Investment Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Investment Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 142 282 357
Rank change year-on-year +140 +75 -150
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 224 202 275
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.47% 0.79% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 0.88% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 160 225
10th Percentile £550 £475 £438
25th Percentile £588 £550 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £850 £750 £750
90th Percentile £888 £838 £850
UK median daily rate £700 £675 £600
% change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £24.00 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £24.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -44.19% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,387 22,922 40,601
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.93% 89.77% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,971 16,192 29,477
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 528 542
10th Percentile £15.08 £18.68 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.81 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.13 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Investment Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Investment Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Investment Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Investment Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Investment Management.

Investment Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Investment Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Investment Management over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Investment Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Investment Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 84 (37.50%) Apache Airflow
2 68 (30.36%) Apache
3 3 (1.34%) Confluence
4 2 (0.89%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.68%) SimCorp Dimension
2 3 (1.34%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.89%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.89%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.45%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 122 (54.46%) AWS
2 82 (36.61%) dbt
3 69 (30.80%) Snowflake
4 64 (28.57%) GCP
5 29 (12.95%) Azure
6 5 (2.23%) Asana
6 5 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.23%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.23%) Slack
7 3 (1.34%) IaaS
8 2 (0.89%) GitHub
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.68%) DHCP
1 6 (2.68%) DNS
2 5 (2.23%) VPN
3 3 (1.34%) BGP
3 3 (1.34%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (1.34%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (1.34%) HTTP
3 3 (1.34%) MPLS
3 3 (1.34%) Network Security
3 3 (1.34%) OSPF
3 3 (1.34%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.34%) SNMP
3 3 (1.34%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.34%) WAN
3 3 (1.34%) Wireshark
4 2 (0.89%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (34.38%) Amazon Athena
1 77 (34.38%) Apache Arrow
1 77 (34.38%) Dremio
2 68 (30.36%) Apache Ignite
2 68 (30.36%) Data Lake
3 16 (7.14%) Big Data
4 5 (2.23%) Power BI
5 3 (1.34%) Data Hub
6 2 (0.89%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.89%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.45%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.45%) DB2
7 1 (0.45%) DBAmp
7 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (4.02%) JIRA
2 3 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.89%) Git
General
1 193 (86.16%) Finance
2 146 (65.18%) Front Office
3 105 (46.88%) Banking
4 64 (28.57%) Investment Banking
5 42 (18.75%) Back Office
6 11 (4.91%) Social Skills
7 3 (1.34%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 58 (25.89%) Developer
2 57 (25.45%) Software Engineer
3 53 (23.66%) Analyst
3 53 (23.66%) Senior
4 40 (17.86%) AWS Engineer
5 37 (16.52%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 34 (15.18%) Financial Analyst
7 31 (13.84%) Python Engineer
8 30 (13.39%) Finance Manager
8 30 (13.39%) Lead
8 30 (13.39%) Python Developer
9 27 (12.05%) Python Software Engineer
10 25 (11.16%) AWS Software Engineer
11 24 (10.71%) Business Analyst
12 22 (9.82%) Java Engineer
12 22 (9.82%) Java Software Engineer
12 22 (9.82%) Senior Software Engineer
13 20 (8.93%) Banking Analyst
13 20 (8.93%) SQL Analyst
13 20 (8.93%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (36.61%) gRPC
1 82 (36.61%) Protocol Buffers
2 64 (28.57%) Pandas
3 63 (28.13%) NumPy
3 63 (28.13%) SciPy
4 19 (8.48%) Node.js
4 19 (8.48%) React
4 19 (8.48%) Redux
5 9 (4.02%) GraphQL
5 9 (4.02%) Material-UI
6 6 (2.68%) AngularJS
7 5 (2.23%) Vue
8 3 (1.34%) ADO
9 2 (0.89%) PySpark
10 1 (0.45%) Flask
10 1 (0.45%) Hibernate
10 1 (0.45%) HTML
10 1 (0.45%) HTML5
10 1 (0.45%) Lightning Web Components
10 1 (0.45%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 140 (62.50%) Hedge funds
2 124 (55.36%) Derivative
3 105 (46.88%) Fixed Income
4 88 (39.29%) Equities
5 70 (31.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 17 (7.59%) Clustering
7 12 (5.36%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.68%) Pricing Data
9 5 (2.23%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.23%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (1.79%) DTCC
11 3 (1.34%) Embedded Systems
11 3 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.89%) Credit Derivative
12 2 (0.89%) Management Information System
13 1 (0.45%) Algorithms
13 1 (0.45%) CSOC
13 1 (0.45%) Equity Risk
13 1 (0.45%) Security Operations Centre
13 1 (0.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.23%) Windows
2 3 (1.34%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (86.61%) Asset Management
2 122 (54.46%) Agile
3 95 (42.41%) Software Engineering
4 40 (17.86%) Mentoring
5 30 (13.39%) Analytics
6 25 (11.16%) Greeks
7 21 (9.38%) Line Management
7 21 (9.38%) Performance Attribution
8 20 (8.93%) Wealth Management
9 19 (8.48%) Fintech
9 19 (8.48%) Product Management
10 17 (7.59%) DevOps
11 16 (7.14%) Quantitative Research
12 15 (6.70%) Full Stack Development
12 15 (6.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 14 (6.25%) Migration
14 12 (5.36%) Artificial Intelligence
14 12 (5.36%) Machine Learning
14 12 (5.36%) User Stories
15 10 (4.46%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 166 (74.11%) Python
2 92 (41.07%) JavaScript
3 83 (37.05%) Java
4 78 (34.82%) TypeScript
5 58 (25.89%) SQL
6 38 (16.96%) C#
7 18 (8.04%) R
8 15 (6.70%) Go
9 9 (4.02%) Kotlin
10 8 (3.57%) Scala
11 6 (2.68%) Ruby
12 3 (1.34%) Perl
13 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 5 (2.23%) CCNP
1 5 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (1.34%) CCDP
3 2 (0.89%) CCNA
4 1 (0.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (12.95%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.45%) FATCA
2 1 (0.45%) QA
System Software
1 5 (2.23%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.34%) Firmware
3 1 (0.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (6.70%) Kubernetes
1 15 (6.70%) Terraform
2 14 (6.25%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.34%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (8.04%) Bloomberg
2 10 (4.46%) Palo Alto
3 8 (3.57%) Zscaler
4 7 (3.13%) Microsoft
5 6 (2.68%) SimCorp
6 5 (2.23%) Arista
6 5 (2.23%) Cisco
6 5 (2.23%) Databricks
7 3 (1.34%) Aruba
7 3 (1.34%) Charles River
7 3 (1.34%) Infoblox
7 3 (1.34%) Meraki
7 3 (1.34%) Splunk
8 2 (0.89%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.89%) F5
8 2 (0.89%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.89%) Riverbed
8 2 (0.89%) SAP
9 1 (0.45%) Oracle
9 1 (0.45%) Sybase