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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 58 56
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 493 635 864
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.67% 3.90% 3.97%
As % of the General category 5.29% 6.27% 6.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 505 651
10th Percentile £450 £510 £500
25th Percentile £575 £613 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £775 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £825 £875 £825
90th Percentile £909 £888 £1,000
England median daily rate £725 £750 £693
% change year-on-year -3.33% +8.30% -6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £73.25 - -
25th Percentile £78.13 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £94.38 - -
90th Percentile £97.75 - -
England median hourly rate £87.50 - £18.50
% change year-on-year - - -28.85%

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 common skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,311 10,130 14,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 69.24% 62.19% 64.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,148 6,727 10,238
10th Percentile £325 £330 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £703
90th Percentile £790 £825 £810
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 121 174
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.00 £17.98
25th Percentile £24.65 £24.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +17.65% -16.20%
75th Percentile £49.75 £53.75 £54.88
90th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.85 £27.50
% change year-on-year -35.26% +41.27% +10.93%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Investment Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 -1 72 £700 +3.70% 41
South London -4 4 £600 -2.04%
East London +11 3 £900 +66.67% 1
Investment Banking
England

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 51 (10.34%) Apache
2 49 (9.94%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (3.45%) Confluence
4 7 (1.42%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.81%) MQSeries
5 4 (0.81%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.20%) Appian
6 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 27 (5.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.41%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.01%) Aladdin
1 5 (1.01%) ION Anvil
2 4 (0.81%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.81%) thinkFolio
3 2 (0.41%) Actimize
4 1 (0.20%) Bankmaster
4 1 (0.20%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.20%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 128 (25.96%) AWS
2 95 (19.27%) Azure
3 51 (10.34%) Snowflake
4 48 (9.74%) dbt
5 38 (7.71%) Power Platform
6 30 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (4.87%) GCP
8 16 (3.25%) GitHub
9 12 (2.43%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (2.23%) SaaS
11 8 (1.62%) Figma
11 8 (1.62%) npm
11 8 (1.62%) PowerApps
11 8 (1.62%) Yarn
12 7 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (1.22%) PaaS
13 6 (1.22%) Serverless
14 5 (1.01%) Azure AI
14 5 (1.01%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.01%) Multicast
2 3 (0.61%) BGP
2 3 (0.61%) Firewall
2 3 (0.61%) OSPF
2 3 (0.61%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.61%) Unicast
3 1 (0.20%) ATM
3 1 (0.20%) DHCP
3 1 (0.20%) DNS
3 1 (0.20%) Network Security
3 1 (0.20%) SAN
3 1 (0.20%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.20%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (9.94%) Amazon Athena
1 49 (9.94%) Data Lake
2 48 (9.74%) Apache Arrow
2 48 (9.74%) Apache Iceberg
2 48 (9.74%) Apache Ignite
2 48 (9.74%) Dremio
3 38 (7.71%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (7.51%) Power BI
5 29 (5.88%) SQL Server
6 23 (4.67%) MongoDB
6 23 (4.67%) Relational Database
7 19 (3.85%) Redis
8 18 (3.65%) DB2
9 16 (3.25%) Tableau
10 13 (2.64%) Power Query
11 12 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (1.62%) Data Mining
12 8 (1.62%) NoSQL
13 7 (1.42%) Metadata
14 6 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 50 (10.14%) Git
2 23 (4.67%) JIRA
3 20 (4.06%) JUnit
4 14 (2.84%) Jenkins
5 13 (2.64%) Bitbucket
5 13 (2.64%) TeamCity
6 9 (1.83%) Octopus Deploy
7 8 (1.62%) Maven
7 8 (1.62%) webpack
8 6 (1.22%) Selenium
9 4 (0.81%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.81%) GitLab
9 4 (0.81%) Postman
9 4 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.61%) Gradle
10 3 (0.61%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.41%) CMake
12 1 (0.20%) Balsamiq
12 1 (0.20%) LoadRunner
12 1 (0.20%) Subversion
General
1 493 (100.00%) Banking
2 314 (63.69%) Finance
3 178 (36.11%) Social Skills
4 133 (26.98%) Front Office
5 115 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (8.52%) Corporate Banking
6 42 (8.52%) Retail
6 42 (8.52%) Retail Banking
7 21 (4.26%) Financial Institution
8 14 (2.84%) Back Office
8 14 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.23%) Legal
10 7 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.01%) Marketing
13 4 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.61%) French Language
15 2 (0.41%) Portuguese Language
15 2 (0.41%) Spanish Language
16 1 (0.20%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 174 (35.29%) Developer
2 124 (25.15%) Senior
3 82 (16.63%) Analyst
4 69 (14.00%) Java Developer
5 65 (13.18%) Software Engineer
