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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 64 60
Rank change year-on-year -61 -4 -4
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 451 544 616
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.24% 3.99% 3.77%
As % of the General category 3.69% 5.83% 6.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 370 511
10th Percentile £413 £440 £525
25th Percentile £513 £613 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £667 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -11.03% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £792 £838 £888
90th Percentile £938 £889 -
England median daily rate £671 £750 £775
% change year-on-year -10.50% -3.23% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £87.50 -
England median hourly rate - £87.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year - +348.72% -55.93%

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 12,232 9,324 10,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.70% 68.38% 62.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,801 6,216 7,223
10th Percentile £350 £325 £335
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 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 182 154
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £16.92
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.71 £22.00
Median hourly rate £28.55 £30.40 £33.29
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -8.66% -4.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £50.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.70 £68.53
England median hourly rate £33.74 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +34.16% -34.02% +27.07%

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 August 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 August 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 -25 61 £693 -1.07% 27
East London +3 4 £875 -2.78%
South London -16 2 £800 +10.34%
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 7 (1.55%) Confluence
2 4 (0.89%) Apache
2 4 (0.89%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.89%) IIS
3 3 (0.67%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.44%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) CICS
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (3.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.22%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 11 (2.44%) Aladdin
2 8 (1.77%) Oracle Payables
2 8 (1.77%) Oracle Receivables
3 7 (1.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (0.89%) Summit
5 3 (0.67%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.44%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.44%) Front Arena
6 2 (0.44%) Global One
6 2 (0.44%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.22%) Actimize
7 1 (0.22%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.22%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.22%) ION Anvil
7 1 (0.22%) ION MarketView
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle iProcurement
7 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.22%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 59 (13.08%) Azure
2 57 (12.64%) AWS
3 20 (4.43%) GCP
3 20 (4.43%) Power Platform
4 16 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (3.33%) GitHub
6 13 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (2.66%) Entra ID
8 10 (2.22%) OCI
9 8 (1.77%) Snowflake
10 7 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (1.55%) SaaS
11 6 (1.33%) Google Workspace
11 6 (1.33%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.33%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.11%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (0.89%) Azure API Management
14 3 (0.67%) Cloud Run
14 3 (0.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.99%) FIX Connectivity
2 10 (2.22%) Firewall
3 8 (1.77%) Multicast
4 7 (1.55%) VPN
5 6 (1.33%) HTTP
5 6 (1.33%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.11%) DMZ
7 3 (0.67%) BGP
7 3 (0.67%) Wireless
8 2 (0.44%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.44%) DWDM
8 2 (0.44%) MPLS
8 2 (0.44%) Network Security
8 2 (0.44%) OSPF
8 2 (0.44%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 1 (0.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 1 (0.22%) Internet
9 1 (0.22%) MIMO
9 1 (0.22%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.76%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.21%) Power BI
3 17 (3.77%) Metadata
4 15 (3.33%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.22%) Data Vault
6 10 (2.22%) Pinecone
6 10 (2.22%) Weaviate
7 9 (2.00%) Tableau
8 8 (1.77%) KDB
9 6 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.33%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (1.33%) Redis
10 5 (1.11%) Big Data
10 5 (1.11%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.11%) Kdb+
10 5 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (0.89%) ClickHouse
11 4 (0.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 35 (7.76%) JIRA
2 15 (3.33%) Git
3 11 (2.44%) ER Studio
4 10 (2.22%) ERwin
4 10 (2.22%) TeamCity
5 7 (1.55%) GitLab
5 7 (1.55%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.11%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (1.11%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (1.11%) webpack
7 3 (0.67%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.67%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.67%) Selenium
8 2 (0.44%) Maven
8 2 (0.44%) MSBuild
8 2 (0.44%) Vite
9 1 (0.22%) JDeveloper
9 1 (0.22%) JMeter
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
General
1 451 (100.00%) Banking
2 294 (65.19%) Finance
3 154 (34.15%) Front Office
4 110 (24.39%) Social Skills
5 58 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (9.98%) Retail Banking
