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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 137 158
Rank change year-on-year -91 +21 -60
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 442 472 572
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.18% 1.94% 1.52%
As % of the General category 2.06% 3.06% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 295 415
10th Percentile £413 £415 £487
25th Percentile £500 £605 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £763 £875 £838
90th Percentile £988 £881 £900
UK median daily rate £625 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -10.71% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £19.85 - -
25th Percentile £21.31 £76.25 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £77.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -67.74% +297.44% -51.85%
75th Percentile £41.61 £78.75 £20.75
90th Percentile £50.82 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £77.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -67.74% +297.44% -51.85%

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 21,489 15,430 22,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.29% 63.56% 58.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,570 10,055 14,384
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.57% -3.03%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,348 597 1,678
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.96 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £19.00 £15.19
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.78 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.29% +18.38% -25.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £77.88 £76.25 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +15.38% -25.71%

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 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -58 365 £634 -12.59% 64
North of England -13 71 £423 -23.18%
North West +19 66 £450 -37.93%
West Midlands -3 57 - - 4
Midlands -18 57 - - 6
Yorkshire -52 11 £231 -37.50%
South West - 3 - -
South East - 2 £159 - 19
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 15 (3.39%) Confluence
2 9 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.58%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.13%) Apache
5 3 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.68%) CMS
6 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.45%) SAS
7 1 (0.23%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.23%) IIS
7 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
Applications
1 23 (5.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (4.07%) MS Visio
3 13 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.23%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 14 (3.17%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (2.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 13 (2.94%) Oracle Receivables
3 7 (1.58%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (1.13%) Aladdin
4 5 (1.13%) Fidessa
4 5 (1.13%) Summit
5 3 (0.68%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.45%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.45%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.23%) Actimize
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.23%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.23%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.23%) Front Arena
7 1 (0.23%) Global One
7 1 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.23%) ION MarketView
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.23%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 56 (12.67%) AWS
2 54 (12.22%) Azure
3 14 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (3.17%) GitHub
3 14 (3.17%) OCI
3 14 (3.17%) Power Platform
4 13 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (2.49%) GCP
5 11 (2.49%) Snowflake
6 6 (1.36%) Google Workspace
6 6 (1.36%) Serverless
7 5 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (1.13%) npm
7 5 (1.13%) Yarn
8 4 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (0.90%) ChatGPT
8 4 (0.90%) Entra ID
8 4 (0.90%) Power Automate
8 4 (0.90%) PowerApps
9 3 (0.68%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 45 (10.18%) DNS
2 26 (5.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 26 (5.88%) TCP/IP
3 25 (5.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 24 (5.43%) DMZ
5 22 (4.98%) HTTP
6 19 (4.30%) BIG-IP
6 19 (4.30%) SSL
6 19 (4.30%) VPN
6 19 (4.30%) Wireshark
7 18 (4.07%) BGP
7 18 (4.07%) Multicast
8 17 (3.85%) FIX Connectivity
9 7 (1.58%) DHCP
9 7 (1.58%) Firewall
9 7 (1.58%) Network Security
10 6 (1.36%) Cisco ISE
10 6 (1.36%) Cisco Wireless
10 6 (1.36%) VXLAN
10 6 (1.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.98%) SQL Server
2 16 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (3.62%) Relational Database
3 12 (2.71%) Power BI
4 11 (2.49%) Tableau
5 9 (2.04%) Metadata
6 8 (1.81%) KDB
7 5 (1.13%) Big Data
7 5 (1.13%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.13%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.13%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.13%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.13%) Redis
8 4 (0.90%) Apache Ignite
8 4 (0.90%) Kdb+
9 3 (0.68%) DB2
9 3 (0.68%) Neo4j
9 3 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.68%) Sybase ASE
10 2 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 28 (6.33%) JIRA
2 19 (4.30%) Fiddler
3 11 (2.49%) Git
4 10 (2.26%) GitLab
5 7 (1.58%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.36%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (1.36%) Selenium
6 6 (1.36%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.13%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.13%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.13%) JUnit
7 5 (1.13%) webpack
8 4 (0.90%) Maven
8 4 (0.90%) Postman
8 4 (0.90%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.68%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.45%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.23%) WebDriver
General
1 442 (100.00%) Banking
2 244 (55.20%) Finance
3 119 (26.92%) Social Skills
4 111 (25.11%) Front Office
