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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 68 74
Rank change year-on-year -67 +6 -22
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 368 448 540
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.18% 3.55% 2.99%
As % of the General category 3.52% 5.31% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 282 395
10th Percentile £413 £415 £493
25th Percentile £500 £613 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £634 £750 £712
Median % change year-on-year -15.50% +5.34% +1.71%
75th Percentile £770 £875 £850
90th Percentile £982 £888 £900
England median daily rate £625 £725 £712
% change year-on-year -13.79% +1.83% +1.71%
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 10,469 8,437 11,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.97% 66.83% 63.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,829 5,713 8,163
10th Percentile £350 £336 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £700
90th Percentile £782 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 139 254
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.85 £15.65
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.66 £18.39
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £47.75 £55.13 £49.77
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.68 £72.13
England median hourly rate £25.77 £30.00 £26.03
% change year-on-year -14.10% +15.25% -25.63%

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 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -26 56 £600 -4.00% 25
East London +5 4 £416 -27.65%
South London -18 1 £600 -12.73% 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 (3.80%) Confluence
2 7 (1.90%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.36%) Apache
4 3 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.82%) CMS
4 3 (0.82%) SAS
4 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.54%) IIS
5 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.27%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 26 (7.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (3.26%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.27%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 14 (3.80%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (3.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 13 (3.53%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.36%) Summit
4 4 (1.09%) Aladdin
4 4 (1.09%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.82%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.54%) Front Arena
6 2 (0.54%) Global One
6 2 (0.54%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.27%) Actimize
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.27%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.27%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.27%) ION MarketView
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.27%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 53 (14.40%) Azure
2 50 (13.59%) AWS
3 15 (4.08%) Power Platform
4 14 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (3.80%) OCI
5 13 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (3.53%) GitHub
6 11 (2.99%) GCP
7 9 (2.45%) Snowflake
8 7 (1.90%) Google Workspace
9 5 (1.36%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (1.36%) npm
9 5 (1.36%) Serverless
9 5 (1.36%) Yarn
10 4 (1.09%) ChatGPT
10 4 (1.09%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.09%) PowerApps
11 3 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.82%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.89%) FIX Connectivity
2 7 (1.90%) Firewall
3 6 (1.63%) DMZ
3 6 (1.63%) Multicast
3 6 (1.63%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.63%) VPN
4 3 (0.82%) HTTP
5 2 (0.54%) RTMP
5 2 (0.54%) SMS
6 1 (0.27%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.52%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (3.80%) Relational Database
4 13 (3.53%) Power BI
5 11 (2.99%) Tableau
6 8 (2.17%) KDB
6 8 (2.17%) Metadata
7 7 (1.90%) Redis
8 5 (1.36%) Big Data
8 5 (1.36%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.36%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.36%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.09%) Apache Ignite
9 4 (1.09%) Kdb+
9 4 (1.09%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.82%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.82%) Pinecone
10 3 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (0.82%) Weaviate
11 2 (0.54%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 27 (7.34%) JIRA
2 11 (2.99%) Git
3 9 (2.45%) GitLab
4 8 (2.17%) TeamCity
5 7 (1.90%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (1.63%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.63%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.63%) Selenium
7 5 (1.36%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.36%) webpack
8 4 (1.09%) JUnit
8 4 (1.09%) Postman
8 4 (1.09%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.82%) Maven
9 3 (0.82%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.54%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.54%) Vite
11 1 (0.27%) XCUITest
General
1 368 (100.00%) Banking
2 223 (60.60%) Finance
3 117 (31.79%) Front Office
4 113 (30.71%) Social Skills
5 55 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (8.15%) Retail Banking
7 26 (7.07%) Financial Institution
8 20 (5.43%) Corporate Banking
8 20 (5.43%) Retail
9 16 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (4.08%) Back Office
11 11 (2.99%) Legal
12 7 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.36%) French Language
