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 20 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 134 153
Rank change year-on-year -75 +19 -49
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 536 525 595
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.24% 2.11% 1.58%
As % of the General category 2.27% 3.28% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 340 475
10th Percentile £402 £410 £500
25th Percentile £500 £613 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -13.30% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £799 £841 £875
90th Percentile £938 £881 £888
UK median daily rate £650 £750 £750
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +7.14%
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% -72.14%
75th Percentile - £94.38 £20.75
90th Percentile - £97.75 -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £87.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +8.57% +348.72% -71.89%

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 23,658 16,017 21,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.76% 64.32% 57.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,411 10,325 13,753
10th Percentile £313 £282 £285
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -2.62% -2.91%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,651 774 1,850
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.38 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.93 £15.62
Median hourly rate £33.00 £28.18 £31.97
Median % change year-on-year +17.10% -11.85% +6.57%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £53.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £67.83
UK median hourly rate £32.36 £28.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year +15.58% -8.20% -0.13%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -54 443 £650 -13.33% 77
North of England -12 79 £841 +64.05% 5
North West +19 72 £553 -23.72% 5
Midlands -7 55 £875 +59.09%
West Midlands -8 55 £875 +59.09%
South West -19 10 £875 +430.30% 2
North East - 4 £875 -
Yorkshire -62 3 £405 +5.19%
South East - 2 £159 - 25
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 13 (2.43%) Confluence
2 4 (0.75%) IIS
2 4 (0.75%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.56%) Apache
3 3 (0.56%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.56%) SAS
4 2 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.37%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.19%) CICS
Applications
1 25 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.49%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.37%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 13 (2.43%) Oracle Payables
1 13 (2.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 13 (2.43%) Oracle Receivables
2 9 (1.68%) Payment Gateway
3 8 (1.49%) Aladdin
4 6 (1.12%) Summit
5 3 (0.56%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.56%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.56%) Orchestrade
5 3 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.37%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.37%) Front Arena
6 2 (0.37%) Global One
7 1 (0.19%) Actimize
7 1 (0.19%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.19%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.19%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 67 (12.50%) Azure
2 60 (11.19%) AWS
3 22 (4.10%) GCP
4 21 (3.92%) Power Platform
5 19 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (2.80%) OCI
7 12 (2.24%) GitHub
8 11 (2.05%) Entra ID
9 10 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (1.68%) Snowflake
11 8 (1.49%) Google Workspace
12 6 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (0.93%) Power Automate
13 5 (0.93%) PowerApps
14 4 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (0.75%) npm
14 4 (0.75%) Yarn
15 3 (0.56%) Cloud Run
15 3 (0.56%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 36 (6.72%) DNS
2 25 (4.66%) TCP/IP
2 25 (4.66%) VPN
3 24 (4.48%) DMZ
4 23 (4.29%) HTTP
4 23 (4.29%) Multicast
5 21 (3.92%) FIX Connectivity
6 20 (3.73%) BGP
7 19 (3.54%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 19 (3.54%) Wireshark
8 18 (3.36%) BIG-IP
8 18 (3.36%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 18 (3.36%) SSL
9 11 (2.05%) Firewall
10 3 (0.56%) SAN
10 3 (0.56%) Wireless
11 2 (0.37%) DWDM
11 2 (0.37%) MPLS
11 2 (0.37%) OSPF
11 2 (0.37%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.10%) SQL Server
2 20 (3.73%) Power BI
3 19 (3.54%) Relational Database
4 18 (3.36%) Metadata
5 10 (1.87%) Data Vault
5 10 (1.87%) Pinecone
5 10 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.87%) Tableau
5 10 (1.87%) Weaviate
6 9 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.31%) KDB
8 6 (1.12%) Big Data
8 6 (1.12%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.12%) Redis
9 5 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.75%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.75%) Kdb+
10 4 (0.75%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.56%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 36 (6.72%) JIRA
2 17 (3.17%) Fiddler
3 10 (1.87%) ER Studio
3 10 (1.87%) TeamCity
4 9 (1.68%) ERwin
4 9 (1.68%) Git
5 7 (1.31%) GitLab
5 7 (1.31%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (1.12%) webpack
7 5 (0.93%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.75%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.75%) Selenium
9 3 (0.56%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.37%) Maven
10 2 (0.37%) MSBuild
10 2 (0.37%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.37%) Vite
11 1 (0.19%) XCUITest
General
1 536 (100.00%) Banking
2 319 (59.51%) Finance
3 163 (30.41%) Front Office
4 112 (20.90%) Social Skills
5 57 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (9.14%) Retail Banking
7 39 (7.28%) Corporate Banking
8 38 (7.09%) Retail
9 34 (6.34%) Financial Institution
