Investment Banking Contracts in London

Investment Banking
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Investment Banking over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 53 59
Rank change year-on-year -22 +6 +8
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 530 1,197 1,675
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.97% 4.40% 4.32%
As % of the General category 4.70% 6.93% 7.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 888 1,244
10th Percentile £500 £525 £549
25th Percentile £600 £588 £624
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £739 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year +5.54% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £850 £806 £800
90th Percentile £900 £950 £875
England median daily rate £725 £700 £700
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £60.33
25th Percentile - £39.25 £64.56
Median hourly rate - £40.50 £73.25
Median % change year-on-year - -44.71% +225.56%
75th Percentile - £41.75 £81.06
90th Percentile - - £84.78
England median hourly rate £19.50 £40.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -51.85% -32.50% +166.67%

All General Skills
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 London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,282 17,272 23,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.13% 63.56% 59.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,058 12,457 16,639
10th Percentile £336 £375 £381
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £800 £825 £788
England median daily rate £538 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -2.27% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 232 305
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.63 £20.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £28.50 £33.26 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.30% -6.32% +29.09%
75th Percentile £44.50 £58.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.38 £70.00 £64.13
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.81 £21.50
% change year-on-year -13.82% +61.91% -4.44%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
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 Banking within the London region over the 6 months to 25 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 -16 74 £700 -1.75% 10
East London -4 4 £620 +175.56% 3
South London +4 2 £575 -19.30%
Investment Banking
England

