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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 61 66
Rank change year-on-year -57 +5 -12
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 451 505 570
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.36% 4.00% 3.23%
As % of the General category 3.91% 5.87% 5.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 326 469
10th Percentile £401 £445 £525
25th Percentile £491 £623 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £750 £775
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -3.23% +10.71%
75th Percentile £788 £850 £880
90th Percentile £938 £888 £888
England median daily rate £667 £750 £750
% change year-on-year -11.07% - +7.14%
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% -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 11,534 8,607 11,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.32% 68.16% 62.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,423 5,749 7,880
10th Percentile £350 £331 £335
25th Percentile £435 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £700
90th Percentile £788 £815 £825
England median daily rate £520 £520 £535
% change year-on-year - -2.80% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 159 236
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £15.75
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.48 £30.14
Median % change year-on-year +1.51% +14.40% -5.58%
75th Percentile £46.25 £51.22 £47.81
90th Percentile £72.00 £65.00 £67.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.97 £32.29
% change year-on-year +16.20% -13.38% +15.03%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -26 61 £693 +2.59% 13
East London +1 4 £875 -2.78%
South London -19 2 £800 +10.34% 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 10 (2.22%) Confluence
2 4 (0.89%) IIS
3 3 (0.67%) Apache
3 3 (0.67%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.67%) SAS
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
Applications
1 26 (5.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.77%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.44%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 13 (2.88%) Oracle Payables
1 13 (2.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 13 (2.88%) Oracle Receivables
2 9 (2.00%) Aladdin
3 6 (1.33%) Summit
4 3 (0.67%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.67%) Loan IQ
4 3 (0.67%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.44%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 2 (0.44%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.44%) Global One
6 1 (0.22%) Actimize
6 1 (0.22%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.22%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.22%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.22%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 60 (13.30%) Azure
2 53 (11.75%) AWS
3 21 (4.66%) Power Platform
4 19 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (3.99%) GCP
6 16 (3.55%) OCI
7 14 (3.10%) GitHub
8 12 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (2.66%) Entra ID
9 9 (2.00%) Snowflake
10 8 (1.77%) Google Workspace
11 7 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.33%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.33%) PowerApps
13 5 (1.11%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (0.89%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (0.89%) npm
14 4 (0.89%) Yarn
15 3 (0.67%) Figma
15 3 (0.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.43%) FIX Connectivity
2 11 (2.44%) Firewall
3 8 (1.77%) TCP/IP
3 8 (1.77%) VPN
4 7 (1.55%) DMZ
5 6 (1.33%) HTTP
5 6 (1.33%) Multicast
6 3 (0.67%) BGP
6 3 (0.67%) Wireless
7 2 (0.44%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.44%) DWDM
7 2 (0.44%) MPLS
7 2 (0.44%) Network Security
7 2 (0.44%) OSPF
7 2 (0.44%) RTMP
7 2 (0.44%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.22%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (0.22%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.43%) Power BI
1 20 (4.43%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.21%) Relational Database
3 18 (3.99%) Metadata
4 10 (2.22%) Data Vault
4 10 (2.22%) Pinecone
4 10 (2.22%) Weaviate
5 9 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (2.00%) Tableau
6 8 (1.77%) KDB
7 6 (1.33%) RDBMS
7 6 (1.33%) Redis
8 5 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.11%) Big Data
8 5 (1.11%) Kdb+
8 5 (1.11%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (0.89%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.89%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (7.10%) JIRA
2 11 (2.44%) Git
3 10 (2.22%) ER Studio
3 10 (2.22%) TeamCity
4 9 (2.00%) ERwin
5 7 (1.55%) GitLab
6 6 (1.33%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (1.33%) webpack
7 5 (1.11%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.89%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.89%) Selenium
9 3 (0.67%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.44%) Maven
10 2 (0.44%) MSBuild
10 2 (0.44%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.44%) Vite
11 1 (0.22%) Postman
11 1 (0.22%) XCUITest
General
1 451 (100.00%) Banking
2 283 (62.75%) Finance
3 152 (33.70%) Front Office
4 111 (24.61%) Social Skills
5 53 (11.75%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (10.64%) Retail Banking
7 39 (8.65%) Retail
8 38 (8.43%) Corporate Banking
9 32 (7.10%) Financial Institution
10 19 (4.21%) Legal
11 12 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (2.00%) Back Office
