Investment Management Contracts in the City of London

Investment Management
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 111 141
Rank change year-on-year +11 +30 +21
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 16 13 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.94% 0.60% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.67% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 21
10th Percentile £263 £552 £461
25th Percentile £300 £663 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £725
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% - +7.41%
75th Percentile £678 £818 £750
90th Percentile £770 £875 £788
Central London median daily rate £525 £725 £725
% change year-on-year -27.59% - +7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £40.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,589 1,953 3,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.58% 90.75% 91.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,008 1,368 2,128
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £452 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +4.80%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 23
10th Percentile £18.15 £19.92 £14.45
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.06
Median hourly rate £28.33 £26.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.90% -25.00% -13.58%
75th Percentile £41.48 £40.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £59.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +1.85% -20.54% -14.63%

Investment Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Management in the City of London

Investment Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Investment Management in the City of London

Investment Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Management in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Management in the City of London

Investment Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Investment Management in the City of London

Investment Management
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:

Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) LAN
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
1 1 (6.25%) VPN
1 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Back Office
3 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Front Office
5 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Support Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (6.25%) Applications Support
5 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Business Systems Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Change Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Investment Management Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) IT Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Junior
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Project Change Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Regulatory Change Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) React
3 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.25%) Blazor
3 1 (6.25%) Django
3 1 (6.25%) Flask
3 1 (6.25%) NumPy
3 1 (6.25%) Pandas
3 1 (6.25%) Spring
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.25%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Equities
1 2 (12.50%) Fixed Income
2 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.25%) Hedge funds
2 1 (6.25%) iPad
2 1 (6.25%) iPhone
2 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
2 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Asset Management
2 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (18.75%) Fund Management
3 3 (18.75%) Portfolio Management
4 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (12.50%) Business Analysis
4 2 (12.50%) Change Management
4 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (12.50%) Migration
4 2 (12.50%) Performance Analysis
4 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (12.50%) Project Management
4 2 (12.50%) Service Management
5 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (6.25%) Incident Management
5 1 (6.25%) ITIL
5 1 (6.25%) ITSM
5 1 (6.25%) Refactoring
5 1 (6.25%) Risk Management
5 1 (6.25%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) C#
2 3 (18.75%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) CFA
3 1 (6.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) EMIR
1 2 (12.50%) MiFID
2 1 (6.25%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Bloomberg
2 1 (6.25%) Apple
2 1 (6.25%) FactSet
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow