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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 78 58
Rank change year-on-year -47 -20 -1
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 469 472 634
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.31% 3.50% 3.94%
As % of the General category 3.74% 5.09% 6.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 315 497
10th Percentile £407 £463 £500
25th Percentile £520 £570 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £792 £825 £875
90th Percentile £938 £925 £888
England median daily rate £675 £725 £750
% change year-on-year -6.90% -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 12,549 9,269 10,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.69% 68.83% 62.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,007 6,097 6,541
10th Percentile £350 £325 £330
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 £533
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.19% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 176 117
10th Percentile £16.05 £17.04 £17.80
25th Percentile £20.14 £24.58 £25.75
Median hourly rate £28.40 £31.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% -11.28% +24.02%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £72.58 £64.25 £65.42
England median hourly rate £29.50 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +17.30% -32.93% +29.87%

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 October 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 October 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 -35 68 £700 - 44
East London +6 5 £875 -2.78%
South London -7 2 £650 +8.33%
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 10 (2.13%) Confluence
2 5 (1.07%) MTS
3 4 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.64%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.43%) Apache
5 2 (0.43%) IIS
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.21%) CICS
6 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 17 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.64%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.21%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.71%) Aladdin
1 8 (1.71%) Oracle EBS
1 8 (1.71%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (0.85%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (0.85%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 4 (0.85%) Oracle iProcurement
2 4 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.64%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (0.64%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (0.64%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.43%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.21%) Actimize
5 1 (0.21%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.21%) Front Arena
5 1 (0.21%) Global One
5 1 (0.21%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.21%) Summit
5 1 (0.21%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 80 (17.06%) Azure
2 51 (10.87%) AWS
3 26 (5.54%) GCP
4 18 (3.84%) Entra ID
5 17 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (3.41%) Power Platform
7 14 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (2.99%) SaaS
8 12 (2.56%) GitHub
9 11 (2.35%) OCI
10 7 (1.49%) Snowflake
11 6 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.28%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.28%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.07%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.07%) Azure Databricks
12 5 (1.07%) Cloud Run
12 5 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (0.85%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.35%) FIX Connectivity
2 9 (1.92%) Firewall
2 9 (1.92%) Multicast
3 6 (1.28%) HTTP
3 6 (1.28%) VPN
4 4 (0.85%) BGP
4 4 (0.85%) Network Security
4 4 (0.85%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.85%) Wireless
5 3 (0.64%) DMZ
5 3 (0.64%) SSH
5 3 (0.64%) WAN
6 2 (0.43%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.43%) DWDM
6 2 (0.43%) Internet
6 2 (0.43%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.43%) MPLS
6 2 (0.43%) OSPF
6 2 (0.43%) VLAN
6 2 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.05%) Metadata
1 19 (4.05%) SQL Server
2 17 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (2.99%) Power BI
4 11 (2.35%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.13%) KDB
6 9 (1.92%) Chroma
6 9 (1.92%) Data Vault
6 9 (1.92%) Pinecone
6 9 (1.92%) Weaviate
7 8 (1.71%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.49%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.49%) Kdb+
9 6 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.28%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.28%) Redis
10 5 (1.07%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (10.02%) JIRA
2 25 (5.33%) Git
3 11 (2.35%) ER Studio
4 10 (2.13%) ERwin
5 7 (1.49%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.28%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.28%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.07%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.07%) GitLab
7 5 (1.07%) PowerDesigner
7 5 (1.07%) webpack
8 3 (0.64%) MSBuild
8 3 (0.64%) Selenium
9 2 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.43%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.21%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.21%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.21%) CMake
10 1 (0.21%) MSI
10 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
General
1 469 (100.00%) Banking
2 312 (66.52%) Finance
3 149 (31.77%) Front Office
4 113 (24.09%) Social Skills
