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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 65 74
Rank change year-on-year -59 +9 -20
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 418 476 540
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.28% 3.94% 3.08%
As % of the General category 3.80% 5.82% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 307 425
10th Percentile £403 £446 £500
25th Percentile £500 £613 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -13.67% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £778 £850 £875
90th Percentile £936 £881 £888
England median daily rate £650 £750 £750
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.96 - -
Median hourly rate £54.46 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% - -
75th Percentile £56.96 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £54.46 £100.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -45.54% +412.82% -72.14%

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 10,990 8,177 10,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 59.92% 67.75% 62.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,076 5,454 7,840
10th Percentile £350 £349 £335
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £556 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% -3.30% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £515 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -1.90% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 149 242
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.43 £24.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £32.81 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% +13.33% -
75th Percentile £44.59 £50.50 £48.44
90th Percentile £68.63 £63.35 £65.90
England median hourly rate £31.46 £28.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year +12.36% -8.20% -4.45%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -37 56 £623 -7.78% 24
East London - 2 £875 -
South London -12 1 £600 -17.24% 4
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 (2.63%) Confluence
2 5 (1.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (0.96%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.96%) IIS
4 3 (0.72%) Apache
4 3 (0.72%) SAS
5 2 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.48%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.24%) CICS
Applications
1 27 (6.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (2.87%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.48%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 14 (3.35%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (3.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 13 (3.11%) Oracle Receivables
3 8 (1.91%) Aladdin
4 6 (1.44%) Summit
5 4 (0.96%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.72%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.48%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 2 (0.48%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.48%) Global One
8 1 (0.24%) Actimize
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.24%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.24%) BusinessWorks
8 1 (0.24%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.24%) Markit EDM
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.24%) Orchestrade
8 1 (0.24%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 62 (14.83%) Azure
2 56 (13.40%) AWS
3 18 (4.31%) GCP
4 16 (3.83%) OCI
5 15 (3.59%) Power Platform
6 14 (3.35%) GitHub
6 14 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (2.39%) Entra ID
9 8 (1.91%) Snowflake
10 7 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.44%) Google Workspace
11 6 (1.44%) npm
11 6 (1.44%) Yarn
12 5 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (0.72%) Figma
14 3 (0.72%) SaaS
15 2 (0.48%) Adobe Analytics
15 2 (0.48%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.26%) FIX Connectivity
2 9 (2.15%) Firewall
3 6 (1.44%) HTTP
3 6 (1.44%) Multicast
3 6 (1.44%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.44%) VPN
4 5 (1.20%) DMZ
5 3 (0.72%) BGP
5 3 (0.72%) Wireless
6 2 (0.48%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.48%) DWDM
6 2 (0.48%) MPLS
6 2 (0.48%) Network Security
6 2 (0.48%) OSPF
6 2 (0.48%) RTMP
6 2 (0.48%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.24%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (0.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.24%) MIMO
7 1 (0.24%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.78%) SQL Server
2 18 (4.31%) Relational Database
3 16 (3.83%) Metadata
4 14 (3.35%) Power BI
5 11 (2.63%) Pinecone
5 11 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.63%) Weaviate
6 10 (2.39%) Tableau
7 9 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (1.91%) Data Vault
9 6 (1.44%) KDB
9 6 (1.44%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.44%) Redis
10 5 (1.20%) Big Data
10 5 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (0.96%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.96%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.72%) Flink
12 3 (0.72%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 30 (7.18%) JIRA
2 11 (2.63%) TeamCity
3 8 (1.91%) Git
4 7 (1.67%) ER Studio
4 7 (1.67%) ERwin
4 7 (1.67%) webpack
5 6 (1.44%) GitLab
5 6 (1.44%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (1.20%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.96%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.96%) Selenium
8 2 (0.48%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.48%) Maven
8 2 (0.48%) MSBuild
8 2 (0.48%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.48%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.48%) Vite
9 1 (0.24%) XCUITest
General
1 418 (100.00%) Banking
2 262 (62.68%) Finance
3 141 (33.73%) Front Office
4 103 (24.64%) Social Skills
5 55 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (10.77%) Retail Banking
7 36 (8.61%) Corporate Banking
7 36 (8.61%) Retail
