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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 134 162
Rank change year-on-year -100 +28 -59
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 445 507 554
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.09% 2.08% 1.50%
As % of the General category 2.00% 3.24% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 331 417
10th Percentile £413 £413 £500
25th Percentile £491 £611 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £788 £875 £850
90th Percentile £925 £888 £900
UK median daily rate £625 £728 £725
% change year-on-year -14.09% +0.34% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.96 - £18.25
Median hourly rate £54.46 £100.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +412.82% -
75th Percentile £56.96 - £20.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £74.73 £100.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -25.27% +412.82% -70.70%

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 22,217 15,643 21,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.66% 64.12% 58.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,823 10,163 13,863
10th Percentile £305 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,459 669 1,783
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.23 £17.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.50 £27.64 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +10.35% -8.36% -6.63%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.24 £51.91
90th Percentile £80.01 £75.00 £65.03
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.69%

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 May 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 May 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 -65 364 £650 -13.33% 78
North of England -3 72 £428 -10.00% 5
North West +16 69 £450 -37.93% 4
West Midlands -4 57 - - 4
Midlands -18 57 - - 4
South West - 6 £515 - 2
Yorkshire -57 5 £405 +5.19% 1
South East - 2 £159 - 16
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 11 (2.47%) Confluence
2 5 (1.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (0.90%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.90%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.67%) Apache
4 3 (0.67%) IIS
4 3 (0.67%) SAS
5 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.22%) CICS
6 1 (0.22%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
Applications
1 27 (6.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (3.15%) MS Visio
4 13 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.67%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.45%) UserZoom
8 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (3.15%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (2.92%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 13 (2.92%) Oracle Receivables
3 9 (2.02%) Payment Gateway
4 7 (1.57%) Aladdin
5 6 (1.35%) Summit
6 4 (0.90%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.67%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.45%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 2 (0.45%) Front Arena
8 2 (0.45%) Global One
8 2 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.22%) Actimize
9 1 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.22%) Bloomberg AIM
9 1 (0.22%) BusinessWorks
9 1 (0.22%) IntelliMatch
9 1 (0.22%) Markit EDM
9 1 (0.22%) Orchestrade
9 1 (0.22%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 62 (13.93%) Azure
2 55 (12.36%) AWS
3 19 (4.27%) GCP
4 17 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (3.15%) OCI
5 14 (3.15%) Power Platform
6 13 (2.92%) GitHub
7 11 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (2.02%) Snowflake
9 8 (1.80%) Google Workspace
10 7 (1.57%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.12%) npm
11 5 (1.12%) Serverless
11 5 (1.12%) Yarn
12 4 (0.90%) Figma
13 3 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (0.67%) ChatGPT
13 3 (0.67%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 40 (8.99%) DNS
2 26 (5.84%) TCP/IP
3 25 (5.62%) DMZ
3 25 (5.62%) HTTP
4 24 (5.39%) VPN
5 23 (5.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 22 (4.94%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 21 (4.72%) FIX Connectivity
7 21 (4.72%) Wireshark
8 20 (4.49%) BIG-IP
8 20 (4.49%) SSL
9 19 (4.27%) BGP
9 19 (4.27%) Multicast
10 10 (2.25%) Firewall
11 4 (0.90%) Network Security
12 3 (0.67%) Cisco ISE
12 3 (0.67%) SAN
12 3 (0.67%) Wireless
13 2 (0.45%) DHCP
13 2 (0.45%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.17%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.15%) Relational Database
3 13 (2.92%) Power BI
4 12 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (2.25%) Metadata
5 10 (2.25%) Tableau
6 7 (1.57%) Pinecone
6 7 (1.57%) Weaviate
7 6 (1.35%) Big Data
7 6 (1.35%) Oracle Database
7 6 (1.35%) RDBMS
7 6 (1.35%) Redis
8 4 (0.90%) Data Vault
8 4 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.90%) KDB
9 3 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.67%) Flink
9 3 (0.67%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.67%) Neo4j
9 3 (0.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (6.74%) JIRA
2 19 (4.27%) Fiddler
3 9 (2.02%) TeamCity
4 6 (1.35%) Git
4 6 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (1.12%) GitLab
5 5 (1.12%) Selenium
5 5 (1.12%) webpack
6 3 (0.67%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.67%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.67%) ERwin
6 3 (0.67%) JUnit
6 3 (0.67%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (0.67%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.45%) Maven
7 2 (0.45%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.45%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.45%) Vite
General
1 445 (100.00%) Banking
2 250 (56.18%) Finance
3 119 (26.74%) Front Office
4 105 (23.60%) Social Skills
