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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 68 76
Rank change year-on-year -65 +8 -24
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 372 454 544
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.14% 3.59% 3.02%
As % of the General category 3.49% 5.35% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 290 407
10th Percentile £413 £412 £500
25th Percentile £500 £613 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £634 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year -15.50% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £788 £875 £850
90th Percentile £941 £888 £900
England median daily rate £625 £739 £715
% change year-on-year -15.40% +3.32% +2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £26.57 £78.63 -
25th Percentile £30.80 £82.19 -
Median hourly rate £39.73 £88.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -55.23% - -
75th Percentile £49.28 £94.69 -
90th Percentile £53.89 £97.88 -
England median hourly rate £39.73 £88.75 £19.50
% change year-on-year -55.23% +355.13% -51.85%

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 10,674 8,490 11,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.54% 67.10% 63.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,957 5,743 8,092
10th Percentile £350 £336 £331
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £709 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 137 251
10th Percentile £17.93 £16.39 £15.50
25th Percentile £21.43 £24.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -7.96%
75th Percentile £48.00 £53.75 £48.92
90th Percentile £70.25 £67.50 £69.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -21.43%

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 April 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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -23 54 £635 +1.60% 25
East London 0 4 £416 -27.65%
South London -18 1 £600 -12.73% 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 14 (3.76%) Confluence
2 6 (1.61%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (1.34%) Apache
4 3 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.81%) SAS
4 3 (0.81%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.54%) IIS
5 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.27%) CICS
6 1 (0.27%) CMS
6 1 (0.27%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 29 (7.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (4.30%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (3.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (3.49%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.81%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.27%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 14 (3.76%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (3.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 13 (3.49%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (1.61%) Aladdin
3 6 (1.61%) Summit
4 4 (1.08%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.81%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.54%) Front Arena
6 2 (0.54%) Global One
6 2 (0.54%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.27%) Actimize
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.27%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.27%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.27%) ION MarketView
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.27%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.27%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 54 (14.52%) Azure
2 53 (14.25%) AWS
3 16 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (4.30%) Power Platform
4 14 (3.76%) GitHub
4 14 (3.76%) OCI
5 12 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (3.23%) GCP
6 10 (2.69%) Snowflake
7 7 (1.88%) Entra ID
7 7 (1.88%) Google Workspace
8 6 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (1.61%) Serverless
9 5 (1.34%) npm
9 5 (1.34%) Yarn
10 4 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.08%) ChatGPT
10 4 (1.08%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.08%) PowerApps
11 3 (0.81%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.11%) FIX Connectivity
2 7 (1.88%) Firewall
3 6 (1.61%) DMZ
3 6 (1.61%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.61%) VPN
4 4 (1.08%) HTTP
5 3 (0.81%) Multicast
6 2 (0.54%) RTMP
7 1 (0.27%) MIMO
7 1 (0.27%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.27%) SMS
7 1 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.18%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (4.03%) Relational Database
3 14 (3.76%) Power BI
4 12 (3.23%) Tableau
5 9 (2.42%) Metadata
6 6 (1.61%) RDBMS
6 6 (1.61%) Redis
7 5 (1.34%) Big Data
7 5 (1.34%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.34%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.08%) Apache Ignite
8 4 (1.08%) KDB
8 4 (1.08%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.08%) Pinecone
8 4 (1.08%) Weaviate
9 3 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.81%) Kdb+
9 3 (0.81%) Neo4j
9 3 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (7.26%) JIRA
2 9 (2.42%) Git
3 8 (2.15%) GitLab
3 8 (2.15%) TeamCity
4 7 (1.88%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.61%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (1.34%) Selenium
6 5 (1.34%) webpack
7 4 (1.08%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.08%) JUnit
7 4 (1.08%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.81%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.54%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.54%) Maven
9 2 (0.54%) Postman
9 2 (0.54%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.54%) Vite
10 1 (0.27%) TestNG
General
1 372 (100.00%) Banking
2 228 (61.29%) Finance
3 117 (31.45%) Front Office
4 113 (30.38%) Social Skills
5 56 (15.05%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (8.60%) Retail Banking
7 26 (6.99%) Financial Institution
