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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 79 54
Rank change year-on-year -54 -25 +5
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 469 462 625
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.32% 3.45% 3.88%
As % of the General category 3.75% 5.03% 6.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 309 482
10th Percentile £407 £460 £500
25th Percentile £520 £563 £611
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £668 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year -7.93% -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £788 £825 £850
90th Percentile £938 £925 £888
England median daily rate £656 £700 £750
% change year-on-year -6.25% -6.67% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate - £70.00 -

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 12,507 9,186 10,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.88% 68.58% 62.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,970 6,041 6,540
10th Percentile £350 £329 £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 £780 £788 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 174 120
10th Percentile £15.88 £18.06 £17.48
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.65 £25.62
Median hourly rate £28.55 £31.75 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.08% -9.93% +8.46%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.38 £53.75
90th Percentile £68.60 £68.67 £68.33
England median hourly rate £29.00 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.31% -28.14% +16.67%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -21 71 £684 +1.30% 36
East London +6 5 £875 -2.78%
South London -9 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 11 (2.35%) Confluence
2 5 (1.07%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.07%) MTS
3 3 (0.64%) Apache
3 3 (0.64%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.43%) IIS
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.21%) CICS
5 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 17 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.21%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.71%) Oracle EBS
1 8 (1.71%) Oracle General Ledger
2 7 (1.49%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.85%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (0.85%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 4 (0.85%) Oracle iProcurement
3 4 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.64%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (0.64%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.43%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.43%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.21%) Actimize
6 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.21%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.21%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.21%) OneSumX
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.21%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 80 (17.06%) Azure
2 55 (11.73%) AWS
3 27 (5.76%) GCP
4 17 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (3.62%) Entra ID
5 15 (3.20%) Power Platform
6 14 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (2.99%) SaaS
7 12 (2.56%) GitHub
8 11 (2.35%) OCI
9 6 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (1.28%) Power Automate
9 6 (1.28%) PowerApps
9 6 (1.28%) Snowflake
10 5 (1.07%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.07%) Azure Databricks
10 5 (1.07%) Cloud Run
10 5 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (0.85%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.13%) FIX Connectivity
1 10 (2.13%) Multicast
2 9 (1.92%) Firewall
3 6 (1.28%) VPN
4 5 (1.07%) 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 22 (4.69%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (3.84%) Metadata
4 14 (2.99%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.77%) Power BI
6 10 (2.13%) KDB
7 9 (1.92%) Data Vault
7 9 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.71%) Chroma
8 8 (1.71%) MongoDB
8 8 (1.71%) Pinecone
8 8 (1.71%) Weaviate
9 7 (1.49%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.49%) Kdb+
10 6 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.28%) NoSQL
10 6 (1.28%) Redis
11 5 (1.07%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (1.07%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 48 (10.23%) JIRA
2 29 (6.18%) Git
3 11 (2.35%) ER Studio
4 10 (2.13%) ERwin
5 7 (1.49%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.49%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.28%) TeamCity
6 6 (1.28%) webpack
7 5 (1.07%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.07%) GitLab
7 5 (1.07%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.64%) Maven
8 3 (0.64%) MSBuild
8 3 (0.64%) Selenium
9 2 (0.43%) Gradle
9 2 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.43%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.21%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.21%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
General
1 469 (100.00%) Banking
2 316 (67.38%) Finance
3 149 (31.77%) Front Office
4 115 (24.52%) Social Skills
5 64 (13.65%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (7.89%) Corporate Banking
7 35 (7.46%) Financial Institution
8 34 (7.25%) Retail
8 34 (7.25%) Retail Banking
9 24 (5.12%) Back Office
10 15 (3.20%) Legal
