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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 141 164
Rank change year-on-year -87 +23 -64
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 438 492 550
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.12% 2.02% 1.47%
As % of the General category 2.00% 3.15% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 318 402
10th Percentile £413 £400 £500
25th Percentile £500 £600 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year -16.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £775 £875 £850
90th Percentile £938 £888 £900
UK median daily rate £625 £725 £712
% change year-on-year -13.79% +1.83% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £26.57 - -
25th Percentile £30.80 - £18.25
Median hourly rate £39.73 £100.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.27% +412.82% -51.85%
75th Percentile £49.28 - £20.75
90th Percentile £53.89 - -
UK median hourly rate £39.73 £100.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -60.27% +412.82% -69.71%

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 21,908 15,598 21,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.80% 63.92% 58.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,766 10,146 14,117
10th Percentile £304 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £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 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,401 649 1,757
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £17.61 £15.39
Median hourly rate £29.00 £28.75 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +2.68% -20.00%
75th Percentile £61.18 £58.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £28.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -21.43%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -69 359 £645 -14.00% 54
North of England -14 73 £423 -23.18%
North West +21 68 £450 -37.93%
West Midlands -8 56 - - 2
Midlands -17 56 - - 2
Yorkshire -50 9 £231 -37.50%
South East - 2 £159 - 11
South West - 2 - - 1
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 (3.42%) Confluence
2 6 (1.37%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (1.14%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.68%) Apache
4 3 (0.68%) SAS
5 2 (0.46%) IIS
5 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.23%) CICS
6 1 (0.23%) CMS
6 1 (0.23%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
Applications
1 28 (6.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (3.65%) MS Visio
3 14 (3.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.68%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.23%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 14 (3.20%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (2.97%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 13 (2.97%) Oracle Receivables
3 9 (2.05%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (1.37%) Aladdin
4 6 (1.37%) Summit
5 4 (0.91%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.68%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.46%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 2 (0.46%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.46%) Global One
7 2 (0.46%) Markit EDM
8 1 (0.23%) Actimize
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.23%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.23%) BusinessWorks
8 1 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.23%) ION MarketView
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.23%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 57 (13.01%) Azure
2 49 (11.19%) AWS
3 16 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (3.65%) Power Platform
4 14 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (3.20%) GitHub
4 14 (3.20%) OCI
5 12 (2.74%) GCP
6 7 (1.60%) Entra ID
6 7 (1.60%) Google Workspace
6 7 (1.60%) Snowflake
7 6 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (1.14%) npm
8 5 (1.14%) Serverless
8 5 (1.14%) Yarn
9 4 (0.91%) ChatGPT
9 4 (0.91%) Power Automate
9 4 (0.91%) PowerApps
10 3 (0.68%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 41 (9.36%) DNS
2 25 (5.71%) TCP/IP
3 24 (5.48%) DMZ
3 24 (5.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 24 (5.48%) HTTP
4 23 (5.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 20 (4.57%) VPN
6 19 (4.34%) BIG-IP
6 19 (4.34%) FIX Connectivity
6 19 (4.34%) SSL
6 19 (4.34%) Wireshark
7 17 (3.88%) BGP
7 17 (3.88%) Multicast
8 7 (1.60%) Firewall
9 4 (0.91%) Network Security
10 3 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (0.68%) DHCP
10 3 (0.68%) SAN
10 3 (0.68%) VXLAN
10 3 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.25%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (3.20%) Power BI
2 14 (3.20%) Relational Database
3 13 (2.97%) Tableau
4 9 (2.05%) Metadata
5 6 (1.37%) Big Data
5 6 (1.37%) RDBMS
5 6 (1.37%) Redis
6 5 (1.14%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.14%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.14%) Pinecone
6 5 (1.14%) Weaviate
7 4 (0.91%) KDB
8 3 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.68%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.68%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 30 (6.85%) JIRA
2 19 (4.34%) Fiddler
3 10 (2.28%) Git
4 8 (1.83%) GitLab
4 8 (1.83%) TeamCity
5 6 (1.37%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.37%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (1.14%) Selenium
6 5 (1.14%) webpack
7 4 (0.91%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.91%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.68%) JUnit
8 3 (0.68%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.46%) Maven
9 2 (0.46%) Postman
9 2 (0.46%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.46%) Vite
10 1 (0.23%) XCUITest
General
1 438 (100.00%) Banking
2 246 (56.16%) Finance
3 114 (26.03%) Front Office
3 114 (26.03%) Social Skills
4 52 (11.87%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (7.31%) Retail Banking
