Investment Banking Contracts 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 65 53
Rank change year-on-year +2 -12 +5
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 515 598 1,097
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.93% 3.39% 4.34%
As % of the General category 5.78% 5.44% 6.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 492 816
10th Percentile £445 £525 £500
25th Percentile £619 £613 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £850 £888 £825
90th Percentile £888 - £950
England median daily rate £750 £775 £700
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £73.25 - -
25th Percentile £78.13 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £94.38 - -
90th Percentile £97.75 - -
England median hourly rate £87.50 £19.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +348.72% -72.14% +16.67%

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 common skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,910 10,990 16,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 67.98% 62.36% 63.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,941 7,830 11,725
10th Percentile £331 £335 £374
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +2.56%
75th Percentile £695 £700 £725
90th Percentile £813 £825 £825
England median daily rate £519 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -3.08% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 231 194
10th Percentile £15.84 £16.00 £16.95
25th Percentile £24.66 £18.52 £21.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £30.16 £32.60
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -7.47% -8.18%
75th Percentile £50.97 £48.75 £53.94
90th Percentile £64.25 £68.00 £71.75
England median hourly rate £27.38 £32.90 £30.00
% change year-on-year -16.78% +9.65% +26.04%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Investment Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in London.

Daily rate trend for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in London.

Hourly rate trend for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Investment Banking in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

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 3 July 2025. 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 +10 82 £678 -3.21% 89
South London - 4 £725 - 14
East London +16 3 £900 +66.67% 1
Investment Banking
England

