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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 205 169
Rank change year-on-year +102 -36 -60
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 416 339 676
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.35% 1.29% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 1.42% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 293 619
10th Percentile £534 £462 £488
25th Percentile £588 £550 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £708 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.81% +12.50% +2.13%
75th Percentile £850 £750 £738
90th Percentile £879 £838 £838
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 15,685 23,887 35,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.71% 90.96% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,243 17,198 25,835
10th Percentile £340 £375 £388
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 £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 269 419
10th Percentile £15.97 £18.40 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +12.63%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.30 £80.45 £68.88
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

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 9 May 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 9 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
Central London +36 18 £700 -3.45% 6
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
1 154 (37.02%) Apache Airflow
2 140 (33.65%) Apache
3 4 (0.96%) Confluence
4 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 24 (5.77%) Aladdin
2 8 (1.92%) SimCorp Dimension
3 6 (1.44%) Markit EDM
4 5 (1.20%) thinkFolio
5 3 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.24%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.24%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 236 (56.73%) AWS
2 155 (37.26%) GCP
3 114 (27.40%) Azure
4 93 (22.36%) dbt
5 82 (19.71%) Snowflake
6 9 (2.16%) Power Platform
7 7 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (0.96%) Asana
8 4 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (0.96%) Slack
9 3 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (0.72%) Azure Stack
10 2 (0.48%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.48%) GitHub
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.24%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.92%) Network Security
2 4 (0.96%) BGP
2 4 (0.96%) Firewall
2 4 (0.96%) OSPF
2 4 (0.96%) VPN
3 3 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (0.72%) DHCP
3 3 (0.72%) DNS
3 3 (0.72%) HTTP
3 3 (0.72%) MPLS
3 3 (0.72%) SD-WAN
3 3 (0.72%) SNMP
3 3 (0.72%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.72%) WAN
3 3 (0.72%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.24%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.24%) IGRP
4 1 (0.24%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (33.65%) Apache Ignite
2 91 (21.88%) Amazon Athena
2 91 (21.88%) Apache Arrow
2 91 (21.88%) Dremio
3 82 (19.71%) Data Lake
4 58 (13.94%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (3.37%) Big Data
6 9 (2.16%) Power BI
7 6 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.96%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.48%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.48%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.48%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.24%) DBAmp
10 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.24%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (9.86%) Cypress.io
2 12 (2.88%) JIRA
3 4 (0.96%) Git
4 3 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.48%) webpack
6 1 (0.24%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.24%) Zephyr
General
1 339 (81.49%) Finance
2 271 (65.14%) Front Office
3 198 (47.60%) Banking
4 92 (22.12%) Investment Banking
5 47 (11.30%) Back Office
6 35 (8.41%) Social Skills
7 6 (1.44%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.72%) Marketing
10 2 (0.48%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.48%) Law
10 2 (0.48%) Legal
10 2 (0.48%) Retail
11 1 (0.24%) Billing
11 1 (0.24%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.24%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.24%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 152 (36.54%) Developer
