47 (12.40%) DevOps
9 41 (10.82%) Automated Trading
10 40 (10.55%) Mentoring
11 35 (9.23%) Analytics
12 28 (7.39%) Line Management
13 26 (6.86%) TDD
14 22 (5.80%) Greeks
14 22 (5.80%) Performance Attribution
14 22 (5.80%) Wealth Management
15 18 (4.75%) Business Intelligence
15 18 (4.75%) Migration
15 18 (4.75%) Product Management
16 17 (4.49%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 226 (59.63%) Python
2 149 (39.31%) TypeScript
3 119 (31.40%) JavaScript
4 97 (25.59%) SQL
5 83 (21.90%) Java
6 76 (20.05%) C#
7 16 (4.22%) R
8 11 (2.90%) Go
9 10 (2.64%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.58%) Ruby
10 6 (1.58%) Scala
11 4 (1.06%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.06%) VBA
12 3 (0.79%) C++
12 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.53%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 5 (1.32%) Degree
2 4 (1.06%) CCNP
2 4 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (0.79%) CCDP
3 3 (0.79%) CFA
4 2 (0.53%) CIMA
4 2 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.53%) PMP
5 1 (0.26%) CCNA
5 1 (0.26%) ISEB
5 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.92%) Data Quality
2 28 (7.39%) QA
3 3 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.53%) MiFID
5 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.26%) EMIR
5 1 (0.26%) FATCA
System Software
1 9 (2.37%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (3.43%) Terraform
2 11 (2.90%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.64%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.79%) CASB
4 3 (0.79%) Kibana
5 2 (0.53%) SCCM
6 1 (0.26%) Control-M
6 1 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 44 (11.61%) Google
2 35 (9.23%) Bloomberg
3 12 (3.17%) Palo Alto
4 11 (2.90%) BISAM
5 10 (2.64%) Microsoft
6 8 (2.11%) Charles River
6 8 (2.11%) Zscaler
7 7 (1.85%) SimCorp
8 5 (1.32%) Databricks
9 4 (1.06%) Arista
9 4 (1.06%) Cisco
9 4 (1.06%) Oracle
10 3 (0.79%) Aruba
10 3 (0.79%) Infoblox
10 3 (0.79%) Meraki
10 3 (0.79%) Splunk
11 2 (0.53%) Avaloq
11 2 (0.53%) eFront
11 2 (0.53%) FactSet
11 2 (0.53%) Salesforce