Investment Banking Contract Job Trends in England

Investment Banking
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Investment Banking over the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 145 111
Rank change year-on-year -79 -34 +5
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 541 533 686
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.18% 1.94% 2.06%
As % of the General category 2.14% 3.01% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 366 550
10th Percentile £407 £419 £500
25th Percentile £513 £600 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £750 £770
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% -2.60% +10.00%
75th Percentile £818 £825 £875
90th Percentile £938 £884 £888
UK median daily rate £650 £725 £750
% change year-on-year -10.34% -3.33% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £73.25 -
25th Percentile - £78.13 £18.25
Median hourly rate - £87.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +348.72% +5.41%
75th Percentile - £94.38 £20.75
90th Percentile - £97.75 -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £87.50 £31.77
% change year-on-year +8.57% +175.42% -50.65%

All General Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 25,237 17,720 19,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.24% 64.33% 57.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,981 11,258 12,146
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £420 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -5.58% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £656
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,044 987 1,121
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.36 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £16.30 £17.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% -34.02% +37.42%
75th Percentile £58.75 £50.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £35.36
% change year-on-year +25.25% -28.87% +28.58%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Investment Banking job vacancy trend in England

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Investment Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Investment Banking

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in England over the 6 months to 25 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in England

Investment Banking
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Investment Banking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Investment Banking

Investment Banking
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 25 August 2026. 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 -58 462 £665 -11.37% 80
North of England -19 66 £502 +30.26% 5
North West +4 58 £450 -28.00% 3
West Midlands -7 44 £875 -
Midlands -25 44 £875 -
South West -36 8 £875 +392.96% 10
Yorkshire -43 4 £450 +21.62% 1
North East - 4 £875 - 1
South East -65 3 £525 -4.55% 18
Investment Banking
UK