11 14 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (2.13%) Spanish Language
13 8 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.07%) General Ledger
16 4 (0.85%) Games
16 4 (0.85%) Law
17 3 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 168 (35.82%) Developer
2 78 (16.63%) Senior
3 77 (16.42%) Analyst
4 59 (12.58%) Java Developer
5 58 (12.37%) Business Analyst
6 43 (9.17%) Senior Developer
7 30 (6.40%) Python Developer
8 26 (5.54%) Lead
9 22 (4.69%) Project Manager
9 22 (4.69%) Senior Java Developer
10 21 (4.48%) C# Developer
10 21 (4.48%) Support Engineer
11 20 (4.26%) React Developer
12 17 (3.62%) Full-Stack Developer
13 15 (3.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 15 (3.20%) Senior React Developer
14 14 (2.99%) Data Modeller
14 14 (2.99%) UI Developer
15 13 (2.77%) Electronic Trading Developer
15 13 (2.77%) Senior UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (8.74%) React
2 37 (7.89%) .NET
3 30 (6.40%) FIX Protocol
4 28 (5.97%) REST
5 25 (5.33%) AngularJS
6 24 (5.12%) Kafka
7 21 (4.48%) Spring
8 19 (4.05%) Redux
9 17 (3.62%) RESTful
10 15 (3.20%) Terraform
11 13 (2.77%) Flask
11 13 (2.77%) Pandas
11 13 (2.77%) PySpark
11 13 (2.77%) Spring Boot
12 12 (2.56%) WebSockets
13 10 (2.13%) CSS
13 10 (2.13%) FastAPI
13 10 (2.13%) LangChain
13 10 (2.13%) NumPy
13 10 (2.13%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 85 (18.12%) Derivative
2 67 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 55 (11.73%) Fixed Income
4 46 (9.81%) Equities
5 35 (7.46%) Product Ownership
6 27 (5.76%) Onboarding
7 24 (5.12%) Greenfield Project
7 24 (5.12%) Market Risk
8 21 (4.48%) Management Information System
9 19 (4.05%) Data Structures
9 19 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
10 18 (3.84%) AI Agents
11 15 (3.20%) Hedge funds
11 15 (3.20%) Reference Data
12 14 (2.99%) Algorithms
13 11 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (2.13%) Cloud Native
14 10 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (2.13%) TWAP
14 10 (2.13%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 34 (7.25%) Linux
2 31 (6.61%) Windows
3 22 (4.69%) Unix
4 4 (0.85%) Android
4 4 (0.85%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.64%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.43%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.21%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (26.01%) Agile
2 95 (20.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 79 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
4 67 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 66 (14.07%) AI
6 59 (12.58%) Low Latency
7 56 (11.94%) Software Engineering
8 54 (11.51%) Electronic Trading
9 51 (10.87%) Analytics
10 49 (10.45%) DevOps
11 43 (9.17%) Business Analysis
12 42 (8.96%) Migration
13 41 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 40 (8.53%) Wealth Management
15 39 (8.32%) Translating Business Requirements
16 38 (8.10%) Data Modelling
16 38 (8.10%) Event-Driven
16 38 (8.10%) User Stories
17 37 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 36 (7.68%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 119 (25.37%) SQL
2 109 (23.24%) Python
3 104 (22.17%) Java
4 71 (15.14%) C#
5 50 (10.66%) TypeScript
6 39 (8.32%) JavaScript
7 19 (4.05%) C++
8 16 (3.41%) PowerShell
9 13 (2.77%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.49%) Bash
11 6 (1.28%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.07%) Rust
12 5 (1.07%) Tcl
13 3 (0.64%) Bicep
13 3 (0.64%) C
13 3 (0.64%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.43%) Korn
14 2 (0.43%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.43%) VBA
15 1 (0.21%) Go
Qualifications
1 36 (7.68%) Degree
2 11 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.71%) Azure Certification
3 8 (1.71%) PMP
4 6 (1.28%) Security Cleared
5 5 (1.07%) PMI Certification
6 4 (0.85%) ACCA
6 4 (0.85%) CBAP
6 4 (0.85%) CIMA
6 4 (0.85%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.85%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.43%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.43%) CCNP
7 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.21%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.21%) PgMP
8 1 (0.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.90%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.41%) MiFID
3 13 (2.77%) QA
4 11 (2.35%) EMIR
5 5 (1.07%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.07%) PMO
6 4 (0.85%) IFRS
6 4 (0.85%) NIST
7 3 (0.64%) WCAG
8 2 (0.43%) GRC
9 1 (0.21%) COBIT
9 1 (0.21%) COREP
9 1 (0.21%) FINREP
9 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.21%) SEPA
9 1 (0.21%) TARGET2
System Software
1 21 (4.48%) Active Directory
1 21 (4.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.28%) SCCM
3 5 (1.07%) Ansible
3 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.64%) Grafana
4 3 (0.64%) WSUS
5 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (7.46%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.18%) Oracle
3 16 (3.41%) Bloomberg
3 16 (3.41%) Databricks
4 14 (2.99%) OpenAI
5 13 (2.77%) Murex
6 11 (2.35%) ION Trading
7 10 (2.13%) Citrix
8 9 (1.92%) Tradeweb
9 7 (1.49%) Cisco
9 7 (1.49%) MarketAxess
10 6 (1.28%) Reuters
11 5 (1.07%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.07%) Sybase
12 4 (0.85%) Charles River
12 4 (0.85%) Google
12 4 (0.85%) SAP
12 4 (0.85%) Solace
13 3 (0.64%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.64%) Calypso