5 53 (11.91%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (7.64%) Retail Banking
7 27 (6.07%) Financial Institution
8 26 (5.84%) Corporate Banking
8 26 (5.84%) Retail
9 16 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (3.15%) Legal
11 9 (2.02%) Back Office
11 9 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.57%) French Language
13 6 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.67%) Marketing
14 3 (0.67%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.45%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 122 (27.42%) Developer
2 78 (17.53%) Analyst
3 60 (13.48%) Business Analyst
4 58 (13.03%) Java Developer
4 58 (13.03%) Senior
5 40 (8.99%) Network Engineer
6 38 (8.54%) Senior Developer
7 34 (7.64%) Architect
8 29 (6.52%) Senior Java Developer
9 27 (6.07%) Banking Analyst
9 27 (6.07%) Solutions Architect
10 26 (5.84%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 25 (5.62%) Payments Architect
11 25 (5.62%) Payments Solutions Architect
12 22 (4.94%) Data Engineer
12 22 (4.94%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
13 21 (4.72%) C# Developer
13 21 (4.72%) Security Engineer
14 20 (4.49%) Low Latency Java Developer
15 19 (4.27%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.09%) .NET
2 30 (6.74%) FIX Protocol
3 29 (6.52%) React
4 26 (5.84%) Kafka
5 22 (4.94%) Middleware
6 15 (3.37%) CSS
6 15 (3.37%) HTML
6 15 (3.37%) Redux
7 14 (3.15%) XML
8 12 (2.70%) Spring
9 11 (2.47%) AngularJS
10 8 (1.80%) HTML5
10 8 (1.80%) LangChain
11 7 (1.57%) LlamaIndex
11 7 (1.57%) Node.js
12 6 (1.35%) Reactive Extensions
12 6 (1.35%) RESTful
13 5 (1.12%) OAuth
13 5 (1.12%) REST
13 5 (1.12%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 84 (18.88%) Derivative
2 60 (13.48%) Management Information System
3 45 (10.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 44 (9.89%) Equities
5 39 (8.76%) Fixed Income
6 26 (5.84%) Market Risk
7 22 (4.94%) Credit Risk
8 19 (4.27%) TWAP
8 19 (4.27%) VWAP
9 16 (3.60%) Onboarding
10 14 (3.15%) Data Structures
11 13 (2.92%) Algorithms
12 12 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (2.70%) Product Ownership
13 11 (2.47%) Cloud Native
14 9 (2.02%) AI Agents
15 8 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
16 7 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
16 7 (1.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.52%) Windows
2 23 (5.17%) Unix
3 18 (4.04%) Linux
4 8 (1.80%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.35%) Windows 7
6 3 (0.67%) AIX
7 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.22%) Android
8 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (20.67%) Agile
2 61 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (10.79%) Electronic Trading
4 47 (10.56%) Analytics
4 47 (10.56%) Low Latency
5 41 (9.21%) Asset Management
5 41 (9.21%) Stakeholder Management
6 39 (8.76%) AI
6 39 (8.76%) CI/CD
6 39 (8.76%) DevOps
6 39 (8.76%) TDD
6 39 (8.76%) User Acceptance Testing
7 38 (8.54%) Business Analysis
7 38 (8.54%) Multithreading
7 38 (8.54%) SDLC
8 37 (8.31%) Load Balancing
9 32 (7.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (6.97%) Design Patterns
11 29 (6.52%) Risk Management
11 29 (6.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 99 (22.25%) Java
2 93 (20.90%) SQL
3 76 (17.08%) Python
4 47 (10.56%) C#
5 33 (7.42%) TypeScript
6 28 (6.29%) JavaScript
7 20 (4.49%) PowerShell
8 12 (2.70%) C++
9 7 (1.57%) Scala
9 7 (1.57%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.12%) Perl
10 5 (1.12%) VBA
11 4 (0.90%) Bash
11 4 (0.90%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.90%) Rust
12 3 (0.67%) Go
13 2 (0.45%) Korn
13 2 (0.45%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.22%) F#
14 1 (0.22%) Swift
Qualifications
1 32 (7.19%) Degree
2 18 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (2.25%) Azure Certification
3 10 (2.25%) Master's Degree
4 7 (1.57%) PMP
5 5 (1.12%) PMI Certification
6 4 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (0.90%) MCSA
6 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.67%) CCNP
7 3 (0.67%) CFA
7 3 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.67%) CISSP
7 3 (0.67%) Security Cleared
8 2 (0.45%) ACCA
8 2 (0.45%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.45%) MBA
8 2 (0.45%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 2 (0.45%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.15%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.92%) MiFID
2 13 (2.92%) QA
3 11 (2.47%) PMO
4 8 (1.80%) SLA
5 5 (1.12%) EMIR
6 3 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.45%) GDPR
7 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.45%) NIST
7 2 (0.45%) SEPA
8 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.22%) Basel III
8 1 (0.22%) COBIT
8 1 (0.22%) COSO
8 1 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.22%) IFRS
8 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 22 (4.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (4.27%) Firmware
3 17 (3.82%) Docker
4 7 (1.57%) 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 15 (3.37%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.02%) SCCM
3 7 (1.57%) WSUS
4 5 (1.12%) Terraform
5 4 (0.90%) Control-M
5 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.67%) Ansible
7 2 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.45%) Puppet
7 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.22%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.22%) Grafana
8 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.22%) WMI
Vendors
1 48 (10.79%) Microsoft
2 39 (8.76%) F5
3 38 (8.54%) Oracle
4 22 (4.94%) VMware
5 20 (4.49%) Blue Coat
6 19 (4.27%) Cisco
6 19 (4.27%) McAfee
6 19 (4.27%) NetApp
7 14 (3.15%) Bloomberg
7 14 (3.15%) Murex
8 11 (2.47%) ION Trading
9 9 (2.02%) Citrix
9 9 (2.02%) Reuters
10 8 (1.80%) Charles River
11 7 (1.57%) Sybase
12 6 (1.35%) Adobe
12 6 (1.35%) OpenAI
13 5 (1.12%) Remedy
13 5 (1.12%) ServiceNow
14 4 (0.90%) Splunk