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 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 137 124
Rank change year-on-year -51 -13 -20
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 471 589 781
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.51% 1.93% 2.04%
As % of the General category 2.41% 3.18% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 405 593
10th Percentile £421 £485 £478
25th Percentile £520 £608 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £659 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -5.86% - -4.11%
75th Percentile £825 £850 £848
90th Percentile £957 £888 £1,000
UK median daily rate £650 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -7.14% - -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £20.82 - £16.35
25th Percentile £23.75 £76.25 £17.25
Median hourly rate £40.73 £77.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.45% +318.92% -54.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £78.75 £31.94
90th Percentile £81.25 - £54.78
UK median hourly rate £40.73 £60.77 £18.50
% change year-on-year -32.98% +228.49% -54.32%

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 common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 19,509 18,527 22,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 62.71% 60.60% 59.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,414 11,178 15,516
10th Percentile £278 £300 £290
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £667
90th Percentile £738 £775 £768
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,258 668 1,039
10th Percentile £14.08 £15.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.93 £18.00 £17.18
Median hourly rate £23.79 £30.45 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% -6.31% +26.41%
75th Percentile £46.00 £58.75 £59.75
90th Percentile £71.50 £72.50 £70.53
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £27.50 £31.71
% change year-on-year -12.73% -13.28% +26.84%

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 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025. 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 -37 419 £675 -6.90% 61
North of England -17 45 £423 -33.73% 16
North West +5 40 £408 -14.21% 8
Midlands -20 36 £500 -25.12% 16
West Midlands -11 35 £500 -25.12% 9
Yorkshire -22 19 £423 -39.64% 7
South West - 4 £190 - 10
South East -11 2 £550 - 45
East Midlands - 1 - - 6
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 28 (5.94%) Apache
1 28 (5.94%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (4.03%) Confluence
3 11 (2.34%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.64%) CMS
6 1 (0.21%) Appian
6 1 (0.21%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.21%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.34%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.85%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.21%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (1.27%) Aladdin
1 6 (1.27%) Fidessa
2 5 (1.06%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.21%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.21%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 95 (20.17%) AWS
2 87 (18.47%) Azure
3 34 (7.22%) Snowflake
4 30 (6.37%) Power Platform
5 28 (5.94%) dbt
6 25 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (3.18%) GCP
8 14 (2.97%) GitHub
9 11 (2.34%) Serverless
10 9 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (1.49%) PowerApps
13 6 (1.27%) Azure AI
13 6 (1.27%) Azure AKS
13 6 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (1.06%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (1.06%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (1.06%) ChatGPT
14 5 (1.06%) npm
14 5 (1.06%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 34 (7.22%) DNS
2 26 (5.52%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 26 (5.52%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 21 (4.46%) DMZ
4 16 (3.40%) Network Security
4 16 (3.40%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.97%) HTTP
6 13 (2.76%) Wireshark
7 12 (2.55%) BIG-IP
7 12 (2.55%) SSL
8 8 (1.70%) BGP
8 8 (1.70%) DHCP
9 7 (1.49%) Cisco ISE
9 7 (1.49%) Cisco Wireless
9 7 (1.49%) NX-OS
9 7 (1.49%) VXLAN
9 7 (1.49%) Wireless
10 6 (1.27%) Multicast
11 4 (0.85%) Firewall
12 3 (0.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (6.16%) PostgreSQL
1 29 (6.16%) SQL Server
2 28 (5.94%) Amazon Athena
2 28 (5.94%) Apache Arrow
2 28 (5.94%) Apache Iceberg
2 28 (5.94%) Apache Ignite
2 28 (5.94%) Data Lake
2 28 (5.94%) Dremio
2 28 (5.94%) Power BI
3 20 (4.25%) MongoDB
4 19 (4.03%) Relational Database
5 18 (3.82%) Tableau
6 14 (2.97%) DB2
7 12 (2.55%) Power Query
8 11 (2.34%) NoSQL
9 10 (2.12%) Redis
10 8 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.70%) KDB
10 8 (1.70%) Metadata
11 7 (1.49%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 33 (7.01%) Git
1 33 (7.01%) JIRA
2 18 (3.82%) JUnit
3 12 (2.55%) Fiddler
4 10 (2.12%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.91%) Selenium
6 8 (1.70%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.70%) GitLab
7 7 (1.49%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.49%) Maven
7 7 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
7 7 (1.49%) Postman
8 5 (1.06%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.06%) webpack
9 3 (0.64%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.64%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.42%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.42%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 471 (100.00%) Banking
2 286 (60.72%) Finance
3 155 (32.91%) Social Skills
4 112 (23.78%) Front Office
5 80 (16.99%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (6.58%) Corporate Banking
7 29 (6.16%) Retail
8 28 (5.94%) Retail Banking
9 21 (4.46%) Financial Institution
10 18 (3.82%) Back Office
11 11 (2.34%) Legal
12 10 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.85%) Marketing
