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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 138 126
Rank change year-on-year -81 -12 -14
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 521 566 640
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.16% 2.06% 1.88%
As % of the General category 2.10% 3.23% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 379 519
10th Percentile £413 £418 £513
25th Percentile £513 £613 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £693 £750 £775
Median % change year-on-year -7.67% -3.23% +10.71%
75th Percentile £823 £834 £888
90th Percentile £938 £883 -
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 24,793 17,544 19,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.30% 63.79% 57.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,857 11,215 12,627
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £416 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.12% -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 1,857 927 1,344
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.31 £14.06
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.39 £17.44
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% -34.02% +27.07%
75th Percentile £65.00 £50.88 £59.66
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £70.25
UK median hourly rate £32.90 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +30.83% -32.93% +22.79%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -59 441 £671 -10.50% 109
North of England -20 70 £807 +109.48% 6
North West +2 63 £502 -19.76% 3
West Midlands -13 49 £875 +59.09%
Midlands -14 49 £875 +59.09% 1
South West -32 8 £875 +392.96% 2
North East - 4 £875 - 1
Yorkshire -48 3 £405 +9.46% 2
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 (1.73%) Confluence
2 5 (0.96%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.77%) IIS
4 3 (0.58%) Apache
4 3 (0.58%) 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
6 1 (0.19%) CICS
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.19%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 11 (2.11%) Aladdin
2 8 (1.54%) Oracle Payables
2 8 (1.54%) Oracle Receivables
3 7 (1.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.77%) Summit
6 3 (0.58%) Orchestrade
6 3 (0.58%) 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%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle iProcurement
8 1 (0.19%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 63 (12.09%) AWS
1 63 (12.09%) Azure
2 24 (4.61%) GCP
3 22 (4.22%) Power Platform
4 16 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (2.88%) GitHub
6 12 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (2.30%) Entra ID
7 10 (1.92%) OCI
8 8 (1.54%) Snowflake
9 7 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (1.15%) Google Workspace
10 6 (1.15%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.15%) PowerApps
10 6 (1.15%) SaaS
11 5 (0.96%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (0.77%) Azure API Management
13 3 (0.58%) Cloud Run
13 3 (0.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.53%) DNS
2 24 (4.61%) Multicast
3 23 (4.41%) VPN
4 22 (4.22%) HTTP
4 22 (4.22%) TCP/IP
5 21 (4.03%) DMZ
6 19 (3.65%) BGP
7 18 (3.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 18 (3.45%) FIX Connectivity
7 18 (3.45%) Wireshark
8 17 (3.26%) BIG-IP
8 17 (3.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 17 (3.26%) SSL
9 10 (1.92%) Firewall
10 3 (0.58%) 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 23 (4.41%) SQL Server
2 21 (4.03%) Power BI
3 17 (3.26%) Metadata
4 14 (2.69%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (1.92%) Data Vault
6 10 (1.92%) Pinecone
6 10 (1.92%) Tableau
6 10 (1.92%) Weaviate
7 8 (1.54%) KDB
8 6 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.15%) Big Data
8 6 (1.15%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.15%) Redis
9 5 (0.96%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.96%) Kdb+
9 5 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (0.77%) ClickHouse
10 4 (0.77%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 37 (7.10%) JIRA
2 16 (3.07%) Fiddler
3 13 (2.50%) Git
4 11 (2.11%) ER Studio
5 10 (1.92%) ERwin
5 10 (1.92%) TeamCity
6 8 (1.54%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.34%) GitLab
8 5 (0.96%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
8 5 (0.96%) PowerDesigner
8 5 (0.96%) webpack
9 4 (0.77%) Selenium
10 3 (0.58%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.38%) Maven
11 2 (0.38%) MSBuild
11 2 (0.38%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.38%) Vite
12 1 (0.19%) Postman
12 1 (0.19%) XCUITest
General
1 521 (100.00%) Banking
2 318 (61.04%) Finance
3 162 (31.09%) Front Office
4 110 (21.11%) Social Skills
5 60 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (8.83%) Retail Banking
7 42 (8.06%) Corporate Banking
8 40 (7.68%) Retail
9 39 (7.49%) Financial Institution
10 18 (3.45%) Legal
11 15 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (2.11%) Spanish Language
13 10 (1.92%) Back Office
14 9 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.77%) French Language
17 4 (0.77%) Games
18 3 (0.58%) Advertising
