Investment Management Contracts in England

Investment Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Investment Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Investment Management over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 231 337 274
Rank change year-on-year +106 -63 -71
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 388 369 730
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.04% 0.72% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 0.80% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 310 645
10th Percentile £500 £450 £488
25th Percentile £584 £550 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £688 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +14.58% +2.13%
75th Percentile £850 £775 £738
90th Percentile £888 £850 £830
UK median daily rate £700 £675 £600
% change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £27.35
25th Percentile - £22.00 £32.38
Median hourly rate £40.00 £24.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -42.86% -
75th Percentile - £26.00 £52.88
90th Percentile - - £58.65
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £24.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -44.19% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Investment Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,223 45,987 64,855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.56% 90.26% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,190 32,199 46,005
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,635 1,786
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.23
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.19
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

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 23 April 2024.

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 23 April 2024. 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 +95 373 £700 +2.19% 133
North of England +37 10 £425 +141.48% 5
North West +23 10 £425 +141.48% 2
West Midlands +38 2 £605 -3.20% 4
Midlands +36 2 £605 -3.20% 5
South East +7 1 £525 -37.31% 4
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
1 120 (30.93%) Apache Airflow
2 110 (28.35%) Apache
3 4 (1.03%) Confluence
4 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 22 (5.67%) Aladdin
2 9 (2.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.80%) SAP FI
3 7 (1.80%) SimCorp Dimension
4 3 (0.77%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.26%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.26%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 201 (51.80%) AWS
2 140 (36.08%) GCP
3 101 (26.03%) Azure
4 77 (19.85%) dbt
5 65 (16.75%) Snowflake
6 9 (2.32%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (2.06%) Power Platform
8 5 (1.29%) Asana
8 5 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.29%) Slack
9 3 (0.77%) Azure Stack
10 2 (0.52%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.52%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.52%) GitHub
11 1 (0.26%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.26%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.26%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.55%) Network Security
2 5 (1.29%) VPN
3 3 (0.77%) BGP
3 3 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (0.77%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (0.77%) DHCP
3 3 (0.77%) DNS
3 3 (0.77%) HTTP
3 3 (0.77%) MPLS
3 3 (0.77%) OSPF
3 3 (0.77%) SD-WAN
3 3 (0.77%) SNMP
3 3 (0.77%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.77%) WAN
3 3 (0.77%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (28.35%) Apache Ignite
2 74 (19.07%) Amazon Athena
2 74 (19.07%) Apache Arrow
2 74 (19.07%) Dremio
3 64 (16.49%) Data Lake
4 42 (10.82%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.84%) Big Data
6 7 (1.80%) Power BI
7 4 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.03%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.52%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.26%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.26%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.26%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.26%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (7.47%) Cypress.io
2 10 (2.58%) JIRA
3 5 (1.29%) Git
4 3 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.52%) webpack
6 1 (0.26%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.26%) Zephyr
General
1 310 (79.90%) Finance
2 236 (60.82%) Front Office
3 169 (43.56%) Banking
4 79 (20.36%) Investment Banking
5 47 (12.11%) Back Office
6 43 (11.08%) Social Skills
7 5 (1.29%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.77%) Legal
8 3 (0.77%) Marketing
9 2 (0.52%) Law
