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 13 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 59 58
Rank change year-on-year -35 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 450 575 788
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.20% 3.68% 3.95%
As % of the General category 4.69% 5.84% 6.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 419 595
10th Percentile £454 £500 £488
25th Percentile £545 £613 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £678 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £825 £850 £850
90th Percentile £962 £888 £1,000
England median daily rate £675 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -3.57% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £20.82 - -
25th Percentile £23.75 £76.25 -
Median hourly rate £40.73 £77.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.45% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £78.75 -
90th Percentile £81.25 - -
England median hourly rate £40.73 £77.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year -47.45% +318.92% -28.85%

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 common skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,600 9,846 12,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 68.25% 62.95% 64.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,275 6,321 9,395
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £576
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% -0.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £693 £700
90th Percentile £787 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 112 171
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.55 £18.33
25th Percentile £21.73 £27.38 £21.13
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.79 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.22% +7.19% +16.53%
75th Percentile £44.88 £54.06 £56.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £76.13 £76.25
England median hourly rate £24.61 £31.97 £30.48
% change year-on-year -23.02% +4.91% +18.53%

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 13 November 2025.

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 13 November 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 13 November 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 +3 64 £668 +2.69% 43
East London +5 3 £900 +56.52%
South London -6 3 £600 -15.79%
West London - 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 35 (7.78%) Apache
1 35 (7.78%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (4.22%) Confluence
3 8 (1.78%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.11%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.89%) MQSeries
6 3 (0.67%) CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Appian
7 1 (0.22%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.67%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.44%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (1.33%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.11%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.89%) thinkFolio
4 2 (0.44%) Actimize
5 1 (0.22%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.22%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.22%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 111 (24.67%) AWS
2 89 (19.78%) Azure
3 39 (8.67%) Snowflake
4 34 (7.56%) dbt
5 32 (7.11%) Power Platform
6 26 (5.78%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (4.44%) GCP
8 15 (3.33%) GitHub
9 10 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (2.00%) Serverless
11 8 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (1.56%) PowerApps
13 6 (1.33%) Azure AI
13 6 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (1.33%) Figma
13 6 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (1.11%) Azure AKS
14 5 (1.11%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (1.11%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (1.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.00%) Multicast
2 4 (0.89%) Firewall
3 3 (0.67%) BGP
3 3 (0.67%) OSPF
3 3 (0.67%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.67%) Unicast
4 2 (0.44%) Network Security
4 2 (0.44%) SMS
5 1 (0.22%) ATM
5 1 (0.22%) DHCP
5 1 (0.22%) DNS
5 1 (0.22%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.22%) SAN
5 1 (0.22%) tcpdump
5 1 (0.22%) VPN
5 1 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (7.78%) Amazon Athena
1 35 (7.78%) Data Lake
2 34 (7.56%) Apache Arrow
2 34 (7.56%) Apache Iceberg
2 34 (7.56%) Apache Ignite
2 34 (7.56%) Dremio
3 32 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (6.67%) Power BI
5 28 (6.22%) SQL Server
6 23 (5.11%) Relational Database
7 22 (4.89%) MongoDB
8 18 (4.00%) Tableau
9 17 (3.78%) DB2
10 13 (2.89%) Redis
11 12 (2.67%) Power Query
12 11 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (2.22%) NoSQL
14 9 (2.00%) Metadata
15 8 (1.78%) KDB
16 5 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 36 (8.00%) Git
2 28 (6.22%) JIRA
3 17 (3.78%) JUnit
4 12 (2.67%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.00%) Maven
5 9 (2.00%) Selenium
6 8 (1.78%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.78%) GitLab
7 7 (1.56%) Octopus Deploy
7 7 (1.56%) Postman
8 6 (1.33%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.11%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.67%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.67%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.67%) webpack
12 2 (0.44%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.44%) CMake
12 2 (0.44%) Gradle
13 1 (0.22%) Mocha
General
1 450 (100.00%) Banking
2 282 (62.67%) Finance
3 154 (34.22%) Social Skills
4 115 (25.56%) Front Office
5 92 (20.44%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (8.00%) Corporate Banking
6 36 (8.00%) Retail
7 35 (7.78%) Retail Banking
8 24 (5.33%) Financial Institution
