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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 141 156
Rank change year-on-year -58 +15 -56
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 433 483 607
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.32% 1.82% 1.59%
As % of the General category 2.20% 2.92% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 294 447
10th Percentile £413 £463 £463
25th Percentile £500 £586 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £800 £825 £824
90th Percentile £988 £881 £950
UK median daily rate £645 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -4.44% -3.57% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £20.33 - -
25th Percentile £22.53 £76.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £32.87 £77.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -57.59% +318.92% -32.68%
75th Percentile £45.64 £78.75 £19.25
90th Percentile £52.43 - -
UK median hourly rate £32.87 £77.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year -57.59% +318.92% -32.68%

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 19,653 16,563 22,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 59.75% 62.52% 58.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,508 9,974 14,915
10th Percentile £289 £297 £265
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,212 534 1,442
10th Percentile £14.03 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £19.43 £15.12
Median hourly rate £22.54 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.88% +15.38% -
75th Percentile £47.13 £57.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.96 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £28.60 £26.00
% change year-on-year -21.33% +10.00% +4.00%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 1 February 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 -32 369 £650 -5.45% 67
North of England -20 56 £423 -29.58% 3
North West +10 51 £408 -29.13% 2
West Midlands -14 47 £500 -20.00% 2
Midlands -27 47 £500 -20.00% 2
Yorkshire -39 16 £423 -32.40% 1
South West - 4 £190 - 1
South East -19 2 £159 - 18
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 21 (4.85%) Confluence
2 10 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.08%) Apache
3 9 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.39%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.69%) CMS
6 2 (0.46%) SAS
7 1 (0.23%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 23 (5.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (4.39%) MS Visio
3 13 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.69%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.23%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 7 (1.62%) Oracle Payables
2 6 (1.39%) Fidessa
2 6 (1.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (1.39%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.69%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.46%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 2 (0.46%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.46%) Summit
5 2 (0.46%) thinkFolio
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.23%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.23%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.23%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 67 (15.47%) Azure
2 59 (13.63%) AWS
3 19 (4.39%) Power Platform
4 17 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (3.70%) Snowflake
6 15 (3.46%) GitHub
7 13 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (2.54%) GCP
9 9 (2.08%) dbt
10 8 (1.85%) Serverless
11 7 (1.62%) OCI
12 6 (1.39%) ChatGPT
12 6 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.15%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.15%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (0.92%) Azure AI
14 4 (0.92%) Google Workspace
14 4 (0.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 41 (9.47%) DNS
2 28 (6.47%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 28 (6.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 25 (5.77%) DMZ
4 22 (5.08%) TCP/IP
5 19 (4.39%) HTTP
6 17 (3.93%) BIG-IP
6 17 (3.93%) SSL
6 17 (3.93%) Wireshark
7 13 (3.00%) Network Security
8 12 (2.77%) BGP
9 10 (2.31%) FIX Connectivity
9 10 (2.31%) VPN
10 9 (2.08%) Multicast
11 8 (1.85%) DHCP
12 7 (1.62%) Cisco ISE
12 7 (1.62%) Cisco Wireless
12 7 (1.62%) NX-OS
12 7 (1.62%) VXLAN
12 7 (1.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.08%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (3.93%) Power BI
4 16 (3.70%) Relational Database
5 13 (3.00%) MongoDB
5 13 (3.00%) Tableau
6 9 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (2.08%) Apache Arrow
6 9 (2.08%) Apache Iceberg
6 9 (2.08%) Apache Ignite
6 9 (2.08%) Data Lake
6 9 (2.08%) Dremio
6 9 (2.08%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.85%) DB2
8 7 (1.62%) KDB
9 6 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.15%) Metadata
10 5 (1.15%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.15%) Redis
11 4 (0.92%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 34 (7.85%) JIRA
2 18 (4.16%) Git
3 17 (3.93%) Fiddler
4 12 (2.77%) JUnit
5 8 (1.85%) GitLab
6 7 (1.62%) Maven
7 6 (1.39%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.39%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (1.39%) Selenium
8 5 (1.15%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.92%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.92%) Postman
9 4 (0.92%) REST Assured
9 4 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.92%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.92%) webpack
10 3 (0.69%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.69%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.46%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 433 (100.00%) Banking
2 237 (54.73%) Finance
3 130 (30.02%) Social Skills
4 100 (23.09%) Front Office
5 62 (14.32%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (5.54%) Retail Banking
