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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 136 116
Rank change year-on-year -85 -20 -3
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 531 561 668
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.16% 2.03% 2.00%
As % of the General category 2.10% 3.16% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 383 540
10th Percentile £411 £414 £511
25th Percentile £510 £613 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £667 £750 £770
Median % change year-on-year -11.07% -2.60% +10.00%
75th Percentile £813 £825 £881
90th Percentile £938 £888 £888
UK median daily rate £650 £725 £750
% change year-on-year -10.34% -3.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £73.25 -
25th Percentile - £78.13 £18.25
Median hourly rate - £87.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +348.72% -55.93%
75th Percentile - £94.38 £20.75
90th Percentile - £97.75 -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £87.50 £31.77
% change year-on-year +8.57% +175.42% -52.27%

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 25,251 17,773 19,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.39% 64.21% 57.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,063 11,333 12,324
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £419 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £660
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 1,999 958 1,231
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.25 £14.44
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.50 £18.02
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +38.62%
75th Percentile £63.00 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £74.13 £70.39
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +27.24% -34.02% +31.45%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -66 454 £651 -13.27% 368
North of England -26 66 £553 +38.25% 4
North West -3 58 £502 -19.76% 3
West Midlands -5 45 £875 - 14
Midlands -11 45 £875 - 16
South West -35 8 £875 +392.96% 3
Yorkshire -48 4 £450 +21.62%
North East - 4 £875 - 1
South East -68 1 £525 -4.55% 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 9 (1.69%) Confluence
2 5 (0.94%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.75%) IIS
4 3 (0.56%) Apache
4 3 (0.56%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.38%) MTS
6 1 (0.19%) CICS
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.19%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 11 (2.07%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.13%) Oracle Payables
2 6 (1.13%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (0.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.75%) Summit
5 3 (0.56%) Orchestrade
5 3 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.38%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.38%) Front Arena
6 2 (0.38%) Global One
6 2 (0.38%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.19%) Actimize
7 1 (0.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.19%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.19%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.19%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 66 (12.43%) Azure
2 59 (11.11%) AWS
3 23 (4.33%) GCP
4 21 (3.95%) Power Platform
5 16 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (2.64%) GitHub
7 13 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (2.45%) Entra ID
8 9 (1.69%) OCI
9 8 (1.51%) SaaS
9 8 (1.51%) Snowflake
10 7 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.13%) Google Workspace
11 6 (1.13%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.13%) PowerApps
12 5 (0.94%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (0.94%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (0.75%) Azure API Management
14 3 (0.56%) Cloud Run
14 3 (0.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.84%) DNS
2 23 (4.33%) Multicast
3 22 (4.14%) VPN
4 21 (3.95%) HTTP
4 21 (3.95%) TCP/IP
5 20 (3.77%) DMZ
6 18 (3.39%) BGP
7 17 (3.20%) FIX Connectivity
7 17 (3.20%) Wireshark
8 16 (3.01%) BIG-IP
8 16 (3.01%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 16 (3.01%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 16 (3.01%) SSL
9 10 (1.88%) Firewall
10 3 (0.56%) Wireless
11 2 (0.38%) DWDM
11 2 (0.38%) MPLS
11 2 (0.38%) OSPF
11 2 (0.38%) SAN
11 2 (0.38%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.90%) SQL Server
2 20 (3.77%) Power BI
3 16 (3.01%) Metadata
4 13 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.26%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.88%) KDB
6 10 (1.88%) Pinecone
6 10 (1.88%) Weaviate
7 9 (1.69%) Data Vault
7 9 (1.69%) Tableau
8 7 (1.32%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.13%) Kdb+
9 6 (1.13%) Redis
10 5 (0.94%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.75%) Big Data
11 4 (0.75%) ClickHouse
11 4 (0.75%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.75%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 43 (8.10%) JIRA
2 16 (3.01%) Git
3 15 (2.82%) Fiddler
4 11 (2.07%) ER Studio
5 10 (1.88%) ERwin
5 10 (1.88%) TeamCity
6 9 (1.69%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.13%) GitLab
8 5 (0.94%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.94%) Octopus Deploy
8 5 (0.94%) PowerDesigner
8 5 (0.94%) webpack
9 4 (0.75%) Selenium
10 3 (0.56%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.56%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.38%) Maven
11 2 (0.38%) MSBuild
11 2 (0.38%) Vite
12 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.19%) XCUITest
General
1 531 (100.00%) Banking
2 332 (62.52%) Finance
3 170 (32.02%) Front Office
4 112 (21.09%) Social Skills
5 64 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (8.66%) Retail Banking
7 44 (8.29%) Corporate Banking
8 42 (7.91%) Financial Institution
8 42 (7.91%) Retail
9 19 (3.58%) Legal
10 18 (3.39%) Back Office
11 16 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (2.26%) Spanish Language