2 147 (35.34%) Software Engineer
3 120 (28.85%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 102 (24.52%) Analyst
5 94 (22.60%) Python Engineer
6 90 (21.63%) Python Software Engineer
7 88 (21.15%) Python Developer
8 71 (17.07%) React Developer
9 68 (16.35%) Senior
10 54 (12.98%) Business Analyst
10 54 (12.98%) Finance Manager
11 53 (12.74%) Financial Analyst
12 45 (10.82%) AWS Engineer
13 38 (9.13%) Full Stack Developer
13 38 (9.13%) Full Stack Engineer
13 38 (9.13%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 36 (8.65%) Lead
15 30 (7.21%) AWS Software Engineer
15 30 (7.21%) Finance Business Analyst
16 29 (6.97%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (36.78%) gRPC
1 153 (36.78%) Protocol Buffers
2 104 (25.00%) React
2 104 (25.00%) Redux
3 80 (19.23%) Pandas
4 78 (18.75%) NumPy
5 76 (18.27%) SciPy
6 68 (16.35%) Material-UI
7 25 (6.01%) .NET
8 23 (5.53%) Node.js
9 18 (4.33%) AngularJS
10 16 (3.85%) .NET Core
11 15 (3.61%) Vue
12 9 (2.16%) ASP.NET
12 9 (2.16%) ASP.NET Core
12 9 (2.16%) GraphQL
13 8 (1.92%) WPF
14 4 (0.96%) RESTful
15 3 (0.72%) PySpark
16 2 (0.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 255 (61.30%) Hedge funds
2 226 (54.33%) Fixed Income
3 184 (44.23%) Derivative
4 175 (42.07%) Equities
5 127 (30.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 30 (7.21%) Product Ownership
7 17 (4.09%) Clustering
8 8 (1.92%) Pricing Data
9 6 (1.44%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.20%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (0.96%) DTCC
12 3 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.48%) Credit Derivative
13 2 (0.48%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.48%) Virtual Team
14 1 (0.24%) CSOC
14 1 (0.24%) Equity Risk
14 1 (0.24%) FMCG
14 1 (0.24%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.40%) Windows
2 4 (0.96%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.72%) Linux
4 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (81.49%) Asset Management
2 243 (58.41%) Agile
3 194 (46.63%) Software Engineering
4 96 (23.08%) Full Stack Development
5 87 (20.91%) Machine Learning
6 86 (20.67%) Artificial Intelligence
7 58 (13.94%) Fintech
8 57 (13.70%) Automated Trading
9 48 (11.54%) DevOps
10 40 (9.62%) Mentoring
11 36 (8.65%) Analytics
12 28 (6.73%) Greeks
12 28 (6.73%) Line Management
13 24 (5.77%) TDD
14 23 (5.53%) Performance Attribution
14 23 (5.53%) Wealth Management
15 20 (4.81%) Migration
16 19 (4.57%) Business Intelligence
16 19 (4.57%) Product Management
16 19 (4.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 259 (62.26%) Python
2 174 (41.83%) TypeScript
3 132 (31.73%) JavaScript
4 104 (25.00%) SQL
5 95 (22.84%) Java
6 73 (17.55%) C#
7 16 (3.85%) R
8 15 (3.61%) Go
9 9 (2.16%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.44%) Ruby
10 6 (1.44%) Scala
11 4 (0.96%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.96%) VBA
12 3 (0.72%) C++
12 3 (0.72%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.48%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 6 (1.44%) CCNP
1 6 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (1.20%) Degree
3 3 (0.72%) CCDP
3 3 (0.72%) CCNA
3 3 (0.72%) CFA
4 2 (0.48%) CIMA
4 2 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.48%) PMP
5 1 (0.24%) ISEB
5 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.89%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.25%) QA
3 3 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.24%) EMIR
4 1 (0.24%) FATCA
4 1 (0.24%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (1.68%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (4.09%) Terraform
2 15 (3.61%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.37%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.96%) CASB
5 3 (0.72%) Control-M
5 3 (0.72%) Kibana
6 1 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 60 (14.42%) Google
2 37 (8.89%) Bloomberg
3 14 (3.37%) Palo Alto
4 12 (2.88%) BISAM
5 9 (2.16%) Microsoft
6 8 (1.92%) SimCorp
7 7 (1.68%) Charles River
7 7 (1.68%) Cisco
7 7 (1.68%) Zscaler
8 6 (1.44%) Arista
9 5 (1.20%) Databricks
10 4 (0.96%) Oracle
11 3 (0.72%) Aruba
11 3 (0.72%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.72%) F5
11 3 (0.72%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.72%) Infoblox
11 3 (0.72%) Meraki
11 3 (0.72%) Riverbed
11 3 (0.72%) Splunk