7 20 (4.62%) Corporate Banking
8 19 (4.39%) Financial Institution
9 17 (3.93%) Retail
10 15 (3.46%) Back Office
11 11 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.85%) Legal
12 8 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.39%) French Language
14 5 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.46%) Marketing
16 2 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
17 1 (0.23%) General Ledger
17 1 (0.23%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 131 (30.25%) Developer
2 75 (17.32%) Analyst
3 67 (15.47%) Senior
4 57 (13.16%) Java Developer
5 55 (12.70%) Business Analyst
6 38 (8.78%) Senior Developer
7 32 (7.39%) Senior Java Developer
8 30 (6.93%) Network Engineer
9 26 (6.00%) AWS Developer
10 23 (5.31%) Banking Analyst
11 21 (4.85%) C# Developer
11 21 (4.85%) Project Manager
12 20 (4.62%) Kafka Developer
13 18 (4.16%) Lead
14 17 (3.93%) Analytics Developer
14 17 (3.93%) PostgreSQL Developer
15 16 (3.70%) Data Engineer
15 16 (3.70%) Python Engineer
15 16 (3.70%) Support Engineer
16 15 (3.46%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (9.24%) Kafka
2 35 (8.08%) .NET
3 30 (6.93%) React
4 25 (5.77%) Pandas
5 20 (4.62%) AngularJS
5 20 (4.62%) NumPy
6 18 (4.16%) SciPy
7 16 (3.70%) FIX Protocol
8 15 (3.46%) Spring
9 13 (3.00%) HTML
9 13 (3.00%) JMS
10 12 (2.77%) XML
11 11 (2.54%) FastAPI
12 10 (2.31%) CSS
12 10 (2.31%) Flask
12 10 (2.31%) Middleware
12 10 (2.31%) REST
13 9 (2.08%) gRPC
13 9 (2.08%) Protocol Buffers
13 9 (2.08%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 81 (18.71%) Derivative
2 59 (13.63%) Management Information System
3 49 (11.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 43 (9.93%) Equities
5 40 (9.24%) Fixed Income
6 32 (7.39%) Hedge funds
7 29 (6.70%) Market Risk
8 26 (6.00%) Onboarding
9 18 (4.16%) Credit Risk
10 14 (3.23%) Data Structures
11 12 (2.77%) Cloud Native
12 11 (2.54%) Product Ownership
13 9 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (2.08%) Pricing Data
13 9 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.85%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.85%) TWAP
14 8 (1.85%) VWAP
15 7 (1.62%) Algorithms
15 7 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 34 (7.85%) Linux
2 18 (4.16%) Windows
3 15 (3.46%) Unix
4 7 (1.62%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.15%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.46%) AIX
7 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (21.48%) Agile
2 76 (17.55%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (11.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 44 (10.16%) CI/CD
4 44 (10.16%) DevOps
5 43 (9.93%) Analytics
6 42 (9.70%) Project Management
6 42 (9.70%) Risk Management
7 41 (9.47%) Software Engineering
8 37 (8.55%) AI
8 37 (8.55%) Business Analysis
9 36 (8.31%) SDLC
9 36 (8.31%) User Acceptance Testing
10 33 (7.62%) Load Balancing
10 33 (7.62%) TDD
11 32 (7.39%) Asset Management
12 30 (6.93%) Multithreading
13 29 (6.70%) Data Analysis
13 29 (6.70%) Design Patterns
14 26 (6.00%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 114 (26.33%) SQL
2 104 (24.02%) Java
3 102 (23.56%) Python
4 59 (13.63%) C#
5 31 (7.16%) JavaScript
6 27 (6.24%) TypeScript
7 22 (5.08%) C++
8 16 (3.70%) PowerShell
9 14 (3.23%) Shell Script
10 9 (2.08%) Rust
11 7 (1.62%) Lisp
12 5 (1.15%) Scala
12 5 (1.15%) VB.NET
12 5 (1.15%) VBA
13 4 (0.92%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.69%) Bash
14 3 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.69%) Go
14 3 (0.69%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.46%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 44 (10.16%) Degree
2 15 (3.46%) Master's Degree
3 14 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (2.08%) PMP
5 8 (1.85%) Azure Certification
5 8 (1.85%) PMI Certification
6 7 (1.62%) CCNP
6 7 (1.62%) CFA
6 7 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.39%) PhD
8 3 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.46%) CISSP
9 2 (0.46%) IIBA
9 2 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.46%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.23%) ISSAP
10 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.08%) QA
2 12 (2.77%) MiFID
3 11 (2.54%) PMO
4 10 (2.31%) EMIR
5 9 (2.08%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.62%) SLA
7 6 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.69%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.69%) GDPR
8 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.46%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.46%) GRC
9 2 (0.46%) NIST
9 2 (0.46%) SEPA
9 2 (0.46%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.23%) FINRA
10 1 (0.23%) IFRS
10 1 (0.23%) P3O
10 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (5.54%) Docker
1 24 (5.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (3.23%) Firmware
3 5 (1.15%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.23%) GridGain
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (5.54%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.85%) Ansible
3 7 (1.62%) FortiGate
4 6 (1.39%) SCCM
4 6 (1.39%) Terraform
5 3 (0.69%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 3 (0.69%) WSUS
6 2 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.46%) Puppet
7 1 (0.23%) Control-M
7 1 (0.23%) Grafana
7 1 (0.23%) HP SiteScope
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.23%) SCOM
7 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 44 (10.16%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.62%) F5
3 24 (5.54%) VMware
4 22 (5.08%) Oracle
5 18 (4.16%) Bloomberg
6 17 (3.93%) Blue Coat
6 17 (3.93%) McAfee
6 17 (3.93%) NetApp
7 13 (3.00%) Cisco
8 11 (2.54%) ION Trading
8 11 (2.54%) Sybase
9 10 (2.31%) Murex
10 8 (1.85%) Remedy
11 7 (1.62%) Databricks
11 7 (1.62%) Ekahau
11 7 (1.62%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.15%) OpenAI
12 5 (1.15%) Refinitiv
12 5 (1.15%) Reuters
12 5 (1.15%) Solace