6 54 (10.95%) Java Engineer
6 54 (10.95%) Senior Developer
7 53 (10.75%) Python Engineer
8 52 (10.55%) Business Analyst
9 50 (10.14%) AWS Engineer
9 50 (10.14%) Java Software Engineer
9 50 (10.14%) Python Software Engineer
10 49 (9.94%) Senior Software Engineer
11 48 (9.74%) AWS Software Engineer
11 48 (9.74%) Senior Java Engineer
11 48 (9.74%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 36 (7.30%) Senior Java Developer
13 34 (6.90%) AWS Developer
14 30 (6.09%) Python Developer
15 28 (5.68%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (14.20%) Pandas
2 68 (13.79%) NumPy
3 66 (13.39%) SciPy
4 63 (12.78%) Kafka
5 54 (10.95%) gRPC
5 54 (10.95%) Protocol Buffers
6 53 (10.75%) React
7 45 (9.13%) .NET
8 29 (5.88%) AngularJS
9 23 (4.67%) Spring
10 22 (4.46%) CSS
11 21 (4.26%) FastAPI
12 20 (4.06%) Flask
13 19 (3.85%) Vue
14 18 (3.65%) FIX Protocol
14 18 (3.65%) JMS
15 17 (3.45%) HTML
15 17 (3.45%) Polars
16 15 (3.04%) REST
17 12 (2.43%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 122 (24.75%) Derivative
2 112 (22.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 89 (18.05%) Equities
4 82 (16.63%) Fixed Income
5 72 (14.60%) Hedge funds
6 48 (9.74%) Pricing Data
7 38 (7.71%) Market Risk
8 24 (4.87%) Management Information System
8 24 (4.87%) Product Ownership
9 21 (4.26%) Data Structures
10 17 (3.45%) Onboarding
11 13 (2.64%) Cloud Native
11 13 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.62%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.62%) Blockchain
13 8 (1.62%) Reference Data
14 7 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 64 (12.98%) Linux
2 19 (3.85%) Windows
3 8 (1.62%) Unix
4 3 (0.61%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.61%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.41%) Android
5 2 (0.41%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (32.86%) Agile
2 101 (20.49%) Problem-Solving
3 96 (19.47%) Software Engineering
4 80 (16.23%) DevOps
5 71 (14.40%) Analytics
6 60 (12.17%) Risk Management
7 56 (11.36%) CI/CD
8 54 (10.95%) Asset Management
8 54 (10.95%) Investment Management
9 49 (9.94%) SDLC
9 49 (9.94%) Wealth Management
10 44 (8.92%) Mathematics
11 43 (8.72%) TDD
12 42 (8.52%) Computer Science
13 40 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
13 40 (8.11%) Stakeholder Management
14 39 (7.91%) Multithreading
15 35 (7.10%) Data Modelling
16 34 (6.90%) Electronic Trading
16 34 (6.90%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 180 (36.51%) Python
2 177 (35.90%) Java
3 134 (27.18%) SQL
4 102 (20.69%) JavaScript
5 73 (14.81%) C#
6 72 (14.60%) TypeScript
7 44 (8.92%) C++
8 23 (4.67%) Shell Script
9 18 (3.65%) Rust
10 14 (2.84%) PowerShell
11 10 (2.03%) Bicep
12 9 (1.83%) Scala
13 8 (1.62%) DAML
14 7 (1.42%) C
14 7 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (1.01%) VB.NET
15 5 (1.01%) VBA
16 3 (0.61%) Jython
16 3 (0.61%) RPG
16 3 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (10.34%) Degree
2 22 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (3.25%) Numerate Degree
4 9 (1.83%) PMP
5 8 (1.62%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.42%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.01%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.61%) CCIE
8 3 (0.61%) CFA
8 3 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.61%) CISSP
8 3 (0.61%) FFIEC
8 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.41%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.41%) CISA
9 2 (0.41%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.20%) CIMA
10 1 (0.20%) GIAC
10 1 (0.20%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.67%) QA
2 17 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.64%) MiFID
4 10 (2.03%) GDPR
5 8 (1.62%) Basel II
6 7 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.22%) Accessibility
8 5 (1.01%) EMIR
9 4 (0.81%) Dodd-Frank
9 4 (0.81%) PMO
9 4 (0.81%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.61%) Basel III
10 3 (0.61%) SLA
11 2 (0.41%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.41%) NIST
11 2 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.20%) COREP
12 1 (0.20%) GRC
12 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 34 (6.90%) Docker
2 5 (1.01%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) GridGain
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 38 (7.71%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.64%) Terraform
3 10 (2.03%) ITRS Geneos
4 7 (1.42%) Ansible
5 5 (1.01%) Kibana
5 5 (1.01%) logstash
5 5 (1.01%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.61%) Argo
6 3 (0.61%) SCCM
7 2 (0.41%) Grafana
8 1 (0.20%) HP SiteScope
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Identity Management
8 1 (0.20%) SCOM
8 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 34 (6.90%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.65%) Sybase
3 16 (3.25%) Oracle
4 14 (2.84%) Databricks
5 11 (2.23%) Solace
6 10 (2.03%) Google
7 9 (1.83%) Bloomberg
8 8 (1.62%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.42%) ION Trading
10 6 (1.22%) Splunk
11 5 (1.01%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.01%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.81%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.81%) Portware
12 4 (0.81%) Refinitiv
12 4 (0.81%) SAP
12 4 (0.81%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.61%) Citrix
13 3 (0.61%) Foundry
13 3 (0.61%) Murex