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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 151 160
Rank change year-on-year -60 +9 -58
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 442 467 586
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.30% 1.80% 1.54%
As % of the General category 2.19% 2.87% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 277 427
10th Percentile £413 £459 £488
25th Percentile £500 £600 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £678 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% -3.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £778 £838 £813
90th Percentile £988 £881 £938
UK median daily rate £625 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £20.33 - -
25th Percentile £22.53 £76.25 -
Median hourly rate £32.87 £77.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -57.59% - -
75th Percentile £45.64 £78.75 -
90th Percentile £52.43 - -
UK median hourly rate £32.87 £77.50 -
% change year-on-year -57.59% - -

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 20,207 16,255 22,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 59.31% 62.55% 58.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,812 9,896 14,771
10th Percentile £299 £297 £265
25th Percentile £405 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,271 513 1,506
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.62 £13.05
25th Percentile £16.80 £19.97 £15.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £30.00 £25.37
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +18.25% -8.41%
75th Percentile £50.00 £60.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £22.85 £29.00 £25.25
% change year-on-year -21.21% +14.85% -4.72%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -29 372 £650 -7.14% 45
North of England -18 62 £306 -48.96% 2
North West +9 56 £190 -66.96% 1
West Midlands -8 52 £500 -11.50% 3
Midlands -17 52 £500 -11.50% 3
Yorkshire -51 16 £423 -32.40% 1
South West - 4 £190 - 1
South East -31 2 £159 - 26
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 (4.75%) Confluence
2 11 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.58%) Apache
3 7 (1.58%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.68%) CMS
6 2 (0.45%) SAS
7 1 (0.23%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 23 (5.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (4.30%) MS Visio
3 14 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.68%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.23%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 10 (2.26%) Oracle Payables
2 9 (2.04%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 9 (2.04%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (1.36%) Fidessa
4 5 (1.13%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.68%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.45%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.45%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.45%) Summit
6 2 (0.45%) thinkFolio
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.23%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.23%) ION MarketView
7 1 (0.23%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 64 (14.48%) Azure
2 58 (13.12%) AWS
3 18 (4.07%) Power Platform
4 15 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (2.94%) GitHub
5 13 (2.94%) Snowflake
6 12 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (2.26%) GCP
7 10 (2.26%) OCI
8 8 (1.81%) Serverless
9 6 (1.36%) dbt
10 5 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.13%) ChatGPT
10 5 (1.13%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.13%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.13%) PowerApps
11 4 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (0.90%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (0.90%) Google Workspace
11 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 45 (10.18%) DNS
2 30 (6.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 29 (6.56%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 26 (5.88%) DMZ
5 24 (5.43%) TCP/IP
6 21 (4.75%) HTTP
7 19 (4.30%) BIG-IP
7 19 (4.30%) SSL
7 19 (4.30%) Wireshark
8 14 (3.17%) BGP
9 12 (2.71%) FIX Connectivity
9 12 (2.71%) Network Security
9 12 (2.71%) VPN
10 11 (2.49%) Multicast
11 8 (1.81%) DHCP
12 7 (1.58%) Cisco ISE
12 7 (1.58%) Cisco Wireless
12 7 (1.58%) NX-OS
12 7 (1.58%) VXLAN
12 7 (1.58%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (5.43%) SQL Server
2 21 (4.75%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (3.62%) Relational Database
4 15 (3.39%) Power BI
5 12 (2.71%) MongoDB
5 12 (2.71%) Tableau
6 8 (1.81%) DB2
6 8 (1.81%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (1.36%) Apache Arrow
7 6 (1.36%) Apache Iceberg
7 6 (1.36%) Apache Ignite
7 6 (1.36%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.36%) Dremio
7 6 (1.36%) KDB
7 6 (1.36%) Metadata
8 5 (1.13%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.13%) Redis
9 4 (0.90%) Big Data
9 4 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 33 (7.47%) JIRA
2 19 (4.30%) Fiddler
3 15 (3.39%) Git
4 11 (2.49%) JUnit
5 9 (2.04%) GitLab
6 6 (1.36%) Cucumber
6 6 (1.36%) Maven
6 6 (1.36%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (1.36%) Selenium
7 5 (1.13%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.90%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.90%) Postman
8 4 (0.90%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.90%) webpack
9 3 (0.68%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.68%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.68%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.45%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 442 (100.00%) Banking
2 238 (53.85%) Finance
3 127 (28.73%) Social Skills
4 99 (22.40%) Front Office
5 60 (13.57%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (6.11%) Retail Banking
