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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 78 71
Rank change year-on-year -42 -7 -20
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 368 435 559
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.35% 3.28% 3.05%
As % of the General category 3.69% 5.00% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 259 410
10th Percentile £416 £473 £488
25th Percentile £500 £600 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - -3.45%
75th Percentile £778 £853 £813
90th Percentile £988 £881 £939
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 9,971 8,702 11,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.63% 65.59% 63.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,499 5,578 8,326
10th Percentile £350 £330 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -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 169 115 260
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.57 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.42 £27.85 £18.31
Median hourly rate £28.55 £39.00 £28.88
Median % change year-on-year -26.79% +35.06% -1.28%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.61 £72.84
England median hourly rate £23.54 £31.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -24.07% +19.23% -13.33%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -17 60 £613 +2.08% 8
East London +8 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 (4.89%) Confluence
2 7 (1.90%) Apache
2 7 (1.90%) 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
6 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 22 (5.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.26%) 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 (2.99%) 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 60 (16.30%) Azure
2 56 (15.22%) AWS
3 14 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (3.53%) Power Platform
5 12 (3.26%) GitHub
5 12 (3.26%) Snowflake
6 11 (2.99%) OCI
7 10 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (2.45%) GCP
9 6 (1.63%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.63%) Serverless
10 5 (1.36%) dbt
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%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.09%) ChatGPT
11 4 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.09%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.53%) 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 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (4.08%) Relational Database
4 10 (2.72%) MongoDB
4 10 (2.72%) Power BI
5 7 (1.90%) DB2
5 7 (1.90%) NoSQL
5 7 (1.90%) Tableau
6 6 (1.63%) Apache Ignite
6 6 (1.63%) KDB
6 6 (1.63%) Metadata
7 5 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (1.36%) Apache Arrow
7 5 (1.36%) Apache Iceberg
7 5 (1.36%) Big Data
7 5 (1.36%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.36%) Dremio
7 5 (1.36%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.36%) Redis
8 3 (0.82%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 29 (7.88%) JIRA
2 14 (3.80%) 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
8 2 (0.54%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.54%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 368 (100.00%) Banking
2 217 (58.97%) Finance
3 113 (30.71%) Social Skills
4 99 (26.90%) Front Office
5 57 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (7.61%) Retail Banking
7 21 (5.71%) Corporate Banking
7 21 (5.71%) Financial Institution
8 19 (5.16%) Retail
9 13 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (3.26%) Back Office
11 10 (2.72%) Legal
12 4 (1.09%) French Language
12 4 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.54%) Marketing
14 1 (0.27%) Games
14 1 (0.27%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 123 (33.42%) Developer
2 75 (20.38%) Analyst
3 59 (16.03%) Java Developer
4 57 (15.49%) Senior
5 56 (15.22%) Business Analyst
6 37 (10.05%) Senior Developer
7 32 (8.70%) Senior Java Developer
8 24 (6.52%) AWS Developer
9 23 (6.25%) Banking Analyst
10 21 (5.71%) Kafka Developer
10 21 (5.71%) Project Manager
11 19 (5.16%) C# Developer
12 18 (4.89%) Lead
13 17 (4.62%) Analytics Developer
13 17 (4.62%) PostgreSQL Developer
14 15 (4.08%) Electronic Trading Developer
14 15 (4.08%) Support Engineer
15 13 (3.53%) Banking Business Analyst
15 13 (3.53%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
16 12 (3.26%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (10.33%) Kafka
2 31 (8.42%) .NET
3 30 (8.15%) React
4 19 (5.16%) Pandas
5 17 (4.62%) FIX Protocol
6 16 (4.35%) AngularJS
7 15 (4.08%) Spring
8 14 (3.80%) HTML
8 14 (3.80%) NumPy
9 12 (3.26%) CSS
9 12 (3.26%) SciPy
10 11 (2.99%) JMS
10 11 (2.99%) XML
11 10 (2.72%) REST
12 9 (2.45%) FastAPI
13 8 (2.17%) Flask
13 8 (2.17%) Redux
14 7 (1.90%) Polars
14 7 (1.90%) Vue
15 6 (1.63%) Dask
Miscellaneous
1 78 (21.20%) Derivative
2 42 (11.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 40 (10.87%) Equities
4 37 (10.05%) Fixed Income
5 29 (7.88%) Market Risk
6 25 (6.79%) Management Information System
7 24 (6.52%) Hedge funds
8 18 (4.89%) Credit Risk
9 15 (4.08%) Onboarding
10 13 (3.53%) Cloud Native
11 12 (3.26%) Data Structures
12 11 (2.99%) TWAP
12 11 (2.99%) VWAP
13 9 (2.45%) Algorithms
13 9 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (1.90%) AI Agents
15 7 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
16 5 (1.36%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.88%) Linux
2 18 (4.89%) Windows
3 15 (4.08%) 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 (21.20%) Agile
2 73 (19.84%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (13.59%) Stakeholder Management
4 47 (12.77%) Analytics
5 44 (11.96%) DevOps
6 41 (11.14%) Risk Management
7 40 (10.87%) CI/CD
8 39 (10.60%) AI
9 38 (10.33%) User Acceptance Testing
10 37 (10.05%) Business Analysis
11 35 (9.51%) TDD
12 32 (8.70%) Project Management
13 31 (8.42%) Asset Management
13 31 (8.42%) Software Engineering
14 30 (8.15%) Electronic Trading
15 29 (7.88%) Multithreading
16 27 (7.34%) Data Analysis
17 25 (6.79%) Machine Learning
17 25 (6.79%) Test Automation
18 24 (6.52%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 103 (27.99%) SQL
2 102 (27.72%) Java
3 90 (24.46%) Python
4 51 (13.86%) C#
5 29 (7.88%) JavaScript
6 25 (6.79%) TypeScript
7 18 (4.89%) C++
8 16 (4.35%) PowerShell
9 12 (3.26%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.90%) Rust
11 6 (1.63%) Scala
12 5 (1.36%) VB.NET
13 4 (1.09%) Bash
13 4 (1.09%) VBA
14 3 (0.82%) Go
14 3 (0.82%) Perl
14 3 (0.82%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.54%) Korn
15 2 (0.54%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 34 (9.24%) Degree
2 13 (3.53%) Master's Degree
3 10 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.17%) PMP
5 7 (1.90%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.90%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.63%) PhD
7 4 (1.09%) CFA
8 3 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.82%) CISSP
9 2 (0.54%) ACCA
9 2 (0.54%) IIBA
9 2 (0.54%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.89%) QA
2 12 (3.26%) MiFID
3 10 (2.72%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.72%) PMO
4 9 (2.45%) EMIR
5 7 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (1.90%) 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%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.27%) Basel III
8 1 (0.27%) COBIT
8 1 (0.27%) COSO
8 1 (0.27%) FINRA
8 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (6.25%) Docker
2 5 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Firmware
3 1 (0.27%) GridGain
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (5.98%) 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
5 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
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%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 38 (10.33%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.61%) Oracle
3 17 (4.62%) Bloomberg
4 13 (3.53%) Murex
5 12 (3.26%) 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%) CyberArk
10 3 (0.82%) NYFIX
10 3 (0.82%) Pega
10 3 (0.82%) Tradeweb