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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 75 54
Rank change year-on-year +10 -21 +4
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 480 533 1,186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.81% 2.99% 4.40%
As % of the General category 5.65% 4.74% 6.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 405 880
10th Percentile £450 £500 £525
25th Percentile £616 £600 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -1.75%
75th Percentile £875 £850 £806
90th Percentile £888 £900 £950
England median daily rate £750 £725 £700
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £39.25
Median hourly rate £100.00 - £40.50
75th Percentile - - £41.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £100.00 £19.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +412.82% -51.85% -32.50%

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 8,501 11,241 17,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 67.55% 63.11% 63.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,739 8,023 12,376
10th Percentile £340 £336 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £725
90th Percentile £825 £813 £825
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 245 218
10th Percentile £15.84 £16.00 £16.74
25th Percentile £22.66 £18.25 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.00 £28.50 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.30% -11.63% -11.64%
75th Percentile £52.00 £43.75 £58.56
90th Percentile £66.00 £65.02 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -11.76% +58.14%

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 2 May 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
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 2 May 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 +16 83 £638 -8.93% 25
South London +10 4 £688 +19.57%
East London +12 1 £575 -7.26% 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 53 (11.04%) Apache
2 45 (9.38%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (3.75%) Apache Spark
4 11 (2.29%) Confluence
5 4 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.42%) CMS
6 2 (0.42%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.21%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.21%) MS Project Server
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 26 (5.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (1.04%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.83%) ION Anvil
2 3 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.63%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.42%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 2 (0.42%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.21%) Actimize
4 1 (0.21%) Bankmaster
4 1 (0.21%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.21%) Murex MxG2000
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 103 (21.46%) AWS
2 63 (13.13%) Azure
3 47 (9.79%) Snowflake
4 46 (9.58%) dbt
5 30 (6.25%) GCP
6 26 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
8 18 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (3.54%) Dagster
10 13 (2.71%) Power Platform
11 12 (2.50%) npm
11 12 (2.50%) Yarn
12 10 (2.08%) GitHub
13 8 (1.67%) OpenShift
13 8 (1.67%) SaaS
14 6 (1.25%) Amazon S3
14 6 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.29%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.21%) DHCP
2 1 (0.21%) DNS
2 1 (0.21%) Firewall
2 1 (0.21%) Intranet
2 1 (0.21%) PBX
2 1 (0.21%) PSTN
2 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.21%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.21%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.38%) Amazon Athena
1 45 (9.38%) Apache Arrow
1 45 (9.38%) Apache Iceberg
1 45 (9.38%) Dremio
2 29 (6.04%) Apache Ignite
2 29 (6.04%) Data Lake
3 24 (5.00%) Redis
3 24 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 22 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (3.54%) Relational Database
6 15 (3.13%) MongoDB
7 13 (2.71%) Power BI
8 11 (2.29%) DB2
9 10 (2.08%) Big Data
9 10 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.67%) Delta Lake
11 7 (1.46%) Tableau
12 6 (1.25%) KDB
13 5 (1.04%) Apache Hive
13 5 (1.04%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 41 (8.54%) Git
2 39 (8.13%) Jenkins
3 21 (4.38%) JIRA
4 15 (3.13%) Bitbucket
4 15 (3.13%) TeamCity
5 13 (2.71%) JUnit
6 12 (2.50%) webpack
7 10 (2.08%) Visual Studio
8 7 (1.46%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (0.83%) Maven
10 2 (0.42%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.42%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.42%) ERwin
10 2 (0.42%) GitLab
10 2 (0.42%) MagicDraw
10 2 (0.42%) NUnit
10 2 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.42%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.21%) Gradle
General
1 480 (100.00%) Banking
2 297 (61.88%) Finance
3 146 (30.42%) Social Skills
4 133 (27.71%) Analytical Skills
5 131 (27.29%) Front Office
6 44 (9.17%) Retail Banking
7 34 (7.08%) Retail
8 32 (6.67%) Corporate Banking
9 31 (6.46%) Organisational Skills
10 23 (4.79%) Financial Institution
11 10 (2.08%) Back Office
12 4 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.83%) Legal
12 4 (0.83%) Marketing
12 4 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.42%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.21%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.21%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.21%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 240 (50.00%) Developer
