Investment Banking Contracts 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 159 103
Rank change year-on-year +17 -56 +9
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 506 557 1,223
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.07% 1.50% 2.43%
As % of the General category 3.24% 2.57% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 416 895
10th Percentile £413 £500 £513
25th Percentile £612 £600 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £875 £850 £806
90th Percentile £888 £900 £950
UK median daily rate £725 £725 £700
% change year-on-year - +3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £18.25 £39.25
Median hourly rate £100.00 £19.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +412.82% -51.85% -32.50%
75th Percentile - £20.75 £41.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £100.00 £19.50 £64.38
% change year-on-year +412.82% -69.71% +20.33%

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 common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 15,632 21,669 29,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.03% 58.32% 59.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,142 13,961 20,904
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 666 1,792 974
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.00 £13.81
25th Percentile £16.96 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -11.76% +58.14%
75th Percentile £55.88 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.23 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Investment Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in England

Investment Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in England.

Daily rate trend for Investment Banking in England

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in England

Investment Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in England.

Hourly rate trend for Investment Banking in England

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 2 May 2025. 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 +10 480 £750 - 240
North of England +28 15 £475 -24.00% 4
North West +15 10 £725 +16.00% 4
Midlands +24 6 £565 - 12
West Midlands +20 6 £565 - 11
Yorkshire - 5 £385 -
East of England - 1 - -
Investment Banking
UK

