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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 138 164
Rank change year-on-year -83 +26 -65
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 462 480 563
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.19% 1.97% 1.51%
As % of the General category 2.10% 3.09% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 307 409
10th Percentile £413 £409 £498
25th Percentile £500 £600 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £738 £712
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +3.58% +1.71%
75th Percentile £775 £875 £850
90th Percentile £938 £888 £900
UK median daily rate £625 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -10.71% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £19.85 £78.63 -
25th Percentile £21.31 £82.19 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £88.75 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.83% +355.13% -51.85%
75th Percentile £41.61 £94.69 £20.75
90th Percentile £50.82 £97.88 -
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £88.75 £19.50
% change year-on-year -71.83% +355.13% -64.30%

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 22,013 15,532 21,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.48% 63.68% 58.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,876 10,115 14,140
10th Percentile £303 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £413 £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 £774
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,391 633 1,721
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.24 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.13 £15.29
Median hourly rate £27.22 £29.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +7.41% -22.86%
75th Percentile £61.18 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £29.00 £26.53
% change year-on-year -11.14% +9.31% -24.20%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -60 380 £645 -14.00% 64
North of England -11 76 £423 -23.18%
North West +26 71 £450 -37.93%
West Midlands -7 59 - - 4
Midlands -16 59 - - 6
Yorkshire -48 10 £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 (3.25%) Confluence
2 7 (1.52%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.08%) Apache
4 4 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.65%) CMS
5 3 (0.65%) SAS
6 2 (0.43%) IIS
6 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.22%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
Applications
1 28 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.68%) MS Visio
3 15 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.22%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 14 (3.03%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (2.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 13 (2.81%) Oracle Receivables
3 9 (1.95%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (1.08%) Aladdin
4 5 (1.08%) Summit
5 4 (0.87%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.65%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.43%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 2 (0.43%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.43%) Global One
7 2 (0.43%) Markit EDM
8 1 (0.22%) Actimize
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.22%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.22%) BusinessWorks
8 1 (0.22%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.22%) ION MarketView
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.22%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 58 (12.55%) Azure
2 54 (11.69%) AWS
3 16 (3.46%) Power Platform
4 15 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (3.03%) GitHub
5 14 (3.03%) OCI
6 12 (2.60%) GCP
7 10 (2.16%) Snowflake
8 7 (1.52%) Google Workspace
9 6 (1.30%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (1.30%) Serverless
10 5 (1.08%) npm
10 5 (1.08%) Yarn
11 4 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (0.87%) ChatGPT
11 4 (0.87%) Power Automate
11 4 (0.87%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.65%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 44 (9.52%) DNS
2 26 (5.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 26 (5.63%) TCP/IP
3 25 (5.41%) DMZ
3 25 (5.41%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 24 (5.19%) HTTP
5 20 (4.33%) BIG-IP
5 20 (4.33%) Multicast
5 20 (4.33%) SSL
5 20 (4.33%) VPN
5 20 (4.33%) Wireshark
6 19 (4.11%) FIX Connectivity
7 18 (3.90%) BGP
8 7 (1.52%) Firewall
9 5 (1.08%) Network Security
10 4 (0.87%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (0.87%) Cisco Wireless
10 4 (0.87%) DHCP
10 4 (0.87%) VXLAN
10 4 (0.87%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.63%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (3.03%) Power BI
3 14 (3.03%) Relational Database
4 13 (2.81%) Tableau
5 8 (1.73%) Metadata
6 7 (1.52%) KDB
6 7 (1.52%) Redis
7 5 (1.08%) Big Data
7 5 (1.08%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.08%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.08%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.87%) Apache Ignite
8 4 (0.87%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.87%) Pinecone
8 4 (0.87%) Weaviate
9 3 (0.65%) Kdb+
9 3 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.65%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 29 (6.28%) JIRA
2 20 (4.33%) Fiddler
3 10 (2.16%) Git
4 8 (1.73%) GitLab
4 8 (1.73%) TeamCity
5 7 (1.52%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (1.30%) Selenium
7 5 (1.08%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.08%) webpack
8 4 (0.87%) JUnit
8 4 (0.87%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.65%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.65%) Postman
9 3 (0.65%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.43%) Maven
10 2 (0.43%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.43%) Vite
General
1 462 (100.00%) Banking
2 256 (55.41%) Finance
3 124 (26.84%) Social Skills
4 123 (26.62%) Front Office
5 56 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (7.36%) Retail Banking
7 30 (6.49%) Financial Institution
8 24 (5.19%) Corporate Banking
