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 29 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 154 114
Rank change year-on-year -84 -40 +7
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 532 504 679
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.15% 1.83% 2.10%
As % of the General category 2.05% 2.85% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 326 517
10th Percentile £408 £450 £500
25th Percentile £520 £563 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £825 £825 £850
90th Percentile £938 £923 £888
UK median daily rate £650 £700 £750
% change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £78.75 -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £78.75 £44.04
% change year-on-year +20.63% +78.81% -31.59%

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 25,995 17,685 18,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.12% 64.19% 58.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,236 11,225 11,391
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
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 2,312 1,019 892
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.77 £16.17 £17.88
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -32.93% +27.12%
75th Percentile £56.21 £45.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.68 £69.65 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £29.01 £25.13 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.44% -28.20% +27.27%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -56 467 £688 -8.33% 339
North of England -51 52 £553 +7.90% 4
North West -32 44 £489 +20.00% 3
Midlands -27 33 £875 +75.00% 10
West Midlands -28 33 £875 +75.00% 10
South West -34 8 £875 +360.53% 11
Yorkshire -47 4 £450 -14.29% 1
North East - 4 £875 -
South East -67 3 £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 12 (2.26%) Confluence
2 5 (0.94%) MTS
2 5 (0.94%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.75%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.56%) IIS
5 2 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.38%) Apache
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.19%) CICS
6 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 16 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.56%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.19%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.50%) Aladdin
2 7 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (1.32%) Oracle General Ledger
3 4 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle iProcurement
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.56%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.38%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.19%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.19%) Global One
6 1 (0.19%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.19%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 84 (15.79%) Azure
2 55 (10.34%) AWS
3 29 (5.45%) GCP
4 18 (3.38%) Entra ID
4 18 (3.38%) Power Platform
5 16 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (2.63%) SaaS
7 12 (2.26%) GitHub
8 10 (1.88%) OCI
9 7 (1.32%) Snowflake
10 6 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (1.13%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.13%) PowerApps
11 5 (0.94%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (0.94%) Azure Databricks
11 5 (0.94%) Cloud Run
11 5 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (0.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (0.75%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.70%) DNS
2 21 (3.95%) Multicast
3 18 (3.38%) VPN
4 17 (3.20%) HTTP
5 16 (3.01%) BGP
5 16 (3.01%) TCP/IP
6 15 (2.82%) DMZ
7 14 (2.63%) BIG-IP
7 14 (2.63%) Wireshark
8 13 (2.44%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 13 (2.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 13 (2.44%) SSL
9 12 (2.26%) FIX Connectivity
10 9 (1.69%) Firewall
11 6 (1.13%) WAN
12 5 (0.94%) SSH
12 5 (0.94%) Wireless
13 4 (0.75%) DWDM
13 4 (0.75%) MPLS
13 4 (0.75%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.14%) SQL Server
2 19 (3.57%) Metadata
3 16 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (3.01%) Power BI
4 12 (2.26%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.88%) Chroma
5 10 (1.88%) KDB
5 10 (1.88%) Pinecone
5 10 (1.88%) Weaviate
6 9 (1.69%) Data Vault
6 9 (1.69%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.32%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.32%) Kdb+
8 6 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.13%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.94%) Oracle Database
9 5 (0.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 51 (9.59%) JIRA
2 26 (4.89%) Git
3 12 (2.26%) ER Studio
3 12 (2.26%) Fiddler
4 10 (1.88%) ERwin
5 8 (1.50%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.32%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.32%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.94%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.94%) GitLab
7 5 (0.94%) PowerDesigner
7 5 (0.94%) webpack
8 4 (0.75%) Selenium
9 3 (0.56%) MSBuild
10 2 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.38%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.19%) CMake
11 1 (0.19%) Maven
11 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 532 (100.00%) Banking
2 340 (63.91%) Finance
3 163 (30.64%) Front Office
4 115 (21.62%) Social Skills
5 62 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (7.89%) Corporate Banking
7 39 (7.33%) Retail Banking
8 36 (6.77%) Retail
9 35 (6.58%) Financial Institution
10 21 (3.95%) Back Office
11 18 (3.38%) Legal
12 13 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.88%) Spanish Language