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 55 (10.87%) Apache
2 45 (8.89%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (3.56%) Apache Spark
4 11 (2.17%) Confluence
5 7 (1.38%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.40%) CMS
6 2 (0.40%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.20%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.20%) MS Project Server
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.20%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (5.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.99%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.79%) ION Anvil
2 3 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.59%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.40%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 2 (0.40%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.20%) Actimize
4 1 (0.20%) Bankmaster
4 1 (0.20%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.20%) Murex MxG2000
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 108 (21.34%) AWS
2 64 (12.65%) Azure
3 51 (10.08%) Snowflake
4 46 (9.09%) dbt
5 31 (6.13%) GCP
6 26 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (3.75%) Amazon ECS
8 18 (3.56%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (3.36%) Dagster
10 14 (2.77%) Power Platform
11 12 (2.37%) npm
11 12 (2.37%) Yarn
12 11 (2.17%) GitHub
13 9 (1.78%) OpenShift
14 8 (1.58%) SaaS
15 6 (1.19%) Amazon S3
15 6 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
15 6 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.17%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (0.79%) VPN
3 3 (0.59%) Skype
4 2 (0.40%) Firewall
4 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.20%) BGP
5 1 (0.20%) DHCP
5 1 (0.20%) DNS
5 1 (0.20%) Intranet
5 1 (0.20%) LAN
5 1 (0.20%) Network Security
5 1 (0.20%) OSPF
5 1 (0.20%) PBX
5 1 (0.20%) PSTN
5 1 (0.20%) SMTP
5 1 (0.20%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.20%) VoIP
5 1 (0.20%) WAN
5 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (8.89%) Amazon Athena
1 45 (8.89%) Apache Arrow
1 45 (8.89%) Apache Iceberg
1 45 (8.89%) Dremio
2 29 (5.73%) Apache Ignite
2 29 (5.73%) Data Lake
3 24 (4.74%) Redis
3 24 (4.74%) SQL Server
4 22 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (3.36%) Relational Database
6 15 (2.96%) MongoDB
7 14 (2.77%) Power BI
8 11 (2.17%) DB2
9 10 (1.98%) Big Data
9 10 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.78%) Tableau
11 8 (1.58%) Delta Lake
12 7 (1.38%) Apache Hive
12 7 (1.38%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.19%) KDB
Development Applications
1 41 (8.10%) Git
2 39 (7.71%) Jenkins
3 21 (4.15%) JIRA
4 15 (2.96%) Bitbucket
4 15 (2.96%) TeamCity
5 13 (2.57%) JUnit
6 12 (2.37%) webpack
7 10 (1.98%) Visual Studio
8 7 (1.38%) Octopus Deploy
9 6 (1.19%) Maven
10 4 (0.79%) GitLab
11 3 (0.59%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.40%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket Server
12 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.40%) MagicDraw
12 2 (0.40%) NUnit
12 2 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.40%) PHPUnit
12 2 (0.40%) Selenium
General
1 506 (100.00%) Banking
2 309 (61.07%) Finance
3 156 (30.83%) Social Skills
4 134 (26.48%) Analytical Skills
5 131 (25.89%) Front Office
6 47 (9.29%) Retail Banking
7 39 (7.71%) Retail
8 35 (6.92%) Corporate Banking
9 34 (6.72%) Organisational Skills
10 23 (4.55%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.98%) Back Office
12 6 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.19%) Legal
13 4 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.79%) Marketing
13 4 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.40%) International Banking
14 2 (0.40%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.20%) General Ledger
15 1 (0.20%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 242 (47.83%) Developer
2 82 (16.21%) Senior
3 72 (14.23%) Java Developer
4 71 (14.03%) Analyst
5 61 (12.06%) Python Developer
6 53 (10.47%) Software Engineer
7 50 (9.88%) AWS Engineer
8 45 (8.89%) AWS Software Engineer
9 37 (7.31%) Senior Developer
10 35 (6.92%) Python Engineer
11 34 (6.72%) Java Engineer
12 33 (6.52%) Lead
13 32 (6.32%) Java Software Engineer
14 30 (5.93%) C# Developer
15 29 (5.73%) Business Analyst
16 27 (5.34%) AWS Developer
17 26 (5.14%) Python Software Engineer
18 24 (4.74%) Quantitative Developer
19 23 (4.55%) Gen AI Developer
20 22 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (12.85%) React
2 55 (10.87%) .NET
3 43 (8.50%) PySpark
4 42 (8.30%) Kafka
4 42 (8.30%) Pandas
5 41 (8.10%) NumPy
6 39 (7.71%) SciPy
7 36 (7.11%) gRPC
7 36 (7.11%) Protocol Buffers
8 32 (6.32%) FastAPI
9 31 (6.13%) AngularJS
10 30 (5.93%) Spring
11 27 (5.34%) CSS
12 22 (4.35%) Django
13 21 (4.15%) HTML
14 17 (3.36%) HTML5
15 14 (2.77%) ActiveMQ
15 14 (2.77%) FIX Protocol
16 12 (2.37%) ASP.NET
16 12 (2.37%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 115 (22.73%) Derivative
2 102 (20.16%) Equities
3 93 (18.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 70 (13.83%) Fixed Income
5 58 (11.46%) Hedge funds
6 25 (4.94%) Market Risk
7 22 (4.35%) Onboarding
8 18 (3.56%) Data Structures
8 18 (3.56%) Greenfield Project
9 17 (3.36%) Algorithms
10 13 (2.57%) Product Ownership
11 12 (2.37%) Pricing Data
12 10 (1.98%) Credit Risk
12 10 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.78%) Management Information System
14 8 (1.58%) Equity Derivative
15 6 (1.19%) Blockchain
15 6 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
15 6 (1.19%) Reference Data
15 6 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (7.71%) Linux
2 31 (6.13%) Windows
3 10 (1.98%) Unix
4 5 (0.99%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.59%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.40%) Android
6 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.20%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (33.60%) Agile
2 100 (19.76%) Problem-Solving
3 88 (17.39%) DevOps
4 75 (14.82%) Software Engineering
5 65 (12.85%) CI/CD
6 59 (11.66%) Risk Management
7 58 (11.46%) SDLC
8 53 (10.47%) Analytics
9 51 (10.08%) Asset Management
9 51 (10.08%) Wealth Management
10 49 (9.68%) Electronic Trading
11 45 (8.89%) Artificial Intelligence
11 45 (8.89%) Mathematics
12 41 (8.10%) Machine Learning
13 35 (6.92%) Stakeholder Management
14 34 (6.72%) Migration
15 32 (6.32%) Computer Science
15 32 (6.32%) Low Latency
15 32 (6.32%) TDD
16 31 (6.13%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 196 (38.74%) Python
2 195 (38.54%) Java
3 151 (29.84%) SQL
4 85 (16.80%) TypeScript
5 81 (16.01%) JavaScript
6 77 (15.22%) C#
7 43 (8.50%) C++
8 14 (2.77%) Scala
8 14 (2.77%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.78%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.58%) Haskell
10 8 (1.58%) Rust
11 6 (1.19%) Bash
11 6 (1.19%) Bicep
12 5 (0.99%) VBA
13 4 (0.79%) C
13 4 (0.79%) OCaml
13 4 (0.79%) Perl
14 3 (0.59%) Jython
14 3 (0.59%) R
Qualifications
1 50 (9.88%) Degree
2 21 (4.15%) Numerate Degree
3 11 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.19%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.59%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.40%) CBAP
6 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.40%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.40%) PMP
7 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.20%) CCNP
7 1 (0.20%) CISA
7 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.20%) CISSP
7 1 (0.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.20%) PhD
7 1 (0.20%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.56%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.57%) QA
3 10 (1.98%) PMO
4 9 (1.78%) MiFID
5 6 (1.19%) Basel II
6 5 (0.99%) EMIR
7 4 (0.79%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.79%) Dodd-Frank
7 4 (0.79%) GDPR
8 3 (0.59%) SLA
9 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.20%) Basel III
10 1 (0.20%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.20%) NIST
10 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 52 (10.28%) Docker
2 5 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.79%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.59%) Lustre
4 3 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.40%) HDFS
5 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.20%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 48 (9.49%) Kubernetes
2 36 (7.11%) Ansible
3 9 (1.78%) Terraform
4 7 (1.38%) Grafana
5 5 (0.99%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.79%) SCCM
7 3 (0.59%) Control-M
7 3 (0.59%) Istio
7 3 (0.59%) Karpenter
7 3 (0.59%) Podman
7 3 (0.59%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.59%) Puppet
7 3 (0.59%) Rundeck
8 2 (0.40%) Galera Cluster
9 1 (0.20%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 24 (4.74%) Databricks
2 23 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 19 (3.75%) Oracle
4 12 (2.37%) Atlassian
5 11 (2.17%) Sybase
6 10 (1.98%) Google
7 8 (1.58%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.58%) Splunk
8 7 (1.38%) Citrix
8 7 (1.38%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.19%) ION Trading
10 5 (0.99%) Cisco
10 5 (0.99%) Planview
11 4 (0.79%) Virgin Media
12 3 (0.59%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.59%) IBM
12 3 (0.59%) Murex
12 3 (0.59%) Remedy
13 2 (0.40%) Bloomberg
13 2 (0.40%) VMware