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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 66 78
Rank change year-on-year -63 +12 -24
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 378 484 530
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.11% 3.85% 3.00%
As % of the General category 3.52% 5.68% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 317 410
10th Percentile £413 £446 £500
25th Percentile £495 £619 £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 £919 £888 £888
England median daily rate £638 £750 £725
% change year-on-year -15.00% +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% -

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 10,745 8,514 11,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.03% 67.72% 63.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,955 5,742 7,961
10th Percentile £350 £343 £336
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £713 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £508 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.24% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 141 242
10th Percentile £18.52 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.90 £18.25
Median hourly rate £32.81 £34.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% +21.43% -12.28%
75th Percentile £48.19 £51.18 £44.50
90th Percentile £69.68 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.50 £27.50 £30.27
% change year-on-year +10.89% -9.14% -6.59%

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 10 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 10 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 -32 53 £588 -11.32% 21
East London -4 4 £416 -27.65% 2
South London -18 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 11 (2.91%) Confluence
2 5 (1.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (0.79%) Apache
3 3 (0.79%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.79%) IIS
3 3 (0.79%) SAS
4 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.53%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.26%) CICS
5 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 27 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (3.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (3.44%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.79%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.53%) UserZoom
7 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (3.70%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (3.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 13 (3.44%) Oracle Receivables
3 7 (1.85%) Aladdin
4 6 (1.59%) Summit
5 4 (1.06%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.79%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.53%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 2 (0.53%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.53%) Global One
8 1 (0.26%) Actimize
8 1 (0.26%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.26%) BusinessWorks
8 1 (0.26%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.26%) Markit EDM
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.26%) Orchestrade
8 1 (0.26%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 57 (15.08%) Azure
2 48 (12.70%) AWS
3 17 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (3.97%) GCP
5 14 (3.70%) OCI
6 13 (3.44%) GitHub
6 13 (3.44%) Power Platform
7 10 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (2.38%) Snowflake
9 8 (2.12%) Google Workspace
10 7 (1.85%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.32%) npm
11 5 (1.32%) Yarn
12 4 (1.06%) Figma
12 4 (1.06%) Serverless
13 3 (0.79%) Anthropic Claude
13 3 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (0.79%) ChatGPT
13 3 (0.79%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.56%) FIX Connectivity
2 10 (2.65%) Firewall
3 8 (2.12%) VPN
4 7 (1.85%) DMZ
4 7 (1.85%) HTTP
4 7 (1.85%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.32%) Multicast
6 2 (0.53%) BGP
6 2 (0.53%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.53%) DWDM
6 2 (0.53%) MPLS
6 2 (0.53%) Network Security
6 2 (0.53%) OSPF
6 2 (0.53%) RTMP
6 2 (0.53%) Wireless
6 2 (0.53%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.26%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.26%) Internet
7 1 (0.26%) MIMO
7 1 (0.26%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.97%) Relational Database
3 12 (3.17%) Power BI
4 11 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (2.65%) Metadata
5 10 (2.65%) Tableau
6 9 (2.38%) Pinecone
6 9 (2.38%) Weaviate
7 6 (1.59%) RDBMS
7 6 (1.59%) Redis
8 5 (1.32%) Big Data
8 5 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.32%) KDB
8 5 (1.32%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.06%) Data Vault
10 3 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.79%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.79%) Flink
10 3 (0.79%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.79%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 28 (7.41%) JIRA
2 9 (2.38%) TeamCity
3 7 (1.85%) Git
4 6 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (1.59%) webpack
5 5 (1.32%) GitLab
5 5 (1.32%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.06%) Selenium
7 3 (0.79%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.79%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.79%) ERwin
7 3 (0.79%) JUnit
7 3 (0.79%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.79%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.53%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.53%) Maven
8 2 (0.53%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.53%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.53%) Vite
General
1 378 (100.00%) Banking
2 233 (61.64%) Finance
3 123 (32.54%) Front Office
4 104 (27.51%) Social Skills
5 51 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (10.85%) Retail Banking
7 33 (8.73%) Corporate Banking
7 33 (8.73%) Retail
8 24 (6.35%) Financial Institution
