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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 77 73
Rank change year-on-year -44 -4 -21
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 377 432 562
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.41% 3.19% 3.06%
As % of the General category 3.78% 4.87% 4.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 257 414
10th Percentile £422 £470 £488
25th Percentile £500 £600 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -9.82% - -3.45%
75th Percentile £788 £850 £813
90th Percentile £988 £881 £938
England median daily rate £625 £678 £700
% change year-on-year -7.82% -3.14% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £20.33 - -
25th Percentile £22.53 £76.25 -
Median hourly rate £32.87 £77.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -57.59% - -
75th Percentile £45.64 £78.75 -
90th Percentile £52.43 - -
England median hourly rate £32.87 £77.50 -
% change year-on-year -57.59% - -

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 9,970 8,877 11,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.75% 65.53% 63.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,486 5,656 8,319
10th Percentile £350 £327 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 114 254
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.14 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.62 £26.06 £18.84
Median hourly rate £31.49 £38.56 £29.36
Median % change year-on-year -18.32% +31.32% +3.02%
75th Percentile £49.38 £55.25 £48.69
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.65 £73.72
England median hourly rate £23.00 £30.31 £26.00
% change year-on-year -24.10% +16.56% -13.33%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -16 62 £635 +5.83% 15
East London +3 4 £416 -27.65% 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 18 (4.77%) Confluence
2 7 (1.86%) Apache
2 7 (1.86%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.80%) CMS
4 3 (0.80%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.53%) SAS
6 1 (0.27%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 25 (6.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (3.45%) MS Visio
3 9 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.80%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.27%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 11 (2.92%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (2.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 10 (2.65%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (1.59%) Fidessa
4 4 (1.06%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.53%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 2 (0.53%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.53%) Summit
5 2 (0.53%) thinkFolio
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.27%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.27%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.27%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (15.92%) Azure
2 58 (15.38%) AWS
3 16 (4.24%) Power Platform
4 14 (3.71%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (3.45%) Snowflake
6 12 (3.18%) GitHub
7 11 (2.92%) OCI
8 10 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (2.39%) GCP
10 8 (2.12%) Serverless
11 5 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.33%) dbt
11 5 (1.33%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.33%) npm
11 5 (1.33%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.33%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.33%) Yarn
12 4 (1.06%) ChatGPT
12 4 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.06%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.45%) FIX Connectivity
2 5 (1.33%) Firewall
2 5 (1.33%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.33%) VPN
3 4 (1.06%) DMZ
3 4 (1.06%) Multicast
4 2 (0.53%) HTTP
4 2 (0.53%) Network Security
4 2 (0.53%) RTMP
4 2 (0.53%) SMS
5 1 (0.27%) DHCP
5 1 (0.27%) DNS
5 1 (0.27%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.37%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.57%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (4.24%) Relational Database
4 13 (3.45%) Power BI
5 11 (2.92%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.65%) Tableau
7 8 (2.12%) DB2
8 7 (1.86%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.59%) Apache Ignite
9 6 (1.59%) KDB
9 6 (1.59%) Metadata
10 5 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.33%) Apache Arrow
10 5 (1.33%) Apache Iceberg
10 5 (1.33%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.33%) Dremio
10 5 (1.33%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.33%) Redis
11 4 (1.06%) Big Data
11 4 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 29 (7.69%) JIRA
2 15 (3.98%) Git
3 10 (2.65%) JUnit
4 9 (2.39%) GitLab
5 6 (1.59%) Cucumber
5 6 (1.59%) Maven
5 6 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (1.59%) Selenium
6 5 (1.33%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.33%) webpack
7 4 (1.06%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.06%) Postman
7 4 (1.06%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.80%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.80%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.80%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.53%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.53%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 377 (100.00%) Banking
2 223 (59.15%) Finance
3 118 (31.30%) Social Skills
4 100 (26.53%) Front Office
5 58 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (6.90%) Retail Banking
7 21 (5.57%) Financial Institution
