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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 133 154
Rank change year-on-year -75 +21 -50
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 542 528 598
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.25% 2.10% 1.60%
As % of the General category 2.27% 3.27% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 342 480
10th Percentile £401 £411 £500
25th Percentile £500 £613 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £667 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -11.07% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £794 £838 £875
90th Percentile £938 £881 £888
UK median daily rate £650 £750 £750
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +7.14%
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% -72.14%
75th Percentile - £94.38 £20.75
90th Percentile - £97.75 -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £87.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +8.57% +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 23,836 16,141 21,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.89% 64.30% 57.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,503 10,399 13,692
10th Percentile £313 £281 £288
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,694 774 1,825
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.25 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.58 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.97 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year +16.20% -13.38% +15.03%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.89 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year +16.36% -12.70% +5.00%

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 25 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 25 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 -57 451 £650 -13.33% 88
North of England -12 78 £841 +64.05% 4
North West +22 71 £553 -23.72% 4
West Midlands -7 54 £875 +59.09%
Midlands -9 54 £875 +59.09%
South West -35 10 £875 +430.30% 2
North East - 4 £875 -
Yorkshire -57 3 £405 +5.19%
South East - 1 - - 24
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 13 (2.40%) Confluence
2 5 (0.92%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.74%) IIS
4 3 (0.55%) Apache
4 3 (0.55%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.55%) SAS
5 2 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.37%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.18%) CICS
Applications
1 26 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.48%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.37%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 13 (2.40%) Oracle Payables
1 13 (2.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 13 (2.40%) Oracle Receivables
2 9 (1.66%) Aladdin
2 9 (1.66%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (1.11%) Summit
4 3 (0.55%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.55%) Loan IQ
4 3 (0.55%) Orchestrade
4 3 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.37%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 2 (0.37%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.37%) Global One
6 1 (0.18%) Actimize
6 1 (0.18%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.18%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.18%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.18%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 67 (12.36%) Azure
2 60 (11.07%) AWS
3 23 (4.24%) Power Platform
4 22 (4.06%) GCP
5 19 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (2.95%) OCI
7 14 (2.58%) GitHub
8 12 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (2.21%) Entra ID
9 9 (1.66%) Snowflake
10 8 (1.48%) Google Workspace
11 7 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.11%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.11%) PowerApps
13 5 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (0.74%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (0.74%) npm
14 4 (0.74%) Yarn
15 3 (0.55%) Figma
15 3 (0.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (6.64%) DNS
2 25 (4.61%) TCP/IP
2 25 (4.61%) VPN
3 24 (4.43%) DMZ
4 23 (4.24%) HTTP
4 23 (4.24%) Multicast
5 20 (3.69%) BGP
5 20 (3.69%) FIX Connectivity
6 19 (3.51%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 19 (3.51%) Wireshark
7 18 (3.32%) BIG-IP
7 18 (3.32%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 18 (3.32%) SSL
8 11 (2.03%) Firewall
9 3 (0.55%) SAN
9 3 (0.55%) Wireless
10 2 (0.37%) DWDM
10 2 (0.37%) MPLS
10 2 (0.37%) OSPF
10 2 (0.37%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.06%) Power BI
1 22 (4.06%) SQL Server
2 19 (3.51%) Relational Database
3 18 (3.32%) Metadata
4 10 (1.85%) Data Vault
4 10 (1.85%) Pinecone
4 10 (1.85%) Tableau
4 10 (1.85%) Weaviate
5 9 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.48%) KDB
7 6 (1.11%) Big Data
7 6 (1.11%) RDBMS
7 6 (1.11%) Redis
8 5 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.92%) Kdb+
8 5 (0.92%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (0.74%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.74%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 38 (7.01%) JIRA
2 17 (3.14%) Fiddler
3 11 (2.03%) Git
4 10 (1.85%) ER Studio
4 10 (1.85%) TeamCity
5 9 (1.66%) ERwin
6 7 (1.29%) GitLab
6 7 (1.29%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (1.11%) webpack
8 5 (0.92%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.92%) Selenium
9 4 (0.74%) PowerDesigner
10 3 (0.55%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.37%) Maven
11 2 (0.37%) MSBuild
11 2 (0.37%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.37%) Vite
12 1 (0.18%) XCUITest
General
1 542 (100.00%) Banking
2 322 (59.41%) Finance
3 163 (30.07%) Front Office
4 116 (21.40%) Social Skills
5 59 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (9.23%) Retail Banking
7 40 (7.38%) Corporate Banking
