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 5 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 66 73
Rank change year-on-year -58 +7 -23
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 376 454 545
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.19% 3.58% 3.02%
As % of the General category 3.55% 5.34% 4.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 289 402
10th Percentile £416 £412 £500
25th Percentile £500 £613 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £750 £715
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +4.90% +2.14%
75th Percentile £781 £875 £850
90th Percentile £976 £888 £900
England median daily rate £630 £738 £712
% change year-on-year -14.58% +3.58% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £19.85 £78.63 -
25th Percentile £21.31 £82.19 -
Median hourly rate £25.00 £88.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -71.83% - -
75th Percentile £41.61 £94.69 -
90th Percentile £50.82 £97.88 -
England median hourly rate £25.00 £88.75 £19.50
% change year-on-year -71.83% +355.13% -51.85%

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 general skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 10,599 8,507 11,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.79% 67.07% 63.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,903 5,744 8,127
10th Percentile £350 £337 £331
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £706 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 140 252
10th Percentile £17.50 £16.66 £15.55
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £47.69 £53.75 £49.31
90th Percentile £70.75 £67.63 £71.08
England median hourly rate £26.80 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -7.80% +7.67% -22.86%

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 5 April 2026.

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 5 April 2026.

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 5 April 2026. 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 -24 57 £600 -4.00% 25
East London +2 4 £416 -27.65%
South London -18 1 £600 -12.73% 1
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 14 (3.72%) Confluence
2 7 (1.86%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.33%) Apache
4 4 (1.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.80%) CMS
5 3 (0.80%) SAS
5 3 (0.80%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.53%) IIS
6 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.27%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 26 (6.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.99%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (3.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (3.19%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.27%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 14 (3.72%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (3.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 13 (3.46%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.33%) Aladdin
3 5 (1.33%) Summit
4 4 (1.06%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.80%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.53%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.53%) Front Arena
6 2 (0.53%) Global One
6 2 (0.53%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.27%) Actimize
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.27%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.27%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.27%) ION MarketView
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.27%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 54 (14.36%) Azure
2 52 (13.83%) AWS
3 16 (4.26%) Power Platform
4 14 (3.72%) GitHub
4 14 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (3.72%) OCI
5 13 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (3.19%) GCP
7 10 (2.66%) Snowflake
8 7 (1.86%) Google Workspace
9 6 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (1.60%) Serverless
10 5 (1.33%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.33%) npm
10 5 (1.33%) Yarn
11 4 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.06%) ChatGPT
11 4 (1.06%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.06%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.80%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.79%) FIX Connectivity
2 7 (1.86%) Firewall
3 6 (1.60%) DMZ
3 6 (1.60%) Multicast
3 6 (1.60%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.60%) VPN
4 4 (1.06%) HTTP
5 2 (0.53%) RTMP
5 2 (0.53%) SMS
6 1 (0.27%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.38%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (3.72%) Power BI
3 14 (3.72%) Relational Database
4 12 (3.19%) Tableau
5 8 (2.13%) KDB
5 8 (2.13%) Metadata
6 7 (1.86%) Redis
7 5 (1.33%) Big Data
7 5 (1.33%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.33%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.33%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.06%) Apache Ignite
8 4 (1.06%) Kdb+
8 4 (1.06%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.80%) Neo4j
9 3 (0.80%) Pinecone
9 3 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.80%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 27 (7.18%) JIRA
2 10 (2.66%) Git
3 8 (2.13%) GitLab
3 8 (2.13%) TeamCity
4 7 (1.86%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.86%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (1.60%) Selenium
6 5 (1.33%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.33%) webpack
7 4 (1.06%) JUnit
7 4 (1.06%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.80%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.80%) Postman
8 3 (0.80%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.53%) Maven
9 2 (0.53%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.53%) Vite
10 1 (0.27%) TestNG
General
1 376 (100.00%) Banking
2 231 (61.44%) Finance
3 120 (31.91%) Front Office
4 115 (30.59%) Social Skills
5 55 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (8.51%) Retail Banking
7 27 (7.18%) Financial Institution
