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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 138 155
Rank change year-on-year -70 +17 -51
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 510 509 571
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.21% 2.11% 1.55%
As % of the General category 2.22% 3.28% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 326 443
10th Percentile £401 £416 £500
25th Percentile £480 £613 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £778 £850 £875
90th Percentile £938 £881 £888
UK median daily rate £615 £725 £750
% change year-on-year -15.17% -3.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £73.00 -
25th Percentile £51.96 £77.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £54.46 £85.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.93% +335.90% -72.14%
75th Percentile £56.96 £92.50 £20.75
90th Percentile - £97.00 -
UK median hourly rate £74.73 £85.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -12.08% +335.90% -71.64%

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 22,954 15,531 21,237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.42% 64.24% 57.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,048 9,997 13,605
10th Percentile £313 £281 £280
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £630 £645 £650
90th Percentile £744 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,577 718 1,815
10th Percentile £14.19 £13.32 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -9.68% -2.88%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £52.20
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £31.16 £28.00 £30.12
% change year-on-year +11.27% -7.04% -7.04%

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 6 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 6 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 -64 424 £645 -14.00% 110
North of England -14 75 £450 -28.00% 7
North West +19 70 £401 -44.66% 3
Midlands -4 55 - -
West Midlands -7 55 - -
South West - 8 £695 -
Yorkshire -66 3 £405 +5.19% 4
North East - 2 £875 -
South East - 2 £159 - 21
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 14 (2.75%) Confluence
2 5 (0.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (0.78%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.78%) IIS
3 4 (0.78%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.59%) Apache
4 3 (0.59%) SAS
5 2 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.39%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.20%) CICS
Applications
1 26 (5.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (2.35%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.39%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.39%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 13 (2.55%) Oracle Payables
1 13 (2.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 13 (2.55%) Oracle Receivables
2 9 (1.76%) Payment Gateway
3 8 (1.57%) Aladdin
4 6 (1.18%) Summit
5 3 (0.59%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.59%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.39%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.39%) Front Arena
6 2 (0.39%) Global One
6 2 (0.39%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.20%) Actimize
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.20%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.20%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.20%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 70 (13.73%) Azure
2 62 (12.16%) AWS
3 23 (4.51%) GCP
4 19 (3.73%) Power Platform
5 17 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (2.94%) OCI
7 14 (2.75%) GitHub
8 12 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (1.96%) Entra ID
10 8 (1.57%) Google Workspace
10 8 (1.57%) Snowflake
11 7 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (0.98%) npm
12 5 (0.98%) Yarn
13 4 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (0.59%) Figma
14 3 (0.59%) Power Automate
14 3 (0.59%) PowerApps
14 3 (0.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (7.06%) DNS
2 25 (4.90%) TCP/IP
2 25 (4.90%) VPN
3 24 (4.71%) DMZ
4 23 (4.51%) HTTP
4 23 (4.51%) Multicast
5 22 (4.31%) FIX Connectivity
6 20 (3.92%) BGP
7 19 (3.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 19 (3.73%) Wireshark
8 18 (3.53%) BIG-IP
8 18 (3.53%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 18 (3.53%) SSL
9 11 (2.16%) Firewall
10 3 (0.59%) SAN
10 3 (0.59%) Wireless
11 2 (0.39%) DWDM
11 2 (0.39%) MPLS
11 2 (0.39%) OSPF
11 2 (0.39%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.31%) SQL Server
2 18 (3.53%) Power BI
2 18 (3.53%) Relational Database
3 16 (3.14%) Metadata
4 11 (2.16%) Pinecone
4 11 (2.16%) Tableau
4 11 (2.16%) Weaviate
5 10 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.57%) Data Vault
8 6 (1.18%) Big Data
8 6 (1.18%) KDB
8 6 (1.18%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.18%) Redis
9 5 (0.98%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.78%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.78%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.59%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 36 (7.06%) JIRA
2 17 (3.33%) Fiddler
3 11 (2.16%) TeamCity
4 9 (1.76%) Git
5 7 (1.37%) ER Studio
5 7 (1.37%) ERwin
5 7 (1.37%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.18%) GitLab
6 6 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (1.18%) webpack
7 5 (0.98%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.98%) Selenium
8 4 (0.78%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.39%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.39%) Maven
9 2 (0.39%) MSBuild
9 2 (0.39%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.39%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.39%) Vite
General
1 510 (100.00%) Banking
2 297 (58.24%) Finance
3 148 (29.02%) Front Office
4 111 (21.76%) Social Skills
5 60 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (9.02%) Retail Banking
7 36 (7.06%) Corporate Banking
8 35 (6.86%) Retail