8 39 (7.20%) Retail
9 35 (6.46%) Financial Institution
10 20 (3.69%) Legal
11 12 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.66%) Back Office
13 9 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.66%) Spanish Language
14 6 (1.11%) French Language
14 6 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.55%) Aviation
15 3 (0.55%) Games
15 3 (0.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 173 (31.92%) Developer
2 92 (16.97%) Analyst
3 88 (16.24%) Java Developer
4 81 (14.94%) Senior
5 71 (13.10%) Business Analyst
6 60 (11.07%) Senior Developer
7 48 (8.86%) Senior Java Developer
8 38 (7.01%) Network Engineer
9 34 (6.27%) React Developer
10 33 (6.09%) Architect
11 31 (5.72%) UI Developer
12 30 (5.54%) Senior React Developer
13 29 (5.35%) Senior UI Developer
14 27 (4.98%) Banking Analyst
15 26 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
16 24 (4.43%) Payments Architect
16 24 (4.43%) Payments Solutions Architect
17 23 (4.24%) C# Developer
17 23 (4.24%) Electronic Trading Developer
17 23 (4.24%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (11.25%) React
2 43 (7.93%) .NET
3 36 (6.64%) FIX Protocol
3 36 (6.64%) Redux
4 27 (4.98%) Kafka
5 20 (3.69%) Middleware
6 17 (3.14%) Spring
7 15 (2.77%) AngularJS
8 14 (2.58%) REST
9 13 (2.40%) CSS
10 12 (2.21%) HTML
11 11 (2.03%) OAuth
11 11 (2.03%) OAuth2
11 11 (2.03%) RESTful
11 11 (2.03%) XML
12 10 (1.85%) LangChain
12 10 (1.85%) LlamaIndex
13 8 (1.48%) RxJava
14 7 (1.29%) Pandas
14 7 (1.29%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 102 (18.82%) Derivative
2 84 (15.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 69 (12.73%) Equities
4 63 (11.62%) Fixed Income
5 50 (9.23%) Management Information System
6 34 (6.27%) Greenfield Project
7 24 (4.43%) Onboarding
8 22 (4.06%) Market Risk
9 21 (3.87%) Product Ownership
10 20 (3.69%) Credit Risk
11 19 (3.51%) TWAP
11 19 (3.51%) VWAP
12 18 (3.32%) Algorithms
12 18 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
13 16 (2.95%) Data Structures
14 13 (2.40%) Cloud Native
15 12 (2.21%) AI Agents
16 8 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
16 8 (1.48%) Hedge funds
17 7 (1.29%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.64%) Windows
2 26 (4.80%) Unix
3 23 (4.24%) Linux
4 8 (1.48%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.92%) Windows 7
6 4 (0.74%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.37%) Android
7 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.18%) AIX
8 1 (0.18%) Solaris
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (20.85%) Agile
2 80 (14.76%) Low Latency
3 75 (13.84%) Electronic Trading
4 73 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (10.89%) CI/CD
6 54 (9.96%) Analytics
7 51 (9.41%) Stakeholder Management
8 49 (9.04%) AI
9 46 (8.49%) User Acceptance Testing
10 45 (8.30%) Asset Management
11 41 (7.56%) DevOps
11 41 (7.56%) Software Engineering
12 40 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (7.38%) Multithreading
12 40 (7.38%) TDD
13 39 (7.20%) SDLC
14 38 (7.01%) Business Analysis
14 38 (7.01%) Wealth Management
15 35 (6.46%) Load Balancing
16 34 (6.27%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 129 (23.80%) Java
2 103 (19.00%) Python
2 103 (19.00%) SQL
3 85 (15.68%) C#
4 69 (12.73%) TypeScript
5 58 (10.70%) JavaScript
6 24 (4.43%) PowerShell
7 17 (3.14%) C++
8 10 (1.85%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.29%) Rust
10 6 (1.11%) VBA
11 5 (0.92%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.92%) Scala
12 3 (0.55%) Bash
12 3 (0.55%) Bicep
12 3 (0.55%) Perl
13 2 (0.37%) C
13 2 (0.37%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.37%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 32 (5.90%) Degree
2 13 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.03%) Azure Certification
4 6 (1.11%) PMP
5 5 (0.92%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.74%) CISSP
6 4 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (0.74%) MCSA
6 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.74%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.55%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.37%) CCNP
8 2 (0.37%) CFA
8 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.37%) MBA
8 2 (0.37%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 2 (0.37%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.18%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.58%) QA
2 13 (2.40%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.40%) MiFID
3 10 (1.85%) PMO
4 7 (1.29%) SLA
5 5 (0.92%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.92%) EMIR
6 2 (0.37%) WCAG
7 1 (0.18%) COREP
7 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.18%) FINREP
7 1 (0.18%) GDPR
7 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.18%) ITGC
7 1 (0.18%) NIST
7 1 (0.18%) PSD2
7 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 20 (3.69%) Docker
2 18 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (3.14%) Firmware
4 14 (2.58%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.18%) GridGain
5 1 (0.18%) Varnish
5 1 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 18 (3.32%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.66%) SCCM
2 9 (1.66%) Terraform
3 7 (1.29%) WSUS
4 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.74%) Ansible
5 4 (0.74%) Control-M
6 2 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.18%) Puppet
7 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.18%) WMI
Vendors
1 55 (10.15%) Microsoft
2 39 (7.20%) Oracle
3 36 (6.64%) F5
4 20 (3.69%) Cisco
5 18 (3.32%) Blue Coat
5 18 (3.32%) VMware
6 17 (3.14%) McAfee
6 17 (3.14%) NetApp
7 16 (2.95%) Murex
8 14 (2.58%) OpenAI
9 13 (2.40%) Bloomberg
10 10 (1.85%) Citrix
10 10 (1.85%) ION Trading
11 9 (1.66%) Reuters
12 7 (1.29%) Charles River
12 7 (1.29%) Sybase
13 6 (1.11%) ServiceNow
14 5 (0.92%) Databricks
14 5 (0.92%) Remedy
14 5 (0.92%) Solace