18 3 (0.58%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 175 (33.59%) Developer
2 86 (16.51%) Java Developer
3 84 (16.12%) Analyst
4 80 (15.36%) Senior
5 64 (12.28%) Business Analyst
6 60 (11.52%) Senior Developer
7 44 (8.45%) Senior Java Developer
8 36 (6.91%) Network Engineer
9 33 (6.33%) React Developer
10 31 (5.95%) UI Developer
11 30 (5.76%) Senior React Developer
12 29 (5.57%) Senior UI Developer
13 27 (5.18%) Architect
14 24 (4.61%) Project Manager
15 23 (4.41%) Banking Analyst
15 23 (4.41%) C# Developer
16 22 (4.22%) Electronic Trading Developer
16 22 (4.22%) Lead
16 22 (4.22%) Security Engineer
17 20 (3.84%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (11.32%) React
2 40 (7.68%) .NET
3 37 (7.10%) FIX Protocol
4 35 (6.72%) Redux
5 24 (4.61%) Kafka
6 18 (3.45%) Middleware
7 16 (3.07%) AngularJS
7 16 (3.07%) Spring
8 15 (2.88%) REST
9 13 (2.50%) RESTful
10 10 (1.92%) CSS
10 10 (1.92%) LangChain
10 10 (1.92%) LlamaIndex
10 10 (1.92%) OAuth
10 10 (1.92%) OAuth2
11 9 (1.73%) HTML
11 9 (1.73%) Node.js
12 8 (1.54%) RxJava
12 8 (1.54%) XML
13 7 (1.34%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 98 (18.81%) Derivative
2 80 (15.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 65 (12.48%) Equities
3 65 (12.48%) Fixed Income
4 45 (8.64%) Management Information System
5 34 (6.53%) Greenfield Project
6 26 (4.99%) Product Ownership
7 23 (4.41%) Onboarding
8 21 (4.03%) Market Risk
9 19 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
10 18 (3.45%) TWAP
10 18 (3.45%) VWAP
11 17 (3.26%) Algorithms
11 17 (3.26%) Data Structures
12 14 (2.69%) AI Agents
13 13 (2.50%) Cloud Native
14 12 (2.30%) Credit Risk
15 11 (2.11%) Hedge funds
16 8 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
16 8 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.53%) Windows
2 26 (4.99%) Linux
2 26 (4.99%) Unix
3 5 (0.96%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.96%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.77%) Android
5 3 (0.58%) 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
1 113 (21.69%) Agile
2 83 (15.93%) Low Latency
3 73 (14.01%) Electronic Trading
4 70 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (11.32%) CI/CD
6 58 (11.13%) Stakeholder Management
7 55 (10.56%) AI
8 52 (9.98%) Analytics
9 43 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 43 (8.25%) DevOps
9 43 (8.25%) Software Engineering
10 41 (7.87%) Wealth Management
11 38 (7.29%) Asset Management
11 38 (7.29%) Multithreading
12 37 (7.10%) User Acceptance Testing
13 36 (6.91%) TDD
14 33 (6.33%) Business Analysis
14 33 (6.33%) Load Balancing
15 32 (6.14%) Algorithmic Trading
15 32 (6.14%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 129 (24.76%) Java
2 102 (19.58%) Python
3 98 (18.81%) SQL
4 83 (15.93%) C#
5 66 (12.67%) TypeScript
6 56 (10.75%) JavaScript
7 22 (4.22%) PowerShell
8 20 (3.84%) C++
9 11 (2.11%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.34%) Rust
11 6 (1.15%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.96%) Scala
13 4 (0.77%) VBA
14 3 (0.58%) Bicep
14 3 (0.58%) C
14 3 (0.58%) Perl
14 3 (0.58%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.58%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.38%) Bash
16 1 (0.19%) F#
Qualifications
1 31 (5.95%) Degree
2 11 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (1.34%) Azure Certification
3 7 (1.34%) PMP
4 5 (0.96%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.77%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.58%) CISSP
6 3 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (0.58%) MCSA
6 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
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%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.38%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 2 (0.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.19%) IIBA
8 1 (0.19%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.69%) MiFID
2 10 (1.92%) Data Quality
2 10 (1.92%) QA
3 7 (1.34%) PMO
4 6 (1.15%) EMIR
5 4 (0.77%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.58%) 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%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.19%) FINREP
8 1 (0.19%) GDPR
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 17 (3.26%) Active Directory
1 17 (3.26%) Docker
1 17 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (3.07%) 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 (3.65%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.11%) Terraform
3 7 (1.34%) SCCM
4 6 (1.15%) Ansible
4 6 (1.15%) WSUS
5 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.58%) Control-M
6 3 (0.58%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.19%) WMI
Vendors
1 48 (9.21%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.53%) F5
3 32 (6.14%) Oracle
4 19 (3.65%) Cisco
5 17 (3.26%) Blue Coat
5 17 (3.26%) VMware
6 16 (3.07%) McAfee
6 16 (3.07%) NetApp
7 14 (2.69%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.30%) Murex
9 9 (1.73%) Citrix
10 7 (1.34%) Bloomberg
10 7 (1.34%) Charles River
10 7 (1.34%) Reuters
10 7 (1.34%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.15%) Databricks
11 6 (1.15%) ION Trading
11 6 (1.15%) Solace
12 5 (0.96%) Remedy
12 5 (0.96%) Sybase