Investment Management Contracts in Central London

Investment Management
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Investment Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Investment Management over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 119 144
Rank change year-on-year +12 +25 +21
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 15 14 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.80% 0.59% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.64% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 22
10th Percentile £263 £588 £462
25th Percentile £325 £674 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £738 £725
Median % change year-on-year -28.81% +1.72% +7.41%
75th Percentile £641 £861 £747
90th Percentile £781 £906 £785
London median daily rate £725 £725 £675
% change year-on-year - +7.41% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
London median hourly rate - £40.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Investment Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,756 2,174 3,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.35% 90.85% 91.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,131 1,544 2,305
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.57%
75th Percentile £679 £680 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £817
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 22 27
10th Percentile £19.36 £20.22 £14.85
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.63 £17.56
Median hourly rate £28.15 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -20.54% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.75 £28.98 £53.25
90th Percentile £50.75 £40.00 £88.30
London median hourly rate £30.00 £27.92 £39.63
% change year-on-year +7.45% -29.54% +12.29%

Investment Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Management in Central London

Investment Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Investment Management in Central London

Investment Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Management in Central London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Management in Central London

Investment Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Investment Management in Central London

Investment Management
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 Management within the Central London region over the 6 months to 28 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 +5 14 £525 -28.81% 16
Investment Management
London

Investment Management
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:

Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) LAN
1 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (6.67%) VPN
1 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 9 (60.00%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Back Office
3 2 (13.33%) Front Office
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (13.33%) IT Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Support Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (6.67%) Applications Support
5 1 (6.67%) Applications Support Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Business IT Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Business Systems Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) C# Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Investment Management Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Junior
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) React
3 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.67%) Blazor
3 1 (6.67%) Django
3 1 (6.67%) Flask
3 1 (6.67%) NumPy
3 1 (6.67%) Pandas
3 1 (6.67%) Spring
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.67%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Equities
1 2 (13.33%) Fixed Income
2 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.67%) Hedge funds
2 1 (6.67%) iPad
2 1 (6.67%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 3 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (20.00%) Fund Management
2 3 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
2 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (13.33%) Business Analysis
3 2 (13.33%) Change Management
3 2 (13.33%) DataOps
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (13.33%) Machine Learning
3 2 (13.33%) Migration
3 2 (13.33%) Performance Analysis
3 2 (13.33%) Service Management
4 1 (6.67%) Data Transformation
4 1 (6.67%) MLOps
4 1 (6.67%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (6.67%) Order Management
4 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (6.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) C#
2 3 (20.00%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) CFA
3 1 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) EMIR
1 2 (13.33%) MiFID
2 1 (6.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Bloomberg
2 1 (6.67%) Apple
2 1 (6.67%) FactSet
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow