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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 150 116
Rank change year-on-year -76 -34 +4
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 538 523 678
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.16% 1.88% 2.07%
As % of the General category 2.07% 2.92% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 352 522
10th Percentile £406 £436 £500
25th Percentile £513 £562 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £671 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -3.33% +9.89%
75th Percentile £823 £825 £875
90th Percentile £938 £898 £888
UK median daily rate £650 £700 £750
% change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £87.50 -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £87.50 £44.04
% change year-on-year +8.57% +98.68% -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 25,944 17,881 19,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.89% 64.40% 58.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,297 11,322 11,616
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
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 2,210 1,012 979
10th Percentile £13.74 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.11 £16.17 £17.44
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -34.68% +40.00%
75th Percentile £57.99 £47.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £71.48 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £36.00
% change year-on-year +19.28% -30.14% +30.91%

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 17 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 17 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 -60 467 £675 -10.00% 515
North of England -46 58 £502 +30.26% 9
North West -13 50 £450 +10.43% 5
Midlands -26 36 £875 +75.00% 16
West Midlands -29 36 £875 +75.00% 15
South West -38 8 £875 +360.53% 14
Yorkshire -52 4 £450 +16.88% 1
North East - 4 £875 - 3
South East -69 3 £525 -4.55% 26
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 (2.23%) Confluence
2 5 (0.93%) MTS
2 5 (0.93%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.74%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.74%) IIS
4 2 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.19%) Apache
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.19%) CICS
5 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.56%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.19%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.49%) Aladdin
2 7 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (1.30%) Oracle General Ledger
3 4 (0.74%) 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
4 3 (0.56%) Summit
5 2 (0.37%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.37%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.37%) Global One
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.19%) Actimize
6 1 (0.19%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.19%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 76 (14.13%) Azure
2 52 (9.67%) AWS
3 26 (4.83%) GCP
4 19 (3.53%) Power Platform
5 15 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (2.60%) Entra ID
7 11 (2.04%) SaaS
8 10 (1.86%) GitHub
8 10 (1.86%) OCI
9 7 (1.30%) Snowflake
10 6 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (1.12%) Google Workspace
10 6 (1.12%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.12%) PowerApps
11 5 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (0.93%) Azure Databricks
11 5 (0.93%) Cloud Run
11 5 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (0.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.02%) DNS
2 24 (4.46%) Multicast
3 20 (3.72%) VPN
4 19 (3.53%) HTTP
4 19 (3.53%) TCP/IP
5 18 (3.35%) DMZ
6 17 (3.16%) BGP
7 15 (2.79%) BIG-IP
7 15 (2.79%) Wireshark
8 14 (2.60%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 14 (2.60%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 14 (2.60%) SSL
9 13 (2.42%) FIX Connectivity
10 11 (2.04%) Firewall
11 6 (1.12%) WAN
12 4 (0.74%) DWDM
12 4 (0.74%) MPLS
12 4 (0.74%) Network Security
12 4 (0.74%) Wireless
13 3 (0.56%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.02%) SQL Server
2 19 (3.53%) Metadata
3 17 (3.16%) Power BI
4 14 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (2.60%) Relational Database
5 11 (2.04%) KDB
6 10 (1.86%) Chroma
6 10 (1.86%) Pinecone
6 10 (1.86%) Weaviate
7 9 (1.67%) Data Vault
8 7 (1.30%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.30%) Kdb+
8 7 (1.30%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.93%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.93%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (9.29%) JIRA
2 26 (4.83%) Git
3 13 (2.42%) Fiddler
4 12 (2.23%) ER Studio
5 10 (1.86%) ERwin
6 8 (1.49%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.30%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.12%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.93%) GitLab
9 5 (0.93%) PowerDesigner
10 4 (0.74%) webpack
11 3 (0.56%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.56%) Selenium
12 2 (0.37%) Maven
12 2 (0.37%) MSBuild
12 2 (0.37%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.37%) Vite
13 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
13 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 538 (100.00%) Banking
2 340 (63.20%) Finance
3 170 (31.60%) Front Office
4 122 (22.68%) Social Skills
5 68 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (8.18%) Corporate Banking
7 41 (7.62%) Retail Banking
8 37 (6.88%) Retail
9 35 (6.51%) Financial Institution
10 21 (3.90%) Back Office
11 19 (3.53%) Legal
12 13 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (2.23%) Spanish Language
14 9 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (1.12%) General Ledger
16 6 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.74%) Games
18 3 (0.56%) Law
18 3 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 175 (32.53%) Developer
2 89 (16.54%) Senior
3 86 (15.99%) Analyst
4 74 (13.75%) Java Developer
5 68 (12.64%) Business Analyst
6 56 (10.41%) Senior Developer
7 36 (6.69%) Senior Java Developer
8 34 (6.32%) React Developer
9 33 (6.13%) Network Engineer
10 30 (5.58%) Senior React Developer
11 29 (5.39%) UI Developer
12 28 (5.20%) Lead
12 28 (5.20%) Senior UI Developer
13 25 (4.65%) Python Developer
14 22 (4.09%) C# Developer
15 21 (3.90%) Project Manager
15 21 (3.90%) Support Engineer
16 18 (3.35%) Data Engineer
16 18 (3.35%) Security Engineer
17 15 (2.79%) Electronic Trading Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (10.22%) React
2 41 (7.62%) .NET
3 38 (7.06%) FIX Protocol
4 35 (6.51%) Redux
5 20 (3.72%) AngularJS
6 19 (3.53%) REST
7 17 (3.16%) Kafka
8 13 (2.42%) Spring
8 13 (2.42%) Terraform
8 13 (2.42%) WebSockets
9 12 (2.23%) Middleware
10 11 (2.04%) LangChain
10 11 (2.04%) Pandas
10 11 (2.04%) RESTful
11 10 (1.86%) Flask
11 10 (1.86%) LlamaIndex
11 10 (1.86%) Node.js
11 10 (1.86%) PySpark
12 9 (1.67%) OAuth
12 9 (1.67%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 94 (17.47%) Derivative
2 85 (15.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 68 (12.64%) Fixed Income
4 63 (11.71%) Equities
5 41 (7.62%) Management Information System
6 36 (6.69%) Greenfield Project
7 32 (5.95%) Product Ownership
8 27 (5.02%) Onboarding
9 23 (4.28%) Market Risk
10 19 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
11 18 (3.35%) Data Structures
12 17 (3.16%) AI Agents
13 16 (2.97%) Algorithms
14 14 (2.60%) Credit Risk
14 14 (2.60%) Hedge funds
15 13 (2.42%) TWAP
15 13 (2.42%) VWAP
16 10 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
16 10 (1.86%) Reference Data
17 9 (1.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.69%) Windows
2 33 (6.13%) Linux
3 25 (4.65%) Unix
4 5 (0.93%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.93%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.74%) Android
6 3 (0.56%) 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 (0.19%) 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
1 126 (23.42%) Agile
2 84 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
3 81 (15.06%) Stakeholder Management
4 80 (14.87%) Low Latency
5 73 (13.57%) Electronic Trading
6 65 (12.08%) AI
7 64 (11.90%) CI/CD
8 56 (10.41%) Analytics
9 52 (9.67%) Software Engineering
10 47 (8.74%) DevOps
11 45 (8.36%) Wealth Management
12 43 (7.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (7.81%) Business Analysis
14 39 (7.25%) Data Modelling
14 39 (7.25%) Migration
15 38 (7.06%) Translating Business Requirements
16 36 (6.69%) Full-Stack Development
17 35 (6.51%) Event-Driven
18 34 (6.32%) Risk Management
18 34 (6.32%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 122 (22.68%) SQL
2 121 (22.49%) Java
3 112 (20.82%) Python
4 90 (16.73%) C#
5 66 (12.27%) TypeScript
6 53 (9.85%) JavaScript
7 23 (4.28%) PowerShell
8 20 (3.72%) C++
9 14 (2.60%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.30%) Kotlin
10 7 (1.30%) Rust
11 6 (1.12%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.93%) Tcl
13 4 (0.74%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.74%) VBA
14 3 (0.56%) Bash
14 3 (0.56%) Bicep
14 3 (0.56%) C
14 3 (0.56%) Perl
15 2 (0.37%) Korn
Qualifications
1 36 (6.69%) Degree
2 10 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (1.67%) Azure Certification
4 7 (1.30%) PMP
5 5 (0.93%) Security Cleared
6 4 (0.74%) ACCA
6 4 (0.74%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.74%) CIMA
6 4 (0.74%) PMI Certification
6 4 (0.74%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.56%) CISSP
7 3 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (0.56%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.56%) MCSA
7 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.37%) CCNP
8 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.19%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.35%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.16%) MiFID
3 12 (2.23%) QA
4 10 (1.86%) EMIR
5 6 (1.12%) PMO
6 4 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.74%) IFRS
7 2 (0.37%) GRC
7 2 (0.37%) NIST
7 2 (0.37%) WCAG
8 1 (0.19%) COBIT
8 1 (0.19%) COREP
8 1 (0.19%) FINREP
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.19%) PSD2
8 1 (0.19%) SEPA
8 1 (0.19%) TARGET2
System Software
1 20 (3.72%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.79%) Docker
3 13 (2.42%) Firmware
3 13 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.19%) GridGain
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (2.97%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.67%) Ansible
3 7 (1.30%) SCCM
4 6 (1.12%) WSUS
5 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.56%) Control-M
6 3 (0.56%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.37%) Kibana
7 2 (0.37%) logstash
7 2 (0.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.19%) Grafana
8 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (9.29%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.88%) Oracle
3 28 (5.20%) F5
4 22 (4.09%) Cisco
5 16 (2.97%) Bloomberg
6 15 (2.79%) Databricks
6 15 (2.79%) OpenAI
7 14 (2.60%) Blue Coat
8 13 (2.42%) McAfee
8 13 (2.42%) NetApp
8 13 (2.42%) VMware
9 11 (2.04%) ION Trading
9 11 (2.04%) Murex
10 10 (1.86%) Citrix
10 10 (1.86%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.67%) Sybase
11 9 (1.67%) Tradeweb
12 7 (1.30%) MarketAxess
12 7 (1.30%) Reuters
13 6 (1.12%) Solace