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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 166 113
Rank change year-on-year -72 -53 +4
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 539 491 670
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.16% 1.76% 2.10%
As % of the General category 2.04% 2.75% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 318 499
10th Percentile £405 £450 £500
25th Percentile £513 £546 £610
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £668 £700 £750
Median % change year-on-year -4.64% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £793 £825 £850
90th Percentile £938 £885 £888
UK median daily rate £650 £683 £725
% change year-on-year -4.76% -5.86% +6.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - £25.09 -
25th Percentile - £34.41 £76.25
Median hourly rate - £55.37 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year - -28.56% +318.92%
75th Percentile - £74.69 £78.75
90th Percentile - £83.13 -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £55.37 £60.77
% change year-on-year +71.59% -8.89% +46.65%

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 26,383 17,845 18,857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.67% 63.93% 58.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,357 11,333 11,308
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,466 1,067 808
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.67 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.39 £17.39
Median hourly rate £29.00 £25.08 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.65% -28.36% +16.67%
75th Percentile £56.21 £45.38 £61.60
90th Percentile £78.73 £70.60 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £25.01 £32.14
% change year-on-year +9.98% -22.20% +11.79%

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 October 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 October 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 -44 474 £675 -3.57% 229
North of England -37 51 £464 -9.46% 3
North West -36 40 £489 +20.00% 1
Midlands -33 31 £688 +37.50% 6
West Midlands -38 31 £688 +37.50% 6
South West -28 8 £875 +360.53% 5
Yorkshire -39 7 £450 -14.29% 1
North East - 4 £875 - 1
South East -65 3 £525 -4.55% 8
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 17 (3.15%) Confluence
2 6 (1.11%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.93%) Apache
3 5 (0.93%) MTS
3 5 (0.93%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.37%) IIS
6 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 17 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.19%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.48%) Oracle EBS
1 8 (1.48%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (1.11%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.74%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (0.74%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 4 (0.74%) Oracle iProcurement
3 4 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.37%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.37%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.19%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.19%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.19%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 90 (16.70%) Azure
2 65 (12.06%) AWS
3 33 (6.12%) GCP
4 19 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (3.15%) Power Platform
6 16 (2.97%) Entra ID
7 14 (2.60%) SaaS
8 13 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (2.23%) GitHub
10 11 (2.04%) OCI
11 7 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.11%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.11%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.11%) PowerApps
12 6 (1.11%) Snowflake
13 5 (0.93%) Azure Databricks
13 5 (0.93%) Cloud Run
13 5 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (0.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 4 (0.74%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.27%) DNS
2 22 (4.08%) Multicast
3 17 (3.15%) VPN
4 15 (2.78%) BGP
4 15 (2.78%) HTTP
4 15 (2.78%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.60%) DMZ
6 13 (2.41%) BIG-IP
6 13 (2.41%) Wireshark
7 12 (2.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 12 (2.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 12 (2.23%) SSL
8 10 (1.86%) FIX Connectivity
9 9 (1.67%) Firewall
10 8 (1.48%) WAN
11 6 (1.11%) DWDM
11 6 (1.11%) MPLS
12 5 (0.93%) Network Security
12 5 (0.93%) SSH
12 5 (0.93%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.08%) SQL Server
2 20 (3.71%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (3.34%) Metadata
4 16 (2.97%) Relational Database
5 15 (2.78%) Power BI
6 11 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (1.86%) Data Vault
7 10 (1.86%) KDB
7 10 (1.86%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.67%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.48%) Chroma
9 8 (1.48%) Pinecone
9 8 (1.48%) Weaviate
10 7 (1.30%) Kdb+
10 7 (1.30%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
11 6 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.11%) Redis
12 5 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.93%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 55 (10.20%) JIRA
2 30 (5.57%) Git
3 12 (2.23%) ER Studio
4 11 (2.04%) Fiddler
5 10 (1.86%) ERwin
5 10 (1.86%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.48%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.11%) TeamCity
7 6 (1.11%) webpack
8 5 (0.93%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.93%) GitLab
8 5 (0.93%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.74%) Selenium
10 3 (0.56%) Maven
10 3 (0.56%) MSBuild
11 2 (0.37%) GCC
11 2 (0.37%) GDB
11 2 (0.37%) Gradle
11 2 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.37%) REST Assured
General
1 539 (100.00%) Banking
2 353 (65.49%) Finance
