Investment Banking Contracts 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 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 111 113
Rank change year-on-year -28 +2 -6
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 540 686 992
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.96% 2.07% 2.25%
As % of the General category 3.04% 3.60% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 551 729
10th Percentile £418 £500 £488
25th Percentile £613 £613 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £775 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £825 £879 £825
90th Percentile £883 £888 £975
UK median daily rate £725 £750 £683
% change year-on-year -3.33% +9.89% -5.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £73.25 - £16.55
25th Percentile £78.13 £18.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £87.50 £19.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +348.72% +5.41% -28.85%
75th Percentile £94.38 £20.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £97.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £87.50 £31.77 £64.38
% change year-on-year +175.42% -50.65% +93.61%

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 common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 17,761 19,080 26,135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.31% 57.58% 59.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,264 12,259 18,235
10th Percentile £275 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £420 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.20% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £660 £680
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 970 1,187 947
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.43 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.33 £18.00 £16.62
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +38.62% +12.24%
75th Percentile £50.00 £60.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £71.25 £72.69
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £27.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +38.62% +14.35%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Investment Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in England

Investment Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in England.

Daily rate trend for Investment Banking in England

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in England over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in England

Investment Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in England.

Hourly rate trend for Investment Banking in England

Investment Banking
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Investment Banking in England over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

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 18 August 2025. 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 -12 512 £750 -6.25% 232
North of England -11 21 £400 -42.86% 5
North West +2 16 £625 -7.41% 4
Yorkshire -3 9 £370 -47.14%
Midlands -13 6 - - 12
West Midlands -16 5 - - 12
South West +24 2 £178 -61.62%
South East +10 2 £550 - 26
East Midlands - 1 - -
Investment Banking
UK