7 42 (9.31%) Corporate Banking
7 42 (9.31%) Retail
8 40 (8.87%) Financial Institution
9 18 (3.99%) Legal
10 15 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (2.66%) Back Office
12 11 (2.44%) Spanish Language
13 8 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.89%) French Language
14 4 (0.89%) Games
15 3 (0.67%) Advertising
15 3 (0.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 164 (36.36%) Developer
2 80 (17.74%) Analyst
3 72 (15.96%) Senior
4 71 (15.74%) Java Developer
5 63 (13.97%) Business Analyst
6 50 (11.09%) Senior Developer
7 30 (6.65%) Senior Java Developer
8 25 (5.54%) C# Developer
9 24 (5.32%) Project Manager
10 22 (4.88%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 22 (4.88%) Lead
10 22 (4.88%) React Developer
11 21 (4.66%) Python Developer
12 20 (4.43%) UI Developer
13 19 (4.21%) Banking Analyst
13 19 (4.21%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
13 19 (4.21%) Low Latency Java Developer
13 19 (4.21%) Senior React Developer
14 18 (3.99%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
14 18 (3.99%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (10.64%) React
2 44 (9.76%) .NET
3 37 (8.20%) FIX Protocol
4 24 (5.32%) Redux
5 22 (4.88%) Kafka
6 18 (3.99%) AngularJS
7 17 (3.77%) REST
8 16 (3.55%) Spring
9 14 (3.10%) RESTful
10 10 (2.22%) CSS
10 10 (2.22%) LangChain
10 10 (2.22%) LlamaIndex
10 10 (2.22%) OAuth
10 10 (2.22%) OAuth2
11 9 (2.00%) HTML
11 9 (2.00%) Node.js
11 9 (2.00%) WebSockets
12 8 (1.77%) NumPy
12 8 (1.77%) RxJava
12 8 (1.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 100 (22.17%) Derivative
2 69 (15.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 55 (12.20%) Equities
3 55 (12.20%) Fixed Income
4 28 (6.21%) Product Ownership
5 24 (5.32%) Market Risk
6 23 (5.10%) Greenfield Project
6 23 (5.10%) Onboarding
7 19 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (3.99%) Data Structures
8 18 (3.99%) TWAP
8 18 (3.99%) VWAP
9 17 (3.77%) Algorithms
10 16 (3.55%) Management Information System
11 15 (3.33%) AI Agents
12 13 (2.88%) Cloud Native
12 13 (2.88%) Credit Risk
13 11 (2.44%) Hedge funds
14 8 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.43%) Windows
2 23 (5.10%) Linux
2 23 (5.10%) Unix
3 5 (1.11%) Android
3 5 (1.11%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.67%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.22%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (23.50%) Agile
2 71 (15.74%) Low Latency
3 66 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
4 63 (13.97%) Stakeholder Management
5 62 (13.75%) Electronic Trading
6 57 (12.64%) AI
7 56 (12.42%) Analytics
7 56 (12.42%) CI/CD
8 45 (9.98%) DevOps
8 45 (9.98%) Software Engineering
9 41 (9.09%) Wealth Management
10 38 (8.43%) Asset Management
10 38 (8.43%) Multithreading
11 37 (8.20%) TDD
12 35 (7.76%) User Acceptance Testing
13 34 (7.54%) Full-Stack Development
14 32 (7.10%) Algorithmic Trading
14 32 (7.10%) Business Analysis
14 32 (7.10%) Continuous Improvement
15 31 (6.87%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 112 (24.83%) Java
2 97 (21.51%) Python
2 97 (21.51%) SQL
3 75 (16.63%) C#
4 55 (12.20%) TypeScript
5 45 (9.98%) JavaScript
6 20 (4.43%) C++
7 19 (4.21%) PowerShell
8 11 (2.44%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.55%) Rust
10 5 (1.11%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.11%) Scala
11 4 (0.89%) VBA
12 3 (0.67%) Bicep
12 3 (0.67%) C
12 3 (0.67%) Perl
12 3 (0.67%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.44%) Bash
13 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.22%) F#
Qualifications
1 31 (6.87%) Degree
2 11 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (1.55%) Azure Certification
3 7 (1.55%) PMP
4 5 (1.11%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.89%) PMI Certification
5 4 (0.89%) Security Cleared
6 3 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (0.67%) MCSA
6 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.67%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.44%) CCNP
7 2 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.44%) MBA
7 2 (0.44%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 2 (0.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.22%) CFA
8 1 (0.22%) CISA
8 1 (0.22%) CISM
8 1 (0.22%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.10%) MiFID
2 12 (2.66%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.22%) QA
4 7 (1.55%) PMO
5 6 (1.33%) EMIR
6 4 (0.89%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.67%) SLA
8 2 (0.44%) NIST
8 2 (0.44%) WCAG
9 1 (0.22%) COBIT
9 1 (0.22%) COREP
9 1 (0.22%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.22%) FINREP
9 1 (0.22%) GDPR
9 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.22%) ITGC
9 1 (0.22%) PSD2
9 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (3.77%) Active Directory
1 17 (3.77%) Docker
2 1 (0.22%) GridGain
2 1 (0.22%) Varnish
2 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 19 (4.21%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.44%) Terraform
3 7 (1.55%) SCCM
4 6 (1.33%) WSUS
5 5 (1.11%) Ansible
6 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.67%) Control-M
7 3 (0.67%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.22%) WMI
Vendors
1 40 (8.87%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.10%) Oracle
3 14 (3.10%) OpenAI
4 13 (2.88%) Murex
5 10 (2.22%) Citrix
6 8 (1.77%) Databricks
7 7 (1.55%) Bloomberg
7 7 (1.55%) Charles River
7 7 (1.55%) ION Trading
7 7 (1.55%) Reuters
8 6 (1.33%) SAP
8 6 (1.33%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.33%) Solace
9 5 (1.11%) Google
10 4 (0.89%) Adobe
11 3 (0.67%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.67%) Cisco
11 3 (0.67%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.67%) Sybase
11 3 (0.67%) TIBCO