Investment Banking
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 77 (14.53%) Apache
2 76 (14.34%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.13%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.57%) Confluence
7 2 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.38%) CMS
7 2 (0.38%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.19%) Camunda
8 1 (0.19%) GemFire
8 1 (0.19%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.38%) Sketch
5 2 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.19%) InVision
Business Applications
1 11 (2.08%) Aladdin
1 11 (2.08%) ION Anvil
1 11 (2.08%) Loan IQ
2 8 (1.51%) IntelliMatch
2 8 (1.51%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.38%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.19%) Finacle
4 1 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.19%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.19%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.19%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.19%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 108 (20.38%) AWS
2 75 (14.15%) dbt
3 58 (10.94%) Snowflake
4 55 (10.38%) GCP
5 45 (8.49%) Azure
6 14 (2.64%) Power Platform
7 9 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (1.32%) GitHub
9 6 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (1.13%) Power Automate
10 5 (0.94%) OpenShift
10 5 (0.94%) Serverless
11 4 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (0.57%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (0.57%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.57%) Azure AKS
12 3 (0.57%) Cloud Run
12 3 (0.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (0.57%) npm
12 3 (0.57%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.94%) Firewall
2 4 (0.75%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (0.75%) Internet
3 3 (0.57%) DMZ
3 3 (0.57%) LAN
3 3 (0.57%) VPN
3 3 (0.57%) WAN
4 2 (0.38%) IPsec
4 2 (0.38%) SSH
4 2 (0.38%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.19%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (14.15%) Amazon Athena
1 75 (14.15%) Apache Arrow
1 75 (14.15%) Apache Ignite
1 75 (14.15%) Dremio
2 60 (11.32%) Data Lake
3 34 (6.42%) Relational Database
4 29 (5.47%) SQL Server
5 13 (2.45%) KDB
6 12 (2.26%) Big Data
7 10 (1.89%) Power BI
8 7 (1.32%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.32%) Oracle Database
9 6 (1.13%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.94%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.57%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.57%) Hazelcast
11 3 (0.57%) MySQL
11 3 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (6.23%) JIRA
2 25 (4.72%) TeamCity
3 24 (4.53%) Git
4 18 (3.40%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.70%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.51%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.51%) GitLab
6 8 (1.51%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.94%) MLflow
7 5 (0.94%) TestRail
8 3 (0.57%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.57%) JUnit
8 3 (0.57%) Maven
8 3 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.57%) Selenium
8 3 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.57%) webpack
9 2 (0.38%) PHPUnit
9 2 (0.38%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.38%) SpecFlow
General
1 530 (100.00%) Banking
2 293 (55.28%) Finance
3 190 (35.85%) Front Office
4 112 (21.13%) Social Skills
5 56 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (6.60%) Retail
7 32 (6.04%) Retail Banking
8 28 (5.28%) Corporate Banking
9 10 (1.89%) Back Office
9 10 (1.89%) Wholesale Banking
10 9 (1.70%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.32%) Prime Brokerage
11 7 (1.32%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.13%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
13 5 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.75%) Legal
14 4 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.38%) French Language
15 2 (0.38%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 190 (35.85%) Developer
2 106 (20.00%) Analyst
3 71 (13.40%) Java Developer
4 67 (12.64%) Business Analyst
5 63 (11.89%) Lead
6 59 (11.13%) Senior
7 51 (9.62%) Software Engineer
8 35 (6.60%) C# Developer
9 32 (6.04%) Architect
10 30 (5.66%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 30 (5.66%) Project Manager
10 30 (5.66%) Software Developer
11 28 (5.28%) AWS Engineer
11 28 (5.28%) Java Engineer
11 28 (5.28%) Python Engineer
12 27 (5.09%) Python Developer
13 26 (4.91%) AWS Software Engineer
14 25 (4.72%) Python Software Engineer
15 24 (4.53%) Banking Analyst
15 24 (4.53%) Front Office Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (14.15%) Pandas
2 74 (13.96%) gRPC
2 74 (13.96%) NumPy
2 74 (13.96%) Protocol Buffers
2 74 (13.96%) SciPy
3 47 (8.87%) .NET
4 40 (7.55%) FIX Protocol
5 30 (5.66%) React
6 21 (3.96%) WPF
7 16 (3.02%) CSS
8 14 (2.64%) HTML
9 12 (2.26%) Spring
10 11 (2.08%) AngularJS
10 11 (2.08%) Redux
11 10 (1.89%) .NET Framework
12 9 (1.70%) .NET Core
12 9 (1.70%) HTML5
13 8 (1.51%) Middleware
14 7 (1.32%) Reactive Extensions
14 7 (1.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 153 (28.87%) Derivative
2 147 (27.74%) Fixed Income
3 115 (21.70%) Equities
4 112 (21.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 83 (15.66%) Hedge funds
6 39 (7.36%) Product Ownership
7 19 (3.58%) Equity Derivative
8 15 (2.83%) Market Risk
9 12 (2.26%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (1.32%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.32%) Credit Risk
10 7 (1.32%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.32%) OTC Derivatives
10 7 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.94%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.75%) Pricing Data
13 4 (0.75%) Reference Data
13 4 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 51 (9.62%) Linux
2 42 (7.92%) Windows
3 37 (6.98%) Unix
4 5 (0.94%) Android
5 4 (0.75%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.57%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.19%) VMS
7 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (35.66%) Agile
2 96 (18.11%) Asset Management
3 93 (17.55%) Software Engineering
4 82 (15.47%) Investment Management
5 59 (11.13%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (10.94%) DevOps
7 54 (10.19%) Electronic Trading
8 47 (8.87%) Analytics
9 45 (8.49%) Test Automation
10 39 (7.36%) Wealth Management
11 37 (6.98%) Project Management
12 35 (6.60%) Line Management
13 33 (6.23%) CI/CD
13 33 (6.23%) SDLC
13 33 (6.23%) Stakeholder Management
14 29 (5.47%) Migration
15 27 (5.09%) Algorithmic Trading
15 27 (5.09%) Risk Management
16 25 (4.72%) Scrum
17 24 (4.53%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 173 (32.64%) Java
1 173 (32.64%) Python
2 121 (22.83%) SQL
3 93 (17.55%) TypeScript
4 90 (16.98%) C#
5 87 (16.42%) JavaScript
6 25 (4.72%) PowerShell
7 23 (4.34%) C++
7 23 (4.34%) Scala
8 12 (2.26%) Ruby
9 10 (1.89%) Perl
9 10 (1.89%) VBA
10 9 (1.70%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.51%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.32%) Bash
13 5 (0.94%) R
14 4 (0.75%) PHP
14 4 (0.75%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.57%) Korn
Qualifications
1 38 (7.17%) Degree
2 15 (2.83%) Numerate Degree
3 11 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.13%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.75%) APMP
6 3 (0.57%) CISM
6 3 (0.57%) CISSP
6 3 (0.57%) MCSE
6 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.57%) PMP
6 3 (0.57%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.57%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.38%) ISEB
7 2 (0.38%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 2 (0.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.19%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.85%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.28%) QA
3 17 (3.21%) PMO
4 15 (2.83%) EMIR
5 12 (2.26%) MiFID
6 10 (1.89%) SLA
7 3 (0.57%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.38%) SEPA
9 1 (0.19%) Basel II
9 1 (0.19%) Basel III
9 1 (0.19%) COREP
9 1 (0.19%) GAAP
9 1 (0.19%) GRC
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.19%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (2.83%) Docker
2 10 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.38%) HDFS
4 1 (0.19%) Cronacle
4 1 (0.19%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 16 (3.02%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.64%) ITRS Geneos
3 12 (2.26%) Ansible
4 9 (1.70%) Puppet
4 9 (1.70%) Terraform
5 8 (1.51%) Grafana
6 3 (0.57%) Rancher
6 3 (0.57%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.38%) Consul
7 2 (0.38%) Packer
7 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.19%) Argo
8 1 (0.19%) Control-M
8 1 (0.19%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.19%) Kibana
8 1 (0.19%) Netcool
8 1 (0.19%) Podman
8 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (6.42%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.47%) Bloomberg
3 17 (3.21%) Oracle
4 14 (2.64%) ION Trading
5 11 (2.08%) BISAM
6 10 (1.89%) Databricks
7 8 (1.51%) Refinitiv
8 7 (1.32%) Murex
9 6 (1.13%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.13%) Google
9 6 (1.13%) IBM
9 6 (1.13%) Solace
10 4 (0.75%) Alteryx
10 4 (0.75%) Citrix
10 4 (0.75%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.75%) Splunk
11 3 (0.57%) GoldenSource
11 3 (0.57%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.57%) SmartStream
11 3 (0.57%) Sun