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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 135 126
Rank change year-on-year -91 -9 -13
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 532 570 648
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.17% 2.07% 1.92%
As % of the General category 2.11% 3.23% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 384 524
10th Percentile £413 £413 £513
25th Percentile £511 £613 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £671 £750 £775
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% -3.23% +10.71%
75th Percentile £813 £827 £888
90th Percentile £938 £886 -
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 25,225 17,651 19,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.43% 63.95% 57.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,096 11,267 12,489
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £416 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £656
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 1,922 942 1,312
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.25 £14.06
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.33 £17.25
Median hourly rate £33.74 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +34.16% -34.02% +27.07%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £70.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +29.22% -32.93% +25.00%

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 1 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 1 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 -61 451 £667 -11.03% 152
North of England -18 70 £807 +109.48% 8
North West -2 63 £502 -19.76% 5
Midlands -8 49 £875 +59.09% 1
West Midlands -17 49 £875 +59.09%
South West -33 8 £875 +392.96% 2
North East - 4 £875 - 1
Yorkshire -43 3 £405 +9.46% 2
South East -65 1 £525 -4.55% 15
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 10 (1.88%) Confluence
2 5 (0.94%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.75%) Apache
3 4 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.75%) IIS
4 2 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.19%) CICS
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.56%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.19%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 11 (2.07%) Aladdin
2 8 (1.50%) Oracle Payables
2 8 (1.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 7 (1.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.75%) Summit
6 3 (0.56%) Orchestrade
6 3 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.38%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.38%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.38%) Global One
7 2 (0.38%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.19%) Actimize
8 1 (0.19%) BusinessWorks
8 1 (0.19%) CA PPM
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle iProcurement
8 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.19%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 66 (12.41%) Azure
2 64 (12.03%) AWS
3 24 (4.51%) GCP
4 22 (4.14%) Power Platform
5 16 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (2.82%) GitHub
7 13 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (2.26%) Entra ID
9 10 (1.88%) OCI
10 8 (1.50%) Snowflake
11 7 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (1.32%) SaaS
12 6 (1.13%) Google Workspace
12 6 (1.13%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.13%) PowerApps
13 5 (0.94%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (0.94%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (0.75%) Azure API Management
15 3 (0.56%) Cloud Run
15 3 (0.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.39%) DNS
2 24 (4.51%) Multicast
3 23 (4.32%) VPN
4 22 (4.14%) HTTP
4 22 (4.14%) TCP/IP
5 21 (3.95%) DMZ
6 19 (3.57%) BGP
7 18 (3.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 18 (3.38%) FIX Connectivity
7 18 (3.38%) Wireshark
8 17 (3.20%) BIG-IP
8 17 (3.20%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 17 (3.20%) 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 28 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 21 (3.95%) Power BI
3 17 (3.20%) Metadata
4 15 (2.82%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (1.88%) Data Vault
6 10 (1.88%) Pinecone
6 10 (1.88%) Tableau
6 10 (1.88%) Weaviate
7 8 (1.50%) KDB
8 7 (1.32%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.13%) Big Data
9 6 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (1.13%) Redis
10 5 (0.94%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.94%) Kdb+
10 5 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (0.75%) ClickHouse
11 4 (0.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 41 (7.71%) JIRA
2 16 (3.01%) Fiddler
3 15 (2.82%) Git
4 11 (2.07%) ER Studio
5 10 (1.88%) ERwin
5 10 (1.88%) TeamCity
6 9 (1.69%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.32%) 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%) Balsamiq
12 1 (0.19%) XCUITest
General
1 532 (100.00%) Banking
2 330 (62.03%) Finance
3 165 (31.02%) Front Office
4 115 (21.62%) Social Skills
5 64 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (9.02%) Retail Banking
7 45 (8.46%) Corporate Banking
8 42 (7.89%) Retail
9 41 (7.71%) Financial Institution
10 19 (3.57%) Legal
