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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 135 150
Rank change year-on-year -75 +15 -46
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 542 523 593
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.25% 2.09% 1.59%
As % of the General category 2.27% 3.25% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 340 475
10th Percentile £401 £410 £500
25th Percentile £500 £613 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £667 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -11.03% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £799 £841 £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 23,825 16,097 21,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.84% 64.27% 57.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,506 10,353 13,616
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 1,685 786 1,825
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.25 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.73 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.17 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year +15.39% -12.30% +14.41%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.76 £31.13
% change year-on-year +15.27% -10.81% +3.75%

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 24 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 24 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 -55 449 £651 -13.27% 100
North of England -15 79 £841 +64.05% 5
North West +15 72 £553 -23.72% 5
Midlands -2 55 £875 +59.09%
West Midlands -5 55 £875 +59.09%
South West -21 10 £875 +430.30% 2
North East - 4 £875 -
Yorkshire -55 3 £405 +5.19%
South East - 2 £159 - 25
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%) Payment Gateway
3 8 (1.48%) Aladdin
4 6 (1.11%) Summit
5 3 (0.55%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.55%) Orchestrade
5 3 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.37%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.37%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.37%) Front Arena
6 2 (0.37%) Global One
7 1 (0.18%) Actimize
7 1 (0.18%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.18%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.18%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.18%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 68 (12.55%) Azure
2 61 (11.25%) AWS
3 22 (4.06%) GCP
3 22 (4.06%) Power Platform
4 18 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (2.95%) OCI
6 13 (2.40%) GitHub
7 12 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (2.21%) Entra ID
8 9 (1.66%) Snowflake
9 8 (1.48%) Google Workspace
10 7 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (0.92%) Power Automate
11 5 (0.92%) PowerApps
12 4 (0.74%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (0.74%) npm
12 4 (0.74%) Yarn
13 3 (0.55%) Cloud Run
13 3 (0.55%) Figma
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%) SQL Server
2 21 (3.87%) Power BI
3 19 (3.51%) Relational Database
4 18 (3.32%) Metadata
5 10 (1.85%) Data Vault
5 10 (1.85%) Pinecone
5 10 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.85%) Tableau
5 10 (1.85%) Weaviate
6 9 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.48%) KDB
8 6 (1.11%) Big Data
8 6 (1.11%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.11%) Redis
9 5 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.92%) Kdb+
9 5 (0.92%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (0.74%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.74%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 37 (6.83%) JIRA
2 17 (3.14%) Fiddler
3 10 (1.85%) ER Studio
3 10 (1.85%) Git
3 10 (1.85%) TeamCity
4 9 (1.66%) ERwin
5 7 (1.29%) GitLab
5 7 (1.29%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (1.11%) webpack
7 5 (0.92%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.74%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.74%) Selenium
9 3 (0.55%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.37%) Maven
10 2 (0.37%) MSBuild
10 2 (0.37%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.37%) Vite
11 1 (0.18%) Postman
General
1 542 (100.00%) Banking
2 324 (59.78%) Finance
3 163 (30.07%) Front Office
4 115 (21.22%) Social Skills
5 58 (10.70%) 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%) Advertising
15 3 (0.55%) Aviation
15 3 (0.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 173 (31.92%) Developer
2 93 (17.16%) Analyst
3 88 (16.24%) Java Developer
4 82 (15.13%) Senior
5 70 (12.92%) Business Analyst
6 61 (11.25%) Senior Developer
7 49 (9.04%) Senior Java Developer
8 38 (7.01%) Network Engineer
9 34 (6.27%) Architect
9 34 (6.27%) React Developer
10 31 (5.72%) UI Developer
11 30 (5.54%) Senior React Developer
12 29 (5.35%) Senior UI Developer
13 27 (4.98%) Banking Analyst
13 27 (4.98%) Solutions Architect
14 25 (4.61%) Payments Architect
14 25 (4.61%) Payments Solutions Architect
15 24 (4.43%) C# Developer
16 23 (4.24%) Electronic Trading Developer
16 23 (4.24%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (11.25%) React
2 44 (8.12%) .NET
3 36 (6.64%) Redux
4 35 (6.46%) FIX Protocol
5 28 (5.17%) Kafka
6 21 (3.87%) Middleware
7 16 (2.95%) Spring
8 15 (2.77%) AngularJS
9 14 (2.58%) REST
10 13 (2.40%) CSS
11 12 (2.21%) HTML
12 11 (2.03%) OAuth
12 11 (2.03%) OAuth2
12 11 (2.03%) RESTful
12 11 (2.03%) XML
13 10 (1.85%) LangChain
13 10 (1.85%) LlamaIndex
14 7 (1.29%) Node.js
14 7 (1.29%) Pandas
14 7 (1.29%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 103 (19.00%) Derivative
2 84 (15.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 69 (12.73%) Equities
4 62 (11.44%) Fixed Income
5 52 (9.59%) Management Information System
6 34 (6.27%) Greenfield Project
7 24 (4.43%) Market Risk
7 24 (4.43%) Onboarding
8 21 (3.87%) Credit Risk
8 21 (3.87%) Product Ownership
9 19 (3.51%) TWAP
9 19 (3.51%) VWAP
10 18 (3.32%) Algorithms
10 18 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (2.95%) Data Structures
12 13 (2.40%) Cloud Native
13 12 (2.21%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.48%) Hedge funds
15 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
1 112 (20.66%) Agile
2 80 (14.76%) Low Latency
3 74 (13.65%) Electronic Trading
4 71 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (10.70%) CI/CD
6 55 (10.15%) Analytics
7 51 (9.41%) Stakeholder Management
8 47 (8.67%) AI
9 46 (8.49%) User Acceptance Testing
10 45 (8.30%) Asset Management
11 41 (7.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (7.56%) Software Engineering
11 41 (7.56%) TDD
12 40 (7.38%) DevOps
12 40 (7.38%) Multithreading
12 40 (7.38%) SDLC
13 38 (7.01%) Business Analysis
13 38 (7.01%) Wealth Management
14 35 (6.46%) Load Balancing
15 33 (6.09%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 129 (23.80%) Java
2 104 (19.19%) SQL
3 102 (18.82%) Python
4 85 (15.68%) C#
5 69 (12.73%) TypeScript
6 57 (10.52%) JavaScript
7 24 (4.43%) PowerShell
8 17 (3.14%) C++
9 10 (1.85%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.29%) Rust
11 6 (1.11%) VBA
12 5 (0.92%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.92%) Scala
13 3 (0.55%) Bash
13 3 (0.55%) Bicep
13 3 (0.55%) Perl
14 2 (0.37%) C
14 2 (0.37%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.37%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.18%) F#
Qualifications
1 32 (5.90%) Degree
2 13 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (2.21%) 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%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.40%) Data Quality
1 13 (2.40%) MiFID
1 13 (2.40%) QA
2 10 (1.85%) PMO
3 7 (1.29%) SLA
4 5 (0.92%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.92%) EMIR
5 2 (0.37%) WCAG
6 1 (0.18%) COREP
6 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.18%) FINREP
6 1 (0.18%) GDPR
6 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.18%) ITGC
6 1 (0.18%) NIST
6 1 (0.18%) PSD2
6 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 19 (3.51%) 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 54 (9.96%) 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%) Sybase
13 6 (1.11%) Charles River
13 6 (1.11%) ServiceNow
14 5 (0.92%) Databricks
14 5 (0.92%) Remedy
14 5 (0.92%) Solace