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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 65 77
Rank change year-on-year -70 +12 -23
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 365 474 536
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.08% 3.72% 3.00%
As % of the General category 3.42% 5.52% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 302 400
10th Percentile £413 £415 £500
25th Percentile £500 £613 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £788 £875 £850
90th Percentile £938 £888 £900
England median daily rate £634 £750 £725
% change year-on-year -15.50% +3.45% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £26.57 - -
25th Percentile £30.80 - -
Median hourly rate £39.73 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -60.27% - -
75th Percentile £49.28 - -
90th Percentile £53.89 - -
England median hourly rate £39.73 £100.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -60.27% +412.82% -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 10,659 8,587 11,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.85% 67.40% 63.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,950 5,811 8,057
10th Percentile £343 £338 £335
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £704 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 140 248
10th Percentile £17.90 £15.84 £15.85
25th Percentile £22.73 £23.42 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.58 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.23% +21.32% -12.31%
75th Percentile £50.00 £52.44 £44.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.25 £65.83
England median hourly rate £30.08 £28.18 £29.83
% change year-on-year +6.72% -5.52% -14.79%

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 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -39 49 £635 +1.60% 13
East London +1 4 £416 -27.65%
South London -14 1 £600 -12.73%
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 12 (3.29%) Confluence
2 5 (1.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.10%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.82%) Apache
4 3 (0.82%) SAS
4 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.55%) IIS
5 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.27%) CICS
6 1 (0.27%) CMS
6 1 (0.27%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 28 (7.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (3.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (3.56%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.82%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.55%) UserZoom
8 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (3.84%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (3.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 13 (3.56%) Oracle Receivables
3 7 (1.92%) Aladdin
4 6 (1.64%) Summit
5 4 (1.10%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.82%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.55%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 2 (0.55%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.55%) Global One
7 2 (0.55%) Markit EDM
8 1 (0.27%) Actimize
8 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.27%) BusinessWorks
8 1 (0.27%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.27%) Orchestrade
8 1 (0.27%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 55 (15.07%) Azure
2 48 (13.15%) AWS
3 17 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (3.84%) OCI
5 13 (3.56%) GitHub
5 13 (3.56%) Power Platform
6 12 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (3.29%) GCP
7 8 (2.19%) Google Workspace
7 8 (2.19%) Snowflake
8 7 (1.92%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (1.37%) npm
9 5 (1.37%) Serverless
9 5 (1.37%) Yarn
10 4 (1.10%) Figma
11 3 (0.82%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (0.82%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (0.82%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.82%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.48%) FIX Connectivity
2 8 (2.19%) Firewall
3 7 (1.92%) DMZ
3 7 (1.92%) TCP/IP
3 7 (1.92%) VPN
4 5 (1.37%) HTTP
5 3 (0.82%) Multicast
6 2 (0.55%) RTMP
7 1 (0.27%) MIMO
7 1 (0.27%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.27%) SMS
7 1 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.30%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.84%) Relational Database
3 13 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (3.29%) Power BI
5 9 (2.47%) Metadata
5 9 (2.47%) Tableau
6 8 (2.19%) Redis
7 6 (1.64%) Oracle Database
7 6 (1.64%) Pinecone
7 6 (1.64%) RDBMS
7 6 (1.64%) Weaviate
8 5 (1.37%) KDB
8 5 (1.37%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.10%) Big Data
9 4 (1.10%) Kdb+
10 3 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.82%) Data Vault
10 3 (0.82%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.82%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 26 (7.12%) JIRA
2 10 (2.74%) TeamCity
3 8 (2.19%) Git
3 8 (2.19%) Octopus Deploy
4 7 (1.92%) GitLab
5 6 (1.64%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.37%) Selenium
6 5 (1.37%) webpack
7 4 (1.10%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.10%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.82%) JUnit
8 3 (0.82%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.55%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.55%) Maven
9 2 (0.55%) Postman
9 2 (0.55%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.55%) Vite
10 1 (0.27%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.27%) XCUITest
General
1 365 (100.00%) Banking
2 225 (61.64%) Finance
3 118 (32.33%) Front Office
4 105 (28.77%) Social Skills
5 48 (13.15%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (8.22%) Retail Banking
7 23 (6.30%) Financial Institution
8 22 (6.03%) Corporate Banking
8 22 (6.03%) Retail
9 14 (3.84%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (3.56%) Legal
