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 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 72 56
Rank change year-on-year -32 -16 -1
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 400 508 705
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.78% 3.38% 3.74%
As % of the General category 4.17% 5.25% 5.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 343 536
10th Percentile £450 £489 £488
25th Percentile £520 £600 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £671 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% - -3.45%
75th Percentile £825 £850 £840
90th Percentile £988 £888 £1,000
England median daily rate £650 £688 £700
% change year-on-year -5.45% -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% -54.32%

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 9,590 9,667 12,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 66.69% 64.32% 64.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,245 6,163 8,773
10th Percentile £339 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £671 £700 £700
90th Percentile £786 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 117 161
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.82 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% - +3.49%
75th Percentile £44.75 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £76.36 £76.25
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.67% -9.09% +32.00%

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 20 December 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 -8 59 £650 +1.96% 17
East London +7 4 £416 -27.65% 1
South London -9 1 £475 -34.48%
West London - 1 - - 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 24 (6.00%) Apache
1 24 (6.00%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (4.00%) Confluence
3 6 (1.50%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.75%) CMS
4 3 (0.75%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.25%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.25%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.00%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.75%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.50%) Aladdin
1 6 (1.50%) Fidessa
2 5 (1.25%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.25%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.25%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.25%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 90 (22.50%) AWS
2 82 (20.50%) Azure
3 30 (7.50%) Snowflake
4 25 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 24 (6.00%) dbt
6 22 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (4.25%) GCP
7 17 (4.25%) GitHub
8 11 (2.75%) Serverless
9 9 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (1.75%) ChatGPT
10 7 (1.75%) PowerApps
11 6 (1.50%) Azure AI
11 6 (1.50%) Azure AKS
11 6 (1.50%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (1.50%) npm
11 6 (1.50%) Yarn
12 5 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.50%) Multicast
2 4 (1.00%) Firewall
2 4 (1.00%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (1.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.75%) VPN
4 2 (0.50%) DMZ
4 2 (0.50%) HTTP
4 2 (0.50%) Network Security
4 2 (0.50%) SMS
5 1 (0.25%) BGP
5 1 (0.25%) DHCP
5 1 (0.25%) DNS
5 1 (0.25%) OSPF
5 1 (0.25%) SAN
5 1 (0.25%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.25%) tcpdump
5 1 (0.25%) Unicast
5 1 (0.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.75%) PostgreSQL
1 27 (6.75%) SQL Server
2 24 (6.00%) Amazon Athena
2 24 (6.00%) Apache Arrow
2 24 (6.00%) Apache Iceberg
2 24 (6.00%) Apache Ignite
2 24 (6.00%) Data Lake
2 24 (6.00%) Dremio
3 23 (5.75%) Power BI
4 19 (4.75%) MongoDB
4 19 (4.75%) Tableau
5 18 (4.50%) Relational Database
6 13 (3.25%) DB2
7 11 (2.75%) NoSQL
8 9 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (2.00%) KDB
9 8 (2.00%) Metadata
9 8 (2.00%) Power Query
9 8 (2.00%) Redis
10 5 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 32 (8.00%) Git
2 28 (7.00%) JIRA
3 16 (4.00%) JUnit
4 10 (2.50%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.25%) Selenium
6 8 (2.00%) GitLab
7 7 (1.75%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.75%) Maven
7 7 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
8 6 (1.50%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.50%) Postman
8 6 (1.50%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.50%) webpack
9 3 (0.75%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.75%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.75%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.50%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.50%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 400 (100.00%) Banking
2 255 (63.75%) Finance
3 133 (33.25%) Social Skills
4 108 (27.00%) Front Office
5 74 (18.50%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (6.00%) Corporate Banking
7 21 (5.25%) Retail Banking
8 20 (5.00%) Financial Institution
8 20 (5.00%) Retail
9 19 (4.75%) Back Office
10 11 (2.75%) Legal
11 8 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.00%) Marketing
14 3 (0.75%) French Language
14 3 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.25%) Portuguese Language
16 1 (0.25%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 135 (33.75%) Developer
2 86 (21.50%) Senior
3 70 (17.50%) Analyst
4 59 (14.75%) Java Developer
5 52 (13.00%) Business Analyst
