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 18 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 139 161
Rank change year-on-year -90 +22 -63
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 439 473 578
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.19% 1.93% 1.52%
As % of the General category 2.06% 3.05% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 295 420
10th Percentile £413 £446 £474
25th Percentile £500 £600 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - -3.45%
75th Percentile £763 £875 £825
90th Percentile £988 £881 £938
UK median daily rate £625 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -10.71% - -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £20.33 - -
25th Percentile £22.53 £76.25 £18.25
Median hourly rate £32.87 £77.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -57.59% +297.44% -51.85%
75th Percentile £45.64 £78.75 £20.75
90th Percentile £52.43 - -
UK median hourly rate £32.87 £77.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -57.59% +297.44% -51.85%

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 21,266 15,486 22,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.58% 63.20% 58.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,416 10,011 14,532
10th Percentile £300 £300 £269
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,331 580 1,667
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.00 £13.03
25th Percentile £17.69 £19.96 £15.38
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.79 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.81% +18.43% -23.12%
75th Percentile £59.00 £60.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £76.25 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £24.55 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -18.17% +15.38% -23.53%

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 18 March 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Investment Banking in England over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 18 March 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 -54 363 £638 -12.07% 60
North of England -6 70 £423 -23.18% 1
North West +18 64 - - 1
West Midlands -7 57 - - 4
Midlands -11 57 - - 5
Yorkshire -50 13 £423 +14.19%
South West - 3 - -
South East - 2 £159 - 16
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 16 (3.64%) Confluence
2 10 (2.28%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.14%) Apache
5 3 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.68%) CMS
6 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.46%) SAS
7 1 (0.23%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
Applications
1 23 (5.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (4.33%) MS Visio
3 13 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.68%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.23%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 14 (3.19%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (2.96%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 13 (2.96%) Oracle Receivables
3 7 (1.59%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (1.14%) Aladdin
4 5 (1.14%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.68%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.68%) Summit
6 2 (0.46%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.46%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.23%) Actimize
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.23%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.23%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.23%) ION MarketView
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.23%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 57 (12.98%) AWS
2 55 (12.53%) Azure
3 14 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (3.19%) GitHub
3 14 (3.19%) OCI
3 14 (3.19%) Power Platform
4 12 (2.73%) GCP
5 11 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (2.51%) Snowflake
6 6 (1.37%) Serverless
7 5 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (1.14%) npm
7 5 (1.14%) Yarn
8 4 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (0.91%) ChatGPT
8 4 (0.91%) Entra ID
8 4 (0.91%) Google Workspace
8 4 (0.91%) Power Automate
8 4 (0.91%) PowerApps
9 3 (0.68%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 46 (10.48%) DNS
2 27 (6.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 26 (5.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 24 (5.47%) TCP/IP
5 23 (5.24%) DMZ
6 21 (4.78%) HTTP
7 19 (4.33%) BIG-IP
7 19 (4.33%) SSL
7 19 (4.33%) Wireshark
8 18 (4.10%) BGP
9 16 (3.64%) FIX Connectivity
9 16 (3.64%) VPN
10 15 (3.42%) Multicast
11 8 (1.82%) DHCP
11 8 (1.82%) Network Security
12 7 (1.59%) Cisco ISE
12 7 (1.59%) Cisco Wireless
12 7 (1.59%) NX-OS
12 7 (1.59%) VXLAN
12 7 (1.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.56%) SQL Server
2 17 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (3.42%) Relational Database
4 12 (2.73%) Power BI
5 10 (2.28%) Tableau
6 8 (1.82%) Metadata
7 6 (1.37%) KDB
7 6 (1.37%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.37%) Oracle Database
7 6 (1.37%) Redis
8 5 (1.14%) Big Data
8 5 (1.14%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.91%) Apache Ignite
9 4 (0.91%) DB2
10 3 (0.68%) Kdb+
10 3 (0.68%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.68%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.46%) Flink
Development Applications
1 29 (6.61%) JIRA
2 19 (4.33%) Fiddler
3 11 (2.51%) Git
4 10 (2.28%) GitLab
5 7 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (1.37%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.37%) JUnit
6 6 (1.37%) Selenium
7 5 (1.14%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.14%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.14%) webpack
8 4 (0.91%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.91%) Postman
8 4 (0.91%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.68%) Maven
9 3 (0.68%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.46%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
General
1 439 (100.00%) Banking
2 244 (55.58%) Finance
3 114 (25.97%) Social Skills
4 105 (23.92%) Front Office
