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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 62 76
Rank change year-on-year -66 +14 -21
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 371 482 535
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.08% 3.84% 3.00%
As % of the General category 3.46% 5.68% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 313 412
10th Percentile £413 £442 £500
25th Percentile £500 £613 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £788 £875 £856
90th Percentile £925 £888 £900
England median daily rate £638 £750 £725
% change year-on-year -15.00% +3.45% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.96 - -
Median hourly rate £54.46 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% - -
75th Percentile £56.96 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £54.46 £100.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -45.54% +412.82% -

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 10,729 8,483 11,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.09% 67.63% 63.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,939 5,725 8,027
10th Percentile £350 £347 £335
25th Percentile £425 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 137 246
10th Percentile £18.17 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £33.12 £34.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +19.30% -10.71%
75th Percentile £48.75 £51.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.15 £27.76 £30.50
% change year-on-year +8.61% -8.98% -5.86%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -37 52 £575 -9.80% 22
East London 0 4 £416 -27.65%
South London -18 1 £600 -12.73%
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 (2.70%) Confluence
2 5 (1.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.81%) Apache
4 3 (0.81%) IIS
4 3 (0.81%) SAS
5 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.54%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.27%) CICS
6 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 27 (7.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (3.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (3.50%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.81%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.54%) UserZoom
7 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (3.77%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (3.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 13 (3.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 7 (1.89%) Aladdin
4 6 (1.62%) Summit
5 4 (1.08%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.81%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 2 (0.54%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.54%) Global One
8 1 (0.27%) Actimize
8 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.27%) BusinessWorks
8 1 (0.27%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.27%) Markit EDM
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.27%) Orchestrade
8 1 (0.27%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 57 (15.36%) Azure
2 49 (13.21%) AWS
3 17 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (4.04%) GCP
5 14 (3.77%) OCI
6 13 (3.50%) GitHub
7 12 (3.23%) Power Platform
8 10 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (2.43%) Snowflake
10 8 (2.16%) Google Workspace
11 7 (1.89%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.35%) npm
12 5 (1.35%) Yarn
13 4 (1.08%) Figma
13 4 (1.08%) Serverless
14 3 (0.81%) Anthropic Claude
14 3 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (0.81%) ChatGPT
14 3 (0.81%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.93%) FIX Connectivity
2 10 (2.70%) Firewall
3 8 (2.16%) VPN
4 7 (1.89%) DMZ
4 7 (1.89%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.62%) HTTP
6 3 (0.81%) Multicast
7 2 (0.54%) BGP
7 2 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.54%) DWDM
7 2 (0.54%) MPLS
7 2 (0.54%) Network Security
7 2 (0.54%) OSPF
7 2 (0.54%) RTMP
7 2 (0.54%) Wireless
7 2 (0.54%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.27%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.27%) Internet
8 1 (0.27%) MIMO
8 1 (0.27%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.66%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.77%) Relational Database
3 12 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.96%) Power BI
5 10 (2.70%) Metadata
6 9 (2.43%) Pinecone
6 9 (2.43%) Tableau
6 9 (2.43%) Weaviate
7 6 (1.62%) RDBMS
7 6 (1.62%) Redis
8 5 (1.35%) Big Data
8 5 (1.35%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.08%) Data Vault
9 4 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.08%) KDB
10 3 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.81%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.81%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.81%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (7.01%) JIRA
2 9 (2.43%) TeamCity
3 7 (1.89%) Git
4 6 (1.62%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (1.62%) webpack
5 5 (1.35%) GitLab
5 5 (1.35%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.08%) Selenium
7 3 (0.81%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.81%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.81%) ERwin
7 3 (0.81%) JUnit
7 3 (0.81%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.81%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.54%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.54%) Maven
8 2 (0.54%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.54%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.54%) Vite
General
1 371 (100.00%) Banking
2 228 (61.46%) Finance
3 123 (33.15%) Front Office
