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 1 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 139 148
Rank change year-on-year -69 +9 -45
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 545 535 613
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.24% 2.09% 1.65%
As % of the General category 2.26% 3.26% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 348 489
10th Percentile £402 £409 £500
25th Percentile £504 £613 £610
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £750 £775
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -3.23% +10.71%
75th Percentile £800 £838 £875
90th Percentile £938 £883 £888
UK median daily rate £650 £740 £750
% change year-on-year -12.16% -1.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £73.25 -
25th Percentile - £78.13 £18.25
Median hourly rate - £87.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +348.72% -72.14%
75th Percentile - £94.38 £20.75
90th Percentile - £97.75 -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £87.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +8.57% +348.72% -71.89%

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 24,066 16,417 21,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.91% 64.04% 57.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,570 10,548 13,565
10th Percentile £313 £281 £295
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -3.11% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £517 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.34% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,728 812 1,796
10th Percentile £14.24 £13.26 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.54 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £32.70
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.90% +8.99%
75th Percentile £63.38 £52.00 £53.81
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £68.82
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.39 £31.61
% change year-on-year +16.84% -13.34% +4.48%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -55 455 £667 -11.07% 115
North of England -10 78 £841 +118.38% 4
North West +25 71 £553 +24.27% 4
West Midlands -2 54 £875 +59.09%
Midlands -8 54 £875 +59.09% 1
South West -22 9 £875 +430.30% 2
North East - 4 £875 -
Yorkshire -53 3 £405 +5.19%
South East -64 1 - - 19
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 14 (2.57%) Confluence
2 5 (0.92%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.73%) IIS
4 3 (0.55%) Apache
4 3 (0.55%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.55%) SAS
5 2 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.37%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.18%) CICS
Applications
1 26 (4.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.28%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.37%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 12 (2.20%) Oracle Payables
1 12 (2.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 12 (2.20%) Oracle Receivables
2 9 (1.65%) Aladdin
2 9 (1.65%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (1.10%) Summit
4 3 (0.55%) Loan IQ
4 3 (0.55%) Orchestrade
4 3 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.37%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 2 (0.37%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.37%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.37%) Global One
5 2 (0.37%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.18%) Actimize
6 1 (0.18%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.18%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.18%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.18%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 68 (12.48%) Azure
2 64 (11.74%) AWS
3 24 (4.40%) GCP
3 24 (4.40%) Power Platform
4 17 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (2.75%) GitHub
5 15 (2.75%) OCI
6 12 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (2.20%) Entra ID
7 9 (1.65%) Snowflake
8 7 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (1.28%) Google Workspace
9 6 (1.10%) Power Automate
9 6 (1.10%) PowerApps
10 5 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (0.73%) npm
11 4 (0.73%) SaaS
11 4 (0.73%) Yarn
12 3 (0.55%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 36 (6.61%) DNS
2 25 (4.59%) Multicast
2 25 (4.59%) VPN
3 24 (4.40%) TCP/IP
4 23 (4.22%) DMZ
4 23 (4.22%) HTTP
5 20 (3.67%) BGP
6 19 (3.49%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 19 (3.49%) FIX Connectivity
6 19 (3.49%) Wireshark
7 18 (3.30%) BIG-IP
7 18 (3.30%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 18 (3.30%) SSL
8 10 (1.83%) Firewall
9 3 (0.55%) SAN
9 3 (0.55%) Wireless
10 2 (0.37%) DWDM
10 2 (0.37%) MPLS
10 2 (0.37%) OSPF
10 2 (0.37%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.22%) Power BI
1 23 (4.22%) SQL Server
2 19 (3.49%) Relational Database
3 18 (3.30%) Metadata
4 11 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (1.83%) Data Vault
5 10 (1.83%) Pinecone
5 10 (1.83%) Tableau
5 10 (1.83%) Weaviate
6 9 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (1.47%) KDB
8 6 (1.10%) Big Data
8 6 (1.10%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.10%) Redis
9 5 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.92%) Kdb+
9 5 (0.92%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (0.73%) ClickHouse
10 4 (0.73%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 40 (7.34%) JIRA
2 17 (3.12%) Fiddler
3 12 (2.20%) Git
4 10 (1.83%) ER Studio
4 10 (1.83%) TeamCity
5 9 (1.65%) ERwin
6 8 (1.47%) GitLab
6 8 (1.47%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (1.10%) webpack
8 5 (0.92%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.73%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.73%) Selenium
10 3 (0.55%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.55%) Maven
11 2 (0.37%) MSBuild
11 2 (0.37%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.37%) Vite
12 1 (0.18%) Postman
General
1 545 (100.00%) Banking
2 322 (59.08%) Finance
3 165 (30.28%) Front Office
