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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 136 160
Rank change year-on-year -98 +24 -57
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 446 504 558
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.10% 2.07% 1.50%
As % of the General category 2.01% 3.23% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 326 416
10th Percentile £408 £413 £500
25th Percentile £495 £611 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £788 £875 £850
90th Percentile £925 £888 £900
UK median daily rate £638 £725 £725
% change year-on-year -12.07% - +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.96 - £18.25
Median hourly rate £54.46 £100.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +412.82% -51.85%
75th Percentile £56.96 - £20.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £74.73 £100.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -25.27% +412.82% -69.71%

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 22,210 15,585 21,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.02% 64.02% 58.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,892 10,122 13,995
10th Percentile £305 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,450 671 1,789
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.27 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.50 £27.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -8.82% -10.82%
75th Percentile £63.75 £56.58 £51.91
90th Percentile £80.01 £75.00 £65.01
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -14.29%

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 May 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 May 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 -65 366 £650 -13.33% 77
North of England -10 71 £405 -14.74% 7
North West +16 68 £450 -37.93% 6
West Midlands -12 56 - - 4
Midlands -26 56 - - 4
South West - 6 £515 - 1
Yorkshire -52 5 £223 -42.21% 1
South East - 2 £159 - 13
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 13 (2.91%) Confluence
2 5 (1.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (1.12%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.90%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.67%) Apache
4 3 (0.67%) IIS
4 3 (0.67%) SAS
5 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.22%) CICS
6 1 (0.22%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
Applications
1 27 (6.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (3.14%) MS Visio
4 13 (2.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.67%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.45%) UserZoom
8 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (3.14%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (2.91%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 13 (2.91%) Oracle Receivables
3 9 (2.02%) Payment Gateway
4 7 (1.57%) Aladdin
5 6 (1.35%) Summit
6 4 (0.90%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.67%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.45%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 2 (0.45%) Front Arena
8 2 (0.45%) Global One
8 2 (0.45%) Markit EDM
9 1 (0.22%) Actimize
9 1 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.22%) Bloomberg AIM
9 1 (0.22%) BusinessWorks
9 1 (0.22%) IntelliMatch
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.22%) Orchestrade
9 1 (0.22%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 60 (13.45%) Azure
2 52 (11.66%) AWS
3 17 (3.81%) GCP
3 17 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (3.14%) OCI
5 13 (2.91%) GitHub
5 13 (2.91%) Power Platform
6 12 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (2.02%) Snowflake
8 8 (1.79%) Google Workspace
9 7 (1.57%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.12%) npm
10 5 (1.12%) Serverless
10 5 (1.12%) Yarn
11 4 (0.90%) Figma
12 3 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.67%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.67%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (8.97%) DNS
2 26 (5.83%) TCP/IP
3 25 (5.61%) DMZ
3 25 (5.61%) HTTP
4 24 (5.38%) VPN
5 23 (5.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 22 (4.93%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 21 (4.71%) FIX Connectivity
8 20 (4.48%) BIG-IP
8 20 (4.48%) SSL
8 20 (4.48%) Wireshark
9 18 (4.04%) BGP
9 18 (4.04%) Multicast
10 9 (2.02%) Firewall
11 3 (0.67%) Network Security
11 3 (0.67%) SAN
12 2 (0.45%) Cisco ISE
12 2 (0.45%) DHCP
12 2 (0.45%) NAS
12 2 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.61%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.14%) Relational Database
3 12 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (2.69%) Power BI
4 10 (2.24%) Tableau
5 8 (1.79%) Metadata
5 8 (1.79%) Redis
6 7 (1.57%) Pinecone
6 7 (1.57%) Weaviate
7 6 (1.35%) Big Data
7 6 (1.35%) Oracle Database
7 6 (1.35%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.90%) Data Vault
9 3 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.67%) Flink
9 3 (0.67%) KDB
9 3 (0.67%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.67%) Neo4j
9 3 (0.67%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (7.40%) JIRA
2 19 (4.26%) Fiddler
3 10 (2.24%) TeamCity
4 8 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
5 7 (1.57%) Git
6 6 (1.35%) GitLab
6 6 (1.35%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.35%) Selenium
7 5 (1.12%) webpack
8 4 (0.90%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.67%) JUnit
9 3 (0.67%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.67%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.45%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.45%) Maven
10 2 (0.45%) Postman
10 2 (0.45%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.45%) Vite
11 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 446 (100.00%) Banking
2 254 (56.95%) Finance
3 119 (26.68%) Front Office
4 109 (24.44%) Social Skills
5 52 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (7.40%) Retail Banking
