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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 149 117
Rank change year-on-year -85 -32 -2
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 523 510 667
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.13% 1.86% 2.05%
As % of the General category 2.02% 2.90% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 337 514
10th Percentile £409 £446 £500
25th Percentile £518 £563 £611
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £686 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year -5.34% -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £825 £825 £875
90th Percentile £938 £904 £888
UK median daily rate £650 £700 £750
% change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £78.75 -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £78.75 £44.04
% change year-on-year +20.63% +78.81% -31.59%

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 25,874 17,612 18,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.90% 64.23% 58.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,203 11,142 11,529
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
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 2,256 1,011 945
10th Percentile £13.63 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.17 £17.50
Median hourly rate £31.16 £25.15 £38.85
Median % change year-on-year +23.88% -35.26% +33.97%
75th Percentile £57.00 £46.47 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £72.10
UK median hourly rate £29.78 £25.15 £35.36
% change year-on-year +18.41% -28.87% +28.58%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -53 457 £686 -8.50% 498
North of England -41 53 £553 +38.25% 5
North West -29 45 £489 +20.00% 4
West Midlands -29 33 £875 +75.00% 15
Midlands -32 33 £875 +75.00% 16
South West -32 8 £875 +360.53% 13
Yorkshire -49 4 £450 +12.50% 1
North East - 4 £875 -
South East -62 3 £525 -4.55% 30
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 12 (2.29%) Confluence
2 5 (0.96%) MTS
2 5 (0.96%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.76%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.57%) IIS
5 2 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.19%) Apache
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.19%) CICS
6 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (3.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.19%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.53%) Aladdin
2 7 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (1.34%) Oracle General Ledger
3 4 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (0.57%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 3 (0.57%) Oracle iProcurement
4 3 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.57%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.38%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.19%) Front Arena
6 1 (0.19%) Global One
6 1 (0.19%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.19%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.19%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 76 (14.53%) Azure
2 52 (9.94%) AWS
3 27 (5.16%) GCP
4 19 (3.63%) Power Platform
5 15 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (2.87%) Entra ID
6 14 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (2.29%) SaaS
8 10 (1.91%) GitHub
8 10 (1.91%) OCI
9 7 (1.34%) Snowflake
10 6 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (1.15%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.15%) PowerApps
11 5 (0.96%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (0.96%) Azure Databricks
11 5 (0.96%) Cloud Run
11 5 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (0.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (0.76%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.78%) DNS
2 23 (4.40%) Multicast
3 18 (3.44%) VPN
4 17 (3.25%) HTTP
5 16 (3.06%) BGP
5 16 (3.06%) TCP/IP
6 15 (2.87%) DMZ
7 14 (2.68%) BIG-IP
7 14 (2.68%) Wireshark
8 13 (2.49%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 13 (2.49%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 13 (2.49%) SSL
9 12 (2.29%) FIX Connectivity
10 9 (1.72%) Firewall
11 6 (1.15%) WAN
12 5 (0.96%) Wireless
13 4 (0.76%) DWDM
13 4 (0.76%) MPLS
13 4 (0.76%) Network Security
13 4 (0.76%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.40%) SQL Server
2 18 (3.44%) Metadata
3 17 (3.25%) Power BI
4 15 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.29%) Relational Database
6 11 (2.10%) KDB
7 10 (1.91%) Chroma
7 10 (1.91%) Pinecone
7 10 (1.91%) Weaviate
8 9 (1.72%) Data Vault
9 7 (1.34%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.34%) Kdb+
9 7 (1.34%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.96%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.96%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (0.76%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 49 (9.37%) JIRA
2 25 (4.78%) Git
3 12 (2.29%) ER Studio
3 12 (2.29%) Fiddler
4 10 (1.91%) ERwin
5 7 (1.34%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.15%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.96%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.96%) GitLab
7 5 (0.96%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.76%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.76%) Selenium
8 4 (0.76%) webpack
9 3 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.38%) MSBuild
10 2 (0.38%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.19%) CMake
11 1 (0.19%) Maven
11 1 (0.19%) MSI
General
1 523 (100.00%) Banking
2 332 (63.48%) Finance
3 165 (31.55%) Front Office
4 115 (21.99%) Social Skills
5 63 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (8.41%) Corporate Banking
7 41 (7.84%) Retail Banking
8 37 (7.07%) Retail
9 35 (6.69%) Financial Institution
10 20 (3.82%) Back Office
11 17 (3.25%) Legal
