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 21 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 79 72
Rank change year-on-year -39 -7 -19
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 367 436 562
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.34% 3.23% 3.04%
As % of the General category 3.68% 4.92% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 263 414
10th Percentile £416 £475 £488
25th Percentile £500 £600 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -9.82% - -3.45%
75th Percentile £784 £850 £813
90th Percentile £988 £881 £938
England median daily rate £625 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -10.71% - -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £20.33 - -
25th Percentile £22.53 £76.25 -
Median hourly rate £32.87 £77.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -57.59% - -
75th Percentile £45.64 £78.75 -
90th Percentile £52.43 - -
England median hourly rate £32.87 £77.50 -
% change year-on-year -57.59% - -

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 9,976 8,855 11,711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.70% 65.55% 63.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,495 5,656 8,377
10th Percentile £350 £326 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 115 257
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.57 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.52 £26.88 £18.79
Median hourly rate £28.78 £39.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -26.22% +31.22% +4.28%
75th Percentile £49.69 £55.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.61 £73.69
England median hourly rate £23.00 £30.78 £26.00
% change year-on-year -25.28% +18.38% -12.61%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -14 62 £635 +5.83% 9
East London +9 4 £416 -27.65% 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 18 (4.90%) Confluence
2 7 (1.91%) Apache
2 7 (1.91%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.82%) CMS
4 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.54%) SAS
6 1 (0.27%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 23 (6.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.27%) MS Visio
4 9 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.82%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.27%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 11 (3.00%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (2.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 10 (2.72%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.36%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.82%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 2 (0.54%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.54%) Summit
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.27%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.27%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.27%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.27%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 59 (16.08%) Azure
2 56 (15.26%) AWS
3 14 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (3.81%) Power Platform
4 13 (3.54%) Snowflake
5 12 (3.27%) GitHub
6 11 (3.00%) OCI
7 10 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (2.45%) GCP
9 7 (1.91%) Serverless
10 5 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.36%) dbt
10 5 (1.36%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.36%) npm
10 5 (1.36%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.36%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.36%) Yarn
11 4 (1.09%) ChatGPT
11 4 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.09%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.54%) FIX Connectivity
2 5 (1.36%) Firewall
2 5 (1.36%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.36%) VPN
3 4 (1.09%) DMZ
3 4 (1.09%) Multicast
4 2 (0.54%) HTTP
4 2 (0.54%) Network Security
4 2 (0.54%) RTMP
4 2 (0.54%) SMS
5 1 (0.27%) DHCP
5 1 (0.27%) DNS
5 1 (0.27%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.72%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (4.09%) Relational Database
4 11 (3.00%) Power BI
5 10 (2.72%) MongoDB
6 8 (2.18%) Tableau
7 7 (1.91%) DB2
7 7 (1.91%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.63%) Apache Ignite
8 6 (1.63%) KDB
8 6 (1.63%) Metadata
9 5 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.36%) Apache Arrow
9 5 (1.36%) Apache Iceberg
9 5 (1.36%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.36%) Dremio
9 5 (1.36%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.36%) Redis
10 4 (1.09%) Big Data
11 3 (0.82%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 29 (7.90%) JIRA
2 14 (3.81%) Git
3 9 (2.45%) GitLab
3 9 (2.45%) JUnit
4 6 (1.63%) Cucumber
4 6 (1.63%) Maven
4 6 (1.63%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (1.63%) Selenium
5 5 (1.36%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.36%) webpack
6 4 (1.09%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.09%) Postman
6 4 (1.09%) REST Assured
6 4 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.82%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.82%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.82%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.54%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.54%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 367 (100.00%) Banking
2 217 (59.13%) Finance
3 113 (30.79%) Social Skills
4 100 (27.25%) Front Office
5 56 (15.26%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (7.36%) Retail Banking
7 21 (5.72%) Financial Institution