4 100 (26.95%) Social Skills
5 48 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (9.70%) Retail Banking
7 28 (7.55%) Corporate Banking
7 28 (7.55%) Retail
8 25 (6.74%) Financial Institution
9 16 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (3.50%) Legal
11 9 (2.43%) Back Office
11 9 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.89%) French Language
13 6 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.81%) Marketing
14 3 (0.81%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 123 (33.15%) Developer
2 74 (19.95%) Analyst
3 59 (15.90%) Business Analyst
4 58 (15.63%) Java Developer
4 58 (15.63%) Senior
5 38 (10.24%) Senior Developer
6 29 (7.82%) Senior Java Developer
7 27 (7.28%) Electronic Trading Developer
8 25 (6.74%) Banking Analyst
9 23 (6.20%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 21 (5.66%) C# Developer
10 21 (5.66%) Low Latency Java Developer
11 20 (5.39%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
11 20 (5.39%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
12 18 (4.85%) Support Engineer
13 17 (4.58%) Lead
14 14 (3.77%) Banking Business Analyst
14 14 (3.77%) Kafka Developer
15 13 (3.50%) Risk Analyst
16 11 (2.96%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (10.24%) .NET
2 31 (8.36%) FIX Protocol
2 31 (8.36%) React
3 27 (7.28%) Kafka
4 15 (4.04%) CSS
4 15 (4.04%) HTML
4 15 (4.04%) Redux
5 14 (3.77%) XML
6 12 (3.23%) Spring
7 11 (2.96%) AngularJS
8 10 (2.70%) LangChain
9 9 (2.43%) LlamaIndex
10 8 (2.16%) HTML5
10 8 (2.16%) Node.js
11 6 (1.62%) Middleware
11 6 (1.62%) Reactive Extensions
11 6 (1.62%) REST
11 6 (1.62%) RESTful
12 5 (1.35%) OAuth
12 5 (1.35%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 86 (23.18%) Derivative
2 45 (12.13%) Equities
2 45 (12.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 39 (10.51%) Fixed Income
4 26 (7.01%) Market Risk
5 23 (6.20%) Management Information System
6 22 (5.93%) Credit Risk
7 20 (5.39%) TWAP
7 20 (5.39%) VWAP
8 14 (3.77%) Data Structures
9 13 (3.50%) Algorithms
9 13 (3.50%) Onboarding
10 12 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (3.23%) Product Ownership
11 11 (2.96%) AI Agents
11 11 (2.96%) Cloud Native
12 8 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.62%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.01%) Windows
2 20 (5.39%) Unix
3 15 (4.04%) Linux
4 8 (2.16%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.62%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.54%) AIX
6 2 (0.54%) Android
6 2 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (20.22%) Agile
2 56 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (13.21%) Electronic Trading
4 48 (12.94%) Low Latency
5 46 (12.40%) Analytics
6 41 (11.05%) TDD
7 40 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 39 (10.51%) Asset Management
8 39 (10.51%) Multithreading
9 38 (10.24%) AI
10 37 (9.97%) DevOps
11 35 (9.43%) Business Analysis
11 35 (9.43%) User Acceptance Testing
12 34 (9.16%) CI/CD
13 30 (8.09%) Design Patterns
14 29 (7.82%) Risk Management
15 28 (7.55%) Algorithmic Trading
15 28 (7.55%) OO
16 27 (7.28%) Software Engineering
17 26 (7.01%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 97 (26.15%) Java
2 90 (24.26%) SQL
3 74 (19.95%) Python
4 49 (13.21%) C#
5 35 (9.43%) TypeScript
6 30 (8.09%) JavaScript
7 18 (4.85%) PowerShell
8 12 (3.23%) C++
9 7 (1.89%) Scala
10 6 (1.62%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.35%) Perl
11 5 (1.35%) VBA
12 4 (1.08%) Bash
12 4 (1.08%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.08%) Rust
13 3 (0.81%) Go
14 2 (0.54%) Korn
15 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.27%) F#
15 1 (0.27%) Swift
Qualifications
1 31 (8.36%) Degree
2 18 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (2.70%) Azure Certification
3 10 (2.70%) Master's Degree
4 7 (1.89%) PMP
5 5 (1.35%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (1.08%) MCSA
6 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.81%) CFA
7 3 (0.81%) Security Cleared
8 2 (0.54%) ACCA
8 2 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.54%) CCNP
8 2 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.54%) CISSP
8 2 (0.54%) MBA
8 2 (0.54%) PhD
8 2 (0.54%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 2 (0.54%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.77%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.50%) MiFID
2 13 (3.50%) QA
3 11 (2.96%) PMO
4 8 (2.16%) SLA
5 5 (1.35%) EMIR
6 3 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.27%) EU AI Act
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 17 (4.58%) Docker
2 7 (1.89%) 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 15 (4.04%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.43%) SCCM
3 7 (1.89%) WSUS
4 5 (1.35%) Terraform
5 4 (1.08%) Control-M
5 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.54%) Ansible
6 2 (0.54%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.54%) Puppet
6 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.27%) Grafana
7 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.27%) WMI
Vendors
1 40 (10.78%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.70%) Oracle
3 14 (3.77%) Bloomberg
3 14 (3.77%) Murex
4 11 (2.96%) ION Trading
5 10 (2.70%) Citrix
6 9 (2.43%) Reuters
7 8 (2.16%) Charles River
7 8 (2.16%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.62%) Adobe
9 5 (1.35%) Sybase
10 4 (1.08%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.08%) Pega
10 4 (1.08%) Solace
11 3 (0.81%) Google
11 3 (0.81%) IBM
11 3 (0.81%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.81%) SAP
11 3 (0.81%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.54%) Calypso