2 81 (16.88%) Senior
3 72 (15.00%) Java Developer
4 69 (14.38%) Analyst
5 61 (12.71%) Python Developer
6 53 (11.04%) Software Engineer
7 50 (10.42%) AWS Engineer
8 45 (9.38%) AWS Software Engineer
9 37 (7.71%) Senior Developer
10 35 (7.29%) Python Engineer
11 34 (7.08%) Java Engineer
12 32 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
13 30 (6.25%) C# Developer
14 29 (6.04%) Business Analyst
14 29 (6.04%) Lead
15 27 (5.63%) AWS Developer
16 26 (5.42%) Python Software Engineer
17 24 (5.00%) Quantitative Developer
18 23 (4.79%) Gen AI Developer
19 22 (4.58%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (13.33%) React
2 55 (11.46%) .NET
3 42 (8.75%) Kafka
3 42 (8.75%) Pandas
4 41 (8.54%) NumPy
4 41 (8.54%) PySpark
5 39 (8.13%) SciPy
6 36 (7.50%) gRPC
6 36 (7.50%) Protocol Buffers
7 32 (6.67%) FastAPI
8 31 (6.46%) AngularJS
9 30 (6.25%) Spring
10 27 (5.63%) CSS
11 22 (4.58%) Django
12 21 (4.38%) HTML
13 17 (3.54%) HTML5
14 14 (2.92%) ActiveMQ
14 14 (2.92%) FIX Protocol
15 12 (2.50%) ASP.NET
15 12 (2.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 115 (23.96%) Derivative
2 102 (21.25%) Equities
3 93 (19.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 70 (14.58%) Fixed Income
5 58 (12.08%) Hedge funds
6 25 (5.21%) Market Risk
7 18 (3.75%) Data Structures
7 18 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (3.54%) Algorithms
8 17 (3.54%) Onboarding
9 12 (2.50%) Pricing Data
10 11 (2.29%) Product Ownership
11 10 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.67%) Equity Derivative
12 8 (1.67%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.46%) Credit Risk
14 6 (1.25%) Blockchain
14 6 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
14 6 (1.25%) Reference Data
14 6 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.92%) Linux
2 25 (5.21%) Windows
3 10 (2.08%) Unix
4 5 (1.04%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.42%) Android
5 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (34.38%) Agile
2 95 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
3 86 (17.92%) DevOps
4 75 (15.63%) Software Engineering
5 63 (13.13%) CI/CD
6 57 (11.88%) SDLC
7 55 (11.46%) Risk Management
8 53 (11.04%) Analytics
9 51 (10.63%) Asset Management
10 49 (10.21%) Electronic Trading
11 48 (10.00%) Wealth Management
12 45 (9.38%) Artificial Intelligence
12 45 (9.38%) Mathematics
13 41 (8.54%) Machine Learning
14 33 (6.88%) Migration
15 32 (6.67%) Computer Science
15 32 (6.67%) Low Latency
15 32 (6.67%) TDD
16 31 (6.46%) Microservices
16 31 (6.46%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 194 (40.42%) Python
2 189 (39.38%) Java
3 145 (30.21%) SQL
4 85 (17.71%) TypeScript
5 80 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 77 (16.04%) C#
7 43 (8.96%) C++
8 14 (2.92%) Scala
8 14 (2.92%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.67%) Haskell
9 8 (1.67%) PowerShell
9 8 (1.67%) Rust
10 6 (1.25%) Bicep
11 5 (1.04%) Bash
11 5 (1.04%) VBA
12 4 (0.83%) C
12 4 (0.83%) OCaml
12 4 (0.83%) Perl
13 3 (0.63%) Jython
13 3 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 47 (9.79%) Degree
2 21 (4.38%) Numerate Degree
3 11 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.25%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.63%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.42%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.42%) CBAP
6 2 (0.42%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.42%) PMP
7 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.21%) CISA
7 1 (0.21%) CISSP
7 1 (0.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.21%) PhD
7 1 (0.21%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.75%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.71%) QA
3 9 (1.88%) MiFID
4 8 (1.67%) PMO
5 6 (1.25%) Basel II
6 5 (1.04%) EMIR
7 4 (0.83%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.83%) Dodd-Frank
7 4 (0.83%) GDPR
8 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.42%) SLA
9 1 (0.21%) Basel III
9 1 (0.21%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.21%) NIST
9 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 52 (10.83%) Docker
2 4 (0.83%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.83%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.63%) Lustre
4 2 (0.42%) HDFS
5 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 48 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 34 (7.08%) Ansible
3 9 (1.88%) Terraform
4 7 (1.46%) Grafana
5 5 (1.04%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.83%) SCCM
7 3 (0.63%) Control-M
7 3 (0.63%) Istio
7 3 (0.63%) Karpenter
7 3 (0.63%) Podman
7 3 (0.63%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.63%) Puppet
7 3 (0.63%) Rundeck
8 2 (0.42%) Galera Cluster
9 1 (0.21%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 20 (4.17%) Databricks
1 20 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.96%) Oracle
3 12 (2.50%) Atlassian
4 11 (2.29%) Sybase
5 9 (1.88%) Google
6 8 (1.67%) Splunk
7 7 (1.46%) Red Hat
7 7 (1.46%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.25%) ION Trading
9 5 (1.04%) Planview
10 4 (0.83%) Citrix
11 3 (0.63%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.63%) Murex
12 2 (0.42%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.42%) IBM
12 2 (0.42%) Solace
13 1 (0.21%) CQG
13 1 (0.21%) TIBCO
13 1 (0.21%) VMware