9 20 (4.44%) Back Office
10 10 (2.22%) Legal
11 9 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.89%) Marketing
15 3 (0.67%) French Language
15 3 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 2 (0.44%) Portuguese Language
16 2 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.44%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 148 (32.89%) Developer
2 103 (22.89%) Senior
3 83 (18.44%) Analyst
4 65 (14.44%) Java Developer
5 58 (12.89%) Business Analyst
6 50 (11.11%) Software Engineer
7 48 (10.67%) Senior Developer
8 40 (8.89%) Python Engineer
9 39 (8.67%) Java Engineer
10 37 (8.22%) AWS Developer
11 36 (8.00%) Java Software Engineer
11 36 (8.00%) Python Software Engineer
12 35 (7.78%) AWS Engineer
12 35 (7.78%) Senior Java Developer
13 34 (7.56%) AWS Software Engineer
13 34 (7.56%) Senior Software Engineer
14 33 (7.33%) Senior Java Engineer
14 33 (7.33%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 25 (5.56%) Banking Analyst
16 24 (5.33%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (12.67%) Kafka
1 57 (12.67%) Pandas
2 53 (11.78%) NumPy
3 52 (11.56%) SciPy
4 40 (8.89%) React
5 38 (8.44%) .NET
6 34 (7.56%) gRPC
6 34 (7.56%) Protocol Buffers
7 28 (6.22%) AngularJS
8 23 (5.11%) Spring
9 20 (4.44%) FastAPI
9 20 (4.44%) FIX Protocol
10 18 (4.00%) Flask
10 18 (4.00%) JMS
10 18 (4.00%) Polars
10 18 (4.00%) Vue
11 15 (3.33%) REST
12 8 (1.78%) ActiveMQ
12 8 (1.78%) CSS
12 8 (1.78%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 116 (25.78%) Derivative
2 91 (20.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 70 (15.56%) Equities
3 70 (15.56%) Fixed Income
4 68 (15.11%) Hedge funds
5 34 (7.56%) Pricing Data
6 33 (7.33%) Market Risk
7 27 (6.00%) Management Information System
8 24 (5.33%) Product Ownership
9 19 (4.22%) Cloud Native
9 19 (4.22%) Data Structures
10 18 (4.00%) Onboarding
11 14 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
14 10 (2.22%) Reference Data
15 9 (2.00%) Credit Risk
16 6 (1.33%) AI Agents
16 6 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 60 (13.33%) Linux
2 8 (1.78%) Windows
3 6 (1.33%) Unix
4 4 (0.89%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.44%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.22%) Android
6 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (30.44%) Agile
2 95 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
3 84 (18.67%) Software Engineering
4 68 (15.11%) DevOps
5 65 (14.44%) Analytics
6 56 (12.44%) CI/CD
7 54 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 45 (10.00%) Risk Management
9 43 (9.56%) Asset Management
10 42 (9.33%) Wealth Management
11 41 (9.11%) Mathematics
12 40 (8.89%) Multithreading
13 38 (8.44%) Computer Science
14 37 (8.22%) Investment Management
14 37 (8.22%) SDLC
15 36 (8.00%) Data Modelling
16 35 (7.78%) Data Engineering
16 35 (7.78%) Project Management
17 34 (7.56%) TDD
18 33 (7.33%) AI
Programming Languages
1 163 (36.22%) Python
2 148 (32.89%) Java
3 132 (29.33%) SQL
4 71 (15.78%) C#
5 68 (15.11%) JavaScript
6 47 (10.44%) TypeScript
7 33 (7.33%) C++
8 21 (4.67%) Shell Script
9 18 (4.00%) Rust
10 17 (3.78%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.78%) VB.NET
12 7 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (1.56%) Scala
13 5 (1.11%) Bicep
13 5 (1.11%) DAML
13 5 (1.11%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.89%) C
14 4 (0.89%) VBA
15 3 (0.67%) RPG
16 2 (0.44%) Go
Qualifications
1 54 (12.00%) Degree
2 21 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (3.11%) Master's Degree
4 11 (2.44%) PMP
5 9 (2.00%) Numerate Degree
6 8 (1.78%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.11%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.11%) CFA
7 5 (1.11%) PhD
8 3 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.67%) CCIE
8 3 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.67%) FFIEC
9 2 (0.44%) CISSP
9 2 (0.44%) IIBA
9 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.22%) ACCA
10 1 (0.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.22%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.78%) QA
2 18 (4.00%) MiFID
3 15 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.44%) EMIR
5 7 (1.56%) GDPR
6 5 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.89%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.89%) PMO
7 4 (0.89%) SLA
8 3 (0.67%) Basel II
8 3 (0.67%) Basel III
8 3 (0.67%) Dodd-Frank
8 3 (0.67%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.22%) FINRA
9 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.22%) NIST
9 1 (0.22%) SEPA
9 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 33 (7.33%) Docker
2 5 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) Firmware
3 1 (0.22%) GridGain
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 39 (8.67%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.67%) Terraform
3 10 (2.22%) ITRS Geneos
4 7 (1.56%) Ansible
5 5 (1.11%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.89%) Kibana
6 4 (0.89%) logstash
7 3 (0.67%) Argo
7 3 (0.67%) Thomson Reuters DACS
8 2 (0.44%) Grafana
8 2 (0.44%) SCCM
8 2 (0.44%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.22%) HP SiteScope
9 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle Identity Management
9 1 (0.22%) SCOM
9 1 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 35 (7.78%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.00%) Sybase
3 14 (3.11%) Bloomberg
3 14 (3.11%) Oracle
4 12 (2.67%) Databricks
4 12 (2.67%) Solace
5 8 (1.78%) Google
5 8 (1.78%) Refinitiv
6 7 (1.56%) Murex
6 7 (1.56%) UiPath
7 6 (1.33%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.11%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.11%) ION Trading
8 5 (1.11%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.11%) SAP
8 5 (1.11%) Splunk
9 4 (0.89%) Alteryx
9 4 (0.89%) IBM
9 4 (0.89%) Portware
9 4 (0.89%) TIBCO