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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 134 155
Rank change year-on-year -79 +21 -51
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 531 518 585
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.24% 2.11% 1.56%
As % of the General category 2.28% 3.27% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 334 460
10th Percentile £401 £411 £500
25th Percentile £478 £613 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £788 £850 £875
90th Percentile £938 £881 £888
UK median daily rate £643 £730 £750
% change year-on-year -11.99% -2.67% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £73.25 -
25th Percentile £51.96 £78.13 £18.25
Median hourly rate £54.46 £87.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.76% +348.72% -72.14%
75th Percentile £56.96 £94.38 £20.75
90th Percentile - £97.75 -
UK median hourly rate £74.73 £87.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.59% +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 23,266 15,824 21,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.49% 64.34% 57.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,208 10,200 13,785
10th Percentile £313 £281 £281
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £635 £641 £650
90th Percentile £745 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,610 744 1,827
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.38 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.17 £31.97
Median % change year-on-year +15.39% -11.90% +4.32%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.81 £52.64
90th Percentile £81.17 £75.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £28.15 £30.50
% change year-on-year +11.90% -7.70% -4.57%

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 13 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 13 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 -53 439 £650 -13.33% 67
North of England +1 78 £875 +40.00% 5
North West +24 71 £450 -37.93% 3
West Midlands -1 56 £875 +59.09%
Midlands -5 56 £875 +59.09%
South West - 10 £875 -
North East - 4 £875 -
Yorkshire -56 3 £405 +5.19% 2
South East - 2 £159 - 15
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 (2.64%) Confluence
2 5 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (0.75%) IIS
3 4 (0.75%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.56%) Apache
4 3 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.56%) SAS
5 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.19%) CICS
Applications
1 26 (4.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.88%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.38%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 13 (2.45%) Oracle Payables
1 13 (2.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 13 (2.45%) Oracle Receivables
2 9 (1.69%) Payment Gateway
3 8 (1.51%) Aladdin
4 6 (1.13%) Summit
5 3 (0.56%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.56%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.56%) Orchestrade
5 3 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.38%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.38%) Front Arena
6 2 (0.38%) Global One
7 1 (0.19%) Actimize
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.19%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.19%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.19%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 68 (12.81%) Azure
2 57 (10.73%) AWS
3 21 (3.95%) Power Platform
4 20 (3.77%) GCP
5 18 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (2.82%) OCI
7 11 (2.07%) Entra ID
7 11 (2.07%) GitHub
8 10 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (1.69%) Snowflake
10 8 (1.51%) Google Workspace
11 6 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (0.94%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (0.75%) npm
13 4 (0.75%) Power Automate
13 4 (0.75%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.75%) Yarn
14 3 (0.56%) Figma
14 3 (0.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (6.78%) DNS
2 25 (4.71%) TCP/IP
2 25 (4.71%) VPN
3 24 (4.52%) DMZ
4 23 (4.33%) HTTP
4 23 (4.33%) Multicast
5 21 (3.95%) FIX Connectivity
6 20 (3.77%) BGP
7 19 (3.58%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 19 (3.58%) Wireshark
8 18 (3.39%) BIG-IP
8 18 (3.39%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 18 (3.39%) SSL
9 11 (2.07%) Firewall
10 3 (0.56%) SAN
10 3 (0.56%) Wireless
11 2 (0.38%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (0.38%) NAS
11 2 (0.38%) Network Security
11 2 (0.38%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.95%) SQL Server
2 20 (3.77%) Power BI
3 18 (3.39%) Relational Database
4 17 (3.20%) Metadata
5 11 (2.07%) Tableau
6 10 (1.88%) Pinecone
6 10 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (1.88%) Weaviate
7 9 (1.69%) Data Vault
7 9 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.13%) Big Data
8 6 (1.13%) KDB
8 6 (1.13%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.13%) Redis
9 5 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.75%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.75%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.56%) Flink
11 3 (0.56%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 37 (6.97%) JIRA
2 17 (3.20%) Fiddler
3 10 (1.88%) TeamCity
4 9 (1.69%) ER Studio
4 9 (1.69%) Git
5 8 (1.51%) ERwin
6 7 (1.32%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.13%) GitLab
7 6 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (1.13%) webpack
8 5 (0.94%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.94%) Selenium
9 4 (0.75%) PowerDesigner
10 3 (0.56%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.38%) Maven
11 2 (0.38%) MSBuild
11 2 (0.38%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.38%) Vite
12 1 (0.19%) JMeter
General
1 531 (100.00%) Banking
2 312 (58.76%) Finance
3 159 (29.94%) Front Office
4 111 (20.90%) Social Skills
5 58 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (9.04%) Retail Banking
