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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 80 69
Rank change year-on-year -33 -11 -16
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 374 440 567
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.51% 3.21% 3.09%
As % of the General category 3.88% 4.92% 4.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 266 415
10th Percentile £420 £475 £480
25th Percentile £513 £600 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £688 £700
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -1.79% -3.45%
75th Percentile £800 £834 £821
90th Percentile £988 £888 £945
England median daily rate £650 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -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 £18.50
% change year-on-year -57.59% +318.92% -54.32%

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 9,642 8,946 11,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 64.65% 65.26% 63.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,284 5,634 8,389
10th Percentile £350 £325 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 112 255
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.88 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.52 £25.94 £18.42
Median hourly rate £27.61 £36.15 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +26.84% +3.64%
75th Percentile £47.38 £53.75 £50.13
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.40 £73.29
England median hourly rate £22.92 £30.40 £25.71
% change year-on-year -24.61% +18.24% -1.12%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -15 60 £645 +6.61% 22
East London +5 4 £416 -27.65%
South London -15 1 £475 -34.48% 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 20 (5.35%) Confluence
2 9 (2.41%) Apache
3 8 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.87%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.80%) CMS
5 3 (0.80%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.53%) SAS
7 1 (0.27%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 24 (6.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.21%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.80%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.27%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (2.14%) Oracle Payables
2 7 (1.87%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (1.87%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (1.60%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.80%) 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%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 65 (17.38%) Azure
2 59 (15.78%) AWS
3 18 (4.81%) Power Platform
4 15 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (4.01%) GitHub
4 15 (4.01%) Snowflake
5 13 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (2.67%) GCP
7 8 (2.14%) dbt
7 8 (2.14%) OCI
7 8 (2.14%) Serverless
8 6 (1.60%) ChatGPT
8 6 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.34%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.34%) GitHub Copilot
9 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (1.07%) Azure AI
10 4 (1.07%) npm
10 4 (1.07%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.94%) FIX Connectivity
2 5 (1.34%) Firewall
2 5 (1.34%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.34%) VPN
3 4 (1.07%) DMZ
3 4 (1.07%) 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%) SAN
5 1 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.68%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (4.55%) Relational Database
4 16 (4.28%) Power BI
5 13 (3.48%) MongoDB
5 13 (3.48%) Tableau
6 9 (2.41%) DB2
7 8 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
7 8 (2.14%) Apache Arrow
7 8 (2.14%) Apache Iceberg
7 8 (2.14%) Apache Ignite
7 8 (2.14%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.14%) Dremio
7 8 (2.14%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.87%) KDB
9 5 (1.34%) Metadata
9 5 (1.34%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.34%) Redis
10 4 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.07%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 31 (8.29%) JIRA
2 17 (4.55%) Git
3 11 (2.94%) JUnit
4 8 (2.14%) GitLab
5 7 (1.87%) Maven
6 6 (1.60%) Cucumber
6 6 (1.60%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (1.60%) Selenium
7 5 (1.34%) Jenkins
8 4 (1.07%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.07%) Postman
8 4 (1.07%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.07%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.07%) webpack
9 3 (0.80%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.80%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.53%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.53%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 374 (100.00%) Banking
2 221 (59.09%) Finance
3 123 (32.89%) Social Skills
4 102 (27.27%) Front Office
5 62 (16.58%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (5.88%) Retail Banking
7 18 (4.81%) Financial Institution
8 17 (4.55%) Corporate Banking
9 15 (4.01%) Back Office
10 14 (3.74%) Retail
11 11 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (2.14%) Legal
13 5 (1.34%) French Language
14 4 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.53%) Marketing
16 2 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
17 1 (0.27%) Law
