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 3 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 81 58
Rank change year-on-year -47 -23 +1
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 473 469 638
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.32% 3.48% 3.93%
As % of the General category 3.76% 5.06% 6.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 312 501
10th Percentile £412 £463 £500
25th Percentile £525 £563 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £790 £825 £850
90th Percentile £938 £925 £888
England median daily rate £675 £700 £750
% change year-on-year -3.57% -6.67% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £78.75 -
England median hourly rate - £78.75 -

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 12,568 9,268 10,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.75% 68.70% 62.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,012 6,090 6,586
10th Percentile £350 £325 £330
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
England median daily rate £525 £501 £533
% change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 179 120
10th Percentile £16.09 £17.06 £17.95
25th Percentile £20.38 £24.56 £25.93
Median hourly rate £28.40 £31.50 £36.15
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% -12.86% +22.54%
75th Percentile £47.50 £48.50 £54.06
90th Percentile £73.23 £65.11 £68.33
England median hourly rate £29.50 £25.15 £36.00
% change year-on-year +17.30% -30.14% +25.22%

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 3 October 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
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 3 October 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 -26 71 £693 -1.07% 41
East London +6 5 £875 -2.78%
South London -9 2 £650 +8.33%
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 10 (2.11%) Confluence
2 5 (1.06%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.06%) MTS
3 3 (0.63%) Apache
3 3 (0.63%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.42%) IIS
5 1 (0.21%) CICS
5 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 17 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.63%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.21%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.69%) Aladdin
1 8 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
1 8 (1.69%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (0.85%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (0.85%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 4 (0.85%) Oracle iProcurement
2 4 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (0.63%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (0.63%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.42%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.21%) Actimize
5 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.21%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.21%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.21%) Summit
5 1 (0.21%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 81 (17.12%) Azure
2 55 (11.63%) AWS
3 27 (5.71%) GCP
4 17 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (3.59%) Entra ID
5 16 (3.38%) Power Platform
6 14 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (2.96%) SaaS
7 12 (2.54%) GitHub
8 11 (2.33%) OCI
9 7 (1.48%) Snowflake
10 6 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (1.27%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.27%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.06%) Azure Databricks
11 5 (1.06%) Cloud Run
11 5 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (0.85%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.33%) FIX Connectivity
2 10 (2.11%) Multicast
3 9 (1.90%) Firewall
4 6 (1.27%) HTTP
4 6 (1.27%) VPN
5 4 (0.85%) BGP
5 4 (0.85%) Network Security
5 4 (0.85%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.85%) Wireless
6 3 (0.63%) DMZ
6 3 (0.63%) SSH
6 3 (0.63%) WAN
7 2 (0.42%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.42%) DWDM
7 2 (0.42%) Internet
7 2 (0.42%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.42%) MPLS
7 2 (0.42%) OSPF
7 2 (0.42%) VLAN
7 2 (0.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.02%) Metadata
3 17 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (2.96%) Power BI
4 14 (2.96%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.11%) KDB
6 9 (1.90%) Chroma
6 9 (1.90%) Data Vault
6 9 (1.90%) Pinecone
6 9 (1.90%) Weaviate
7 8 (1.69%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.48%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.48%) Kdb+
9 6 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.27%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.06%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.06%) Redis
11 4 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 48 (10.15%) JIRA
2 27 (5.71%) Git
3 11 (2.33%) ER Studio
4 10 (2.11%) ERwin
5 7 (1.48%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.48%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.27%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.06%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.06%) GitLab
7 5 (1.06%) PowerDesigner
7 5 (1.06%) webpack
8 3 (0.63%) MSBuild
8 3 (0.63%) Selenium
9 2 (0.42%) Maven
9 2 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.42%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.21%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.21%) CMake
10 1 (0.21%) Gradle
10 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
General
1 473 (100.00%) Banking
2 316 (66.81%) Finance
3 151 (31.92%) Front Office
4 116 (24.52%) Social Skills
5 62 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (8.03%) Corporate Banking
7 35 (7.40%) Financial Institution