13 9 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (2.00%) Spanish Language
14 6 (1.33%) French Language
14 6 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.67%) Aviation
15 3 (0.67%) Games
15 3 (0.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 161 (35.70%) Developer
2 87 (19.29%) Analyst
3 76 (16.85%) Java Developer
4 70 (15.52%) Senior
5 69 (15.30%) Business Analyst
6 49 (10.86%) Senior Developer
7 37 (8.20%) Senior Java Developer
8 24 (5.32%) Banking Analyst
9 23 (5.10%) C# Developer
9 23 (5.10%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 23 (5.10%) React Developer
10 21 (4.66%) Support Engineer
11 20 (4.43%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
11 20 (4.43%) Low Latency Java Developer
11 20 (4.43%) UI Developer
12 19 (4.21%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
12 19 (4.21%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
12 19 (4.21%) Senior React Developer
13 18 (3.99%) Lead
13 18 (3.99%) Senior UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (11.09%) React
2 43 (9.53%) .NET
3 36 (7.98%) FIX Protocol
4 27 (5.99%) Kafka
5 25 (5.54%) Redux
6 17 (3.77%) Spring
7 15 (3.33%) AngularJS
8 14 (3.10%) REST
9 13 (2.88%) CSS
10 12 (2.66%) HTML
11 11 (2.44%) OAuth
11 11 (2.44%) OAuth2
11 11 (2.44%) RESTful
11 11 (2.44%) XML
12 10 (2.22%) LangChain
12 10 (2.22%) LlamaIndex
13 8 (1.77%) RxJava
14 7 (1.55%) Node.js
14 7 (1.55%) Pandas
14 7 (1.55%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 102 (22.62%) Derivative
2 73 (16.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 58 (12.86%) Equities
4 52 (11.53%) Fixed Income
5 23 (5.10%) Greenfield Project
6 22 (4.88%) Market Risk
7 21 (4.66%) Onboarding
8 20 (4.43%) Credit Risk
8 20 (4.43%) Product Ownership
9 19 (4.21%) TWAP
9 19 (4.21%) VWAP
10 18 (3.99%) Algorithms
10 18 (3.99%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (3.55%) Data Structures
11 16 (3.55%) Management Information System
12 13 (2.88%) Cloud Native
13 12 (2.66%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.77%) Hedge funds
15 7 (1.55%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.87%) Windows
2 23 (5.10%) Unix
3 20 (4.43%) Linux
4 8 (1.77%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.11%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.44%) Android
6 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.22%) Solaris
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (21.06%) Agile
2 69 (15.30%) Low Latency
3 67 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
4 64 (14.19%) Electronic Trading
5 55 (12.20%) CI/CD
6 52 (11.53%) Analytics
7 50 (11.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 47 (10.42%) AI
9 43 (9.53%) Asset Management
10 42 (9.31%) User Acceptance Testing
11 40 (8.87%) DevOps
11 40 (8.87%) Multithreading
11 40 (8.87%) TDD
12 39 (8.65%) Software Engineering
13 36 (7.98%) Wealth Management
14 34 (7.54%) Business Analysis
14 34 (7.54%) Full-Stack Development
15 31 (6.87%) Algorithmic Trading
16 28 (6.21%) Test Automation
17 27 (5.99%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 114 (25.28%) Java
2 98 (21.73%) SQL
3 97 (21.51%) Python
4 74 (16.41%) C#
5 58 (12.86%) TypeScript
6 47 (10.42%) JavaScript
7 21 (4.66%) PowerShell
8 17 (3.77%) C++
9 9 (2.00%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.55%) Rust
11 6 (1.33%) VBA
12 5 (1.11%) Scala
13 4 (0.89%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.67%) Bash
14 3 (0.67%) Bicep
14 3 (0.67%) Perl
15 2 (0.44%) C
15 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.22%) Go
Qualifications
1 31 (6.87%) Degree
2 13 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.44%) Azure Certification
4 6 (1.33%) PMP
5 5 (1.11%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (0.89%) MCSA
6 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.89%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.44%) CCNP
7 2 (0.44%) CFA
7 2 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.44%) CISSP
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%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.88%) MiFID
1 13 (2.88%) QA
2 12 (2.66%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.22%) PMO
4 7 (1.55%) SLA
5 5 (1.11%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.11%) EMIR
6 2 (0.44%) WCAG
7 1 (0.22%) COREP
7 1 (0.22%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.22%) FINREP
7 1 (0.22%) GDPR
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.22%) ITGC
7 1 (0.22%) NIST
7 1 (0.22%) PSD2
7 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 20 (4.43%) Docker
2 14 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) GridGain
3 1 (0.22%) Varnish
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 18 (3.99%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.00%) SCCM
2 9 (2.00%) Terraform
3 7 (1.55%) WSUS
4 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.89%) Control-M
6 3 (0.67%) Ansible
7 2 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.22%) Puppet
8 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.22%) WMI
Vendors
1 45 (9.98%) Microsoft
2 38 (8.43%) Oracle
3 16 (3.55%) Murex
4 14 (3.10%) OpenAI
5 13 (2.88%) Bloomberg
6 10 (2.22%) Citrix
6 10 (2.22%) ION Trading
7 9 (2.00%) Reuters
8 7 (1.55%) Charles River
9 5 (1.11%) Databricks
9 5 (1.11%) Solace
9 5 (1.11%) Sybase
10 4 (0.89%) Google
10 4 (0.89%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.67%) Adobe
11 3 (0.67%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.67%) Cisco
11 3 (0.67%) CyberArk
11 3 (0.67%) SAP
12 2 (0.44%) Palo Alto