7 27 (6.05%) Financial Institution
8 25 (5.61%) Corporate Banking
8 25 (5.61%) Retail
9 15 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (3.14%) Legal
11 10 (2.24%) Back Office
12 8 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.57%) French Language
13 7 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.67%) Marketing
15 3 (0.67%) Spanish Language
16 2 (0.45%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 121 (27.13%) Developer
2 81 (18.16%) Analyst
3 63 (14.13%) Business Analyst
4 56 (12.56%) Senior
5 55 (12.33%) Java Developer
6 39 (8.74%) Network Engineer
7 36 (8.07%) Senior Developer
8 34 (7.62%) Architect
9 28 (6.28%) Banking Analyst
10 27 (6.05%) Senior Java Developer
10 27 (6.05%) Solutions Architect
11 26 (5.83%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 25 (5.61%) Payments Architect
12 25 (5.61%) Payments Solutions Architect
13 24 (5.38%) C# Developer
14 22 (4.93%) Data Engineer
14 22 (4.93%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
15 19 (4.26%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
15 19 (4.26%) Blue Coat Engineer
15 19 (4.26%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (8.52%) .NET
2 29 (6.50%) FIX Protocol
3 27 (6.05%) React
4 26 (5.83%) Kafka
5 22 (4.93%) Middleware
6 15 (3.36%) CSS
6 15 (3.36%) HTML
7 14 (3.14%) XML
8 13 (2.91%) Redux
9 11 (2.47%) AngularJS
9 11 (2.47%) Spring
10 8 (1.79%) HTML5
10 8 (1.79%) LangChain
11 7 (1.57%) LlamaIndex
11 7 (1.57%) Node.js
12 6 (1.35%) Reactive Extensions
12 6 (1.35%) RESTful
13 5 (1.12%) PyTorch
13 5 (1.12%) RxJS
13 5 (1.12%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 83 (18.61%) Derivative
2 59 (13.23%) Management Information System
3 43 (9.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 41 (9.19%) Equities
5 36 (8.07%) Fixed Income
6 26 (5.83%) Market Risk
7 22 (4.93%) Credit Risk
8 19 (4.26%) Onboarding
8 19 (4.26%) TWAP
8 19 (4.26%) VWAP
9 14 (3.14%) Data Structures
10 13 (2.91%) Algorithms
11 12 (2.69%) Cloud Native
11 12 (2.69%) Product Ownership
12 11 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (2.02%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (1.57%) Public Cloud
16 6 (1.35%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.28%) Windows
2 23 (5.16%) Unix
3 18 (4.04%) Linux
4 8 (1.79%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.35%) Windows 7
6 3 (0.67%) AIX
7 1 (0.22%) Android
7 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (20.63%) Agile
2 61 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (10.31%) Analytics
4 45 (10.09%) Electronic Trading
5 44 (9.87%) Low Latency
6 42 (9.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 41 (9.19%) AI
7 41 (9.19%) Asset Management
7 41 (9.19%) Business Analysis
7 41 (9.19%) User Acceptance Testing
8 40 (8.97%) CI/CD
8 40 (8.97%) DevOps
9 39 (8.74%) SDLC
9 39 (8.74%) TDD
10 37 (8.30%) Load Balancing
10 37 (8.30%) Multithreading
11 32 (7.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (6.95%) Design Patterns
12 31 (6.95%) Project Management
12 31 (6.95%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 97 (21.75%) Java
2 94 (21.08%) SQL
3 76 (17.04%) Python
4 51 (11.43%) C#
5 31 (6.95%) TypeScript
6 26 (5.83%) JavaScript
7 19 (4.26%) PowerShell
8 12 (2.69%) C++
9 8 (1.79%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.57%) Scala
11 5 (1.12%) Perl
11 5 (1.12%) VBA
12 4 (0.90%) Bash
12 4 (0.90%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.90%) Rust
13 3 (0.67%) Go
14 2 (0.45%) Korn
14 2 (0.45%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.22%) F#
15 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (7.85%) Degree
2 19 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.47%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.24%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.57%) PMP
6 5 (1.12%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (0.90%) MCSA
7 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.67%) CFA
8 3 (0.67%) PhD
8 3 (0.67%) Security Cleared
9 2 (0.45%) ACCA
9 2 (0.45%) CCNP
9 2 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.45%) CISSP
9 2 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.45%) MBA
9 2 (0.45%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 2 (0.45%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.59%) QA
2 14 (3.14%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.47%) MiFID
3 11 (2.47%) PMO
4 8 (1.79%) SLA
5 5 (1.12%) EMIR
6 4 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.67%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.45%) GDPR
8 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.45%) NIST
8 2 (0.45%) SEPA
9 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.22%) Basel III
9 1 (0.22%) COBIT
9 1 (0.22%) COSO
9 1 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.22%) IFRS
9 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 22 (4.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (4.26%) Firmware
3 16 (3.59%) Docker
4 7 (1.57%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.22%) GridGain
5 1 (0.22%) Varnish
5 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 15 (3.36%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.02%) SCCM
3 7 (1.57%) WSUS
4 5 (1.12%) Terraform
5 4 (0.90%) Control-M
5 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.67%) Ansible
7 2 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.45%) Puppet
7 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.22%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.22%) Grafana
8 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.22%) WMI
Vendors
1 47 (10.54%) Microsoft
2 39 (8.74%) F5
3 38 (8.52%) Oracle
4 22 (4.93%) VMware
5 20 (4.48%) Blue Coat
6 19 (4.26%) McAfee
6 19 (4.26%) NetApp
7 18 (4.04%) Cisco
8 15 (3.36%) Bloomberg
9 14 (3.14%) Murex
10 11 (2.47%) ION Trading
11 9 (2.02%) Citrix
11 9 (2.02%) Reuters
12 8 (1.79%) Charles River
13 7 (1.57%) Sybase
14 6 (1.35%) Adobe
14 6 (1.35%) OpenAI
15 4 (0.90%) CyberArk
15 4 (0.90%) ServiceNow
15 4 (0.90%) Solace