Investment Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 10 (1.85%) Confluence
2 4 (0.74%) IIS
2 4 (0.74%) MTS
2 4 (0.74%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.55%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.37%) Apache
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.18%) CICS
5 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.18%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 10 (1.85%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.74%) Summit
3 3 (0.55%) Loan IQ
3 3 (0.55%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.37%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.37%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.37%) Global One
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle iProcurement
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.18%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 70 (12.94%) Azure
2 58 (10.72%) AWS
3 24 (4.44%) GCP
4 19 (3.51%) Power Platform
5 17 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (2.40%) Entra ID
7 13 (2.40%) GitHub
8 12 (2.22%) SaaS
9 9 (1.66%) OCI
10 8 (1.48%) Snowflake
11 6 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.11%) Google Workspace
12 5 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (0.92%) Power Automate
12 5 (0.92%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.74%) Azure API Management
14 3 (0.55%) Cloud Run
14 3 (0.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 33 (6.10%) DNS
2 25 (4.62%) Multicast
3 23 (4.25%) VPN
4 22 (4.07%) HTTP
4 22 (4.07%) TCP/IP
5 21 (3.88%) DMZ
6 20 (3.70%) BGP
7 18 (3.33%) BIG-IP
7 18 (3.33%) Wireshark
8 17 (3.14%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 17 (3.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 17 (3.14%) SSL
9 16 (2.96%) FIX Connectivity
10 11 (2.03%) Firewall
11 4 (0.74%) Network Security
12 3 (0.55%) SSH
12 3 (0.55%) Wireless
13 2 (0.37%) DWDM
13 2 (0.37%) MPLS
13 2 (0.37%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.99%) SQL Server
2 20 (3.70%) Metadata
3 19 (3.51%) Power BI
4 14 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (2.59%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.85%) KDB
5 10 (1.85%) Pinecone
5 10 (1.85%) Weaviate
6 9 (1.66%) Data Vault
7 7 (1.29%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.29%) Tableau
8 6 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.11%) Kdb+
8 6 (1.11%) Redis
9 5 (0.92%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (0.74%) Big Data
10 4 (0.74%) ClickHouse
10 4 (0.74%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.74%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 49 (9.06%) JIRA
2 20 (3.70%) Git
3 16 (2.96%) Fiddler
4 12 (2.22%) ER Studio
5 10 (1.85%) ERwin
5 10 (1.85%) Jenkins
6 9 (1.66%) TeamCity
7 7 (1.29%) GitLab
8 5 (0.92%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
8 5 (0.92%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.74%) Selenium
9 4 (0.74%) webpack
10 3 (0.55%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.55%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.37%) Maven
11 2 (0.37%) MSBuild
11 2 (0.37%) Vite
12 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.18%) XCUITest
General
1 541 (100.00%) Banking
2 333 (61.55%) Finance
3 169 (31.24%) Front Office
4 119 (22.00%) Social Skills
5 64 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (8.13%) Corporate Banking
7 43 (7.95%) Retail Banking
8 40 (7.39%) Financial Institution
8 40 (7.39%) Retail
9 19 (3.51%) Back Office
10 18 (3.33%) Legal
11 15 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (2.22%) Spanish Language
13 8 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.74%) French Language
16 4 (0.74%) Games
16 4 (0.74%) General Ledger
17 3 (0.55%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 175 (32.35%) Developer
2 85 (15.71%) Analyst
3 83 (15.34%) Senior
4 79 (14.60%) Java Developer
5 66 (12.20%) Business Analyst
6 57 (10.54%) Senior Developer
7 37 (6.84%) Senior Java Developer
8 35 (6.47%) Network Engineer
9 34 (6.28%) React Developer
10 30 (5.55%) Senior React Developer
10 30 (5.55%) UI Developer
11 28 (5.18%) Lead
11 28 (5.18%) Senior UI Developer
12 25 (4.62%) C# Developer
13 24 (4.44%) Architect
14 23 (4.25%) Python Developer
15 21 (3.88%) Security Engineer
15 21 (3.88%) Support Engineer
16 19 (3.51%) Electronic Trading Developer
16 19 (3.51%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (10.35%) React
2 45 (8.32%) .NET
3 39 (7.21%) FIX Protocol
4 36 (6.65%) Redux
5 19 (3.51%) AngularJS
6 16 (2.96%) Kafka
6 16 (2.96%) REST
7 15 (2.77%) Middleware
8 14 (2.59%) Spring
8 14 (2.59%) WebSockets
9 12 (2.22%) RESTful
9 12 (2.22%) Terraform
10 10 (1.85%) LangChain
10 10 (1.85%) LlamaIndex
10 10 (1.85%) OAuth
10 10 (1.85%) OAuth2
11 9 (1.66%) Node.js
11 9 (1.66%) Pandas
11 9 (1.66%) PySpark
12 8 (1.48%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 98 (18.11%) Derivative
2 82 (15.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 70 (12.94%) Fixed Income
4 68 (12.57%) Equities
5 43 (7.95%) Management Information System
6 35 (6.47%) Greenfield Project
7 31 (5.73%) Product Ownership
8 27 (4.99%) Onboarding
9 22 (4.07%) Market Risk
10 19 (3.51%) Data Structures
11 18 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (2.96%) Algorithms
12 16 (2.96%) TWAP
12 16 (2.96%) VWAP
13 15 (2.77%) AI Agents
13 15 (2.77%) Credit Risk
14 13 (2.40%) Hedge funds
15 11 (2.03%) Cloud Native
16 10 (1.85%) Reference Data
17 8 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.10%) Windows
2 31 (5.73%) Linux
3 25 (4.62%) Unix
4 6 (1.11%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.11%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.92%) Android
6 3 (0.55%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.37%) AIX
7 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.37%) Solaris
8 1 (0.18%) HPUX
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.18%) SUSE
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (23.29%) Agile
2 83 (15.34%) Low Latency
3 77 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
4 76 (14.05%) Electronic Trading
5 75 (13.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 61 (11.28%) CI/CD
7 60 (11.09%) AI
8 55 (10.17%) Analytics
9 49 (9.06%) Software Engineering
10 47 (8.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 47 (8.69%) DevOps
11 46 (8.50%) Wealth Management
12 41 (7.58%) Business Analysis
13 38 (7.02%) Data Modelling
14 37 (6.84%) Multithreading
15 36 (6.65%) Full-Stack Development
16 35 (6.47%) Translating Business Requirements
16 35 (6.47%) User Acceptance Testing
17 34 (6.28%) Load Balancing
18 33 (6.10%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 123 (22.74%) Java
2 113 (20.89%) SQL
3 105 (19.41%) Python
4 91 (16.82%) C#
5 64 (11.83%) TypeScript
6 54 (9.98%) JavaScript
7 24 (4.44%) PowerShell
8 20 (3.70%) C++
9 14 (2.59%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.29%) Rust
11 6 (1.11%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.11%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.74%) Tcl
12 4 (0.74%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.74%) VBA
13 3 (0.55%) Bash
13 3 (0.55%) Bicep
13 3 (0.55%) C
13 3 (0.55%) Perl
13 3 (0.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (6.84%) Degree
2 12 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.48%) Azure Certification
4 6 (1.11%) PMP
5 4 (0.74%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.74%) Security Cleared
6 3 (0.55%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.55%) CISSP
6 3 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (0.55%) MCSA
6 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.55%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.55%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.37%) ACCA
7 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.37%) CCNP
7 2 (0.37%) CIMA
7 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.37%) MBA
8 1 (0.18%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 15 (2.77%) MiFID
3 11 (2.03%) QA
4 9 (1.66%) EMIR
5 6 (1.11%) PMO
6 4 (0.74%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.55%) NIST
7 3 (0.55%) SLA
8 2 (0.37%) IFRS
8 2 (0.37%) WCAG
9 1 (0.18%) COBIT
9 1 (0.18%) COREP
9 1 (0.18%) FINREP
9 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 19 (3.51%) Active Directory
2 17 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.96%) Firmware
4 14 (2.59%) Docker
5 1 (0.18%) GridGain
5 1 (0.18%) Varnish
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 17 (3.14%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.66%) Ansible
3 8 (1.48%) SCCM
4 6 (1.11%) WSUS
5 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.55%) Control-M
6 3 (0.55%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.37%) Kibana
7 2 (0.37%) logstash
7 2 (0.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.18%) Grafana
8 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.18%) WMI
Vendors
1 52 (9.61%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.47%) Oracle
3 34 (6.28%) F5
4 21 (3.88%) Cisco
5 17 (3.14%) Blue Coat
5 17 (3.14%) VMware
6 16 (2.96%) McAfee
6 16 (2.96%) NetApp
7 14 (2.59%) Bloomberg
8 13 (2.40%) OpenAI
9 12 (2.22%) Databricks
9 12 (2.22%) Murex
10 11 (2.03%) ServiceNow
11 10 (1.85%) Citrix
11 10 (1.85%) ION Trading
12 8 (1.48%) Reuters
12 8 (1.48%) Sybase
12 8 (1.48%) Tradeweb
13 6 (1.11%) Charles River
13 6 (1.11%) SAP