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 10 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 131 161
Rank change year-on-year -97 +30 -58
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 459 509 555
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.12% 2.08% 1.51%
As % of the General category 2.06% 3.24% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 334 422
10th Percentile £406 £413 £500
25th Percentile £478 £612 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £784 £875 £850
90th Percentile £919 £888 £888
UK median daily rate £613 £734 £725
% change year-on-year -16.52% +1.21% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.96 - £18.25
Median hourly rate £54.46 £100.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +412.82% -
75th Percentile £56.96 - £20.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £74.73 £100.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -25.27% +412.82% -70.70%

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 22,273 15,692 21,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.58% 64.12% 58.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,825 10,192 13,799
10th Percentile £306 £300 £280
25th Percentile £409 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,468 667 1,790
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.16 £17.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.50 £27.50 £30.27
Median % change year-on-year +10.89% -9.14% -6.59%
75th Percentile £63.75 £56.58 £51.91
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.30
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.96%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -63 378 £650 -13.33% 82
North of England -4 72 £428 -10.00% 6
North West +21 69 £450 -37.93% 4
West Midlands -5 57 - - 4
Midlands -12 57 - - 4
South West - 6 £515 -
Yorkshire -58 4 £405 +5.19% 2
South East - 2 £159 - 15
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 12 (2.61%) Confluence
2 5 (1.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (0.65%) Apache
3 3 (0.65%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.65%) IIS
3 3 (0.65%) SAS
4 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.44%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.22%) CICS
5 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
Applications
1 27 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (2.83%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.65%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.44%) UserZoom
7 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (3.05%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (2.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 13 (2.83%) Oracle Receivables
3 9 (1.96%) Payment Gateway
4 7 (1.53%) Aladdin
5 6 (1.31%) Summit
6 4 (0.87%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.65%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.44%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 2 (0.44%) Front Arena
8 2 (0.44%) Global One
8 2 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.22%) Actimize
9 1 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.22%) Bloomberg AIM
9 1 (0.22%) BusinessWorks
9 1 (0.22%) IntelliMatch
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.22%) Orchestrade
9 1 (0.22%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 63 (13.73%) Azure
2 54 (11.76%) AWS
3 19 (4.14%) GCP
4 17 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (3.05%) OCI
5 14 (3.05%) Power Platform
6 13 (2.83%) GitHub
7 10 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (1.96%) Snowflake
9 8 (1.74%) Google Workspace
10 7 (1.53%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.09%) npm
11 5 (1.09%) Yarn
12 4 (0.87%) Figma
12 4 (0.87%) Serverless
13 3 (0.65%) Anthropic Claude
13 3 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (0.65%) ChatGPT
13 3 (0.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (8.50%) DNS
2 26 (5.66%) HTTP
2 26 (5.66%) TCP/IP
3 25 (5.45%) DMZ
3 25 (5.45%) VPN
4 22 (4.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 22 (4.79%) Multicast
5 21 (4.58%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 21 (4.58%) FIX Connectivity
5 21 (4.58%) Wireshark
6 20 (4.36%) BIG-IP
6 20 (4.36%) SSL
7 19 (4.14%) BGP
8 10 (2.18%) Firewall
9 3 (0.65%) Network Security
9 3 (0.65%) SAN
10 2 (0.44%) DWDM
10 2 (0.44%) MPLS
10 2 (0.44%) NAS
10 2 (0.44%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.01%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.27%) Relational Database
3 13 (2.83%) Power BI
4 11 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.40%) Tableau
5 10 (2.18%) Metadata
6 9 (1.96%) Pinecone
6 9 (1.96%) Weaviate
7 6 (1.31%) Big Data
7 6 (1.31%) RDBMS
7 6 (1.31%) Redis
8 5 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.09%) KDB
8 5 (1.09%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.87%) Data Vault
10 3 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.65%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.65%) Flink
10 3 (0.65%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.65%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 32 (6.97%) JIRA
2 19 (4.14%) Fiddler
3 9 (1.96%) TeamCity
4 7 (1.53%) Git
5 6 (1.31%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.31%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (1.31%) webpack
6 5 (1.09%) GitLab
6 5 (1.09%) Selenium
7 3 (0.65%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.65%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.65%) ERwin
7 3 (0.65%) JUnit
7 3 (0.65%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.65%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.44%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.44%) Maven
8 2 (0.44%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.44%) Vite
General
1 459 (100.00%) Banking
2 260 (56.64%) Finance
3 123 (26.80%) Front Office
4 109 (23.75%) Social Skills