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 62 (11.48%) Apache
2 58 (10.74%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.41%) Confluence
4 9 (1.67%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.74%) MQSeries
6 3 (0.56%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.19%) Appian
7 1 (0.19%) SAS
7 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 26 (4.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.56%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.37%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (0.93%) ION Anvil
2 4 (0.74%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.74%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.56%) thinkFolio
4 2 (0.37%) Actimize
5 1 (0.19%) Bankmaster
5 1 (0.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.19%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 136 (25.19%) AWS
2 96 (17.78%) Azure
3 58 (10.74%) Snowflake
4 57 (10.56%) dbt
5 38 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (5.93%) Power Platform
7 25 (4.63%) GCP
8 16 (2.96%) GitHub
9 12 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (2.04%) SaaS
11 10 (1.85%) npm
11 10 (1.85%) Yarn
12 8 (1.48%) Figma
13 6 (1.11%) PowerApps
14 5 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (0.93%) PaaS
15 4 (0.74%) Collibra
15 4 (0.74%) IaaS
15 4 (0.74%) OpenShift
15 4 (0.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.11%) DNS
2 5 (0.93%) DMZ
2 5 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 5 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 5 (0.93%) Multicast
2 5 (0.93%) Network Security
2 5 (0.93%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.74%) BGP
3 4 (0.74%) Firewall
3 4 (0.74%) OSPF
4 3 (0.56%) Unicast
5 2 (0.37%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.19%) ATM
6 1 (0.19%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.19%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.19%) SAN
6 1 (0.19%) SSL
6 1 (0.19%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.19%) VPN
6 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (10.74%) Amazon Athena
2 57 (10.56%) Apache Arrow
2 57 (10.56%) Apache Iceberg
2 57 (10.56%) Dremio
3 46 (8.52%) Data Lake
4 45 (8.33%) Apache Ignite
5 39 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
6 32 (5.93%) Power BI
7 28 (5.19%) SQL Server
8 23 (4.26%) Redis
8 23 (4.26%) Relational Database
9 21 (3.89%) MongoDB
10 15 (2.78%) DB2
11 13 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (2.22%) Tableau
13 11 (2.04%) Power Query
14 8 (1.48%) Data Mining
14 8 (1.48%) Metadata
14 8 (1.48%) NoSQL
15 5 (0.93%) KDB
Development Applications
1 51 (9.44%) Git
2 21 (3.89%) JIRA
3 20 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 17 (3.15%) JUnit
5 13 (2.41%) Bitbucket
5 13 (2.41%) TeamCity
6 10 (1.85%) webpack
7 8 (1.48%) Octopus Deploy
8 7 (1.30%) Maven
9 5 (0.93%) Selenium
10 4 (0.74%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.74%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.56%) GitLab
11 3 (0.56%) Postman
12 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.37%) ERwin
12 2 (0.37%) Gradle
12 2 (0.37%) MagicDraw
12 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.19%) Fiddler
General
1 540 (100.00%) Banking
2 347 (64.26%) Finance
3 187 (34.63%) Social Skills
4 147 (27.22%) Front Office
5 130 (24.07%) Analytical Skills
6 54 (10.00%) Retail
6 54 (10.00%) Retail Banking
7 50 (9.26%) Corporate Banking
8 26 (4.81%) Financial Institution
9 20 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.41%) Back Office
11 12 (2.22%) Legal
12 10 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.93%) Marketing
15 4 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.37%) Portuguese Language
16 2 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.37%) Spanish Language
17 1 (0.19%) French Language
Job Titles
1 207 (38.33%) Developer
2 122 (22.59%) Senior
3 85 (15.74%) Analyst
4 76 (14.07%) Java Developer
5 74 (13.70%) Software Engineer
6 59 (10.93%) AWS Engineer
6 59 (10.93%) Java Engineer
7 57 (10.56%) AWS Software Engineer
8 56 (10.37%) Python Engineer
9 54 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
10 52 (9.63%) Python Software Engineer
10 52 (9.63%) Senior Developer
11 50 (9.26%) Business Analyst
12 46 (8.52%) Senior Software Engineer
13 45 (8.33%) Senior Java Engineer
13 45 (8.33%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 42 (7.78%) AWS Developer
14 42 (7.78%) Python Developer
15 34 (6.30%) Lead
16 32 (5.93%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (11.85%) Pandas
2 63 (11.67%) NumPy
3 62 (11.48%) Kafka
4 61 (11.30%) SciPy
5 57 (10.56%) React
6 51 (9.44%) gRPC
6 51 (9.44%) Protocol Buffers
7 50 (9.26%) .NET
8 27 (5.00%) AngularJS
8 27 (5.00%) Spring
9 25 (4.63%) CSS
10 23 (4.26%) FastAPI
11 20 (3.70%) PySpark
12 18 (3.33%) Flask
13 17 (3.15%) ActiveMQ
13 17 (3.15%) FIX Protocol
13 17 (3.15%) HTML
13 17 (3.15%) Vue
14 16 (2.96%) REST
15 15 (2.78%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 132 (24.44%) Derivative
2 125 (23.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 101 (18.70%) Equities
4 92 (17.04%) Fixed Income
5 78 (14.44%) Hedge funds
6 44 (8.15%) Pricing Data
7 40 (7.41%) Market Risk
8 27 (5.00%) Product Ownership
9 25 (4.63%) Management Information System
10 24 (4.44%) Onboarding
11 21 (3.89%) Data Structures
12 15 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
15 10 (1.85%) Cloud Native
15 10 (1.85%) Reference Data
16 9 (1.67%) Algorithms
17 8 (1.48%) Blockchain
18 6 (1.11%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 64 (11.85%) Linux
2 22 (4.07%) Windows
3 8 (1.48%) Unix
4 3 (0.56%) Android
4 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.37%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.19%) Solaris
6 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (33.89%) Agile
2 112 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
3 103 (19.07%) Software Engineering
4 97 (17.96%) DevOps
5 72 (13.33%) Analytics
6 69 (12.78%) Risk Management
7 63 (11.67%) Asset Management
8 61 (11.30%) CI/CD
9 59 (10.93%) Wealth Management
10 51 (9.44%) SDLC
11 50 (9.26%) Investment Management
12 49 (9.07%) Computer Science
13 47 (8.70%) Mathematics
14 46 (8.52%) Stakeholder Management
15 45 (8.33%) TDD
16 41 (7.59%) Electronic Trading
17 39 (7.22%) Multithreading
18 37 (6.85%) Business Intelligence
19 36 (6.67%) Full-Stack Development
20 35 (6.48%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 202 (37.41%) Python
2 197 (36.48%) Java
3 154 (28.52%) SQL
4 100 (18.52%) JavaScript
5 76 (14.07%) TypeScript
6 75 (13.89%) C#
7 41 (7.59%) C++
8 20 (3.70%) Shell Script
9 16 (2.96%) Rust
10 14 (2.59%) PowerShell
11 11 (2.04%) Scala
12 10 (1.85%) Bicep
13 8 (1.48%) DAML
14 6 (1.11%) C
15 5 (0.93%) Bash
15 5 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.93%) Haskell
15 5 (0.93%) VBA
16 4 (0.74%) Jython
16 4 (0.74%) R
Qualifications
1 55 (10.19%) Degree
2 24 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (3.89%) Numerate Degree
4 10 (1.85%) PMP
5 8 (1.48%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.11%) PMI Certification
7 5 (0.93%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.56%) CCIE
9 3 (0.56%) FFIEC
9 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.37%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.37%) CISA
10 2 (0.37%) CISSP
10 2 (0.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.19%) CIMA
11 1 (0.19%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.19%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.44%) Data Quality
1 24 (4.44%) QA
2 14 (2.59%) MiFID
3 9 (1.67%) Basel II
3 9 (1.67%) GDPR
4 8 (1.48%) PMO
5 6 (1.11%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.74%) Basel III
7 4 (0.74%) Dodd-Frank
7 4 (0.74%) EMIR
7 4 (0.74%) SLA
8 3 (0.56%) P3O
8 3 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.19%) COREP
10 1 (0.19%) FATCA
10 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.19%) NIST
System Software
1 40 (7.41%) Docker
2 6 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.37%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 43 (7.96%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.59%) Ansible
2 14 (2.59%) Terraform
3 10 (1.85%) ITRS Geneos
4 9 (1.67%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.11%) Grafana
6 5 (0.93%) Kibana
6 5 (0.93%) logstash
7 3 (0.56%) Argo
7 3 (0.56%) SCCM
8 2 (0.37%) Control-M
8 2 (0.37%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.37%) Istio
8 2 (0.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.37%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.37%) Puppet
8 2 (0.37%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (4.26%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.52%) Oracle
3 17 (3.15%) Databricks
3 17 (3.15%) Sybase
4 11 (2.04%) Solace
5 10 (1.85%) Atlassian
5 10 (1.85%) Google
6 9 (1.67%) Bloomberg
7 7 (1.30%) ION Trading
8 6 (1.11%) Planview
8 6 (1.11%) VMware
9 5 (0.93%) F5
9 5 (0.93%) Splunk
10 4 (0.74%) Alteryx
10 4 (0.74%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.74%) IBM
10 4 (0.74%) Refinitiv
10 4 (0.74%) Reuters
11 3 (0.56%) Cisco
11 3 (0.56%) Murex