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 26 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 73 75
Rank change year-on-year -56 +2 -24
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 365 446 544
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.19% 3.53% 3.00%
As % of the General category 3.52% 5.28% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 278 400
10th Percentile £416 £432 £488
25th Percentile £500 £613 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £641 £725 £712
Median % change year-on-year -11.55% +1.83% -0.42%
75th Percentile £770 £875 £850
90th Percentile £988 £888 £915
England median daily rate £625 £725 £700
% change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £19.85 - -
25th Percentile £21.31 £76.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.00 £77.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -67.74% - -
75th Percentile £41.61 £78.75 -
90th Percentile £50.82 - -
England median hourly rate £25.00 £77.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -67.74% +297.44% -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 10,380 8,454 11,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 62.25% 66.84% 63.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,754 5,700 8,208
10th Percentile £350 £332 £331
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.04% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £700
90th Percentile £781 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 135 250
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.56 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.72 £24.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year - +16.05% -7.20%
75th Percentile £49.06 £55.13 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.04 £73.88
England median hourly rate £25.38 £30.21 £26.00
% change year-on-year -15.97% +16.17% -25.71%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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 54 £575 -6.12% 25
East London +1 4 £416 -27.65%
South London -20 1 £600 -17.24% 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 (3.84%) Confluence
2 7 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.37%) Apache
4 3 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.82%) CMS
4 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.55%) SAS
6 1 (0.27%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.27%) IIS
6 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 24 (6.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.29%) MS Visio
4 11 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.55%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.27%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 14 (3.84%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (3.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 13 (3.56%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.37%) Aladdin
3 5 (1.37%) Fidessa
3 5 (1.37%) Summit
4 3 (0.82%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.55%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 2 (0.55%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.27%) Actimize
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.27%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.27%) Front Arena
6 1 (0.27%) Global One
6 1 (0.27%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.27%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.27%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 54 (14.79%) AWS
2 52 (14.25%) Azure
3 14 (3.84%) GitHub
3 14 (3.84%) OCI
3 14 (3.84%) Power Platform
4 13 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (3.01%) GCP
6 10 (2.74%) Snowflake
7 6 (1.64%) Google Workspace
8 5 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (1.37%) npm
8 5 (1.37%) Serverless
8 5 (1.37%) Yarn
9 4 (1.10%) ChatGPT
9 4 (1.10%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.10%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.10%) PowerApps
10 3 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (0.82%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.66%) FIX Connectivity
2 7 (1.92%) Firewall
2 7 (1.92%) TCP/IP
2 7 (1.92%) VPN
3 6 (1.64%) DMZ
3 6 (1.64%) Multicast
4 3 (0.82%) HTTP
5 2 (0.55%) RTMP
5 2 (0.55%) SMS
6 1 (0.27%) DHCP
6 1 (0.27%) DNS
6 1 (0.27%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.27%) Network Security
6 1 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.03%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (4.38%) Relational Database
3 12 (3.29%) Power BI
4 10 (2.74%) Tableau
5 8 (2.19%) KDB
5 8 (2.19%) Metadata
6 6 (1.64%) Redis
7 5 (1.37%) Big Data
7 5 (1.37%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.37%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.37%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.37%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.10%) Apache Ignite
8 4 (1.10%) Kdb+
9 3 (0.82%) DB2
9 3 (0.82%) Neo4j
9 3 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.55%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 26 (7.12%) JIRA
2 11 (3.01%) Git
3 10 (2.74%) GitLab
4 7 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.92%) Octopus Deploy
4 7 (1.92%) TeamCity
5 6 (1.64%) Selenium
6 5 (1.37%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.37%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.37%) JUnit
6 5 (1.37%) webpack
7 4 (1.10%) Maven
7 4 (1.10%) Postman
7 4 (1.10%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.82%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.55%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.27%) Mocha
10 1 (0.27%) TestNG
General
1 365 (100.00%) Banking
2 224 (61.37%) Finance
3 114 (31.23%) Social Skills
4 112 (30.68%) Front Office
5 54 (14.79%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (7.95%) Retail Banking