16 3 (0.64%) French Language
17 2 (0.42%) Portuguese Language
17 2 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.42%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 140 (29.72%) Developer
2 98 (20.81%) Senior
3 78 (16.56%) Analyst
4 64 (13.59%) Java Developer
5 54 (11.46%) Business Analyst
6 47 (9.98%) Senior Developer
7 41 (8.70%) Software Engineer
8 36 (7.64%) Python Engineer
9 34 (7.22%) Senior Java Developer
10 33 (7.01%) AWS Developer
10 33 (7.01%) Java Engineer
11 29 (6.16%) AWS Engineer
11 29 (6.16%) Java Software Engineer
11 29 (6.16%) Python Software Engineer
12 28 (5.94%) AWS Software Engineer
12 28 (5.94%) Senior Java Engineer
12 28 (5.94%) Senior Software Engineer
13 27 (5.73%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 24 (5.10%) Project Manager
15 23 (4.88%) Banking Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (11.04%) Kafka
2 49 (10.40%) Pandas
3 44 (9.34%) NumPy
4 43 (9.13%) SciPy
5 39 (8.28%) React
6 37 (7.86%) .NET
7 28 (5.94%) gRPC
7 28 (5.94%) Protocol Buffers
8 26 (5.52%) AngularJS
9 22 (4.67%) Spring
10 20 (4.25%) FIX Protocol
11 17 (3.61%) FastAPI
12 15 (3.18%) Flask
12 15 (3.18%) JMS
12 15 (3.18%) Polars
12 15 (3.18%) Vue
13 14 (2.97%) REST
14 11 (2.34%) CSS
15 10 (2.12%) HTML
16 8 (1.70%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 113 (23.99%) Derivative
2 81 (17.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 63 (13.38%) Fixed Income
4 60 (12.74%) Equities
5 59 (12.53%) Hedge funds
6 52 (11.04%) Management Information System
7 30 (6.37%) Onboarding
8 28 (5.94%) Pricing Data
9 26 (5.52%) Market Risk
10 22 (4.67%) Product Ownership
11 20 (4.25%) Cloud Native
12 17 (3.61%) Data Structures
13 14 (2.97%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (2.12%) Credit Risk
15 10 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
15 10 (2.12%) Reference Data
16 9 (1.91%) Distributed Computing
17 8 (1.70%) AI Agents
18 7 (1.49%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 53 (11.25%) Linux
2 15 (3.18%) Windows
3 7 (1.49%) Unix
4 4 (0.85%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.42%) AIX
5 2 (0.42%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (27.81%) Agile
2 86 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
3 74 (15.71%) Software Engineering
4 61 (12.95%) DevOps
5 57 (12.10%) Analytics
6 54 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
7 53 (11.25%) CI/CD
8 46 (9.77%) Project Management
9 39 (8.28%) Asset Management
9 39 (8.28%) Risk Management
10 36 (7.64%) Multithreading
11 35 (7.43%) Data Modelling
11 35 (7.43%) SDLC
12 34 (7.22%) AI
12 34 (7.22%) Mathematics
12 34 (7.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 34 (7.22%) Wealth Management
13 31 (6.58%) Computer Science
13 31 (6.58%) Data Analysis
13 31 (6.58%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 149 (31.63%) Python
2 139 (29.51%) Java
3 127 (26.96%) SQL
4 70 (14.86%) C#
5 60 (12.74%) JavaScript
6 44 (9.34%) TypeScript
7 27 (5.73%) C++
8 20 (4.25%) PowerShell
9 16 (3.40%) Shell Script
10 15 (3.18%) Rust
11 8 (1.70%) VB.NET
12 7 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (1.49%) Lisp
13 6 (1.27%) Scala
14 5 (1.06%) Bicep
14 5 (1.06%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.85%) Go
15 4 (0.85%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.64%) DAML
16 3 (0.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 52 (11.04%) Degree
2 17 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (3.40%) Master's Degree
4 14 (2.97%) PMP
5 11 (2.34%) PMI Certification
6 8 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (1.49%) CCNP
8 6 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (1.06%) CFA
9 5 (1.06%) PhD
10 4 (0.85%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.64%) FFIEC
12 2 (0.42%) ACCA
12 2 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.42%) CIMA
12 2 (0.42%) CISSP
12 2 (0.42%) IIBA
12 2 (0.42%) Security Cleared
13 1 (0.21%) CCA
13 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.52%) QA
2 16 (3.40%) MiFID
3 14 (2.97%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.34%) EMIR
5 9 (1.91%) PMO
6 7 (1.49%) GDPR
6 7 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.85%) SLA
9 3 (0.64%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.64%) Dodd-Frank
9 3 (0.64%) P3O
9 3 (0.64%) SEPA
9 3 (0.64%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.42%) Basel III
10 2 (0.42%) GRC
10 2 (0.42%) NIST
11 1 (0.21%) FATCA
11 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (6.58%) Docker
2 22 (4.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.91%) Firmware
4 4 (0.85%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.21%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 36 (7.64%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.34%) Terraform
3 10 (2.12%) Ansible
4 8 (1.70%) ITRS Geneos
5 7 (1.49%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.85%) Kibana
6 4 (0.85%) logstash
6 4 (0.85%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.85%) SCCM
7 3 (0.64%) Grafana
7 3 (0.64%) Thomson Reuters DACS
8 2 (0.42%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.42%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.42%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.42%) WSUS
8 2 (0.42%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.21%) HP SiteScope
9 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Identity Management
9 1 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 39 (8.28%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.52%) F5
3 22 (4.67%) VMware
4 18 (3.82%) Oracle
5 17 (3.61%) Sybase
6 15 (3.18%) Bloomberg
7 12 (2.55%) Blue Coat
7 12 (2.55%) McAfee
7 12 (2.55%) NetApp
8 11 (2.34%) Databricks
9 10 (2.12%) Solace
10 8 (1.70%) Cisco
10 8 (1.70%) Remedy
11 7 (1.49%) Ekahau
11 7 (1.49%) Murex
11 7 (1.49%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.49%) UiPath
12 6 (1.27%) Google
12 6 (1.27%) Refinitiv
12 6 (1.27%) Splunk