Investment Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Investment Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 394 432
Rank change year-on-year +29 +38 -28
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 23 53 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.25% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 35 44
10th Percentile - £312 £189
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £680 £650 £656
90th Percentile £722 £874 £775
UK median daily rate £700 £675 £600
% change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £25.85
25th Percentile - £22.00 £28.63
Median hourly rate - £24.00 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year - -28.36% -
75th Percentile - £26.00 £38.63
90th Percentile - - £41.55
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £24.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -44.19% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,480 21,395 27,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.68% 89.58% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,444 14,842 19,202
10th Percentile £250 £256 £231
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,054 1,309 1,355
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.63 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.36
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Investment Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Management in the UK excluding London

Investment Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Investment Management in the UK excluding London

Investment Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Investment Management in the UK excluding London

Investment Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Investment Management in the UK excluding London

Investment Management
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 Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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 +18 11 £647 +36.11% 5
North of England +33 10 £425 +141.48% 4
North West +32 10 £425 +141.48% 2
Midlands +31 2 £605 -3.20% 1
West Midlands +21 2 £605 -3.20% 1
Investment Management
UK

Investment Management
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 3 (13.04%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (30.43%) SAP FI
1 7 (30.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.35%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) AWS
2 4 (17.39%) IaaS
3 3 (13.04%) OpenShift
4 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.35%) dbt
5 1 (4.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) DHCP
1 4 (17.39%) DNS
2 3 (13.04%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (13.04%) iSCSI
2 3 (13.04%) SAN
3 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) DB2
2 2 (8.70%) Power BI
3 1 (4.35%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (4.35%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 20 (86.96%) Finance
2 12 (52.17%) Social Skills
3 11 (47.83%) Banking
4 10 (43.48%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Consultant
2 7 (30.43%) SAP Consultant
2 7 (30.43%) SAP FI Consultant
3 4 (17.39%) Python Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Hardware Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Storage Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Information Security Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.35%) QA Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Flash
1 3 (13.04%) POSIX
2 2 (8.70%) Spring
3 1 (4.35%) ADO
3 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.35%) Flask
3 1 (4.35%) Hibernate
3 1 (4.35%) HTML
3 1 (4.35%) HTML5
3 1 (4.35%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) Middleware
3 1 (4.35%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Client/Server
1 3 (13.04%) Embedded Systems
1 3 (13.04%) NVMe
2 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Linux
2 4 (17.39%) Unix
3 3 (13.04%) Data ONTAP
3 3 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (13.04%) Windows
3 3 (13.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Asset Management
2 9 (39.13%) Wealth Management
3 7 (30.43%) High Availability
3 7 (30.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (17.39%) Agile
4 4 (17.39%) DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) SDLC
5 3 (13.04%) Capacity Management
5 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
5 3 (13.04%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (13.04%) Decision-Making
5 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (13.04%) Observability
5 3 (13.04%) OO
5 3 (13.04%) Open Source
5 3 (13.04%) Preventative Maintenance
5 3 (13.04%) Problem Management
5 3 (13.04%) Storage Management
5 3 (13.04%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) Perl
3 6 (26.09%) SQL
4 5 (21.74%) Java
5 1 (4.35%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.35%) NIST
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
1 3 (13.04%) Firmware
1 3 (13.04%) GPFS
1 3 (13.04%) NFS
2 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) PowerCLI
3 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.35%) Puppet
3 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) SAP
2 4 (17.39%) IBM
3 3 (13.04%) Brocade
3 3 (13.04%) EMC
3 3 (13.04%) Google
3 3 (13.04%) NetApp
3 3 (13.04%) Sybase
3 3 (13.04%) Veritas
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.70%) VMware
5 1 (4.35%) Databricks
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle
5 1 (4.35%) Solace