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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 138 160
Rank change year-on-year -79 +22 -57
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 501 504 569
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.20% 2.10% 1.55%
As % of the General category 2.21% 3.28% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 325 437
10th Percentile £403 £415 £500
25th Percentile £500 £613 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £788 £850 £874
90th Percentile £938 £881 £888
UK median daily rate £625 £725 £750
% change year-on-year -13.79% -3.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.96 - £18.25
Median hourly rate £54.46 £100.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +412.82% -72.14%
75th Percentile £56.96 - £20.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £74.73 £100.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -25.27% +412.82% -71.64%

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 22,717 15,386 21,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.37% 64.14% 57.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,897 9,907 13,546
10th Percentile £312 £281 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £740 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,567 708 1,811
10th Percentile £14.10 £13.25 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.50 £28.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -9.68% -2.88%
75th Percentile £63.19 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £30.54 £27.97 £30.16
% change year-on-year +9.19% -7.26% -6.91%

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 4 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 4 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 -58 417 £648 -13.67% 129
North of England -16 73 £875 +40.00% 9
North West +28 68 £663 -8.62% 5
West Midlands -8 55 - - 1
Midlands -10 55 - - 1
South West - 8 £695 -
Yorkshire -63 3 £405 +5.19% 4
North East - 2 £875 -
South East - 2 £159 - 23
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 (2.40%) Confluence
2 5 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (0.80%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.80%) IIS
4 3 (0.60%) Apache
4 3 (0.60%) SAS
5 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.40%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.20%) CICS
Applications
1 27 (5.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (2.40%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.40%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 14 (2.79%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (2.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 13 (2.59%) Oracle Receivables
3 9 (1.80%) Payment Gateway
4 8 (1.60%) Aladdin
5 6 (1.20%) Summit
6 4 (0.80%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.60%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.40%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 2 (0.40%) Front Arena
8 2 (0.40%) Global One
8 2 (0.40%) Orchestrade
9 1 (0.20%) Actimize
9 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.20%) Bloomberg AIM
9 1 (0.20%) BusinessWorks
9 1 (0.20%) IntelliMatch
9 1 (0.20%) Markit EDM
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 69 (13.77%) Azure
2 62 (12.38%) AWS
3 22 (4.39%) GCP
4 17 (3.39%) Power Platform
5 16 (3.19%) OCI
6 14 (2.79%) GitHub
6 14 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (2.00%) Entra ID
9 8 (1.60%) Snowflake
10 7 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.20%) Google Workspace
12 5 (1.00%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.00%) npm
12 5 (1.00%) Yarn
13 4 (0.80%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (0.60%) Figma
14 3 (0.60%) SaaS
15 2 (0.40%) Adobe Analytics
15 2 (0.40%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 36 (7.19%) DNS
2 23 (4.59%) HTTP
2 23 (4.59%) Multicast
2 23 (4.59%) TCP/IP
2 23 (4.59%) VPN
3 22 (4.39%) DMZ
4 21 (4.19%) FIX Connectivity
5 20 (3.99%) BGP
6 19 (3.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 19 (3.79%) Wireshark
7 18 (3.59%) BIG-IP
7 18 (3.59%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 18 (3.59%) SSL
8 9 (1.80%) Firewall
9 3 (0.60%) SAN
9 3 (0.60%) Wireless
10 2 (0.40%) DWDM
10 2 (0.40%) MPLS
10 2 (0.40%) Network Security
10 2 (0.40%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.39%) SQL Server
2 18 (3.59%) Relational Database
3 16 (3.19%) Metadata
3 16 (3.19%) Power BI
4 11 (2.20%) Pinecone
4 11 (2.20%) Tableau
4 11 (2.20%) Weaviate
5 10 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.60%) Data Vault
8 6 (1.20%) Big Data
8 6 (1.20%) KDB
8 6 (1.20%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.20%) Redis
9 5 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.80%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.80%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.60%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 34 (6.79%) JIRA
2 17 (3.39%) Fiddler
3 11 (2.20%) TeamCity
4 9 (1.80%) Git
5 7 (1.40%) ER Studio
5 7 (1.40%) ERwin
5 7 (1.40%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.20%) GitLab
6 6 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (1.20%) webpack
7 5 (1.00%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.00%) Selenium
8 4 (0.80%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.40%) Maven
9 2 (0.40%) MSBuild
9 2 (0.40%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.40%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.40%) Vite
General
1 501 (100.00%) Banking
2 292 (58.28%) Finance
3 144 (28.74%) Front Office
4 110 (21.96%) Social Skills
5 61 (12.18%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (8.98%) Retail Banking
7 36 (7.19%) Corporate Banking
7 36 (7.19%) Retail
8 32 (6.39%) Financial Institution
9 22 (4.39%) Legal
10 14 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (2.20%) Back Office
