Investment Banking Contracts in Central London

Investment Banking
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Investment Banking over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 65 44
Rank change year-on-year +16 -21 +22
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 82 73 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.11% 2.98% 4.49%
As % of the General category 5.83% 4.53% 7.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 46 127
10th Percentile £422 £463 £488
25th Percentile £563 £566 £604
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £700 £715
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -2.10% -1.38%
75th Percentile £838 £806 £825
90th Percentile £917 £1,019 £1,063
London median daily rate £750 £750 £700
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -1.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £100.00 - -
London median hourly rate £100.00 - £40.50
% change year-on-year - - -44.71%

All General Skills
Central London

Investment Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,406 1,610 2,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 70.41% 65.82% 62.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 905 1,149 1,691
10th Percentile £330 £338 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -6.67% +5.26%
75th Percentile £678 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 15
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.07 £15.20
25th Percentile £25.11 £21.93 £18.42
Median hourly rate £30.04 £24.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.59% -30.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £49.22 £35.69 £53.25
90th Percentile £74.63 £57.63 £58.75
London median hourly rate £34.00 £28.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year +19.30% -10.94% -12.33%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in Central London

Investment Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Investment Banking in Central London

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in Central London

Investment Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Investment Banking in Central London

Investment Banking
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +12 78 £663 -5.36% 23
West End of London - 4 £600 -
Southwark - 1 - -
Investment Banking
London

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 4 (4.88%) Confluence
2 2 (2.44%) Apache
2 2 (2.44%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.44%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (9.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.44%) ION Anvil
1 2 (2.44%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (2.44%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.44%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (2.44%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (2.44%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (2.44%) Oracle Internet Expenses
1 2 (2.44%) Oracle iProcurement
1 2 (2.44%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (2.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (2.44%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.22%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.41%) AWS
2 8 (9.76%) Azure
3 6 (7.32%) Power Platform
4 5 (6.10%) GCP
4 5 (6.10%) SaaS
5 2 (2.44%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.44%) GitHub
5 2 (2.44%) OCI
5 2 (2.44%) OpenShift
5 2 (2.44%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.22%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.22%) CloudFront
6 1 (1.22%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.22%) Route 53
6 1 (1.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.22%) Firewall
1 1 (1.22%) PBX
1 1 (1.22%) PSTN
1 1 (1.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.54%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.32%) Power BI
3 5 (6.10%) Big Data
4 3 (3.66%) Data Mining
4 3 (3.66%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.66%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.44%) KDB
5 2 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (2.44%) Redis
5 2 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.44%) Tableau
6 1 (1.22%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.22%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.22%) Impala
6 1 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.22%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.22%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 7 (8.54%) Jenkins
1 7 (8.54%) JIRA
2 4 (4.88%) Bitbucket
2 4 (4.88%) TeamCity
3 3 (3.66%) Git
4 2 (2.44%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (2.44%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (1.22%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.22%) JUnit
5 1 (1.22%) NUnit
5 1 (1.22%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 82 (100.00%) Banking
2 53 (64.63%) Finance
3 23 (28.05%) Social Skills
4 18 (21.95%) Retail Banking
5 15 (18.29%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (18.29%) Corporate Banking
5 15 (18.29%) Retail
6 12 (14.63%) Front Office
7 8 (9.76%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.66%) Back Office
8 3 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.44%) Marketing
10 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (30.49%) Developer
2 14 (17.07%) Senior
3 12 (14.63%) Analyst
4 11 (13.41%) Business Analyst
5 7 (8.54%) Consultant
6 6 (7.32%) Data Analyst
6 6 (7.32%) Data Engineer
6 6 (7.32%) Java Developer
7 5 (6.10%) C# Developer
7 5 (6.10%) Data Business Analyst
8 4 (4.88%) Angular Developer
8 4 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) React Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Risk Consultant
8 4 (4.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) AWS Data Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) MiFID Specialist
9 3 (3.66%) Python Data Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.54%) AngularJS
2 6 (7.32%) HTML
2 6 (7.32%) PySpark
2 6 (7.32%) React
3 5 (6.10%) HTML5
4 4 (4.88%) .NET
4 4 (4.88%) REST
5 3 (3.66%) JSON
5 3 (3.66%) RxJS
5 3 (3.66%) Spring
6 2 (2.44%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.44%) FastAPI
6 2 (2.44%) Node.js
6 2 (2.44%) Smart Contracts
7 1 (1.22%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (1.22%) CSS3
7 1 (1.22%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.22%) Kafka
7 1 (1.22%) RESTful
7 1 (1.22%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.76%) Derivative
1 8 (9.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (8.54%) Equities
2 7 (8.54%) Fixed Income
3 6 (7.32%) Product Ownership
4 5 (6.10%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.88%) Credit Risk
5 4 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.66%) Market Risk
6 3 (3.66%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.44%) Blockchain
7 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.22%) Digital Media
8 1 (1.22%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 1 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.22%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.22%) N-Tier
8 1 (1.22%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.10%) Windows
2 4 (4.88%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.66%) Linux
4 2 (2.44%) Unix
5 1 (1.22%) Android
5 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (19.51%) Agile
1 16 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
1 16 (19.51%) Wealth Management
2 12 (14.63%) Analytics
3 11 (13.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (10.98%) SDLC
5 8 (9.76%) CI/CD
5 8 (9.76%) Project Management
5 8 (9.76%) Risk Management
6 7 (8.54%) Decision-Making
6 7 (8.54%) Electronic Trading
6 7 (8.54%) ETL
6 7 (8.54%) Low Latency
7 6 (7.32%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (7.32%) Data Analysis
7 6 (7.32%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (7.32%) DevOps
7 6 (7.32%) Process Improvement
8 5 (6.10%) Data Management
8 5 (6.10%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 24 (29.27%) SQL
2 17 (20.73%) Python
3 14 (17.07%) Java
4 8 (9.76%) C#
5 7 (8.54%) JavaScript
5 7 (8.54%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.44%) C++
6 2 (2.44%) DAML
6 2 (2.44%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.22%) Ruby
7 1 (1.22%) Scala
7 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (8.54%) Degree
2 2 (2.44%) CBAP
2 2 (2.44%) Master's Degree
2 2 (2.44%) PMI Certification
2 2 (2.44%) PMP
3 1 (1.22%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.76%) MiFID
2 5 (6.10%) EMIR
2 5 (6.10%) QA
3 3 (3.66%) Basel II
3 3 (3.66%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.44%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.44%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.22%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (4.88%) Docker
1 4 (4.88%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.44%) Lustre
4 1 (1.22%) HDFS
4 1 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (6.10%) Ansible
2 4 (4.88%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.44%) Grafana
3 2 (2.44%) Karpenter
3 2 (2.44%) Podman
3 2 (2.44%) Terraform
4 1 (1.22%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (4.88%) Microsoft
1 4 (4.88%) Planview
1 4 (4.88%) Splunk
2 3 (3.66%) Google
2 3 (3.66%) ION Trading
2 3 (3.66%) Oracle
3 2 (2.44%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.22%) Adobe
4 1 (1.22%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.22%) Cisco
4 1 (1.22%) Citrix
4 1 (1.22%) CQG
4 1 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (1.22%) GoldenSource
4 1 (1.22%) Reuters
4 1 (1.22%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.22%) Tufin
4 1 (1.22%) Zscaler