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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 84 68
Rank change year-on-year -34 -16 -13
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 367 423 571
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.47% 3.12% 3.07%
As % of the General category 3.84% 4.78% 4.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 253 418
10th Percentile £416 £465 £500
25th Percentile £506 £600 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £688 £711
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -3.31% -1.93%
75th Percentile £800 £834 £823
90th Percentile £988 £881 £950
England median daily rate £645 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -4.44% -3.57% -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 £18.50
% change year-on-year -57.59% +318.92% -54.32%

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 9,556 8,849 11,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 64.31% 65.30% 63.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,234 5,569 8,478
10th Percentile £350 £325 £337
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £690
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 110 256
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.68 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.81 £18.46
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.81 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.26% +35.02% -
75th Percentile £47.13 £54.88 £50.06
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.44 £73.70
England median hourly rate £22.85 £30.41 £25.37
% change year-on-year -24.85% +19.85% -6.04%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -20 59 £645 +7.50% 15
East London +3 4 £416 -27.65%
South London -8 1 £475 -34.48%
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 20 (5.45%) Confluence
2 9 (2.45%) Apache
3 8 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.91%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.82%) CMS
5 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.54%) SAS
7 1 (0.27%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 24 (6.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.27%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.82%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.27%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 9 (2.45%) Oracle Payables
2 8 (2.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 8 (2.18%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (1.63%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.82%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 2 (0.54%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.54%) Summit
5 2 (0.54%) thinkFolio
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%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (16.89%) Azure
2 55 (14.99%) AWS
3 17 (4.63%) Power Platform
4 15 (4.09%) Snowflake
5 14 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (3.27%) GitHub
6 12 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (2.45%) OCI
8 8 (2.18%) dbt
8 8 (2.18%) GCP
8 8 (2.18%) Serverless
9 5 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.36%) ChatGPT
9 5 (1.36%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.09%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (1.09%) npm
10 4 (1.09%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.09%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.00%) FIX Connectivity
2 5 (1.36%) Firewall
2 5 (1.36%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.36%) VPN
3 4 (1.09%) DMZ
3 4 (1.09%) Multicast
4 2 (0.54%) HTTP
4 2 (0.54%) Network Security
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%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.54%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (4.36%) Relational Database
4 15 (4.09%) Power BI
5 12 (3.27%) Tableau
6 11 (3.00%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.18%) Amazon Athena
7 8 (2.18%) Apache Arrow
7 8 (2.18%) Apache Iceberg
7 8 (2.18%) Apache Ignite
7 8 (2.18%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.18%) DB2
7 8 (2.18%) Dremio
8 7 (1.91%) KDB
8 7 (1.91%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.63%) Metadata
10 5 (1.36%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.36%) Redis
11 4 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.09%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 31 (8.45%) JIRA
2 15 (4.09%) Git
3 10 (2.72%) JUnit
4 8 (2.18%) GitLab
5 6 (1.63%) Cucumber
5 6 (1.63%) Maven
5 6 (1.63%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (1.63%) Selenium
6 5 (1.36%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.09%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.09%) Postman
7 4 (1.09%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.09%) webpack
8 3 (0.82%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.82%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.82%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.54%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.54%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 367 (100.00%) Banking
2 217 (59.13%) Finance
3 121 (32.97%) Social Skills
4 99 (26.98%) Front Office
5 60 (16.35%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (6.27%) Retail Banking
7 17 (4.63%) Corporate Banking
7 17 (4.63%) Financial Institution
8 14 (3.81%) Back Office
8 14 (3.81%) Retail
9 12 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.18%) Legal
11 5 (1.36%) French Language