6 27 (6.16%) Financial Institution
7 24 (5.48%) Corporate Banking
7 24 (5.48%) Retail
8 15 (3.42%) Legal
9 14 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.74%) Back Office
11 11 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.60%) French Language
12 7 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.91%) Marketing
15 3 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.68%) Spanish Language
16 2 (0.46%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 117 (26.71%) Developer
2 80 (18.26%) Analyst
3 61 (13.93%) Business Analyst
4 56 (12.79%) Java Developer
4 56 (12.79%) Senior
5 38 (8.68%) Network Engineer
6 36 (8.22%) Senior Developer
7 32 (7.31%) Architect
8 28 (6.39%) Senior Java Developer
9 26 (5.94%) Banking Analyst
10 25 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
11 23 (5.25%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 23 (5.25%) Payments Architect
11 23 (5.25%) Payments Solutions Architect
12 21 (4.79%) C# Developer
13 20 (4.57%) Data Engineer
13 20 (4.57%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
13 20 (4.57%) Lead
14 19 (4.34%) Blue Coat Engineer
14 19 (4.34%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (7.76%) .NET
2 31 (7.08%) React
3 29 (6.62%) Kafka
4 26 (5.94%) FIX Protocol
5 19 (4.34%) Middleware
6 16 (3.65%) CSS
6 16 (3.65%) HTML
7 15 (3.42%) Redux
8 13 (2.97%) AngularJS
8 13 (2.97%) XML
9 10 (2.28%) Spring
10 8 (1.83%) HTML5
10 8 (1.83%) Node.js
11 7 (1.60%) LangChain
11 7 (1.60%) REST
12 6 (1.37%) OAuth
12 6 (1.37%) Pandas
12 6 (1.37%) Reactive Extensions
12 6 (1.37%) RESTful
13 5 (1.14%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 78 (17.81%) Derivative
2 59 (13.47%) Management Information System
3 42 (9.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 39 (8.90%) Equities
4 39 (8.90%) Fixed Income
5 27 (6.16%) Market Risk
6 23 (5.25%) Onboarding
7 20 (4.57%) Credit Risk
8 17 (3.88%) TWAP
8 17 (3.88%) VWAP
9 13 (2.97%) Cloud Native
9 13 (2.97%) Data Structures
10 12 (2.74%) Algorithms
11 10 (2.28%) Hedge funds
12 9 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (1.83%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.83%) Data Centre
13 8 (1.83%) Product Ownership
14 7 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (1.37%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.39%) Windows
2 24 (5.48%) Unix
3 21 (4.79%) Linux
4 8 (1.83%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.37%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.46%) AIX
7 1 (0.23%) Android
7 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (18.95%) Agile
2 61 (13.93%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (11.19%) Stakeholder Management
4 46 (10.50%) Analytics
5 43 (9.82%) AI
5 43 (9.82%) Electronic Trading
6 42 (9.59%) DevOps
7 41 (9.36%) CI/CD
7 41 (9.36%) Low Latency
8 39 (8.90%) Asset Management
8 39 (8.90%) Business Analysis
8 39 (8.90%) Project Management
8 39 (8.90%) SDLC
9 38 (8.68%) TDD
10 37 (8.45%) Load Balancing
10 37 (8.45%) User Acceptance Testing
11 34 (7.76%) Multithreading
12 32 (7.31%) Design Patterns
12 32 (7.31%) Risk Management
13 29 (6.62%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 101 (23.06%) SQL
2 93 (21.23%) Java
3 72 (16.44%) Python
4 48 (10.96%) C#
5 32 (7.31%) TypeScript
6 28 (6.39%) JavaScript
7 17 (3.88%) PowerShell
8 13 (2.97%) C++
9 9 (2.05%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.37%) Scala
11 5 (1.14%) Perl
11 5 (1.14%) Rust
11 5 (1.14%) VBA
12 4 (0.91%) Bash
12 4 (0.91%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.68%) Go
13 3 (0.68%) Lisp
14 2 (0.46%) Korn
14 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.23%) F#
Qualifications
1 37 (8.45%) Degree
2 18 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (2.97%) Master's Degree
4 9 (2.05%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.37%) PMP
6 5 (1.14%) CFA
6 5 (1.14%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.91%) PhD
8 3 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.68%) CCNP
8 3 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.68%) MCSA
8 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.46%) ACCA
9 2 (0.46%) CISSP
9 2 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.46%) MBA
9 2 (0.46%) Security Cleared
9 2 (0.46%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.11%) QA
2 13 (2.97%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.51%) MiFID
3 11 (2.51%) PMO
4 9 (2.05%) SLA
5 5 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.91%) EMIR
7 2 (0.46%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.46%) GDPR
7 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.46%) NIST
7 2 (0.46%) SEPA
8 1 (0.23%) Basel III
8 1 (0.23%) COBIT
8 1 (0.23%) COSO
8 1 (0.23%) GRC
8 1 (0.23%) ITGC
8 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.23%) Solvency II
System Software
1 24 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (4.34%) Firmware
3 17 (3.88%) Docker
4 7 (1.60%) 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 17 (3.88%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.83%) SCCM
3 6 (1.37%) WSUS
4 5 (1.14%) Terraform
5 4 (0.91%) Ansible
5 4 (0.91%) Control-M
5 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.68%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.68%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.46%) Puppet
7 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.23%) Grafana
8 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.23%) WMI
8 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 48 (10.96%) Microsoft
2 38 (8.68%) F5
3 36 (8.22%) Oracle
4 24 (5.48%) VMware
5 19 (4.34%) Blue Coat
5 19 (4.34%) McAfee
5 19 (4.34%) NetApp
6 17 (3.88%) Cisco
7 16 (3.65%) Bloomberg
8 14 (3.20%) Murex
9 13 (2.97%) ION Trading
10 8 (1.83%) Citrix
10 8 (1.83%) Reuters
10 8 (1.83%) Sybase
11 7 (1.60%) Charles River
12 6 (1.37%) Adobe
12 6 (1.37%) Remedy
12 6 (1.37%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.14%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.91%) CyberArk