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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 76 70
Rank change year-on-year -39 -6 -15
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 376 446 586
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.54% 3.22% 3.15%
As % of the General category 3.92% 4.96% 4.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 277 433
10th Percentile £420 £475 £490
25th Percentile £513 £600 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £688 £700
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -1.79% -3.45%
75th Percentile £813 £834 £825
90th Percentile £988 £884 £950
England median daily rate £650 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -3.70% -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% -32.68%

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 9,587 8,992 11,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 64.73% 64.98% 63.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,241 5,661 8,500
10th Percentile £348 £330 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £694
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 159 114 246
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.23 £16.08
25th Percentile £20.82 £25.36 £19.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +20.51% +6.36%
75th Percentile £47.25 £53.11 £51.50
90th Percentile £73.50 £78.40 £73.70
England median hourly rate £22.54 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -24.88% +15.38% +0.30%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -13 59 £645 +6.61% 16
East London +3 4 £416 -27.65%
South London -8 1 £475 -34.48% 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 20 (5.32%) Confluence
2 11 (2.93%) Apache
2 11 (2.93%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.60%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.80%) CMS
4 3 (0.80%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.53%) SAS
6 1 (0.27%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 23 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.19%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.80%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.27%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 7 (1.86%) Oracle Payables
2 6 (1.60%) Fidessa
2 6 (1.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (1.60%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.80%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.53%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.53%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.53%) Summit
4 2 (0.53%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.27%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.27%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.27%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 66 (17.55%) Azure
2 62 (16.49%) AWS
3 19 (5.05%) Power Platform
4 18 (4.79%) Snowflake
5 16 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (3.99%) GitHub
7 13 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (2.93%) dbt
9 10 (2.66%) GCP
10 8 (2.13%) Serverless
11 7 (1.86%) OCI
12 6 (1.60%) ChatGPT
12 6 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.33%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.33%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (1.06%) Azure AI
14 4 (1.06%) Azure AKS
14 4 (1.06%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.66%) FIX Connectivity
2 5 (1.33%) Firewall
2 5 (1.33%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.33%) VPN
3 4 (1.06%) DMZ
3 4 (1.06%) Multicast
4 2 (0.53%) HTTP
4 2 (0.53%) Network Security
4 2 (0.53%) RTMP
4 2 (0.53%) SMS
5 1 (0.27%) DHCP
5 1 (0.27%) DNS
5 1 (0.27%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.27%) SAN
5 1 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.85%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (4.52%) Power BI
3 17 (4.52%) Relational Database
4 13 (3.46%) MongoDB
4 13 (3.46%) Tableau
5 11 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (2.93%) Apache Arrow
5 11 (2.93%) Apache Iceberg
5 11 (2.93%) Apache Ignite
5 11 (2.93%) Data Lake
5 11 (2.93%) Dremio
6 9 (2.39%) DB2
7 8 (2.13%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.86%) KDB
9 6 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.33%) Metadata
10 5 (1.33%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.33%) Redis
11 4 (1.06%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 32 (8.51%) JIRA
2 19 (5.05%) Git
3 12 (3.19%) JUnit
4 8 (2.13%) GitLab
5 7 (1.86%) Maven
6 6 (1.60%) Cucumber
6 6 (1.60%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (1.60%) Selenium
7 5 (1.33%) Jenkins
8 4 (1.06%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.06%) Postman
8 4 (1.06%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.06%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.06%) webpack
9 3 (0.80%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.80%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.53%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.53%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 376 (100.00%) Banking
2 228 (60.64%) Finance
3 123 (32.71%) Social Skills
4 102 (27.13%) Front Office
5 62 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (5.85%) Retail Banking
7 18 (4.79%) Corporate Banking
8 17 (4.52%) Financial Institution
9 15 (3.99%) Back Office
9 15 (3.99%) Retail
10 11 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (2.39%) Legal