4 118 (21.65%) Social Skills
5 61 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (8.99%) Retail Banking
7 39 (7.16%) Corporate Banking
7 39 (7.16%) Retail
8 34 (6.24%) Financial Institution
9 20 (3.67%) Legal
10 11 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.65%) Back Office
11 9 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.47%) Spanish Language
13 6 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.92%) French Language
15 3 (0.55%) Advertising
15 3 (0.55%) Law
15 3 (0.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 178 (32.66%) Developer
2 90 (16.51%) Analyst
3 89 (16.33%) Java Developer
4 81 (14.86%) Senior
5 70 (12.84%) Business Analyst
6 60 (11.01%) Senior Developer
7 48 (8.81%) Senior Java Developer
8 38 (6.97%) Network Engineer
9 34 (6.24%) React Developer
10 33 (6.06%) Architect
11 31 (5.69%) UI Developer
12 30 (5.50%) Senior React Developer
13 29 (5.32%) Senior UI Developer
14 26 (4.77%) Solutions Architect
15 25 (4.59%) Banking Analyst
16 24 (4.40%) C# Developer
16 24 (4.40%) Payments Architect
16 24 (4.40%) Payments Solutions Architect
17 23 (4.22%) Electronic Trading Developer
17 23 (4.22%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (11.38%) React
2 44 (8.07%) .NET
3 37 (6.79%) FIX Protocol
4 36 (6.61%) Redux
5 29 (5.32%) Kafka
6 22 (4.04%) Middleware
7 18 (3.30%) Spring
8 16 (2.94%) AngularJS
9 14 (2.57%) REST
10 13 (2.39%) CSS
11 12 (2.20%) HTML
12 11 (2.02%) OAuth
12 11 (2.02%) OAuth2
12 11 (2.02%) RESTful
13 10 (1.83%) LangChain
13 10 (1.83%) LlamaIndex
14 9 (1.65%) XML
15 8 (1.47%) Node.js
15 8 (1.47%) RxJava
16 7 (1.28%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 103 (18.90%) Derivative
2 87 (15.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 69 (12.66%) Equities
4 67 (12.29%) Fixed Income
5 50 (9.17%) Management Information System
6 34 (6.24%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (4.22%) Onboarding
8 22 (4.04%) Market Risk
9 21 (3.85%) Product Ownership
10 20 (3.67%) Credit Risk
10 20 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
11 19 (3.49%) TWAP
11 19 (3.49%) VWAP
12 18 (3.30%) Algorithms
13 17 (3.12%) Data Structures
14 13 (2.39%) Cloud Native
15 12 (2.20%) AI Agents
16 9 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
17 8 (1.47%) Hedge funds
18 7 (1.28%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.24%) Windows
2 27 (4.95%) Unix
3 26 (4.77%) Linux
4 7 (1.28%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.73%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.73%) Windows 7
6 3 (0.55%) Android
7 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.18%) AIX
8 1 (0.18%) Solaris
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (21.10%) Agile
2 84 (15.41%) Low Latency
3 76 (13.94%) Electronic Trading
4 75 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (11.38%) CI/CD
6 54 (9.91%) Analytics
7 52 (9.54%) Stakeholder Management
8 50 (9.17%) AI
9 45 (8.26%) User Acceptance Testing
10 43 (7.89%) Asset Management
10 43 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (7.89%) DevOps
11 42 (7.71%) Software Engineering
11 42 (7.71%) TDD
12 41 (7.52%) Multithreading
13 38 (6.97%) SDLC
13 38 (6.97%) Wealth Management
14 36 (6.61%) Business Analysis
15 35 (6.42%) Full-Stack Development
15 35 (6.42%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 130 (23.85%) Java
2 105 (19.27%) Python
3 104 (19.08%) SQL
4 85 (15.60%) C#
5 70 (12.84%) TypeScript
6 59 (10.83%) JavaScript
7 23 (4.22%) PowerShell
8 18 (3.30%) C++
9 10 (1.83%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.28%) Rust
11 6 (1.10%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.10%) VBA
12 5 (0.92%) Scala
13 3 (0.55%) Bash
13 3 (0.55%) Bicep
13 3 (0.55%) Perl
13 3 (0.55%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.37%) C
14 2 (0.37%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.18%) F#
Qualifications
1 30 (5.50%) Degree
2 11 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (1.83%) Azure Certification
4 6 (1.10%) PMP
5 5 (0.92%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.73%) CISSP
6 4 (0.73%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.55%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (0.55%) MCSA
7 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.37%) CCNP
8 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.37%) MBA
8 2 (0.37%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 2 (0.37%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.18%) IIBA
9 1 (0.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.57%) QA
2 13 (2.39%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.39%) MiFID
3 11 (2.02%) PMO
4 7 (1.28%) SLA
5 5 (0.92%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.92%) EMIR
6 2 (0.37%) WCAG
7 1 (0.18%) COREP
7 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.18%) FINREP
7 1 (0.18%) GDPR
7 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.18%) ITGC
7 1 (0.18%) NIST
7 1 (0.18%) PSD2
7 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (3.85%) Docker
2 18 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (3.12%) Firmware
4 14 (2.57%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.18%) GridGain
5 1 (0.18%) Varnish
5 1 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 21 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.02%) Terraform
3 8 (1.47%) SCCM
4 7 (1.28%) WSUS
5 6 (1.10%) Ansible
6 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.73%) Control-M
8 3 (0.55%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.18%) Puppet
9 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.18%) WMI
Vendors
1 53 (9.72%) Microsoft
2 38 (6.97%) Oracle
3 36 (6.61%) F5
4 20 (3.67%) Cisco
5 18 (3.30%) Blue Coat
5 18 (3.30%) VMware
6 17 (3.12%) McAfee
6 17 (3.12%) NetApp
7 16 (2.94%) Murex
8 14 (2.57%) OpenAI
9 11 (2.02%) Bloomberg
10 9 (1.65%) Citrix
10 9 (1.65%) ION Trading
11 8 (1.47%) Reuters
12 7 (1.28%) Solace
12 7 (1.28%) Sybase
13 6 (1.10%) Charles River
13 6 (1.10%) ServiceNow
14 5 (0.92%) Databricks
14 5 (0.92%) Remedy