13 8 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.75%) French Language
15 4 (0.75%) Games
16 3 (0.56%) Advertising
16 3 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 170 (32.02%) Developer
2 85 (16.01%) Analyst
3 80 (15.07%) Senior
4 79 (14.88%) Java Developer
5 67 (12.62%) Business Analyst
6 56 (10.55%) Senior Developer
7 37 (6.97%) Senior Java Developer
8 34 (6.40%) React Developer
9 33 (6.21%) Network Engineer
10 30 (5.65%) Senior React Developer
10 30 (5.65%) UI Developer
11 28 (5.27%) Senior UI Developer
12 26 (4.90%) Lead
13 25 (4.71%) Architect
13 25 (4.71%) C# Developer
14 24 (4.52%) Project Manager
15 22 (4.14%) Banking Analyst
15 22 (4.14%) Python Developer
16 20 (3.77%) Security Engineer
16 20 (3.77%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (10.73%) React
2 43 (8.10%) .NET
3 38 (7.16%) FIX Protocol
4 36 (6.78%) Redux
5 19 (3.58%) Kafka
6 18 (3.39%) AngularJS
7 16 (3.01%) Middleware
8 15 (2.82%) REST
8 15 (2.82%) Spring
9 13 (2.45%) RESTful
10 11 (2.07%) WebSockets
11 10 (1.88%) LangChain
11 10 (1.88%) LlamaIndex
11 10 (1.88%) OAuth
11 10 (1.88%) OAuth2
12 9 (1.69%) CSS
12 9 (1.69%) Node.js
13 8 (1.51%) NumPy
13 8 (1.51%) Pandas
13 8 (1.51%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 100 (18.83%) Derivative
2 82 (15.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 68 (12.81%) Fixed Income
4 67 (12.62%) Equities
5 41 (7.72%) Management Information System
6 35 (6.59%) Greenfield Project
7 30 (5.65%) Product Ownership
8 26 (4.90%) Onboarding
9 22 (4.14%) Market Risk
10 18 (3.39%) Data Structures
10 18 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
11 17 (3.20%) TWAP
11 17 (3.20%) VWAP
12 15 (2.82%) AI Agents
12 15 (2.82%) Algorithms
12 15 (2.82%) Credit Risk
13 14 (2.64%) Cloud Native
14 13 (2.45%) Hedge funds
15 9 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
16 8 (1.51%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.40%) Windows
2 28 (5.27%) Linux
2 28 (5.27%) Unix
3 6 (1.13%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.94%) Android
4 5 (0.94%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.56%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.38%) AIX
6 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.38%) Solaris
7 1 (0.19%) HPUX
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.19%) SUSE
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (22.98%) Agile
2 85 (16.01%) Low Latency
3 76 (14.31%) Electronic Trading
4 74 (13.94%) Problem-Solving
5 66 (12.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 60 (11.30%) CI/CD
7 59 (11.11%) AI
8 54 (10.17%) Analytics
9 48 (9.04%) DevOps
10 46 (8.66%) Software Engineering
11 45 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
12 44 (8.29%) Wealth Management
13 38 (7.16%) User Acceptance Testing
14 36 (6.78%) Business Analysis
14 36 (6.78%) Full-Stack Development
14 36 (6.78%) Multithreading
15 35 (6.59%) Asset Management
16 34 (6.40%) TDD
17 32 (6.03%) Algorithmic Trading
17 32 (6.03%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 125 (23.54%) Java
2 103 (19.40%) Python
2 103 (19.40%) SQL
3 88 (16.57%) C#
4 65 (12.24%) TypeScript
5 54 (10.17%) JavaScript
6 22 (4.14%) PowerShell
7 20 (3.77%) C++
8 13 (2.45%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.32%) Rust
10 6 (1.13%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.94%) VBA
12 4 (0.75%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.75%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.56%) Bicep
13 3 (0.56%) C
13 3 (0.56%) Perl
13 3 (0.56%) Scala
14 2 (0.38%) Tcl
15 1 (0.19%) Bash
Qualifications
1 35 (6.59%) Degree
2 11 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.51%) PMP
4 7 (1.32%) Azure Certification
5 5 (0.94%) Master's Degree
5 5 (0.94%) PMI Certification
6 4 (0.75%) Security Cleared
7 3 (0.56%) CISSP
7 3 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (0.56%) MCSA
7 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.56%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.38%) ACCA
8 2 (0.38%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.38%) CCNP
8 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.38%) MBA
8 2 (0.38%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 2 (0.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.82%) MiFID
2 13 (2.45%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.07%) QA
4 7 (1.32%) EMIR
4 7 (1.32%) PMO
5 4 (0.75%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.56%) SLA
7 2 (0.38%) NIST
7 2 (0.38%) WCAG
8 1 (0.19%) COBIT
8 1 (0.19%) COREP
8 1 (0.19%) FINREP
8 1 (0.19%) GDPR
8 1 (0.19%) IFRS
8 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.19%) ITGC
8 1 (0.19%) PSD2
8 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (3.58%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.01%) Docker
2 16 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.82%) Firmware
4 1 (0.19%) GridGain
4 1 (0.19%) Varnish
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.19%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 18 (3.39%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.07%) Terraform
3 7 (1.32%) Ansible
3 7 (1.32%) SCCM
4 6 (1.13%) WSUS
5 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.56%) Control-M
6 3 (0.56%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.19%) Kibana
7 1 (0.19%) logstash
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.19%) WMI
Vendors
1 51 (9.60%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.03%) Oracle
3 31 (5.84%) F5
4 18 (3.39%) Cisco
5 16 (3.01%) Blue Coat
5 16 (3.01%) VMware
6 15 (2.82%) McAfee
6 15 (2.82%) NetApp
7 13 (2.45%) Murex
7 13 (2.45%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.88%) Bloomberg
8 10 (1.88%) Citrix
8 10 (1.88%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.69%) Databricks
10 8 (1.51%) ION Trading
11 7 (1.32%) Charles River
11 7 (1.32%) Reuters
12 6 (1.13%) SAP
12 6 (1.13%) Solace
12 6 (1.13%) Sybase