Investment Banking Contracts in the UK excluding London

Investment Banking
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Investment Banking over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 363 364 426
Rank change year-on-year +1 +62 -27
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 36 74 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.32% 0.29%
As % of the General category 0.32% 0.58% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 37 25
10th Percentile £321 £386 £181
25th Percentile £341 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.54% +7.50% +8.34%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £565
90th Percentile £738 £718 £655
UK median daily rate £750 £700 £718
% change year-on-year +7.14% -2.44% +10.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £63.50 £20.83
25th Percentile £18.25 £65.47 £33.31
Median hourly rate £19.50 £68.75 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.64% +69.75% -
75th Percentile £20.75 £69.38 £42.56
90th Percentile - £69.75 £45.83
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £68.75 £40.50
% change year-on-year -71.64% +69.75% +80.00%

All General Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,183 12,827 17,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.82% 56.28% 56.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,337 8,711 11,743
10th Percentile £205 £230 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,690 723 1,040
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.33 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £14.22
Median hourly rate £28.34 £27.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% +41.03% +2.63%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.00 £37.11
90th Percentile £67.39 £68.75 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.12% +43.56% +2.93%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in the UK excluding London

Investment Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Investment Banking in the UK excluding London

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in the UK excluding London

Investment Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Investment Banking in the UK excluding London

Investment Banking
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Scotland +4 12 £345 -40.00% 8
South East +16 11 - - 8
North of England +18 10 £625 +38.89% 10
North West +9 8 £625 +38.89% 9
South West +11 3 £463 - 3
Midlands +17 1 - - 1
West Midlands +12 1 - - 1
North East - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £400 - 1
Investment Banking
UK

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 5 (13.89%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.78%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) AWS
1 6 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (8.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.78%) GCP
3 1 (2.78%) GitHub
3 1 (2.78%) IaaS
3 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (36.11%) Cisco Nexus
1 13 (36.11%) DMZ
2 12 (33.33%) Firewall
2 12 (33.33%) VPN
3 3 (8.33%) SAN
4 2 (5.56%) NAS
5 1 (2.78%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (2.78%) DHCP
5 1 (2.78%) DNS
5 1 (2.78%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (2.78%) iSCSI
5 1 (2.78%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) Apache Hive
1 4 (11.11%) Big Data
1 4 (11.11%) Impala
1 4 (11.11%) MySQL
1 4 (11.11%) Spark SQL
2 3 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.56%) RDBMS
3 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.78%) CockroachDB
4 1 (2.78%) DB2
4 1 (2.78%) Metadata
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.78%) Power BI
4 1 (2.78%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Git
1 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 3 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 36 (100.00%) Banking
2 15 (41.67%) Finance
3 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.56%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (5.56%) Retail
6 2 (5.56%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.78%) Legal
7 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 13 (36.11%) Network Engineer
2 12 (33.33%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 12 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 12 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 12 (33.33%) Juniper Engineer
3 8 (22.22%) Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Business Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Cisco Security Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Data Network Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Database Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Network Security Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Python Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Security Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) REST
2 1 (2.78%) D3.js
2 1 (2.78%) Flash
2 1 (2.78%) JPA
2 1 (2.78%) Kafka
2 1 (2.78%) Middleware
2 1 (2.78%) POSIX
2 1 (2.78%) React
2 1 (2.78%) RESTful
2 1 (2.78%) Spring
2 1 (2.78%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Virtual Team
2 2 (5.56%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.78%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.78%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.78%) Mashup
3 1 (2.78%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 7 (19.44%) Unix
2 4 (11.11%) Linux
3 3 (8.33%) Windows
3 3 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.78%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) High Availability
2 13 (36.11%) ITSM
3 12 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 12 (33.33%) Change Control
3 12 (33.33%) Design Patterns
4 10 (27.78%) Agile
5 6 (16.67%) SDLC
6 4 (11.11%) Architectural Design
6 4 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 4 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (11.11%) Use Case
6 4 (11.11%) Wealth Management
7 3 (8.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 3 (8.33%) Business Strategy
7 3 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (8.33%) IT Strategy
7 3 (8.33%) Microservices
7 3 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (8.33%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.22%) SQL
2 4 (11.11%) Java
2 4 (11.11%) Perl
2 4 (11.11%) Python
2 4 (11.11%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (2.78%) Kotlin
3 1 (2.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Firmware
2 1 (2.78%) GPFS
2 1 (2.78%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.56%) NetBackup
3 1 (2.78%) Ansible
3 1 (2.78%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 13 (36.11%) Cisco
2 12 (33.33%) Blue Coat
2 12 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 12 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 12 (33.33%) Juniper
3 5 (13.89%) Google
3 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
4 4 (11.11%) Oracle
5 3 (8.33%) Veritas
6 1 (2.78%) Alteryx
6 1 (2.78%) Brocade
6 1 (2.78%) EMC
6 1 (2.78%) F5
6 1 (2.78%) IBM
6 1 (2.78%) NetApp
6 1 (2.78%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.78%) Sybase