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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 82 71
Rank change year-on-year -36 -11 -17
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 372 429 565
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.44% 3.18% 3.05%
As % of the General category 3.81% 4.87% 4.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 255 416
10th Percentile £416 £475 £488
25th Percentile £504 £600 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -3.45%
75th Percentile £790 £850 £814
90th Percentile £988 £885 £938
England median daily rate £645 £689 £700
% change year-on-year -6.39% -1.57% -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 -
% 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 9,767 8,809 11,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 64.06% 65.39% 63.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,362 5,580 8,413
10th Percentile £350 £325 £335
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £688
90th Percentile £785 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 109 255
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.60 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £26.25 £18.90
Median hourly rate £31.49 £38.11 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.37% +31.41% +1.75%
75th Percentile £49.69 £55.25 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.47 £73.71
England median hourly rate £23.00 £30.40 £25.71
% change year-on-year -24.36% +18.24% -11.04%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -17 60 £645 +7.50% 7
East London +3 4 £416 -27.65%
South London -13 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 (5.38%) Confluence
2 7 (1.88%) Apache
2 7 (1.88%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.08%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.81%) CMS
6 2 (0.54%) SAS
7 1 (0.27%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 24 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.23%) MS Visio
4 8 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.81%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.27%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 10 (2.69%) Oracle Payables
2 9 (2.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 9 (2.42%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (1.61%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.81%) 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 (16.67%) Azure
2 57 (15.32%) AWS
3 18 (4.84%) Power Platform
4 14 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (3.49%) GitHub
5 13 (3.49%) Snowflake
6 12 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (2.69%) OCI
8 9 (2.42%) GCP
9 8 (2.15%) Serverless
10 6 (1.61%) dbt
11 5 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.34%) ChatGPT
11 5 (1.34%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.34%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.34%) PowerApps
12 4 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.08%) Google Workspace
12 4 (1.08%) npm
12 4 (1.08%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.23%) FIX Connectivity
2 5 (1.34%) Firewall
2 5 (1.34%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.34%) VPN
3 4 (1.08%) DMZ
3 4 (1.08%) 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 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (4.30%) Relational Database
4 15 (4.03%) Power BI
5 12 (3.23%) Tableau
6 11 (2.96%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.15%) DB2
8 7 (1.88%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (1.61%) Apache Arrow
9 6 (1.61%) Apache Iceberg
9 6 (1.61%) Apache Ignite
9 6 (1.61%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.61%) Dremio
9 6 (1.61%) KDB
9 6 (1.61%) Metadata
10 5 (1.34%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.34%) Redis
11 4 (1.08%) Big Data
11 4 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 31 (8.33%) JIRA
2 15 (4.03%) Git
3 10 (2.69%) JUnit
4 9 (2.42%) GitLab
5 6 (1.61%) Cucumber
5 6 (1.61%) Maven
5 6 (1.61%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (1.61%) Selenium
6 5 (1.34%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.08%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.08%) Postman
7 4 (1.08%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.08%) webpack
8 3 (0.81%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.81%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.81%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.54%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.54%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 372 (100.00%) Banking
2 221 (59.41%) Finance
3 120 (32.26%) Social Skills
4 99 (26.61%) Front Office
5 60 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (6.72%) Retail Banking
7 19 (5.11%) Corporate Banking
7 19 (5.11%) Financial Institution
8 16 (4.30%) Retail
9 15 (4.03%) Back Office
10 12 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (2.15%) Legal
12 5 (1.34%) French Language