8 24 (5.19%) Retail
9 15 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (3.25%) Legal
10 14 (3.03%) Back Office
11 11 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.30%) French Language
14 5 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.65%) Marketing
15 3 (0.65%) Spanish Language
16 2 (0.43%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 123 (26.62%) Developer
2 84 (18.18%) Analyst
3 62 (13.42%) Business Analyst
4 61 (13.20%) Senior
5 58 (12.55%) Java Developer
6 40 (8.66%) Network Engineer
7 38 (8.23%) Senior Developer
8 32 (6.93%) Architect
9 30 (6.49%) Senior Java Developer
10 25 (5.41%) Banking Analyst
11 24 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
12 23 (4.98%) C# Developer
12 23 (4.98%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 23 (4.98%) Payments Architect
12 23 (4.98%) Payments Solutions Architect
13 21 (4.55%) Data Engineer
14 20 (4.33%) Blue Coat Engineer
14 20 (4.33%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
14 20 (4.33%) IP Network Engineer
14 20 (4.33%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (8.23%) .NET
2 32 (6.93%) React
3 30 (6.49%) Kafka
4 28 (6.06%) FIX Protocol
5 19 (4.11%) Middleware
6 15 (3.25%) Redux
7 14 (3.03%) CSS
7 14 (3.03%) HTML
8 12 (2.60%) AngularJS
8 12 (2.60%) XML
9 11 (2.38%) Spring
10 10 (2.16%) Pandas
11 8 (1.73%) HTML5
11 8 (1.73%) Node.js
12 7 (1.52%) NumPy
12 7 (1.52%) REST
13 6 (1.30%) Dask
13 6 (1.30%) JMS
13 6 (1.30%) Reactive Extensions
13 6 (1.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 85 (18.40%) Derivative
2 61 (13.20%) Management Information System
3 48 (10.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 44 (9.52%) Equities
5 43 (9.31%) Fixed Income
6 29 (6.28%) Market Risk
7 24 (5.19%) Onboarding
8 22 (4.76%) Credit Risk
9 17 (3.68%) TWAP
9 17 (3.68%) VWAP
10 16 (3.46%) Hedge funds
11 15 (3.25%) Cloud Native
12 13 (2.81%) Data Structures
13 10 (2.16%) Algorithms
14 9 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
14 9 (1.95%) Data Centre
15 8 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
15 8 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
16 7 (1.52%) AI Agents
16 7 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.84%) Windows
2 23 (4.98%) Linux
2 23 (4.98%) Unix
3 7 (1.52%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.08%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.43%) AIX
5 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.22%) Android
6 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (18.40%) Agile
2 66 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (11.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 49 (10.61%) Analytics
5 48 (10.39%) DevOps
6 44 (9.52%) AI
6 44 (9.52%) CI/CD
7 43 (9.31%) Electronic Trading
7 43 (9.31%) Project Management
8 41 (8.87%) Business Analysis
9 40 (8.66%) Asset Management
9 40 (8.66%) Low Latency
9 40 (8.66%) User Acceptance Testing
10 39 (8.44%) Load Balancing
10 39 (8.44%) SDLC
10 39 (8.44%) TDD
11 35 (7.58%) Multithreading
11 35 (7.58%) Risk Management
12 33 (7.14%) Design Patterns
13 32 (6.93%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 106 (22.94%) SQL
2 98 (21.21%) Java
3 81 (17.53%) Python
4 55 (11.90%) C#
5 31 (6.71%) JavaScript
5 31 (6.71%) TypeScript
6 19 (4.11%) PowerShell
7 14 (3.03%) C++
8 10 (2.16%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.30%) Scala
10 5 (1.08%) Perl
10 5 (1.08%) Rust
10 5 (1.08%) VBA
11 4 (0.87%) Bash
11 4 (0.87%) Lisp
11 4 (0.87%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.65%) Go
13 2 (0.43%) Korn
13 2 (0.43%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.43%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 43 (9.31%) Degree
2 18 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (3.25%) Master's Degree
4 8 (1.73%) Azure Certification
4 8 (1.73%) PMP
5 7 (1.52%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.30%) PhD
7 5 (1.08%) CFA
8 4 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.87%) CCNP
8 4 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.65%) IIBA
9 3 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.65%) MCSA
9 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.43%) CISSP
10 2 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.43%) Security Cleared
10 2 (0.43%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 2 (0.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.11%) QA
2 15 (3.25%) MiFID
3 13 (2.81%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.38%) PMO
5 10 (2.16%) SLA
6 9 (1.95%) EMIR
7 5 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.65%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.43%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.43%) GDPR
9 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.43%) NIST
9 2 (0.43%) SEPA
10 1 (0.22%) Basel III
10 1 (0.22%) COBIT
10 1 (0.22%) COSO
10 1 (0.22%) FINRA
10 1 (0.22%) IFRS
10 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 26 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (4.33%) Firmware
3 19 (4.11%) Docker
4 6 (1.30%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.22%) GridGain
5 1 (0.22%) Varnish
5 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 19 (4.11%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.73%) SCCM
3 6 (1.30%) WSUS
4 5 (1.08%) Terraform
5 4 (0.87%) Ansible
5 4 (0.87%) Control-M
5 4 (0.87%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.65%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 2 (0.43%) Puppet
7 2 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.22%) Grafana
8 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.22%) WMI
8 1 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 49 (10.61%) Microsoft
2 40 (8.66%) F5
3 36 (7.79%) Oracle
4 26 (5.63%) VMware
5 20 (4.33%) Blue Coat
5 20 (4.33%) McAfee
5 20 (4.33%) NetApp
6 19 (4.11%) Bloomberg
7 18 (3.90%) Cisco
8 15 (3.25%) Murex
9 13 (2.81%) ION Trading
10 9 (1.95%) Sybase
11 8 (1.73%) Citrix
11 8 (1.73%) Reuters
12 7 (1.52%) Remedy
12 7 (1.52%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.30%) Charles River
14 5 (1.08%) Adobe
15 4 (0.87%) IBM
15 4 (0.87%) SAP