12 4 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.54%) Marketing
14 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.27%) Law
15 1 (0.27%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 124 (33.79%) Developer
2 75 (20.44%) Analyst
3 64 (17.44%) Senior
4 56 (15.26%) Business Analyst
4 56 (15.26%) Java Developer
5 38 (10.35%) Senior Developer
6 33 (8.99%) Senior Java Developer
7 25 (6.81%) AWS Developer
8 23 (6.27%) Banking Analyst
9 21 (5.72%) Kafka Developer
10 20 (5.45%) C# Developer
11 18 (4.90%) Lead
11 18 (4.90%) Project Manager
12 17 (4.63%) Analytics Developer
12 17 (4.63%) PostgreSQL Developer
13 15 (4.09%) Software Engineer
13 15 (4.09%) Support Engineer
14 13 (3.54%) Azure Engineer
14 13 (3.54%) Electronic Trading Developer
15 12 (3.27%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (10.08%) Kafka
2 35 (9.54%) .NET
3 30 (8.17%) React
4 23 (6.27%) Pandas
5 19 (5.18%) AngularJS
6 18 (4.90%) NumPy
7 16 (4.36%) FIX Protocol
7 16 (4.36%) SciPy
8 14 (3.81%) HTML
8 14 (3.81%) Spring
9 12 (3.27%) JMS
10 11 (3.00%) REST
10 11 (3.00%) XML
11 10 (2.72%) CSS
11 10 (2.72%) FastAPI
12 9 (2.45%) Flask
13 8 (2.18%) gRPC
13 8 (2.18%) Polars
13 8 (2.18%) Protocol Buffers
13 8 (2.18%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 80 (21.80%) Derivative
2 45 (12.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 41 (11.17%) Equities
4 40 (10.90%) Fixed Income
5 29 (7.90%) Hedge funds
5 29 (7.90%) Market Risk
6 27 (7.36%) Management Information System
7 18 (4.90%) Credit Risk
8 14 (3.81%) Onboarding
9 13 (3.54%) Cloud Native
9 13 (3.54%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.45%) TWAP
10 9 (2.45%) VWAP
11 8 (2.18%) AI Agents
11 8 (2.18%) Algorithms
11 8 (2.18%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (2.18%) Pricing Data
11 8 (2.18%) Product Ownership
11 8 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.45%) Linux
2 18 (4.90%) Windows
3 15 (4.09%) Unix
4 7 (1.91%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.36%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.54%) AIX
7 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (22.89%) Agile
2 74 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (13.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 44 (11.99%) Analytics
5 41 (11.17%) DevOps
6 40 (10.90%) CI/CD
6 40 (10.90%) Risk Management
7 38 (10.35%) AI
7 38 (10.35%) Software Engineering
8 37 (10.08%) User Acceptance Testing
9 35 (9.54%) Project Management
10 34 (9.26%) Business Analysis
11 33 (8.99%) TDD
12 30 (8.17%) Asset Management
13 29 (7.90%) Data Analysis
13 29 (7.90%) Multithreading
13 29 (7.90%) SDLC
14 27 (7.36%) Electronic Trading
15 25 (6.81%) Requirements Gathering
16 23 (6.27%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 110 (29.97%) SQL
2 103 (28.07%) Java
3 91 (24.80%) Python
4 56 (15.26%) C#
5 31 (8.45%) JavaScript
6 27 (7.36%) TypeScript
7 20 (5.45%) C++
8 17 (4.63%) PowerShell
9 13 (3.54%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.18%) Rust
11 5 (1.36%) Scala
11 5 (1.36%) VB.NET
11 5 (1.36%) VBA
12 4 (1.09%) Bash
12 4 (1.09%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.82%) Go
13 3 (0.82%) Perl
13 3 (0.82%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.54%) Korn
Qualifications
1 40 (10.90%) Degree
2 12 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 12 (3.27%) Master's Degree
3 8 (2.18%) Azure Certification
4 7 (1.91%) CFA
4 7 (1.91%) PMI Certification
4 7 (1.91%) PMP
5 6 (1.63%) PhD
6 3 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.54%) CISSP
7 2 (0.54%) IIBA
7 2 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.54%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.27%) ACCA
8 1 (0.27%) CCA
8 1 (0.27%) CIMA
8 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.27%) MCSA
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.72%) QA
2 12 (3.27%) MiFID
3 10 (2.72%) EMIR
3 10 (2.72%) PMO
4 9 (2.45%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.91%) SLA
6 6 (1.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.82%) GDPR
7 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.54%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.54%) GRC
8 2 (0.54%) NIST
8 2 (0.54%) SEPA
8 2 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.27%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.27%) FINRA
9 1 (0.27%) IFRS
9 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (5.99%) Docker
2 5 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Firmware
3 1 (0.27%) GridGain
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (5.99%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.63%) SCCM
3 5 (1.36%) Terraform
4 3 (0.82%) Ansible
4 3 (0.82%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 3 (0.82%) WSUS
5 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.54%) Puppet
6 1 (0.27%) Control-M
6 1 (0.27%) Grafana
6 1 (0.27%) HP SiteScope
6 1 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.27%) SCOM
6 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 41 (11.17%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.81%) Oracle
3 17 (4.63%) Bloomberg
4 12 (3.27%) ION Trading
5 11 (3.00%) Murex
5 11 (3.00%) Sybase
6 6 (1.63%) Databricks
7 5 (1.36%) Citrix
7 5 (1.36%) Reuters
7 5 (1.36%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.36%) Splunk
8 4 (1.09%) Charles River
8 4 (1.09%) IBM
8 4 (1.09%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.09%) Refinitiv
8 4 (1.09%) Solace
8 4 (1.09%) UiPath
9 3 (0.82%) Adobe
9 3 (0.82%) NYFIX
9 3 (0.82%) SAP