9 32 (6.27%) Financial Institution
10 22 (4.31%) Legal
11 14 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.96%) Back Office
12 10 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.57%) Spanish Language
15 7 (1.37%) French Language
16 6 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.59%) Advertising
17 3 (0.59%) Aviation
17 3 (0.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 153 (30.00%) Developer
2 87 (17.06%) Analyst
3 72 (14.12%) Java Developer
3 72 (14.12%) Senior
4 67 (13.14%) Business Analyst
5 49 (9.61%) Senior Developer
6 38 (7.45%) Network Engineer
6 38 (7.45%) Senior Java Developer
7 34 (6.67%) Architect
8 28 (5.49%) Solutions Architect
9 27 (5.29%) Banking Analyst
10 26 (5.10%) Payments Architect
10 26 (5.10%) Payments Solutions Architect
11 25 (4.90%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 23 (4.51%) Security Engineer
12 23 (4.51%) Support Engineer
13 22 (4.31%) C# Developer
14 21 (4.12%) Data Engineer
14 21 (4.12%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
14 21 (4.12%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (8.82%) React
2 43 (8.43%) .NET
3 37 (7.25%) FIX Protocol
4 26 (5.10%) Kafka
5 24 (4.71%) Redux
6 22 (4.31%) Middleware
7 14 (2.75%) AngularJS
7 14 (2.75%) CSS
7 14 (2.75%) HTML
8 13 (2.55%) Spring
8 13 (2.55%) XML
9 12 (2.35%) LangChain
10 11 (2.16%) LlamaIndex
11 10 (1.96%) REST
12 9 (1.76%) RESTful
13 8 (1.57%) OAuth
13 8 (1.57%) OAuth2
14 7 (1.37%) HTML5
14 7 (1.37%) Node.js
14 7 (1.37%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 96 (18.82%) Derivative
2 66 (12.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 59 (11.57%) Equities
4 55 (10.78%) Management Information System
5 50 (9.80%) Fixed Income
6 24 (4.71%) Market Risk
7 22 (4.31%) Onboarding
8 20 (3.92%) Credit Risk
8 20 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
8 20 (3.92%) TWAP
8 20 (3.92%) VWAP
9 19 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
10 18 (3.53%) Algorithms
11 16 (3.14%) Data Structures
11 16 (3.14%) Product Ownership
12 12 (2.35%) AI Agents
12 12 (2.35%) Cloud Native
13 9 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.76%) Hedge funds
14 7 (1.37%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 36 (7.06%) Windows
2 24 (4.71%) Unix
3 20 (3.92%) Linux
4 9 (1.76%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.18%) Windows 7
6 4 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.39%) Android
7 2 (0.39%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.20%) AIX
8 1 (0.20%) Solaris
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (19.41%) Agile
2 67 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (12.94%) Low Latency
4 61 (11.96%) Electronic Trading
5 55 (10.78%) Analytics
6 51 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 49 (9.61%) CI/CD
8 46 (9.02%) Asset Management
8 46 (9.02%) User Acceptance Testing
9 45 (8.82%) AI
10 42 (8.24%) Multithreading
11 41 (8.04%) TDD
12 40 (7.84%) Business Analysis
13 39 (7.65%) DevOps
13 39 (7.65%) SDLC
14 36 (7.06%) Software Engineering
15 34 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (6.67%) Load Balancing
15 34 (6.67%) Wealth Management
16 32 (6.27%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 116 (22.75%) Java
2 101 (19.80%) Python
3 99 (19.41%) SQL
4 70 (13.73%) C#
5 52 (10.20%) TypeScript
6 40 (7.84%) JavaScript
7 24 (4.71%) PowerShell
8 18 (3.53%) C++
9 9 (1.76%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.18%) Rust
10 6 (1.18%) Scala
11 5 (0.98%) VBA
12 4 (0.78%) Bash
12 4 (0.78%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.59%) Perl
14 2 (0.39%) Bicep
14 2 (0.39%) C
14 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.20%) Go
15 1 (0.20%) Swift
Qualifications
1 35 (6.86%) Degree
2 17 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (2.35%) Azure Certification
4 8 (1.57%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.37%) PMP
6 5 (0.98%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.78%) CISSP
7 4 (0.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (0.78%) MCSA
7 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.59%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.59%) CFA
9 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.39%) CCNP
9 2 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.39%) MBA
9 2 (0.39%) PhD
9 2 (0.39%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 2 (0.39%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.14%) MiFID
2 13 (2.55%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.55%) QA
3 11 (2.16%) PMO
4 8 (1.57%) SLA
5 6 (1.18%) EMIR
6 5 (0.98%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.39%) WCAG
8 1 (0.20%) Basel III
8 1 (0.20%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.20%) GDPR
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.20%) ITGC
8 1 (0.20%) NIST
8 1 (0.20%) PSD2
8 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 20 (3.92%) Docker
2 18 (3.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (3.33%) Firmware
4 13 (2.55%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.20%) GridGain
5 1 (0.20%) Varnish
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.20%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 17 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.76%) SCCM
3 8 (1.57%) Terraform
4 7 (1.37%) WSUS
5 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.78%) Ansible
6 4 (0.78%) Control-M
7 2 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.39%) Puppet
8 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.20%) WMI
Vendors
1 54 (10.59%) Microsoft
2 36 (7.06%) F5
2 36 (7.06%) Oracle
3 20 (3.92%) Cisco
4 18 (3.53%) Blue Coat
4 18 (3.53%) VMware
5 17 (3.33%) McAfee
5 17 (3.33%) NetApp
6 14 (2.75%) Bloomberg
6 14 (2.75%) Murex
7 13 (2.55%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.16%) Citrix
8 11 (2.16%) ION Trading
9 9 (1.76%) Reuters
10 7 (1.37%) Charles River
10 7 (1.37%) Sybase
11 6 (1.18%) Adobe
11 6 (1.18%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.98%) Remedy
13 4 (0.78%) Google