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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 158 114
Rank change year-on-year -76 -44 +4
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 537 505 686
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.15% 1.80% 2.11%
As % of the General category 2.05% 2.81% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 323 523
10th Percentile £407 £450 £500
25th Percentile £516 £561 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £750
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £800 £825 £850
90th Percentile £938 £918 £888
UK median daily rate £650 £700 £750
% change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £78.75 -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £78.75 £44.04
% change year-on-year +20.63% +78.81% +6.28%

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 26,193 17,941 19,065
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.30% 64.02% 58.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,300 11,368 11,469
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £533
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
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 2,374 1,041 878
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.70 £16.17 £17.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £25.15 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.30% -30.14% +25.22%
75th Percentile £56.21 £45.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.51 £69.65 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £28.26 £25.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.68% -28.36% +27.27%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -47 473 £675 -6.90% 371
North of England -54 51 £478 -6.73% 4
North West -37 41 £489 +20.00% 2
West Midlands -29 30 £875 +75.00% 12
Midlands -39 30 £875 +75.00% 12
South West -32 8 £875 +360.53% 14
Yorkshire -43 6 £450 -14.29% 1
North East - 4 £875 - 1
South East -60 3 £525 -4.55% 36
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 14 (2.61%) Confluence
2 5 (0.93%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.93%) MTS
2 5 (0.93%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.74%) Apache
4 2 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.37%) IIS
5 1 (0.19%) CICS
5 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 17 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.56%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.56%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.19%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.49%) Aladdin
1 8 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
1 8 (1.49%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (0.74%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (0.74%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 4 (0.74%) Oracle iProcurement
2 4 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (0.56%) Orchestrade
3 3 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.37%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.19%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.19%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Summit
5 1 (0.19%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 89 (16.57%) Azure
2 62 (11.55%) AWS
3 32 (5.96%) GCP
4 18 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (3.35%) Power Platform
5 17 (3.17%) Entra ID
6 14 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (2.61%) SaaS
7 12 (2.23%) GitHub
8 11 (2.05%) OCI
9 7 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (1.30%) Snowflake
10 6 (1.12%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.12%) PowerApps
11 5 (0.93%) Azure Databricks
11 5 (0.93%) Cloud Run
11 5 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (0.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (0.74%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.28%) DNS
2 21 (3.91%) Multicast
3 17 (3.17%) HTTP
3 17 (3.17%) VPN
4 15 (2.79%) BGP
4 15 (2.79%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.61%) DMZ
6 13 (2.42%) BIG-IP
6 13 (2.42%) Wireshark
7 12 (2.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 12 (2.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 12 (2.23%) SSL
8 11 (2.05%) FIX Connectivity
9 9 (1.68%) Firewall
10 7 (1.30%) WAN
11 5 (0.93%) DWDM
11 5 (0.93%) MPLS
11 5 (0.93%) Network Security
11 5 (0.93%) SSH
11 5 (0.93%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.91%) SQL Server
2 19 (3.54%) Metadata
3 17 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (2.98%) Power BI
4 16 (2.98%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.86%) KDB
5 10 (1.86%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.68%) Chroma
6 9 (1.68%) Data Vault
6 9 (1.68%) Pinecone
6 9 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.68%) Weaviate
7 7 (1.30%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.30%) Kdb+
7 7 (1.30%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 54 (10.06%) JIRA
2 28 (5.21%) Git
3 12 (2.23%) ER Studio
4 11 (2.05%) Fiddler
5 10 (1.86%) ERwin
5 10 (1.86%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.30%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.12%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.93%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.93%) GitLab
8 5 (0.93%) PowerDesigner
8 5 (0.93%) webpack
9 4 (0.74%) Selenium
10 3 (0.56%) MSBuild
11 2 (0.37%) Maven
11 2 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.37%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.19%) HP UFT
12 1 (0.19%) JDeveloper
12 1 (0.19%) MSI
General
1 537 (100.00%) Banking
2 348 (64.80%) Finance
3 162 (30.17%) Front Office
4 122 (22.72%) Social Skills
5 69 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (7.64%) Corporate Banking
7 39 (7.26%) Retail Banking
8 35 (6.52%) Financial Institution
8 35 (6.52%) Retail
9 23 (4.28%) Back Office