13 4 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.54%) Marketing
16 1 (0.27%) International Banking
16 1 (0.27%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 126 (33.87%) Developer
2 77 (20.70%) Analyst
3 64 (17.20%) Senior
4 58 (15.59%) Business Analyst
4 58 (15.59%) Java Developer
5 40 (10.75%) Senior Developer
6 34 (9.14%) Senior Java Developer
7 26 (6.99%) AWS Developer
8 23 (6.18%) Banking Analyst
9 22 (5.91%) Kafka Developer
10 20 (5.38%) Project Manager
11 19 (5.11%) C# Developer
12 18 (4.84%) Analytics Developer
12 18 (4.84%) PostgreSQL Developer
13 17 (4.57%) Lead
14 15 (4.03%) Support Engineer
15 14 (3.76%) Electronic Trading Developer
16 13 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
16 13 (3.49%) Software Engineer
17 12 (3.23%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (10.22%) Kafka
2 34 (9.14%) .NET
3 32 (8.60%) React
4 21 (5.65%) Pandas
5 19 (5.11%) AngularJS
6 17 (4.57%) FIX Protocol
7 16 (4.30%) NumPy
8 14 (3.76%) HTML
8 14 (3.76%) SciPy
8 14 (3.76%) Spring
9 12 (3.23%) JMS
10 11 (2.96%) CSS
10 11 (2.96%) REST
10 11 (2.96%) XML
11 10 (2.69%) FastAPI
12 9 (2.42%) Flask
13 8 (2.15%) Polars
13 8 (2.15%) Redux
13 8 (2.15%) Vue
14 7 (1.88%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 80 (21.51%) Derivative
2 44 (11.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 41 (11.02%) Equities
4 38 (10.22%) Fixed Income
5 31 (8.33%) Market Risk
6 29 (7.80%) Management Information System
7 27 (7.26%) Hedge funds
8 18 (4.84%) Credit Risk
9 14 (3.76%) Onboarding
10 13 (3.49%) Cloud Native
11 12 (3.23%) Data Structures
12 10 (2.69%) TWAP
12 10 (2.69%) VWAP
13 9 (2.42%) Algorithms
14 8 (2.15%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (1.88%) AI Agents
15 7 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
16 6 (1.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.06%) Linux
2 18 (4.84%) Windows
3 14 (3.76%) Unix
4 7 (1.88%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.34%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.54%) AIX
7 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (21.24%) Agile
2 75 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (13.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 47 (12.63%) Analytics
5 42 (11.29%) Risk Management
6 41 (11.02%) CI/CD
6 41 (11.02%) DevOps
7 40 (10.75%) User Acceptance Testing
8 39 (10.48%) AI
9 36 (9.68%) Business Analysis
9 36 (9.68%) Software Engineering
10 35 (9.41%) Project Management
10 35 (9.41%) TDD
11 30 (8.06%) Asset Management
11 30 (8.06%) Data Analysis
11 30 (8.06%) Multithreading
12 28 (7.53%) Electronic Trading
12 28 (7.53%) SDLC
13 26 (6.99%) Requirements Gathering
14 25 (6.72%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 110 (29.57%) SQL
2 103 (27.69%) Java
3 91 (24.46%) Python
4 55 (14.78%) C#
5 31 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 26 (6.99%) TypeScript
7 20 (5.38%) C++
8 17 (4.57%) PowerShell
9 13 (3.49%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.15%) Rust
11 6 (1.61%) Scala
12 5 (1.34%) VB.NET
12 5 (1.34%) VBA
13 4 (1.08%) Bash
13 4 (1.08%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.81%) Go
14 3 (0.81%) Perl
14 3 (0.81%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.54%) Korn
Qualifications
1 41 (11.02%) Degree
2 12 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 12 (3.23%) Master's Degree
3 8 (2.15%) Azure Certification
3 8 (2.15%) PMI Certification
3 8 (2.15%) PMP
4 7 (1.88%) CFA
5 6 (1.61%) PhD
6 3 (0.81%) 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%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.65%) QA
2 12 (3.23%) MiFID
3 10 (2.69%) EMIR
4 9 (2.42%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.42%) PMO
5 7 (1.88%) SLA
6 6 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.81%) GDPR
7 3 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.54%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.54%) EU AI Act
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%) FINRA
9 1 (0.27%) IFRS
9 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (6.18%) Docker
2 5 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Firmware
3 1 (0.27%) GridGain
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (6.18%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.61%) SCCM
3 5 (1.34%) Terraform
4 3 (0.81%) Ansible
4 3 (0.81%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 3 (0.81%) 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 43 (11.56%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.99%) Oracle
3 17 (4.57%) Bloomberg
4 12 (3.23%) ION Trading
4 12 (3.23%) Murex
5 11 (2.96%) Sybase
6 6 (1.61%) Databricks
7 5 (1.34%) Citrix
7 5 (1.34%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.34%) Reuters
7 5 (1.34%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.34%) Splunk
8 4 (1.08%) Charles River
8 4 (1.08%) IBM
8 4 (1.08%) Refinitiv
8 4 (1.08%) Solace
8 4 (1.08%) UiPath
9 3 (0.81%) Adobe
9 3 (0.81%) NYFIX
9 3 (0.81%) SAP