Investment Banking Contract Job Trends 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 2 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 61 44
Rank change year-on-year -5 -17 -5
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 57 62 100
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.10% 3.10% 4.04%
As % of the General category 4.53% 4.58% 6.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 29 79
10th Percentile £504 £484 £525
25th Percentile £551 £563 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £680
Median % change year-on-year - -4.41% -4.56%
75th Percentile £756 £838 £831
90th Percentile £905 £918 £940
Central London median daily rate £650 £620 £680
% change year-on-year +4.84% -8.82% -4.56%

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 general skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,257 1,354 1,606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 68.43% 67.77% 64.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 852 828 1,151
10th Percentile £340 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £688
90th Percentile £788 £793 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 11
10th Percentile £20.18 £12.90 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.72 £18.00 £19.75
Median hourly rate £37.25 £22.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.32% -12.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £43.86 £47.50 £42.38
90th Percentile £58.75 £73.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.81 £33.75 £26.75
% change year-on-year -20.58% +26.17% -37.79%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Investment Banking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Investment Banking job vacancy trend in the City of London

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Investment Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Investment Banking

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 2 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in the City of London

Investment Banking
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Investment Banking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Investment Banking

Investment Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.26%) CMS
2 2 (3.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Aladdin
1 2 (3.51%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (3.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (3.51%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.75%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.75%) ION MarketView
2 1 (1.75%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.81%) Azure
2 7 (12.28%) Power Platform
3 6 (10.53%) AWS
4 5 (8.77%) GCP
5 4 (7.02%) Serverless
6 3 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.26%) GitHub
6 3 (5.26%) Snowflake
7 2 (3.51%) ChatGPT
7 2 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (3.51%) OCI
8 1 (1.75%) Azure AI
8 1 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.75%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (1.75%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.75%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) SMS
2 1 (1.75%) BGP
2 1 (1.75%) Firewall
2 1 (1.75%) Multicast
2 1 (1.75%) OSPF
2 1 (1.75%) SAN
2 1 (1.75%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (1.75%) Unicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.04%) Tableau
2 6 (10.53%) Power BI
2 6 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.02%) Redis
4 2 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (8.77%) JIRA
2 4 (7.02%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.51%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.51%) Git
4 2 (3.51%) Postman
4 2 (3.51%) Selenium
5 1 (1.75%) Jaeger
5 1 (1.75%) Maven
5 1 (1.75%) Snyk
5 1 (1.75%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 57 (100.00%) Banking
2 35 (61.40%) Finance
3 22 (38.60%) Social Skills
4 15 (26.32%) Front Office
5 10 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (12.28%) Retail Banking
7 6 (10.53%) Back Office
8 4 (7.02%) Financial Institution
8 4 (7.02%) Legal
8 4 (7.02%) Retail
9 3 (5.26%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.75%) Games
10 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.75%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (24.56%) Analyst
2 10 (17.54%) Developer
3 9 (15.79%) Business Analyst
4 7 (12.28%) Banking Analyst
4 7 (12.28%) Lead
5 5 (8.77%) C# Developer
6 4 (7.02%) Data Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Project Manager
6 4 (7.02%) Senior
7 3 (5.26%) Product Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Test Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Architect
8 2 (3.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 2 (3.51%) Data Analyst
8 2 (3.51%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
8 2 (3.51%) MiFID Business Analyst
8 2 (3.51%) Network Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.04%) .NET
2 5 (8.77%) React
3 4 (7.02%) AngularJS
3 4 (7.02%) Node.js
4 3 (5.26%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (5.26%) HTML
5 2 (3.51%) CSS
5 2 (3.51%) CSS3
5 2 (3.51%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (3.51%) HTML5
5 2 (3.51%) LangChain
5 2 (3.51%) PyTorch
5 2 (3.51%) REST
5 2 (3.51%) TensorFlow
5 2 (3.51%) XML
6 1 (1.75%) Blazor
6 1 (1.75%) JWT
6 1 (1.75%) Loki
6 1 (1.75%) Semantic Kernel
6 1 (1.75%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.79%) Derivative
2 8 (14.04%) Cloud Native
3 6 (10.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (8.77%) Fixed Income
5 3 (5.26%) AI Agents
5 3 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (5.26%) Equities
5 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.51%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 2 (3.51%) Swaptions
7 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.75%) Blog
7 1 (1.75%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.75%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.75%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.75%) Online Games
7 1 (1.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.75%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.02%) Linux
2 3 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (28.07%) Agile
2 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (17.54%) User Acceptance Testing
4 9 (15.79%) Asset Management
4 9 (15.79%) DevOps
4 9 (15.79%) Wealth Management
5 8 (14.04%) Data Analysis
5 8 (14.04%) Event-Driven
5 8 (14.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (12.28%) Business Analysis
6 7 (12.28%) CI/CD
6 7 (12.28%) Validation
7 6 (10.53%) Analytics
7 6 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (10.53%) Microservices
7 6 (10.53%) Project Management
7 6 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (8.77%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (8.77%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 16 (28.07%) SQL
2 14 (24.56%) Python
3 11 (19.30%) C#
4 9 (15.79%) Java
5 5 (8.77%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.26%) C++
6 3 (5.26%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.26%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.26%) VB.NET
7 2 (3.51%) Scala
7 2 (3.51%) VBA
8 1 (1.75%) Bicep
8 1 (1.75%) Go
8 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (12.28%) Degree
2 4 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.51%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.51%) CFA
3 2 (3.51%) PMI Certification
3 2 (3.51%) PMP
4 1 (1.75%) CCIE
4 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) QA
2 3 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.26%) MiFID
3 2 (3.51%) GDPR
3 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.51%) PMO
4 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.75%) Basel III
4 1 (1.75%) SLA
4 1 (1.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (8.77%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.75%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 5 (8.77%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.51%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (3.51%) Kibana
2 2 (3.51%) logstash
2 2 (3.51%) Terraform
3 1 (1.75%) Ansible
3 1 (1.75%) Grafana
3 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.75%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 10 (17.54%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.26%) Oracle
2 3 (5.26%) Solace
3 2 (3.51%) Google
3 2 (3.51%) ION Trading
3 2 (3.51%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.51%) SAP
3 2 (3.51%) UiPath
4 1 (1.75%) Ariba
4 1 (1.75%) Arista
4 1 (1.75%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.75%) Calypso
4 1 (1.75%) Databricks
4 1 (1.75%) Murex
4 1 (1.75%) Portware
4 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.75%) Splunk
4 1 (1.75%) Sybase