14 9 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.94%) General Ledger
17 4 (0.75%) Games
17 4 (0.75%) Law
18 3 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 174 (32.71%) Developer
2 91 (17.11%) Senior
3 80 (15.04%) Analyst
4 70 (13.16%) Java Developer
5 64 (12.03%) Business Analyst
6 55 (10.34%) Senior Developer
7 34 (6.39%) Senior Java Developer
8 33 (6.20%) React Developer
9 31 (5.83%) Network Engineer
10 29 (5.45%) Lead
10 29 (5.45%) Senior React Developer
11 28 (5.26%) Python Developer
11 28 (5.26%) UI Developer
12 27 (5.08%) Senior UI Developer
13 21 (3.95%) C# Developer
13 21 (3.95%) Project Manager
13 21 (3.95%) Support Engineer
14 17 (3.20%) Data Engineer
14 17 (3.20%) Security Engineer
15 16 (3.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (10.53%) React
2 41 (7.71%) .NET
3 35 (6.58%) Redux
4 33 (6.20%) FIX Protocol
5 24 (4.51%) REST
6 23 (4.32%) AngularJS
7 20 (3.76%) Kafka
8 15 (2.82%) Spring
9 14 (2.63%) RESTful
9 14 (2.63%) Terraform
10 12 (2.26%) Flask
10 12 (2.26%) LangChain
10 12 (2.26%) Pandas
10 12 (2.26%) WebSockets
11 11 (2.07%) PySpark
12 10 (1.88%) LlamaIndex
12 10 (1.88%) Middleware
12 10 (1.88%) OAuth
13 9 (1.69%) FastAPI
13 9 (1.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 90 (16.92%) Derivative
2 83 (15.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 68 (12.78%) Fixed Income
4 60 (11.28%) Equities
5 40 (7.52%) Management Information System
6 37 (6.95%) Greenfield Project
7 33 (6.20%) Product Ownership
8 28 (5.26%) Onboarding
9 22 (4.14%) Market Risk
10 20 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
11 19 (3.57%) AI Agents
12 16 (3.01%) Data Structures
13 15 (2.82%) Hedge funds
14 12 (2.26%) Algorithms
14 12 (2.26%) TWAP
14 12 (2.26%) VWAP
15 11 (2.07%) Credit Risk
15 11 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
16 10 (1.88%) Cloud Native
16 10 (1.88%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 35 (6.58%) Linux
1 35 (6.58%) Windows
2 23 (4.32%) Unix
3 5 (0.94%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.94%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.75%) Android
4 4 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.56%) Windows 7
5 3 (0.56%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.38%) AIX
6 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.38%) Solaris
7 1 (0.19%) HPUX
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.19%) SUSE
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (23.31%) Agile
2 88 (16.54%) Stakeholder Management
3 77 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
4 76 (14.29%) Low Latency
5 69 (12.97%) Electronic Trading
6 68 (12.78%) CI/CD
7 66 (12.41%) AI
8 55 (10.34%) Analytics
8 55 (10.34%) Software Engineering
9 45 (8.46%) DevOps
9 45 (8.46%) Wealth Management
10 43 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 40 (7.52%) Business Analysis
11 40 (7.52%) Data Modelling
11 40 (7.52%) Migration
12 38 (7.14%) Translating Business Requirements
13 37 (6.95%) Event-Driven
13 37 (6.95%) Full-Stack Development
14 35 (6.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 33 (6.20%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 119 (22.37%) Java
2 118 (22.18%) SQL
3 113 (21.24%) Python
4 88 (16.54%) C#
5 66 (12.41%) TypeScript
6 54 (10.15%) JavaScript
7 21 (3.95%) PowerShell
8 19 (3.57%) C++
9 13 (2.44%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.32%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.13%) Bash
11 6 (1.13%) Rust
12 5 (0.94%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.94%) Tcl
13 4 (0.75%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.56%) Bicep
14 3 (0.56%) C
15 2 (0.38%) Perl
15 2 (0.38%) Scala
15 2 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (6.20%) Degree
2 9 (1.69%) Azure Certification
3 8 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.50%) PMP
4 6 (1.13%) Security Cleared
5 5 (0.94%) PMI Certification
6 4 (0.75%) ACCA
6 4 (0.75%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.75%) CIMA
6 4 (0.75%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.56%) CISSP
7 3 (0.56%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.38%) CBAP
8 2 (0.38%) CCNP
8 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.19%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.19%) FFIEC
9 1 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.20%) MiFID
3 14 (2.63%) QA
4 10 (1.88%) EMIR
5 6 (1.13%) PMO
6 5 (0.94%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.75%) IFRS
7 4 (0.75%) NIST
8 3 (0.56%) WCAG
9 2 (0.38%) GRC
10 1 (0.19%) COBIT
10 1 (0.19%) COREP
10 1 (0.19%) FINREP
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.19%) SEPA
10 1 (0.19%) TARGET2
System Software
1 22 (4.14%) Active Directory
2 17 (3.20%) Docker
3 12 (2.26%) Firmware
3 12 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (3.38%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.32%) Ansible
3 6 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.13%) SCCM
4 3 (0.56%) WSUS
5 2 (0.38%) Grafana
5 2 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (0.38%) Kibana
5 2 (0.38%) logstash
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.19%) Control-M
6 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (8.65%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.02%) Oracle
3 26 (4.89%) F5
4 21 (3.95%) Cisco
5 16 (3.01%) OpenAI
6 15 (2.82%) Bloomberg
6 15 (2.82%) Databricks
7 13 (2.44%) Blue Coat
8 12 (2.26%) McAfee
8 12 (2.26%) Murex
8 12 (2.26%) NetApp
8 12 (2.26%) VMware
9 10 (1.88%) ION Trading
10 9 (1.69%) Citrix
10 9 (1.69%) Tradeweb
11 8 (1.50%) ServiceNow
12 7 (1.32%) MarketAxess
13 6 (1.13%) Reuters
13 6 (1.13%) Sybase
14 5 (0.94%) SAP