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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 64 75
Rank change year-on-year -63 +11 -20
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 403 468 530
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.21% 3.86% 3.04%
As % of the General category 3.71% 5.70% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 308 416
10th Percentile £403 £440 £500
25th Percentile £500 £613 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £769 £875 £874
90th Percentile £900 £888 £888
England median daily rate £630 £750 £750
% change year-on-year -16.00% - +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.96 - -
Median hourly rate £54.46 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% - -
75th Percentile £56.96 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £54.46 £100.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -45.54% +412.82% -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 10,850 8,207 10,989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 59.55% 67.67% 63.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,014 5,493 7,853
10th Percentile £350 £341 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £704 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £514 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 142 234
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.93 £15.65
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.30 £18.16
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.92 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.64% +14.01% -11.11%
75th Percentile £46.25 £50.69 £43.75
90th Percentile £67.30 £63.70 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.81 £27.39 £30.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% -8.71% -7.12%

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 May 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 May 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 -34 53 £600 -11.11% 28
South London -19 1 £600 -17.24% 4
East London - 1 £416 - 3
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 (2.73%) Confluence
2 5 (1.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (0.99%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.99%) IIS
4 3 (0.74%) Apache
4 3 (0.74%) SAS
5 2 (0.50%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.25%) CICS
Applications
1 27 (6.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.72%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (3.23%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.74%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.50%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 14 (3.47%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (3.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 13 (3.23%) Oracle Receivables
3 8 (1.99%) Aladdin
4 6 (1.49%) Summit
5 4 (0.99%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.74%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.50%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 2 (0.50%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.50%) Global One
8 1 (0.25%) Actimize
8 1 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.25%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.25%) BusinessWorks
8 1 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.25%) Markit EDM
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.25%) Orchestrade
8 1 (0.25%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 60 (14.89%) Azure
2 54 (13.40%) AWS
3 17 (4.22%) GCP
4 15 (3.72%) OCI
5 14 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (3.47%) Power Platform
6 13 (3.23%) GitHub
7 10 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (2.23%) Entra ID
8 9 (2.23%) Snowflake
9 6 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (1.49%) Google Workspace
10 5 (1.24%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.24%) npm
10 5 (1.24%) Yarn
11 4 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.74%) Figma
12 3 (0.74%) SaaS
12 3 (0.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.21%) FIX Connectivity
2 8 (1.99%) Firewall
3 7 (1.74%) HTTP
4 6 (1.49%) Multicast
4 6 (1.49%) VPN
5 5 (1.24%) DMZ
5 5 (1.24%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.74%) Wireless
7 2 (0.50%) BGP
7 2 (0.50%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.50%) DWDM
7 2 (0.50%) MPLS
7 2 (0.50%) Network Security
7 2 (0.50%) OSPF
7 2 (0.50%) RTMP
7 2 (0.50%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (0.25%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.25%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.96%) SQL Server
2 17 (4.22%) Relational Database
3 15 (3.72%) Metadata
4 13 (3.23%) Power BI
5 11 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.48%) Pinecone
6 10 (2.48%) Tableau
6 10 (2.48%) Weaviate
7 8 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.74%) Data Vault
9 6 (1.49%) KDB
9 6 (1.49%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.49%) Redis
10 5 (1.24%) Big Data
10 5 (1.24%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (0.99%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.99%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.99%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.74%) Flink
Development Applications
1 30 (7.44%) JIRA
2 10 (2.48%) TeamCity
3 7 (1.74%) Git
4 6 (1.49%) ER Studio
4 6 (1.49%) ERwin
4 6 (1.49%) GitLab
4 6 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (1.49%) webpack
5 4 (0.99%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.99%) PowerDesigner
5 4 (0.99%) Selenium
6 2 (0.50%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.50%) JUnit
6 2 (0.50%) Maven
6 2 (0.50%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.50%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.50%) Vite
7 1 (0.25%) XCUITest
General
1 403 (100.00%) Banking
2 246 (61.04%) Finance
3 127 (31.51%) Front Office
4 101 (25.06%) Social Skills
5 53 (13.15%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (10.92%) Retail Banking
7 36 (8.93%) Retail
