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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 163 113
Rank change year-on-year -72 -50 +9
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 540 494 676
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.16% 1.77% 2.11%
As % of the General category 2.05% 2.77% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 318 506
10th Percentile £405 £450 £500
25th Percentile £513 £552 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £668 £700 £750
Median % change year-on-year -4.64% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £796 £825 £850
90th Percentile £938 £922 £888
UK median daily rate £650 £700 £750
% change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +10.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £70.00 £44.04
% change year-on-year +35.71% +58.95% +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 26,286 17,862 18,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.47% 63.91% 58.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,330 11,337 11,341
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,416 1,048 851
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.51 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.62 £16.29 £18.00
Median hourly rate £29.01 £25.15 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -29.15% +19.33%
75th Percentile £56.00 £45.19 £61.52
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £27.85 £25.08 £33.52
% change year-on-year +11.07% -25.19% +21.89%

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 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 7 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 -47 474 £671 -7.41% 427
North of England -45 53 £464 -9.46% 3
North West -24 42 £489 +20.00% 1
Midlands -34 32 £875 +75.00% 9
West Midlands -36 32 £875 +75.00% 9
South West -37 8 £875 +360.53% 5
Yorkshire -39 7 £450 -14.29% 1
North East - 4 £875 - 1
South East -63 3 £525 -4.55% 33
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 16 (2.96%) 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%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.37%) IIS
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.19%) CICS
5 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 18 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.56%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.19%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.48%) Oracle EBS
1 8 (1.48%) Oracle General Ledger
2 7 (1.30%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.74%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (0.74%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 4 (0.74%) Oracle iProcurement
3 4 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.56%) Orchestrade
4 3 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.37%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.19%) Actimize
6 1 (0.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.19%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.19%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.19%) Summit
6 1 (0.19%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 89 (16.48%) Azure
2 62 (11.48%) AWS
3 31 (5.74%) GCP
4 19 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (3.15%) Entra ID
5 17 (3.15%) Power Platform
6 14 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (2.59%) SaaS
7 11 (2.04%) GitHub
7 11 (2.04%) OCI
8 7 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (1.11%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (1.11%) Power Automate
9 6 (1.11%) PowerApps
9 6 (1.11%) Snowflake
10 5 (0.93%) Azure Databricks
10 5 (0.93%) Cloud Run
10 5 (0.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (0.74%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.63%) DNS
2 22 (4.07%) Multicast
3 18 (3.33%) VPN
4 17 (3.15%) HTTP
5 16 (2.96%) BGP
5 16 (2.96%) TCP/IP
6 15 (2.78%) DMZ
7 14 (2.59%) BIG-IP
7 14 (2.59%) Wireshark
8 13 (2.41%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 13 (2.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 13 (2.41%) SSL
9 11 (2.04%) FIX Connectivity
10 9 (1.67%) Firewall
11 7 (1.30%) WAN
12 5 (0.93%) DWDM
12 5 (0.93%) MPLS
12 5 (0.93%) Network Security
12 5 (0.93%) SSH
12 5 (0.93%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.89%) SQL Server
2 19 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (3.52%) Metadata
3 16 (2.96%) Relational Database
4 15 (2.78%) Power BI
5 10 (1.85%) KDB
5 10 (1.85%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.67%) Chroma
6 9 (1.67%) Data Vault
6 9 (1.67%) Pinecone
6 9 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.67%) Weaviate
7 7 (1.30%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.30%) Kdb+
7 7 (1.30%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.93%) Oracle Database
9 5 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 55 (10.19%) JIRA
2 29 (5.37%) Git
3 12 (2.22%) ER Studio
3 12 (2.22%) Fiddler
4 10 (1.85%) ERwin
5 9 (1.67%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.30%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.11%) TeamCity
7 6 (1.11%) webpack
8 5 (0.93%) GitLab
8 5 (0.93%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.74%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.56%) MSBuild
10 3 (0.56%) Selenium
11 2 (0.37%) Maven