12 10 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.60%) Spanish Language
15 7 (1.40%) French Language
16 6 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.60%) Aviation
17 3 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 3 (0.60%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 148 (29.54%) Developer
2 86 (17.17%) Analyst
3 71 (14.17%) Java Developer
4 70 (13.97%) Senior
5 68 (13.57%) Business Analyst
6 48 (9.58%) Senior Developer
7 38 (7.58%) Network Engineer
7 38 (7.58%) Senior Java Developer
8 34 (6.79%) Architect
9 28 (5.59%) Solutions Architect
10 26 (5.19%) Payments Architect
10 26 (5.19%) Payments Solutions Architect
11 25 (4.99%) Banking Analyst
12 24 (4.79%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 23 (4.59%) Security Engineer
13 23 (4.59%) Support Engineer
14 22 (4.39%) C# Developer
15 21 (4.19%) Data Engineer
16 20 (3.99%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
16 20 (3.99%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (8.78%) React
2 42 (8.38%) .NET
3 36 (7.19%) FIX Protocol
4 26 (5.19%) Kafka
5 24 (4.79%) Redux
6 21 (4.19%) Middleware
7 14 (2.79%) AngularJS
7 14 (2.79%) CSS
7 14 (2.79%) HTML
8 13 (2.59%) Spring
8 13 (2.59%) XML
9 12 (2.40%) LangChain
10 11 (2.20%) LlamaIndex
11 10 (2.00%) REST
12 9 (1.80%) RESTful
13 8 (1.60%) OAuth
13 8 (1.60%) OAuth2
14 7 (1.40%) HTML5
14 7 (1.40%) Node.js
14 7 (1.40%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 93 (18.56%) Derivative
2 65 (12.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 58 (11.58%) Equities
4 55 (10.98%) Management Information System
5 50 (9.98%) Fixed Income
6 24 (4.79%) Market Risk
7 20 (3.99%) Credit Risk
7 20 (3.99%) Greenfield Project
7 20 (3.99%) Onboarding
8 19 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
8 19 (3.79%) TWAP
8 19 (3.79%) VWAP
9 18 (3.59%) Algorithms
10 16 (3.19%) Data Structures
10 16 (3.19%) Product Ownership
11 12 (2.40%) AI Agents
11 12 (2.40%) Cloud Native
12 9 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.80%) Hedge funds
13 7 (1.40%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.79%) Windows
2 24 (4.79%) Unix
3 20 (3.99%) Linux
4 9 (1.80%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.20%) Windows 7
6 4 (0.80%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.40%) Android
7 2 (0.40%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.20%) AIX
8 1 (0.20%) Solaris
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (19.56%) Agile
2 66 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (12.97%) Low Latency
4 60 (11.98%) Electronic Trading
5 55 (10.98%) Analytics
6 52 (10.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 47 (9.38%) Asset Management
7 47 (9.38%) CI/CD
8 46 (9.18%) User Acceptance Testing
9 44 (8.78%) AI
10 41 (8.18%) Multithreading
11 40 (7.98%) Business Analysis
12 39 (7.78%) DevOps
12 39 (7.78%) TDD
13 38 (7.58%) SDLC
14 36 (7.19%) Software Engineering
15 34 (6.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (6.79%) Load Balancing
15 34 (6.79%) Wealth Management
16 32 (6.39%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 114 (22.75%) Java
2 99 (19.76%) Python
3 98 (19.56%) SQL
4 68 (13.57%) C#
5 51 (10.18%) TypeScript
6 38 (7.58%) JavaScript
7 22 (4.39%) PowerShell
8 18 (3.59%) C++
9 9 (1.80%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.20%) Rust
10 6 (1.20%) Scala
11 5 (1.00%) VBA
12 4 (0.80%) Bash
13 3 (0.60%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.60%) Perl
14 2 (0.40%) Bicep
14 2 (0.40%) C
14 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.20%) F#
15 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (7.39%) Degree
2 17 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (2.40%) Azure Certification
4 8 (1.60%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.40%) PMP
6 5 (1.00%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.80%) CISSP
7 4 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (0.80%) MCSA
7 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.60%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.60%) CFA
9 2 (0.40%) ACCA
9 2 (0.40%) CCNP
9 2 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.40%) MBA
9 2 (0.40%) PhD
9 2 (0.40%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 2 (0.40%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.19%) MiFID
2 14 (2.79%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.59%) QA
4 11 (2.20%) PMO
5 8 (1.60%) SLA
6 6 (1.20%) EMIR
7 5 (1.00%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.40%) WCAG
9 1 (0.20%) Basel III
9 1 (0.20%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.20%) GDPR
9 1 (0.20%) IFRS
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.20%) ITGC
9 1 (0.20%) NIST
9 1 (0.20%) PSD2
9 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 20 (3.99%) Docker
2 18 (3.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (3.39%) Firmware
4 13 (2.59%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.20%) GridGain
5 1 (0.20%) Varnish
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.20%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 17 (3.39%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.60%) Terraform
3 7 (1.40%) SCCM
4 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.00%) WSUS
5 4 (0.80%) Ansible
5 4 (0.80%) Control-M
6 2 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.40%) Puppet
7 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.20%) WMI
Vendors
1 49 (9.78%) Microsoft
2 37 (7.39%) Oracle
3 36 (7.19%) F5
4 20 (3.99%) Cisco
5 18 (3.59%) Blue Coat
5 18 (3.59%) VMware
6 17 (3.39%) McAfee
6 17 (3.39%) NetApp
7 13 (2.59%) Murex
7 13 (2.59%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.40%) Bloomberg
9 9 (1.80%) Citrix
9 9 (1.80%) ION Trading
10 8 (1.60%) Charles River
11 7 (1.40%) Reuters
11 7 (1.40%) Sybase
12 6 (1.20%) Adobe
12 6 (1.20%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.00%) Remedy
14 4 (0.80%) Splunk