7 38 (7.16%) Corporate Banking
8 37 (6.97%) Retail
9 32 (6.03%) Financial Institution
10 22 (4.14%) Legal
11 13 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.69%) Back Office
13 9 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.69%) Spanish Language
14 7 (1.32%) French Language
15 6 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.56%) Advertising
16 3 (0.56%) Aviation
16 3 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 168 (31.64%) Developer
2 91 (17.14%) Analyst
3 85 (16.01%) Java Developer
3 85 (16.01%) Senior
4 70 (13.18%) Business Analyst
5 62 (11.68%) Senior Developer
6 49 (9.23%) Senior Java Developer
7 38 (7.16%) Network Engineer
8 35 (6.59%) Architect
9 34 (6.40%) React Developer
10 31 (5.84%) UI Developer
11 30 (5.65%) Senior React Developer
12 29 (5.46%) Banking Analyst
12 29 (5.46%) Senior UI Developer
13 28 (5.27%) Solutions Architect
14 26 (4.90%) Payments Architect
14 26 (4.90%) Payments Solutions Architect
15 24 (4.52%) Electronic Trading Developer
15 24 (4.52%) Security Engineer
15 24 (4.52%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (11.30%) React
2 43 (8.10%) .NET
3 36 (6.78%) FIX Protocol
3 36 (6.78%) Redux
4 27 (5.08%) Kafka
5 22 (4.14%) Middleware
6 15 (2.82%) Spring
7 14 (2.64%) AngularJS
8 13 (2.45%) CSS
8 13 (2.45%) HTML
8 13 (2.45%) XML
9 12 (2.26%) REST
10 10 (1.88%) LangChain
10 10 (1.88%) LlamaIndex
11 9 (1.69%) RESTful
12 8 (1.51%) OAuth
12 8 (1.51%) OAuth2
13 7 (1.32%) HTML5
13 7 (1.32%) Pandas
13 7 (1.32%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 99 (18.64%) Derivative
2 82 (15.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 69 (12.99%) Equities
4 65 (12.24%) Fixed Income
5 54 (10.17%) Management Information System
6 33 (6.21%) Greenfield Project
7 25 (4.71%) Market Risk
8 23 (4.33%) Onboarding
9 21 (3.95%) Credit Risk
10 19 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
10 19 (3.58%) TWAP
10 19 (3.58%) VWAP
11 18 (3.39%) Algorithms
11 18 (3.39%) Product Ownership
12 16 (3.01%) Data Structures
13 12 (2.26%) AI Agents
14 11 (2.07%) Cloud Native
15 10 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
16 8 (1.51%) Hedge funds
17 7 (1.32%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 37 (6.97%) Windows
2 25 (4.71%) Unix
3 22 (4.14%) Linux
4 9 (1.69%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.13%) Windows 7
6 4 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.38%) Android
7 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.19%) AIX
8 1 (0.19%) Solaris
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (19.59%) Agile
2 79 (14.88%) Low Latency
3 74 (13.94%) Electronic Trading
4 68 (12.81%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (10.17%) Analytics
5 54 (10.17%) Stakeholder Management
6 50 (9.42%) CI/CD
7 47 (8.85%) User Acceptance Testing
8 45 (8.47%) AI
8 45 (8.47%) Asset Management
9 40 (7.53%) Multithreading
9 40 (7.53%) SDLC
10 39 (7.34%) Business Analysis
10 39 (7.34%) TDD
11 37 (6.97%) Software Engineering
12 36 (6.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (6.78%) DevOps
12 36 (6.78%) Wealth Management
13 34 (6.40%) Load Balancing
14 31 (5.84%) Algorithmic Trading
Programming Languages
1 127 (23.92%) Java
2 101 (19.02%) Python
3 99 (18.64%) SQL
4 83 (15.63%) C#
5 66 (12.43%) TypeScript
6 54 (10.17%) JavaScript
7 24 (4.52%) PowerShell
8 16 (3.01%) C++
9 9 (1.69%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.13%) Rust
11 5 (0.94%) Scala
11 5 (0.94%) VBA
12 4 (0.75%) Bash
12 4 (0.75%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.56%) Perl
14 2 (0.38%) Bicep
14 2 (0.38%) C
14 2 (0.38%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 31 (5.84%) Degree
2 13 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (2.26%) Azure Certification
4 7 (1.32%) PMP
5 5 (0.94%) Master's Degree
5 5 (0.94%) PMI Certification
6 4 (0.75%) CISSP
6 4 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (0.75%) MCSA
6 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.56%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.56%) CFA
8 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.38%) CCNP
8 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.38%) MBA
8 2 (0.38%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 2 (0.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.19%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.82%) MiFID
2 14 (2.64%) QA
3 13 (2.45%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.88%) PMO
5 7 (1.32%) SLA
6 6 (1.13%) EMIR
7 5 (0.94%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.38%) WCAG
9 1 (0.19%) Basel III
9 1 (0.19%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.19%) GDPR
9 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.19%) ITGC
9 1 (0.19%) NIST
9 1 (0.19%) PSD2
9 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 18 (3.39%) Docker
1 18 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (3.20%) Firmware
3 14 (2.64%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.19%) GridGain
4 1 (0.19%) Varnish
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.19%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 15 (2.82%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.69%) SCCM
3 7 (1.32%) Terraform
3 7 (1.32%) WSUS
4 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.75%) Ansible
5 4 (0.75%) Control-M
6 2 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.19%) Puppet
7 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.19%) WMI
Vendors
1 56 (10.55%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.16%) Oracle
3 36 (6.78%) F5
4 20 (3.77%) Cisco
5 18 (3.39%) Blue Coat
5 18 (3.39%) VMware
6 17 (3.20%) McAfee
6 17 (3.20%) NetApp
7 14 (2.64%) Bloomberg
7 14 (2.64%) Murex
8 13 (2.45%) OpenAI
9 11 (2.07%) Citrix
9 11 (2.07%) ION Trading
10 9 (1.69%) Reuters
11 7 (1.32%) Charles River
11 7 (1.32%) Sybase
12 6 (1.13%) Adobe
12 6 (1.13%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.94%) Databricks
13 5 (0.94%) Remedy