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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 64 61
Rank change year-on-year -67 -3 -6
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 441 545 608
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.22% 4.01% 3.63%
As % of the General category 3.66% 5.89% 5.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 366 503
10th Percentile £413 £445 £525
25th Percentile £513 £613 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £684 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -8.83% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £793 £838 £888
90th Percentile £938 £888 -
England median daily rate £700 £750 £775
% change year-on-year -6.67% -3.23% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £87.50 -
England median hourly rate - £87.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year - +348.72% -55.93%

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 12,056 9,258 10,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.66% 68.13% 62.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,673 6,166 7,427
10th Percentile £350 £330 £338
25th Percentile £445 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 176 177
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £16.40
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.31 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.50 £31.25 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -8.09% -2.86%
75th Percentile £44.31 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £64.25 £63.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £34.00 £26.28 £37.50
% change year-on-year +29.38% -29.92% +24.79%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -35 61 £693 +1.84% 16
East London +3 4 £875 -2.78% 1
South London -15 2 £800 +10.34%
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 6 (1.36%) Confluence
2 4 (0.91%) IIS
3 3 (0.68%) Apache
3 3 (0.68%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.68%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.45%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.23%) CICS
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.68%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.23%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 10 (2.27%) Aladdin
2 9 (2.04%) Oracle Payables
2 9 (2.04%) Oracle Receivables
3 8 (1.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (1.13%) Summit
5 3 (0.68%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.45%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.45%) Front Arena
6 2 (0.45%) Global One
6 2 (0.45%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.23%) Actimize
7 1 (0.23%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.23%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle iProcurement
7 1 (0.23%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 57 (12.93%) AWS
2 56 (12.70%) Azure
3 20 (4.54%) GCP
3 20 (4.54%) Power Platform
4 16 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (3.17%) GitHub
6 11 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (2.49%) Entra ID
6 11 (2.49%) OCI
7 8 (1.81%) Snowflake
8 7 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (1.36%) Google Workspace
9 6 (1.36%) Power Automate
9 6 (1.36%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.13%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (1.13%) SaaS
11 3 (0.68%) Cloud Run
11 3 (0.68%) npm
11 3 (0.68%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.08%) FIX Connectivity
2 9 (2.04%) Firewall
3 8 (1.81%) Multicast
4 7 (1.59%) VPN
5 6 (1.36%) HTTP
5 6 (1.36%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.13%) DMZ
7 3 (0.68%) BGP
7 3 (0.68%) Wireless
8 2 (0.45%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.45%) DWDM
8 2 (0.45%) MPLS
8 2 (0.45%) Network Security
8 2 (0.45%) OSPF
8 2 (0.45%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 1 (0.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 1 (0.23%) Internet
9 1 (0.23%) MIMO
9 1 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.31%) Power BI
3 18 (4.08%) Metadata
4 15 (3.40%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.27%) Data Vault
6 10 (2.27%) Pinecone
6 10 (2.27%) Weaviate
7 9 (2.04%) Tableau
8 8 (1.81%) KDB
9 7 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (1.36%) Redis
11 5 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.13%) Big Data
11 5 (1.13%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.13%) Kdb+
11 5 (1.13%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.13%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.13%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (0.91%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 31 (7.03%) JIRA
2 13 (2.95%) Git
3 11 (2.49%) ER Studio
4 10 (2.27%) ERwin
4 10 (2.27%) TeamCity
5 7 (1.59%) GitLab
5 7 (1.59%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.13%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (1.13%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (1.13%) webpack
7 3 (0.68%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.68%) Selenium
8 2 (0.45%) Maven
8 2 (0.45%) MSBuild
8 2 (0.45%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.45%) Vite
9 1 (0.23%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.23%) Postman
9 1 (0.23%) XCUITest
General
1 441 (100.00%) Banking
2 280 (63.49%) Finance
3 151 (34.24%) Front Office
4 105 (23.81%) Social Skills
5 56 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (9.52%) Retail Banking
7 38 (8.62%) Retail
8 37 (8.39%) Corporate Banking
9 36 (8.16%) Financial Institution
10 17 (3.85%) Legal