8 20 (5.45%) Corporate Banking
9 18 (4.90%) Retail
10 13 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (3.27%) Back Office
12 10 (2.72%) Legal
13 4 (1.09%) French Language
13 4 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.54%) Marketing
15 1 (0.27%) International Banking
15 1 (0.27%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 124 (33.79%) Developer
2 76 (20.71%) Analyst
3 59 (16.08%) Java Developer
4 57 (15.53%) Senior
5 56 (15.26%) Business Analyst
6 37 (10.08%) Senior Developer
7 32 (8.72%) Senior Java Developer
8 24 (6.54%) AWS Developer
8 24 (6.54%) Banking Analyst
9 21 (5.72%) Kafka Developer
9 21 (5.72%) Project Manager
10 19 (5.18%) C# Developer
11 18 (4.90%) Lead
12 17 (4.63%) Analytics Developer
12 17 (4.63%) PostgreSQL Developer
13 15 (4.09%) Electronic Trading Developer
14 14 (3.81%) Support Engineer
15 13 (3.54%) Banking Business Analyst
15 13 (3.54%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
16 12 (3.27%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (10.35%) Kafka
2 32 (8.72%) .NET
3 31 (8.45%) React
4 19 (5.18%) Pandas
5 17 (4.63%) AngularJS
5 17 (4.63%) FIX Protocol
6 15 (4.09%) Spring
7 14 (3.81%) HTML
7 14 (3.81%) NumPy
8 12 (3.27%) CSS
8 12 (3.27%) SciPy
9 11 (3.00%) JMS
9 11 (3.00%) XML
10 10 (2.72%) REST
11 9 (2.45%) FastAPI
12 8 (2.18%) Flask
12 8 (2.18%) Redux
13 7 (1.91%) Node.js
13 7 (1.91%) Polars
13 7 (1.91%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 80 (21.80%) Derivative
2 42 (11.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 40 (10.90%) Equities
4 37 (10.08%) Fixed Income
5 29 (7.90%) Market Risk
6 25 (6.81%) Management Information System
7 24 (6.54%) Hedge funds
8 18 (4.90%) Credit Risk
9 15 (4.09%) Onboarding
10 13 (3.54%) Cloud Native
11 12 (3.27%) Data Structures
12 11 (3.00%) TWAP
12 11 (3.00%) VWAP
13 9 (2.45%) Algorithms
13 9 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (2.18%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (1.91%) AI Agents
15 7 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
16 5 (1.36%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.63%) Linux
2 17 (4.63%) Windows
3 14 (3.81%) Unix
4 6 (1.63%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.09%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.54%) AIX
7 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (21.25%) Agile
2 72 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (13.62%) Stakeholder Management
4 47 (12.81%) Analytics
5 43 (11.72%) DevOps
6 41 (11.17%) Risk Management
7 40 (10.90%) CI/CD
8 38 (10.35%) AI
8 38 (10.35%) User Acceptance Testing
9 37 (10.08%) Business Analysis
10 36 (9.81%) TDD
11 32 (8.72%) Asset Management
11 32 (8.72%) Project Management
11 32 (8.72%) Software Engineering
12 30 (8.17%) Electronic Trading
13 29 (7.90%) Multithreading
14 28 (7.63%) Data Analysis
15 25 (6.81%) Machine Learning
15 25 (6.81%) Test Automation
16 24 (6.54%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 103 (28.07%) Java
1 103 (28.07%) SQL
2 90 (24.52%) Python
3 51 (13.90%) C#
4 30 (8.17%) JavaScript
5 25 (6.81%) TypeScript
6 18 (4.90%) C++
7 16 (4.36%) PowerShell
8 12 (3.27%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.91%) Rust
10 6 (1.63%) Scala
11 5 (1.36%) VB.NET
11 5 (1.36%) VBA
12 4 (1.09%) Bash
13 3 (0.82%) Go
13 3 (0.82%) Perl
13 3 (0.82%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.54%) Korn
14 2 (0.54%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 35 (9.54%) Degree
2 13 (3.54%) Master's Degree
3 10 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (1.91%) Azure Certification
4 7 (1.91%) PMP
5 6 (1.63%) PhD
5 6 (1.63%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.09%) CFA
7 3 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.54%) ACCA
8 2 (0.54%) CISSP
8 2 (0.54%) IIBA
8 2 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.54%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.27%) CCA
9 1 (0.27%) CIMA
9 1 (0.27%) CISA
9 1 (0.27%) GIAC
9 1 (0.27%) MCSA
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.90%) QA
2 12 (3.27%) MiFID
3 10 (2.72%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.72%) PMO
4 9 (2.45%) EMIR
5 7 (1.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (1.91%) SLA
6 4 (1.09%) GDPR
7 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.54%) Dodd-Frank
7 2 (0.54%) GRC
7 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.54%) SEPA
7 2 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.27%) Basel III
8 1 (0.27%) COBIT
8 1 (0.27%) COSO
8 1 (0.27%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 23 (6.27%) Docker
2 4 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Firmware
3 1 (0.27%) GridGain
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (5.99%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.63%) SCCM
3 4 (1.09%) Terraform
4 3 (0.82%) Ansible
4 3 (0.82%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 3 (0.82%) WSUS
5 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.54%) Puppet
6 1 (0.27%) Control-M
6 1 (0.27%) Grafana
6 1 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 39 (10.63%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.36%) Oracle
3 17 (4.63%) Bloomberg
4 13 (3.54%) Murex
5 12 (3.27%) ION Trading
6 10 (2.72%) Sybase
7 6 (1.63%) Databricks
8 5 (1.36%) Charles River
8 5 (1.36%) Citrix
8 5 (1.36%) Reuters
9 4 (1.09%) IBM
9 4 (1.09%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.09%) Refinitiv
9 4 (1.09%) Solace
9 4 (1.09%) Splunk
9 4 (1.09%) UiPath
10 3 (0.82%) Adobe
10 3 (0.82%) Pega
10 3 (0.82%) SAP
10 3 (0.82%) Tradeweb