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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 63 60
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +12
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 76 76 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.69% 3.32% 3.50%
As % of the General category 5.02% 4.96% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 56 86
10th Percentile £450 £413 £514
25th Percentile £615 £563 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £688 £720
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -4.51% -1.30%
75th Percentile £838 £823 £825
90th Percentile £960 £969 £1,063
London median daily rate £750 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £87.63 - -
25th Percentile £89.69 - -
Median hourly rate £93.75 - -
75th Percentile £97.19 - -
90th Percentile £98.88 - -
London median hourly rate £87.50 - -

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 1,513 1,533 2,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 73.55% 66.97% 63.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 991 1,035 1,594
10th Percentile £331 £350 £313
25th Percentile £425 £452 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £676 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 14 13
10th Percentile £22.00 £17.27 -
25th Percentile £26.00 £24.49 £14.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £30.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +9.09% -33.73%
75th Percentile £51.46 £56.88 £35.00
90th Percentile £65.57 £88.38 £51.46
London median hourly rate £30.40 £33.29 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.66% -4.90% -

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 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Investment Banking in Central London over the 6 months to 1 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 August 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 +1 76 £700 - 29
Southwark - 2 - -
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 (5.26%) Confluence
2 1 (1.32%) Apache
2 1 (1.32%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (13.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.26%) ION Anvil
2 2 (2.63%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.32%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.32%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.16%) Power Platform
1 10 (13.16%) SaaS
2 9 (11.84%) Azure
3 6 (7.89%) AWS
4 5 (6.58%) GCP
5 3 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.63%) IaaS
6 2 (2.63%) PaaS
6 2 (2.63%) Serverless
7 1 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.32%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.32%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.32%) GitHub
7 1 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.32%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.95%) BGP
1 3 (3.95%) Firewall
1 3 (3.95%) Multicast
1 3 (3.95%) OSPF
1 3 (3.95%) Unicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.16%) Power BI
2 8 (10.53%) Data Mining
3 5 (6.58%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.95%) Big Data
4 3 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.63%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.32%) KDB
6 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.58%) JIRA
3 3 (3.95%) Git
4 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (1.32%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.32%) JUnit
4 1 (1.32%) Postman
4 1 (1.32%) Selenium
4 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 76 (100.00%) Banking
2 47 (61.84%) Finance
3 34 (44.74%) Social Skills
4 17 (22.37%) Front Office
5 13 (17.11%) Financial Institution
5 13 (17.11%) Retail
5 13 (17.11%) Retail Banking
6 12 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (15.79%) Corporate Banking
7 4 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.63%) Back Office
8 2 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.32%) Legal
9 1 (1.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (23.68%) Developer
2 14 (18.42%) Senior
3 11 (14.47%) Analyst
4 10 (13.16%) Consultant
5 9 (11.84%) Business Analyst
5 9 (11.84%) Risk Consultant
6 7 (9.21%) Senior Consultant
7 6 (7.89%) Architect
7 6 (7.89%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (7.89%) React Developer
8 5 (6.58%) Java Developer
9 4 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Product Analyst
9 4 (5.26%) Project Manager
10 3 (3.95%) Data Engineer
10 3 (3.95%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
10 3 (3.95%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 3 (3.95%) Product Business Analyst
10 3 (3.95%) Python Developer
10 3 (3.95%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.21%) FIX Protocol
1 7 (9.21%) React
2 5 (6.58%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (6.58%) HTML
2 5 (6.58%) REST
3 4 (5.26%) .NET
3 4 (5.26%) JSON
4 3 (3.95%) FastAPI
4 3 (3.95%) Flask
4 3 (3.95%) PySpark
4 3 (3.95%) SQLAlchemy
5 2 (2.63%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.63%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.63%) HTML5
5 2 (2.63%) Smart Contracts
5 2 (2.63%) XML
6 1 (1.32%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.32%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (1.32%) Middleware
6 1 (1.32%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 13 (17.11%) Fixed Income
3 8 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 8 (10.53%) Market Risk
4 7 (9.21%) Derivative
5 6 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (7.89%) Product Ownership
6 5 (6.58%) Equities
7 3 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (3.95%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.63%) Blockchain
8 2 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.63%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.32%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.32%) Fat Client
9 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.32%) Legacy Code
9 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.32%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.53%) Linux
2 2 (2.63%) Unix
2 2 (2.63%) Windows
3 1 (1.32%) Android
3 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (25.00%) Agile
1 19 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (17.11%) SDLC
3 12 (15.79%) Analytics
3 12 (15.79%) Scrum
3 12 (15.79%) Wealth Management
4 11 (14.47%) DevOps
4 11 (14.47%) Electronic Trading
5 10 (13.16%) Algorithmic Trading
5 10 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (13.16%) Low Latency
5 10 (13.16%) Project Management
5 10 (13.16%) Risk Management
6 9 (11.84%) Scenario Testing
6 9 (11.84%) Service Delivery
7 8 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
7 8 (10.53%) Software Engineering
7 8 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (10.53%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (27.63%) SQL
2 14 (18.42%) Python
3 10 (13.16%) Java
4 9 (11.84%) JavaScript
5 7 (9.21%) C#
6 6 (7.89%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.95%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.63%) Bicep
8 2 (2.63%) DAML
9 1 (1.32%) C++
9 1 (1.32%) Ruby
9 1 (1.32%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (3.95%) CCIE
1 3 (3.95%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.63%) Degree
3 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.32%) CISA
3 1 (1.32%) CISSP
3 1 (1.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.53%) Basel II
1 8 (10.53%) QA
2 5 (6.58%) MiFID
3 3 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.63%) EMIR
4 2 (2.63%) GDPR
4 2 (2.63%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.32%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.32%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (1.32%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.32%) SEPA
5 1 (1.32%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (9.21%) Docker
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (9.21%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.58%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (6.58%) Kibana
2 5 (6.58%) logstash
3 3 (3.95%) Ansible
4 2 (2.63%) Terraform
5 1 (1.32%) Grafana
5 1 (1.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (6.58%) ION Trading
1 5 (6.58%) Solace
2 3 (3.95%) Arista
2 3 (3.95%) Google
2 3 (3.95%) Oracle
3 2 (2.63%) Citrix
3 2 (2.63%) Planview
3 2 (2.63%) Splunk
4 1 (1.32%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.32%) Cisco
4 1 (1.32%) CQG
4 1 (1.32%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (1.32%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.32%) Portware
4 1 (1.32%) Reuters
4 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.32%) Tufin
4 1 (1.32%) UiPath
4 1 (1.32%) Wyse
4 1 (1.32%) Zscaler