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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 142 142
Rank change year-on-year -57 0 -41
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 443 505 632
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.40% 1.85% 1.75%
As % of the General category 2.30% 2.98% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 319 483
10th Percentile £425 £475 £475
25th Percentile £506 £600 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £678 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.13% -3.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £816 £825 £825
90th Percentile £986 £888 £950
UK median daily rate £641 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.57% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £20.33 - £16.15
25th Percentile £22.53 £76.25 £16.75
Median hourly rate £32.87 £77.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -57.59% +318.92% -32.68%
75th Percentile £45.64 £78.75 £19.25
90th Percentile £52.43 - -
UK median hourly rate £32.87 £60.77 £18.50
% change year-on-year -45.92% +228.49% -32.68%

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 19,286 16,953 21,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 60.94% 61.99% 59.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,266 10,242 14,341
10th Percentile £285 £300 £275
25th Percentile £402 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.31% -1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,202 572 1,030
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.54 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.37 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.58 £30.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.42% -9.09% +28.11%
75th Percentile £47.38 £57.62 £58.94
90th Percentile £71.50 £74.99 £70.51
UK median hourly rate £23.58 £27.50 £32.41
% change year-on-year -14.27% -15.15% +29.64%

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 7 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Investment Banking in England over the 6 months to 7 January 2026.