8 35 (8.68%) Corporate Banking
9 23 (5.71%) Financial Institution
10 18 (4.47%) Legal
11 15 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (2.48%) Back Office
13 9 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.74%) French Language
16 6 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (1.24%) Spanish Language
18 3 (0.74%) Aviation
18 3 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 3 (0.74%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 132 (32.75%) Developer
2 81 (20.10%) Analyst
3 66 (16.38%) Business Analyst
4 60 (14.89%) Java Developer
5 59 (14.64%) Senior
6 38 (9.43%) Senior Developer
7 29 (7.20%) Senior Java Developer
8 25 (6.20%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 24 (5.96%) Banking Analyst
10 22 (5.46%) C# Developer
11 21 (5.21%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
12 20 (4.96%) Low Latency Java Developer
13 19 (4.71%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
13 19 (4.71%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
13 19 (4.71%) Support Engineer
14 16 (3.97%) Lead
15 15 (3.72%) Banking Business Analyst
16 13 (3.23%) Project Manager
16 13 (3.23%) Risk Analyst
17 12 (2.98%) Front Office Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (9.68%) .NET
2 36 (8.93%) FIX Protocol
3 32 (7.94%) React
4 28 (6.95%) Kafka
5 14 (3.47%) CSS
5 14 (3.47%) HTML
5 14 (3.47%) Redux
5 14 (3.47%) Spring
5 14 (3.47%) XML
6 12 (2.98%) AngularJS
7 11 (2.73%) LangChain
8 10 (2.48%) LlamaIndex
9 9 (2.23%) REST
9 9 (2.23%) RESTful
10 8 (1.99%) HTML5
11 7 (1.74%) Node.js
11 7 (1.74%) WebSockets
12 6 (1.49%) OAuth
12 6 (1.49%) Reactive Extensions
12 6 (1.49%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 92 (22.83%) Derivative
2 52 (12.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 47 (11.66%) Equities
4 39 (9.68%) Fixed Income
5 25 (6.20%) Market Risk
6 20 (4.96%) Credit Risk
6 20 (4.96%) Management Information System
7 19 (4.71%) TWAP
7 19 (4.71%) VWAP
8 18 (4.47%) Algorithms
8 18 (4.47%) Distributed Systems
9 17 (4.22%) Data Structures
10 15 (3.72%) Product Ownership
11 13 (3.23%) Onboarding
12 12 (2.98%) Cloud Native
13 11 (2.73%) AI Agents
14 9 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
16 7 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
16 7 (1.74%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.20%) Windows
2 21 (5.21%) Unix
3 17 (4.22%) Linux
4 9 (2.23%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.49%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.50%) Android
6 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.25%) AIX
7 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (19.35%) Agile
2 60 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
3 55 (13.65%) Low Latency
4 52 (12.90%) Analytics
5 51 (12.66%) Electronic Trading
6 48 (11.91%) Stakeholder Management
7 42 (10.42%) AI
7 42 (10.42%) Asset Management
7 42 (10.42%) Multithreading
8 41 (10.17%) CI/CD
8 41 (10.17%) User Acceptance Testing
9 39 (9.68%) TDD
10 37 (9.18%) Business Analysis
11 36 (8.93%) DevOps
12 33 (8.19%) Wealth Management
13 31 (7.69%) Algorithmic Trading
13 31 (7.69%) Software Engineering
14 29 (7.20%) Risk Management
15 28 (6.95%) Design Patterns
16 27 (6.70%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 102 (25.31%) Java
2 94 (23.33%) SQL
3 91 (22.58%) Python
4 54 (13.40%) C#
5 37 (9.18%) TypeScript
6 29 (7.20%) JavaScript
7 18 (4.47%) PowerShell
8 16 (3.97%) C++
9 8 (1.99%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.49%) Rust
10 6 (1.49%) Scala
11 5 (1.24%) VBA
12 4 (0.99%) Bash
12 4 (0.99%) Perl
13 3 (0.74%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.50%) C
14 2 (0.50%) Go
15 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.25%) Swift
Qualifications
1 33 (8.19%) Degree
2 17 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.73%) Azure Certification
4 9 (2.23%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.74%) PMP
6 5 (1.24%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (0.99%) MCSA
7 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.74%) CFA
9 2 (0.50%) ACCA
9 2 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.50%) CCNP
9 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.50%) CISSP
9 2 (0.50%) MBA
9 2 (0.50%) PhD
9 2 (0.50%) Security Cleared
9 2 (0.50%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 2 (0.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.72%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.47%) MiFID
3 12 (2.98%) QA
4 11 (2.73%) PMO
5 8 (1.99%) SLA
6 6 (1.49%) EMIR
7 4 (0.99%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.50%) GDPR
8 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.50%) NIST
8 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.25%) Basel III
9 1 (0.25%) IFRS
9 1 (0.25%) ITGC
9 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.25%) PSD2
9 1 (0.25%) SEPA
9 1 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (4.71%) Docker
2 10 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) GridGain
3 1 (0.25%) Varnish
3 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.25%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 17 (4.22%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.99%) Terraform
3 7 (1.74%) SCCM
4 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.24%) WSUS
5 4 (0.99%) Control-M
6 2 (0.50%) Ansible
6 2 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.50%) Puppet
6 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.25%) Grafana
7 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.25%) WMI
Vendors
1 40 (9.93%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.18%) Oracle
3 13 (3.23%) Murex
4 12 (2.98%) Bloomberg
5 11 (2.73%) OpenAI
6 9 (2.23%) ION Trading
7 8 (1.99%) Charles River
7 8 (1.99%) Citrix
8 7 (1.74%) Reuters
9 6 (1.49%) Adobe
10 5 (1.24%) Sybase
11 4 (0.99%) CyberArk
11 4 (0.99%) Pega
11 4 (0.99%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.99%) Solace
12 3 (0.74%) Databricks
12 3 (0.74%) Google
12 3 (0.74%) SAP
13 2 (0.50%) Cisco
13 2 (0.50%) IBM