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 9 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 141 162
Rank change year-on-year -89 +21 -61
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 450 478 563
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.15% 1.96% 1.50%
As % of the General category 2.04% 3.08% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 306 410
10th Percentile £412 £409 £499
25th Percentile £492 £600 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £745 £712
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +4.60% +1.75%
75th Percentile £775 £875 £850
90th Percentile £938 £888 £900
UK median daily rate £625 £725 £700
% change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £26.57 £78.63 -
25th Percentile £30.80 £82.19 £18.25
Median hourly rate £39.73 £88.75 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.23% +355.13% -51.85%
75th Percentile £49.28 £94.69 £20.75
90th Percentile £53.89 £97.88 -
UK median hourly rate £39.73 £88.75 £19.50
% change year-on-year -55.23% +355.13% -64.30%

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 22,040 15,500 21,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.35% 63.64% 58.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,893 10,103 14,163
10th Percentile £304 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,403 632 1,738
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.22 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.13 £15.38
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.04 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.29% +5.58% -21.43%
75th Percentile £61.18 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £26.28 £29.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -9.40% +7.41% -22.86%

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 9 April 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Investment Banking in England over the 6 months to 9 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Investment Banking in England

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 9 April 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 -60 368 £634 -15.50% 64
North of England -10 76 £423 -23.18%
North West +27 71 £450 -37.93%
West Midlands -6 59 - - 4
Midlands -10 59 - - 6
Yorkshire -49 10 £231 -37.50%
South East - 2 £159 - 19
South West - 2 - -
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 15 (3.33%) Confluence
2 7 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.33%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.11%) Apache
5 4 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.67%) SAS
7 2 (0.44%) IIS
7 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.22%) CMS
8 1 (0.22%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
Applications
1 29 (6.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.78%) MS Visio
3 16 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.22%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 14 (3.11%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (2.89%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 13 (2.89%) Oracle Receivables
3 9 (2.00%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (1.33%) Summit
5 5 (1.11%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.89%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.67%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.44%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 2 (0.44%) Front Arena
8 2 (0.44%) Global One
8 2 (0.44%) Markit EDM
9 1 (0.22%) Actimize
9 1 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.22%) Bloomberg AIM
9 1 (0.22%) IntelliMatch
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.22%) Orchestrade
9 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.22%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 56 (12.44%) Azure
2 54 (12.00%) AWS
3 16 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (3.56%) Power Platform
4 14 (3.11%) GitHub
4 14 (3.11%) OCI
5 13 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (2.67%) GCP
7 10 (2.22%) Snowflake
8 7 (1.56%) Entra ID
8 7 (1.56%) Google Workspace
9 6 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (1.33%) Serverless
10 5 (1.11%) npm
10 5 (1.11%) Yarn
11 4 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (0.89%) ChatGPT
11 4 (0.89%) Power Automate
11 4 (0.89%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.67%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 44 (9.78%) DNS
2 26 (5.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 26 (5.78%) TCP/IP
3 25 (5.56%) DMZ
3 25 (5.56%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 24 (5.33%) HTTP
5 20 (4.44%) BIG-IP
5 20 (4.44%) SSL
5 20 (4.44%) VPN
5 20 (4.44%) Wireshark
6 19 (4.22%) FIX Connectivity
7 18 (4.00%) BGP
8 17 (3.78%) Multicast
9 7 (1.56%) Firewall
10 5 (1.11%) Network Security
11 4 (0.89%) Cisco ISE
11 4 (0.89%) Cisco Wireless
11 4 (0.89%) NX-OS
11 4 (0.89%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (3.33%) Relational Database
3 14 (3.11%) Power BI
4 13 (2.89%) Tableau
5 9 (2.00%) Metadata
6 6 (1.33%) Big Data
6 6 (1.33%) RDBMS
6 6 (1.33%) Redis
7 5 (1.11%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.11%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.89%) Apache Ignite
8 4 (0.89%) KDB
8 4 (0.89%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.89%) Pinecone
8 4 (0.89%) Weaviate
9 3 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.67%) Kdb+
9 3 (0.67%) Neo4j
9 3 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (6.67%) JIRA
2 20 (4.44%) Fiddler
3 9 (2.00%) Git
4 8 (1.78%) GitLab
4 8 (1.78%) TeamCity
5 7 (1.56%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (1.11%) Selenium
7 5 (1.11%) webpack
8 4 (0.89%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.89%) JUnit
8 4 (0.89%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.67%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.44%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.44%) Maven
10 2 (0.44%) Postman
10 2 (0.44%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.44%) Vite
General
1 450 (100.00%) Banking
2 250 (55.56%) Finance
3 120 (26.67%) Social Skills
