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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 68 73
Rank change year-on-year -58 +5 -22
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 370 449 555
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.26% 3.47% 3.04%
As % of the General category 3.61% 5.22% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 281 407
10th Percentile £423 £444 £475
25th Percentile £500 £605 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £706 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.93% +0.86% -3.45%
75th Percentile £775 £875 £825
90th Percentile £988 £881 £938
England median daily rate £638 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -8.93% - -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 £19.50
% change year-on-year -57.59% +297.44% -51.85%

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 10,258 8,601 11,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 62.71% 66.46% 63.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,678 5,706 8,263
10th Percentile £350 £336 £331
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £691
90th Percentile £784 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 124 265
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.14 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.73 £18.33
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +16.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.40 £71.30
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.90 £26.00
% change year-on-year -19.10% +18.86% -22.39%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -22 60 £613 +0.41% 17
East London +4 4 £416 -27.65% 1
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 16 (4.32%) Confluence
2 7 (1.89%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.62%) Apache
4 4 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.81%) CMS
5 3 (0.81%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.54%) SAS
7 1 (0.27%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 23 (6.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.24%) MS Visio
4 11 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.81%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.27%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 14 (3.78%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (3.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 13 (3.51%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.35%) Aladdin
3 5 (1.35%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.81%) Loan IQ
4 3 (0.81%) Summit
5 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 2 (0.54%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.27%) Actimize
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.27%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.27%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.27%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 60 (16.22%) AWS
2 55 (14.86%) Azure
3 14 (3.78%) GitHub
3 14 (3.78%) OCI
3 14 (3.78%) Power Platform
4 13 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (3.24%) Snowflake
6 11 (2.97%) GCP
6 11 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (1.62%) Serverless
8 5 (1.35%) Entra ID
8 5 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (1.35%) npm
8 5 (1.35%) Yarn
9 4 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.08%) ChatGPT
9 4 (1.08%) Google Workspace
9 4 (1.08%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.08%) PowerApps
10 3 (0.81%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.32%) FIX Connectivity
2 5 (1.35%) Firewall
2 5 (1.35%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.35%) VPN
3 4 (1.08%) DMZ
3 4 (1.08%) Multicast
4 2 (0.54%) HTTP
4 2 (0.54%) RTMP
4 2 (0.54%) SMS
5 1 (0.27%) DHCP
5 1 (0.27%) DNS
5 1 (0.27%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.27%) Network Security
5 1 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.68%) SQL Server
2 18 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (4.32%) Relational Database
4 12 (3.24%) Power BI
5 8 (2.16%) Metadata
5 8 (2.16%) Tableau
6 7 (1.89%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.62%) KDB
7 6 (1.62%) Oracle Database
7 6 (1.62%) Redis
8 5 (1.35%) Apache Ignite
8 5 (1.35%) Big Data
8 5 (1.35%) DB2
8 5 (1.35%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.81%) Apache Arrow
9 3 (0.81%) Dremio
9 3 (0.81%) Neo4j
9 3 (0.81%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (7.30%) JIRA
2 12 (3.24%) Git
3 10 (2.70%) GitLab
4 7 (1.89%) JUnit
4 7 (1.89%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (1.62%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.62%) Selenium
6 5 (1.35%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.35%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.35%) webpack
7 4 (1.08%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.08%) Postman
7 4 (1.08%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.81%) Maven
8 3 (0.81%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.54%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.27%) Appium
10 1 (0.27%) Artifactory
General
1 370 (100.00%) Banking
2 227 (61.35%) Finance
3 111 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 105 (28.38%) Front Office
5 51 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (8.65%) Retail Banking
7 27 (7.30%) Financial Institution
8 23 (6.22%) Retail
9 22 (5.95%) Corporate Banking
10 14 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (3.24%) Back Office
12 9 (2.43%) Legal
13 7 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (1.08%) French Language
