Investment Banking Contract Job Trends in London

Investment Banking
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Investment Banking over the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 67 58
Rank change year-on-year -32 -9 -3
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 435 556 791
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.09% 3.54% 3.99%
As % of the General category 4.53% 5.60% 6.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 394 603
10th Percentile £450 £500 £488
25th Percentile £545 £613 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -6.55%
75th Percentile £825 £850 £849
90th Percentile £974 £888 £1,000
England median daily rate £671 £725 £700
% change year-on-year -7.45% +3.57% -4.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £20.82 - -
25th Percentile £23.75 £76.25 -
Median hourly rate £40.73 £77.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.45% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £78.75 -
90th Percentile £81.25 - -
England median hourly rate £40.73 £77.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year -47.45% +318.92% -54.32%

All General Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,599 9,933 12,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 68.09% 63.24% 64.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,258 6,366 9,308
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £700
90th Percentile £780 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 114 168
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.33 £18.45
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.44 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.79 £35.13
Median % change year-on-year -29.87% +7.57% +5.64%
75th Percentile £46.75 £54.69 £58.75
90th Percentile £70.80 £77.76 £75.38
England median hourly rate £24.61 £31.97 £33.00
% change year-on-year -23.02% -3.12% +28.35%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Investment Banking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Investment Banking job vacancy trend in London

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Investment Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Investment Banking

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in London over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Investment Banking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Investment Banking

Investment Banking
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Investment Banking in London over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 25 November 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
Central London -7 56 £668 +2.69% 12
East London +11 6 £658 +14.43%
South London -5 3 £600 -15.79%
West London - 1 - -
Investment Banking
England