8 22 (5.85%) Corporate Banking
8 22 (5.85%) Retail
9 16 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (3.99%) Back Office
11 12 (3.19%) Legal
12 7 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.33%) French Language
13 5 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.80%) Marketing
14 3 (0.80%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.53%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 120 (31.91%) Developer
2 80 (21.28%) Analyst
3 61 (16.22%) Business Analyst
4 60 (15.96%) Senior
5 56 (14.89%) Java Developer
6 37 (9.84%) Senior Developer
7 29 (7.71%) Senior Java Developer
8 24 (6.38%) Banking Analyst
9 23 (6.12%) C# Developer
10 22 (5.85%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 19 (5.05%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
12 18 (4.79%) Lead
13 17 (4.52%) Kafka Developer
14 16 (4.26%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
14 16 (4.26%) AWS Developer
14 16 (4.26%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
14 16 (4.26%) Low Latency Java Developer
14 16 (4.26%) Project Manager
15 15 (3.99%) Support Engineer
16 14 (3.72%) Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (9.84%) .NET
2 31 (8.24%) React
3 30 (7.98%) Kafka
4 27 (7.18%) FIX Protocol
5 15 (3.99%) Redux
6 14 (3.72%) CSS
6 14 (3.72%) HTML
7 13 (3.46%) XML
8 12 (3.19%) AngularJS
9 11 (2.93%) Spring
10 10 (2.66%) Pandas
11 8 (2.13%) HTML5
11 8 (2.13%) Node.js
12 7 (1.86%) NumPy
12 7 (1.86%) REST
13 6 (1.60%) Dask
13 6 (1.60%) JMS
13 6 (1.60%) Reactive Extensions
13 6 (1.60%) RESTful
14 5 (1.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 82 (21.81%) Derivative
2 47 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 43 (11.44%) Equities
3 43 (11.44%) Fixed Income
4 29 (7.71%) Market Risk
5 22 (5.85%) Credit Risk
5 22 (5.85%) Management Information System
6 17 (4.52%) Onboarding
7 16 (4.26%) Hedge funds
7 16 (4.26%) TWAP
7 16 (4.26%) VWAP
8 15 (3.99%) Cloud Native
9 13 (3.46%) Data Structures
10 10 (2.66%) Algorithms
11 8 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.86%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (1.60%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.12%) Windows
2 20 (5.32%) Linux
3 19 (5.05%) Unix
4 6 (1.60%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.06%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.53%) AIX
7 1 (0.27%) Android
7 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (18.62%) Agile
2 66 (17.55%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (13.30%) Stakeholder Management
4 48 (12.77%) Analytics
5 46 (12.23%) DevOps
6 42 (11.17%) CI/CD
6 42 (11.17%) Electronic Trading
7 41 (10.90%) AI
8 39 (10.37%) User Acceptance Testing
9 38 (10.11%) Asset Management
9 38 (10.11%) Business Analysis
9 38 (10.11%) Low Latency
9 38 (10.11%) TDD
10 35 (9.31%) Project Management
10 35 (9.31%) Risk Management
11 34 (9.04%) Multithreading
12 29 (7.71%) Test Automation
13 27 (7.18%) Design Patterns
14 26 (6.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 25 (6.65%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 104 (27.66%) SQL
2 96 (25.53%) Java
3 79 (21.01%) Python
4 53 (14.10%) C#
5 31 (8.24%) JavaScript
6 30 (7.98%) TypeScript
7 18 (4.79%) PowerShell
8 13 (3.46%) C++
9 9 (2.39%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.60%) Scala
11 5 (1.33%) Perl
11 5 (1.33%) Rust
11 5 (1.33%) VBA
12 4 (1.06%) Bash
12 4 (1.06%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.80%) Go
14 2 (0.53%) Korn
14 2 (0.53%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.27%) F#
15 1 (0.27%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 42 (11.17%) Degree
2 18 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (3.99%) Master's Degree
4 8 (2.13%) PMP
5 7 (1.86%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.86%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.60%) PhD
7 5 (1.33%) CFA
8 4 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.80%) MCSA
9 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.53%) ACCA
10 2 (0.53%) CISSP
10 2 (0.53%) IIBA
10 2 (0.53%) MBA
10 2 (0.53%) Security Cleared
10 2 (0.53%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 2 (0.53%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 1 (0.27%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.79%) QA
2 14 (3.72%) MiFID
3 13 (3.46%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.66%) PMO
4 10 (2.66%) SLA
5 9 (2.39%) EMIR
6 5 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.53%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.53%) Dodd-Frank
7 2 (0.53%) GDPR
7 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.53%) NIST
7 2 (0.53%) SEPA
8 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.27%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.27%) GRC
8 1 (0.27%) IFRS
8 1 (0.27%) ITGC
8 1 (0.27%) PSD2
8 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 19 (5.05%) Docker
2 5 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) GridGain
3 1 (0.27%) Varnish
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 19 (5.05%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.13%) SCCM
3 6 (1.60%) WSUS
4 5 (1.33%) Terraform
5 4 (1.06%) Control-M
6 3 (0.80%) Ansible
6 3 (0.80%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.80%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.53%) Puppet
7 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.27%) Grafana
8 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.27%) WMI
8 1 (0.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 42 (11.17%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.04%) Oracle
3 19 (5.05%) Bloomberg
4 15 (3.99%) Murex
5 13 (3.46%) ION Trading
6 8 (2.13%) Citrix
6 8 (2.13%) Reuters
7 7 (1.86%) Sybase
8 6 (1.60%) Charles River
9 5 (1.33%) Adobe
10 4 (1.06%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.06%) IBM
10 4 (1.06%) Refinitiv
10 4 (1.06%) SAP
10 4 (1.06%) Solace
11 3 (0.80%) NYFIX
11 3 (0.80%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.80%) Pega
11 3 (0.80%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.80%) UiPath