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 21 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 140 112
Rank change year-on-year -89 -28 +2
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 534 544 689
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.17% 1.97% 2.07%
As % of the General category 2.11% 3.07% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 371 551
10th Percentile £409 £420 £500
25th Percentile £513 £602 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £668 £750 £775
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% -3.23% +10.71%
75th Percentile £824 £825 £881
90th Percentile £938 £888 £888
UK median daily rate £650 £725 £750
% change year-on-year -10.34% -3.33% +9.49%
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% +5.41%
75th Percentile - £94.38 £20.75
90th Percentile - £97.75 -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £87.50 £31.77
% change year-on-year +8.57% +175.42% -50.65%

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 25,253 17,743 19,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.30% 64.39% 57.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,038 11,277 12,244
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £420 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -5.67% -2.18%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £656
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,021 969 1,167
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.25 £14.27
25th Percentile £17.73 £16.50 £17.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +38.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £36.50
% change year-on-year +25.25% -31.10% +32.73%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -56 459 £668 -11.00% 83
North of England -34 63 £553 +38.25% 7
North West -5 55 £502 -19.76% 5
Midlands -14 42 £875 -
West Midlands -15 42 £875 -
South West -42 8 £875 +392.96% 2
Yorkshire -46 4 £450 +21.62% 1
North East - 4 £875 - 1
South East -65 2 £525 -4.55% 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 10 (1.87%) Confluence
2 4 (0.75%) IIS
2 4 (0.75%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.56%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.56%) MTS
4 2 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.37%) Apache
4 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.37%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.19%) CICS
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.19%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 10 (1.87%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
2 5 (0.94%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.75%) Summit
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.56%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.37%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.37%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.37%) Global One
5 2 (0.37%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle iProcurement
6 1 (0.19%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.19%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 70 (13.11%) Azure
2 60 (11.24%) AWS
3 25 (4.68%) GCP
4 19 (3.56%) Power Platform
5 17 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (2.62%) Entra ID
7 13 (2.43%) GitHub
8 11 (2.06%) SaaS
9 9 (1.69%) OCI
10 8 (1.50%) Snowflake
11 6 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.12%) Google Workspace
12 5 (0.94%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (0.94%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (0.94%) Power Automate
12 5 (0.94%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.75%) Azure API Management
14 3 (0.56%) Cloud Run
14 3 (0.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.81%) DNS
2 24 (4.49%) Multicast
3 22 (4.12%) VPN
4 21 (3.93%) HTTP
4 21 (3.93%) TCP/IP
5 20 (3.75%) DMZ
6 19 (3.56%) BGP
7 17 (3.18%) BIG-IP
7 17 (3.18%) Wireshark
8 16 (3.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 16 (3.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 16 (3.00%) FIX Connectivity
8 16 (3.00%) SSL
9 11 (2.06%) Firewall
10 4 (0.75%) Network Security
11 3 (0.56%) SSH
11 3 (0.56%) Wireless
12 2 (0.37%) DWDM
12 2 (0.37%) MPLS
12 2 (0.37%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.06%) SQL Server
2 21 (3.93%) Metadata
3 19 (3.56%) Power BI
4 14 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (2.43%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.87%) Data Vault
6 10 (1.87%) KDB
6 10 (1.87%) Pinecone
6 10 (1.87%) Weaviate
7 7 (1.31%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.31%) Tableau
8 6 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.12%) Kdb+
8 6 (1.12%) Redis
9 5 (0.94%) Big Data
9 5 (0.94%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.75%) ClickHouse
10 4 (0.75%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.75%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.75%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 47 (8.80%) JIRA
2 19 (3.56%) Git
3 15 (2.81%) Fiddler
4 11 (2.06%) ER Studio
5 10 (1.87%) ERwin
5 10 (1.87%) Jenkins
6 9 (1.69%) TeamCity
7 6 (1.12%) GitLab
8 5 (0.94%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.94%) Octopus Deploy
8 5 (0.94%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.75%) Selenium
9 4 (0.75%) webpack
10 3 (0.56%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.56%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.37%) Maven
11 2 (0.37%) MSBuild
11 2 (0.37%) Vite
12 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.19%) XCUITest
General
1 534 (100.00%) Banking
2 331 (61.99%) Finance
3 171 (32.02%) Front Office
4 113 (21.16%) Social Skills
5 62 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (8.61%) Corporate Banking
6 46 (8.61%) Retail Banking
7 42 (7.87%) Retail
8 40 (7.49%) Financial Institution
9 19 (3.56%) Back Office