Investment Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 33 (7.59%) Apache
1 33 (7.59%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (4.37%) Confluence
3 7 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.15%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.69%) CMS
6 2 (0.46%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.23%) Appian
7 1 (0.23%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.69%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.46%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.46%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (1.38%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.15%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.92%) thinkFolio
4 2 (0.46%) Actimize
5 1 (0.23%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.23%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 106 (24.37%) AWS
2 88 (20.23%) Azure
3 37 (8.51%) Snowflake
4 32 (7.36%) dbt
5 31 (7.13%) Power Platform
6 24 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (4.37%) GCP
8 15 (3.45%) GitHub
9 10 (2.30%) Serverless
10 9 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.61%) PowerApps
12 6 (1.38%) Azure AI
12 6 (1.38%) Azure AKS
12 6 (1.38%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (1.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (1.15%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (1.15%) ChatGPT
13 5 (1.15%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.38%) Multicast
2 4 (0.92%) Firewall
2 4 (0.92%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.69%) VPN
4 2 (0.46%) DMZ
4 2 (0.46%) FIX Connectivity
4 2 (0.46%) Network Security
4 2 (0.46%) SMS
5 1 (0.23%) ATM
5 1 (0.23%) BGP
5 1 (0.23%) DHCP
5 1 (0.23%) DNS
5 1 (0.23%) HTTP
5 1 (0.23%) OSPF
5 1 (0.23%) SAN
5 1 (0.23%) tcpdump
5 1 (0.23%) Unicast
5 1 (0.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (7.59%) Amazon Athena
1 33 (7.59%) Data Lake
2 32 (7.36%) Apache Arrow
2 32 (7.36%) Apache Iceberg
2 32 (7.36%) Apache Ignite
2 32 (7.36%) Dremio
3 31 (7.13%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (6.67%) Power BI
5 28 (6.44%) SQL Server
6 21 (4.83%) MongoDB
6 21 (4.83%) Relational Database
7 18 (4.14%) Tableau
8 16 (3.68%) DB2
9 12 (2.76%) Power Query
10 11 (2.53%) Redis
11 10 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (2.30%) NoSQL
12 9 (2.07%) Metadata
13 8 (1.84%) KDB
14 5 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 35 (8.05%) Git
2 30 (6.90%) JIRA
3 17 (3.91%) JUnit
4 12 (2.76%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.07%) Selenium
6 8 (1.84%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.84%) GitLab
6 8 (1.84%) Maven
7 7 (1.61%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.61%) Octopus Deploy
7 7 (1.61%) Postman
8 5 (1.15%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.92%) webpack
10 3 (0.69%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.69%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.46%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.23%) CMake
12 1 (0.23%) Gradle
12 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 435 (100.00%) Banking
2 281 (64.60%) Finance
3 148 (34.02%) Social Skills
4 114 (26.21%) Front Office
5 86 (19.77%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (7.82%) Corporate Banking
7 33 (7.59%) Retail
8 32 (7.36%) Retail Banking
9 22 (5.06%) Financial Institution
10 19 (4.37%) Back Office
11 10 (2.30%) Legal
12 9 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.92%) Marketing
16 3 (0.69%) French Language
16 3 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 2 (0.46%) Portuguese Language
17 2 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.46%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 142 (32.64%) Developer
2 103 (23.68%) Senior
3 80 (18.39%) Analyst
4 64 (14.71%) Java Developer
5 55 (12.64%) Business Analyst
6 49 (11.26%) Senior Developer
7 47 (10.80%) Software Engineer
8 38 (8.74%) Java Engineer
9 37 (8.51%) Python Engineer
10 36 (8.28%) AWS Developer
10 36 (8.28%) Senior Java Developer
11 34 (7.82%) Java Software Engineer
11 34 (7.82%) Python Software Engineer
12 33 (7.59%) AWS Engineer
13 32 (7.36%) AWS Software Engineer
13 32 (7.36%) Senior Java Engineer
13 32 (7.36%) Senior Software Engineer
14 31 (7.13%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 24 (5.52%) Banking Analyst
15 24 (5.52%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (12.41%) Kafka
1 54 (12.41%) Pandas
2 50 (11.49%) NumPy
3 49 (11.26%) SciPy
4 40 (9.20%) React
5 38 (8.74%) .NET
6 32 (7.36%) gRPC
6 32 (7.36%) Protocol Buffers
7 27 (6.21%) AngularJS
8 22 (5.06%) Spring
9 20 (4.60%) FIX Protocol
10 19 (4.37%) FastAPI
11 17 (3.91%) Flask
11 17 (3.91%) JMS
11 17 (3.91%) Polars
11 17 (3.91%) Vue
12 15 (3.45%) REST
13 9 (2.07%) CSS
14 8 (1.84%) HTML
14 8 (1.84%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 116 (26.67%) Derivative
2 88 (20.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 67 (15.40%) Fixed Income
4 66 (15.17%) Equities
5 65 (14.94%) Hedge funds
6 32 (7.36%) Pricing Data
7 29 (6.67%) Market Risk
8 28 (6.44%) Management Information System
9 24 (5.52%) Product Ownership
10 20 (4.60%) Onboarding
11 19 (4.37%) Cloud Native
12 18 (4.14%) Data Structures
13 13 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
16 10 (2.30%) Credit Risk
16 10 (2.30%) Distributed Computing
16 10 (2.30%) Reference Data
17 8 (1.84%) AI Agents
18 6 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 56 (12.87%) Linux
2 11 (2.53%) Windows
3 6 (1.38%) Unix
4 4 (0.92%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.46%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.23%) AIX
6 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (31.49%) Agile
2 89 (20.46%) Problem-Solving
3 81 (18.62%) Software Engineering
4 65 (14.94%) DevOps
5 64 (14.71%) Analytics
6 55 (12.64%) CI/CD
7 52 (11.95%) Stakeholder Management
8 41 (9.43%) Asset Management
9 40 (9.20%) Risk Management
10 39 (8.97%) Multithreading
11 38 (8.74%) Data Modelling
11 38 (8.74%) Wealth Management
12 37 (8.51%) Mathematics
12 37 (8.51%) Project Management
13 36 (8.28%) Computer Science
13 36 (8.28%) SDLC
14 34 (7.82%) Investment Management
15 33 (7.59%) AI
15 33 (7.59%) Data Engineering
15 33 (7.59%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 154 (35.40%) Python
2 146 (33.56%) Java
3 130 (29.89%) SQL
4 71 (16.32%) C#
5 66 (15.17%) JavaScript
6 47 (10.80%) TypeScript
7 30 (6.90%) C++
8 20 (4.60%) PowerShell
9 19 (4.37%) Shell Script
10 17 (3.91%) Rust
11 8 (1.84%) VB.NET
12 7 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (1.61%) Scala
13 5 (1.15%) Bicep
13 5 (1.15%) DAML
13 5 (1.15%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.69%) Bash
14 3 (0.69%) Go
14 3 (0.69%) VBA
15 2 (0.46%) C
Qualifications
1 51 (11.72%) Degree
2 20 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (3.45%) Master's Degree
4 11 (2.53%) PMP
5 8 (1.84%) PMI Certification
6 7 (1.61%) Numerate Degree
7 5 (1.15%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.15%) CFA
7 5 (1.15%) PhD
8 3 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.69%) FFIEC
9 2 (0.46%) CISSP
9 2 (0.46%) IIBA
9 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.46%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.23%) CCA
10 1 (0.23%) CCIE
10 1 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.98%) QA
2 18 (4.14%) MiFID
3 16 (3.68%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.53%) EMIR
5 6 (1.38%) GDPR
5 6 (1.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.92%) PMO
7 4 (0.92%) SLA
8 3 (0.69%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.69%) Dodd-Frank
8 3 (0.69%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.46%) Basel II
9 2 (0.46%) Basel III
9 2 (0.46%) GRC
9 2 (0.46%) SEPA
10 1 (0.23%) COBIT
10 1 (0.23%) COSO
10 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 33 (7.59%) Docker
2 5 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Firmware
3 1 (0.23%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 39 (8.97%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.76%) Terraform
3 9 (2.07%) ITRS Geneos
4 5 (1.15%) Ansible
5 4 (0.92%) Kibana
5 4 (0.92%) logstash
5 4 (0.92%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.92%) SCCM
6 3 (0.69%) Argo
6 3 (0.69%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 2 (0.46%) Grafana
7 2 (0.46%) WSUS
7 2 (0.46%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.23%) HP SiteScope
8 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle Identity Management
8 1 (0.23%) SCOM
8 1 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 37 (8.51%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.91%) Sybase
3 15 (3.45%) Bloomberg
3 15 (3.45%) Oracle
4 12 (2.76%) Databricks
5 11 (2.53%) Solace
6 8 (1.84%) Google
7 7 (1.61%) Murex
7 7 (1.61%) Refinitiv
7 7 (1.61%) UiPath
8 6 (1.38%) ION Trading
8 6 (1.38%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.38%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.15%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.15%) Reuters
9 5 (1.15%) SAP
9 5 (1.15%) Splunk
10 4 (0.92%) Alteryx
10 4 (0.92%) Portware
10 4 (0.92%) TIBCO