8 19 (5.04%) Corporate Banking
9 17 (4.51%) Retail
10 14 (3.71%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (3.18%) Back Office
12 10 (2.65%) Legal
13 4 (1.06%) French Language
13 4 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.53%) Marketing
16 1 (0.27%) International Banking
16 1 (0.27%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 129 (34.22%) Developer
2 79 (20.95%) Analyst
3 61 (16.18%) Java Developer
4 60 (15.92%) Senior
5 57 (15.12%) Business Analyst
6 40 (10.61%) Senior Developer
7 34 (9.02%) Senior Java Developer
8 26 (6.90%) AWS Developer
9 25 (6.63%) Banking Analyst
10 22 (5.84%) Kafka Developer
10 22 (5.84%) Project Manager
11 19 (5.04%) C# Developer
12 18 (4.77%) Analytics Developer
12 18 (4.77%) Lead
12 18 (4.77%) PostgreSQL Developer
13 15 (3.98%) Electronic Trading Developer
14 14 (3.71%) Banking Business Analyst
14 14 (3.71%) Support Engineer
15 13 (3.45%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
16 12 (3.18%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (10.61%) Kafka
2 33 (8.75%) .NET
3 32 (8.49%) React
4 20 (5.31%) Pandas
5 18 (4.77%) AngularJS
5 18 (4.77%) FIX Protocol
6 16 (4.24%) Spring
7 15 (3.98%) NumPy
8 14 (3.71%) HTML
9 13 (3.45%) SciPy
10 12 (3.18%) CSS
10 12 (3.18%) JMS
11 11 (2.92%) REST
11 11 (2.92%) XML
12 10 (2.65%) FastAPI
13 9 (2.39%) Flask
14 8 (2.12%) Polars
14 8 (2.12%) Redux
14 8 (2.12%) Vue
15 7 (1.86%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 82 (21.75%) Derivative
2 44 (11.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 42 (11.14%) Equities
4 39 (10.34%) Fixed Income
5 30 (7.96%) Market Risk
6 28 (7.43%) Management Information System
7 26 (6.90%) Hedge funds
8 18 (4.77%) Credit Risk
9 15 (3.98%) Onboarding
10 14 (3.71%) Cloud Native
11 12 (3.18%) Data Structures
12 11 (2.92%) TWAP
12 11 (2.92%) VWAP
13 9 (2.39%) Algorithms
13 9 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (2.12%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (1.86%) AI Agents
15 7 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
16 6 (1.59%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.96%) Linux
2 17 (4.51%) Windows
3 14 (3.71%) Unix
4 6 (1.59%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.06%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.53%) AIX
7 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (21.22%) Agile
2 74 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 48 (12.73%) Analytics
5 44 (11.67%) DevOps
6 43 (11.41%) Risk Management
7 42 (11.14%) CI/CD
8 39 (10.34%) AI
9 38 (10.08%) Business Analysis
9 38 (10.08%) User Acceptance Testing
10 37 (9.81%) TDD
11 34 (9.02%) Project Management
11 34 (9.02%) Software Engineering
12 32 (8.49%) Asset Management
13 31 (8.22%) Multithreading
14 30 (7.96%) Electronic Trading
15 28 (7.43%) Data Analysis
16 25 (6.63%) Machine Learning
16 25 (6.63%) SDLC
16 25 (6.63%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 107 (28.38%) SQL
2 106 (28.12%) Java
3 92 (24.40%) Python
4 53 (14.06%) C#
5 31 (8.22%) JavaScript
6 25 (6.63%) TypeScript
7 19 (5.04%) C++
8 16 (4.24%) PowerShell
9 13 (3.45%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.12%) Rust
11 6 (1.59%) Scala
12 5 (1.33%) VB.NET
12 5 (1.33%) VBA
13 4 (1.06%) Bash
13 4 (1.06%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.80%) Go
14 3 (0.80%) Perl
14 3 (0.80%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.53%) Korn
Qualifications
1 39 (10.34%) Degree
2 13 (3.45%) Master's Degree
3 12 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (2.39%) PMP
5 8 (2.12%) PMI Certification
6 7 (1.86%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.59%) PhD
8 4 (1.06%) CFA
9 3 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.53%) ACCA
10 2 (0.53%) CISSP
10 2 (0.53%) IIBA
10 2 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.53%) Security Cleared
11 1 (0.27%) CCA
11 1 (0.27%) CIMA
11 1 (0.27%) CISA
11 1 (0.27%) GIAC
11 1 (0.27%) MCSA
11 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.77%) QA
2 14 (3.71%) MiFID
3 10 (2.65%) EMIR
3 10 (2.65%) PMO
4 9 (2.39%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (1.86%) SLA
6 4 (1.06%) GDPR
7 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.53%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.53%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.53%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.53%) GRC
8 2 (0.53%) NIST
8 2 (0.53%) SEPA
8 2 (0.53%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.27%) FINRA
9 1 (0.27%) IFRS
9 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (6.37%) Docker
2 4 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Firmware
3 1 (0.27%) GridGain
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (6.10%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.59%) SCCM
3 4 (1.06%) Terraform
4 3 (0.80%) Ansible
4 3 (0.80%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 3 (0.80%) WSUS
5 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.53%) Puppet
6 1 (0.27%) Control-M
6 1 (0.27%) Grafana
6 1 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 41 (10.88%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.16%) Oracle
3 17 (4.51%) Bloomberg
4 13 (3.45%) Murex
5 12 (3.18%) ION Trading
6 11 (2.92%) Sybase
7 6 (1.59%) Databricks
8 5 (1.33%) Charles River
8 5 (1.33%) Citrix
8 5 (1.33%) Reuters
8 5 (1.33%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.06%) IBM
9 4 (1.06%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.06%) Refinitiv
9 4 (1.06%) Solace
9 4 (1.06%) Splunk
9 4 (1.06%) UiPath
10 3 (0.80%) NYFIX
10 3 (0.80%) Pega
10 3 (0.80%) Tradeweb