11 2 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.37%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.19%) CMake
12 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 540 (100.00%) Banking
2 350 (64.81%) Finance
3 163 (30.19%) Front Office
4 123 (22.78%) Social Skills
5 72 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (7.41%) Corporate Banking
7 39 (7.22%) Retail Banking
8 35 (6.48%) Financial Institution
9 34 (6.30%) Retail
10 24 (4.44%) Back Office
11 18 (3.33%) Legal
12 14 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.85%) Spanish Language
14 9 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.93%) General Ledger
18 4 (0.74%) Games
18 4 (0.74%) Law
19 3 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 182 (33.70%) Developer
2 93 (17.22%) Senior
3 83 (15.37%) Analyst
4 72 (13.33%) Java Developer
5 64 (11.85%) Business Analyst
6 55 (10.19%) Senior Developer
7 34 (6.30%) Senior Java Developer
8 32 (5.93%) Network Engineer
9 31 (5.74%) React Developer
10 30 (5.56%) Python Developer
11 29 (5.37%) Lead
12 26 (4.81%) Senior React Developer
12 26 (4.81%) UI Developer
13 24 (4.44%) Senior UI Developer
14 22 (4.07%) Project Manager
15 21 (3.89%) C# Developer
15 21 (3.89%) Support Engineer
16 19 (3.52%) Data Engineer
17 17 (3.15%) Security Engineer
18 16 (2.96%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (9.63%) React
2 38 (7.04%) .NET
3 31 (5.74%) FIX Protocol
4 30 (5.56%) Redux
5 28 (5.19%) REST
6 24 (4.44%) AngularJS
6 24 (4.44%) Kafka
7 20 (3.70%) Spring
8 16 (2.96%) RESTful
8 16 (2.96%) Terraform
9 14 (2.59%) Flask
10 13 (2.41%) Pandas
10 13 (2.41%) PySpark
11 12 (2.22%) Spring Boot
11 12 (2.22%) WebSockets
12 11 (2.04%) LangChain
13 10 (1.85%) FastAPI
13 10 (1.85%) NumPy
13 10 (1.85%) OAuth
14 9 (1.67%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 89 (16.48%) Derivative
2 79 (14.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 67 (12.41%) Fixed Income
4 58 (10.74%) Equities
5 43 (7.96%) Management Information System
6 35 (6.48%) Greenfield Project
7 34 (6.30%) Product Ownership
8 28 (5.19%) Onboarding
9 25 (4.63%) Market Risk
10 20 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
11 19 (3.52%) AI Agents
12 18 (3.33%) Data Structures
13 17 (3.15%) Reference Data
14 15 (2.78%) Hedge funds
15 14 (2.59%) Algorithms
16 12 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
17 11 (2.04%) Cloud Native
17 11 (2.04%) TWAP
17 11 (2.04%) VWAP
18 10 (1.85%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.04%) Linux
2 33 (6.11%) Windows
3 25 (4.63%) 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
1 131 (24.26%) Agile
2 102 (18.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 87 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
4 73 (13.52%) CI/CD
5 72 (13.33%) Low Latency
6 67 (12.41%) AI
7 66 (12.22%) Electronic Trading
8 58 (10.74%) Software Engineering
9 56 (10.37%) Analytics
10 51 (9.44%) DevOps
11 50 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (9.26%) Migration
12 47 (8.70%) Business Analysis
13 45 (8.33%) Wealth Management
14 42 (7.78%) Translating Business Requirements
15 39 (7.22%) Data Modelling
15 39 (7.22%) Event-Driven
15 39 (7.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 38 (7.04%) Scrum
16 38 (7.04%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 126 (23.33%) SQL
2 120 (22.22%) Java
3 115 (21.30%) Python
4 84 (15.56%) C#
5 61 (11.30%) TypeScript
6 51 (9.44%) JavaScript
7 20 (3.70%) C++
8 18 (3.33%) PowerShell
9 15 (2.78%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.30%) Bash
10 7 (1.30%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.93%) Rust
11 5 (0.93%) Tcl
12 4 (0.74%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.56%) Bicep
13 3 (0.56%) C
13 3 (0.56%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.37%) Korn
14 2 (0.37%) VBA
15 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 36 (6.67%) Degree
2 11 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (1.85%) PMP
4 8 (1.48%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.30%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.11%) Security Cleared
7 4 (0.74%) ACCA
7 4 (0.74%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.74%) CBAP
7 4 (0.74%) CIMA
7 4 (0.74%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.74%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.56%) CISSP
9 2 (0.37%) CCNP
9 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.19%) MCSA
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.44%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.15%) MiFID
3 12 (2.22%) QA
4 11 (2.04%) EMIR
5 6 (1.11%) 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 (3.89%) Active Directory
1 21 (3.89%) Docker
2 12 (2.22%) Firmware
2 12 (2.22%) 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 20 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.30%) Ansible
3 6 (1.11%) 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 44 (8.15%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.30%) Oracle
3 26 (4.81%) F5
4 22 (4.07%) Cisco
5 16 (2.96%) Bloomberg
5 16 (2.96%) Databricks
6 15 (2.78%) OpenAI
7 13 (2.41%) Blue Coat
7 13 (2.41%) Murex
8 12 (2.22%) McAfee
8 12 (2.22%) NetApp
8 12 (2.22%) VMware
9 11 (2.04%) ION Trading
10 10 (1.85%) Citrix
11 9 (1.67%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.67%) Tradeweb
12 7 (1.30%) MarketAxess
13 6 (1.11%) Arista
13 6 (1.11%) Reuters
14 5 (0.93%) Splunk