8 24 (6.45%) Corporate Banking
8 24 (6.45%) Retail
9 15 (4.03%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (3.76%) Legal
11 13 (3.49%) Back Office
12 7 (1.88%) French Language
12 7 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.08%) Marketing
15 3 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.81%) Spanish Language
16 2 (0.54%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 119 (31.99%) Developer
2 80 (21.51%) Analyst
3 63 (16.94%) Business Analyst
4 58 (15.59%) Java Developer
4 58 (15.59%) Senior
5 38 (10.22%) Senior Developer
6 30 (8.06%) Senior Java Developer
7 23 (6.18%) Banking Analyst
7 23 (6.18%) Electronic Trading Developer
8 21 (5.65%) C# Developer
9 20 (5.38%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 19 (5.11%) Lead
11 17 (4.57%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
11 17 (4.57%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
11 17 (4.57%) Kafka Developer
11 17 (4.57%) Low Latency Java Developer
11 17 (4.57%) Support Engineer
12 16 (4.30%) AWS Developer
12 16 (4.30%) Project Manager
13 13 (3.49%) PostgreSQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.41%) .NET
2 32 (8.60%) React
3 31 (8.33%) Kafka
4 25 (6.72%) FIX Protocol
5 15 (4.03%) Redux
6 14 (3.76%) CSS
6 14 (3.76%) HTML
7 13 (3.49%) XML
8 12 (3.23%) AngularJS
9 11 (2.96%) Spring
10 10 (2.69%) Pandas
11 8 (2.15%) HTML5
11 8 (2.15%) Node.js
12 7 (1.88%) NumPy
12 7 (1.88%) REST
13 6 (1.61%) JMS
13 6 (1.61%) LangChain
13 6 (1.61%) Reactive Extensions
13 6 (1.61%) RESTful
14 5 (1.34%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 81 (21.77%) Derivative
2 47 (12.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 43 (11.56%) Equities
3 43 (11.56%) Fixed Income
4 29 (7.80%) Market Risk
5 22 (5.91%) Credit Risk
5 22 (5.91%) Management Information System
6 18 (4.84%) Onboarding
7 17 (4.57%) TWAP
7 17 (4.57%) VWAP
8 14 (3.76%) Cloud Native
8 14 (3.76%) Hedge funds
9 13 (3.49%) Data Structures
10 10 (2.69%) Algorithms
11 9 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (1.88%) AI Agents
13 7 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
15 5 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.72%) Windows
2 21 (5.65%) Linux
2 21 (5.65%) Unix
3 8 (2.15%) Windows 10
4 6 (1.61%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.54%) AIX
6 1 (0.27%) Android
6 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (18.55%) Agile
2 65 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (13.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 47 (12.63%) Analytics
5 43 (11.56%) Electronic Trading
6 42 (11.29%) AI
6 42 (11.29%) CI/CD
7 41 (11.02%) DevOps
7 41 (11.02%) User Acceptance Testing
8 40 (10.75%) Low Latency
9 39 (10.48%) Asset Management
9 39 (10.48%) TDD
10 38 (10.22%) Business Analysis
11 36 (9.68%) Project Management
12 35 (9.41%) Multithreading
12 35 (9.41%) Risk Management
13 28 (7.53%) Design Patterns
13 28 (7.53%) Test Automation
14 27 (7.26%) Data Analysis
15 26 (6.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 100 (26.88%) SQL
2 97 (26.08%) Java
3 75 (20.16%) Python
4 48 (12.90%) C#
5 31 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 31 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 15 (4.03%) PowerShell
7 13 (3.49%) C++
8 9 (2.42%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.61%) Scala
10 5 (1.34%) Perl
10 5 (1.34%) Rust
10 5 (1.34%) VBA
11 4 (1.08%) Bash
11 4 (1.08%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.81%) Go
13 2 (0.54%) Korn
14 1 (0.27%) F#
14 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.27%) Swift
Qualifications
1 40 (10.75%) Degree
2 17 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (3.76%) Master's Degree
4 9 (2.42%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.15%) PMP
6 7 (1.88%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.34%) CFA
7 5 (1.34%) PhD
8 4 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.81%) IIBA
9 3 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.81%) MCSA
9 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.54%) ACCA
10 2 (0.54%) CISSP
10 2 (0.54%) MBA
10 2 (0.54%) Security Cleared
10 2 (0.54%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 2 (0.54%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.57%) QA
2 13 (3.49%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.49%) MiFID
3 11 (2.96%) PMO
4 10 (2.69%) SLA
5 6 (1.61%) EMIR
6 5 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.54%) GDPR
7 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.54%) NIST
7 2 (0.54%) SEPA
8 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.27%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.27%) FINRA
8 1 (0.27%) GRC
8 1 (0.27%) IFRS
8 1 (0.27%) ITGC
8 1 (0.27%) PSD2
8 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 18 (4.84%) Docker
2 7 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) GridGain
3 1 (0.27%) Varnish
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 18 (4.84%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.15%) SCCM
3 6 (1.61%) WSUS
4 5 (1.34%) Terraform
5 4 (1.08%) Control-M
5 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.81%) Ansible
6 3 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.54%) Puppet
7 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.27%) Grafana
8 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.27%) WMI
8 1 (0.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 43 (11.56%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.68%) Oracle
3 16 (4.30%) Bloomberg
4 15 (4.03%) Murex
5 13 (3.49%) ION Trading
6 8 (2.15%) Citrix
6 8 (2.15%) Reuters
7 7 (1.88%) Charles River
7 7 (1.88%) Sybase
8 6 (1.61%) Adobe
9 4 (1.08%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.08%) IBM
9 4 (1.08%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.08%) Pega
9 4 (1.08%) SAP
9 4 (1.08%) Solace
10 3 (0.81%) Google
10 3 (0.81%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.81%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.54%) Atlassian