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 7 January 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 -32 380 £650 -5.45% 62
North of England -13 54 £434 -38.04% 2
North West +9 49 £625 +8.70% 2
Midlands -15 45 £500 -26.25% 5
West Midlands -12 44 £500 -26.25% 5
Yorkshire -35 19 £423 -39.64%
South West - 5 £190 - 1
South East -26 2 £159 - 27
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 20 (4.51%) Apache
1 20 (4.51%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.84%) Confluence
3 10 (2.26%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.35%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.68%) CMS
6 1 (0.23%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.23%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (3.84%) MS Visio
2 15 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.90%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.35%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.90%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.68%) thinkFolio
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.23%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.23%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.23%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 80 (18.06%) AWS
2 77 (17.38%) Azure
3 26 (5.87%) Snowflake
4 24 (5.42%) Power Platform
5 20 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (4.51%) dbt
6 16 (3.61%) GCP
7 15 (3.39%) GitHub
8 11 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (2.03%) Serverless
10 8 (1.81%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (1.58%) PowerApps
12 6 (1.35%) Azure AKS
12 6 (1.35%) ChatGPT
13 5 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.13%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (1.13%) npm
13 5 (1.13%) Yarn
14 4 (0.90%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 40 (9.03%) DNS
2 29 (6.55%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 29 (6.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 25 (5.64%) DMZ
4 19 (4.29%) TCP/IP
5 17 (3.84%) HTTP
6 16 (3.61%) Network Security
7 15 (3.39%) BIG-IP
7 15 (3.39%) SSL
7 15 (3.39%) Wireshark
8 10 (2.26%) BGP
9 8 (1.81%) DHCP
9 8 (1.81%) FIX Connectivity
10 7 (1.58%) Cisco ISE
10 7 (1.58%) Cisco Wireless
10 7 (1.58%) Multicast
10 7 (1.58%) NX-OS
10 7 (1.58%) VPN
10 7 (1.58%) VXLAN
10 7 (1.58%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.64%) PostgreSQL
1 25 (5.64%) SQL Server
2 22 (4.97%) Power BI
3 20 (4.51%) Amazon Athena
3 20 (4.51%) Apache Arrow
3 20 (4.51%) Apache Iceberg
3 20 (4.51%) Apache Ignite
3 20 (4.51%) Data Lake
3 20 (4.51%) Dremio
4 18 (4.06%) MongoDB
4 18 (4.06%) Tableau
5 16 (3.61%) Relational Database
6 12 (2.71%) NoSQL
7 11 (2.48%) DB2
8 8 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.58%) KDB
9 7 (1.58%) Metadata
9 7 (1.58%) Power Query
10 6 (1.35%) Oracle Database
10 6 (1.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (7.00%) JIRA
2 28 (6.32%) Git
3 15 (3.39%) Fiddler
3 15 (3.39%) JUnit
4 9 (2.03%) Selenium
5 8 (1.81%) GitLab
6 7 (1.58%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.35%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.35%) Maven
7 6 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (1.35%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.13%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.13%) Postman
8 5 (1.13%) webpack
9 3 (0.68%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.68%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.68%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.45%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 443 (100.00%) Banking
2 261 (58.92%) Finance
3 133 (30.02%) Social Skills
4 104 (23.48%) Front Office
5 69 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (5.19%) Corporate Banking
7 22 (4.97%) Retail Banking
8 20 (4.51%) Financial Institution
9 19 (4.29%) Retail
10 16 (3.61%) Back Office
11 12 (2.71%) Legal
12 10 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.13%) French Language
14 5 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 2 (0.45%) Marketing
17 1 (0.23%) Games
17 1 (0.23%) General Ledger
17 1 (0.23%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 130 (29.35%) Developer
2 82 (18.51%) Senior
3 77 (17.38%) Analyst
4 57 (12.87%) Java Developer
5 53 (11.96%) Business Analyst
6 40 (9.03%) Senior Developer
7 31 (7.00%) Senior Java Developer
8 30 (6.77%) AWS Developer
9 27 (6.09%) Python Engineer
9 27 (6.09%) Software Engineer
10 26 (5.87%) Banking Analyst
10 26 (5.87%) Network Engineer
11 24 (5.42%) Java Engineer
12 22 (4.97%) Project Manager
13 21 (4.74%) AWS Engineer
13 21 (4.74%) C# Developer
14 20 (4.51%) AWS Software Engineer
14 20 (4.51%) Java Software Engineer
14 20 (4.51%) Python Software Engineer
14 20 (4.51%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (10.38%) Kafka
2 37 (8.35%) Pandas
3 34 (7.67%) .NET
4 33 (7.45%) React
5 32 (7.22%) NumPy
5 32 (7.22%) SciPy
6 22 (4.97%) AngularJS
7 20 (4.51%) gRPC
7 20 (4.51%) Protocol Buffers
8 18 (4.06%) Spring
9 17 (3.84%) FIX Protocol
10 15 (3.39%) JMS
11 14 (3.16%) FastAPI
12 12 (2.71%) Flask
12 12 (2.71%) HTML
12 12 (2.71%) Polars
12 12 (2.71%) Vue
13 11 (2.48%) CSS
14 10 (2.26%) REST
14 10 (2.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 96 (21.67%) Derivative
2 62 (14.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 59 (13.32%) Management Information System
4 55 (12.42%) Equities
5 49 (11.06%) Hedge funds
6 46 (10.38%) Fixed Income
7 30 (6.77%) Onboarding
8 28 (6.32%) Market Risk
9 20 (4.51%) Pricing Data
10 16 (3.61%) Data Structures
11 15 (3.39%) Cloud Native
12 14 (3.16%) Product Ownership
13 11 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (2.48%) Credit Risk
14 10 (2.26%) AI Agents
14 10 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (2.03%) Distributed Computing
16 7 (1.58%) Data Centre
16 7 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
17 6 (1.35%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 40 (9.03%) Linux
2 16 (3.61%) Windows
3 9 (2.03%) Unix
4 5 (1.13%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.90%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.45%) AIX
7 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (24.15%) Agile
2 80 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (13.09%) Software Engineering
4 52 (11.74%) Stakeholder Management
5 51 (11.51%) Analytics
6 50 (11.29%) CI/CD
6 50 (11.29%) DevOps
7 40 (9.03%) Project Management
7 40 (9.03%) Risk Management
8 38 (8.58%) Asset Management
9 37 (8.35%) AI
10 34 (7.67%) SDLC
11 33 (7.45%) Business Analysis
11 33 (7.45%) Multithreading
11 33 (7.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 32 (7.22%) Load Balancing
13 31 (7.00%) TDD
14 29 (6.55%) Data Analysis
14 29 (6.55%) Data Modelling
14 29 (6.55%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 126 (28.44%) Python
2 120 (27.09%) Java
3 115 (25.96%) SQL
4 64 (14.45%) C#
5 46 (10.38%) JavaScript
6 36 (8.13%) TypeScript
7 25 (5.64%) C++
8 17 (3.84%) PowerShell
9 14 (3.16%) Shell Script
10 12 (2.71%) Rust
11 7 (1.58%) Lisp
11 7 (1.58%) Scala
12 6 (1.35%) VB.NET
13 5 (1.13%) Go
14 4 (0.90%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.90%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.68%) Bash
15 3 (0.68%) Bicep
15 3 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 49 (11.06%) Degree
2 18 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
2 18 (4.06%) Master's Degree
3 11 (2.48%) PMP
4 9 (2.03%) PMI Certification
5 7 (1.58%) CCNP
5 7 (1.58%) CFA
5 7 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (1.35%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.35%) PhD
7 2 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.45%) IIBA
7 2 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.45%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.23%) FFIEC
8 1 (0.23%) ISSAP
8 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.42%) QA
2 14 (3.16%) MiFID
3 11 (2.48%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.48%) EMIR
3 11 (2.48%) PMO
4 6 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (0.90%) GDPR
5 4 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.90%) SLA
6 3 (0.68%) P3O
7 2 (0.45%) Dodd-Frank
7 2 (0.45%) GRC
7 2 (0.45%) NIST
7 2 (0.45%) SEPA
7 2 (0.45%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.23%) FINRA
8 1 (0.23%) IFRS
System Software
1 27 (6.09%) Docker
2 25 (5.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.71%) Firmware
4 4 (0.90%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.23%) GridGain
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (6.77%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.03%) Ansible
2 9 (2.03%) Terraform
3 7 (1.58%) FortiGate
4 4 (0.90%) SCCM
5 3 (0.68%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (0.68%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 2 (0.45%) Grafana
6 2 (0.45%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.45%) WSUS
6 2 (0.45%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.23%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.23%) Kibana
7 1 (0.23%) logstash
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.23%) Puppet
7 1 (0.23%) SCOM
7 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 41 (9.26%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.22%) F5
3 25 (5.64%) VMware
4 20 (4.51%) Oracle
5 16 (3.61%) Bloomberg
6 15 (3.39%) Blue Coat
6 15 (3.39%) McAfee
6 15 (3.39%) NetApp
7 13 (2.93%) Sybase
8 11 (2.48%) Cisco
9 10 (2.26%) Databricks
10 8 (1.81%) ION Trading
10 8 (1.81%) Remedy
11 7 (1.58%) Ekahau
11 7 (1.58%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.35%) Murex
12 6 (1.35%) Splunk
13 5 (1.13%) Reuters
13 5 (1.13%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.13%) SAP