10 17 (3.18%) Legal
11 15 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (2.25%) Spanish Language
13 7 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.75%) French Language
15 4 (0.75%) Games
16 3 (0.56%) Advertising
16 3 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 174 (32.58%) Developer
2 82 (15.36%) Senior
3 81 (15.17%) Analyst
4 78 (14.61%) Java Developer
5 62 (11.61%) Business Analyst
6 57 (10.67%) Senior Developer
7 37 (6.93%) Senior Java Developer
8 34 (6.37%) React Developer
9 33 (6.18%) Network Engineer
10 30 (5.62%) Senior React Developer
10 30 (5.62%) UI Developer
11 28 (5.24%) Lead
11 28 (5.24%) Senior UI Developer
12 25 (4.68%) C# Developer
13 23 (4.31%) Architect
13 23 (4.31%) Python Developer
14 21 (3.93%) Support Engineer
15 20 (3.75%) Project Manager
15 20 (3.75%) Security Engineer
16 19 (3.56%) Electronic Trading Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (10.67%) React
2 45 (8.43%) .NET
3 38 (7.12%) FIX Protocol
4 37 (6.93%) Redux
5 20 (3.75%) AngularJS
6 16 (3.00%) Kafka
6 16 (3.00%) REST
7 15 (2.81%) Middleware
8 14 (2.62%) WebSockets
9 13 (2.43%) Spring
10 12 (2.25%) RESTful
11 11 (2.06%) Terraform
12 10 (1.87%) LangChain
12 10 (1.87%) LlamaIndex
12 10 (1.87%) OAuth
12 10 (1.87%) OAuth2
12 10 (1.87%) PySpark
13 9 (1.69%) Node.js
13 9 (1.69%) Pandas
14 8 (1.50%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 99 (18.54%) Derivative
2 82 (15.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 69 (12.92%) Fixed Income
4 68 (12.73%) Equities
5 42 (7.87%) Management Information System
6 35 (6.55%) Greenfield Project
7 30 (5.62%) Product Ownership
8 26 (4.87%) Onboarding
9 22 (4.12%) Market Risk
10 20 (3.75%) Data Structures
11 18 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (3.00%) Algorithms
12 16 (3.00%) TWAP
12 16 (3.00%) VWAP
13 15 (2.81%) AI Agents
14 14 (2.62%) Credit Risk
15 13 (2.43%) Cloud Native
15 13 (2.43%) Hedge funds
16 8 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
16 8 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.37%) Windows
2 31 (5.81%) Linux
3 26 (4.87%) Unix
4 6 (1.12%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.12%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.94%) Android
6 3 (0.56%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.37%) AIX
7 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.37%) Solaris
8 1 (0.19%) HPUX
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.19%) SUSE
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
1 124 (23.22%) Agile
2 84 (15.73%) Low Latency
3 75 (14.04%) Electronic Trading
3 75 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
4 68 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
5 61 (11.42%) CI/CD
6 60 (11.24%) AI
7 55 (10.30%) Analytics
8 49 (9.18%) Software Engineering
9 48 (8.99%) DevOps
10 47 (8.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 47 (8.80%) Wealth Management
11 38 (7.12%) Business Analysis
12 37 (6.93%) Full-Stack Development
12 37 (6.93%) Multithreading
13 35 (6.55%) Data Modelling
13 35 (6.55%) User Acceptance Testing
14 33 (6.18%) Asset Management
15 32 (5.99%) Load Balancing
15 32 (5.99%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 124 (23.22%) Java
2 110 (20.60%) SQL
3 108 (20.22%) Python
4 92 (17.23%) C#
5 65 (12.17%) TypeScript
6 54 (10.11%) JavaScript
7 23 (4.31%) PowerShell
8 21 (3.93%) C++
9 14 (2.62%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.31%) Rust
11 6 (1.12%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.12%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.75%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.75%) VBA
13 3 (0.56%) Bicep
13 3 (0.56%) C
13 3 (0.56%) Perl
13 3 (0.56%) Scala
13 3 (0.56%) Tcl
14 2 (0.37%) Bash
Qualifications
1 35 (6.55%) Degree
2 11 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.50%) Azure Certification
4 7 (1.31%) PMP
5 4 (0.75%) CISSP
5 4 (0.75%) PMI Certification
5 4 (0.75%) Security Cleared
6 3 (0.56%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (0.56%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.56%) MCSA
6 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.56%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.37%) CCNP
7 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.37%) MBA
8 1 (0.19%) ACCA
8 1 (0.19%) CIMA
8 1 (0.19%) CISM
8 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.00%) Data Quality
2 15 (2.81%) MiFID
3 11 (2.06%) QA
4 9 (1.69%) EMIR
5 6 (1.12%) PMO
6 4 (0.75%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.56%) NIST
7 3 (0.56%) SLA
8 2 (0.37%) WCAG
9 1 (0.19%) COBIT
9 1 (0.19%) COREP
9 1 (0.19%) FINREP
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS
9 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 20 (3.75%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.81%) Firmware
4 14 (2.62%) Docker
5 1 (0.19%) GridGain
5 1 (0.19%) Varnish
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.19%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 17 (3.18%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.69%) Ansible
3 8 (1.50%) SCCM
4 6 (1.12%) WSUS
5 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.56%) Control-M
6 3 (0.56%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.37%) Kibana
7 2 (0.37%) logstash
7 2 (0.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.19%) WMI
Vendors
1 51 (9.55%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.55%) Oracle
3 32 (5.99%) F5
4 20 (3.75%) Cisco
5 16 (3.00%) Blue Coat
5 16 (3.00%) VMware
6 15 (2.81%) McAfee
6 15 (2.81%) NetApp
7 13 (2.43%) Bloomberg
7 13 (2.43%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.25%) Murex
9 11 (2.06%) Databricks
9 11 (2.06%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.87%) Citrix
11 9 (1.69%) ION Trading
12 8 (1.50%) Reuters
13 7 (1.31%) Sybase
13 7 (1.31%) Tradeweb
14 6 (1.12%) Google
14 6 (1.12%) SAP