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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 66 72
Rank change year-on-year -65 +6 -18
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 366 478 535
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.06% 3.81% 3.00%
As % of the General category 3.41% 5.64% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 307 406
10th Percentile £413 £446 £500
25th Percentile £500 £613 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £788 £875 £850
90th Percentile £928 £888 £900
England median daily rate £650 £750 £725
% change year-on-year -13.33% +3.45% +3.57%
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% -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 10,722 8,473 11,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.49% 67.54% 63.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,982 5,726 8,041
10th Percentile £345 £340 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £813
England median daily rate £503 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.29% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 138 245
10th Percentile £18.37 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.72 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +19.30% -10.94%
75th Percentile £50.00 £51.81 £43.75
90th Percentile £71.50 £65.75 £65.02
England median hourly rate £30.50 £27.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year +10.91% -8.82% -10.82%

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 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 1 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 -41 51 £600 -4.00% 19
East London -1 4 £416 -27.65%
South London -19 1 £600 -12.73%
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 12 (3.28%) Confluence
2 5 (1.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.82%) Apache
3 3 (0.82%) IIS
3 3 (0.82%) SAS
3 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.27%) CICS
5 1 (0.27%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 27 (7.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (4.10%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (3.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (3.55%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.82%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.55%) UserZoom
7 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (3.83%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (3.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 13 (3.55%) Oracle Receivables
3 7 (1.91%) Aladdin
4 6 (1.64%) Summit
5 4 (1.09%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.82%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.55%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 2 (0.55%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.55%) Global One
7 2 (0.55%) Markit EDM
8 1 (0.27%) Actimize
8 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.27%) BusinessWorks
8 1 (0.27%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.27%) Orchestrade
8 1 (0.27%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 55 (15.03%) Azure
2 47 (12.84%) AWS
3 17 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (3.83%) OCI
5 13 (3.55%) GCP
5 13 (3.55%) GitHub
5 13 (3.55%) Power Platform
6 12 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (2.46%) Snowflake
8 8 (2.19%) Google Workspace
9 7 (1.91%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.37%) npm
10 5 (1.37%) Serverless
10 5 (1.37%) Yarn
11 4 (1.09%) Figma
12 3 (0.82%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (0.82%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (0.82%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.82%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.74%) FIX Connectivity
2 9 (2.46%) Firewall
3 8 (2.19%) VPN
4 7 (1.91%) DMZ
4 7 (1.91%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.64%) HTTP
6 2 (0.55%) Multicast
6 2 (0.55%) RTMP
7 1 (0.27%) BGP
7 1 (0.27%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.27%) DHCP
7 1 (0.27%) DNS
7 1 (0.27%) DWDM
7 1 (0.27%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (0.27%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.27%) Internet
7 1 (0.27%) MPLS
7 1 (0.27%) SNMP
7 1 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.28%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.83%) Relational Database
3 12 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (3.28%) Power BI
4 9 (2.46%) Tableau
5 8 (2.19%) Metadata
5 8 (2.19%) Redis
6 7 (1.91%) Pinecone
6 7 (1.91%) Weaviate
7 6 (1.64%) Oracle Database
7 6 (1.64%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.37%) Big Data
9 4 (1.09%) Data Vault
10 3 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.82%) Flink
10 3 (0.82%) KDB
10 3 (0.82%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.82%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.82%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 29 (7.92%) JIRA
2 10 (2.73%) TeamCity
3 8 (2.19%) Octopus Deploy
4 7 (1.91%) Git
5 6 (1.64%) GitLab
6 5 (1.37%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.37%) Selenium
6 5 (1.37%) webpack
7 4 (1.09%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.82%) JUnit
8 3 (0.82%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.82%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.55%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.55%) Maven
9 2 (0.55%) Postman
9 2 (0.55%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.55%) Vite
10 1 (0.27%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.27%) WebDriver
General
1 366 (100.00%) Banking
2 228 (62.30%) Finance
3 119 (32.51%) Front Office
4 104 (28.42%) Social Skills
5 48 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (9.02%) Retail Banking