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 57 (11.07%) Apache
2 52 (10.10%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.52%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.33%) Confluence
5 4 (0.78%) MQSeries
6 3 (0.58%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.19%) Appian
8 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 27 (5.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.39%) UserZoom
4 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (0.97%) ION Anvil
2 3 (0.58%) Actimize
2 3 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.58%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.39%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.39%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 2 (0.39%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.19%) Bankmaster
4 1 (0.19%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.19%) Murex MxG2000
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 126 (24.47%) AWS
2 81 (15.73%) Azure
3 53 (10.29%) Snowflake
4 51 (9.90%) dbt
5 35 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (4.27%) GCP
6 22 (4.27%) Power Platform
7 13 (2.52%) GitHub
7 13 (2.52%) SaaS
8 9 (1.75%) npm
8 9 (1.75%) Yarn
9 8 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (1.36%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.17%) Figma
11 6 (1.17%) OpenShift
12 5 (0.97%) Amazon S3
12 5 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.97%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (0.58%) Multicast
3 2 (0.39%) BGP
3 2 (0.39%) Firewall
3 2 (0.39%) OSPF
3 2 (0.39%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.39%) Unicast
4 1 (0.19%) ATM
4 1 (0.19%) DHCP
4 1 (0.19%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (10.10%) Amazon Athena
2 51 (9.90%) Apache Arrow
2 51 (9.90%) Apache Iceberg
2 51 (9.90%) Dremio
3 36 (6.99%) Data Lake
4 35 (6.80%) Apache Ignite
5 34 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
6 27 (5.24%) Redis
7 23 (4.47%) SQL Server
8 22 (4.27%) Power BI
9 21 (4.08%) Relational Database
10 17 (3.30%) MongoDB
11 14 (2.72%) DB2
12 12 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (1.55%) Data Mining
14 7 (1.36%) Big Data
15 6 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (1.17%) Tableau
16 5 (0.97%) KDB
16 5 (0.97%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 45 (8.74%) Git
2 28 (5.44%) Jenkins
3 21 (4.08%) JIRA
4 16 (3.11%) JUnit
5 14 (2.72%) Bitbucket
6 10 (1.94%) TeamCity
7 9 (1.75%) webpack
8 7 (1.36%) Octopus Deploy
8 7 (1.36%) Visual Studio
9 6 (1.17%) Maven
10 3 (0.58%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.39%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.39%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.39%) ERwin
11 2 (0.39%) GitLab
11 2 (0.39%) Gradle
11 2 (0.39%) MagicDraw
11 2 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.39%) PHPUnit
11 2 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 515 (100.00%) Banking
2 320 (62.14%) Finance
3 167 (32.43%) Social Skills
4 139 (26.99%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (26.99%) Front Office
5 54 (10.49%) Retail Banking
6 49 (9.51%) Retail
7 46 (8.93%) Corporate Banking
8 28 (5.44%) Financial Institution
9 24 (4.66%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.52%) Back Office
11 8 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.97%) Legal
12 5 (0.97%) Marketing
13 2 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.39%) Portuguese Language
13 2 (0.39%) Spanish Language
14 1 (0.19%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.19%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 229 (44.47%) Developer
2 100 (19.42%) Senior
3 80 (15.53%) Analyst
4 77 (14.95%) Java Developer
5 64 (12.43%) Software Engineer
6 55 (10.68%) AWS Engineer
7 54 (10.49%) Python Developer
8 51 (9.90%) AWS Software Engineer
9 48 (9.32%) Java Engineer
10 47 (9.13%) Python Engineer
11 46 (8.93%) Senior Developer
12 45 (8.74%) Java Software Engineer
13 42 (8.16%) Business Analyst
14 39 (7.57%) AWS Developer
14 39 (7.57%) Python Software Engineer
15 34 (6.60%) Senior Software Engineer
16 33 (6.41%) Lead
16 33 (6.41%) Senior Java Engineer
16 33 (6.41%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 28 (5.44%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (10.87%) React
2 54 (10.49%) Kafka
2 54 (10.49%) Pandas
3 53 (10.29%) NumPy
4 51 (9.90%) SciPy
5 47 (9.13%) .NET
6 42 (8.16%) gRPC
6 42 (8.16%) Protocol Buffers
7 29 (5.63%) AngularJS
7 29 (5.63%) FastAPI
8 28 (5.44%) Spring
9 27 (5.24%) PySpark
10 22 (4.27%) CSS
11 19 (3.69%) ActiveMQ
11 19 (3.69%) Flask
12 17 (3.30%) Vue
13 16 (3.11%) Polars
14 15 (2.91%) FIX Protocol
14 15 (2.91%) HTML
15 14 (2.72%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 120 (23.30%) Derivative
2 107 (20.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 103 (20.00%) Equities
4 83 (16.12%) Fixed Income
5 71 (13.79%) Hedge funds
6 37 (7.18%) Market Risk
7 30 (5.83%) Pricing Data
8 21 (4.08%) Data Structures
9 18 (3.50%) Product Ownership
10 17 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
11 16 (3.11%) Management Information System
12 15 (2.91%) Onboarding
13 14 (2.72%) Algorithms
14 12 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (2.14%) Reference Data
16 8 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
16 8 (1.55%) Virtual Team
17 7 (1.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
18 6 (1.17%) Blockchain
18 6 (1.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 55 (10.68%) Linux
2 22 (4.27%) Windows
3 9 (1.75%) Unix
4 3 (0.58%) Android
4 3 (0.58%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.58%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (33.40%) Agile
2 110 (21.36%) Problem-Solving
3 93 (18.06%) DevOps
4 92 (17.86%) Software Engineering
5 66 (12.82%) Analytics
6 62 (12.04%) Risk Management
7 60 (11.65%) Wealth Management
8 57 (11.07%) Asset Management
9 54 (10.49%) CI/CD
9 54 (10.49%) SDLC
10 52 (10.10%) Mathematics
11 51 (9.90%) Electronic Trading
12 46 (8.93%) Computer Science
13 42 (8.16%) TDD
14 38 (7.38%) Investment Management
14 38 (7.38%) Multithreading
15 37 (7.18%) Artificial Intelligence
16 36 (6.99%) Stakeholder Management
17 34 (6.60%) Low Latency
17 34 (6.60%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 199 (38.64%) Python
2 195 (37.86%) Java
3 164 (31.84%) SQL
4 86 (16.70%) JavaScript
5 75 (14.56%) C#
6 72 (13.98%) TypeScript
7 48 (9.32%) C++
8 19 (3.69%) Shell Script
9 14 (2.72%) Rust
10 13 (2.52%) Scala
11 12 (2.33%) PowerShell
12 8 (1.55%) Bicep
12 8 (1.55%) Haskell
13 7 (1.36%) C
14 6 (1.17%) VBA
15 5 (0.97%) Bash
15 5 (0.97%) DAML
16 4 (0.78%) OCaml
16 4 (0.78%) Perl
17 3 (0.58%) RPG
Qualifications
1 53 (10.29%) Degree
2 24 (4.66%) Numerate Degree
3 20 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.17%) PMP
5 4 (0.78%) Azure Certification
5 4 (0.78%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.58%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.39%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.39%) CCIE
7 2 (0.39%) CISA
7 2 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.39%) CISSP
7 2 (0.39%) FFIEC
7 2 (0.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (0.19%) ACCA
8 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.19%) CIMA
8 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.27%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.69%) QA
3 14 (2.72%) MiFID
4 10 (1.94%) Basel II
5 8 (1.55%) GDPR
6 6 (1.17%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.97%) Dodd-Frank
7 5 (0.97%) EMIR
8 4 (0.78%) Basel III
8 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.58%) SLA
10 2 (0.39%) PMO
10 2 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.39%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.19%) COREP
11 1 (0.19%) FATCA
11 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.19%) NIST
11 1 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 45 (8.74%) Docker
2 3 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.39%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.39%) Lustre
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (8.54%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.69%) Ansible
3 12 (2.33%) Terraform
4 7 (1.36%) Grafana
4 7 (1.36%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.97%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (0.78%) SCCM
7 3 (0.58%) Argo
7 3 (0.58%) Control-M
7 3 (0.58%) Istio
7 3 (0.58%) Kibana
7 3 (0.58%) logstash
7 3 (0.58%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.58%) Puppet
7 3 (0.58%) Rundeck
8 2 (0.39%) Karpenter
8 2 (0.39%) Podman
9 1 (0.19%) Galera Cluster
Vendors
1 20 (3.88%) Oracle
2 19 (3.69%) Databricks
2 19 (3.69%) Microsoft
3 14 (2.72%) Sybase
4 9 (1.75%) Atlassian
4 9 (1.75%) Google
5 8 (1.55%) ION Trading
5 8 (1.55%) Splunk
6 6 (1.17%) Bloomberg
6 6 (1.17%) Solace
7 5 (0.97%) IBM
7 5 (0.97%) Planview
7 5 (0.97%) Red Hat
7 5 (0.97%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.78%) Citrix
8 4 (0.78%) Murex
9 3 (0.58%) Refinitiv
10 2 (0.39%) Arista
10 2 (0.39%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.39%) UiPath