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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 68 59
Rank change year-on-year -56 -9 -4
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 459 517 638
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.27% 3.82% 3.94%
As % of the General category 3.74% 5.57% 6.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 359 526
10th Percentile £418 £435 £525
25th Percentile £513 £613 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £651 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £793 £825 £888
90th Percentile £938 £888 -
England median daily rate £663 £750 £775
% change year-on-year -11.67% -3.23% +10.71%
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 12,268 9,289 10,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.76% 68.72% 62.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,815 6,167 7,105
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 £510 £538
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.12% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 187 145
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.08 £24.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -15.49% +1.43%
75th Percentile £43.75 £49.63 £51.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £67.20
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +38.62%

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 15 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 15 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 -32 59 £693 -1.07% 36
East London +1 4 £875 -2.78%
South London -7 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 6 (1.31%) Confluence
2 4 (0.87%) IIS
3 3 (0.65%) Apache
3 3 (0.65%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.44%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.44%) MTS
4 2 (0.44%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.22%) CICS
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (4.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.65%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.22%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 11 (2.40%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.31%) Oracle Payables
2 6 (1.31%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (0.87%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (0.87%) Summit
4 3 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.65%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.65%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.44%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.44%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.44%) Global One
5 2 (0.44%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.44%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 2 (0.44%) Oracle iProcurement
6 1 (0.22%) Actimize
6 1 (0.22%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.22%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.22%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 61 (13.29%) Azure
2 53 (11.55%) AWS
3 20 (4.36%) GCP
4 18 (3.92%) Power Platform
5 16 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (3.05%) Entra ID
6 14 (3.05%) GitHub
7 9 (1.96%) OCI
7 9 (1.96%) SaaS
8 8 (1.74%) Snowflake
9 7 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (1.31%) Google Workspace
11 5 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (1.09%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.09%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.09%) PowerApps
12 4 (0.87%) Azure API Management
13 3 (0.65%) Cloud Run
13 3 (0.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.70%) FIX Connectivity
2 10 (2.18%) Firewall
3 8 (1.74%) Multicast
4 7 (1.53%) VPN
5 6 (1.31%) HTTP
5 6 (1.31%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.09%) DMZ
7 3 (0.65%) BGP
7 3 (0.65%) Wireless
8 2 (0.44%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.44%) DWDM
8 2 (0.44%) MPLS
8 2 (0.44%) Network Security
8 2 (0.44%) OSPF
8 2 (0.44%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.22%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 1 (0.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 1 (0.22%) MIMO
9 1 (0.22%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.66%) SQL Server
2 18 (3.92%) Metadata
2 18 (3.92%) Power BI
3 13 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (2.83%) Relational Database
4 10 (2.18%) Data Vault
4 10 (2.18%) KDB
4 10 (2.18%) Pinecone
4 10 (2.18%) Weaviate
5 8 (1.74%) Tableau
6 6 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (1.31%) Kdb+
6 6 (1.31%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.31%) Redis
7 5 (1.09%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.87%) ClickHouse
8 4 (0.87%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.87%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 40 (8.71%) JIRA
2 18 (3.92%) Git
3 11 (2.40%) ER Studio
4 10 (2.18%) ERwin
4 10 (2.18%) TeamCity
5 7 (1.53%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.31%) GitLab
7 5 (1.09%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (1.09%) PowerDesigner
7 5 (1.09%) webpack
8 3 (0.65%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.65%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.65%) Selenium
9 2 (0.44%) Maven
9 2 (0.44%) MSBuild
9 2 (0.44%) Vite
10 1 (0.22%) JDeveloper
10 1 (0.22%) JMeter
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
General
1 459 (100.00%) Banking
2 297 (64.71%) Finance
3 162 (35.29%) Front Office
4 107 (23.31%) Social Skills
5 58 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (9.37%) Retail Banking
7 42 (9.15%) Corporate Banking
7 42 (9.15%) Retail