5 56 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (8.93%) Retail Banking
7 33 (7.19%) Corporate Banking
7 33 (7.19%) Retail
8 27 (5.88%) Financial Institution
9 16 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (3.27%) Legal
11 10 (2.18%) Back Office
12 9 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.53%) French Language
14 6 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.65%) Marketing
15 3 (0.65%) Spanish Language
16 2 (0.44%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 124 (27.02%) Developer
2 81 (17.65%) Analyst
3 62 (13.51%) Business Analyst
4 59 (12.85%) Java Developer
4 59 (12.85%) Senior
5 40 (8.71%) Network Engineer
6 38 (8.28%) Senior Developer
7 35 (7.63%) Architect
8 29 (6.32%) Senior Java Developer
9 28 (6.10%) Banking Analyst
9 28 (6.10%) Solutions Architect
10 26 (5.66%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 26 (5.66%) Payments Architect
10 26 (5.66%) Payments Solutions Architect
11 23 (5.01%) Data Engineer
12 22 (4.79%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
12 22 (4.79%) Security Engineer
13 21 (4.58%) C# Developer
14 20 (4.36%) Low Latency Java Developer
14 20 (4.36%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (8.28%) .NET
2 33 (7.19%) FIX Protocol
3 31 (6.75%) React
4 26 (5.66%) Kafka
5 23 (5.01%) Middleware
6 15 (3.27%) CSS
6 15 (3.27%) HTML
6 15 (3.27%) Redux
7 14 (3.05%) XML
8 12 (2.61%) Spring
9 11 (2.40%) AngularJS
10 10 (2.18%) LangChain
11 9 (1.96%) LlamaIndex
12 8 (1.74%) HTML5
12 8 (1.74%) Node.js
13 7 (1.53%) RESTful
14 6 (1.31%) Reactive Extensions
14 6 (1.31%) REST
14 6 (1.31%) WebSockets
15 5 (1.09%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 84 (18.30%) Derivative
2 60 (13.07%) Management Information System
3 46 (10.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 45 (9.80%) Equities
5 38 (8.28%) Fixed Income
6 25 (5.45%) Market Risk
7 22 (4.79%) Credit Risk
8 19 (4.14%) TWAP
8 19 (4.14%) VWAP
9 16 (3.49%) Algorithms
9 16 (3.49%) Onboarding
10 15 (3.27%) Data Structures
10 15 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (3.27%) Product Ownership
11 11 (2.40%) AI Agents
12 10 (2.18%) Cloud Native
13 8 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (1.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.54%) Windows
2 23 (5.01%) Unix
3 18 (3.92%) Linux
4 8 (1.74%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.31%) Windows 7
6 3 (0.65%) AIX
6 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.44%) Android
8 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (21.13%) Agile
2 65 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (10.89%) Electronic Trading
3 50 (10.89%) Low Latency
4 48 (10.46%) Analytics
5 44 (9.59%) Stakeholder Management
6 41 (8.93%) Asset Management
6 41 (8.93%) Multithreading
7 40 (8.71%) AI
8 39 (8.50%) Business Analysis
8 39 (8.50%) CI/CD
8 39 (8.50%) SDLC
8 39 (8.50%) TDD
8 39 (8.50%) User Acceptance Testing
9 38 (8.28%) DevOps
10 37 (8.06%) Load Balancing
11 32 (6.97%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (6.54%) Software Engineering
12 30 (6.54%) Test Automation
12 30 (6.54%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 102 (22.22%) Java
2 95 (20.70%) SQL
3 81 (17.65%) Python
4 50 (10.89%) C#
5 36 (7.84%) TypeScript
6 30 (6.54%) JavaScript
7 21 (4.58%) PowerShell
8 13 (2.83%) C++
9 8 (1.74%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.53%) Scala
11 5 (1.09%) Perl
11 5 (1.09%) Rust
11 5 (1.09%) VBA
12 4 (0.87%) Bash
12 4 (0.87%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.65%) Go
14 2 (0.44%) Korn
14 2 (0.44%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.22%) F#
15 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (6.75%) Degree
2 18 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (2.18%) Azure Certification
4 9 (1.96%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.53%) PMP
6 5 (1.09%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (0.87%) MCSA
7 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.65%) CFA
8 3 (0.65%) CISSP
8 3 (0.65%) Security Cleared
9 2 (0.44%) ACCA
9 2 (0.44%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.44%) CCNP
9 2 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.44%) MBA
9 2 (0.44%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 2 (0.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.05%) Data Quality
1 14 (3.05%) QA
2 13 (2.83%) MiFID
3 11 (2.40%) PMO
4 8 (1.74%) SLA
5 5 (1.09%) EMIR
6 3 (0.65%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.44%) GDPR
7 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.44%) NIST
7 2 (0.44%) SEPA
8 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.22%) COBIT
8 1 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.22%) GRC
8 1 (0.22%) IFRS
8 1 (0.22%) ITGC
8 1 (0.22%) PSD2
8 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 21 (4.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (4.14%) Firmware
3 17 (3.70%) Docker
4 7 (1.53%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.22%) GridGain
5 1 (0.22%) Varnish
5 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 15 (3.27%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.96%) SCCM
3 7 (1.53%) WSUS
4 5 (1.09%) Terraform
5 4 (0.87%) Control-M
5 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.65%) Ansible
7 2 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.44%) Puppet
7 2 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.22%) Grafana
8 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.22%) WMI
Vendors
1 48 (10.46%) Microsoft
2 39 (8.50%) F5
3 37 (8.06%) Oracle
4 21 (4.58%) VMware
5 20 (4.36%) Blue Coat
6 19 (4.14%) Cisco
6 19 (4.14%) McAfee
6 19 (4.14%) NetApp
7 14 (3.05%) Bloomberg
7 14 (3.05%) Murex
8 11 (2.40%) ION Trading
9 10 (2.18%) Citrix
10 9 (1.96%) Reuters
11 8 (1.74%) Charles River
11 8 (1.74%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.53%) Sybase
13 6 (1.31%) Adobe
14 4 (0.87%) Pega
14 4 (0.87%) Remedy
14 4 (0.87%) Splunk