11 15 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (2.49%) Spanish Language
13 9 (2.04%) Back Office
13 9 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.91%) French Language
16 4 (0.91%) Games
17 3 (0.68%) Advertising
17 3 (0.68%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 164 (37.19%) Developer
2 78 (17.69%) Analyst
3 77 (17.46%) Java Developer
4 71 (16.10%) Senior
5 63 (14.29%) Business Analyst
6 52 (11.79%) Senior Developer
7 36 (8.16%) Senior Java Developer
8 24 (5.44%) Project Manager
9 23 (5.22%) C# Developer
10 22 (4.99%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 22 (4.99%) React Developer
11 21 (4.76%) Lead
12 20 (4.54%) Banking Analyst
12 20 (4.54%) UI Developer
13 19 (4.31%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
13 19 (4.31%) Low Latency Java Developer
13 19 (4.31%) Python Developer
13 19 (4.31%) Senior React Developer
14 18 (4.08%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
14 18 (4.08%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (10.88%) React
2 39 (8.84%) .NET
3 37 (8.39%) FIX Protocol
4 27 (6.12%) Kafka
5 24 (5.44%) Redux
6 16 (3.63%) AngularJS
6 16 (3.63%) Spring
7 15 (3.40%) REST
8 13 (2.95%) RESTful
9 10 (2.27%) CSS
9 10 (2.27%) LangChain
9 10 (2.27%) LlamaIndex
9 10 (2.27%) OAuth
9 10 (2.27%) OAuth2
10 9 (2.04%) HTML
10 9 (2.04%) Node.js
10 9 (2.04%) XML
11 8 (1.81%) Pandas
11 8 (1.81%) RxJava
12 7 (1.59%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 99 (22.45%) Derivative
2 70 (15.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 55 (12.47%) Fixed Income
4 54 (12.24%) Equities
5 24 (5.44%) Market Risk
5 24 (5.44%) Product Ownership
6 23 (5.22%) Greenfield Project
6 23 (5.22%) Onboarding
7 19 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (4.08%) TWAP
8 18 (4.08%) VWAP
9 17 (3.85%) Algorithms
9 17 (3.85%) Data Structures
10 15 (3.40%) Credit Risk
10 15 (3.40%) Management Information System
11 14 (3.17%) AI Agents
12 13 (2.95%) Cloud Native
13 11 (2.49%) Hedge funds
14 9 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.58%) Windows
2 23 (5.22%) Unix
3 22 (4.99%) Linux
4 5 (1.13%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.91%) Android
6 3 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.68%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (22.00%) Agile
2 71 (16.10%) Low Latency
3 64 (14.51%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (14.06%) Electronic Trading
5 54 (12.24%) CI/CD
6 53 (12.02%) Stakeholder Management
7 51 (11.56%) AI
8 50 (11.34%) Analytics
9 43 (9.75%) Software Engineering
10 41 (9.30%) DevOps
11 39 (8.84%) Asset Management
12 38 (8.62%) Multithreading
13 37 (8.39%) TDD
14 36 (8.16%) Wealth Management
15 34 (7.71%) User Acceptance Testing
16 32 (7.26%) Algorithmic Trading
16 32 (7.26%) Full-Stack Development
17 29 (6.58%) Business Analysis
17 29 (6.58%) Event-Driven
18 27 (6.12%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 116 (26.30%) Java
2 95 (21.54%) Python
3 91 (20.63%) SQL
4 72 (16.33%) C#
5 55 (12.47%) TypeScript
6 45 (10.20%) JavaScript
7 20 (4.54%) C++
8 19 (4.31%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.27%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.59%) Rust
11 5 (1.13%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.13%) Scala
12 4 (0.91%) VBA
13 3 (0.68%) Bicep
13 3 (0.68%) C
13 3 (0.68%) Perl
13 3 (0.68%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.45%) Bash
14 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.23%) F#
Qualifications
1 30 (6.80%) Degree
2 11 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.81%) Azure Certification
4 6 (1.36%) PMP
5 5 (1.13%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.91%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (0.68%) MCSA
7 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.45%) CCNP
8 2 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.45%) MBA
8 2 (0.45%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 2 (0.45%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.23%) CFA
9 1 (0.23%) CISA
9 1 (0.23%) CISM
9 1 (0.23%) CISSP
9 1 (0.23%) IIBA
9 1 (0.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.95%) MiFID
2 10 (2.27%) QA
3 8 (1.81%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.81%) PMO
4 5 (1.13%) EMIR
5 4 (0.91%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.68%) SLA
7 2 (0.45%) WCAG
8 1 (0.23%) COREP
8 1 (0.23%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.23%) FINREP
8 1 (0.23%) GDPR
8 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.23%) ITGC
8 1 (0.23%) NIST
8 1 (0.23%) PSD2
8 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (3.85%) Active Directory
1 17 (3.85%) Docker
2 1 (0.23%) GridGain
2 1 (0.23%) Varnish
2 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.23%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 18 (4.08%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.27%) Terraform
3 7 (1.59%) SCCM
4 6 (1.36%) WSUS
5 5 (1.13%) Ansible
6 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.68%) Control-M
7 3 (0.68%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.23%) WMI
Vendors
1 37 (8.39%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.26%) Oracle
3 14 (3.17%) OpenAI
4 13 (2.95%) Murex
5 9 (2.04%) Citrix
6 7 (1.59%) Bloomberg
6 7 (1.59%) Charles River
6 7 (1.59%) Reuters
7 6 (1.36%) ION Trading
7 6 (1.36%) Solace
8 5 (1.13%) Databricks
8 5 (1.13%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.91%) Google
10 3 (0.68%) Adobe
10 3 (0.68%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.68%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.68%) Cisco
10 3 (0.68%) SAP
10 3 (0.68%) Sybase
10 3 (0.68%) TIBCO