8 40 (8.71%) Financial Institution
9 19 (4.14%) Back Office
10 18 (3.92%) Legal
11 16 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (2.61%) Spanish Language
13 8 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.87%) French Language
15 4 (0.87%) Games
16 3 (0.65%) Advertising
16 3 (0.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 164 (35.73%) Developer
2 78 (16.99%) Analyst
3 70 (15.25%) Senior
4 69 (15.03%) Java Developer
5 62 (13.51%) Business Analyst
6 46 (10.02%) Senior Developer
7 26 (5.66%) C# Developer
7 26 (5.66%) Senior Java Developer
8 24 (5.23%) Lead
9 23 (5.01%) React Developer
10 22 (4.79%) Project Manager
10 22 (4.79%) Python Developer
11 20 (4.36%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 20 (4.36%) Support Engineer
12 19 (4.14%) Banking Analyst
12 19 (4.14%) Low Latency Java Developer
12 19 (4.14%) Senior React Developer
12 19 (4.14%) UI Developer
13 18 (3.92%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
14 17 (3.70%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (10.02%) .NET
1 46 (10.02%) React
2 38 (8.28%) FIX Protocol
3 25 (5.45%) Redux
4 20 (4.36%) AngularJS
5 19 (4.14%) Kafka
6 16 (3.49%) REST
7 15 (3.27%) Spring
8 13 (2.83%) RESTful
8 13 (2.83%) WebSockets
9 10 (2.18%) LangChain
9 10 (2.18%) LlamaIndex
9 10 (2.18%) OAuth
9 10 (2.18%) OAuth2
10 9 (1.96%) CSS
10 9 (1.96%) Node.js
10 9 (1.96%) PySpark
11 8 (1.74%) ASP.NET
11 8 (1.74%) HTML
11 8 (1.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 100 (21.79%) Derivative
2 71 (15.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 58 (12.64%) Equities
3 58 (12.64%) Fixed Income
4 30 (6.54%) Product Ownership
5 27 (5.88%) Onboarding
6 24 (5.23%) Greenfield Project
7 22 (4.79%) Market Risk
8 20 (4.36%) Data Structures
9 18 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (3.70%) TWAP
10 17 (3.70%) VWAP
11 16 (3.49%) Algorithms
12 15 (3.27%) AI Agents
12 15 (3.27%) Credit Risk
13 14 (3.05%) Cloud Native
14 13 (2.83%) Hedge funds
14 13 (2.83%) Management Information System
15 9 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
16 8 (1.74%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.54%) Windows
2 27 (5.88%) Linux
3 24 (5.23%) Unix
4 5 (1.09%) Android
4 5 (1.09%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.87%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.65%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.22%) Solaris
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (24.40%) Agile
2 74 (16.12%) Low Latency
3 69 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
4 65 (14.16%) Electronic Trading
4 65 (14.16%) Stakeholder Management
5 57 (12.42%) CI/CD
6 56 (12.20%) AI
7 52 (11.33%) Analytics
8 49 (10.68%) DevOps
9 47 (10.24%) Software Engineering
10 42 (9.15%) Wealth Management
11 38 (8.28%) Full-Stack Development
11 38 (8.28%) Multithreading
12 35 (7.63%) Business Analysis
13 34 (7.41%) Asset Management
13 34 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (7.41%) TDD
14 33 (7.19%) Data Modelling
15 32 (6.97%) Algorithmic Trading
15 32 (6.97%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 112 (24.40%) Java
2 100 (21.79%) Python
3 98 (21.35%) SQL
4 80 (17.43%) C#
5 54 (11.76%) TypeScript
6 42 (9.15%) JavaScript
7 20 (4.36%) C++
7 20 (4.36%) PowerShell
8 11 (2.40%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.53%) Rust
10 5 (1.09%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.09%) VBA
11 3 (0.65%) Bicep
11 3 (0.65%) C
11 3 (0.65%) Perl
11 3 (0.65%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.65%) Scala
11 3 (0.65%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.44%) Bash
12 2 (0.44%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 34 (7.41%) Degree
2 11 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.74%) Azure Certification
4 7 (1.53%) PMP
5 5 (1.09%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.87%) PMI Certification
6 4 (0.87%) Security Cleared
7 3 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (0.65%) MCSA
7 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.65%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.44%) ACCA
8 2 (0.44%) CCNP
8 2 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.44%) CISSP
8 2 (0.44%) MBA
9 1 (0.22%) CIMA
9 1 (0.22%) CISA
9 1 (0.22%) CISM
9 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.27%) MiFID
2 13 (2.83%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.40%) QA
4 7 (1.53%) EMIR
4 7 (1.53%) PMO
5 4 (0.87%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.65%) NIST
6 3 (0.65%) SLA
7 2 (0.44%) WCAG
8 1 (0.22%) COBIT
8 1 (0.22%) COREP
8 1 (0.22%) FINREP
8 1 (0.22%) GDPR
8 1 (0.22%) IFRS
8 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.22%) ITGC
8 1 (0.22%) PSD2
8 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (4.36%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.49%) 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 18 (3.92%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.40%) Terraform
3 7 (1.53%) SCCM
4 6 (1.31%) WSUS
5 5 (1.09%) Ansible
6 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.65%) Control-M
7 3 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.22%) WMI
Vendors
1 39 (8.50%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.32%) Oracle
3 13 (2.83%) Murex
3 13 (2.83%) OpenAI
4 10 (2.18%) Bloomberg
4 10 (2.18%) Citrix
5 9 (1.96%) Databricks
6 8 (1.74%) ION Trading
7 7 (1.53%) Charles River
7 7 (1.53%) Reuters
7 7 (1.53%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.31%) SAP
8 6 (1.31%) Solace
9 5 (1.09%) Google
9 5 (1.09%) Tradeweb
10 4 (0.87%) Adobe
10 4 (0.87%) CyberArk
10 4 (0.87%) MarketAxess
10 4 (0.87%) Sybase
11 3 (0.65%) Alteryx