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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 137 152
Rank change year-on-year -63 +15 -50
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 437 498 612
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.87% 1.66%
As % of the General category 2.24% 3.00% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 314 455
10th Percentile £413 £463 £463
25th Percentile £501 £600 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 £678 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% -3.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £800 £825 £825
90th Percentile £988 £888 £950
UK median daily rate £625 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £20.33 - -
25th Percentile £22.53 £76.25 £17.75
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 19,502 16,626 21,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 60.40% 62.38% 58.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,449 10,030 14,481
10th Percentile £288 £300 £270
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £532 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.97% -3.32% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,206 554 1,266
10th Percentile £14.19 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.57 £19.06 £15.27
Median hourly rate £23.00 £30.00 £28.13
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +6.67% +8.90%
75th Percentile £46.00 £57.59 £56.47
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.83 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £27.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -16.36% - +10.00%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -41 371 £650 -5.45% 49
North of England -10 56 £445 -25.83% 2
North West +5 51 £625 +8.70% 2
Midlands -20 46 £500 -23.08% 4
West Midlands -13 45 £500 -23.08% 4
Yorkshire -38 17 £423 -32.40%
South West - 4 £190 - 1
South East -28 3 £159 - 23
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 22 (5.03%) Confluence
2 14 (3.20%) Apache
2 14 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.29%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.37%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.69%) CMS
6 1 (0.23%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 23 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (4.35%) MS Visio
3 13 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.92%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.37%) Fidessa
1 6 (1.37%) Oracle Payables
2 5 (1.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 5 (1.14%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.69%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.46%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.46%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.46%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.23%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.23%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.23%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.23%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 68 (15.56%) Azure
2 66 (15.10%) AWS
3 22 (5.03%) Power Platform
4 20 (4.58%) Snowflake
5 18 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (3.66%) GitHub
7 14 (3.20%) dbt
8 13 (2.97%) GCP
8 13 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (1.83%) Serverless
10 7 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.37%) ChatGPT
11 6 (1.37%) OCI
12 5 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.14%) Azure AKS
12 5 (1.14%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.14%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (1.14%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.92%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 40 (9.15%) DNS
2 28 (6.41%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 28 (6.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 25 (5.72%) DMZ
4 21 (4.81%) TCP/IP
5 18 (4.12%) HTTP
6 16 (3.66%) BIG-IP
6 16 (3.66%) SSL
6 16 (3.66%) Wireshark
7 14 (3.20%) Network Security
8 11 (2.52%) BGP
9 9 (2.06%) FIX Connectivity
9 9 (2.06%) VPN
10 8 (1.83%) DHCP
10 8 (1.83%) Multicast
11 7 (1.60%) Cisco ISE
11 7 (1.60%) Cisco Wireless
11 7 (1.60%) NX-OS
11 7 (1.60%) VXLAN
11 7 (1.60%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 20 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (4.58%) Power BI
3 15 (3.43%) MongoDB
3 15 (3.43%) Relational Database
3 15 (3.43%) Tableau
4 14 (3.20%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (3.20%) Apache Arrow
4 14 (3.20%) Apache Iceberg
4 14 (3.20%) Apache Ignite
4 14 (3.20%) Data Lake
4 14 (3.20%) Dremio
5 10 (2.29%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.06%) DB2
7 7 (1.60%) KDB
8 6 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.37%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.14%) Metadata
9 5 (1.14%) Power Query
9 5 (1.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (8.47%) JIRA
2 21 (4.81%) Git
3 16 (3.66%) Fiddler
4 13 (2.97%) JUnit
5 8 (1.83%) GitLab
6 7 (1.60%) Maven
6 7 (1.60%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (1.37%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.37%) Selenium
8 5 (1.14%) Jenkins
8 5 (1.14%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.92%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.92%) Postman
9 4 (0.92%) REST Assured
9 4 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.92%) webpack
10 3 (0.69%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.69%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.46%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 437 (100.00%) Banking
2 251 (57.44%) Finance
3 132 (30.21%) Social Skills
4 103 (23.57%) Front Office
5 65 (14.87%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (5.49%) Retail Banking
7 21 (4.81%) Corporate Banking
8 19 (4.35%) Financial Institution
