Investment Management Contracts in England

Investment Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Investment Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Investment Management over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 193 315
Rank change year-on-year +16 +122 -51
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 369 439 371
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.53% 1.20% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 1.39% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 406 319
10th Percentile £513 £500 £453
25th Percentile £588 £588 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £838 £850 £761
90th Percentile £938 £869 £838
UK median daily rate £725 £700 £675
% change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.00
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year - +66.67% -42.86%
75th Percentile - - £26.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year - +66.67% -44.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Investment Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,009 31,610 44,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.21% 86.47% 90.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,381 20,692 31,129
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £764
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.62% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 927 2,241 1,561
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.87 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.17 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -20.55% -2.25% +49.36%
75th Percentile £62.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.17 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.84% +1.39% +40.19%

Investment Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Management in England

Investment Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Investment Management in England

Investment Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Management in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Management in England

Investment Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Investment Management in England

Investment Management
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 Management within the England region over the 6 months to 14 May 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 +9 355 £725 +1.40% 327
North of England +14 4 £625 +47.06% 10
East of England - 3 £400 - 3
North West +5 2 £625 +47.06% 6
Yorkshire - 2 £488 - 2
Midlands +12 1 £625 +3.31% 19
West Midlands +11 1 £625 +3.31% 19
South West - 1 - - 2
Investment Management
UK