4 117 (26.00%) Front Office
5 57 (12.67%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (6.89%) Retail Banking
7 29 (6.44%) Financial Institution
8 23 (5.11%) Corporate Banking
8 23 (5.11%) Retail
9 15 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (3.33%) Legal
10 13 (2.89%) Back Office
11 11 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.56%) French Language
12 7 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.67%) Marketing
14 3 (0.67%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.44%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 119 (26.44%) Developer
2 84 (18.67%) Analyst
3 63 (14.00%) Business Analyst
4 58 (12.89%) Java Developer
4 58 (12.89%) Senior
5 40 (8.89%) Network Engineer
6 38 (8.44%) Senior Developer
7 32 (7.11%) Architect
8 30 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
9 26 (5.78%) Banking Analyst
10 24 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
11 23 (5.11%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 23 (5.11%) Payments Architect
11 23 (5.11%) Payments Solutions Architect
12 21 (4.67%) C# Developer
13 20 (4.44%) Blue Coat Engineer
13 20 (4.44%) Data Engineer
13 20 (4.44%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
13 20 (4.44%) IP Network Engineer
13 20 (4.44%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (7.78%) .NET
2 32 (7.11%) React
3 30 (6.67%) Kafka
4 25 (5.56%) FIX Protocol
5 19 (4.22%) Middleware
6 15 (3.33%) Redux
7 14 (3.11%) CSS
7 14 (3.11%) HTML
8 13 (2.89%) XML
9 12 (2.67%) AngularJS
10 11 (2.44%) Spring
11 10 (2.22%) Pandas
12 8 (1.78%) HTML5
12 8 (1.78%) Node.js
13 7 (1.56%) NumPy
13 7 (1.56%) REST
14 6 (1.33%) JMS
14 6 (1.33%) LangChain
14 6 (1.33%) Reactive Extensions
14 6 (1.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 80 (17.78%) Derivative
2 61 (13.56%) Management Information System
3 47 (10.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 43 (9.56%) Equities
4 43 (9.56%) Fixed Income
5 29 (6.44%) Market Risk
6 24 (5.33%) Onboarding
7 22 (4.89%) Credit Risk
8 17 (3.78%) TWAP
8 17 (3.78%) VWAP
9 14 (3.11%) Cloud Native
9 14 (3.11%) Hedge funds
10 13 (2.89%) Data Structures
11 10 (2.22%) Algorithms
12 9 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (2.00%) Data Centre
13 8 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (1.56%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
15 6 (1.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.22%) Windows
2 24 (5.33%) Unix
3 23 (5.11%) Linux
4 8 (1.78%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.33%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.44%) AIX
7 1 (0.22%) Android
7 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (18.89%) Agile
2 66 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (11.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 46 (10.22%) Analytics
5 43 (9.56%) AI
5 43 (9.56%) DevOps
5 43 (9.56%) Electronic Trading
5 43 (9.56%) Project Management
6 42 (9.33%) CI/CD
7 41 (9.11%) Business Analysis
8 40 (8.89%) Asset Management
8 40 (8.89%) Low Latency
8 40 (8.89%) SDLC
8 40 (8.89%) User Acceptance Testing
9 39 (8.67%) Load Balancing
9 39 (8.67%) TDD
10 35 (7.78%) Multithreading
10 35 (7.78%) Risk Management
11 33 (7.33%) Design Patterns
12 32 (7.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 103 (22.89%) SQL
2 97 (21.56%) Java
3 76 (16.89%) Python
4 48 (10.67%) C#
5 31 (6.89%) JavaScript
5 31 (6.89%) TypeScript
6 16 (3.56%) PowerShell
7 13 (2.89%) C++
8 10 (2.22%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.33%) Scala
10 5 (1.11%) Perl
10 5 (1.11%) Rust
10 5 (1.11%) VBA
11 4 (0.89%) Bash
11 4 (0.89%) Lisp
11 4 (0.89%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.67%) Go
13 2 (0.44%) Korn
13 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 41 (9.11%) Degree
2 17 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (3.11%) Master's Degree
4 9 (2.00%) Azure Certification
5 8 (1.78%) PMP
6 7 (1.56%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.11%) CFA
7 5 (1.11%) PhD
8 4 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.89%) CCNP
8 4 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.67%) IIBA
9 3 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.67%) MCSA
9 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.44%) CISSP
10 2 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.44%) MBA
10 2 (0.44%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 2 (0.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.00%) QA
2 13 (2.89%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.67%) MiFID
4 11 (2.44%) PMO
5 10 (2.22%) SLA
6 5 (1.11%) EMIR
6 5 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.44%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.44%) GDPR
7 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.44%) NIST
7 2 (0.44%) SEPA
8 1 (0.22%) Basel III
8 1 (0.22%) COBIT
8 1 (0.22%) COSO
8 1 (0.22%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.22%) GRC
8 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 26 (5.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (4.44%) Firmware
3 18 (4.00%) Docker
4 7 (1.56%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.22%) GridGain
5 1 (0.22%) Varnish
5 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 18 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.78%) SCCM
3 6 (1.33%) WSUS
4 5 (1.11%) Terraform
5 4 (0.89%) Ansible
5 4 (0.89%) Control-M
5 4 (0.89%) FortiGate
5 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.67%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.44%) Puppet
7 2 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.22%) Grafana
8 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.22%) WMI
8 1 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 49 (10.89%) Microsoft
2 40 (8.89%) F5
3 37 (8.22%) Oracle
4 26 (5.78%) VMware
5 20 (4.44%) Blue Coat
5 20 (4.44%) McAfee
5 20 (4.44%) NetApp
6 18 (4.00%) Cisco
7 16 (3.56%) Bloomberg
8 15 (3.33%) Murex
9 13 (2.89%) ION Trading
10 9 (2.00%) Sybase
11 8 (1.78%) Citrix
11 8 (1.78%) Reuters
12 7 (1.56%) Remedy
12 7 (1.56%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.33%) Charles River
14 5 (1.11%) Adobe
15 4 (0.89%) IBM
15 4 (0.89%) SAP