9 2 (0.52%) Retail
10 1 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.26%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 137 (35.31%) Developer
2 122 (31.44%) Software Engineer
3 105 (27.06%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 96 (24.74%) Analyst
5 71 (18.30%) Python Developer
6 70 (18.04%) Python Engineer
7 65 (16.75%) Python Software Engineer
8 59 (15.21%) Senior
9 56 (14.43%) React Developer
10 53 (13.66%) Finance Manager
11 50 (12.89%) Business Analyst
11 50 (12.89%) Financial Analyst
12 34 (8.76%) Lead
13 32 (8.25%) Full Stack Developer
13 32 (8.25%) Full Stack Engineer
13 32 (8.25%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 30 (7.73%) AWS Engineer
15 26 (6.70%) Architect
15 26 (6.70%) Finance Business Analyst
16 25 (6.44%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (30.67%) gRPC
1 119 (30.67%) Protocol Buffers
2 89 (22.94%) React
2 89 (22.94%) Redux
3 68 (17.53%) Pandas
4 65 (16.75%) NumPy
5 63 (16.24%) SciPy
6 54 (13.92%) Material-UI
7 27 (6.96%) .NET
8 23 (5.93%) Node.js
9 19 (4.90%) AngularJS
10 16 (4.12%) Vue
11 15 (3.87%) .NET Core
12 11 (2.84%) ASP.NET
12 11 (2.84%) ASP.NET Core
12 11 (2.84%) GraphQL
13 8 (2.06%) WPF
14 4 (1.03%) RESTful
15 3 (0.77%) ADO
15 3 (0.77%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 218 (56.19%) Hedge funds
2 193 (49.74%) Fixed Income
3 167 (43.04%) Derivative
4 148 (38.14%) Equities
5 109 (28.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 25 (6.44%) Product Ownership
7 13 (3.35%) Clustering
8 6 (1.55%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.55%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (1.29%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.03%) DTCC
11 3 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.52%) Credit Derivative
12 2 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.52%) Pricing Data
12 2 (0.52%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.26%) CSOC
13 1 (0.26%) Equity Risk
13 1 (0.26%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.26%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.35%) Windows
2 5 (1.29%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.77%) Linux
4 2 (0.52%) Android
5 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (80.67%) Asset Management
2 210 (54.12%) Agile
3 168 (43.30%) Software Engineering
4 82 (21.13%) Full Stack Development
5 67 (17.27%) Machine Learning
6 66 (17.01%) Artificial Intelligence
7 57 (14.69%) Fintech
8 48 (12.37%) DevOps
9 41 (10.57%) Automated Trading
10 40 (10.31%) Mentoring
11 34 (8.76%) Analytics
12 28 (7.22%) Line Management
13 25 (6.44%) TDD
14 24 (6.19%) Performance Attribution
15 23 (5.93%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (5.93%) Wealth Management
16 22 (5.67%) Greeks
17 18 (4.64%) Migration
18 17 (4.38%) Portfolio Management
18 17 (4.38%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 221 (56.96%) Python
2 147 (37.89%) TypeScript
3 117 (30.15%) JavaScript
4 93 (23.97%) SQL
5 82 (21.13%) Java
6 76 (19.59%) C#
7 16 (4.12%) R
8 11 (2.84%) Go
8 11 (2.84%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.55%) Ruby
9 6 (1.55%) Scala
10 4 (1.03%) VBA
11 3 (0.77%) C++
11 3 (0.77%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (1.29%) Degree
2 4 (1.03%) CCNP
2 4 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (0.77%) CCDP
3 3 (0.77%) CFA
4 2 (0.52%) CIMA
4 2 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.52%) PMP
5 1 (0.26%) CCNA
5 1 (0.26%) ISEB
5 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.73%) Data Quality
2 29 (7.47%) QA
3 3 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.52%) MiFID
5 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.26%) EMIR
5 1 (0.26%) FATCA
5 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.26%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (2.32%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.77%) Docker
3 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (3.35%) Terraform
2 11 (2.84%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.58%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.77%) CASB
4 3 (0.77%) Kibana
5 2 (0.52%) SCCM
6 1 (0.26%) Control-M
6 1 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.26%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 44 (11.34%) Google
2 34 (8.76%) Bloomberg
3 12 (3.09%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.09%) Palo Alto
4 10 (2.58%) BISAM
5 9 (2.32%) Charles River
6 8 (2.06%) SAP
6 8 (2.06%) Zscaler
7 7 (1.80%) SimCorp
8 6 (1.55%) Databricks
9 4 (1.03%) Arista
9 4 (1.03%) Cisco
9 4 (1.03%) Oracle
10 3 (0.77%) Aruba
10 3 (0.77%) FactSet
10 3 (0.77%) Infoblox
10 3 (0.77%) Meraki
10 3 (0.77%) Splunk
11 2 (0.52%) Avaloq
11 2 (0.52%) Pardot