Investment Banking Contracts in the City of London

Investment Banking
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Investment Banking over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 53 50
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 +15
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 77 74 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.41% 3.42% 4.28%
As % of the General category 6.15% 5.16% 6.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 48 115
10th Percentile £422 £424 £508
25th Percentile £563 £563 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £713
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -1.75% -1.72%
75th Percentile £838 £794 £820
90th Percentile £917 £1,001 £1,063
Central London median daily rate £652 £700 £713
% change year-on-year -6.86% -1.75% -1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £100.00 - -
Central London median hourly rate £100.00 - -

All General Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,252 1,435 2,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 71.67% 66.34% 62.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 781 1,011 1,556
10th Percentile £331 £338 £363
25th Percentile £455 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -6.12% +6.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £738
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 14
10th Percentile £22.00 £18.74 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.15 £15.78
Median hourly rate £29.58 £22.41 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.99% +6.70% -51.72%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.13 £50.14
90th Percentile £96.38 £34.33 £57.25
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £24.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year +21.13% -14.29% -35.63%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in the City of London

Investment Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Investment Banking in the City of London

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in the City of London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in the City of London

Investment Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Investment Banking in the City of London

Investment Banking
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 17 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
London Bridge - 1 - -
Investment Banking
Central London

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (5.19%) Confluence
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.30%) Apache
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (12.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) ION Anvil
2 2 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle iProcurement
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.30%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 11 (14.29%) AWS
2 9 (11.69%) Power Platform
3 8 (10.39%) SaaS
4 5 (6.49%) GCP
5 4 (5.19%) Azure
6 2 (2.60%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.60%) GitHub
6 2 (2.60%) OCI
6 2 (2.60%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.60%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.30%) CloudFront
7 1 (1.30%) Route 53
7 1 (1.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.60%) Firewall
2 1 (1.30%) BGP
2 1 (1.30%) Multicast
2 1 (1.30%) OSPF
2 1 (1.30%) PBX
2 1 (1.30%) PSTN
2 1 (1.30%) Unicast
2 1 (1.30%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.69%) Power BI
2 6 (7.79%) Data Mining
3 4 (5.19%) Big Data
4 3 (3.90%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.90%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.90%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.60%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (2.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.30%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.30%) KDB
6 1 (1.30%) Redis
6 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (7.79%) Jenkins
1 6 (7.79%) JIRA
2 3 (3.90%) Bitbucket
2 3 (3.90%) Git
2 3 (3.90%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.60%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.30%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.30%) JUnit
4 1 (1.30%) NUnit
4 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 77 (100.00%) Banking
2 47 (61.04%) Finance
3 27 (35.06%) Social Skills
4 18 (23.38%) Retail Banking
5 16 (20.78%) Corporate Banking
5 16 (20.78%) Retail
6 15 (19.48%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (15.58%) Front Office
8 9 (11.69%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.90%) Back Office
9 3 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.60%) Marketing
11 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (29.87%) Developer
2 12 (15.58%) Senior
3 11 (14.29%) Analyst
4 10 (12.99%) Business Analyst
4 10 (12.99%) Consultant
5 7 (9.09%) Risk Consultant
6 6 (7.79%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.79%) React Developer
7 5 (6.49%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (6.49%) Senior Consultant
8 4 (5.19%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) C# Developer
8 4 (5.19%) Data Analyst
9 3 (3.90%) Compliance Specialist
9 3 (3.90%) Data Business Analyst
9 3 (3.90%) Designer
9 3 (3.90%) Python Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Technical Delivery Manager
9 3 (3.90%) Technical Services Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.09%) HTML
1 7 (9.09%) React
2 6 (7.79%) AngularJS
3 5 (6.49%) JSON
3 5 (6.49%) PySpark
4 4 (5.19%) .NET
4 4 (5.19%) HTML5
4 4 (5.19%) REST
5 3 (3.90%) FastAPI
5 3 (3.90%) Flask
5 3 (3.90%) Spring
5 3 (3.90%) SQLAlchemy
6 2 (2.60%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.60%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (2.60%) Node.js
6 2 (2.60%) RxJS
6 2 (2.60%) Smart Contracts
7 1 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.30%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.30%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.39%) Fixed Income
1 8 (10.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (7.79%) Derivative
2 6 (7.79%) Equities
2 6 (7.79%) Market Risk
2 6 (7.79%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.49%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.90%) Credit Risk
4 3 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.90%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.60%) Blockchain
5 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.30%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.30%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.19%) Linux
2 2 (2.60%) Unix
3 1 (1.30%) Android
3 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (24.68%) Agile
2 18 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (20.78%) Wealth Management
4 11 (14.29%) Analytics
4 11 (14.29%) SDLC
5 10 (12.99%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (11.69%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (10.39%) Electronic Trading
7 8 (10.39%) Project Management
7 8 (10.39%) Risk Management
7 8 (10.39%) Scrum
8 7 (9.09%) Decision-Making
8 7 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (9.09%) Low Latency
8 7 (9.09%) Software Engineering
9 6 (7.79%) CI/CD
9 6 (7.79%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (7.79%) DevOps
9 6 (7.79%) Scenario Testing
9 6 (7.79%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 25 (32.47%) SQL
2 14 (18.18%) Python
3 12 (15.58%) Java
4 9 (11.69%) JavaScript
5 7 (9.09%) C#
6 5 (6.49%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.60%) DAML
7 2 (2.60%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.30%) C++
8 1 (1.30%) Ruby
8 1 (1.30%) Scala
8 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (6.49%) Degree
2 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (1.30%) CBAP
2 1 (1.30%) CCIE
2 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.30%) PMI Certification
2 1 (1.30%) PMP
2 1 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.79%) Basel II
1 6 (7.79%) MiFID
1 6 (7.79%) QA
2 3 (3.90%) EMIR
3 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.30%) Dodd-Frank
3 1 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.90%) Docker
2 2 (2.60%) Lustre
3 1 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (3.90%) Ansible
1 3 (3.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.60%) Grafana
2 2 (2.60%) Karpenter
2 2 (2.60%) Podman
2 2 (2.60%) Terraform
3 1 (1.30%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (1.30%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (1.30%) Kibana
3 1 (1.30%) logstash
3 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (6.49%) Oracle
2 4 (5.19%) ION Trading
2 4 (5.19%) Planview
2 4 (5.19%) Splunk
3 3 (3.90%) Google
3 3 (3.90%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.60%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.30%) Adobe
5 1 (1.30%) Arista
5 1 (1.30%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.30%) Cisco
5 1 (1.30%) Citrix
5 1 (1.30%) CQG
5 1 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.30%) Reuters
5 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.30%) Solace
5 1 (1.30%) Tufin
5 1 (1.30%) Zscaler