5 53 (11.99%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (7.24%) Retail Banking
7 29 (6.56%) Financial Institution
8 23 (5.20%) Retail
9 22 (4.98%) Corporate Banking
10 14 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (2.94%) Back Office
12 11 (2.49%) Legal
12 11 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.90%) French Language
15 3 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.68%) Spanish Language
16 2 (0.45%) Aviation
16 2 (0.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 120 (27.15%) Developer
2 79 (17.87%) Analyst
3 58 (13.12%) Business Analyst
4 57 (12.90%) Java Developer
5 56 (12.67%) Senior
6 39 (8.82%) Network Engineer
7 37 (8.37%) Senior Developer
8 29 (6.56%) Senior Java Developer
9 28 (6.33%) Architect
10 24 (5.43%) Banking Analyst
11 21 (4.75%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 20 (4.52%) Lead
12 20 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
13 19 (4.30%) Blue Coat Engineer
13 19 (4.30%) C# Developer
13 19 (4.30%) Data Engineer
13 19 (4.30%) IP Network Engineer
13 19 (4.30%) Payments Solutions Architect
13 19 (4.30%) Project Manager
13 19 (4.30%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (7.47%) .NET
2 31 (7.01%) Kafka
3 29 (6.56%) React
4 24 (5.43%) FIX Protocol
5 16 (3.62%) Middleware
6 13 (2.94%) AngularJS
6 13 (2.94%) CSS
6 13 (2.94%) HTML
6 13 (2.94%) Spring
6 13 (2.94%) XML
7 11 (2.49%) Pandas
8 10 (2.26%) Redux
9 8 (1.81%) NumPy
9 8 (1.81%) REST
10 7 (1.58%) HTML5
10 7 (1.58%) JMS
10 7 (1.58%) Node.js
11 6 (1.36%) Dask
11 6 (1.36%) SciPy
12 5 (1.13%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 78 (17.65%) Derivative
2 60 (13.57%) Management Information System
3 43 (9.73%) Equities
4 41 (9.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 39 (8.82%) Fixed Income
6 29 (6.56%) Market Risk
7 25 (5.66%) Onboarding
8 20 (4.52%) Credit Risk
9 19 (4.30%) Hedge funds
10 16 (3.62%) Cloud Native
11 15 (3.39%) TWAP
11 15 (3.39%) VWAP
12 12 (2.71%) Data Structures
13 11 (2.49%) Data Centre
14 10 (2.26%) Algorithms
15 8 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
16 7 (1.58%) Distributed Computing
17 6 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
17 6 (1.36%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.88%) Linux
2 24 (5.43%) Windows
3 22 (4.98%) Unix
4 6 (1.36%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.68%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.45%) AIX
6 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.23%) Android
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (19.46%) Agile
2 68 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 48 (10.86%) DevOps
5 45 (10.18%) Analytics
6 43 (9.73%) CI/CD
7 41 (9.28%) Project Management
8 40 (9.05%) AI
8 40 (9.05%) Asset Management
8 40 (9.05%) Business Analysis
9 38 (8.60%) Risk Management
9 38 (8.60%) User Acceptance Testing
10 37 (8.37%) Electronic Trading
10 37 (8.37%) Load Balancing
10 37 (8.37%) TDD
11 36 (8.14%) SDLC
12 33 (7.47%) Low Latency
12 33 (7.47%) Multithreading
13 31 (7.01%) Design Patterns
14 30 (6.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 104 (23.53%) SQL
2 97 (21.95%) Java
3 83 (18.78%) Python
4 47 (10.63%) C#
5 26 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 26 (5.88%) TypeScript
6 17 (3.85%) PowerShell
7 13 (2.94%) C++
8 11 (2.49%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.36%) Lisp
10 5 (1.13%) Rust
10 5 (1.13%) Scala
11 4 (0.90%) Bash
11 4 (0.90%) Perl
12 3 (0.68%) Go
12 3 (0.68%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.68%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.68%) VBA
13 2 (0.45%) Korn
14 1 (0.23%) F#
Qualifications
1 41 (9.28%) Degree
2 16 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (3.39%) Master's Degree
4 8 (1.81%) PMP
5 7 (1.58%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.36%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.36%) CCNP
6 6 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (1.36%) PhD
7 5 (1.13%) CFA
8 4 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.68%) MCSA
9 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.45%) ACCA
10 2 (0.45%) CISSP
10 2 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.45%) MBA
10 2 (0.45%) Security Cleared
10 2 (0.45%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.85%) QA
2 13 (2.94%) MiFID
3 12 (2.71%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.26%) PMO
4 10 (2.26%) SLA
5 9 (2.04%) EMIR
6 6 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.68%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.45%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.45%) GDPR
8 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.45%) NIST
8 2 (0.45%) SEPA
9 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.23%) Basel III
9 1 (0.23%) COBIT
9 1 (0.23%) COSO
9 1 (0.23%) FINRA
9 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.23%) Solvency II
System Software
1 26 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (4.52%) Firmware
3 19 (4.30%) Docker
4 5 (1.13%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.23%) GridGain
5 1 (0.23%) Varnish
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.23%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 19 (4.30%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.04%) SCCM
3 6 (1.36%) FortiGate
3 6 (1.36%) WSUS
4 4 (0.90%) Ansible
4 4 (0.90%) Terraform
5 3 (0.68%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 2 (0.45%) Control-M
6 2 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.45%) Puppet
6 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.23%) Grafana
7 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.23%) WMI
7 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 45 (10.18%) Microsoft
2 38 (8.60%) F5
3 34 (7.69%) Oracle
4 26 (5.88%) VMware
5 19 (4.30%) Bloomberg
5 19 (4.30%) Blue Coat
5 19 (4.30%) McAfee
5 19 (4.30%) NetApp
6 18 (4.07%) Cisco
7 14 (3.17%) Murex
8 13 (2.94%) ION Trading
9 9 (2.04%) Sybase
10 8 (1.81%) Citrix
10 8 (1.81%) Remedy
10 8 (1.81%) Reuters
10 8 (1.81%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.58%) Charles River
12 6 (1.36%) Ekahau
13 4 (0.90%) Refinitiv
13 4 (0.90%) UiPath