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 30 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 74 56
Rank change year-on-year -55 -18 +2
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 470 471 628
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.31% 3.52% 3.92%
As % of the General category 3.75% 5.12% 6.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 315 492
10th Percentile £410 £463 £500
25th Percentile £524 £570 £612
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £793 £825 £875
90th Percentile £938 £925 £888
England median daily rate £688 £725 £750
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £78.75 -
England median hourly rate - £78.75 -

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 12,547 9,203 9,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.71% 68.82% 62.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,010 6,061 6,500
10th Percentile £350 £325 £330
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £534
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.28% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 174 117
10th Percentile £16.10 £17.02 £17.80
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.61 £25.75
Median hourly rate £28.40 £31.75 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% -10.56% +23.48%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.38 £53.75
90th Percentile £73.08 £64.45 £65.42
England median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +19.13% -32.93% +27.12%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -31 70 £700 - 44
East London +5 5 £875 -2.78%
South London -8 2 £650 +8.33%
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 (2.13%) Confluence
2 5 (1.06%) MTS
3 4 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.64%) IIS
4 3 (0.64%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.43%) Apache
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.21%) CICS
6 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 16 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.64%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.21%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.70%) Aladdin
1 8 (1.70%) Oracle EBS
1 8 (1.70%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (0.85%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (0.85%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 4 (0.85%) Oracle iProcurement
2 4 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.64%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (0.64%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (0.64%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.43%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.21%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.21%) Global One
5 1 (0.21%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.21%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 79 (16.81%) Azure
2 50 (10.64%) AWS
3 25 (5.32%) GCP
4 18 (3.83%) Entra ID
5 17 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (3.40%) Power Platform
7 14 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (2.98%) SaaS
8 12 (2.55%) GitHub
9 11 (2.34%) OCI
10 7 (1.49%) Snowflake
11 6 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.28%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.28%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.06%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.06%) Azure Databricks
12 5 (1.06%) Cloud Run
12 5 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (0.85%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.55%) FIX Connectivity
2 9 (1.91%) Firewall
2 9 (1.91%) Multicast
3 6 (1.28%) VPN
4 5 (1.06%) HTTP
5 4 (0.85%) BGP
5 4 (0.85%) Network Security
5 4 (0.85%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.85%) Wireless
6 3 (0.64%) DMZ
6 3 (0.64%) SSH
6 3 (0.64%) WAN
7 2 (0.43%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.43%) DWDM
7 2 (0.43%) Internet
7 2 (0.43%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.43%) MPLS
7 2 (0.43%) OSPF
7 2 (0.43%) VLAN
7 2 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.47%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.04%) Metadata
3 17 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (2.98%) Power BI
5 11 (2.34%) Relational Database
6 10 (2.13%) Chroma
6 10 (2.13%) KDB
6 10 (2.13%) Pinecone
6 10 (2.13%) Weaviate
7 9 (1.91%) Data Vault
8 7 (1.49%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.49%) Kdb+
8 7 (1.49%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.06%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.06%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (1.06%) Redis
11 4 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (10.00%) JIRA
2 25 (5.32%) Git
3 11 (2.34%) ER Studio
4 10 (2.13%) ERwin
5 7 (1.49%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.49%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.06%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.06%) GitLab
6 5 (1.06%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.06%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (1.06%) webpack
7 3 (0.64%) MSBuild
7 3 (0.64%) Selenium
8 2 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.43%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.21%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.21%) CMake
9 1 (0.21%) JDeveloper
9 1 (0.21%) Maven
9 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
General
1 470 (100.00%) Banking
2 312 (66.38%) Finance
3 153 (32.55%) Front Office
4 110 (23.40%) Social Skills
5 56 (11.91%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (8.30%) Corporate Banking
