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 1 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 62 66
Rank change year-on-year -55 +4 -12
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 455 513 583
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.36% 3.98% 3.34%
As % of the General category 3.91% 5.85% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 333 477
10th Percentile £402 £442 £525
25th Percentile £500 £619 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £667 £750 £775
Median % change year-on-year -11.07% -3.23% +10.71%
75th Percentile £788 £850 £881
90th Percentile £938 £888 £888
England median daily rate £675 £750 £775
% change year-on-year -10.00% -3.23% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £87.50 -
England median hourly rate - £87.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year - +348.72% -72.14%

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 11,622 8,773 10,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.31% 68.05% 62.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,453 5,847 7,763
10th Percentile £350 £331 £336
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £700
90th Percentile £788 £813 £825
England median daily rate £525 £518 £535
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.11% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 165 234
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.17 £24.66 £18.39
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +12.73% -7.20%
75th Percentile £45.25 £51.18 £48.44
90th Percentile £68.25 £64.50 £67.40
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £32.70
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.90% +8.99%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 63 £669 -1.29% 12
East London +1 4 £875 -2.78% 1
South London -6 2 £800 +10.34% 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 11 (2.42%) Confluence
2 4 (0.88%) IIS
3 3 (0.66%) Apache
3 3 (0.66%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.66%) SAS
3 3 (0.66%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.44%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) CICS
Applications
1 26 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.54%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.44%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 12 (2.64%) Oracle Payables
1 12 (2.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 12 (2.64%) Oracle Receivables
2 9 (1.98%) Aladdin
3 6 (1.32%) Summit
4 3 (0.66%) Loan IQ
4 3 (0.66%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.44%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 2 (0.44%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.44%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.44%) Global One
5 2 (0.44%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.22%) Actimize
6 1 (0.22%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.22%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.22%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.22%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 61 (13.41%) Azure
2 57 (12.53%) AWS
3 22 (4.84%) Power Platform
4 20 (4.40%) GCP
5 17 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (3.30%) GitHub
6 15 (3.30%) OCI
7 12 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (2.64%) Entra ID
8 9 (1.98%) Snowflake
9 7 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (1.54%) Google Workspace
10 6 (1.32%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.32%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.10%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (0.88%) npm
12 4 (0.88%) SaaS
12 4 (0.88%) Yarn
13 3 (0.66%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.18%) FIX Connectivity
2 10 (2.20%) Firewall
3 8 (1.76%) Multicast
3 8 (1.76%) VPN
4 7 (1.54%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.32%) DMZ
5 6 (1.32%) HTTP
6 3 (0.66%) BGP
6 3 (0.66%) Wireless
7 2 (0.44%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.44%) DWDM
7 2 (0.44%) MPLS
7 2 (0.44%) Network Security
7 2 (0.44%) OSPF
7 2 (0.44%) RTMP
7 2 (0.44%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (0.22%) Internet
8 1 (0.22%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.62%) Power BI
1 21 (4.62%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.18%) Relational Database
3 18 (3.96%) Metadata
4 11 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (2.20%) Data Vault
5 10 (2.20%) Pinecone
5 10 (2.20%) Weaviate
6 9 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.98%) Tableau
7 8 (1.76%) KDB
8 6 (1.32%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.32%) Redis
9 5 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.10%) Big Data
9 5 (1.10%) Kdb+
9 5 (1.10%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (0.88%) ClickHouse
10 4 (0.88%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 34 (7.47%) JIRA
2 12 (2.64%) Git
3 10 (2.20%) ER Studio
3 10 (2.20%) TeamCity
4 9 (1.98%) ERwin
5 8 (1.76%) GitLab
6 7 (1.54%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (1.32%) webpack
8 5 (1.10%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.88%) PowerDesigner
10 3 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.66%) Maven
10 3 (0.66%) Selenium
11 2 (0.44%) MSBuild
11 2 (0.44%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.44%) Vite
12 1 (0.22%) Postman
12 1 (0.22%) XCUITest
General
1 455 (100.00%) Banking
2 284 (62.42%) Finance
3 154 (33.85%) Front Office
4 113 (24.84%) Social Skills
5 55 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (10.33%) Retail Banking
7 39 (8.57%) Retail
8 37 (8.13%) Corporate Banking
9 32 (7.03%) Financial Institution
10 19 (4.18%) Legal
11 11 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.98%) Back Office