5 59 (12.58%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (8.32%) Corporate Banking
7 36 (7.68%) Retail
7 36 (7.68%) Retail Banking
8 34 (7.25%) Financial Institution
9 20 (4.26%) Back Office
10 17 (3.62%) Legal
11 13 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (2.13%) Spanish Language
13 9 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.07%) General Ledger
16 4 (0.85%) Games
16 4 (0.85%) Law
17 3 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 163 (34.75%) Developer
2 78 (16.63%) Senior
3 75 (15.99%) Analyst
4 59 (12.58%) Business Analyst
5 56 (11.94%) Java Developer
6 43 (9.17%) Senior Developer
7 29 (6.18%) Python Developer
8 27 (5.76%) Lead
9 22 (4.69%) C# Developer
9 22 (4.69%) Project Manager
9 22 (4.69%) Senior Java Developer
10 21 (4.48%) Support Engineer
11 20 (4.26%) React Developer
12 16 (3.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 16 (3.41%) Senior React Developer
13 15 (3.20%) Full-Stack Developer
13 15 (3.20%) UI Developer
14 14 (2.99%) Data Modeller
14 14 (2.99%) Senior UI Developer
15 13 (2.77%) Banking Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (9.17%) React
2 40 (8.53%) .NET
3 33 (7.04%) FIX Protocol
4 24 (5.12%) AngularJS
4 24 (5.12%) REST
5 21 (4.48%) Kafka
5 21 (4.48%) Redux
6 16 (3.41%) RESTful
7 15 (3.20%) Spring
8 14 (2.99%) Terraform
9 13 (2.77%) WebSockets
10 12 (2.56%) Flask
10 12 (2.56%) Pandas
11 11 (2.35%) LangChain
11 11 (2.35%) PySpark
12 10 (2.13%) OAuth
13 9 (1.92%) FastAPI
13 9 (1.92%) LlamaIndex
13 9 (1.92%) NumPy
13 9 (1.92%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 89 (18.98%) Derivative
2 70 (14.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 56 (11.94%) Fixed Income
4 48 (10.23%) Equities
5 34 (7.25%) Product Ownership
6 27 (5.76%) Onboarding
7 25 (5.33%) Greenfield Project
8 23 (4.90%) Market Risk
9 20 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
10 19 (4.05%) AI Agents
10 19 (4.05%) Management Information System
11 17 (3.62%) Data Structures
12 15 (3.20%) Hedge funds
13 13 (2.77%) Algorithms
14 11 (2.35%) Cloud Native
14 11 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (2.35%) TWAP
14 11 (2.35%) VWAP
15 10 (2.13%) Credit Risk
16 9 (1.92%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 33 (7.04%) Linux
2 31 (6.61%) Windows
3 23 (4.90%) Unix
4 5 (1.07%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.85%) Android
6 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.64%) Windows 7
6 3 (0.64%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.21%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (25.37%) Agile
2 90 (19.19%) Stakeholder Management
3 74 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
4 66 (14.07%) AI
5 64 (13.65%) CI/CD
6 62 (13.22%) Low Latency
7 57 (12.15%) Software Engineering
8 55 (11.73%) Electronic Trading
9 53 (11.30%) Analytics
10 46 (9.81%) DevOps
11 43 (9.17%) Wealth Management
12 41 (8.74%) Business Analysis
13 39 (8.32%) Continuous Improvement
14 38 (8.10%) Data Modelling
14 38 (8.10%) Event-Driven
15 37 (7.89%) Full-Stack Development
15 37 (7.89%) Migration
15 37 (7.89%) Translating Business Requirements
16 35 (7.46%) Scrum
16 35 (7.46%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 112 (23.88%) SQL
2 109 (23.24%) Python
3 102 (21.75%) Java
4 76 (16.20%) C#
5 52 (11.09%) TypeScript
6 39 (8.32%) JavaScript
7 20 (4.26%) C++
8 17 (3.62%) PowerShell
9 12 (2.56%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.49%) Bash
11 6 (1.28%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.28%) Rust
12 5 (1.07%) Tcl
13 3 (0.64%) Bicep
13 3 (0.64%) C
13 3 (0.64%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.64%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.43%) Korn
14 2 (0.43%) Perl
14 2 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (7.46%) Degree
2 10 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (1.92%) Azure Certification
4 8 (1.71%) PMP
5 6 (1.28%) Security Cleared
6 5 (1.07%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.85%) ACCA
7 4 (0.85%) CIMA
7 4 (0.85%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.85%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.64%) CBAP
9 2 (0.43%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.43%) CCNP
9 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.21%) CISSP
10 1 (0.21%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.21%) MCSA
10 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.84%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.62%) MiFID
3 13 (2.77%) QA
4 10 (2.13%) EMIR
5 6 (1.28%) PMO
6 5 (1.07%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.85%) IFRS
7 4 (0.85%) NIST
8 3 (0.64%) WCAG
9 2 (0.43%) GRC
10 1 (0.21%) COBIT
10 1 (0.21%) COREP
10 1 (0.21%) FINREP
10 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.21%) SEPA
10 1 (0.21%) TARGET2
System Software
1 22 (4.69%) Active Directory
2 18 (3.84%) Docker
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (4.05%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (1.28%) SCCM
3 5 (1.07%) Ansible
4 3 (0.64%) Grafana
4 3 (0.64%) WSUS
5 2 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.21%) Control-M
6 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.40%) Oracle
3 15 (3.20%) Bloomberg
3 15 (3.20%) Databricks
3 15 (3.20%) OpenAI
4 13 (2.77%) Murex
5 10 (2.13%) ION Trading
6 9 (1.92%) Citrix
6 9 (1.92%) Tradeweb
7 7 (1.49%) Cisco
7 7 (1.49%) MarketAxess
8 6 (1.28%) Reuters
9 5 (1.07%) SAP
9 5 (1.07%) Solace
9 5 (1.07%) Sybase
10 4 (0.85%) Adobe
10 4 (0.85%) Charles River
10 4 (0.85%) Google
10 4 (0.85%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.64%) Atlassian