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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 162 115
Rank change year-on-year -70 -47 +6
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 533 505 684
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.15% 1.80% 2.11%
As % of the General category 2.04% 2.81% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 323 516
10th Percentile £406 £450 £500
25th Percentile £514 £554 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £750
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £800 £825 £850
90th Percentile £938 £918 £888
UK median daily rate £650 £700 £750
% change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +10.70%
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 26,093 17,954 19,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.32% 63.95% 58.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,217 11,378 11,456
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £748 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,385 1,050 868
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.51 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.62 £16.26 £18.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.11 £36.08
Median % change year-on-year +15.76% -30.40% +22.31%
75th Percentile £56.00 £45.56 £61.33
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £25.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.67% -28.36% +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 4 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 4 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 -49 469 £675 -6.90% 446
North of England -47 51 £478 -6.73% 5
North West -31 41 £489 +20.00% 3
Midlands -34 30 £875 +75.00% 12
West Midlands -35 30 £875 +75.00% 12
South West -27 8 £875 +360.53% 14
Yorkshire -46 6 £450 -14.29% 1
North East - 4 £875 - 1
South East -58 3 £525 -4.55% 37
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 (2.63%) Confluence
2 5 (0.94%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.94%) MTS
2 5 (0.94%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.75%) Apache
4 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.38%) IIS
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.19%) CICS
5 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 17 (3.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.56%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.19%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.50%) Oracle EBS
1 8 (1.50%) Oracle General Ledger
2 7 (1.31%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.75%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (0.75%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 4 (0.75%) Oracle iProcurement
3 4 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.56%) Orchestrade
4 3 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.38%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.19%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.19%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.19%) Summit
6 1 (0.19%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 88 (16.51%) Azure
2 62 (11.63%) AWS
3 32 (6.00%) GCP
4 18 (3.38%) Power Platform
5 17 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (3.19%) Entra ID
6 14 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (2.63%) SaaS
7 11 (2.06%) GitHub
7 11 (2.06%) OCI
8 7 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (1.13%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (1.13%) Power Automate
9 6 (1.13%) PowerApps
9 6 (1.13%) Snowflake
10 5 (0.94%) Azure Databricks
10 5 (0.94%) Cloud Run
10 5 (0.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (0.75%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (0.75%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.32%) DNS
2 21 (3.94%) Multicast
3 17 (3.19%) VPN
4 16 (3.00%) HTTP
5 15 (2.81%) BGP
5 15 (2.81%) TCP/IP
6 14 (2.63%) DMZ
7 13 (2.44%) BIG-IP
7 13 (2.44%) Wireshark
8 12 (2.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 12 (2.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 12 (2.25%) SSL
9 11 (2.06%) FIX Connectivity
10 9 (1.69%) Firewall
11 7 (1.31%) WAN
12 5 (0.94%) DWDM
12 5 (0.94%) MPLS
12 5 (0.94%) Network Security
12 5 (0.94%) SSH
12 5 (0.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.94%) SQL Server
2 19 (3.56%) Metadata
3 17 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (3.00%) Power BI
4 16 (3.00%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.88%) KDB
5 10 (1.88%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.69%) Chroma
6 9 (1.69%) Data Vault
6 9 (1.69%) Pinecone
6 9 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.69%) Weaviate
7 7 (1.31%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.31%) Kdb+
7 7 (1.31%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.94%) Oracle Database
9 5 (0.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 54 (10.13%) JIRA
2 28 (5.25%) 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%) GitLab
9 5 (0.94%) PowerDesigner
9 5 (0.94%) webpack
10 4 (0.75%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.56%) MSBuild
11 3 (0.56%) Selenium
12 2 (0.38%) Maven
12 2 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.38%) REST Assured
13 1 (0.19%) HP UFT
13 1 (0.19%) JDeveloper
13 1 (0.19%) MSI
General
1 533 (100.00%) Banking
2 344 (64.54%) Finance
3 161 (30.21%) Front Office