11 15 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (2.26%) Back Office
13 11 (2.07%) Spanish Language
14 8 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.50%) 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
1 176 (33.08%) Developer
2 85 (15.98%) Analyst
3 83 (15.60%) Java Developer
3 83 (15.60%) Senior
4 65 (12.22%) Business Analyst
5 61 (11.47%) Senior Developer
6 41 (7.71%) Senior Java Developer
7 36 (6.77%) Network Engineer
8 33 (6.20%) React Developer
9 31 (5.83%) UI Developer
10 30 (5.64%) Senior React Developer
11 29 (5.45%) Senior UI Developer
12 28 (5.26%) Architect
13 25 (4.70%) C# Developer
14 24 (4.51%) Lead
14 24 (4.51%) Project Manager
15 22 (4.14%) Banking Analyst
15 22 (4.14%) Electronic Trading Developer
15 22 (4.14%) Security Engineer
16 21 (3.95%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (11.09%) React
2 44 (8.27%) .NET
3 37 (6.95%) FIX Protocol
4 35 (6.58%) Redux
5 22 (4.14%) Kafka
6 18 (3.38%) AngularJS
6 18 (3.38%) Middleware
7 17 (3.20%) REST
8 16 (3.01%) Spring
9 14 (2.63%) RESTful
10 10 (1.88%) CSS
10 10 (1.88%) LangChain
10 10 (1.88%) LlamaIndex
10 10 (1.88%) OAuth
10 10 (1.88%) OAuth2
11 9 (1.69%) HTML
11 9 (1.69%) Node.js
11 9 (1.69%) WebSockets
12 8 (1.50%) NumPy
12 8 (1.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 100 (18.80%) Derivative
2 80 (15.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 66 (12.41%) Equities
3 66 (12.41%) Fixed Income
4 46 (8.65%) Management Information System
5 34 (6.39%) Greenfield Project
6 28 (5.26%) Product Ownership
7 24 (4.51%) Market Risk
8 23 (4.32%) Onboarding
9 19 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
10 18 (3.38%) Data Structures
10 18 (3.38%) TWAP
10 18 (3.38%) VWAP
11 17 (3.20%) Algorithms
12 15 (2.82%) AI Agents
13 13 (2.44%) Cloud Native
13 13 (2.44%) Credit Risk
14 11 (2.07%) Hedge funds
15 8 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.39%) Windows
2 27 (5.08%) Linux
2 27 (5.08%) 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
1 121 (22.74%) Agile
2 83 (15.60%) Low Latency
3 73 (13.72%) Electronic Trading
4 72 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (12.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 60 (11.28%) CI/CD
7 59 (11.09%) AI
8 58 (10.90%) Analytics
9 46 (8.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 46 (8.65%) DevOps
10 45 (8.46%) Software Engineering
11 44 (8.27%) Wealth Management
12 39 (7.33%) User Acceptance Testing
13 38 (7.14%) Asset Management
13 38 (7.14%) Multithreading
14 37 (6.95%) TDD
15 34 (6.39%) Business Analysis
15 34 (6.39%) Full-Stack Development
16 33 (6.20%) Load Balancing
17 32 (6.02%) Algorithmic Trading
Programming Languages
1 127 (23.87%) Java
2 103 (19.36%) Python
2 103 (19.36%) SQL
3 86 (16.17%) C#
4 66 (12.41%) TypeScript
5 57 (10.71%) JavaScript
6 22 (4.14%) PowerShell
7 20 (3.76%) C++
8 13 (2.44%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.32%) Rust
10 6 (1.13%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.94%) Scala
12 4 (0.75%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.75%) VBA
13 3 (0.56%) Bicep
13 3 (0.56%) C
13 3 (0.56%) Perl
13 3 (0.56%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.38%) Bash
15 1 (0.19%) F#
Qualifications
1 32 (6.02%) Degree
2 11 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (1.32%) Azure Certification
3 7 (1.32%) PMP
4 5 (0.94%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.75%) PMI Certification
5 4 (0.75%) Security Cleared
6 3 (0.56%) CISSP
6 3 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (0.56%) MCSA
6 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.56%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.38%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.38%) CCNP
7 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.38%) MBA
7 2 (0.38%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 2 (0.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.19%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.63%) MiFID
2 13 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 10 (1.88%) QA
4 7 (1.32%) PMO
5 6 (1.13%) EMIR
6 4 (0.75%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.56%) SLA
8 2 (0.38%) NIST
8 2 (0.38%) WCAG
9 1 (0.19%) COBIT
9 1 (0.19%) COREP
9 1 (0.19%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.19%) FINREP
9 1 (0.19%) GDPR
9 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.19%) ITGC
9 1 (0.19%) PSD2
9 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (3.20%) Active Directory
1 17 (3.20%) Docker
1 17 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (3.01%) Firmware
3 1 (0.19%) GridGain
3 1 (0.19%) Varnish
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.19%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 19 (3.57%) 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 (9.59%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.58%) Oracle
3 34 (6.39%) F5
4 19 (3.57%) Cisco
5 17 (3.20%) Blue Coat
5 17 (3.20%) VMware
6 16 (3.01%) McAfee
6 16 (3.01%) NetApp
7 14 (2.63%) OpenAI
8 13 (2.44%) Murex
9 10 (1.88%) Citrix
10 9 (1.69%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.50%) Databricks
12 7 (1.32%) Bloomberg
12 7 (1.32%) Charles River
12 7 (1.32%) ION Trading
12 7 (1.32%) Reuters
13 6 (1.13%) SAP
13 6 (1.13%) Solace
14 5 (0.94%) Sybase