10 20 (3.73%) Legal
11 12 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.68%) Spanish Language
14 8 (1.49%) Back Office
15 7 (1.31%) French Language
16 6 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.56%) Advertising
17 3 (0.56%) Aviation
17 3 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 170 (31.72%) Developer
2 91 (16.98%) Analyst
3 88 (16.42%) Java Developer
4 84 (15.67%) Senior
5 69 (12.87%) Business Analyst
6 61 (11.38%) Senior Developer
7 49 (9.14%) Senior Java Developer
8 38 (7.09%) Network Engineer
9 34 (6.34%) Architect
9 34 (6.34%) React Developer
10 31 (5.78%) UI Developer
11 30 (5.60%) Senior React Developer
12 29 (5.41%) Senior UI Developer
13 28 (5.22%) Banking Analyst
14 27 (5.04%) Solutions Architect
15 25 (4.66%) Payments Architect
15 25 (4.66%) Payments Solutions Architect
16 24 (4.48%) C# Developer
16 24 (4.48%) Support Engineer
17 23 (4.29%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (11.38%) React
2 43 (8.02%) .NET
3 36 (6.72%) FIX Protocol
3 36 (6.72%) Redux
4 27 (5.04%) Kafka
5 21 (3.92%) Middleware
6 16 (2.99%) Spring
7 14 (2.61%) AngularJS
8 13 (2.43%) REST
8 13 (2.43%) XML
9 12 (2.24%) CSS
10 11 (2.05%) HTML
10 11 (2.05%) RESTful
11 10 (1.87%) LangChain
11 10 (1.87%) LlamaIndex
12 9 (1.68%) OAuth
12 9 (1.68%) OAuth2
13 7 (1.31%) Node.js
13 7 (1.31%) Pandas
13 7 (1.31%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 101 (18.84%) Derivative
2 82 (15.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 68 (12.69%) Equities
4 62 (11.57%) Fixed Income
5 52 (9.70%) Management Information System
6 34 (6.34%) Greenfield Project
7 24 (4.48%) Market Risk
8 23 (4.29%) Onboarding
9 21 (3.92%) Credit Risk
10 19 (3.54%) TWAP
10 19 (3.54%) VWAP
11 18 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
11 18 (3.36%) Product Ownership
12 17 (3.17%) Algorithms
13 16 (2.99%) Data Structures
14 12 (2.24%) AI Agents
14 12 (2.24%) Cloud Native
15 10 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
16 8 (1.49%) Hedge funds
17 7 (1.31%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 37 (6.90%) Windows
2 25 (4.66%) Unix
3 22 (4.10%) Linux
4 9 (1.68%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.12%) Windows 7
6 4 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.37%) Android
7 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.19%) AIX
8 1 (0.19%) Solaris
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
1 106 (19.78%) Agile
2 79 (14.74%) Low Latency
3 75 (13.99%) Electronic Trading
4 68 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (10.45%) CI/CD
6 54 (10.07%) Analytics
7 49 (9.14%) Stakeholder Management
8 46 (8.58%) User Acceptance Testing
9 45 (8.40%) AI
10 44 (8.21%) Asset Management
11 40 (7.46%) Multithreading
11 40 (7.46%) SDLC
12 39 (7.28%) Software Engineering
12 39 (7.28%) TDD
13 38 (7.09%) Business Analysis
13 38 (7.09%) DevOps
14 37 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
14 37 (6.90%) Wealth Management
15 35 (6.53%) Load Balancing
16 33 (6.16%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 129 (24.07%) Java
2 102 (19.03%) SQL
3 101 (18.84%) Python
4 85 (15.86%) C#
5 67 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 57 (10.63%) JavaScript
7 23 (4.29%) PowerShell
8 16 (2.99%) C++
9 9 (1.68%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.12%) Rust
11 5 (0.93%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.93%) Scala
11 5 (0.93%) VBA
12 3 (0.56%) Bash
12 3 (0.56%) Perl
13 2 (0.37%) Bicep
13 2 (0.37%) C
13 2 (0.37%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.37%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.19%) Swift
Qualifications
1 31 (5.78%) Degree
2 13 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (2.24%) Azure Certification
4 6 (1.12%) PMP
5 5 (0.93%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.75%) CISSP
6 4 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (0.75%) MCSA
6 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.75%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.56%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.37%) CCNP
8 2 (0.37%) CFA
8 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.37%) MBA
8 2 (0.37%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 2 (0.37%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.19%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.43%) Data Quality
1 13 (2.43%) MiFID
1 13 (2.43%) QA
2 9 (1.68%) PMO
3 7 (1.31%) SLA
4 5 (0.93%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.93%) EMIR
5 2 (0.37%) WCAG
6 1 (0.19%) COREP
6 1 (0.19%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.19%) FINREP
6 1 (0.19%) GDPR
6 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.19%) ITGC
6 1 (0.19%) NIST
6 1 (0.19%) PSD2
6 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 19 (3.54%) Docker
2 18 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (3.17%) Firmware
4 14 (2.61%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.19%) GridGain
5 1 (0.19%) Varnish
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.19%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 16 (2.99%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.68%) SCCM
3 8 (1.49%) Terraform
4 7 (1.31%) WSUS
5 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.75%) Ansible
6 4 (0.75%) Control-M
7 2 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.19%) Puppet
8 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.19%) WMI
Vendors
1 55 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.09%) Oracle
3 36 (6.72%) F5
4 20 (3.73%) Cisco
5 18 (3.36%) Blue Coat
5 18 (3.36%) VMware
6 17 (3.17%) McAfee
6 17 (3.17%) NetApp
7 15 (2.80%) Murex
8 14 (2.61%) Bloomberg
9 13 (2.43%) OpenAI
10 11 (2.05%) Citrix
11 10 (1.87%) ION Trading
12 9 (1.68%) Reuters
13 7 (1.31%) Charles River
13 7 (1.31%) Sybase
14 6 (1.12%) ServiceNow
15 5 (0.93%) Databricks
15 5 (0.93%) Remedy
16 4 (0.75%) Google