3 163 (30.24%) Front Office
4 127 (23.56%) Social Skills
5 74 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (7.05%) Corporate Banking
6 38 (7.05%) Financial Institution
7 37 (6.86%) Retail Banking
8 32 (5.94%) Retail
9 26 (4.82%) Back Office
10 16 (2.97%) Legal
11 14 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.86%) Spanish Language
13 7 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.93%) General Ledger
16 4 (0.74%) Games
16 4 (0.74%) Law
17 3 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 185 (34.32%) Developer
2 95 (17.63%) Senior
3 84 (15.58%) Analyst
4 72 (13.36%) Java Developer
5 62 (11.50%) Business Analyst
6 55 (10.20%) Senior Developer
7 33 (6.12%) Senior Java Developer
8 31 (5.75%) Network Engineer
8 31 (5.75%) Python Developer
8 31 (5.75%) React Developer
9 27 (5.01%) Lead
10 26 (4.82%) Senior React Developer
11 25 (4.64%) UI Developer
12 24 (4.45%) Senior UI Developer
13 22 (4.08%) C# Developer
13 22 (4.08%) Project Manager
14 20 (3.71%) Data Engineer
14 20 (3.71%) Support Engineer
15 17 (3.15%) Full-Stack Developer
16 16 (2.97%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (9.65%) React
2 38 (7.05%) .NET
3 31 (5.75%) REST
4 30 (5.57%) Redux
5 29 (5.38%) FIX Protocol
6 26 (4.82%) Kafka
7 25 (4.64%) AngularJS
8 22 (4.08%) Spring
9 17 (3.15%) RESTful
10 16 (2.97%) Terraform
11 15 (2.78%) Flask
11 15 (2.78%) PySpark
12 14 (2.60%) Pandas
12 14 (2.60%) Spring Boot
13 11 (2.04%) FastAPI
13 11 (2.04%) NumPy
13 11 (2.04%) WebSockets
14 10 (1.86%) Django
14 10 (1.86%) LangChain
14 10 (1.86%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 84 (15.58%) Derivative
2 79 (14.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 67 (12.43%) Fixed Income
4 57 (10.58%) Equities
5 43 (7.98%) Management Information System
6 35 (6.49%) Greenfield Project
7 34 (6.31%) Product Ownership
8 27 (5.01%) Onboarding
9 26 (4.82%) Market Risk
10 19 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
11 18 (3.34%) AI Agents
11 18 (3.34%) Data Structures
11 18 (3.34%) Reference Data
12 15 (2.78%) Hedge funds
13 13 (2.41%) Algorithms
14 12 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
15 11 (2.04%) Cloud Native
15 11 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
16 10 (1.86%) TWAP
16 10 (1.86%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 39 (7.24%) Linux
2 32 (5.94%) Windows
3 24 (4.45%) Unix
4 5 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.74%) Android
5 4 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.56%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.37%) AIX
7 2 (0.37%) macOS
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 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (24.49%) Agile
2 107 (19.85%) Stakeholder Management
3 90 (16.70%) Problem-Solving
4 76 (14.10%) CI/CD
5 71 (13.17%) Low Latency
6 66 (12.24%) Electronic Trading
7 65 (12.06%) AI
8 57 (10.58%) Software Engineering
9 55 (10.20%) Analytics
10 54 (10.02%) DevOps
11 53 (9.83%) Migration
12 52 (9.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 48 (8.91%) Business Analysis
14 45 (8.35%) Wealth Management
15 42 (7.79%) Data Modelling
15 42 (7.79%) Translating Business Requirements
16 39 (7.24%) Event-Driven
16 39 (7.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 39 (7.24%) User Stories
17 38 (7.05%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 128 (23.75%) SQL
2 121 (22.45%) Java
3 117 (21.71%) Python
4 82 (15.21%) C#
5 60 (11.13%) TypeScript
6 53 (9.83%) JavaScript
7 19 (3.53%) C++
8 17 (3.15%) PowerShell
9 16 (2.97%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.30%) Bash
10 7 (1.30%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.93%) Tcl
12 4 (0.74%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.74%) Rust
13 3 (0.56%) Bicep
13 3 (0.56%) C
13 3 (0.56%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.37%) Korn
14 2 (0.37%) VBA
15 1 (0.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (6.86%) Degree
2 11 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (1.86%) PMP
4 7 (1.30%) Azure Certification
4 7 (1.30%) PMI Certification
5 6 (1.11%) Security Cleared
6 4 (0.74%) ACCA
6 4 (0.74%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.74%) CBAP
6 4 (0.74%) CIMA
6 4 (0.74%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.74%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.56%) CISSP
8 2 (0.37%) CCNP
8 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.19%) MCSA
9 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.19%) PgMP
9 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.64%) Data Quality
2 15 (2.78%) MiFID
3 13 (2.41%) QA
4 10 (1.86%) EMIR
5 5 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.93%) PMO
6 4 (0.74%) IFRS
6 4 (0.74%) NIST
7 3 (0.56%) WCAG
8 2 (0.37%) GRC
9 1 (0.19%) COBIT
9 1 (0.19%) COREP
9 1 (0.19%) FINREP
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.19%) SEPA
9 1 (0.19%) TARGET2
System Software
1 23 (4.27%) Docker
2 20 (3.71%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.04%) Firmware
3 11 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (4.08%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.30%) Ansible
3 6 (1.11%) SCCM
4 4 (0.74%) Grafana
4 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.56%) WSUS
6 2 (0.37%) Kibana
6 2 (0.37%) logstash
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.37%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (7.98%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.49%) Oracle
3 24 (4.45%) F5
4 22 (4.08%) Cisco
5 17 (3.15%) Databricks
6 16 (2.97%) Bloomberg
7 14 (2.60%) OpenAI
8 13 (2.41%) Murex
9 12 (2.23%) Blue Coat
9 12 (2.23%) ION Trading
10 11 (2.04%) McAfee
10 11 (2.04%) NetApp
10 11 (2.04%) VMware
11 10 (1.86%) Citrix
11 10 (1.86%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.67%) Tradeweb
13 7 (1.30%) Arista
13 7 (1.30%) MarketAxess
14 6 (1.11%) Reuters
14 6 (1.11%) Sybase