9 18 (4.12%) Retail
10 15 (3.43%) Back Office
11 12 (2.75%) Legal
12 11 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.37%) French Language
15 5 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 2 (0.46%) Marketing
17 2 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
18 1 (0.23%) General Ledger
18 1 (0.23%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 128 (29.29%) Developer
2 75 (17.16%) Analyst
3 70 (16.02%) Senior
4 54 (12.36%) Java Developer
5 53 (12.13%) Business Analyst
6 34 (7.78%) Senior Developer
7 28 (6.41%) Network Engineer
7 28 (6.41%) Senior Java Developer
8 27 (6.18%) AWS Developer
9 24 (5.49%) Banking Analyst
10 22 (5.03%) C# Developer
10 22 (5.03%) Project Manager
10 22 (5.03%) Python Engineer
11 20 (4.58%) Software Engineer
12 18 (4.12%) Lead
13 17 (3.89%) Analytics Developer
13 17 (3.89%) Java Engineer
13 17 (3.89%) Kafka Developer
13 17 (3.89%) PostgreSQL Developer
14 16 (3.66%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (8.92%) Kafka
2 35 (8.01%) .NET
3 31 (7.09%) React
4 30 (6.86%) Pandas
5 26 (5.95%) NumPy
6 24 (5.49%) SciPy
7 21 (4.81%) AngularJS
8 17 (3.89%) Spring
9 15 (3.43%) FIX Protocol
10 14 (3.20%) gRPC
10 14 (3.20%) JMS
10 14 (3.20%) Protocol Buffers
11 13 (2.97%) HTML
12 12 (2.75%) FastAPI
13 11 (2.52%) CSS
13 11 (2.52%) XML
14 10 (2.29%) Flask
14 10 (2.29%) Polars
14 10 (2.29%) REST
14 10 (2.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 85 (19.45%) Derivative
2 58 (13.27%) Management Information System
3 53 (12.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 48 (10.98%) Equities
5 42 (9.61%) Fixed Income
6 39 (8.92%) Hedge funds
7 29 (6.64%) Onboarding
8 27 (6.18%) Market Risk
9 15 (3.43%) Credit Risk
9 15 (3.43%) Data Structures
10 14 (3.20%) Pricing Data
11 12 (2.75%) Cloud Native
11 12 (2.75%) Product Ownership
12 9 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (2.06%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.83%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.60%) Data Centre
14 7 (1.60%) TWAP
14 7 (1.60%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 37 (8.47%) Linux
2 16 (3.66%) Windows
3 13 (2.97%) Unix
4 6 (1.37%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.14%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.46%) AIX
7 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (22.65%) Agile
2 77 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (12.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 48 (10.98%) Software Engineering
5 45 (10.30%) CI/CD
6 44 (10.07%) Analytics
6 44 (10.07%) DevOps
7 43 (9.84%) Project Management
8 41 (9.38%) Risk Management
9 37 (8.47%) AI
10 36 (8.24%) Asset Management
11 35 (8.01%) Business Analysis
11 35 (8.01%) SDLC
12 34 (7.78%) User Acceptance Testing
13 32 (7.32%) Load Balancing
13 32 (7.32%) TDD
14 30 (6.86%) Data Analysis
14 30 (6.86%) Multithreading
15 29 (6.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 27 (6.18%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 116 (26.54%) SQL
2 109 (24.94%) Python
3 107 (24.49%) Java
4 61 (13.96%) C#
5 38 (8.70%) JavaScript
6 31 (7.09%) TypeScript
7 23 (5.26%) C++
8 16 (3.66%) PowerShell
9 15 (3.43%) Shell Script
10 10 (2.29%) Rust
11 7 (1.60%) Lisp
12 5 (1.14%) Go
12 5 (1.14%) Scala
12 5 (1.14%) VB.NET
12 5 (1.14%) VBA
13 4 (0.92%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.92%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.46%) Bicep
15 2 (0.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 46 (10.53%) Degree
2 16 (3.66%) Master's Degree
3 15 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (2.75%) PMP
5 10 (2.29%) PMI Certification
6 7 (1.60%) CCNP
6 7 (1.60%) CFA
6 7 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.37%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.37%) PhD
8 3 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.46%) IIBA
9 2 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.46%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.23%) ISSAP
10 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.23%) MCP
10 1 (0.23%) MCSA
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.03%) QA
2 12 (2.75%) MiFID
2 12 (2.75%) PMO
3 11 (2.52%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.29%) EMIR
5 7 (1.60%) SLA
6 6 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.69%) GDPR
7 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.69%) P3O
8 2 (0.46%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.46%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.46%) GRC
8 2 (0.46%) NIST
8 2 (0.46%) SEPA
8 2 (0.46%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.23%) FINRA
9 1 (0.23%) IFRS
9 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (5.72%) Docker
2 24 (5.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.97%) Firmware
4 5 (1.14%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.23%) GridGain
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (5.95%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.83%) Ansible
3 7 (1.60%) FortiGate
3 7 (1.60%) Terraform
4 5 (1.14%) SCCM
5 3 (0.69%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 3 (0.69%) WSUS
6 2 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.46%) Puppet
7 1 (0.23%) Control-M
7 1 (0.23%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.23%) SCOM
7 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 44 (10.07%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.32%) F5
3 24 (5.49%) VMware
4 22 (5.03%) Oracle
5 18 (4.12%) Bloomberg
6 16 (3.66%) Blue Coat
6 16 (3.66%) McAfee
6 16 (3.66%) NetApp
7 13 (2.97%) Sybase
8 12 (2.75%) Cisco
9 10 (2.29%) ION Trading
10 9 (2.06%) Murex
11 8 (1.83%) Remedy
12 7 (1.60%) Databricks
12 7 (1.60%) Ekahau
12 7 (1.60%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.14%) OpenAI
13 5 (1.14%) Refinitiv
13 5 (1.14%) Reuters
13 5 (1.14%) Solace