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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 71 59
Rank change year-on-year -58 -12 -1
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 462 508 640
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.30% 3.80% 3.94%
As % of the General category 3.79% 5.51% 6.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 355 526
10th Percentile £409 £440 £519
25th Percentile £513 £613 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £665 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -11.37% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £800 £825 £888
90th Percentile £938 £895 -
England median daily rate £663 £750 £770
% change year-on-year -11.67% -2.60% +10.00%
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% +5.41%

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 12,203 9,220 10,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.84% 68.94% 62.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,769 6,125 6,999
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £508 £538
% change year-on-year +3.45% -5.58% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 184 138
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £18.09
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.50 £24.18
Median hourly rate £28.40 £31.49 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% -12.53% +3.99%
75th Percentile £43.75 £49.56 £51.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.60 £66.60
England median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +27.24% -34.02% +37.42%

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 August 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 August 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 -25 62 £700 - 26
East London +5 4 £875 -2.78%
South London -15 2 £800 +33.33% 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 7 (1.52%) Confluence
2 4 (0.87%) IIS
2 4 (0.87%) MTS
3 3 (0.65%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.43%) Apache
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.43%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.22%) CICS
5 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.22%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 10 (2.16%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.87%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (0.87%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (0.87%) Summit
3 3 (0.65%) Loan IQ
3 3 (0.65%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.43%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.43%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.43%) Global One
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle iProcurement
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.22%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.22%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.22%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 63 (13.64%) Azure
2 51 (11.04%) AWS
3 20 (4.33%) GCP
4 17 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (3.68%) Power Platform
5 14 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (2.81%) Entra ID
6 13 (2.81%) GitHub
7 12 (2.60%) SaaS
8 9 (1.95%) OCI
9 8 (1.73%) Snowflake
10 6 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (1.30%) Google Workspace
11 5 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.08%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.08%) PowerApps
12 4 (0.87%) Azure API Management
13 3 (0.65%) Cloud Run
13 3 (0.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.46%) FIX Connectivity
2 11 (2.38%) Firewall
3 9 (1.95%) Multicast
4 7 (1.52%) VPN
5 6 (1.30%) HTTP
5 6 (1.30%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.08%) DMZ
7 4 (0.87%) BGP
7 4 (0.87%) Network Security
8 3 (0.65%) Wireless
9 2 (0.43%) BIG-IP
9 2 (0.43%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.43%) DWDM
9 2 (0.43%) Internet
9 2 (0.43%) MPLS
9 2 (0.43%) OSPF
9 2 (0.43%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 1 (0.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 1 (0.22%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 20 (4.33%) Metadata
3 17 (3.68%) Power BI
4 14 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (2.81%) Relational Database
6 10 (2.16%) KDB
6 10 (2.16%) Pinecone
6 10 (2.16%) Weaviate
7 9 (1.95%) Data Vault
8 7 (1.52%) Tableau
9 6 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.30%) Kdb+
9 6 (1.30%) Redis
10 5 (1.08%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.08%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.87%) ClickHouse
11 4 (0.87%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.87%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 44 (9.52%) JIRA
2 20 (4.33%) Git
3 11 (2.38%) ER Studio
4 10 (2.16%) ERwin
5 9 (1.95%) TeamCity
6 7 (1.52%) GitLab
6 7 (1.52%) Jenkins
7 5 (1.08%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (1.08%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.87%) webpack
9 3 (0.65%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.65%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.65%) Selenium
10 2 (0.43%) Maven
10 2 (0.43%) MSBuild
10 2 (0.43%) Vite
11 1 (0.22%) Appium
11 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.22%) CMake
General
1 462 (100.00%) Banking
2 296 (64.07%) Finance
3 158 (34.20%) Front Office
4 112 (24.24%) Social Skills
5 56 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (8.87%) Corporate Banking
7 40 (8.66%) Retail
7 40 (8.66%) Retail Banking
8 39 (8.44%) Financial Institution
9 19 (4.11%) Back Office
10 16 (3.46%) Legal
11 15 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (2.60%) Spanish Language