11 10 (2.74%) Back Office
12 7 (1.92%) French Language
12 7 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.10%) Marketing
15 3 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.82%) Spanish Language
16 2 (0.55%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 123 (33.70%) Developer
2 75 (20.55%) Analyst
3 60 (16.44%) Business Analyst
4 57 (15.62%) Senior
5 56 (15.34%) Java Developer
6 37 (10.14%) Senior Developer
7 28 (7.67%) Senior Java Developer
8 25 (6.85%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 24 (6.58%) C# Developer
10 23 (6.30%) Banking Analyst
11 21 (5.75%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
12 18 (4.93%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
12 18 (4.93%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
12 18 (4.93%) Lead
12 18 (4.93%) Low Latency Java Developer
12 18 (4.93%) Support Engineer
13 15 (4.11%) Kafka Developer
14 13 (3.56%) Banking Business Analyst
15 12 (3.29%) Project Manager
15 12 (3.29%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (10.14%) .NET
2 30 (8.22%) React
3 27 (7.40%) FIX Protocol
3 27 (7.40%) Kafka
4 16 (4.38%) CSS
4 16 (4.38%) HTML
5 14 (3.84%) Redux
6 13 (3.56%) AngularJS
6 13 (3.56%) XML
7 9 (2.47%) Spring
8 8 (2.19%) HTML5
8 8 (2.19%) Node.js
9 7 (1.92%) LangChain
10 6 (1.64%) LlamaIndex
10 6 (1.64%) OAuth
10 6 (1.64%) Reactive Extensions
10 6 (1.64%) REST
10 6 (1.64%) RESTful
11 5 (1.37%) JMS
11 5 (1.37%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 82 (22.47%) Derivative
2 41 (11.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 40 (10.96%) Equities
4 37 (10.14%) Fixed Income
5 26 (7.12%) Market Risk
6 23 (6.30%) Management Information System
7 21 (5.75%) Credit Risk
8 18 (4.93%) TWAP
8 18 (4.93%) VWAP
9 16 (4.38%) Onboarding
10 13 (3.56%) Data Structures
11 12 (3.29%) Algorithms
11 12 (3.29%) Cloud Native
12 10 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (2.19%) AI Agents
13 8 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (2.19%) Hedge funds
13 8 (2.19%) Product Ownership
14 7 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
15 5 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.12%) Windows
2 21 (5.75%) Unix
3 18 (4.93%) Linux
4 8 (2.19%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.64%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.55%) 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 67 (18.36%) Agile
2 57 (15.62%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (12.60%) Analytics
4 44 (12.05%) Low Latency
4 44 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 43 (11.78%) Electronic Trading
6 40 (10.96%) DevOps
7 39 (10.68%) AI
8 38 (10.41%) Asset Management
8 38 (10.41%) CI/CD
8 38 (10.41%) TDD
9 37 (10.14%) Business Analysis
10 36 (9.86%) Multithreading
10 36 (9.86%) User Acceptance Testing
11 31 (8.49%) Risk Management
12 30 (8.22%) Project Management
13 28 (7.67%) Design Patterns
14 27 (7.40%) Test Automation
15 26 (7.12%) OO
16 24 (6.58%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 95 (26.03%) SQL
2 94 (25.75%) Java
3 71 (19.45%) Python
4 50 (13.70%) C#
5 31 (8.49%) TypeScript
6 27 (7.40%) JavaScript
7 17 (4.66%) PowerShell
8 12 (3.29%) C++
9 7 (1.92%) Scala
9 7 (1.92%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.37%) Perl
10 5 (1.37%) VBA
11 4 (1.10%) Bash
11 4 (1.10%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.10%) Rust
12 3 (0.82%) Go
13 2 (0.55%) Korn
14 1 (0.27%) F#
14 1 (0.27%) LotusScript
14 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 35 (9.59%) Degree
2 19 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (3.29%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.74%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.64%) PMP
6 5 (1.37%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (1.10%) MCSA
7 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.82%) CFA
8 3 (0.82%) PhD
8 3 (0.82%) Security Cleared
9 2 (0.55%) ACCA
9 2 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.55%) CISSP
9 2 (0.55%) MBA
9 2 (0.55%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 2 (0.55%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.11%) QA
2 13 (3.56%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.01%) MiFID
3 11 (3.01%) PMO
4 8 (2.19%) SLA
5 5 (1.37%) EMIR
5 5 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.82%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.55%) GDPR
7 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.55%) NIST
7 2 (0.55%) SEPA
8 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.27%) Basel III
8 1 (0.27%) COBIT
8 1 (0.27%) COSO
8 1 (0.27%) FINRA
8 1 (0.27%) IFRS
8 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 15 (4.11%) Docker
2 7 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) GridGain
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 15 (4.11%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.47%) SCCM
3 7 (1.92%) WSUS
4 5 (1.37%) Terraform
5 4 (1.10%) Control-M
5 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.82%) Ansible
6 3 (0.82%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.55%) Puppet
7 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.27%) Grafana
8 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.27%) WMI
8 1 (0.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 41 (11.23%) Microsoft
2 37 (10.14%) Oracle
3 17 (4.66%) Bloomberg
4 14 (3.84%) Murex
5 13 (3.56%) ION Trading
6 9 (2.47%) Citrix
6 9 (2.47%) Reuters
7 8 (2.19%) Charles River
8 6 (1.64%) Adobe
9 5 (1.37%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.37%) Sybase
10 4 (1.10%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.10%) IBM
10 4 (1.10%) Pega
11 3 (0.82%) Google
11 3 (0.82%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.82%) SAP
11 3 (0.82%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.82%) Solace
12 2 (0.55%) Databricks