12 6 (1.60%) French Language
13 5 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.53%) Marketing
16 2 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
17 1 (0.27%) Games
17 1 (0.27%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 131 (34.84%) Developer
2 74 (19.68%) Analyst
3 69 (18.35%) Senior
4 57 (15.16%) Java Developer
5 55 (14.63%) Business Analyst
6 39 (10.37%) Senior Developer
7 33 (8.78%) Senior Java Developer
8 28 (7.45%) AWS Developer
9 23 (6.12%) Banking Analyst
10 21 (5.59%) C# Developer
11 20 (5.32%) Kafka Developer
12 19 (5.05%) Lead
12 19 (5.05%) Project Manager
13 18 (4.79%) Analytics Developer
13 18 (4.79%) PostgreSQL Developer
14 17 (4.52%) Software Engineer
15 15 (3.99%) Python Engineer
15 15 (3.99%) Support Engineer
16 14 (3.72%) Java Engineer
16 14 (3.72%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (10.64%) Kafka
2 35 (9.31%) .NET
3 32 (8.51%) React
4 28 (7.45%) Pandas
5 23 (6.12%) NumPy
6 21 (5.59%) AngularJS
6 21 (5.59%) SciPy
7 16 (4.26%) FIX Protocol
7 16 (4.26%) Spring
8 14 (3.72%) HTML
8 14 (3.72%) JMS
9 12 (3.19%) FastAPI
9 12 (3.19%) XML
10 11 (2.93%) CSS
10 11 (2.93%) Flask
10 11 (2.93%) gRPC
10 11 (2.93%) Protocol Buffers
11 10 (2.66%) Polars
11 10 (2.66%) Vue
12 9 (2.39%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 84 (22.34%) Derivative
2 52 (13.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 46 (12.23%) Equities
4 42 (11.17%) Fixed Income
5 35 (9.31%) Hedge funds
6 30 (7.98%) Market Risk
7 27 (7.18%) Management Information System
8 18 (4.79%) Credit Risk
9 15 (3.99%) Data Structures
10 14 (3.72%) Onboarding
11 12 (3.19%) Cloud Native
12 11 (2.93%) Pricing Data
13 9 (2.39%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (2.39%) Product Ownership
14 8 (2.13%) AI Agents
14 8 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (2.13%) TWAP
14 8 (2.13%) VWAP
15 7 (1.86%) Algorithms
15 7 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.84%) Linux
2 17 (4.52%) Windows
3 15 (3.99%) Unix
4 7 (1.86%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.33%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.53%) AIX
7 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (23.67%) Agile
2 77 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 44 (11.70%) Analytics
4 44 (11.70%) CI/CD
5 43 (11.44%) DevOps
5 43 (11.44%) Risk Management
6 42 (11.17%) Software Engineering
7 37 (9.84%) AI
8 36 (9.57%) User Acceptance Testing
9 35 (9.31%) Business Analysis
9 35 (9.31%) Project Management
10 33 (8.78%) TDD
11 32 (8.51%) Asset Management
12 31 (8.24%) Multithreading
13 29 (7.71%) Data Analysis
13 29 (7.71%) SDLC
14 26 (6.91%) Electronic Trading
15 25 (6.65%) Mathematics
15 25 (6.65%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 116 (30.85%) SQL
2 107 (28.46%) Java
3 102 (27.13%) Python
4 60 (15.96%) C#
5 35 (9.31%) JavaScript
6 29 (7.71%) TypeScript
7 23 (6.12%) C++
8 16 (4.26%) PowerShell
9 15 (3.99%) Shell Script
10 10 (2.66%) Rust
11 5 (1.33%) Scala
11 5 (1.33%) VB.NET
11 5 (1.33%) VBA
12 4 (1.06%) Go
12 4 (1.06%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.80%) Bash
13 3 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.80%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.53%) Korn
14 2 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 43 (11.44%) Degree
2 15 (3.99%) Master's Degree
3 14 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.13%) Azure Certification
4 8 (2.13%) PMP
5 7 (1.86%) CFA
5 7 (1.86%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.60%) PhD
7 3 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.53%) CISSP
8 2 (0.53%) IIBA
8 2 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.53%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.27%) ACCA
9 1 (0.27%) CCA
9 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.27%) MCSA
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.59%) QA
2 12 (3.19%) MiFID
3 10 (2.66%) EMIR
3 10 (2.66%) PMO
4 9 (2.39%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.86%) SLA
6 6 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.80%) GDPR
7 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.53%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.53%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.53%) GRC
8 2 (0.53%) NIST
8 2 (0.53%) SEPA
8 2 (0.53%) 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 25 (6.65%) Docker
2 5 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Firmware
3 1 (0.27%) GridGain
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (6.65%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.60%) SCCM
2 6 (1.60%) Terraform
3 4 (1.06%) Ansible
4 3 (0.80%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 3 (0.80%) WSUS
5 2 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.53%) Puppet
6 1 (0.27%) Control-M
6 1 (0.27%) Grafana
6 1 (0.27%) HP SiteScope
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Identity Management
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 40 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.12%) Oracle
3 18 (4.79%) Bloomberg
4 12 (3.19%) Sybase
5 11 (2.93%) ION Trading
6 10 (2.66%) Murex
7 7 (1.86%) Databricks
8 5 (1.33%) Citrix
8 5 (1.33%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.33%) Refinitiv
8 5 (1.33%) Reuters
8 5 (1.33%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.33%) Solace
8 5 (1.33%) Splunk
9 4 (1.06%) Charles River
9 4 (1.06%) IBM
9 4 (1.06%) UiPath
10 3 (0.80%) Adobe
10 3 (0.80%) NYFIX
10 3 (0.80%) SAP