17 3 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 2 (0.54%) Aviation
18 2 (0.54%) Marketing
19 1 (0.27%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 123 (33.24%) Developer
2 73 (19.73%) Analyst
3 57 (15.41%) Java Developer
4 56 (15.14%) Business Analyst
4 56 (15.14%) Senior
5 38 (10.27%) Senior Developer
6 31 (8.38%) Senior Java Developer
7 22 (5.95%) AWS Developer
7 22 (5.95%) Banking Analyst
8 20 (5.41%) C# Developer
8 20 (5.41%) Kafka Developer
8 20 (5.41%) Project Manager
9 19 (5.14%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 18 (4.86%) Lead
11 16 (4.32%) Analytics Developer
11 16 (4.32%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
11 16 (4.32%) PostgreSQL Developer
12 15 (4.05%) Low Latency Java Developer
12 15 (4.05%) Support Engineer
13 14 (3.78%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (9.73%) Kafka
2 34 (9.19%) .NET
3 30 (8.11%) React
4 19 (5.14%) FIX Protocol
5 17 (4.59%) AngularJS
6 15 (4.05%) Pandas
6 15 (4.05%) Spring
7 14 (3.78%) HTML
8 12 (3.24%) CSS
9 11 (2.97%) NumPy
9 11 (2.97%) XML
10 9 (2.43%) JMS
10 9 (2.43%) REST
10 9 (2.43%) SciPy
11 8 (2.16%) FastAPI
11 8 (2.16%) Redux
12 7 (1.89%) Flask
13 6 (1.62%) Dask
13 6 (1.62%) Polars
13 6 (1.62%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 80 (21.62%) Derivative
2 43 (11.62%) Equities
3 41 (11.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 37 (10.00%) Fixed Income
5 29 (7.84%) Market Risk
6 25 (6.76%) Management Information System
7 22 (5.95%) Hedge funds
8 19 (5.14%) Credit Risk
9 16 (4.32%) Cloud Native
10 15 (4.05%) Onboarding
11 14 (3.78%) TWAP
11 14 (3.78%) VWAP
12 13 (3.51%) Data Structures
13 8 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.89%) Algorithms
14 7 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
15 6 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
16 5 (1.35%) AI Agents
16 5 (1.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.03%) Linux
2 18 (4.86%) Windows
3 15 (4.05%) Unix
4 6 (1.62%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.81%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.54%) AIX
7 1 (0.27%) Android
7 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (20.54%) Agile
2 67 (18.11%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (14.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 48 (12.97%) Analytics
5 43 (11.62%) CI/CD
5 43 (11.62%) DevOps
6 38 (10.27%) AI
6 38 (10.27%) Asset Management
6 38 (10.27%) Business Analysis
6 38 (10.27%) Risk Management
6 38 (10.27%) TDD
6 38 (10.27%) User Acceptance Testing
7 35 (9.46%) Project Management
8 32 (8.65%) Electronic Trading
9 30 (8.11%) Multithreading
10 29 (7.84%) Test Automation
11 28 (7.57%) Software Engineering
12 27 (7.30%) Data Analysis
12 27 (7.30%) Low Latency
13 24 (6.49%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 104 (28.11%) SQL
2 99 (26.76%) Java
3 86 (23.24%) Python
4 50 (13.51%) C#
5 27 (7.30%) JavaScript
6 25 (6.76%) TypeScript
7 16 (4.32%) C++
8 14 (3.78%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.70%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.62%) Rust
10 6 (1.62%) Scala
11 5 (1.35%) VB.NET
12 4 (1.08%) Bash
13 3 (0.81%) Go
13 3 (0.81%) Perl
13 3 (0.81%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.81%) VBA
14 2 (0.54%) Korn
14 2 (0.54%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.27%) F#
Qualifications
1 38 (10.27%) Degree
2 14 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 14 (3.78%) Master's Degree
3 9 (2.43%) PMP
4 8 (2.16%) PMI Certification
5 6 (1.62%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.62%) PhD
6 5 (1.35%) CFA
7 3 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.81%) CISSP
8 2 (0.54%) ACCA
8 2 (0.54%) IIBA
8 2 (0.54%) Security Cleared
8 2 (0.54%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 2 (0.54%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.27%) CCA
9 1 (0.27%) CIMA
9 1 (0.27%) CISA
9 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.59%) QA
2 13 (3.51%) MiFID
3 11 (2.97%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.97%) PMO
4 10 (2.70%) SLA
5 9 (2.43%) EMIR
6 7 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.81%) GDPR
8 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.54%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.54%) NIST
8 2 (0.54%) SEPA
9 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.27%) Basel III
9 1 (0.27%) COBIT
9 1 (0.27%) COSO
9 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (5.68%) Docker
2 6 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Firmware
3 1 (0.27%) Varnish
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 21 (5.68%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.89%) SCCM
3 4 (1.08%) Terraform
4 3 (0.81%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 3 (0.81%) WSUS
5 2 (0.54%) Ansible
5 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.54%) Puppet
5 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.27%) Control-M
6 1 (0.27%) Grafana
6 1 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.27%) WMI
6 1 (0.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 39 (10.54%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.11%) Oracle
3 17 (4.59%) Bloomberg
4 15 (4.05%) Murex
5 11 (2.97%) ION Trading
6 8 (2.16%) Sybase
7 7 (1.89%) Charles River
8 6 (1.62%) Citrix
8 6 (1.62%) Reuters
9 4 (1.08%) Databricks
9 4 (1.08%) IBM
9 4 (1.08%) Refinitiv
9 4 (1.08%) UiPath
10 3 (0.81%) Adobe
10 3 (0.81%) CyberArk
10 3 (0.81%) NYFIX
10 3 (0.81%) Pega
10 3 (0.81%) SAP
10 3 (0.81%) Solace
10 3 (0.81%) Splunk