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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 78 67
Rank change year-on-year -35 -11 -13
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 374 447 582
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.53% 3.22% 3.16%
As % of the General category 3.90% 4.95% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 280 429
10th Percentile £416 £475 £488
25th Percentile £512 £600 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £688 £700
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -1.79% -3.45%
75th Percentile £813 £834 £825
90th Percentile £988 £882 £950
England median daily rate £650 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -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 9,586 9,024 11,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 64.73% 64.97% 63.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,241 5,691 8,420
10th Percentile £350 £330 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £694
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 114 243
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.23 £16.04
25th Percentile £20.82 £25.36 £18.90
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +21.55% +6.42%
75th Percentile £47.38 £53.11 £52.13
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.40 £73.73
England median hourly rate £22.81 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -23.97% +15.38% +1.13%

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 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 30 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 30 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 -13 59 £645 +6.61% 18
East London +5 4 £416 -27.65%
South London -11 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 20 (5.35%) Confluence
2 11 (2.94%) Apache
2 11 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.60%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.80%) CMS
4 3 (0.80%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.53%) SAS
6 1 (0.27%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 23 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.21%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.80%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.27%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 7 (1.87%) Oracle Payables
2 6 (1.60%) Fidessa
2 6 (1.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (1.60%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.80%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.53%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.53%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.53%) Summit
4 2 (0.53%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.27%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.27%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.27%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 66 (17.65%) Azure
2 62 (16.58%) AWS
3 20 (5.35%) Power Platform
4 18 (4.81%) Snowflake
5 16 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (4.01%) GitHub
7 13 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (2.94%) dbt
9 10 (2.67%) GCP
10 8 (2.14%) Serverless
11 7 (1.87%) OCI
12 6 (1.60%) ChatGPT
12 6 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.34%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.34%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (1.07%) npm
14 4 (1.07%) PowerApps
14 4 (1.07%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.67%) FIX Connectivity
2 5 (1.34%) Firewall
2 5 (1.34%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.34%) VPN
3 4 (1.07%) DMZ
3 4 (1.07%) Multicast
4 2 (0.53%) HTTP
4 2 (0.53%) Network Security
4 2 (0.53%) RTMP
4 2 (0.53%) 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 22 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (4.81%) Power BI
4 17 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 13 (3.48%) MongoDB
5 13 (3.48%) Tableau
6 11 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (2.94%) Apache Arrow
6 11 (2.94%) Apache Iceberg
6 11 (2.94%) Apache Ignite
6 11 (2.94%) Data Lake
6 11 (2.94%) Dremio
7 9 (2.41%) DB2
8 8 (2.14%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.87%) KDB
10 6 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.34%) Metadata
11 5 (1.34%) Oracle Database
11 5 (1.34%) Redis
12 4 (1.07%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 32 (8.56%) JIRA
2 19 (5.08%) Git
3 12 (3.21%) JUnit
4 8 (2.14%) GitLab
5 7 (1.87%) Maven
6 6 (1.60%) Cucumber
6 6 (1.60%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (1.60%) Selenium
7 5 (1.34%) Jenkins
8 4 (1.07%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.07%) Postman
8 4 (1.07%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.07%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.07%) webpack
9 3 (0.80%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.80%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.53%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.53%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 374 (100.00%) Banking
2 228 (60.96%) Finance
3 124 (33.16%) Social Skills
4 102 (27.27%) Front Office
5 63 (16.84%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (5.88%) Retail Banking
7 18 (4.81%) Corporate Banking
8 17 (4.55%) Financial Institution
9 15 (4.01%) Back Office
9 15 (4.01%) Retail
10 11 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (2.67%) Legal
12 6 (1.60%) French Language