7 26 (7.12%) Financial Institution
8 20 (5.48%) Retail
9 19 (5.21%) Corporate Banking
10 15 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (3.56%) Back Office
12 10 (2.74%) Legal
13 7 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.10%) French Language
14 4 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.82%) Spanish Language
16 2 (0.55%) Aviation
16 2 (0.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 121 (33.15%) Developer
2 75 (20.55%) Analyst
3 57 (15.62%) Java Developer
4 56 (15.34%) Business Analyst
4 56 (15.34%) Senior
5 37 (10.14%) Senior Developer
6 29 (7.95%) Senior Java Developer
7 22 (6.03%) Banking Analyst
8 21 (5.75%) C# Developer
8 21 (5.75%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 19 (5.21%) Lead
10 18 (4.93%) AWS Developer
10 18 (4.93%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 18 (4.93%) Kafka Developer
11 17 (4.66%) Project Manager
12 16 (4.38%) Low Latency Java Developer
13 15 (4.11%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
13 15 (4.11%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
13 15 (4.11%) Support Engineer
14 14 (3.84%) Analytics Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (9.04%) .NET
2 31 (8.49%) Kafka
3 28 (7.67%) React
4 24 (6.58%) FIX Protocol
5 13 (3.56%) CSS
5 13 (3.56%) HTML
5 13 (3.56%) Spring
5 13 (3.56%) XML
6 12 (3.29%) AngularJS
7 11 (3.01%) Pandas
8 10 (2.74%) Redux
9 8 (2.19%) NumPy
9 8 (2.19%) REST
10 7 (1.92%) HTML5
10 7 (1.92%) JMS
11 6 (1.64%) Dask
11 6 (1.64%) Node.js
11 6 (1.64%) SciPy
12 5 (1.37%) FastAPI
12 5 (1.37%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 79 (21.64%) Derivative
2 43 (11.78%) Equities
3 41 (11.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 39 (10.68%) Fixed Income
5 29 (7.95%) Market Risk
6 23 (6.30%) Management Information System
7 19 (5.21%) Credit Risk
7 19 (5.21%) Hedge funds
8 18 (4.93%) Onboarding
9 15 (4.11%) Cloud Native
9 15 (4.11%) TWAP
9 15 (4.11%) VWAP
10 13 (3.56%) Data Structures
11 11 (3.01%) Algorithms
12 8 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
14 6 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
15 5 (1.37%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.58%) Linux
2 22 (6.03%) Windows
3 19 (5.21%) Unix
4 6 (1.64%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.82%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.55%) 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 71 (19.45%) Agile
2 67 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (13.70%) Stakeholder Management
4 46 (12.60%) Analytics
4 46 (12.60%) DevOps
5 42 (11.51%) CI/CD
6 38 (10.41%) Risk Management
7 37 (10.14%) AI
7 37 (10.14%) Asset Management
7 37 (10.14%) Electronic Trading
7 37 (10.14%) TDD
7 37 (10.14%) User Acceptance Testing
8 36 (9.86%) Business Analysis
9 33 (9.04%) Low Latency
9 33 (9.04%) Multithreading
9 33 (9.04%) Project Management
10 30 (8.22%) Test Automation
11 26 (7.12%) Data Analysis
11 26 (7.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 25 (6.85%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 102 (27.95%) SQL
2 96 (26.30%) Java
3 80 (21.92%) Python
4 49 (13.42%) C#
5 26 (7.12%) TypeScript
6 25 (6.85%) JavaScript
7 17 (4.66%) PowerShell
8 13 (3.56%) C++
9 10 (2.74%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.37%) Rust
10 5 (1.37%) Scala
11 4 (1.10%) Bash
11 4 (1.10%) Perl
11 4 (1.10%) VBA
12 3 (0.82%) Go
12 3 (0.82%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.82%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.55%) Korn
14 1 (0.27%) F#
14 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (11.23%) Degree
2 17 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (4.11%) Master's Degree
4 8 (2.19%) PMP
5 7 (1.92%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.64%) PhD
7 5 (1.37%) CFA
8 4 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.82%) MCSA
9 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.55%) ACCA
10 2 (0.55%) CISSP
10 2 (0.55%) IIBA
10 2 (0.55%) MBA
10 2 (0.55%) Security Cleared
10 2 (0.55%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 2 (0.55%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.38%) QA
2 13 (3.56%) MiFID
3 12 (3.29%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.74%) PMO
4 10 (2.74%) SLA
5 9 (2.47%) EMIR
6 6 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.55%) Dodd-Frank
7 2 (0.55%) GDPR
7 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.55%) NIST
7 2 (0.55%) SEPA
8 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.27%) COBIT
8 1 (0.27%) FINRA
8 1 (0.27%) GRC
8 1 (0.27%) IFRS
8 1 (0.27%) ITGC
8 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 19 (5.21%) Docker
2 5 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Firmware
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 (5.21%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.47%) SCCM
3 6 (1.64%) WSUS
4 4 (1.10%) Terraform
5 3 (0.82%) Ansible
5 3 (0.82%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 2 (0.55%) Control-M
6 2 (0.55%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.55%) Puppet
6 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.27%) Grafana
7 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.27%) WMI
7 1 (0.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 39 (10.68%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.04%) Oracle
3 19 (5.21%) Bloomberg
4 14 (3.84%) Murex
5 13 (3.56%) ION Trading
6 8 (2.19%) Citrix
6 8 (2.19%) Reuters
6 8 (2.19%) Sybase
7 7 (1.92%) Charles River
8 4 (1.10%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.10%) IBM
8 4 (1.10%) Refinitiv
8 4 (1.10%) Solace
8 4 (1.10%) UiPath
9 3 (0.82%) Adobe
9 3 (0.82%) NYFIX
9 3 (0.82%) Pega
9 3 (0.82%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.82%) SAP
9 3 (0.82%) Splunk