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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 76 65
Rank change year-on-year -32 -11 -11
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 368 449 610
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.61% 3.20% 3.36%
As % of the General category 3.98% 4.94% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 290 466
10th Percentile £435 £484 £494
25th Percentile £520 £600 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £688 £712
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -3.44% -1.79%
75th Percentile £825 £834 £831
90th Percentile £988 £888 £975
England median daily rate £648 £688 £700
% change year-on-year -5.82% -1.79% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £20.33 - -
25th Percentile £22.53 £76.25 -
Median hourly rate £32.87 £77.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -57.59% - -
75th Percentile £45.64 £78.75 -
90th Percentile £52.43 - -
England median hourly rate £32.87 £77.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year -57.59% +318.92% -32.68%

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 9,255 9,090 11,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 65.60% 64.73% 64.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,020 5,775 8,379
10th Percentile £348 £325 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 111 184
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.00 £16.36
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.34 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% +16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £45.38 £53.75 £52.69
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.40 £74.63
England median hourly rate £23.33 £30.00 £30.66
% change year-on-year -22.23% -2.16% +19.26%

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 11 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Investment Banking in London over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

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 11 January 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 -20 53 £650 +5.69% 20
East London +2 4 £416 -27.65% 1
South London -10 1 £475 -34.48%
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 18 (4.89%) Apache
1 18 (4.89%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (4.62%) Confluence
3 6 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.82%) CMS
4 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.27%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.72%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.82%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.36%) Fidessa
2 4 (1.09%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.82%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.54%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.27%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.27%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.27%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 73 (19.84%) AWS
2 70 (19.02%) Azure
3 24 (6.52%) Snowflake
4 22 (5.98%) Power Platform
5 18 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (4.89%) dbt
6 15 (4.08%) GitHub
7 14 (3.80%) GCP
8 11 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (2.17%) Serverless
10 7 (1.90%) PowerApps
11 6 (1.63%) Azure AKS
11 6 (1.63%) ChatGPT
12 5 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.36%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (1.09%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.09%) npm
13 4 (1.09%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.17%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (1.09%) Firewall
2 4 (1.09%) Multicast
2 4 (1.09%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.09%) VPN
3 3 (0.82%) DMZ
4 2 (0.54%) HTTP
4 2 (0.54%) Network Security
4 2 (0.54%) SMS
5 1 (0.27%) DHCP
5 1 (0.27%) DNS
5 1 (0.27%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.27%) SAN
5 1 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 23 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.43%) Power BI
3 18 (4.89%) Amazon Athena
3 18 (4.89%) Apache Arrow
3 18 (4.89%) Apache Iceberg
3 18 (4.89%) Apache Ignite
3 18 (4.89%) Data Lake
3 18 (4.89%) Dremio
4 17 (4.62%) Tableau
5 16 (4.35%) MongoDB
6 15 (4.08%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.99%) NoSQL
8 10 (2.72%) DB2
9 8 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.90%) KDB
10 7 (1.90%) Metadata
11 6 (1.63%) Power Query
12 5 (1.36%) Oracle Database
12 5 (1.36%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (7.61%) JIRA
2 26 (7.07%) Git
3 13 (3.53%) JUnit
4 8 (2.17%) GitLab
4 8 (2.17%) Selenium
5 7 (1.90%) Cucumber
6 6 (1.63%) Maven
6 6 (1.63%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (1.63%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.36%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.36%) Jenkins
7 5 (1.36%) Postman
8 4 (1.09%) webpack
9 3 (0.82%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.82%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.82%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.54%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.54%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 368 (100.00%) Banking
2 233 (63.32%) Finance
3 118 (32.07%) Social Skills
4 100 (27.17%) Front Office
5 64 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (5.16%) Corporate Banking
6 19 (5.16%) Retail Banking
7 18 (4.89%) Financial Institution
8 15 (4.08%) Back Office
8 15 (4.08%) Retail
9 11 (2.99%) Legal
10 10 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.36%) French Language
11 5 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.54%) Marketing
14 1 (0.27%) Games