12 12 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.91%) Spanish Language
14 8 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (1.15%) General Ledger
17 4 (0.76%) Games
18 3 (0.57%) Law
18 3 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 172 (32.89%) Developer
2 86 (16.44%) Senior
3 81 (15.49%) Analyst
4 72 (13.77%) Java Developer
5 65 (12.43%) Business Analyst
6 54 (10.33%) Senior Developer
7 35 (6.69%) Senior Java Developer
8 33 (6.31%) React Developer
9 31 (5.93%) Network Engineer
10 29 (5.54%) Senior React Developer
11 28 (5.35%) Lead
11 28 (5.35%) UI Developer
12 27 (5.16%) Senior UI Developer
13 25 (4.78%) Python Developer
14 22 (4.21%) C# Developer
15 21 (4.02%) Project Manager
15 21 (4.02%) Support Engineer
16 17 (3.25%) Data Engineer
16 17 (3.25%) Security Engineer
17 15 (2.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (10.33%) React
2 40 (7.65%) .NET
3 35 (6.69%) FIX Protocol
4 34 (6.50%) Redux
5 20 (3.82%) AngularJS
5 20 (3.82%) REST
6 17 (3.25%) Kafka
7 13 (2.49%) Spring
7 13 (2.49%) Terraform
8 12 (2.29%) WebSockets
9 11 (2.10%) LangChain
9 11 (2.10%) Pandas
9 11 (2.10%) RESTful
10 10 (1.91%) Flask
10 10 (1.91%) LlamaIndex
10 10 (1.91%) Middleware
10 10 (1.91%) PySpark
11 9 (1.72%) Node.js
11 9 (1.72%) OAuth
11 9 (1.72%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 89 (17.02%) Derivative
2 84 (16.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 66 (12.62%) Fixed Income
4 62 (11.85%) Equities
5 39 (7.46%) Management Information System
6 36 (6.88%) Greenfield Project
7 32 (6.12%) Product Ownership
8 26 (4.97%) Onboarding
9 21 (4.02%) Market Risk
10 19 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
11 17 (3.25%) AI Agents
11 17 (3.25%) Data Structures
12 15 (2.87%) Algorithms
12 15 (2.87%) Hedge funds
13 12 (2.29%) Credit Risk
13 12 (2.29%) TWAP
13 12 (2.29%) VWAP
14 10 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (1.91%) Reference Data
15 9 (1.72%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.50%) Windows
2 31 (5.93%) Linux
3 20 (3.82%) Unix
4 5 (0.96%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.96%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.76%) Android
6 3 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.57%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.38%) AIX
7 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.38%) Solaris
7 2 (0.38%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.19%) HPUX
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.19%) SUSE
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (23.14%) Agile
2 81 (15.49%) Stakeholder Management
3 78 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
4 77 (14.72%) Low Latency
5 71 (13.58%) Electronic Trading
6 65 (12.43%) CI/CD
7 62 (11.85%) AI
8 55 (10.52%) Analytics
9 51 (9.75%) Software Engineering
10 45 (8.60%) Wealth Management
11 43 (8.22%) DevOps
12 41 (7.84%) Business Analysis
12 41 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 39 (7.46%) Data Modelling
14 38 (7.27%) Migration
15 36 (6.88%) Translating Business Requirements
16 35 (6.69%) Event-Driven
16 35 (6.69%) Full-Stack Development
17 34 (6.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 33 (6.31%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 119 (22.75%) Java
2 116 (22.18%) SQL
3 109 (20.84%) Python
4 88 (16.83%) C#
5 64 (12.24%) TypeScript
6 52 (9.94%) JavaScript
7 20 (3.82%) PowerShell
8 19 (3.63%) C++
9 11 (2.10%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.34%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.15%) Rust
12 5 (0.96%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.96%) Tcl
13 4 (0.76%) Bash
13 4 (0.76%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.76%) VBA
14 3 (0.57%) Bicep
14 3 (0.57%) C
15 2 (0.38%) Korn
15 2 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (6.31%) Degree
2 9 (1.72%) Azure Certification
3 8 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (1.34%) PMP
5 5 (0.96%) Security Cleared
6 4 (0.76%) ACCA
6 4 (0.76%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.76%) CIMA
6 4 (0.76%) PMI Certification
6 4 (0.76%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.57%) CISSP
7 3 (0.57%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.38%) CCNP
8 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.19%) CBAP
9 1 (0.19%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.19%) IIBA
9 1 (0.19%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.63%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.25%) MiFID
3 13 (2.49%) QA
4 10 (1.91%) EMIR
5 6 (1.15%) PMO
6 4 (0.76%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.76%) IFRS
7 3 (0.57%) NIST
8 2 (0.38%) GRC
8 2 (0.38%) WCAG
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%) PSD2
9 1 (0.19%) SEPA
9 1 (0.19%) TARGET2
System Software
1 21 (4.02%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.87%) Docker
3 12 (2.29%) Firmware
3 12 (2.29%) 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 16 (3.06%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.34%) Ansible
3 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.15%) SCCM
4 3 (0.57%) WSUS
5 2 (0.38%) Control-M
5 2 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (0.38%) Kibana
5 2 (0.38%) logstash
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.19%) Grafana
6 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (8.99%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.93%) Oracle
3 26 (4.97%) F5
4 21 (4.02%) Cisco
5 15 (2.87%) Bloomberg
5 15 (2.87%) Databricks
5 15 (2.87%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.49%) Blue Coat
7 12 (2.29%) McAfee
7 12 (2.29%) NetApp
7 12 (2.29%) VMware
8 10 (1.91%) Murex
9 9 (1.72%) Citrix
9 9 (1.72%) ION Trading
9 9 (1.72%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.72%) Tradeweb
10 7 (1.34%) MarketAxess
11 6 (1.15%) Reuters
11 6 (1.15%) Sybase
12 5 (0.96%) SAP