9 16 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (3.70%) Legal
11 10 (2.65%) Back Office
12 9 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.85%) French Language
14 6 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.79%) Marketing
15 3 (0.79%) Spanish Language
16 2 (0.53%) Law
Job Titles
1 123 (32.54%) Developer
2 76 (20.11%) Analyst
3 60 (15.87%) Business Analyst
4 59 (15.61%) Senior
5 58 (15.34%) Java Developer
6 38 (10.05%) Senior Developer
7 29 (7.67%) Senior Java Developer
8 26 (6.88%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 25 (6.61%) Banking Analyst
10 22 (5.82%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
11 21 (5.56%) C# Developer
12 20 (5.29%) Low Latency Java Developer
13 19 (5.03%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
13 19 (5.03%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
14 18 (4.76%) Support Engineer
15 17 (4.50%) Lead
16 14 (3.70%) Banking Business Analyst
17 13 (3.44%) Kafka Developer
17 13 (3.44%) Risk Analyst
18 11 (2.91%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (10.05%) .NET
2 33 (8.73%) FIX Protocol
3 31 (8.20%) React
4 26 (6.88%) Kafka
5 15 (3.97%) CSS
5 15 (3.97%) HTML
5 15 (3.97%) Redux
6 14 (3.70%) XML
7 12 (3.17%) Spring
8 11 (2.91%) AngularJS
9 10 (2.65%) LangChain
10 9 (2.38%) LlamaIndex
11 8 (2.12%) HTML5
11 8 (2.12%) Node.js
12 7 (1.85%) RESTful
13 6 (1.59%) Middleware
13 6 (1.59%) Reactive Extensions
13 6 (1.59%) REST
13 6 (1.59%) WebSockets
14 5 (1.32%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 84 (22.22%) Derivative
2 46 (12.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 45 (11.90%) Equities
4 38 (10.05%) Fixed Income
5 25 (6.61%) Market Risk
6 22 (5.82%) Credit Risk
6 22 (5.82%) Management Information System
7 19 (5.03%) TWAP
7 19 (5.03%) VWAP
8 16 (4.23%) Algorithms
9 15 (3.97%) Data Structures
9 15 (3.97%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (3.70%) Product Ownership
11 13 (3.44%) Onboarding
12 11 (2.91%) AI Agents
13 10 (2.65%) Cloud Native
14 8 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
16 6 (1.59%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.88%) Windows
2 20 (5.29%) Unix
3 15 (3.97%) Linux
4 8 (2.12%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.59%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.53%) AIX
6 2 (0.53%) Android
6 2 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (20.37%) Agile
2 60 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (13.23%) Electronic Trading
3 50 (13.23%) Low Latency
4 47 (12.43%) Analytics
5 43 (11.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 41 (10.85%) Multithreading
7 39 (10.32%) Asset Management
7 39 (10.32%) TDD
8 38 (10.05%) AI
9 37 (9.79%) DevOps
10 35 (9.26%) Business Analysis
10 35 (9.26%) CI/CD
10 35 (9.26%) User Acceptance Testing
11 30 (7.94%) Wealth Management
12 29 (7.67%) Algorithmic Trading
12 29 (7.67%) Design Patterns
13 28 (7.41%) Software Engineering
14 27 (7.14%) OO
14 27 (7.14%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 98 (25.93%) Java
2 92 (24.34%) SQL
3 76 (20.11%) Python
4 50 (13.23%) C#
5 36 (9.52%) TypeScript
6 30 (7.94%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.03%) PowerShell
8 13 (3.44%) C++
9 7 (1.85%) Scala
9 7 (1.85%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.32%) Perl
10 5 (1.32%) Rust
10 5 (1.32%) VBA
11 4 (1.06%) Bash
11 4 (1.06%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.79%) Go
13 2 (0.53%) Korn
14 1 (0.26%) C
14 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.26%) F#
Qualifications
1 30 (7.94%) Degree
2 18 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (2.65%) Azure Certification
4 9 (2.38%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.85%) PMP
6 5 (1.32%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (1.06%) MCSA
7 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.79%) CFA
8 3 (0.79%) Security Cleared
9 2 (0.53%) ACCA
9 2 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.53%) CCNP
9 2 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.53%) CISSP
9 2 (0.53%) MBA
9 2 (0.53%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 2 (0.53%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.44%) MiFID
2 13 (3.44%) QA
3 11 (2.91%) PMO
4 8 (2.12%) SLA
5 5 (1.32%) EMIR
6 3 (0.79%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.53%) GDPR
7 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.53%) NIST
7 2 (0.53%) SEPA
8 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.26%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.26%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.26%) GRC
8 1 (0.26%) IFRS
8 1 (0.26%) ITGC
8 1 (0.26%) PSD2
8 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (4.50%) Docker
2 7 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.26%) GridGain
3 1 (0.26%) Varnish
3 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.26%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 15 (3.97%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.38%) SCCM
3 7 (1.85%) WSUS
4 5 (1.32%) Terraform
5 4 (1.06%) Control-M
5 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.53%) Ansible
6 2 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.53%) Puppet
6 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.26%) Grafana
7 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.26%) WMI
Vendors
1 41 (10.85%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.52%) Oracle
3 14 (3.70%) Bloomberg
3 14 (3.70%) Murex
4 11 (2.91%) ION Trading
5 10 (2.65%) Citrix
6 9 (2.38%) Reuters
7 8 (2.12%) Charles River
7 8 (2.12%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.59%) Adobe
9 5 (1.32%) Sybase
10 4 (1.06%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.06%) Pega
10 4 (1.06%) Solace
11 3 (0.79%) Google
11 3 (0.79%) IBM
11 3 (0.79%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.79%) SAP
11 3 (0.79%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.53%) Calypso