7 35 (7.40%) Retail
7 35 (7.40%) Retail Banking
8 23 (4.86%) Back Office
9 17 (3.59%) Legal
10 14 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (2.11%) Spanish Language
12 8 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.06%) General Ledger
16 4 (0.85%) Games
16 4 (0.85%) Law
17 3 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 167 (35.31%) Developer
2 83 (17.55%) Senior
3 75 (15.86%) Analyst
4 60 (12.68%) Java Developer
5 59 (12.47%) Business Analyst
6 45 (9.51%) Senior Developer
7 29 (6.13%) Python Developer
8 27 (5.71%) Lead
9 24 (5.07%) Senior Java Developer
10 22 (4.65%) Project Manager
11 21 (4.44%) C# Developer
11 21 (4.44%) Support Engineer
12 20 (4.23%) React Developer
13 16 (3.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 16 (3.38%) Senior React Developer
14 15 (3.17%) Full-Stack Developer
14 15 (3.17%) UI Developer
15 14 (2.96%) Data Modeller
15 14 (2.96%) Senior UI Developer
16 13 (2.75%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (9.09%) React
2 39 (8.25%) .NET
3 32 (6.77%) FIX Protocol
4 25 (5.29%) AngularJS
4 25 (5.29%) REST
5 22 (4.65%) Kafka
6 21 (4.44%) Redux
7 18 (3.81%) Spring
8 17 (3.59%) RESTful
9 16 (3.38%) Terraform
10 13 (2.75%) WebSockets
11 12 (2.54%) Flask
11 12 (2.54%) Pandas
11 12 (2.54%) PySpark
12 11 (2.33%) LangChain
12 11 (2.33%) Spring Boot
13 10 (2.11%) OAuth
14 9 (1.90%) FastAPI
14 9 (1.90%) NumPy
14 9 (1.90%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 89 (18.82%) Derivative
2 70 (14.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 57 (12.05%) Fixed Income
4 48 (10.15%) Equities
5 34 (7.19%) Product Ownership
6 27 (5.71%) Onboarding
7 25 (5.29%) Greenfield Project
8 23 (4.86%) Market Risk
9 20 (4.23%) Management Information System
10 19 (4.02%) AI Agents
10 19 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
11 18 (3.81%) Data Structures
12 15 (3.17%) Hedge funds
13 14 (2.96%) Algorithms
14 12 (2.54%) Reference Data
15 11 (2.33%) Cloud Native
15 11 (2.33%) Credit Risk
15 11 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
15 11 (2.33%) TWAP
15 11 (2.33%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 34 (7.19%) Linux
2 31 (6.55%) Windows
3 23 (4.86%) Unix
4 4 (0.85%) Android
4 4 (0.85%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.63%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.63%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.42%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.21%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (25.37%) Agile
2 92 (19.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 76 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
4 68 (14.38%) AI
5 66 (13.95%) CI/CD
6 63 (13.32%) Low Latency
7 58 (12.26%) Software Engineering
8 56 (11.84%) Electronic Trading
9 53 (11.21%) Analytics
10 47 (9.94%) DevOps
11 42 (8.88%) Business Analysis
11 42 (8.88%) Wealth Management
12 40 (8.46%) Migration
13 39 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
14 38 (8.03%) Data Modelling
14 38 (8.03%) Event-Driven
14 38 (8.03%) Translating Business Requirements
15 37 (7.82%) Full-Stack Development
16 36 (7.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 36 (7.61%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 116 (24.52%) SQL
2 109 (23.04%) Python
3 106 (22.41%) Java
4 75 (15.86%) C#
5 52 (10.99%) TypeScript
6 40 (8.46%) JavaScript
7 21 (4.44%) C++
8 17 (3.59%) PowerShell
9 12 (2.54%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.48%) Bash
11 6 (1.27%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.27%) Rust
12 5 (1.06%) Tcl
13 3 (0.63%) Bicep
13 3 (0.63%) C
13 3 (0.63%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.42%) Korn
14 2 (0.42%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.42%) Scala
14 2 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (7.40%) Degree
2 10 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.69%) Azure Certification
3 8 (1.69%) PMP
4 6 (1.27%) Security Cleared
5 5 (1.06%) PMI Certification
6 4 (0.85%) ACCA
6 4 (0.85%) CIMA
6 4 (0.85%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.85%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.63%) CBAP
8 2 (0.42%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.42%) CCNP
8 2 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.21%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (0.21%) CISSP
9 1 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.21%) FFIEC
9 1 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.02%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.59%) MiFID
3 13 (2.75%) QA
4 10 (2.11%) EMIR
5 6 (1.27%) PMO
6 5 (1.06%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.85%) IFRS
7 4 (0.85%) NIST
8 3 (0.63%) WCAG
9 2 (0.42%) GRC
10 1 (0.21%) COBIT
10 1 (0.21%) COREP
10 1 (0.21%) FINREP
10 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.21%) SEPA
10 1 (0.21%) TARGET2
System Software
1 21 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 20 (4.23%) Docker
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (4.23%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.27%) SCCM
3 5 (1.06%) Ansible
3 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.63%) Grafana
4 3 (0.63%) WSUS
5 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (7.61%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.34%) Oracle
3 16 (3.38%) Bloomberg
3 16 (3.38%) Databricks
4 15 (3.17%) OpenAI
5 13 (2.75%) Murex
6 10 (2.11%) Citrix
6 10 (2.11%) ION Trading
7 9 (1.90%) Tradeweb
8 7 (1.48%) Cisco
8 7 (1.48%) MarketAxess
9 6 (1.27%) Reuters
10 5 (1.06%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.06%) Solace
10 5 (1.06%) Sybase
11 4 (0.85%) Adobe
11 4 (0.85%) Charles River
11 4 (0.85%) Google
11 4 (0.85%) SAP
12 3 (0.63%) Atlassian