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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 126 117
Rank change year-on-year -39 -9 -15
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 500 616 836
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.70% 1.98% 2.12%
As % of the General category 2.67% 3.35% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 442 628
10th Percentile £440 £500 £488
25th Percentile £525 £610 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £825 £850 £840
90th Percentile £926 £888 £1,000
UK median daily rate £650 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -7.14% - -5.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 5
10th Percentile £20.82 - £16.55
25th Percentile £23.75 £76.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £40.73 £77.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.45% +318.92% -28.85%
75th Percentile £70.00 £78.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 - -
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 18,732 18,388 23,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 63.59% 59.13% 59.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,880 11,025 16,080
10th Percentile £275 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £632 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,191 700 1,016
10th Percentile £13.85 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.00 £16.90
Median hourly rate £25.00 £31.97 £30.48
Median % change year-on-year -21.80% +4.91% +18.53%
75th Percentile £44.94 £60.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £69.99 £71.25 £70.96
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £29.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -15.25% -1.67% +20.00%

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 November 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 November 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 November 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 -26 451 £683 -5.86% 197
North of England -5 42 £423 -39.64% 19
North West +12 36 £408 -29.13% 17
Midlands -21 30 £500 -23.95% 3
West Midlands -15 29 £500 -23.95% 3
Yorkshire -16 18 £423 -39.64% 2
South West +14 4 £190 -
South East -7 2 £550 - 107
East Midlands - 1 - -
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 37 (7.40%) Apache
1 37 (7.40%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (4.20%) Confluence
3 12 (2.40%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.40%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.80%) MQSeries
6 3 (0.60%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Appian
7 1 (0.20%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 21 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.80%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.80%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.40%) UserZoom
7 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (1.20%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.00%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.80%) thinkFolio
4 2 (0.40%) Actimize
4 2 (0.40%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.20%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.20%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.20%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 113 (22.60%) AWS
2 90 (18.00%) Azure
3 41 (8.20%) Snowflake
4 36 (7.20%) dbt
5 34 (6.80%) Power Platform
6 27 (5.40%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (4.20%) GCP
8 15 (3.00%) GitHub
9 10 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (1.80%) Serverless
11 7 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.40%) PowerApps
12 6 (1.20%) Azure AI
12 6 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (1.20%) Figma
12 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (1.20%) SaaS
13 5 (1.00%) Azure AKS
13 5 (1.00%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (1.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.60%) DNS
2 21 (4.20%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 21 (4.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 17 (3.40%) DMZ
4 14 (2.80%) Network Security
5 12 (2.40%) TCP/IP
6 10 (2.00%) Wireshark
7 9 (1.80%) BGP
7 9 (1.80%) BIG-IP
7 9 (1.80%) HTTP
7 9 (1.80%) Multicast
7 9 (1.80%) SSL
8 7 (1.40%) DHCP
9 6 (1.20%) Cisco ISE
9 6 (1.20%) Cisco Wireless
9 6 (1.20%) NX-OS
9 6 (1.20%) VXLAN
9 6 (1.20%) Wireless
10 4 (0.80%) Firewall
11 3 (0.60%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (7.40%) Amazon Athena
1 37 (7.40%) Data Lake
2 36 (7.20%) Apache Arrow
2 36 (7.20%) Apache Iceberg
2 36 (7.20%) Apache Ignite
2 36 (7.20%) Dremio
3 32 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (6.40%) Power BI
4 29 (5.80%) SQL Server
5 24 (4.80%) Relational Database
6 23 (4.60%) MongoDB
7 19 (3.80%) Tableau
8 17 (3.40%) DB2
9 13 (2.60%) Redis
10 12 (2.40%) Power Query
11 11 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (2.20%) NoSQL
12 9 (1.80%) Metadata
13 8 (1.60%) KDB
14 6 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 36 (7.20%) Git
2 33 (6.60%) JIRA
3 18 (3.60%) JUnit
4 13 (2.60%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.80%) Fiddler
5 9 (1.80%) Maven
5 9 (1.80%) Selenium
6 8 (1.60%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.60%) GitLab
7 7 (1.40%) Octopus Deploy
7 7 (1.40%) Postman
8 6 (1.20%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.00%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.60%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.60%) webpack
12 2 (0.40%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.40%) CMake
12 2 (0.40%) Gradle
General
1 500 (100.00%) Banking
2 298 (59.60%) Finance
3 172 (34.40%) Social Skills
4 114 (22.80%) Front Office
5 94 (18.80%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (8.60%) Corporate Banking