7 36 (7.66%) Retail
7 36 (7.66%) Retail Banking
8 35 (7.45%) Financial Institution
9 21 (4.47%) Back Office
10 17 (3.62%) Legal
11 13 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (2.13%) Spanish Language
13 9 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.06%) General Ledger
16 4 (0.85%) Games
16 4 (0.85%) Law
17 3 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 163 (34.68%) Developer
2 79 (16.81%) Senior
3 76 (16.17%) Analyst
4 60 (12.77%) Business Analyst
5 58 (12.34%) Java Developer
6 44 (9.36%) Senior Developer
7 28 (5.96%) Python Developer
8 27 (5.74%) Lead
9 23 (4.89%) Senior Java Developer
10 22 (4.68%) React Developer
11 21 (4.47%) C# Developer
11 21 (4.47%) Project Manager
11 21 (4.47%) Support Engineer
12 18 (3.83%) Senior React Developer
13 17 (3.62%) UI Developer
14 16 (3.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 16 (3.40%) Senior UI Developer
15 15 (3.19%) Full-Stack Developer
16 14 (2.98%) Banking Analyst
16 14 (2.98%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (9.57%) React
2 41 (8.72%) .NET
3 33 (7.02%) FIX Protocol
4 24 (5.11%) Redux
5 23 (4.89%) AngularJS
5 23 (4.89%) REST
6 20 (4.26%) Kafka
7 15 (3.19%) Spring
8 14 (2.98%) RESTful
8 14 (2.98%) Terraform
9 12 (2.55%) LangChain
9 12 (2.55%) Pandas
9 12 (2.55%) WebSockets
10 11 (2.34%) Flask
10 11 (2.34%) PySpark
11 10 (2.13%) LlamaIndex
11 10 (2.13%) OAuth
12 9 (1.91%) FastAPI
12 9 (1.91%) Node.js
12 9 (1.91%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 90 (19.15%) Derivative
2 72 (15.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 58 (12.34%) Fixed Income
4 49 (10.43%) Equities
5 33 (7.02%) Product Ownership
6 27 (5.74%) Onboarding
7 26 (5.53%) Greenfield Project
8 23 (4.89%) Market Risk
9 20 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
10 19 (4.04%) AI Agents
10 19 (4.04%) Management Information System
11 16 (3.40%) Data Structures
12 15 (3.19%) Hedge funds
13 12 (2.55%) Algorithms
13 12 (2.55%) TWAP
13 12 (2.55%) VWAP
14 11 (2.34%) Credit Risk
14 11 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (2.13%) Cloud Native
16 9 (1.91%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 32 (6.81%) Linux
1 32 (6.81%) Windows
2 22 (4.68%) Unix
3 5 (1.06%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.85%) Android
5 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.64%) Windows 7
5 3 (0.64%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.21%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (24.89%) Agile
2 86 (18.30%) Stakeholder Management
3 71 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
4 66 (14.04%) AI
5 64 (13.62%) Low Latency
6 63 (13.40%) CI/CD
7 58 (12.34%) Electronic Trading
8 56 (11.91%) Software Engineering
9 53 (11.28%) Analytics
10 46 (9.79%) DevOps
11 42 (8.94%) Wealth Management
12 40 (8.51%) Business Analysis
13 38 (8.09%) Data Modelling
13 38 (8.09%) Translating Business Requirements
14 37 (7.87%) Event-Driven
14 37 (7.87%) Full-Stack Development
15 36 (7.66%) Continuous Improvement
15 36 (7.66%) Migration
16 34 (7.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 34 (7.23%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 112 (23.83%) SQL
2 108 (22.98%) Python
3 105 (22.34%) Java
4 77 (16.38%) C#
5 55 (11.70%) TypeScript
6 41 (8.72%) JavaScript
7 19 (4.04%) C++
8 18 (3.83%) PowerShell
9 11 (2.34%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.28%) Bash
10 6 (1.28%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.28%) Rust
11 5 (1.06%) Tcl
12 3 (0.64%) Bicep
12 3 (0.64%) C
12 3 (0.64%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.64%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.43%) Perl
13 2 (0.43%) Scala
13 2 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (7.23%) Degree
2 9 (1.91%) Azure Certification
2 9 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.70%) PMP
4 6 (1.28%) Security Cleared
5 5 (1.06%) PMI Certification
6 4 (0.85%) ACCA
6 4 (0.85%) CIMA
6 4 (0.85%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.64%) CBAP
7 3 (0.64%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.43%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.43%) CCNP
8 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.21%) CISSP
9 1 (0.21%) IIBA
9 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.21%) MCSA
9 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.83%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.62%) MiFID
3 14 (2.98%) QA
4 10 (2.13%) EMIR
5 6 (1.28%) PMO
6 5 (1.06%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.85%) IFRS
7 4 (0.85%) NIST
8 3 (0.64%) WCAG
9 2 (0.43%) GRC
10 1 (0.21%) COBIT
10 1 (0.21%) COREP
10 1 (0.21%) FINREP
10 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.21%) SEPA
10 1 (0.21%) TARGET2
System Software
1 22 (4.68%) Active Directory
2 17 (3.62%) Docker
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (3.83%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (1.28%) SCCM
3 5 (1.06%) Ansible
4 3 (0.64%) WSUS
5 2 (0.43%) Grafana
5 2 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.21%) Control-M
6 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (7.66%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.17%) Oracle
3 16 (3.40%) OpenAI
4 15 (3.19%) Bloomberg
4 15 (3.19%) Databricks
5 13 (2.77%) Murex
6 10 (2.13%) ION Trading
7 9 (1.91%) Citrix
7 9 (1.91%) Tradeweb
8 7 (1.49%) Cisco
8 7 (1.49%) MarketAxess
9 6 (1.28%) Reuters
10 5 (1.06%) SAP
10 5 (1.06%) Solace
10 5 (1.06%) Sybase
11 4 (0.85%) Adobe
11 4 (0.85%) Charles River
11 4 (0.85%) Google
11 4 (0.85%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.64%) Atlassian