14 4 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.82%) Spanish Language
16 2 (0.54%) Aviation
16 2 (0.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 120 (32.61%) Developer
2 77 (20.92%) Analyst
3 59 (16.03%) Business Analyst
4 56 (15.22%) Java Developer
4 56 (15.22%) Senior
5 36 (9.78%) Senior Developer
6 28 (7.61%) Senior Java Developer
7 23 (6.25%) Banking Analyst
7 23 (6.25%) C# Developer
8 22 (5.98%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 19 (5.16%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 17 (4.62%) Kafka Developer
10 17 (4.62%) Lead
10 17 (4.62%) Low Latency Java Developer
10 17 (4.62%) Project Manager
11 16 (4.35%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
11 16 (4.35%) AWS Developer
11 16 (4.35%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
12 15 (4.08%) Support Engineer
13 13 (3.53%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (10.05%) .NET
2 29 (7.88%) Kafka
2 29 (7.88%) React
3 26 (7.07%) FIX Protocol
4 14 (3.80%) CSS
4 14 (3.80%) HTML
5 13 (3.53%) Redux
5 13 (3.53%) XML
6 11 (2.99%) AngularJS
6 11 (2.99%) Spring
7 10 (2.72%) Pandas
8 8 (2.17%) HTML5
9 7 (1.90%) Node.js
9 7 (1.90%) NumPy
9 7 (1.90%) REST
10 6 (1.63%) Dask
10 6 (1.63%) JMS
10 6 (1.63%) Reactive Extensions
11 5 (1.36%) Middleware
11 5 (1.36%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 80 (21.74%) Derivative
2 44 (11.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 42 (11.41%) Equities
4 40 (10.87%) Fixed Income
5 29 (7.88%) Market Risk
6 22 (5.98%) Management Information System
7 21 (5.71%) Credit Risk
8 17 (4.62%) Hedge funds
8 17 (4.62%) Onboarding
9 16 (4.35%) TWAP
9 16 (4.35%) VWAP
10 14 (3.80%) Cloud Native
11 12 (3.26%) Data Structures
12 9 (2.45%) Algorithms
13 8 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (1.90%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
15 6 (1.63%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.25%) Windows
2 20 (5.43%) Linux
3 19 (5.16%) Unix
4 6 (1.63%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.09%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.54%) 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 69 (18.75%) Agile
2 67 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 46 (12.50%) Analytics
5 45 (12.23%) DevOps
6 41 (11.14%) CI/CD
7 40 (10.87%) Electronic Trading
8 39 (10.60%) AI
8 39 (10.60%) User Acceptance Testing
9 38 (10.33%) Business Analysis
9 38 (10.33%) TDD
10 36 (9.78%) Asset Management
10 36 (9.78%) Low Latency
10 36 (9.78%) Risk Management
11 34 (9.24%) Project Management
12 33 (8.97%) Multithreading
13 30 (8.15%) Test Automation
14 27 (7.34%) Design Patterns
15 26 (7.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 24 (6.52%) OO
Programming Languages
1 101 (27.45%) SQL
2 94 (25.54%) Java
3 76 (20.65%) Python
4 52 (14.13%) C#
5 28 (7.61%) JavaScript
5 28 (7.61%) TypeScript
6 17 (4.62%) PowerShell
7 12 (3.26%) C++
8 9 (2.45%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.36%) Perl
9 5 (1.36%) Scala
9 5 (1.36%) VBA
10 4 (1.09%) Bash
10 4 (1.09%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.09%) Rust
11 3 (0.82%) Go
11 3 (0.82%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.54%) Korn
13 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.27%) F#
Qualifications
1 41 (11.14%) Degree
2 17 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (4.08%) Master's Degree
4 8 (2.17%) PMP
5 7 (1.90%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.90%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.63%) PhD
7 5 (1.36%) CFA
8 4 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.82%) MCSA
9 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.54%) ACCA
10 2 (0.54%) CISSP
10 2 (0.54%) IIBA
10 2 (0.54%) MBA
10 2 (0.54%) Security Cleared
10 2 (0.54%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 2 (0.54%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 1 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.62%) QA
2 13 (3.53%) MiFID
3 12 (3.26%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.72%) PMO
4 10 (2.72%) SLA
5 9 (2.45%) EMIR
6 5 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.54%) Dodd-Frank
7 2 (0.54%) GDPR
7 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.54%) NIST
7 2 (0.54%) SEPA
8 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.27%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.27%) GRC
8 1 (0.27%) IFRS
8 1 (0.27%) ITGC
8 1 (0.27%) PSD2
8 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 18 (4.89%) Docker
2 5 (1.36%) Active Directory
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 18 (4.89%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.17%) SCCM
3 6 (1.63%) WSUS
4 4 (1.09%) Control-M
4 4 (1.09%) Terraform
5 3 (0.82%) Ansible
5 3 (0.82%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (0.82%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.54%) Puppet
6 2 (0.54%) 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 40 (10.87%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.97%) Oracle
3 19 (5.16%) Bloomberg
4 15 (4.08%) Murex
5 13 (3.53%) ION Trading
6 8 (2.17%) Citrix
6 8 (2.17%) Reuters
7 7 (1.90%) Sybase
8 6 (1.63%) Charles River
9 4 (1.09%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.09%) IBM
9 4 (1.09%) Refinitiv
9 4 (1.09%) UiPath
10 3 (0.82%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.82%) NYFIX
10 3 (0.82%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.82%) Pega
10 3 (0.82%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.82%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.82%) Solace