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 19 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 146 105
Rank change year-on-year -82 -41 +10
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 529 533 687
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.16% 1.93% 2.07%
As % of the General category 2.09% 3.00% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 363 551
10th Percentile £408 £421 £500
25th Percentile £513 £613 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £668 £750 £775
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% -3.23% +10.71%
75th Percentile £815 £825 £879
90th Percentile £938 £886 £888
UK median daily rate £650 £725 £750
% change year-on-year -10.34% -3.33% +9.89%
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 25,299 17,739 19,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.33% 64.31% 57.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,091 11,249 12,258
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £420 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -5.67% -2.18%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £660
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 2,016 974 1,180
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.25 £14.42
25th Percentile £17.75 £16.36 £17.88
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% -34.02% +38.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £38.07
% change year-on-year +25.25% -33.94% +38.44%

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 19 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 19 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 -57 454 £668 -11.00% 254
North of England -35 63 £553 +38.25% 8
North West -13 55 £502 -19.76% 6
Midlands -4 42 £875 - 12
West Midlands -18 42 £875 - 10
South West -37 8 £875 +392.96% 2
Yorkshire -47 4 £450 +21.62% 1
North East - 4 £875 - 1
South East -71 2 £525 -4.55% 21
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 9 (1.70%) Confluence
2 4 (0.76%) IIS
2 4 (0.76%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.57%) Apache
3 3 (0.57%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.57%) MTS
4 2 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.19%) CICS
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.19%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 11 (2.08%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.95%) Oracle Payables
2 5 (0.95%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.76%) Summit
4 3 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.57%) Orchestrade
4 3 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.38%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.38%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.38%) Global One
5 2 (0.38%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle iProcurement
6 1 (0.19%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.19%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 69 (13.04%) Azure
2 60 (11.34%) AWS
3 24 (4.54%) GCP
4 20 (3.78%) Power Platform
5 16 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (2.65%) Entra ID
7 14 (2.65%) GitHub
8 9 (1.70%) SaaS
8 9 (1.70%) Snowflake
9 8 (1.51%) OCI
10 7 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.13%) Google Workspace
12 5 (0.95%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (0.95%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (0.95%) Power Automate
12 5 (0.95%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.76%) Azure API Management
14 3 (0.57%) Cloud Run
14 3 (0.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.86%) DNS
2 23 (4.35%) Multicast
3 22 (4.16%) VPN
4 21 (3.97%) HTTP
4 21 (3.97%) TCP/IP
5 20 (3.78%) DMZ
6 18 (3.40%) BGP
7 17 (3.21%) Wireshark
8 16 (3.02%) BIG-IP
8 16 (3.02%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 16 (3.02%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 16 (3.02%) FIX Connectivity
8 16 (3.02%) SSL
9 10 (1.89%) Firewall
10 3 (0.57%) SSH
10 3 (0.57%) Wireless
11 2 (0.38%) DWDM
11 2 (0.38%) MPLS
11 2 (0.38%) Network Security
11 2 (0.38%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.29%) SQL Server
2 20 (3.78%) Power BI
3 19 (3.59%) Metadata
4 14 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (2.46%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.89%) Data Vault
6 10 (1.89%) KDB
6 10 (1.89%) Pinecone
6 10 (1.89%) Weaviate
7 8 (1.51%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.51%) Tableau
8 6 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.13%) Kdb+
8 6 (1.13%) Redis
9 5 (0.95%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.76%) Big Data
10 4 (0.76%) ClickHouse
10 4 (0.76%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.76%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.76%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 46 (8.70%) JIRA
2 19 (3.59%) Git
3 15 (2.84%) Fiddler
4 11 (2.08%) ER Studio
5 10 (1.89%) ERwin
5 10 (1.89%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.89%) TeamCity
6 6 (1.13%) GitLab
7 5 (0.95%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (0.95%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.76%) Selenium
8 4 (0.76%) webpack
9 3 (0.57%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.57%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.38%) Maven
10 2 (0.38%) MSBuild
10 2 (0.38%) Vite
11 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.19%) XCUITest
General
1 529 (100.00%) Banking
2 327 (61.81%) Finance
3 173 (32.70%) Front Office
4 111 (20.98%) Social Skills
5 64 (12.10%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (8.70%) Corporate Banking
6 46 (8.70%) Retail Banking
7 42 (7.94%) Retail
8 39 (7.37%) Financial Institution
9 19 (3.59%) Back Office
10 17 (3.21%) Legal
