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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 158 115
Rank change year-on-year -77 -43 +6
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 533 507 681
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.14% 1.81% 2.11%
As % of the General category 2.04% 2.83% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 327 518
10th Percentile £405 £450 £500
25th Percentile £513 £563 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £800 £825 £850
90th Percentile £938 £922 £888
UK median daily rate £650 £700 £750
% change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £78.75 -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £78.75 £44.04
% change year-on-year +20.63% +78.81% +6.28%

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 26,178 17,926 18,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.23% 64.16% 58.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,313 11,375 11,385
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.19% -3.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,344 1,026 885
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.17 £17.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.30% -32.93% +29.87%
75th Percentile £56.21 £45.00 £61.43
90th Percentile £78.54 £69.65 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +13.32% -28.14% +27.27%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -47 469 £680 -9.33% 362
North of England -51 51 £502 -2.15% 3
North West -32 42 £489 +20.00% 2
West Midlands -25 30 £875 +75.00% 13
Midlands -37 30 £875 +75.00% 13
South West -30 8 £875 +360.53% 15
Yorkshire -46 5 £428 -18.57% 1
North East - 4 £875 -
South East -58 3 £525 -4.55% 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 13 (2.44%) Confluence
2 5 (0.94%) MTS
2 5 (0.94%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.75%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.56%) Apache
5 2 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.38%) IIS
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.19%) CICS
6 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 17 (3.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.56%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.56%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.19%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.50%) Aladdin
1 8 (1.50%) Oracle EBS
1 8 (1.50%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (0.75%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (0.75%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 4 (0.75%) Oracle iProcurement
2 4 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (0.56%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.38%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.19%) Actimize
5 1 (0.19%) Front Arena
5 1 (0.19%) Global One
5 1 (0.19%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 1 (0.19%) Summit
5 1 (0.19%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 87 (16.32%) Azure
2 58 (10.88%) AWS
3 31 (5.82%) GCP
4 18 (3.38%) Entra ID
4 18 (3.38%) Power Platform
5 17 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (2.63%) SaaS
7 12 (2.25%) GitHub
8 11 (2.06%) OCI
9 7 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (1.31%) Snowflake
10 6 (1.13%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (1.13%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.13%) PowerApps
11 5 (0.94%) Azure Databricks
11 5 (0.94%) Cloud Run
11 5 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (0.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (0.75%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.32%) DNS
2 20 (3.75%) Multicast
3 17 (3.19%) HTTP
3 17 (3.19%) VPN
4 15 (2.81%) BGP
4 15 (2.81%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.63%) DMZ
6 13 (2.44%) BIG-IP
6 13 (2.44%) Wireshark
7 12 (2.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 12 (2.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 12 (2.25%) SSL
8 11 (2.06%) FIX Connectivity
9 9 (1.69%) Firewall
10 7 (1.31%) WAN
11 5 (0.94%) DWDM
11 5 (0.94%) MPLS
11 5 (0.94%) Network Security
11 5 (0.94%) SSH
11 5 (0.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.75%) SQL Server
2 19 (3.56%) Metadata
3 17 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (3.00%) Power BI
5 13 (2.44%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.88%) KDB
6 10 (1.88%) MongoDB
7 9 (1.69%) Chroma
7 9 (1.69%) Data Vault
7 9 (1.69%) Pinecone
7 9 (1.69%) Weaviate
8 7 (1.31%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.31%) Kdb+
8 7 (1.31%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (1.13%) Redis
10 5 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 52 (9.76%) JIRA
2 26 (4.88%) Git
3 12 (2.25%) ER Studio
4 11 (2.06%) Fiddler
5 10 (1.88%) ERwin
6 9 (1.69%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.31%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.13%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.94%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.94%) GitLab
9 5 (0.94%) PowerDesigner
9 5 (0.94%) webpack
10 4 (0.75%) Selenium
11 3 (0.56%) MSBuild
12 2 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.38%) REST Assured
13 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
13 1 (0.19%) CMake
13 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 533 (100.00%) Banking
2 343 (64.35%) Finance
3 160 (30.02%) Front Office
4 119 (22.33%) Social Skills
5 66 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (7.88%) Corporate Banking
7 39 (7.32%) Retail Banking
8 36 (6.75%) Retail
9 34 (6.38%) Financial Institution
10 20 (3.75%) Back Office
11 18 (3.38%) Legal
12 13 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.88%) Spanish Language
14 9 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.94%) General Ledger