7 21 (4.75%) Corporate Banking
7 21 (4.75%) Financial Institution
8 18 (4.07%) Retail
9 15 (3.39%) Back Office
10 12 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.81%) Legal
12 7 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.13%) French Language
14 4 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.45%) Marketing
17 1 (0.23%) International Banking
17 1 (0.23%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 129 (29.19%) Developer
2 77 (17.42%) Analyst
3 64 (14.48%) Senior
4 60 (13.57%) Java Developer
5 58 (13.12%) Business Analyst
6 40 (9.05%) Senior Developer
7 35 (7.92%) Network Engineer
8 34 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
9 26 (5.88%) AWS Developer
10 22 (4.98%) Banking Analyst
10 22 (4.98%) Kafka Developer
10 22 (4.98%) Project Manager
11 19 (4.30%) Architect
11 19 (4.30%) C# Developer
12 18 (4.07%) Analytics Developer
12 18 (4.07%) Lead
12 18 (4.07%) PostgreSQL Developer
13 17 (3.85%) Data Engineer
14 16 (3.62%) Support Engineer
15 15 (3.39%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (9.05%) Kafka
2 34 (7.69%) .NET
3 32 (7.24%) React
4 21 (4.75%) Pandas
5 19 (4.30%) AngularJS
6 17 (3.85%) FIX Protocol
7 16 (3.62%) NumPy
8 15 (3.39%) Spring
9 14 (3.17%) HTML
9 14 (3.17%) SciPy
10 12 (2.71%) JMS
10 12 (2.71%) Middleware
10 12 (2.71%) REST
11 11 (2.49%) CSS
11 11 (2.49%) XML
12 10 (2.26%) FastAPI
13 9 (2.04%) Flask
14 8 (1.81%) Polars
14 8 (1.81%) Redux
14 8 (1.81%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 80 (18.10%) Derivative
2 65 (14.71%) Management Information System
3 44 (9.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 41 (9.28%) Equities
5 38 (8.60%) Fixed Income
6 31 (7.01%) Market Risk
7 27 (6.11%) Hedge funds
8 26 (5.88%) Onboarding
9 18 (4.07%) Credit Risk
10 13 (2.94%) Cloud Native
11 12 (2.71%) Data Structures
12 10 (2.26%) TWAP
12 10 (2.26%) VWAP
13 9 (2.04%) Algorithms
13 9 (2.04%) Data Centre
13 9 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.81%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (1.81%) Product Ownership
15 7 (1.58%) AI Agents
15 7 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.79%) Linux
2 19 (4.30%) Windows
3 14 (3.17%) Unix
4 7 (1.58%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.13%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.45%) AIX
7 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (19.91%) Agile
2 75 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 47 (10.63%) Analytics
5 42 (9.50%) CI/CD
5 42 (9.50%) DevOps
5 42 (9.50%) Project Management
5 42 (9.50%) Risk Management
6 40 (9.05%) User Acceptance Testing
7 39 (8.82%) AI
8 38 (8.60%) Business Analysis
8 38 (8.60%) SDLC
8 38 (8.60%) Software Engineering
9 36 (8.14%) Load Balancing
9 36 (8.14%) TDD
10 33 (7.47%) Asset Management
11 30 (6.79%) Data Analysis
11 30 (6.79%) Design Patterns
11 30 (6.79%) Multithreading
12 28 (6.33%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 110 (24.89%) SQL
2 105 (23.76%) Java
3 96 (21.72%) Python
4 55 (12.44%) C#
5 31 (7.01%) JavaScript
6 26 (5.88%) TypeScript
7 20 (4.52%) C++
8 17 (3.85%) PowerShell
9 13 (2.94%) Shell Script
10 8 (1.81%) Rust
11 7 (1.58%) Lisp
12 6 (1.36%) Scala
13 5 (1.13%) VB.NET
14 4 (0.90%) Bash
14 4 (0.90%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.90%) VBA
15 3 (0.68%) Go
15 3 (0.68%) Perl
15 3 (0.68%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 41 (9.28%) Degree
2 12 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 12 (2.71%) Master's Degree
3 8 (1.81%) Azure Certification
3 8 (1.81%) PMI Certification
3 8 (1.81%) PMP
4 7 (1.58%) CCNP
4 7 (1.58%) CFA
4 7 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (1.36%) PhD
6 3 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.45%) CISSP
7 2 (0.45%) IIBA
7 2 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.45%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.23%) ISSAP
8 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.23%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.23%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.98%) QA
2 12 (2.71%) MiFID
3 10 (2.26%) EMIR
3 10 (2.26%) PMO
4 9 (2.04%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.58%) SLA
6 6 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.68%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.68%) GDPR
7 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.45%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.45%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.45%) GRC
8 2 (0.45%) NIST
8 2 (0.45%) SEPA
8 2 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.23%) FINRA
9 1 (0.23%) IFRS
9 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (5.20%) Docker
3 16 (3.62%) Firmware
4 5 (1.13%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.23%) GridGain
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (5.20%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.81%) Ansible
3 7 (1.58%) FortiGate
4 6 (1.36%) SCCM
5 5 (1.13%) Terraform
6 3 (0.68%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 3 (0.68%) WSUS
7 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.45%) Puppet
8 1 (0.23%) Control-M
8 1 (0.23%) Grafana
8 1 (0.23%) HP SiteScope
8 1 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle Identity Management
8 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.23%) SCOM
8 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 47 (10.63%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.37%) F5
3 26 (5.88%) Oracle
4 25 (5.66%) VMware
5 19 (4.30%) Blue Coat
5 19 (4.30%) McAfee
5 19 (4.30%) NetApp
6 17 (3.85%) Bloomberg
7 14 (3.17%) Cisco
8 12 (2.71%) ION Trading
8 12 (2.71%) Murex
9 11 (2.49%) Sybase
10 8 (1.81%) Remedy
11 7 (1.58%) Ekahau
11 7 (1.58%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.36%) Databricks
13 5 (1.13%) Citrix
13 5 (1.13%) OpenAI
13 5 (1.13%) Reuters
13 5 (1.13%) Splunk