6 43 (8.60%) Retail
7 42 (8.40%) Retail Banking
8 22 (4.40%) Financial Institution
9 20 (4.00%) Back Office
10 11 (2.20%) Legal
10 11 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.80%) Marketing
14 3 (0.60%) French Language
14 3 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.40%) Portuguese Language
15 2 (0.40%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 149 (29.80%) Developer
2 108 (21.60%) Senior
3 84 (16.80%) Analyst
4 65 (13.00%) Java Developer
5 58 (11.60%) Business Analyst
6 52 (10.40%) Software Engineer
7 47 (9.40%) Senior Developer
8 46 (9.20%) Python Engineer
9 41 (8.20%) Java Engineer
10 38 (7.60%) Java Software Engineer
10 38 (7.60%) Python Software Engineer
11 37 (7.40%) AWS Engineer
12 36 (7.20%) AWS Developer
12 36 (7.20%) AWS Software Engineer
12 36 (7.20%) Senior Software Engineer
13 35 (7.00%) Senior Java Engineer
13 35 (7.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 34 (6.80%) Senior Java Developer
15 24 (4.80%) Project Manager
15 24 (4.80%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (11.80%) Pandas
2 58 (11.60%) Kafka
3 55 (11.00%) NumPy
4 54 (10.80%) SciPy
5 41 (8.20%) React
6 36 (7.20%) .NET
6 36 (7.20%) gRPC
6 36 (7.20%) Protocol Buffers
7 28 (5.60%) AngularJS
8 24 (4.80%) Spring
9 21 (4.20%) FastAPI
10 20 (4.00%) FIX Protocol
11 19 (3.80%) Flask
12 18 (3.60%) JMS
12 18 (3.60%) Polars
12 18 (3.60%) Vue
13 16 (3.20%) REST
14 8 (1.60%) CSS
14 8 (1.60%) HTML
14 8 (1.60%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 116 (23.20%) Derivative
2 94 (18.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 74 (14.80%) Fixed Income
4 71 (14.20%) Equities
5 69 (13.80%) Hedge funds
6 46 (9.20%) Management Information System
7 36 (7.20%) Pricing Data
8 31 (6.20%) Market Risk
9 28 (5.60%) Onboarding
10 25 (5.00%) Product Ownership
11 19 (3.80%) Cloud Native
11 19 (3.80%) Data Structures
12 13 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
14 10 (2.00%) Reference Data
15 7 (1.40%) Credit Risk
16 6 (1.20%) Algorithms
16 6 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 63 (12.60%) Linux
2 11 (2.20%) Windows
3 6 (1.20%) Unix
4 4 (0.80%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.40%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.20%) Android
6 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (29.00%) Agile
2 98 (19.60%) Problem-Solving
3 86 (17.20%) Software Engineering
4 69 (13.80%) DevOps
5 67 (13.40%) Analytics
6 60 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 57 (11.40%) CI/CD
8 49 (9.80%) Wealth Management
9 46 (9.20%) Asset Management
10 45 (9.00%) Project Management
10 45 (9.00%) Risk Management
11 40 (8.00%) Mathematics
11 40 (8.00%) SDLC
12 39 (7.80%) Investment Management
12 39 (7.80%) Multithreading
13 37 (7.40%) Computer Science
14 36 (7.20%) Data Modelling
15 35 (7.00%) Data Engineering
16 33 (6.60%) Business Intelligence
16 33 (6.60%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 172 (34.40%) Python
2 150 (30.00%) Java
3 135 (27.00%) SQL
4 71 (14.20%) JavaScript
5 70 (14.00%) C#
6 49 (9.80%) TypeScript
7 33 (6.60%) C++
8 21 (4.20%) Shell Script
9 18 (3.60%) PowerShell
9 18 (3.60%) Rust
10 8 (1.60%) VB.NET
11 7 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (1.40%) Scala
12 6 (1.20%) Lisp
13 5 (1.00%) Bicep
13 5 (1.00%) DAML
13 5 (1.00%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.80%) C
14 4 (0.80%) VBA
15 3 (0.60%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (11.20%) Degree
2 21 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (3.00%) PMP
4 13 (2.60%) Master's Degree
5 11 (2.20%) PMI Certification
6 9 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (1.80%) Numerate Degree
7 6 (1.20%) CCNP
8 5 (1.00%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.00%) CFA
9 4 (0.80%) PhD
10 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.60%) CCIE
10 3 (0.60%) FFIEC
11 2 (0.40%) CISSP
11 2 (0.40%) IIBA
11 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.20%) ISSAP
12 1 (0.20%) SC Cleared
12 1 (0.20%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.20%) QA
2 18 (3.60%) MiFID
3 16 (3.20%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.20%) EMIR
5 7 (1.40%) GDPR
5 7 (1.40%) PMO
6 5 (1.00%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.80%) Basel II
7 4 (0.80%) SLA
8 3 (0.60%) Basel III
8 3 (0.60%) Dodd-Frank
8 3 (0.60%) P3O
8 3 (0.60%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.20%) FATCA
9 1 (0.20%) GRC
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.20%) SEPA
9 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 34 (6.80%) Docker
2 17 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.20%) Firmware
4 5 (1.00%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.20%) GridGain
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 40 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.40%) Ansible
2 12 (2.40%) Terraform
3 11 (2.20%) ITRS Geneos
4 6 (1.20%) FortiGate
5 5 (1.00%) Kibana
5 5 (1.00%) logstash
5 5 (1.00%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.60%) Argo
6 3 (0.60%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 2 (0.40%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.40%) Grafana
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.40%) SCCM
7 2 (0.40%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Identity Management
8 1 (0.20%) SCOM
8 1 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 39 (7.80%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.20%) F5
3 20 (4.00%) Sybase
4 17 (3.40%) Oracle
4 17 (3.40%) VMware
5 15 (3.00%) Bloomberg
6 13 (2.60%) Solace
7 12 (2.40%) Databricks
8 9 (1.80%) Blue Coat
8 9 (1.80%) McAfee
8 9 (1.80%) NetApp
9 8 (1.60%) Cisco
9 8 (1.60%) Google
9 8 (1.60%) Refinitiv
10 7 (1.40%) Murex
10 7 (1.40%) Remedy
10 7 (1.40%) UiPath
11 6 (1.20%) Ekahau
11 6 (1.20%) ION Trading
11 6 (1.20%) OpenAI