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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 75 75
Rank change year-on-year -49 0 -23
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 364 452 552
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.26% 3.43% 3.02%
As % of the General category 3.58% 5.19% 4.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 279 402
10th Percentile £413 £450 £486
25th Percentile £500 £608 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £725 £705
Median % change year-on-year -12.93% +2.84% -2.76%
75th Percentile £788 £875 £824
90th Percentile £988 £883 £938
England median daily rate £625 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -10.71% - -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 -
% change year-on-year -57.59% - -

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 10,176 8,704 11,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.12% 66.05% 63.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,643 5,694 8,256
10th Percentile £350 £333 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £690
90th Percentile £781 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 125 269
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.18 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.75 £19.00
Median hourly rate £28.55 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.43% +16.67% -6.98%
75th Percentile £48.25 £55.25 £49.08
90th Percentile £71.00 £78.40 £72.55
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.31 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.51% +16.56% -20.00%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -23 57 £625 +2.46% 14
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 17 (4.67%) Confluence
2 7 (1.92%) Apache
2 7 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.82%) CMS
4 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.55%) SAS
6 1 (0.27%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 22 (6.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.30%) MS Visio
4 11 (3.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.82%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.27%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 13 (3.57%) Oracle Payables
2 12 (3.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 12 (3.30%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.37%) Aladdin
3 5 (1.37%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.82%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.55%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 2 (0.55%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.55%) Summit
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 56 (15.38%) AWS
2 55 (15.11%) Azure
3 13 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (3.57%) OCI
3 13 (3.57%) Power Platform
4 12 (3.30%) GitHub
4 12 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (3.30%) Snowflake
5 11 (3.02%) GCP
6 6 (1.65%) Serverless
7 5 (1.37%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.37%) npm
7 5 (1.37%) Power Automate
7 5 (1.37%) PowerApps
7 5 (1.37%) Yarn
8 4 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.10%) ChatGPT
8 4 (1.10%) dbt
8 4 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.10%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.12%) FIX Connectivity
2 5 (1.37%) Firewall
2 5 (1.37%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.37%) VPN
3 4 (1.10%) DMZ
3 4 (1.10%) Multicast
4 2 (0.55%) HTTP
4 2 (0.55%) RTMP
4 2 (0.55%) 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 22 (6.04%) SQL Server
2 19 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (4.12%) Relational Database
4 11 (3.02%) Power BI
5 8 (2.20%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.92%) Metadata
6 7 (1.92%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.92%) Tableau
7 6 (1.65%) Apache Ignite
7 6 (1.65%) DB2
7 6 (1.65%) KDB
7 6 (1.65%) Redis
8 5 (1.37%) Big Data
8 5 (1.37%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.10%) Apache Arrow
9 4 (1.10%) Apache Iceberg
9 4 (1.10%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.10%) Dremio
10 3 (0.82%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 28 (7.69%) JIRA
2 12 (3.30%) Git
3 8 (2.20%) GitLab
4 7 (1.92%) JUnit
4 7 (1.92%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (1.37%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.37%) Selenium
5 5 (1.37%) TeamCity
5 5 (1.37%) webpack
6 4 (1.10%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.10%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.82%) Maven
7 3 (0.82%) Postman
7 3 (0.82%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.82%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.55%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.27%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.27%) Mocha
General
1 364 (100.00%) Banking
2 221 (60.71%) Finance
3 111 (30.49%) Social Skills
4 104 (28.57%) Front Office
5 53 (14.56%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (8.24%) Retail Banking
7 25 (6.87%) Financial Institution
8 21 (5.77%) Retail
9 20 (5.49%) Corporate Banking
10 14 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (3.02%) Back Office
12 10 (2.75%) Legal
13 7 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (1.10%) French Language
16 3 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 2 (0.55%) Aviation
17 2 (0.55%) Marketing