11 16 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (2.27%) Spanish Language
13 7 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.76%) French Language
15 4 (0.76%) Games
16 3 (0.57%) Advertising
16 3 (0.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 175 (33.08%) Developer
2 82 (15.50%) Analyst
3 81 (15.31%) Senior
4 79 (14.93%) Java Developer
5 64 (12.10%) Business Analyst
6 57 (10.78%) Senior Developer
7 37 (6.99%) Senior Java Developer
8 34 (6.43%) React Developer
9 33 (6.24%) Network Engineer
10 30 (5.67%) Senior React Developer
10 30 (5.67%) UI Developer
11 28 (5.29%) Senior UI Developer
12 26 (4.91%) C# Developer
12 26 (4.91%) Lead
13 23 (4.35%) Architect
14 22 (4.16%) Python Developer
15 21 (3.97%) Support Engineer
16 20 (3.78%) Project Manager
16 20 (3.78%) Security Engineer
17 19 (3.59%) Electronic Trading Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (10.78%) React
2 46 (8.70%) .NET
3 38 (7.18%) FIX Protocol
4 37 (6.99%) Redux
5 20 (3.78%) AngularJS
6 18 (3.40%) Kafka
7 16 (3.02%) REST
8 15 (2.84%) Middleware
9 14 (2.65%) Spring
9 14 (2.65%) WebSockets
10 13 (2.46%) RESTful
11 10 (1.89%) LangChain
11 10 (1.89%) LlamaIndex
11 10 (1.89%) OAuth
11 10 (1.89%) OAuth2
12 9 (1.70%) Node.js
12 9 (1.70%) PySpark
13 8 (1.51%) HTML
13 8 (1.51%) NumPy
13 8 (1.51%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 100 (18.90%) Derivative
2 82 (15.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 70 (13.23%) Fixed Income
4 69 (13.04%) Equities
5 41 (7.75%) Management Information System
6 35 (6.62%) Greenfield Project
7 30 (5.67%) Product Ownership
8 27 (5.10%) Onboarding
9 22 (4.16%) Market Risk
10 21 (3.97%) Data Structures
11 18 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (3.02%) Algorithms
12 16 (3.02%) TWAP
12 16 (3.02%) VWAP
13 15 (2.84%) AI Agents
14 14 (2.65%) Cloud Native
14 14 (2.65%) Credit Risk
14 14 (2.65%) Hedge funds
15 8 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (1.51%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.24%) Windows
2 31 (5.86%) Linux
3 26 (4.91%) Unix
4 6 (1.13%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.95%) Android
5 5 (0.95%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.57%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.38%) AIX
7 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.38%) Solaris
8 1 (0.19%) HPUX
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.19%) SUSE
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (23.25%) Agile
2 84 (15.88%) Low Latency
3 76 (14.37%) Problem-Solving
4 75 (14.18%) Electronic Trading
5 66 (12.48%) Stakeholder Management
6 60 (11.34%) CI/CD
7 58 (10.96%) AI
8 55 (10.40%) Analytics
9 49 (9.26%) DevOps
10 48 (9.07%) Software Engineering
11 46 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (8.70%) Wealth Management
12 38 (7.18%) Multithreading
13 37 (6.99%) Full-Stack Development
14 36 (6.81%) Business Analysis
15 35 (6.62%) Data Modelling
15 35 (6.62%) User Acceptance Testing
16 33 (6.24%) Asset Management
16 33 (6.24%) TDD
17 31 (5.86%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 125 (23.63%) Java
2 108 (20.42%) SQL
3 106 (20.04%) Python
4 93 (17.58%) C#
5 65 (12.29%) TypeScript
6 54 (10.21%) JavaScript
7 23 (4.35%) PowerShell
8 21 (3.97%) C++
9 14 (2.65%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.32%) Rust
11 6 (1.13%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.95%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.76%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.76%) VBA
14 3 (0.57%) Bicep
14 3 (0.57%) C
14 3 (0.57%) Perl
14 3 (0.57%) Scala
14 3 (0.57%) Tcl
15 2 (0.38%) Bash
Qualifications
1 37 (6.99%) Degree
2 12 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.51%) Azure Certification
4 6 (1.13%) PMP
5 5 (0.95%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.76%) CISSP
6 4 (0.76%) PMI Certification
6 4 (0.76%) Security Cleared
7 3 (0.57%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (0.57%) MCSA
7 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.57%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.38%) CCNP
8 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.38%) MBA
9 1 (0.19%) ACCA
9 1 (0.19%) CIMA
9 1 (0.19%) CISM
9 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.84%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.46%) MiFID
3 11 (2.08%) QA
4 7 (1.32%) EMIR
5 6 (1.13%) PMO
6 4 (0.76%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.57%) NIST
7 3 (0.57%) SLA
8 2 (0.38%) WCAG
9 1 (0.19%) COBIT
9 1 (0.19%) COREP
9 1 (0.19%) FINREP
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS
9 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 20 (3.78%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.84%) Docker
3 15 (2.84%) Firmware
4 1 (0.19%) GridGain
4 1 (0.19%) Varnish
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.19%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 18 (3.40%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.08%) Terraform
3 8 (1.51%) Ansible
4 7 (1.32%) SCCM
5 6 (1.13%) WSUS
6 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.57%) Control-M
7 3 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.38%) Kibana
8 2 (0.38%) logstash
8 2 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.19%) WMI
Vendors
1 49 (9.26%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.05%) Oracle
3 31 (5.86%) F5
4 18 (3.40%) Cisco
5 16 (3.02%) Blue Coat
5 16 (3.02%) VMware
6 15 (2.84%) McAfee
6 15 (2.84%) NetApp
7 13 (2.46%) Murex
7 13 (2.46%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.27%) Bloomberg
9 11 (2.08%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.89%) Citrix
10 10 (1.89%) Databricks
11 9 (1.70%) ION Trading
12 7 (1.32%) Charles River
12 7 (1.32%) Reuters
12 7 (1.32%) Sybase
12 7 (1.32%) Tradeweb
13 6 (1.13%) SAP