Investment Management
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 51 (13.82%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (6.78%) Apache
3 4 (1.08%) Confluence
4 2 (0.54%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.54%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) MQSeries
Applications
1 11 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 59 (15.99%) Aladdin
2 18 (4.88%) thinkFolio
3 2 (0.54%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 108 (29.27%) AWS
2 87 (23.58%) GCP
3 52 (14.09%) dbt
4 48 (13.01%) Azure
5 28 (7.59%) Snowflake
6 8 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (1.90%) Dagster
7 7 (1.90%) Power Platform
8 6 (1.63%) SaaS
9 5 (1.36%) Asana
9 5 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.36%) Figma
9 5 (1.36%) Slack
10 2 (0.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (0.54%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.54%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.27%) Collibra
11 1 (0.27%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.27%) GitHub
11 1 (0.27%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.36%) VPN
2 4 (1.08%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.27%) DHCP
4 1 (0.27%) Firewall
4 1 (0.27%) LAN
4 1 (0.27%) Network Security
4 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (31.44%) Data Lake
2 51 (13.82%) Amazon Athena
2 51 (13.82%) Apache Iceberg
2 51 (13.82%) Dremio
3 49 (13.28%) PostgreSQL
4 44 (11.92%) Apache Arrow
5 25 (6.78%) Apache Ignite
6 7 (1.90%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.08%) InterSystems Cache
7 4 (1.08%) Power BI
8 3 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.54%) Impala
9 2 (0.54%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.54%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.54%) Redis
9 2 (0.54%) Star Schema
9 2 (0.54%) Tableau
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (4.07%) JIRA
2 4 (1.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.54%) Artifactory
3 2 (0.54%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.54%) Git
3 2 (0.54%) SonarQube
3 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.27%) Selenium
4 1 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 315 (85.37%) Finance
2 264 (71.54%) Front Office
3 70 (18.97%) Banking
4 30 (8.13%) Social Skills
5 22 (5.96%) Investment Banking
6 15 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (3.79%) Back Office
8 9 (2.44%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.63%) Law
10 3 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.54%) Legal
11 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.27%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 107 (29.00%) Developer
2 99 (26.83%) Software Engineer
3 97 (26.29%) Analyst
4 82 (22.22%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 78 (21.14%) Business Analyst
6 58 (15.72%) Business Manager
7 46 (12.47%) Python Engineer
8 44 (11.92%) AWS Engineer
8 44 (11.92%) AWS Software Engineer
9 39 (10.57%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
9 39 (10.57%) Python Software Engineer
10 38 (10.30%) React Developer
11 37 (10.03%) Head of Finance
12 31 (8.40%) Python Developer
13 28 (7.59%) AWS Developer
13 28 (7.59%) Lead
14 25 (6.78%) Senior
15 23 (6.23%) Java Engineer
15 23 (6.23%) Java Software Engineer
16 22 (5.96%) Data Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (23.85%) React
2 61 (16.53%) Redux
3 58 (15.72%) Node.js
4 54 (14.63%) NumPy
4 54 (14.63%) Pandas
5 51 (13.82%) SciPy
6 46 (12.47%) AngularJS
7 45 (12.20%) Vue
8 25 (6.78%) gRPC
8 25 (6.78%) Protocol Buffers
9 10 (2.71%) PySpark
10 9 (2.44%) .NET
11 5 (1.36%) OpenFin
12 2 (0.54%) FastAPI
12 2 (0.54%) FIX Protocol
12 2 (0.54%) Kafka
12 2 (0.54%) Middleware
12 2 (0.54%) pytest
12 2 (0.54%) RESTful
12 2 (0.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 247 (66.94%) Fixed Income
2 187 (50.68%) Hedge funds
3 164 (44.44%) Derivative
4 153 (41.46%) Equities
5 146 (39.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 47 (12.74%) Product Ownership
7 30 (8.13%) Onboarding
8 16 (4.34%) Pricing Data
9 7 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.36%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.08%) Video Conferencing
12 3 (0.81%) Clustering
12 3 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 2 (0.54%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
14 1 (0.27%) Legacy Applications
14 1 (0.27%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.98%) Apple iOS
2 6 (1.63%) Linux
3 5 (1.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (72.90%) Agile
2 194 (52.57%) Asset Management
3 106 (28.73%) Software Engineering
4 102 (27.64%) Roadmaps
5 101 (27.37%) Migration
6 98 (26.56%) Data Governance
7 95 (25.75%) Regulatory Compliance
8 83 (22.49%) Fintech
9 68 (18.43%) Data Management
10 66 (17.89%) Analytics
11 60 (16.26%) Portfolio Management
12 49 (13.28%) Business Intelligence
13 48 (13.01%) Business Analysis
14 46 (12.47%) Performance Attribution
15 40 (10.84%) User Experience
16 37 (10.03%) Order Management
17 29 (7.86%) Risk Management
18 26 (7.05%) User Acceptance Testing
19 24 (6.50%) Stakeholder Management
20 23 (6.23%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 152 (41.19%) Python
2 102 (27.64%) TypeScript
3 101 (27.37%) JavaScript
4 66 (17.89%) SQL
5 34 (9.21%) Java
6 9 (2.44%) C#
7 4 (1.08%) MUMPS
8 3 (0.81%) C
8 3 (0.81%) C++
8 3 (0.81%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.54%) Bash
10 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.27%) RPG
Qualifications
1 20 (5.42%) Degree
2 3 (0.81%) CFA
2 3 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (0.81%) PMI Certification
2 3 (0.81%) PMP
3 1 (0.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.27%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.27%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.67%) MiFID
2 8 (2.17%) PMO
3 4 (1.08%) EMIR
4 2 (0.54%) QA
5 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (1.36%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.81%) Docker
3 1 (0.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (1.36%) Ansible
2 3 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.54%) HP ALM
3 2 (0.54%) Terraform
4 1 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.27%) Plesk
Vendors
1 42 (11.38%) BISAM
2 29 (7.86%) Charles River
3 20 (5.42%) SimCorp
4 18 (4.88%) Calypso
5 15 (4.07%) Microsoft
6 6 (1.63%) Palo Alto
7 5 (1.36%) Bloomberg
7 5 (1.36%) Zscaler
8 4 (1.08%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.81%) eFront
9 3 (0.81%) HP
9 3 (0.81%) Refinitiv
9 3 (0.81%) Reuters
10 2 (0.54%) Cisco
10 2 (0.54%) FactSet
10 2 (0.54%) Informatica
10 2 (0.54%) UiPath
11 1 (0.27%) Apple
11 1 (0.27%) IBM
11 1 (0.27%) SAP