18 1 (0.27%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 124 (34.07%) Developer
2 72 (19.78%) Analyst
3 58 (15.93%) Java Developer
4 56 (15.38%) Business Analyst
5 55 (15.11%) Senior
6 37 (10.16%) Senior Developer
7 31 (8.52%) Senior Java Developer
8 23 (6.32%) Banking Analyst
9 22 (6.04%) AWS Developer
10 20 (5.49%) C# Developer
10 20 (5.49%) Kafka Developer
10 20 (5.49%) Project Manager
11 18 (4.95%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 18 (4.95%) Lead
12 16 (4.40%) Analytics Developer
12 16 (4.40%) PostgreSQL Developer
12 16 (4.40%) Support Engineer
13 15 (4.12%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
14 14 (3.85%) Low Latency Java Developer
15 13 (3.57%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (9.89%) Kafka
2 33 (9.07%) .NET
3 30 (8.24%) React
4 18 (4.95%) FIX Protocol
5 17 (4.67%) AngularJS
6 16 (4.40%) Pandas
7 15 (4.12%) HTML
7 15 (4.12%) Spring
8 13 (3.57%) CSS
9 12 (3.30%) NumPy
10 10 (2.75%) REST
10 10 (2.75%) SciPy
10 10 (2.75%) XML
11 9 (2.47%) JMS
11 9 (2.47%) Redux
12 8 (2.20%) FastAPI
13 7 (1.92%) Flask
13 7 (1.92%) HTML5
14 6 (1.65%) Polars
14 6 (1.65%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 78 (21.43%) Derivative
2 41 (11.26%) Equities
3 40 (10.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 36 (9.89%) Fixed Income
5 28 (7.69%) Market Risk
6 25 (6.87%) Management Information System
7 22 (6.04%) Hedge funds
8 18 (4.95%) Credit Risk
9 15 (4.12%) Cloud Native
10 14 (3.85%) Data Structures
10 14 (3.85%) Onboarding
11 13 (3.57%) TWAP
11 13 (3.57%) VWAP
12 9 (2.47%) Algorithms
13 8 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
15 6 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (1.65%) Product Ownership
16 5 (1.37%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.14%) Linux
2 19 (5.22%) Windows
3 14 (3.85%) Unix
4 7 (1.92%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.10%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.55%) AIX
7 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (20.88%) Agile
2 68 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (13.19%) Stakeholder Management
4 47 (12.91%) Analytics
5 42 (11.54%) DevOps
6 40 (10.99%) CI/CD
7 39 (10.71%) Risk Management
8 38 (10.44%) Business Analysis
9 37 (10.16%) AI
9 37 (10.16%) TDD
9 37 (10.16%) User Acceptance Testing
10 34 (9.34%) Asset Management
11 33 (9.07%) Project Management
12 31 (8.52%) Electronic Trading
13 29 (7.97%) Multithreading
14 28 (7.69%) Software Engineering
15 26 (7.14%) Data Analysis
15 26 (7.14%) Low Latency
15 26 (7.14%) Test Automation
16 25 (6.87%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 101 (27.75%) SQL
2 99 (27.20%) Java
3 85 (23.35%) Python
4 50 (13.74%) C#
5 25 (6.87%) JavaScript
5 25 (6.87%) TypeScript
6 16 (4.40%) C++
7 15 (4.12%) PowerShell
8 10 (2.75%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.65%) Rust
10 5 (1.37%) Scala
10 5 (1.37%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.10%) Bash
12 3 (0.82%) Go
12 3 (0.82%) Perl
12 3 (0.82%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.82%) VBA
13 2 (0.55%) Korn
13 2 (0.55%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.27%) F#
Qualifications
1 36 (9.89%) Degree
2 13 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (3.57%) Master's Degree
3 9 (2.47%) PMP
4 8 (2.20%) PMI Certification
5 7 (1.92%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.65%) PhD
7 4 (1.10%) CFA
8 3 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.82%) CISSP
9 2 (0.55%) ACCA
9 2 (0.55%) IIBA
9 2 (0.55%) Security Cleared
9 2 (0.55%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 2 (0.55%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 1 (0.27%) CCA
10 1 (0.27%) CIMA
10 1 (0.27%) CISA
10 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.67%) QA
2 12 (3.30%) MiFID
3 11 (3.02%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.75%) PMO
5 9 (2.47%) SLA
6 8 (2.20%) EMIR
7 7 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.10%) GDPR
9 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.55%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.55%) GRC
10 2 (0.55%) NIST
10 2 (0.55%) SEPA
11 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.27%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.27%) FINRA
11 1 (0.27%) IFRS
11 1 (0.27%) ITGC
11 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 22 (6.04%) Docker
2 6 (1.65%) 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 20 (5.49%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.92%) SCCM
3 3 (0.82%) Terraform
3 3 (0.82%) Thomson Reuters DACS
3 3 (0.82%) WSUS
4 2 (0.55%) Ansible
4 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.55%) Puppet
4 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.27%) Control-M
5 1 (0.27%) Grafana
5 1 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Identity Management
5 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.27%) WMI
5 1 (0.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 39 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.69%) Oracle
3 17 (4.67%) Bloomberg
4 15 (4.12%) Murex
5 11 (3.02%) ION Trading
6 8 (2.20%) Sybase
7 7 (1.92%) Charles River
8 6 (1.65%) Citrix
8 6 (1.65%) Reuters
9 4 (1.10%) Databricks
9 4 (1.10%) IBM
9 4 (1.10%) Refinitiv
9 4 (1.10%) Splunk
9 4 (1.10%) UiPath
10 3 (0.82%) Adobe
10 3 (0.82%) CyberArk
10 3 (0.82%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.82%) Pega
10 3 (0.82%) SAP
10 3 (0.82%) Solace