4 120 (22.51%) Social Skills
5 69 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (7.50%) Corporate Banking
7 38 (7.13%) Retail Banking
8 35 (6.57%) Financial Institution
9 34 (6.38%) Retail
10 24 (4.50%) Back Office
11 18 (3.38%) Legal
12 14 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.88%) Spanish Language
14 8 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.94%) General Ledger
17 4 (0.75%) Games
17 4 (0.75%) Law
18 3 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 180 (33.77%) Developer
2 96 (18.01%) Senior
3 79 (14.82%) Analyst
4 73 (13.70%) Java Developer
5 62 (11.63%) Business Analyst
6 56 (10.51%) Senior Developer
7 35 (6.57%) 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%) Project Manager
15 21 (3.94%) C# Developer
15 21 (3.94%) Support Engineer
16 18 (3.38%) Data Engineer
17 16 (3.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 16 (3.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (9.94%) React
2 38 (7.13%) .NET
3 32 (6.00%) Redux
4 31 (5.82%) FIX Protocol
5 26 (4.88%) REST
6 24 (4.50%) AngularJS
7 22 (4.13%) Kafka
8 18 (3.38%) Spring
9 16 (3.00%) RESTful
9 16 (3.00%) Terraform
10 13 (2.44%) Flask
11 12 (2.25%) Pandas
11 12 (2.25%) PySpark
11 12 (2.25%) WebSockets
12 11 (2.06%) LangChain
12 11 (2.06%) Spring Boot
13 10 (1.88%) OAuth
14 9 (1.69%) FastAPI
14 9 (1.69%) NumPy
14 9 (1.69%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 88 (16.51%) Derivative
2 81 (15.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 67 (12.57%) Fixed Income
4 59 (11.07%) Equities
5 41 (7.69%) Management Information System
6 36 (6.75%) Greenfield Project
7 33 (6.19%) Product Ownership
8 28 (5.25%) Onboarding
9 23 (4.32%) Market Risk
10 19 (3.56%) AI Agents
10 19 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
11 17 (3.19%) Data Structures
12 15 (2.81%) Hedge funds
12 15 (2.81%) Reference Data
13 13 (2.44%) Algorithms
14 12 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
15 11 (2.06%) Cloud Native
15 11 (2.06%) Credit Risk
15 11 (2.06%) TWAP
15 11 (2.06%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 37 (6.94%) Linux
2 33 (6.19%) Windows
3 24 (4.50%) Unix
4 5 (0.94%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.75%) Android
5 4 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.75%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.38%) AIX
7 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.38%) Solaris
7 2 (0.38%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.19%) HPUX
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.19%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (23.83%) Agile
2 98 (18.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 84 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
4 74 (13.88%) Low Latency
5 70 (13.13%) CI/CD
6 67 (12.57%) AI
6 67 (12.57%) Electronic Trading
7 55 (10.32%) Analytics
7 55 (10.32%) Software Engineering
8 48 (9.01%) Migration
9 47 (8.82%) DevOps
10 46 (8.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 44 (8.26%) Business Analysis
11 44 (8.26%) Wealth Management
12 39 (7.32%) Translating Business Requirements
13 38 (7.13%) Data Modelling
13 38 (7.13%) Event-Driven
13 38 (7.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 36 (6.75%) Scrum
14 36 (6.75%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 120 (22.51%) Java
1 120 (22.51%) SQL
2 113 (21.20%) Python
3 85 (15.95%) C#
4 62 (11.63%) TypeScript
5 52 (9.76%) JavaScript
6 20 (3.75%) C++
7 18 (3.38%) PowerShell
8 14 (2.63%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.31%) Bash
9 7 (1.31%) Kotlin
10 5 (0.94%) Rust
10 5 (0.94%) Tcl
11 4 (0.75%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.56%) Bicep
12 3 (0.56%) C
12 3 (0.56%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.38%) Korn
13 2 (0.38%) Scala
13 2 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (6.38%) Degree
2 9 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (1.69%) PMP
3 8 (1.50%) Azure Certification
4 6 (1.13%) PMI Certification
4 6 (1.13%) Security Cleared
5 4 (0.75%) ACCA
5 4 (0.75%) AWS Certification
5 4 (0.75%) CIMA
5 4 (0.75%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.75%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.56%) CBAP
6 3 (0.56%) CISSP
7 2 (0.38%) CCNP
7 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.19%) IIBA
8 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.19%) MCSA
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.56%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.00%) 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 21 (3.94%) Active Directory
2 20 (3.75%) 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%) SCCM
4 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.75%) Grafana
6 3 (0.56%) WSUS
7 2 (0.38%) Kibana
7 2 (0.38%) logstash
7 2 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.38%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (8.26%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.38%) Oracle
3 24 (4.50%) F5
4 21 (3.94%) Cisco
5 16 (3.00%) Bloomberg
5 16 (3.00%) Databricks
6 15 (2.81%) OpenAI
7 13 (2.44%) Murex
8 12 (2.25%) Blue Coat
9 11 (2.06%) McAfee
9 11 (2.06%) NetApp
9 11 (2.06%) VMware
10 10 (1.88%) Citrix
10 10 (1.88%) ION Trading
11 9 (1.69%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.69%) Tradeweb
12 7 (1.31%) MarketAxess
13 6 (1.13%) Arista
13 6 (1.13%) Reuters
14 5 (0.94%) CyberArk