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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 129 146
Rank change year-on-year -85 +17 -43
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 543 533 615
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.25% 2.11% 1.65%
As % of the General category 2.27% 3.28% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 346 491
10th Percentile £401 £409 £500
25th Percentile £500 £613 £611
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £668 £750 £775
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% -3.23% +10.71%
75th Percentile £798 £838 £875
90th Percentile £938 £884 £888
UK median daily rate £650 £750 £750
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +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 23,870 16,248 21,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.91% 64.30% 57.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,487 10,447 13,653
10th Percentile £313 £284 £290
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £517 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.33% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,703 793 1,792
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.27 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.64 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +17.58% -15.98% +9.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £52.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.01 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.50 £31.80
% change year-on-year +16.36% -13.52% +5.12%

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 27 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 27 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 -52 453 £651 -13.27% 82
North of England -4 78 £841 +118.38% 4
North West +15 71 £553 +24.27% 4
Midlands -11 54 £875 +59.09%
West Midlands -12 54 £875 +59.09%
South West -28 9 £875 +430.30% 2
North East - 4 £875 -
Yorkshire -43 3 £405 +5.19%
South East - 1 - - 21
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 13 (2.39%) Confluence
2 5 (0.92%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.74%) 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 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.29%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.37%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 12 (2.21%) Oracle Payables
1 12 (2.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 12 (2.21%) Oracle Receivables
2 9 (1.66%) Aladdin
2 9 (1.66%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (1.10%) Summit
4 3 (0.55%) Fidessa
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%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.37%) Global One
6 1 (0.18%) Actimize
6 1 (0.18%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.18%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.18%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.18%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 69 (12.71%) Azure
2 62 (11.42%) AWS
3 24 (4.42%) GCP
3 24 (4.42%) Power Platform
4 19 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (2.76%) OCI
6 14 (2.58%) GitHub
7 12 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (2.21%) Entra ID
8 9 (1.66%) Snowflake
9 8 (1.47%) Google Workspace
10 7 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.10%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.10%) PowerApps
12 5 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (0.74%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (0.74%) npm
13 4 (0.74%) Yarn
14 3 (0.55%) Cloud Run
14 3 (0.55%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 36 (6.63%) DNS
2 25 (4.60%) TCP/IP
2 25 (4.60%) VPN
3 24 (4.42%) DMZ
3 24 (4.42%) Multicast
4 23 (4.24%) HTTP
5 20 (3.68%) BGP
5 20 (3.68%) FIX Connectivity
6 19 (3.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 19 (3.50%) Wireshark
7 18 (3.31%) BIG-IP
7 18 (3.31%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 18 (3.31%) SSL
8 11 (2.03%) 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 (4.24%) Power BI
2 22 (4.05%) SQL Server
3 19 (3.50%) Relational Database
4 18 (3.31%) Metadata
5 10 (1.84%) Data Vault
5 10 (1.84%) Pinecone
5 10 (1.84%) Tableau
5 10 (1.84%) Weaviate
6 9 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.66%) 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 (0.74%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.74%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 38 (7.00%) JIRA
2 17 (3.13%) Fiddler
3 11 (2.03%) Git
4 10 (1.84%) ER Studio
4 10 (1.84%) TeamCity
5 9 (1.66%) ERwin
6 7 (1.29%) GitLab
6 7 (1.29%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (1.10%) webpack
8 5 (0.92%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.92%) Selenium
9 4 (0.74%) PowerDesigner
10 3 (0.55%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.37%) 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%) XCUITest
General
1 543 (100.00%) Banking
2 321 (59.12%) Finance
3 166 (30.57%) Front Office
4 118 (21.73%) Social Skills
5 59 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (9.02%) Retail Banking
7 40 (7.37%) Corporate Banking
8 39 (7.18%) Retail
9 34 (6.26%) Financial Institution
10 20 (3.68%) Legal
11 11 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.66%) Back Office