12 9 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.76%) Spanish Language
14 6 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.10%) French Language
16 3 (0.66%) Advertising
16 3 (0.66%) Law
16 3 (0.66%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 166 (36.48%) Developer
2 85 (18.68%) Analyst
3 77 (16.92%) Java Developer
4 70 (15.38%) Senior
5 68 (14.95%) Business Analyst
6 49 (10.77%) Senior Developer
7 37 (8.13%) Senior Java Developer
8 24 (5.27%) C# Developer
9 23 (5.05%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 23 (5.05%) React Developer
10 22 (4.84%) Banking Analyst
11 20 (4.40%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
11 20 (4.40%) Low Latency Java Developer
11 20 (4.40%) UI Developer
12 19 (4.18%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
12 19 (4.18%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
12 19 (4.18%) Lead
12 19 (4.18%) Project Manager
12 19 (4.18%) Senior React Developer
12 19 (4.18%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (11.21%) React
2 44 (9.67%) .NET
3 37 (8.13%) FIX Protocol
4 29 (6.37%) Kafka
5 25 (5.49%) Redux
6 18 (3.96%) Spring
7 16 (3.52%) AngularJS
8 14 (3.08%) REST
9 13 (2.86%) CSS
10 12 (2.64%) HTML
11 11 (2.42%) OAuth
11 11 (2.42%) OAuth2
11 11 (2.42%) RESTful
12 10 (2.20%) LangChain
12 10 (2.20%) LlamaIndex
13 9 (1.98%) XML
14 8 (1.76%) Node.js
14 8 (1.76%) RxJava
15 7 (1.54%) Pandas
15 7 (1.54%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 103 (22.64%) Derivative
2 76 (16.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 58 (12.75%) Equities
4 56 (12.31%) Fixed Income
5 23 (5.05%) Greenfield Project
6 22 (4.84%) Market Risk
7 21 (4.62%) Onboarding
8 20 (4.40%) Credit Risk
8 20 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
8 20 (4.40%) Product Ownership
9 19 (4.18%) TWAP
9 19 (4.18%) VWAP
10 18 (3.96%) Algorithms
11 17 (3.74%) Data Structures
12 16 (3.52%) Management Information System
13 13 (2.86%) Cloud Native
14 12 (2.64%) AI Agents
15 9 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
16 8 (1.76%) Hedge funds
17 7 (1.54%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.37%) Windows
2 24 (5.27%) Unix
3 23 (5.05%) Linux
4 7 (1.54%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.88%) Windows 7
6 3 (0.66%) Android
7 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.22%) Solaris
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (21.32%) Agile
2 73 (16.04%) Low Latency
3 69 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
4 65 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
5 58 (12.75%) CI/CD
6 52 (11.43%) Analytics
7 51 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
8 48 (10.55%) AI
9 42 (9.23%) Asset Management
9 42 (9.23%) DevOps
9 42 (9.23%) TDD
10 41 (9.01%) Multithreading
10 41 (9.01%) Software Engineering
10 41 (9.01%) User Acceptance Testing
11 36 (7.91%) Wealth Management
12 35 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
13 33 (7.25%) Business Analysis
14 31 (6.81%) Algorithmic Trading
15 29 (6.37%) Event-Driven
15 29 (6.37%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 115 (25.27%) Java
2 99 (21.76%) Python
2 99 (21.76%) SQL
3 74 (16.26%) C#
4 59 (12.97%) TypeScript
5 48 (10.55%) JavaScript
6 20 (4.40%) PowerShell
7 18 (3.96%) C++
8 9 (1.98%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.54%) Rust
10 6 (1.32%) VBA
11 5 (1.10%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.10%) Scala
12 3 (0.66%) Bash
12 3 (0.66%) Bicep
12 3 (0.66%) Perl
13 2 (0.44%) C
13 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.22%) F#
Qualifications
1 29 (6.37%) Degree
2 11 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (2.20%) Azure Certification
4 6 (1.32%) PMP
5 5 (1.10%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.88%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (0.66%) MCSA
7 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.44%) CCNP
8 2 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.44%) CISSP
8 2 (0.44%) MBA
8 2 (0.44%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 2 (0.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.22%) CFA
9 1 (0.22%) CISA
9 1 (0.22%) IIBA
9 1 (0.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.86%) MiFID
1 13 (2.86%) QA
2 12 (2.64%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.42%) PMO
4 7 (1.54%) SLA
5 5 (1.10%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.10%) EMIR
6 2 (0.44%) WCAG
7 1 (0.22%) COREP
7 1 (0.22%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.22%) FINREP
7 1 (0.22%) GDPR
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.22%) ITGC
7 1 (0.22%) NIST
7 1 (0.22%) PSD2
7 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (4.62%) Docker
2 14 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) GridGain
3 1 (0.22%) Varnish
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 21 (4.62%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.42%) Terraform
3 8 (1.76%) SCCM
4 7 (1.54%) WSUS
5 5 (1.10%) Ansible
5 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.88%) Control-M
7 3 (0.66%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.22%) Puppet
8 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.22%) WMI
Vendors
1 43 (9.45%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.13%) Oracle
3 16 (3.52%) Murex
4 14 (3.08%) OpenAI
5 11 (2.42%) Bloomberg
6 9 (1.98%) Citrix
6 9 (1.98%) ION Trading
7 8 (1.76%) Reuters
8 7 (1.54%) Solace
9 6 (1.32%) Charles River
10 5 (1.10%) Databricks
10 5 (1.10%) Sybase
11 4 (0.88%) Google
11 4 (0.88%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.66%) Adobe
12 3 (0.66%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.66%) Cisco
12 3 (0.66%) CyberArk
12 3 (0.66%) SAP
12 3 (0.66%) TIBCO