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 23 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 75 59
Rank change year-on-year -51 -16 0
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 461 480 620
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.26% 3.59% 3.88%
As % of the General category 3.68% 5.20% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 327 492
10th Percentile £411 £450 £501
25th Percentile £524 £570 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £685 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -8.67% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £800 £825 £875
90th Percentile £938 £913 £888
England median daily rate £685 £725 £750
% change year-on-year -5.52% -3.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £78.75 -
England median hourly rate - £78.75 -

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 12,543 9,229 9,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.61% 69.01% 62.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,016 6,067 6,562
10th Percentile £350 £325 £331
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 181 117
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.80
25th Percentile £21.41 £24.61 £25.00
Median hourly rate £29.03 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.86% -10.00% +27.27%
75th Percentile £47.50 £49.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.00 £65.01
England median hourly rate £30.90 £25.08 £39.18
% change year-on-year +23.23% -35.99% +36.26%

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 23 September 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
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 23 September 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 -27 66 £700 +1.45% 47
East London +5 5 £875 -2.78%
South London -9 2 £650 +8.33% 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 9 (1.95%) Confluence
2 5 (1.08%) MTS
3 4 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.65%) IIS
4 3 (0.65%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.43%) Apache
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.22%) CICS
6 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.65%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.22%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.74%) Aladdin
2 7 (1.52%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (1.52%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (0.65%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (0.65%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 3 (0.65%) Oracle iProcurement
3 3 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.65%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.43%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.22%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.22%) Front Arena
5 1 (0.22%) Global One
5 1 (0.22%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.22%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 1 (0.22%) Summit
5 1 (0.22%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 72 (15.62%) Azure
2 46 (9.98%) AWS
3 23 (4.99%) GCP
4 17 (3.69%) Power Platform
5 16 (3.47%) Entra ID
6 15 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (2.60%) SaaS
9 11 (2.39%) GitHub
10 10 (2.17%) OCI
11 7 (1.52%) Snowflake
12 6 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.30%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.30%) PowerApps
13 5 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.08%) Azure Databricks
13 5 (1.08%) Cloud Run
13 5 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 4 (0.87%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.60%) FIX Connectivity
2 11 (2.39%) Multicast
3 9 (1.95%) Firewall
4 6 (1.30%) VPN
5 5 (1.08%) HTTP
6 4 (0.87%) BGP
6 4 (0.87%) Network Security
6 4 (0.87%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.87%) Wireless
7 3 (0.65%) DMZ
7 3 (0.65%) WAN
8 2 (0.43%) BIG-IP
8 2 (0.43%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.43%) DWDM
8 2 (0.43%) Internet
8 2 (0.43%) MPLS
8 2 (0.43%) OSPF
8 2 (0.43%) SSH
8 2 (0.43%) VLAN
8 2 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.77%) SQL Server
2 18 (3.90%) Metadata
3 15 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (3.25%) Power BI
4 11 (2.39%) KDB
4 11 (2.39%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.17%) Chroma
5 10 (2.17%) Pinecone
5 10 (2.17%) Weaviate
6 9 (1.95%) Data Vault
7 7 (1.52%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.52%) Kdb+
8 6 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.08%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.08%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.08%) Redis
10 4 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (0.87%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 44 (9.54%) JIRA
2 24 (5.21%) Git
3 11 (2.39%) ER Studio
4 10 (2.17%) ERwin
5 6 (1.30%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.08%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.08%) GitLab
6 5 (1.08%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.87%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.87%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.87%) webpack
8 3 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.65%) Selenium
9 2 (0.43%) MSBuild
9 2 (0.43%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.22%) CMake
10 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.22%) Vite
General
1 461 (100.00%) Banking
2 304 (65.94%) Finance
3 155 (33.62%) Front Office
4 110 (23.86%) Social Skills
5 58 (12.58%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (8.89%) Corporate Banking
7 38 (8.24%) Retail Banking