14 1 (0.27%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.27%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 121 (32.88%) Developer
2 74 (20.11%) Analyst
3 73 (19.84%) Senior
4 54 (14.67%) Business Analyst
5 52 (14.13%) Java Developer
6 36 (9.78%) Senior Developer
7 29 (7.88%) Senior Java Developer
8 28 (7.61%) AWS Developer
9 26 (7.07%) Banking Analyst
10 25 (6.79%) Software Engineer
11 21 (5.71%) C# Developer
11 21 (5.71%) Python Engineer
12 20 (5.43%) Java Engineer
12 20 (5.43%) Project Manager
13 19 (5.16%) AWS Engineer
14 18 (4.89%) AWS Software Engineer
14 18 (4.89%) Java Software Engineer
14 18 (4.89%) Python Software Engineer
14 18 (4.89%) Senior Java Engineer
15 17 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (11.14%) Kafka
2 34 (9.24%) Pandas
3 33 (8.97%) .NET
4 31 (8.42%) React
5 29 (7.88%) NumPy
5 29 (7.88%) SciPy
6 21 (5.71%) AngularJS
7 18 (4.89%) gRPC
7 18 (4.89%) Protocol Buffers
8 16 (4.35%) Spring
9 15 (4.08%) FIX Protocol
10 14 (3.80%) JMS
11 13 (3.53%) FastAPI
12 12 (3.26%) HTML
13 11 (2.99%) Flask
13 11 (2.99%) Polars
13 11 (2.99%) Vue
14 10 (2.72%) CSS
14 10 (2.72%) XML
15 7 (1.90%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 90 (24.46%) Derivative
2 55 (14.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 51 (13.86%) Equities
4 45 (12.23%) Hedge funds
5 42 (11.41%) Fixed Income
6 27 (7.34%) Market Risk
7 26 (7.07%) Management Information System
8 18 (4.89%) Onboarding
8 18 (4.89%) Pricing Data
9 15 (4.08%) Data Structures
10 13 (3.53%) Cloud Native
11 12 (3.26%) Product Ownership
12 11 (2.99%) Credit Risk
13 10 (2.72%) AI Agents
13 10 (2.72%) Analytical Mindset
14 9 (2.45%) Distributed Computing
15 8 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
16 7 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
17 6 (1.63%) Algorithms
17 6 (1.63%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 36 (9.78%) Linux
2 14 (3.80%) Windows
3 9 (2.45%) Unix
4 5 (1.36%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.09%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.54%) AIX
7 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (26.09%) Agile
2 77 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (14.13%) Software Engineering
4 47 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 46 (12.50%) Analytics
5 46 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 45 (12.23%) DevOps
7 38 (10.33%) AI
7 38 (10.33%) Risk Management
8 34 (9.24%) Asset Management
9 32 (8.70%) Business Analysis
10 31 (8.42%) Multithreading
11 30 (8.15%) Project Management
12 28 (7.61%) Mathematics
12 28 (7.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 27 (7.34%) Computer Science
13 27 (7.34%) Data Analysis
13 27 (7.34%) Data Modelling
13 27 (7.34%) SDLC
14 26 (7.07%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 111 (30.16%) Python
2 110 (29.89%) SQL
3 109 (29.62%) Java
4 62 (16.85%) C#
5 41 (11.14%) JavaScript
6 33 (8.97%) TypeScript
7 24 (6.52%) C++
8 16 (4.35%) PowerShell
9 13 (3.53%) Shell Script
10 11 (2.99%) Rust
11 6 (1.63%) Scala
11 6 (1.63%) VB.NET
12 5 (1.36%) Go
13 4 (1.09%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.82%) Bash
14 3 (0.82%) Bicep
14 3 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.82%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.82%) VBA
15 2 (0.54%) Korn
Qualifications
1 46 (12.50%) Degree
2 18 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
2 18 (4.89%) Master's Degree
3 9 (2.45%) PMP
4 7 (1.90%) CFA
4 7 (1.90%) PMI Certification
5 6 (1.63%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.63%) PhD
6 2 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.54%) IIBA
6 2 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (0.54%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.27%) ACCA
7 1 (0.27%) CIMA
7 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.27%) MCP
7 1 (0.27%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.52%) QA
2 13 (3.53%) MiFID
3 11 (2.99%) EMIR
4 9 (2.45%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.17%) PMO
6 6 (1.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.09%) GDPR
7 4 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.09%) SLA
8 2 (0.54%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.54%) GRC
8 2 (0.54%) NIST
8 2 (0.54%) SEPA
8 2 (0.54%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.27%) COBIT
9 1 (0.27%) COSO
9 1 (0.27%) FINRA
9 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (6.79%) Docker
2 4 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Firmware
3 1 (0.27%) GridGain
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (7.61%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.45%) Terraform
3 4 (1.09%) Ansible
3 4 (1.09%) SCCM
4 3 (0.82%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 2 (0.54%) Grafana
5 2 (0.54%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (0.54%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.54%) WSUS
5 2 (0.54%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.27%) HP SiteScope
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.27%) Puppet
6 1 (0.27%) SCOM
6 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 37 (10.05%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.43%) Oracle
3 16 (4.35%) Bloomberg
4 11 (2.99%) Sybase
5 8 (2.17%) Databricks
5 8 (2.17%) ION Trading
6 6 (1.63%) Murex
6 6 (1.63%) Splunk
7 5 (1.36%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.36%) Refinitiv
7 5 (1.36%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.36%) SAP
7 5 (1.36%) UiPath
8 4 (1.09%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.09%) Charles River
8 4 (1.09%) Citrix
8 4 (1.09%) Google
8 4 (1.09%) Reuters
8 4 (1.09%) Solace
9 3 (0.82%) Atlassian