13 5 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.53%) Marketing
16 2 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
17 1 (0.27%) Games
17 1 (0.27%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 129 (34.49%) Developer
2 74 (19.79%) Analyst
3 67 (17.91%) Senior
4 55 (14.71%) Business Analyst
4 55 (14.71%) Java Developer
5 37 (9.89%) Senior Developer
6 31 (8.29%) Senior Java Developer
7 28 (7.49%) AWS Developer
8 23 (6.15%) Banking Analyst
9 21 (5.61%) C# Developer
10 19 (5.08%) Kafka Developer
10 19 (5.08%) Lead
10 19 (5.08%) Project Manager
11 18 (4.81%) Analytics Developer
11 18 (4.81%) PostgreSQL Developer
12 17 (4.55%) Software Engineer
13 15 (4.01%) Python Engineer
13 15 (4.01%) Support Engineer
14 14 (3.74%) Java Engineer
14 14 (3.74%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (10.43%) Kafka
2 35 (9.36%) .NET
3 32 (8.56%) React
4 28 (7.49%) Pandas
5 23 (6.15%) NumPy
6 21 (5.61%) AngularJS
6 21 (5.61%) SciPy
7 16 (4.28%) FIX Protocol
7 16 (4.28%) Spring
8 14 (3.74%) HTML
8 14 (3.74%) JMS
9 12 (3.21%) FastAPI
9 12 (3.21%) XML
10 11 (2.94%) CSS
10 11 (2.94%) Flask
10 11 (2.94%) gRPC
10 11 (2.94%) Protocol Buffers
11 10 (2.67%) Polars
11 10 (2.67%) Vue
12 9 (2.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 84 (22.46%) Derivative
2 51 (13.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 46 (12.30%) Equities
4 42 (11.23%) Fixed Income
5 35 (9.36%) Hedge funds
6 30 (8.02%) Market Risk
7 27 (7.22%) Management Information System
8 18 (4.81%) Credit Risk
9 15 (4.01%) Data Structures
9 15 (4.01%) Onboarding
10 12 (3.21%) Cloud Native
11 11 (2.94%) Pricing Data
12 9 (2.41%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (2.41%) Product Ownership
13 8 (2.14%) AI Agents
13 8 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (2.14%) TWAP
13 8 (2.14%) VWAP
14 7 (1.87%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.89%) Linux
2 17 (4.55%) Windows
3 15 (4.01%) Unix
4 7 (1.87%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.34%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.53%) AIX
7 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (23.80%) Agile
2 78 (20.86%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (12.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 44 (11.76%) Analytics
4 44 (11.76%) CI/CD
5 43 (11.50%) DevOps
5 43 (11.50%) Risk Management
6 42 (11.23%) Software Engineering
7 37 (9.89%) AI
8 36 (9.63%) User Acceptance Testing
9 34 (9.09%) Business Analysis
9 34 (9.09%) Project Management
10 33 (8.82%) TDD
11 32 (8.56%) Asset Management
12 31 (8.29%) Multithreading
13 30 (8.02%) Data Analysis
14 29 (7.75%) SDLC
15 26 (6.95%) Electronic Trading
16 25 (6.68%) Mathematics
17 24 (6.42%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 117 (31.28%) SQL
2 105 (28.07%) Java
3 102 (27.27%) Python
4 60 (16.04%) C#
5 35 (9.36%) JavaScript
6 29 (7.75%) TypeScript
7 23 (6.15%) C++
8 16 (4.28%) PowerShell
9 15 (4.01%) Shell Script
10 10 (2.67%) Rust
11 5 (1.34%) Scala
11 5 (1.34%) VB.NET
11 5 (1.34%) VBA
12 4 (1.07%) Go
12 4 (1.07%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.80%) Bash
13 3 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.80%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.53%) Bicep
14 2 (0.53%) Korn
Qualifications
1 43 (11.50%) Degree
2 15 (4.01%) Master's Degree
3 14 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.14%) Azure Certification
4 8 (2.14%) PMP
5 7 (1.87%) CFA
5 7 (1.87%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.60%) PhD
7 3 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.53%) CISSP
8 2 (0.53%) IIBA
8 2 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.53%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.27%) CCA
9 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.27%) MCSA
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.61%) QA
2 12 (3.21%) MiFID
3 10 (2.67%) EMIR
3 10 (2.67%) PMO
4 9 (2.41%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.87%) SLA
6 6 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.80%) GDPR
7 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.53%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.53%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.53%) GRC
8 2 (0.53%) NIST
8 2 (0.53%) SEPA
8 2 (0.53%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.27%) COSO
9 1 (0.27%) FINRA
9 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (6.68%) Docker
2 5 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Firmware
3 1 (0.27%) GridGain
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (6.68%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.60%) SCCM
2 6 (1.60%) Terraform
3 4 (1.07%) Ansible
4 3 (0.80%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 3 (0.80%) WSUS
5 2 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.53%) Puppet
6 1 (0.27%) Control-M
6 1 (0.27%) Grafana
6 1 (0.27%) HP SiteScope
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.27%) SCOM
6 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 40 (10.70%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.15%) Oracle
3 18 (4.81%) Bloomberg
4 12 (3.21%) Sybase
5 11 (2.94%) ION Trading
6 10 (2.67%) Murex
7 7 (1.87%) Databricks
8 5 (1.34%) Citrix
8 5 (1.34%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.34%) Refinitiv
8 5 (1.34%) Reuters
8 5 (1.34%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.34%) Solace
8 5 (1.34%) Splunk
9 4 (1.07%) Charles River
9 4 (1.07%) IBM
9 4 (1.07%) UiPath
10 3 (0.80%) NYFIX
10 3 (0.80%) Pega
10 3 (0.80%) Tradeweb