10 18 (3.35%) Legal
11 14 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (1.86%) Spanish Language
13 8 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.93%) General Ledger
16 4 (0.74%) Games
16 4 (0.74%) Law
17 3 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 179 (33.33%) Developer
2 97 (18.06%) Senior
3 80 (14.90%) Analyst
4 72 (13.41%) Java Developer
5 63 (11.73%) Business Analyst
6 56 (10.43%) Senior Developer
7 35 (6.52%) Senior Java Developer
8 31 (5.77%) React Developer
9 30 (5.59%) Lead
9 30 (5.59%) Network Engineer
10 29 (5.40%) Python Developer
11 27 (5.03%) Senior React Developer
12 26 (4.84%) UI Developer
13 25 (4.66%) Senior UI Developer
14 22 (4.10%) Project Manager
15 21 (3.91%) C# Developer
15 21 (3.91%) Support Engineer
16 18 (3.35%) Data Engineer
17 16 (2.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 16 (2.98%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (10.06%) React
2 39 (7.26%) .NET
3 32 (5.96%) FIX Protocol
3 32 (5.96%) Redux
4 26 (4.84%) REST
5 25 (4.66%) AngularJS
6 23 (4.28%) Kafka
7 18 (3.35%) Spring
8 17 (3.17%) RESTful
8 17 (3.17%) Terraform
9 13 (2.42%) Flask
9 13 (2.42%) WebSockets
10 12 (2.23%) Pandas
10 12 (2.23%) PySpark
11 11 (2.05%) LangChain
11 11 (2.05%) Spring Boot
12 10 (1.86%) OAuth
13 9 (1.68%) LlamaIndex
13 9 (1.68%) NumPy
13 9 (1.68%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 89 (16.57%) Derivative
2 81 (15.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 68 (12.66%) Fixed Income
4 59 (10.99%) Equities
5 41 (7.64%) Management Information System
6 36 (6.70%) Greenfield Project
7 34 (6.33%) Product Ownership
8 28 (5.21%) Onboarding
9 23 (4.28%) Market Risk
10 20 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
11 19 (3.54%) AI Agents
12 18 (3.35%) Data Structures
13 15 (2.79%) Hedge funds
14 14 (2.61%) Algorithms
14 14 (2.61%) Reference Data
15 12 (2.23%) Cloud Native
15 12 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
16 11 (2.05%) Credit Risk
16 11 (2.05%) TWAP
16 11 (2.05%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 37 (6.89%) Linux
2 33 (6.15%) Windows
3 24 (4.47%) Unix
4 5 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.74%) Android
5 4 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.74%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.37%) AIX
7 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.37%) Solaris
7 2 (0.37%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.19%) HPUX
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.19%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (24.02%) Agile
2 98 (18.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 84 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
4 75 (13.97%) Low Latency
5 72 (13.41%) CI/CD
6 68 (12.66%) AI
7 67 (12.48%) Electronic Trading
8 58 (10.80%) Software Engineering
9 57 (10.61%) Analytics
10 49 (9.12%) DevOps
11 47 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 47 (8.75%) Migration
12 46 (8.57%) Wealth Management
13 44 (8.19%) Business Analysis
14 39 (7.26%) Data Modelling
14 39 (7.26%) Event-Driven
14 39 (7.26%) Translating Business Requirements
15 38 (7.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 37 (6.89%) Full-Stack Development
17 36 (6.70%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 122 (22.72%) SQL
2 121 (22.53%) Java
3 115 (21.42%) Python
4 86 (16.01%) C#
5 63 (11.73%) TypeScript
6 53 (9.87%) JavaScript
7 21 (3.91%) C++
8 19 (3.54%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.61%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.30%) Bash
10 7 (1.30%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.12%) Rust
12 5 (0.93%) Tcl
13 4 (0.74%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.56%) Bicep
14 3 (0.56%) C
14 3 (0.56%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.37%) Korn
15 2 (0.37%) Scala
15 2 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (6.52%) Degree
2 10 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (1.68%) PMP
4 8 (1.49%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.12%) PMI Certification
5 6 (1.12%) Security Cleared
6 4 (0.74%) ACCA
6 4 (0.74%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.74%) CIMA
6 4 (0.74%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.74%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.56%) CBAP
7 3 (0.56%) CISSP
8 2 (0.37%) CCNP
8 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.19%) IIBA
9 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.19%) MCSA
9 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.72%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.17%) MiFID
3 13 (2.42%) QA
4 10 (1.86%) EMIR
5 6 (1.12%) PMO
6 5 (0.93%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.74%) IFRS
7 4 (0.74%) NIST
8 3 (0.56%) WCAG
9 2 (0.37%) GRC
10 1 (0.19%) COBIT
10 1 (0.19%) COREP
10 1 (0.19%) FINREP
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.19%) SEPA
10 1 (0.19%) TARGET2
System Software
1 21 (3.91%) Active Directory
1 21 (3.91%) Docker
2 11 (2.05%) Firmware
2 11 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (3.91%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.30%) Ansible
3 6 (1.12%) SCCM
4 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.74%) Grafana
6 3 (0.56%) WSUS
7 2 (0.37%) Kibana
7 2 (0.37%) logstash
7 2 (0.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.37%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (8.38%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.33%) Oracle
3 24 (4.47%) F5
4 21 (3.91%) Cisco
5 16 (2.98%) Bloomberg
5 16 (2.98%) Databricks
6 15 (2.79%) OpenAI
7 13 (2.42%) Murex
8 12 (2.23%) Blue Coat
9 11 (2.05%) McAfee
9 11 (2.05%) NetApp
9 11 (2.05%) VMware
10 10 (1.86%) Citrix
10 10 (1.86%) ION Trading
11 9 (1.68%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.68%) Tradeweb
12 7 (1.30%) MarketAxess
13 6 (1.12%) Arista
13 6 (1.12%) Reuters
14 5 (0.93%) CyberArk