5 51 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (7.74%) Retail Banking
7 29 (6.61%) Financial Institution
8 25 (5.69%) Retail
9 24 (5.47%) Corporate Banking
10 14 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (2.73%) Back Office
12 10 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (2.05%) Legal
14 7 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.91%) French Language
17 3 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 3 (0.68%) Marketing
18 2 (0.46%) Aviation
19 1 (0.23%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 120 (27.33%) Developer
2 77 (17.54%) Analyst
3 57 (12.98%) Business Analyst
4 55 (12.53%) Java Developer
5 54 (12.30%) Senior
6 39 (8.88%) Network Engineer
7 36 (8.20%) Senior Developer
8 29 (6.61%) Senior Java Developer
9 28 (6.38%) Architect
10 25 (5.69%) Banking Analyst
11 21 (4.78%) Project Manager
12 20 (4.56%) AWS Developer
12 20 (4.56%) C# Developer
12 20 (4.56%) Data Engineer
12 20 (4.56%) Lead
12 20 (4.56%) Solutions Architect
13 19 (4.33%) Blue Coat Engineer
13 19 (4.33%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 19 (4.33%) Kafka Developer
13 19 (4.33%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (7.74%) Kafka
2 32 (7.29%) .NET
3 30 (6.83%) React
4 19 (4.33%) FIX Protocol
5 15 (3.42%) Middleware
6 14 (3.19%) AngularJS
6 14 (3.19%) Spring
7 13 (2.96%) Pandas
8 12 (2.73%) CSS
8 12 (2.73%) HTML
9 11 (2.51%) XML
10 10 (2.28%) REST
11 9 (2.05%) NumPy
11 9 (2.05%) Redux
12 8 (1.82%) JMS
13 7 (1.59%) FastAPI
13 7 (1.59%) SciPy
14 6 (1.37%) Dask
14 6 (1.37%) Flask
14 6 (1.37%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 76 (17.31%) Derivative
2 61 (13.90%) Management Information System
3 41 (9.34%) Equities
4 40 (9.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 37 (8.43%) Fixed Income
6 28 (6.38%) Market Risk
7 24 (5.47%) Onboarding
8 20 (4.56%) Hedge funds
9 19 (4.33%) Credit Risk
10 16 (3.64%) Cloud Native
11 14 (3.19%) TWAP
11 14 (3.19%) VWAP
12 12 (2.73%) Data Centre
12 12 (2.73%) Data Structures
13 8 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.59%) Algorithms
14 7 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (1.59%) Product Ownership
15 6 (1.37%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.69%) Linux
2 20 (4.56%) Windows
3 17 (3.87%) Unix
4 6 (1.37%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.68%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.46%) AIX
6 2 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.23%) Android
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (19.13%) Agile
2 65 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (12.30%) Stakeholder Management
4 47 (10.71%) Analytics
5 44 (10.02%) DevOps
6 43 (9.79%) CI/CD
7 42 (9.57%) Project Management
8 41 (9.34%) Business Analysis
9 40 (9.11%) Asset Management
10 39 (8.88%) AI
11 37 (8.43%) Load Balancing
11 37 (8.43%) Risk Management
11 37 (8.43%) TDD
12 36 (8.20%) User Acceptance Testing
13 35 (7.97%) SDLC
14 33 (7.52%) Electronic Trading
15 31 (7.06%) Design Patterns
16 29 (6.61%) Multithreading
16 29 (6.61%) Test Automation
17 28 (6.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 101 (23.01%) SQL
2 96 (21.87%) Java
3 84 (19.13%) Python
4 47 (10.71%) C#
5 26 (5.92%) JavaScript
6 25 (5.69%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.96%) C++
8 12 (2.73%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.05%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.59%) Lisp
11 6 (1.37%) Scala
12 5 (1.14%) Rust
13 4 (0.91%) Bash
14 3 (0.68%) Go
14 3 (0.68%) Perl
14 3 (0.68%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.68%) VB.NET
14 3 (0.68%) VBA
15 2 (0.46%) Korn
15 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (8.88%) Degree
2 15 (3.42%) Master's Degree
3 14 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (2.05%) PMP
5 8 (1.82%) PMI Certification
6 7 (1.59%) CCNP
6 7 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.37%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.37%) PhD
8 5 (1.14%) CFA
9 3 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.46%) ACCA
10 2 (0.46%) CISSP
10 2 (0.46%) IIBA
10 2 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.46%) MBA
10 2 (0.46%) Security Cleared
10 2 (0.46%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 2 (0.46%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 1 (0.23%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.10%) QA
2 13 (2.96%) MiFID
3 12 (2.73%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.28%) PMO
4 10 (2.28%) SLA
5 9 (2.05%) EMIR
6 7 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.68%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.68%) GDPR
8 2 (0.46%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.46%) NIST
8 2 (0.46%) SEPA
9 1 (0.23%) Basel III
9 1 (0.23%) COBIT
9 1 (0.23%) COSO
9 1 (0.23%) ITGC
9 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.23%) Solvency II
System Software
1 27 (6.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (4.56%) Docker
2 20 (4.56%) Firmware
3 5 (1.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.23%) Varnish
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.23%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 20 (4.56%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.59%) FortiGate
2 7 (1.59%) SCCM
3 4 (0.91%) Terraform
4 3 (0.68%) Ansible
4 3 (0.68%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 3 (0.68%) WSUS
5 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.46%) Puppet
5 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.23%) Control-M
6 1 (0.23%) Grafana
6 1 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.23%) WMI
6 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 41 (9.34%) Microsoft
2 38 (8.66%) F5
3 29 (6.61%) Oracle
4 27 (6.15%) VMware
5 19 (4.33%) Blue Coat
5 19 (4.33%) McAfee
5 19 (4.33%) NetApp
6 18 (4.10%) Cisco
7 17 (3.87%) Bloomberg
8 15 (3.42%) Murex
9 11 (2.51%) ION Trading
10 9 (2.05%) Remedy
10 9 (2.05%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.59%) Charles River
11 7 (1.59%) Ekahau
11 7 (1.59%) Sybase
12 6 (1.37%) Citrix
12 6 (1.37%) Reuters
13 4 (0.91%) IBM
13 4 (0.91%) Splunk