6 44 (11.00%) Senior Developer
7 35 (8.75%) Software Engineer
8 33 (8.25%) Senior Java Developer
9 32 (8.00%) AWS Developer
10 29 (7.25%) Java Engineer
11 28 (7.00%) Python Engineer
12 25 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
12 25 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
12 25 (6.25%) Python Software Engineer
13 24 (6.00%) AWS Software Engineer
13 24 (6.00%) Senior Java Engineer
13 24 (6.00%) Senior Software Engineer
14 23 (5.75%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 22 (5.50%) Banking Analyst
15 22 (5.50%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (12.00%) Kafka
2 43 (10.75%) Pandas
3 40 (10.00%) React
4 39 (9.75%) .NET
5 38 (9.50%) NumPy
5 38 (9.50%) SciPy
6 26 (6.50%) AngularJS
7 24 (6.00%) gRPC
7 24 (6.00%) Protocol Buffers
8 20 (5.00%) FIX Protocol
8 20 (5.00%) Spring
9 16 (4.00%) FastAPI
10 15 (3.75%) JMS
11 14 (3.50%) Flask
11 14 (3.50%) Polars
11 14 (3.50%) REST
11 14 (3.50%) Vue
12 13 (3.25%) CSS
12 13 (3.25%) HTML
13 9 (2.25%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 105 (26.25%) Derivative
2 77 (19.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 58 (14.50%) Equities
3 58 (14.50%) Fixed Income
4 56 (14.00%) Hedge funds
5 27 (6.75%) Management Information System
6 26 (6.50%) Market Risk
7 24 (6.00%) Pricing Data
8 20 (5.00%) Cloud Native
9 18 (4.50%) Data Structures
9 18 (4.50%) Onboarding
9 18 (4.50%) Product Ownership
10 12 (3.00%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (2.50%) AI Agents
12 10 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (2.25%) Credit Risk
14 6 (1.50%) Algorithms
15 5 (1.25%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 48 (12.00%) Linux
2 11 (2.75%) Windows
3 8 (2.00%) Unix
4 3 (0.75%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.50%) AIX
5 2 (0.50%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (28.25%) Agile
2 83 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
3 67 (16.75%) Software Engineering
4 59 (14.75%) DevOps
5 55 (13.75%) Analytics
6 54 (13.50%) CI/CD
7 46 (11.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 40 (10.00%) Risk Management
9 39 (9.75%) AI
10 37 (9.25%) Asset Management
11 36 (9.00%) Multithreading
12 35 (8.75%) Project Management
13 33 (8.25%) Mathematics
14 31 (7.75%) Data Modelling
14 31 (7.75%) TDD
15 30 (7.50%) Computer Science
15 30 (7.50%) SDLC
16 29 (7.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 28 (7.00%) Business Analysis
17 28 (7.00%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 136 (34.00%) Python
2 130 (32.50%) Java
3 118 (29.50%) SQL
4 70 (17.50%) C#
5 56 (14.00%) JavaScript
6 43 (10.75%) TypeScript
7 27 (6.75%) C++
8 20 (5.00%) PowerShell
9 16 (4.00%) Shell Script
10 14 (3.50%) Rust
11 7 (1.75%) Scala
11 7 (1.75%) VB.NET
12 5 (1.25%) Go
13 4 (1.00%) Bash
13 4 (1.00%) Bicep
13 4 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (1.00%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.75%) DAML
14 3 (0.75%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 48 (12.00%) Degree
2 19 (4.75%) Master's Degree
3 17 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.50%) PMP
5 8 (2.00%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.50%) CFA
6 6 (1.50%) PhD
7 4 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.75%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.50%) CISSP
9 2 (0.50%) IIBA
9 2 (0.50%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.25%) FFIEC
10 1 (0.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.25%) MCP
10 1 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.00%) QA
2 18 (4.50%) MiFID
3 12 (3.00%) EMIR
4 11 (2.75%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.00%) PMO
6 7 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.25%) GDPR
7 5 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.00%) SLA
9 3 (0.75%) Basel III
9 3 (0.75%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.50%) GRC
10 2 (0.50%) NIST
10 2 (0.50%) SEPA
10 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.25%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.25%) IFRS
11 1 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 33 (8.25%) Docker
2 4 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) Firmware
3 1 (0.25%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 37 (9.25%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.75%) Terraform
3 8 (2.00%) ITRS Geneos
4 5 (1.25%) Ansible
5 4 (1.00%) Kibana
5 4 (1.00%) logstash
5 4 (1.00%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.75%) Grafana
6 3 (0.75%) SCCM
6 3 (0.75%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 2 (0.50%) WSUS
7 2 (0.50%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.25%) Argo
8 1 (0.25%) HP SiteScope
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Identity Management
8 1 (0.25%) Puppet
8 1 (0.25%) SCOM
8 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 37 (9.25%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.25%) Oracle
3 14 (3.50%) Bloomberg
3 14 (3.50%) Sybase
4 11 (2.75%) Databricks
5 10 (2.50%) Solace
6 7 (1.75%) ION Trading
7 6 (1.50%) Murex
7 6 (1.50%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.50%) Refinitiv
7 6 (1.50%) Splunk
7 6 (1.50%) UiPath
8 5 (1.25%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.25%) Google
8 5 (1.25%) Portware
8 5 (1.25%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.25%) SAP
9 4 (1.00%) Alteryx
9 4 (1.00%) Reuters
9 4 (1.00%) TIBCO