8 29 (6.94%) Financial Institution
9 20 (4.78%) Legal
10 14 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (2.63%) Back Office
12 10 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.91%) Spanish Language
15 7 (1.67%) French Language
16 6 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.72%) Aviation
17 3 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 3 (0.72%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 143 (34.21%) Developer
2 81 (19.38%) Analyst
3 68 (16.27%) Java Developer
4 66 (15.79%) Business Analyst
4 66 (15.79%) Senior
5 44 (10.53%) Senior Developer
6 35 (8.37%) Senior Java Developer
7 26 (6.22%) Electronic Trading Developer
8 23 (5.50%) Support Engineer
9 22 (5.26%) Banking Analyst
9 22 (5.26%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 21 (5.02%) C# Developer
10 21 (5.02%) Low Latency Java Developer
11 20 (4.78%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
11 20 (4.78%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
12 16 (3.83%) Project Manager
13 15 (3.59%) React Developer
14 14 (3.35%) Banking Business Analyst
14 14 (3.35%) Python Developer
14 14 (3.35%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (10.05%) .NET
2 39 (9.33%) React
3 37 (8.85%) FIX Protocol
4 27 (6.46%) Kafka
5 20 (4.78%) Redux
6 14 (3.35%) CSS
6 14 (3.35%) HTML
7 13 (3.11%) AngularJS
7 13 (3.11%) Spring
7 13 (3.11%) XML
8 12 (2.87%) LangChain
9 11 (2.63%) LlamaIndex
10 10 (2.39%) REST
11 9 (2.15%) RESTful
12 7 (1.67%) HTML5
12 7 (1.67%) Node.js
12 7 (1.67%) OAuth
12 7 (1.67%) OAuth2
12 7 (1.67%) WebSockets
13 6 (1.44%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 95 (22.73%) Derivative
2 59 (14.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 54 (12.92%) Equities
4 45 (10.77%) Fixed Income
5 25 (5.98%) Market Risk
6 20 (4.78%) Credit Risk
6 20 (4.78%) Management Information System
6 20 (4.78%) TWAP
6 20 (4.78%) VWAP
7 19 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (4.31%) Algorithms
9 17 (4.07%) Onboarding
10 16 (3.83%) Data Structures
11 15 (3.59%) Greenfield Project
11 15 (3.59%) Product Ownership
12 12 (2.87%) AI Agents
12 12 (2.87%) Cloud Native
13 9 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (2.15%) Hedge funds
14 7 (1.67%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.94%) Windows
2 21 (5.02%) Unix
3 17 (4.07%) Linux
4 9 (2.15%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.44%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.48%) Android
6 2 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.24%) Solaris
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (18.42%) Agile
2 60 (14.35%) Low Latency
2 60 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (13.64%) Electronic Trading
4 53 (12.68%) Analytics
5 51 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
6 45 (10.77%) Asset Management
7 44 (10.53%) CI/CD
8 42 (10.05%) AI
8 42 (10.05%) Multithreading
8 42 (10.05%) User Acceptance Testing
9 41 (9.81%) TDD
10 38 (9.09%) DevOps
11 36 (8.61%) Business Analysis
12 34 (8.13%) Wealth Management
13 32 (7.66%) Algorithmic Trading
13 32 (7.66%) Software Engineering
14 29 (6.94%) Design Patterns
15 28 (6.70%) Full-Stack Development
15 28 (6.70%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 108 (25.84%) Java
2 95 (22.73%) SQL
3 93 (22.25%) Python
4 62 (14.83%) C#
5 45 (10.77%) TypeScript
6 34 (8.13%) JavaScript
7 19 (4.55%) PowerShell
8 17 (4.07%) C++
9 8 (1.91%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.44%) Rust
10 6 (1.44%) Scala
11 5 (1.20%) VBA
12 4 (0.96%) Bash
13 3 (0.72%) Perl
14 2 (0.48%) Bicep
14 2 (0.48%) C
14 2 (0.48%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.48%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.24%) Go
15 1 (0.24%) Swift
Qualifications
1 36 (8.61%) Degree
2 17 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (2.87%) Azure Certification
4 8 (1.91%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.67%) PMP
6 5 (1.20%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (0.96%) MCSA
7 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.72%) CFA
9 2 (0.48%) ACCA
9 2 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.48%) CCNP
9 2 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.48%) CISSP
9 2 (0.48%) MBA
9 2 (0.48%) PhD
9 2 (0.48%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 2 (0.48%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.83%) MiFID
2 14 (3.35%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.87%) QA
4 11 (2.63%) PMO
5 8 (1.91%) SLA
6 6 (1.44%) EMIR
7 5 (1.20%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.48%) WCAG
9 1 (0.24%) Basel III
9 1 (0.24%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.24%) GDPR
9 1 (0.24%) IFRS
9 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.24%) ITGC
9 1 (0.24%) NIST
9 1 (0.24%) PSD2
9 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.24%) Solvency II
System Software
1 20 (4.78%) Docker
2 13 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) GridGain
3 1 (0.24%) Varnish
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.24%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 17 (4.07%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.91%) Terraform
3 7 (1.67%) SCCM
4 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.20%) WSUS
5 4 (0.96%) Control-M
6 3 (0.72%) Ansible
7 2 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.48%) Puppet
8 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.24%) WMI
Vendors
1 41 (9.81%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.61%) Oracle
3 13 (3.11%) Murex
3 13 (3.11%) OpenAI
4 12 (2.87%) Bloomberg
5 9 (2.15%) Citrix
5 9 (2.15%) ION Trading
6 8 (1.91%) Charles River
7 7 (1.67%) Reuters
8 6 (1.44%) Adobe
9 5 (1.20%) Sybase
10 4 (0.96%) Databricks
10 4 (0.96%) Pega
10 4 (0.96%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.96%) Solace
11 3 (0.72%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.72%) Cisco
11 3 (0.72%) CyberArk
11 3 (0.72%) Google
11 3 (0.72%) SAP