18 4 (0.75%) Games
18 4 (0.75%) Law
19 3 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 175 (32.83%) Developer
2 92 (17.26%) Senior
3 80 (15.01%) Analyst
4 68 (12.76%) Java Developer
5 63 (11.82%) Business Analyst
6 54 (10.13%) Senior Developer
7 33 (6.19%) Senior Java Developer
8 31 (5.82%) React Developer
9 30 (5.63%) Network Engineer
10 29 (5.44%) Lead
10 29 (5.44%) Python Developer
11 27 (5.07%) Senior React Developer
12 26 (4.88%) UI Developer
13 25 (4.69%) Senior UI Developer
14 22 (4.13%) C# Developer
14 22 (4.13%) Project Manager
15 21 (3.94%) Support Engineer
16 17 (3.19%) Data Engineer
17 16 (3.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 16 (3.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (10.13%) React
2 40 (7.50%) .NET
3 33 (6.19%) FIX Protocol
4 32 (6.00%) Redux
5 25 (4.69%) REST
6 24 (4.50%) AngularJS
7 22 (4.13%) Kafka
8 16 (3.00%) RESTful
9 15 (2.81%) Spring
9 15 (2.81%) Terraform
10 13 (2.44%) Flask
10 13 (2.44%) WebSockets
11 12 (2.25%) Pandas
12 11 (2.06%) LangChain
12 11 (2.06%) PySpark
13 10 (1.88%) OAuth
14 9 (1.69%) FastAPI
14 9 (1.69%) Middleware
14 9 (1.69%) NumPy
14 9 (1.69%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 89 (16.70%) Derivative
2 81 (15.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 67 (12.57%) Fixed Income
4 59 (11.07%) Equities
5 40 (7.50%) Management Information System
6 36 (6.75%) Greenfield Project
7 34 (6.38%) Product Ownership
8 28 (5.25%) Onboarding
9 23 (4.32%) Market Risk
10 21 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
11 19 (3.56%) AI Agents
12 17 (3.19%) Data Structures
13 15 (2.81%) Hedge funds
14 13 (2.44%) Algorithms
15 12 (2.25%) Cloud Native
15 12 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
16 11 (2.06%) Reference Data
16 11 (2.06%) TWAP
16 11 (2.06%) VWAP
17 10 (1.88%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.75%) Linux
2 34 (6.38%) Windows
3 24 (4.50%) Unix
4 5 (0.94%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.94%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.75%) Android
5 4 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.56%) Windows 7
6 3 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.38%) AIX
7 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.38%) Solaris
8 1 (0.19%) HPUX
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.19%) SUSE
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (23.83%) Agile
2 95 (17.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 82 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 74 (13.88%) Low Latency
5 70 (13.13%) CI/CD
6 66 (12.38%) AI
6 66 (12.38%) Electronic Trading
7 57 (10.69%) Analytics
7 57 (10.69%) Software Engineering
8 47 (8.82%) DevOps
9 46 (8.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 46 (8.63%) Wealth Management
10 44 (8.26%) Migration
11 42 (7.88%) Business Analysis
12 40 (7.50%) Data Modelling
13 39 (7.32%) Event-Driven
14 38 (7.13%) Translating Business Requirements
15 37 (6.94%) Full-Stack Development
16 36 (6.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 35 (6.57%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 119 (22.33%) SQL
2 117 (21.95%) Java
3 115 (21.58%) Python
4 87 (16.32%) C#
5 63 (11.82%) TypeScript
6 52 (9.76%) JavaScript
7 20 (3.75%) C++
7 20 (3.75%) PowerShell
8 14 (2.63%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.31%) Bash
9 7 (1.31%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.13%) Rust
11 5 (0.94%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.94%) Tcl
12 4 (0.75%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.56%) Bicep
13 3 (0.56%) C
14 2 (0.38%) Korn
14 2 (0.38%) Perl
14 2 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (6.57%) Degree
2 10 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (1.69%) Azure Certification
4 8 (1.50%) PMP
5 6 (1.13%) Security Cleared
6 5 (0.94%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.75%) ACCA
7 4 (0.75%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.75%) CIMA
7 4 (0.75%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.75%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.56%) CBAP
8 3 (0.56%) CISSP
9 2 (0.38%) CCNP
9 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.19%) CESG Certified Professional
10 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.19%) IIBA
10 1 (0.19%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.56%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.19%) MiFID
3 13 (2.44%) QA
4 10 (1.88%) EMIR
5 6 (1.13%) PMO
6 5 (0.94%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.75%) IFRS
7 4 (0.75%) NIST
8 3 (0.56%) WCAG
9 2 (0.38%) GRC
10 1 (0.19%) COBIT
10 1 (0.19%) COREP
10 1 (0.19%) FINREP
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.19%) SEPA
10 1 (0.19%) TARGET2
System Software
1 22 (4.13%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.56%) Docker
3 11 (2.06%) Firmware
3 11 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (3.75%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.31%) Ansible
3 6 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.13%) SCCM
4 4 (0.75%) Grafana
5 3 (0.56%) WSUS
6 2 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.38%) Kibana
6 2 (0.38%) logstash
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.38%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.19%) Control-M
7 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.38%) Oracle
3 24 (4.50%) F5
4 21 (3.94%) Cisco
5 15 (2.81%) Bloomberg
5 15 (2.81%) Databricks
5 15 (2.81%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.44%) Murex
7 12 (2.25%) Blue Coat
8 11 (2.06%) McAfee
8 11 (2.06%) NetApp
8 11 (2.06%) VMware
9 10 (1.88%) ION Trading
10 9 (1.69%) Citrix
10 9 (1.69%) Tradeweb
11 8 (1.50%) ServiceNow
12 7 (1.31%) MarketAxess
13 6 (1.13%) Arista
13 6 (1.13%) Reuters
13 6 (1.13%) Sybase