13 8 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.87%) French Language
16 4 (0.87%) Games
16 4 (0.87%) General Ledger
17 3 (0.65%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 163 (35.28%) Developer
2 79 (17.10%) Analyst
3 72 (15.58%) Senior
4 67 (14.50%) Java Developer
5 61 (13.20%) Business Analyst
6 46 (9.96%) Senior Developer
7 26 (5.63%) Lead
7 26 (5.63%) Senior Java Developer
8 25 (5.41%) C# Developer
9 23 (4.98%) Python Developer
9 23 (4.98%) React Developer
10 21 (4.55%) Support Engineer
11 19 (4.11%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 19 (4.11%) Project Manager
11 19 (4.11%) Senior React Developer
11 19 (4.11%) UI Developer
12 18 (3.90%) Low Latency Java Developer
13 17 (3.68%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
13 17 (3.68%) Senior UI Developer
14 16 (3.46%) Banking Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (9.74%) .NET
1 45 (9.74%) React
2 39 (8.44%) FIX Protocol
3 25 (5.41%) Redux
4 19 (4.11%) AngularJS
5 16 (3.46%) Kafka
5 16 (3.46%) REST
6 14 (3.03%) Spring
6 14 (3.03%) WebSockets
7 12 (2.60%) RESTful
7 12 (2.60%) Terraform
8 10 (2.16%) LangChain
8 10 (2.16%) LlamaIndex
8 10 (2.16%) OAuth
8 10 (2.16%) OAuth2
9 9 (1.95%) Node.js
9 9 (1.95%) Pandas
9 9 (1.95%) PySpark
10 8 (1.73%) NumPy
10 8 (1.73%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 98 (21.21%) Derivative
2 71 (15.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 59 (12.77%) Fixed Income
4 57 (12.34%) Equities
5 31 (6.71%) Product Ownership
6 26 (5.63%) Onboarding
7 24 (5.19%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (4.76%) Market Risk
9 19 (4.11%) Data Structures
10 18 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (3.46%) Algorithms
11 16 (3.46%) Management Information System
11 16 (3.46%) TWAP
11 16 (3.46%) VWAP
12 15 (3.25%) AI Agents
12 15 (3.25%) Credit Risk
13 13 (2.81%) Hedge funds
14 11 (2.38%) Cloud Native
15 9 (1.95%) Reference Data
16 8 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.49%) Windows
2 28 (6.06%) Linux
3 23 (4.98%) Unix
4 6 (1.30%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.08%) Android
6 4 (0.87%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.65%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.22%) Solaris
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (24.46%) Agile
2 71 (15.37%) Low Latency
2 71 (15.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 69 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
4 65 (14.07%) Electronic Trading
5 58 (12.55%) AI
6 57 (12.34%) CI/CD
7 52 (11.26%) Analytics
8 49 (10.61%) Software Engineering
9 46 (9.96%) DevOps
10 43 (9.31%) Wealth Management
11 39 (8.44%) Business Analysis
12 37 (8.01%) Multithreading
13 36 (7.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (7.79%) Data Modelling
13 36 (7.79%) Full-Stack Development
14 34 (7.36%) Translating Business Requirements
15 33 (7.14%) TDD
16 32 (6.93%) Asset Management
17 31 (6.71%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 108 (23.38%) Java
2 105 (22.73%) SQL
3 99 (21.43%) Python
4 80 (17.32%) C#
5 53 (11.47%) TypeScript
6 41 (8.87%) JavaScript
7 21 (4.55%) PowerShell
8 20 (4.33%) C++
9 11 (2.38%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.52%) Rust
11 5 (1.08%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.87%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.87%) Tcl
12 4 (0.87%) VBA
13 3 (0.65%) Bash
13 3 (0.65%) Bicep
13 3 (0.65%) C
13 3 (0.65%) Perl
13 3 (0.65%) Scala
13 3 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (7.79%) Degree
2 12 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.73%) Azure Certification
4 6 (1.30%) PMP
5 4 (0.87%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.87%) Security Cleared
6 3 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (0.65%) MCSA
6 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.65%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.65%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.43%) ACCA
7 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.43%) CCNP
7 2 (0.43%) CIMA
7 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.43%) MBA
8 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.22%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (0.22%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.68%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.25%) MiFID
3 11 (2.38%) QA
4 9 (1.95%) EMIR
5 6 (1.30%) PMO
6 4 (0.87%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.65%) NIST
7 3 (0.65%) SLA
8 2 (0.43%) IFRS
8 2 (0.43%) WCAG
9 1 (0.22%) COBIT
9 1 (0.22%) COREP
9 1 (0.22%) FINREP
9 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.22%) PSD2
System Software
1 19 (4.11%) Active Directory
2 14 (3.03%) Docker
3 1 (0.22%) GridGain
3 1 (0.22%) Varnish
3 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 17 (3.68%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.73%) SCCM
3 6 (1.30%) Ansible
3 6 (1.30%) WSUS
4 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.65%) Control-M
5 3 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.22%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.22%) Grafana
6 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.22%) WMI
Vendors
1 41 (8.87%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.49%) Oracle
3 14 (3.03%) Bloomberg
4 13 (2.81%) OpenAI
5 12 (2.60%) Databricks
5 12 (2.60%) Murex
6 10 (2.16%) Citrix
6 10 (2.16%) ION Trading
7 8 (1.73%) Reuters
7 8 (1.73%) Tradeweb
8 7 (1.52%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.30%) Charles River
9 6 (1.30%) MarketAxess
9 6 (1.30%) SAP
9 6 (1.30%) Solace
9 6 (1.30%) Sybase
10 5 (1.08%) Cisco
10 5 (1.08%) Google
11 4 (0.87%) Adobe
11 4 (0.87%) Atlassian