Investment Banking Contracts in Glasgow

Investment Banking
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in contract job vacancies in Glasgow. 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 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 62 41
Rank change year-on-year +39 -21 +16
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 70 20 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 8.77% 2.28% 4.92%
As % of the General category 12.68% 4.12% 7.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 27
10th Percentile £366 £400 £423
25th Percentile £413 £525 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £619 £618
Median % change year-on-year -27.30% +0.24% +21.08%
75th Percentile £538 £695 £740
90th Percentile £576 £722 £750
Scotland median daily rate £450 £619 £600
% change year-on-year -27.30% +3.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £62.84
25th Percentile - - £63.83
Median hourly rate - - £66.56
75th Percentile - - £68.20
90th Percentile - - £68.53
Scotland median hourly rate - - £66.56
% change year-on-year - - +41.62%

All General Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 552 486 616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 69.17% 55.42% 67.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 328 471
10th Percentile £313 £225 £325
25th Percentile £399 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% -0.84% +6.44%
75th Percentile £550 £591 £600
90th Percentile £606 £696 £723
Scotland median daily rate £465 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.21% - +3.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 20 11
10th Percentile £16.75 £11.50 £13.13
25th Percentile £19.63 £15.42 £26.63
Median hourly rate £23.17 £18.00 £47.73
Median % change year-on-year +28.69% -62.29% +88.84%
75th Percentile £55.69 £41.56 £59.65
90th Percentile £74.10 £75.00 £66.56
Scotland median hourly rate £22.44 £19.17 £19.88
% change year-on-year +17.04% -3.57% -23.54%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in Glasgow

Investment Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Investment Banking in Glasgow

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in Glasgow

Investment Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Investment Banking in Glasgow

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 4 (5.71%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.71%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
2 7 (10.00%) GitHub
3 5 (7.14%) AWS
4 4 (5.71%) Azure
4 4 (5.71%) IaaS
5 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.86%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.43%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.43%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) DHCP
1 4 (5.71%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.57%) Relational Database
2 11 (15.71%) DB2
2 11 (15.71%) KDB
2 11 (15.71%) Kdb+
2 11 (15.71%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.43%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (17.14%) JIRA
2 11 (15.71%) JUnit
3 4 (5.71%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.29%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.86%) Git
6 1 (1.43%) GitLab
General
1 70 (100.00%) Banking
2 48 (68.57%) Finance
3 44 (62.86%) Social Skills
4 19 (27.14%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (15.71%) Front Office
6 2 (2.86%) Legal
6 2 (2.86%) Military
7 1 (1.43%) Back Office
7 1 (1.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 41 (58.57%) Developer
2 27 (38.57%) Python Developer
3 15 (21.43%) Java Developer
4 12 (17.14%) Linux Developer
5 11 (15.71%) C++ Developer
5 11 (15.71%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
5 11 (15.71%) Senior
5 11 (15.71%) Senior C++ Developer
5 11 (15.71%) Senior Developer
5 11 (15.71%) Senior Python Developer
6 8 (11.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 8 (11.43%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 8 (11.43%) JavaScript Engineer
6 8 (11.43%) Python Engineer
7 7 (10.00%) SQL Developer
7 7 (10.00%) Sybase Developer
8 5 (7.14%) Analyst
8 5 (7.14%) Architect
9 4 (5.71%) Scrum Master
10 3 (4.29%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (21.43%) Spring
2 11 (15.71%) JMS
3 10 (14.29%) Kafka
4 3 (4.29%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.86%) Loki
5 2 (2.86%) Middleware
6 1 (1.43%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.86%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (17.14%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (15.71%) Data Structures
4 10 (14.29%) Equities
5 9 (12.86%) Management Information System
6 5 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (5.71%) Data Centre
7 4 (5.71%) Product Ownership
8 3 (4.29%) CMDB
9 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (2.86%) Social Media
9 2 (2.86%) Virtual Team
10 1 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (1.43%) Derivative
10 1 (1.43%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 40 (57.14%) Linux
2 18 (25.71%) Windows
3 6 (8.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (44.29%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (41.43%) Agile
2 29 (41.43%) SDLC
3 23 (32.86%) Data Science
4 20 (28.57%) Investment Management
4 20 (28.57%) Wealth Management
5 15 (21.43%) Containerisation
6 14 (20.00%) Multithreading
7 12 (17.14%) Open Source
8 11 (15.71%) Data Security
9 10 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
9 10 (14.29%) Database Tuning
9 10 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (12.86%) Community of Practice
10 9 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (12.86%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 9 (12.86%) Decision-Making
10 9 (12.86%) DevOps
10 9 (12.86%) Risk Management
11 8 (11.43%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 49 (70.00%) Python
2 26 (37.14%) Java
3 12 (17.14%) Shell Script
3 12 (17.14%) SQL
4 11 (15.71%) C++
5 10 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 9 (12.86%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.71%) Perl
7 4 (5.71%) R
8 2 (2.86%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (4.29%) Degree
2 2 (2.86%) AWS Certification
2 2 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (2.86%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) QA
2 2 (2.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (22.86%) Docker
2 4 (5.71%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (2.86%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (2.86%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 26 (37.14%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.57%) Terraform
3 5 (7.14%) Ansible
4 3 (4.29%) Grafana
4 3 (4.29%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.43%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (17.14%) Sybase
2 5 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.29%) Splunk
4 2 (2.86%) Sun
4 2 (2.86%) Veritas
4 2 (2.86%) VMware
5 1 (1.43%) Google
5 1 (1.43%) Netskope
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle
5 1 (1.43%) Proofpoint
5 1 (1.43%) Symantec