12 9 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.66%) Spanish Language
13 6 (1.10%) French Language
13 6 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.55%) Advertising
14 3 (0.55%) Aviation
14 3 (0.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 174 (32.04%) Developer
2 91 (16.76%) Analyst
3 89 (16.39%) Java Developer
4 82 (15.10%) Senior
5 70 (12.89%) Business Analyst
6 60 (11.05%) Senior Developer
7 48 (8.84%) Senior Java Developer
8 38 (7.00%) Network Engineer
9 34 (6.26%) React Developer
10 33 (6.08%) Architect
11 31 (5.71%) UI Developer
12 30 (5.52%) Senior React Developer
13 29 (5.34%) Senior UI Developer
14 26 (4.79%) Banking Analyst
14 26 (4.79%) Solutions Architect
15 24 (4.42%) Payments Architect
15 24 (4.42%) Payments Solutions Architect
16 23 (4.24%) C# Developer
16 23 (4.24%) Electronic Trading Developer
16 23 (4.24%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (11.23%) React
2 43 (7.92%) .NET
3 37 (6.81%) FIX Protocol
4 36 (6.63%) Redux
5 29 (5.34%) Kafka
6 21 (3.87%) Middleware
7 17 (3.13%) Spring
8 15 (2.76%) AngularJS
9 14 (2.58%) REST
10 13 (2.39%) CSS
11 12 (2.21%) HTML
12 11 (2.03%) OAuth
12 11 (2.03%) OAuth2
12 11 (2.03%) RESTful
12 11 (2.03%) XML
13 10 (1.84%) LangChain
13 10 (1.84%) LlamaIndex
14 8 (1.47%) RxJava
15 7 (1.29%) Pandas
15 7 (1.29%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 103 (18.97%) Derivative
2 86 (15.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 69 (12.71%) Equities
4 65 (11.97%) Fixed Income
5 50 (9.21%) Management Information System
6 34 (6.26%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (4.24%) Onboarding
8 22 (4.05%) Market Risk
9 21 (3.87%) Product Ownership
10 20 (3.68%) Credit Risk
11 19 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
11 19 (3.50%) TWAP
11 19 (3.50%) VWAP
12 18 (3.31%) Algorithms
13 16 (2.95%) Data Structures
14 13 (2.39%) Cloud Native
15 12 (2.21%) AI Agents
16 9 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
17 8 (1.47%) Hedge funds
18 7 (1.29%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.63%) Windows
2 28 (5.16%) Unix
3 25 (4.60%) Linux
4 8 (1.47%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.92%) Windows 7
6 4 (0.74%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.55%) Android
8 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.18%) AIX
9 1 (0.18%) Solaris
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (21.18%) Agile
2 83 (15.29%) Low Latency
3 76 (14.00%) Electronic Trading
4 74 (13.63%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (11.23%) CI/CD
6 54 (9.94%) Analytics
7 50 (9.21%) Stakeholder Management
8 49 (9.02%) AI
9 45 (8.29%) User Acceptance Testing
10 43 (7.92%) Asset Management
11 42 (7.73%) DevOps
12 41 (7.55%) Software Engineering
12 41 (7.55%) TDD
13 40 (7.37%) Continuous Improvement
13 40 (7.37%) Multithreading
14 39 (7.18%) SDLC
15 38 (7.00%) Wealth Management
16 36 (6.63%) Business Analysis
17 35 (6.45%) Load Balancing
18 34 (6.26%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 130 (23.94%) Java
2 104 (19.15%) Python
3 103 (18.97%) SQL
4 85 (15.65%) C#
5 69 (12.71%) TypeScript
6 58 (10.68%) JavaScript
7 24 (4.42%) PowerShell
8 17 (3.13%) C++
9 10 (1.84%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.29%) 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
14 2 (0.37%) C
14 2 (0.37%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.37%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 32 (5.89%) Degree
2 13 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.03%) Azure Certification
4 6 (1.10%) PMP
5 5 (0.92%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.74%) CISSP
6 4 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (0.74%) MCSA
6 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.74%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.55%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.37%) CCNP
8 2 (0.37%) CFA
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%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.58%) QA
2 13 (2.39%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.39%) MiFID
3 11 (2.03%) PMO
4 7 (1.29%) 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%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (3.87%) Docker
2 18 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (3.13%) Firmware
4 14 (2.58%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.18%) GridGain
5 1 (0.18%) Varnish
5 1 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 20 (3.68%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.66%) SCCM
2 9 (1.66%) Terraform
3 7 (1.29%) WSUS
4 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.74%) Ansible
5 4 (0.74%) Control-M
6 3 (0.55%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.18%) Puppet
7 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.18%) WMI
Vendors
1 55 (10.13%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.00%) Oracle
3 36 (6.63%) F5
4 20 (3.68%) Cisco
5 18 (3.31%) Blue Coat
5 18 (3.31%) VMware
6 17 (3.13%) McAfee
6 17 (3.13%) NetApp
7 16 (2.95%) Murex
8 14 (2.58%) OpenAI
9 13 (2.39%) Bloomberg
10 10 (1.84%) Citrix
10 10 (1.84%) ION Trading
11 9 (1.66%) Reuters
12 7 (1.29%) Charles River
12 7 (1.29%) Sybase
13 6 (1.10%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.10%) Solace
14 5 (0.92%) Databricks
14 5 (0.92%) Remedy