17 1 (0.27%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 131 (35.03%) Developer
2 75 (20.05%) Analyst
3 67 (17.91%) Senior
4 59 (15.78%) Java Developer
5 56 (14.97%) Business Analyst
6 41 (10.96%) Senior Developer
7 35 (9.36%) Senior Java Developer
8 27 (7.22%) AWS Developer
9 23 (6.15%) Banking Analyst
10 22 (5.88%) Kafka Developer
11 21 (5.61%) C# Developer
12 19 (5.08%) Project Manager
13 18 (4.81%) Analytics Developer
13 18 (4.81%) Lead
13 18 (4.81%) PostgreSQL Developer
14 16 (4.28%) Software Engineer
15 15 (4.01%) Support Engineer
16 13 (3.48%) Azure Engineer
16 13 (3.48%) Electronic Trading Developer
16 13 (3.48%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (10.70%) Kafka
2 37 (9.89%) .NET
3 32 (8.56%) React
4 24 (6.42%) Pandas
5 21 (5.61%) AngularJS
6 19 (5.08%) NumPy
7 17 (4.55%) FIX Protocol
7 17 (4.55%) SciPy
8 15 (4.01%) Spring
9 14 (3.74%) HTML
10 13 (3.48%) JMS
11 11 (2.94%) FastAPI
11 11 (2.94%) REST
11 11 (2.94%) XML
12 10 (2.67%) CSS
12 10 (2.67%) Flask
13 9 (2.41%) Polars
13 9 (2.41%) Vue
14 8 (2.14%) gRPC
14 8 (2.14%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 82 (21.93%) Derivative
2 48 (12.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 43 (11.50%) Equities
4 40 (10.70%) Fixed Income
5 31 (8.29%) Hedge funds
6 30 (8.02%) Market Risk
7 27 (7.22%) Management Information System
8 18 (4.81%) Credit Risk
9 14 (3.74%) Data Structures
9 14 (3.74%) Onboarding
10 12 (3.21%) Cloud Native
11 9 (2.41%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (2.41%) TWAP
11 9 (2.41%) VWAP
12 8 (2.14%) AI Agents
12 8 (2.14%) Algorithms
12 8 (2.14%) Pricing Data
12 8 (2.14%) Product Ownership
12 8 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 36 (9.63%) Linux
2 18 (4.81%) Windows
3 16 (4.28%) Unix
4 7 (1.87%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.34%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.53%) AIX
7 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (22.73%) Agile
2 76 (20.32%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (12.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 45 (12.03%) Analytics
5 43 (11.50%) CI/CD
5 43 (11.50%) DevOps
6 41 (10.96%) Risk Management
7 40 (10.70%) Software Engineering
8 38 (10.16%) AI
9 36 (9.63%) User Acceptance Testing
10 35 (9.36%) Project Management
11 34 (9.09%) Business Analysis
11 34 (9.09%) TDD
12 32 (8.56%) Multithreading
13 30 (8.02%) Asset Management
13 30 (8.02%) SDLC
14 29 (7.75%) Data Analysis
15 28 (7.49%) Electronic Trading
16 25 (6.68%) Requirements Gathering
17 24 (6.42%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 115 (30.75%) SQL
2 107 (28.61%) Java
3 95 (25.40%) Python
4 59 (15.78%) C#
5 32 (8.56%) JavaScript
6 28 (7.49%) TypeScript
7 22 (5.88%) C++
8 16 (4.28%) PowerShell
9 14 (3.74%) Shell Script
10 9 (2.41%) Rust
11 6 (1.60%) Scala
12 5 (1.34%) VB.NET
12 5 (1.34%) VBA
13 4 (1.07%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.80%) Bash
14 3 (0.80%) Go
14 3 (0.80%) Perl
14 3 (0.80%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.53%) Bicep
15 2 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 42 (11.23%) Degree
2 14 (3.74%) Master's Degree
3 13 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.14%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.87%) CFA
5 7 (1.87%) PMI Certification
5 7 (1.87%) PMP
6 6 (1.60%) PhD
7 3 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.53%) CISSP
8 2 (0.53%) IIBA
8 2 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.53%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.27%) ACCA
9 1 (0.27%) CCA
9 1 (0.27%) CIMA
9 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.27%) MCSA
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.61%) QA
2 12 (3.21%) MiFID
3 10 (2.67%) EMIR
3 10 (2.67%) PMO
4 9 (2.41%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.87%) SLA
6 6 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.80%) GDPR
7 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.53%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.53%) Dodd-Frank
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%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.27%) FINRA
9 1 (0.27%) IFRS
9 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (6.42%) Docker
2 5 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Firmware
3 1 (0.27%) GridGain
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (6.42%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.60%) SCCM
2 6 (1.60%) Terraform
3 3 (0.80%) Ansible
3 3 (0.80%) Thomson Reuters DACS
3 3 (0.80%) WSUS
4 2 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.53%) Puppet
5 1 (0.27%) Control-M
5 1 (0.27%) Grafana
5 1 (0.27%) HP SiteScope
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Identity Management
5 1 (0.27%) SCOM
5 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 42 (11.23%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.68%) Oracle
3 18 (4.81%) Bloomberg
4 12 (3.21%) ION Trading
4 12 (3.21%) Sybase
5 11 (2.94%) Murex
6 6 (1.60%) Databricks
7 5 (1.34%) Citrix
7 5 (1.34%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.34%) Refinitiv
7 5 (1.34%) Reuters
7 5 (1.34%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.34%) Solace
7 5 (1.34%) Splunk
8 4 (1.07%) Charles River
8 4 (1.07%) IBM
8 4 (1.07%) UiPath
9 3 (0.80%) Adobe
9 3 (0.80%) NYFIX
9 3 (0.80%) SAP