7 25 (6.83%) Corporate Banking
7 25 (6.83%) Retail
8 24 (6.56%) Financial Institution
9 15 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (3.55%) Legal
11 10 (2.73%) Back Office
12 8 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.91%) French Language
14 6 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.82%) Marketing
15 3 (0.82%) Spanish Language
16 2 (0.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 120 (32.79%) Developer
2 76 (20.77%) Analyst
3 61 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 56 (15.30%) Senior
5 54 (14.75%) Java Developer
6 36 (9.84%) Senior Developer
7 27 (7.38%) Senior Java Developer
8 26 (7.10%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 25 (6.83%) Banking Analyst
10 24 (6.56%) C# Developer
11 22 (6.01%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
12 19 (5.19%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
12 19 (5.19%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
12 19 (5.19%) Low Latency Java Developer
13 18 (4.92%) Support Engineer
14 17 (4.64%) Lead
15 14 (3.83%) Banking Business Analyst
15 14 (3.83%) Kafka Developer
16 13 (3.55%) Risk Analyst
17 12 (3.28%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (10.38%) .NET
2 29 (7.92%) FIX Protocol
3 27 (7.38%) React
4 26 (7.10%) Kafka
5 15 (4.10%) CSS
5 15 (4.10%) HTML
6 14 (3.83%) XML
7 13 (3.55%) Redux
8 11 (3.01%) AngularJS
8 11 (3.01%) Spring
9 8 (2.19%) HTML5
9 8 (2.19%) LangChain
10 7 (1.91%) LlamaIndex
10 7 (1.91%) Node.js
11 6 (1.64%) Middleware
11 6 (1.64%) Reactive Extensions
11 6 (1.64%) RESTful
12 5 (1.37%) OAuth
12 5 (1.37%) REST
12 5 (1.37%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 83 (22.68%) Derivative
2 43 (11.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 41 (11.20%) Equities
4 36 (9.84%) Fixed Income
5 26 (7.10%) Market Risk
6 22 (6.01%) Credit Risk
6 22 (6.01%) Management Information System
7 19 (5.19%) TWAP
7 19 (5.19%) VWAP
8 15 (4.10%) Onboarding
9 14 (3.83%) Data Structures
10 13 (3.55%) Algorithms
11 12 (3.28%) Cloud Native
12 11 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (3.01%) Product Ownership
13 9 (2.46%) AI Agents
14 8 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
15 6 (1.64%) Hedge funds
15 6 (1.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.83%) Windows
2 20 (5.46%) Unix
3 15 (4.10%) Linux
4 8 (2.19%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.64%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.55%) AIX
7 1 (0.27%) Android
7 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (19.95%) Agile
2 57 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (12.57%) Analytics
4 45 (12.30%) Electronic Trading
5 44 (12.02%) Low Latency
6 41 (11.20%) Stakeholder Management
7 39 (10.66%) AI
7 39 (10.66%) Asset Management
7 39 (10.66%) DevOps
7 39 (10.66%) TDD
8 37 (10.11%) Business Analysis
8 37 (10.11%) Multithreading
8 37 (10.11%) User Acceptance Testing
9 36 (9.84%) CI/CD
10 30 (8.20%) Risk Management
11 29 (7.92%) Design Patterns
12 27 (7.38%) OO
12 27 (7.38%) Project Management
13 26 (7.10%) Algorithmic Trading
13 26 (7.10%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 93 (25.41%) Java
2 91 (24.86%) SQL
3 72 (19.67%) Python
4 51 (13.93%) C#
5 31 (8.47%) TypeScript
6 26 (7.10%) JavaScript
7 18 (4.92%) PowerShell
8 12 (3.28%) C++
9 7 (1.91%) Scala
9 7 (1.91%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.37%) Perl
10 5 (1.37%) VBA
11 4 (1.09%) Bash
11 4 (1.09%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.09%) Rust
12 3 (0.82%) Go
13 2 (0.55%) Korn
14 1 (0.27%) F#
14 1 (0.27%) LotusScript
14 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 34 (9.29%) Degree
2 19 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.01%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.73%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.91%) PMP
6 5 (1.37%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (1.09%) MCSA
7 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.82%) CFA
8 3 (0.82%) PhD
8 3 (0.82%) Security Cleared
9 2 (0.55%) ACCA
9 2 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.55%) CISSP
9 2 (0.55%) MBA
9 2 (0.55%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 2 (0.55%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.10%) QA
2 14 (3.83%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.01%) MiFID
3 11 (3.01%) PMO
4 8 (2.19%) SLA
5 5 (1.37%) EMIR
6 4 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.82%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.55%) GDPR
8 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.55%) NIST
8 2 (0.55%) SEPA
9 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.27%) Basel III
9 1 (0.27%) COBIT
9 1 (0.27%) COSO
9 1 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.27%) IFRS
9 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 16 (4.37%) Docker
2 7 (1.91%) 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 15 (4.10%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.46%) SCCM
3 7 (1.91%) WSUS
4 5 (1.37%) Terraform
5 4 (1.09%) Control-M
5 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.55%) Ansible
6 2 (0.55%) ITRS Geneos
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%) WMI
Vendors
1 41 (11.20%) Microsoft
2 37 (10.11%) Oracle
3 15 (4.10%) Bloomberg
4 14 (3.83%) Murex
5 11 (3.01%) ION Trading
6 9 (2.46%) Citrix
6 9 (2.46%) Reuters
7 8 (2.19%) Charles River
8 6 (1.64%) Adobe
8 6 (1.64%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.37%) Sybase
10 4 (1.09%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.09%) Pega
10 4 (1.09%) Solace
11 3 (0.82%) Google
11 3 (0.82%) IBM
11 3 (0.82%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.82%) SAP
11 3 (0.82%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.55%) Calypso