8 37 (8.03%) Retail
9 35 (7.59%) Financial Institution
10 20 (4.34%) Back Office
11 16 (3.47%) Legal
12 12 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (2.17%) Spanish Language
14 8 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (1.30%) General Ledger
17 4 (0.87%) Games
18 3 (0.65%) French Language
18 3 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 161 (34.92%) Developer
2 76 (16.49%) Analyst
2 76 (16.49%) Senior
3 61 (13.23%) Business Analyst
4 60 (13.02%) Java Developer
5 44 (9.54%) Senior Developer
6 26 (5.64%) Lead
7 25 (5.42%) Python Developer
8 24 (5.21%) Senior Java Developer
9 23 (4.99%) C# Developer
10 22 (4.77%) React Developer
11 21 (4.56%) Project Manager
11 21 (4.56%) Support Engineer
12 18 (3.90%) Senior React Developer
13 17 (3.69%) UI Developer
14 16 (3.47%) Senior UI Developer
15 15 (3.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 14 (3.04%) Banking Analyst
16 14 (3.04%) Full-Stack Developer
16 14 (3.04%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (9.33%) React
2 41 (8.89%) .NET
3 35 (7.59%) FIX Protocol
4 23 (4.99%) Redux
5 20 (4.34%) AngularJS
6 19 (4.12%) REST
7 18 (3.90%) Kafka
8 14 (3.04%) Spring
8 14 (3.04%) Terraform
9 12 (2.60%) WebSockets
10 11 (2.39%) LangChain
10 11 (2.39%) Pandas
10 11 (2.39%) RESTful
11 10 (2.17%) LlamaIndex
11 10 (2.17%) OAuth
11 10 (2.17%) PySpark
12 9 (1.95%) Flask
12 9 (1.95%) Node.js
12 9 (1.95%) OAuth2
13 8 (1.74%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 89 (19.31%) Derivative
2 73 (15.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 56 (12.15%) Fixed Income
4 51 (11.06%) Equities
5 33 (7.16%) Product Ownership
6 25 (5.42%) Greenfield Project
6 25 (5.42%) Onboarding
7 21 (4.56%) Market Risk
8 20 (4.34%) Distributed Systems
9 17 (3.69%) AI Agents
9 17 (3.69%) Data Structures
9 17 (3.69%) Management Information System
10 15 (3.25%) Algorithms
10 15 (3.25%) Hedge funds
11 12 (2.60%) Credit Risk
11 12 (2.60%) TWAP
11 12 (2.60%) VWAP
12 11 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (2.17%) Cloud Native
14 9 (1.95%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.72%) Windows
2 28 (6.07%) Linux
3 19 (4.12%) Unix
4 5 (1.08%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.87%) Android
6 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.65%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.43%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.22%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (24.73%) Agile
2 80 (17.35%) Stakeholder Management
3 72 (15.62%) Problem-Solving
4 66 (14.32%) Low Latency
5 63 (13.67%) AI
6 61 (13.23%) CI/CD
7 60 (13.02%) Electronic Trading
8 52 (11.28%) Analytics
9 51 (11.06%) Software Engineering
10 43 (9.33%) DevOps
11 42 (9.11%) Wealth Management
12 40 (8.68%) Business Analysis
13 37 (8.03%) Data Modelling
14 36 (7.81%) Event-Driven
15 35 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
15 35 (7.59%) Full-Stack Development
15 35 (7.59%) Translating Business Requirements
16 33 (7.16%) Decision-Making
16 33 (7.16%) Migration
16 33 (7.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 110 (23.86%) SQL
2 105 (22.78%) Java
3 103 (22.34%) Python
4 78 (16.92%) C#
5 53 (11.50%) TypeScript
6 40 (8.68%) JavaScript
7 19 (4.12%) C++
8 17 (3.69%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.95%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.30%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.30%) Rust
11 5 (1.08%) Tcl
12 4 (0.87%) Bash
12 4 (0.87%) VBA
13 3 (0.65%) Bicep
13 3 (0.65%) C
13 3 (0.65%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.65%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.43%) Korn
14 2 (0.43%) Perl
Qualifications
1 33 (7.16%) Degree
2 9 (1.95%) Azure Certification
3 8 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.74%) PMP
4 5 (1.08%) PMI Certification
4 5 (1.08%) Security Cleared
5 4 (0.87%) ACCA
5 4 (0.87%) CIMA
5 4 (0.87%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.65%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.43%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.43%) CCNP
7 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.22%) CBAP
8 1 (0.22%) IIBA
8 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.22%) PgMP
8 1 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.90%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.69%) MiFID
3 13 (2.82%) QA
4 10 (2.17%) EMIR
5 6 (1.30%) PMO
6 4 (0.87%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.87%) IFRS
7 3 (0.65%) NIST
8 2 (0.43%) GRC
8 2 (0.43%) WCAG
9 1 (0.22%) COBIT
9 1 (0.22%) COREP
9 1 (0.22%) FINREP
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.22%) PSD2
9 1 (0.22%) SEPA
9 1 (0.22%) TARGET2
System Software
1 21 (4.56%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.47%) Docker
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (3.69%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (1.30%) SCCM
3 5 (1.08%) Ansible
4 3 (0.65%) WSUS
5 2 (0.43%) Control-M
5 2 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.22%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.22%) Grafana
6 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (8.03%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.07%) Oracle
3 15 (3.25%) Bloomberg
3 15 (3.25%) Databricks
3 15 (3.25%) OpenAI
4 10 (2.17%) Murex
5 9 (1.95%) Citrix
5 9 (1.95%) ION Trading
5 9 (1.95%) Tradeweb
6 7 (1.52%) Cisco
6 7 (1.52%) MarketAxess
7 6 (1.30%) Reuters
8 5 (1.08%) Google
8 5 (1.08%) SAP
8 5 (1.08%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.08%) Solace
8 5 (1.08%) Sybase
9 4 (0.87%) Adobe
9 4 (0.87%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.87%) Charles River