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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 81 58
Rank change year-on-year -49 -23 -1
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 477 459 621
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.33% 3.43% 3.88%
As % of the General category 3.75% 5.00% 6.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 310 477
10th Percentile £408 £450 £510
25th Percentile £521 £560 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £671 £700 £750
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £788 £825 £850
90th Percentile £938 £925 £888
England median daily rate £663 £700 £750
% change year-on-year -5.36% -6.67% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - £25.09 -
25th Percentile - £34.41 £76.25
Median hourly rate - £55.37 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year - -28.56% -
75th Percentile - £74.69 £78.75
90th Percentile - £83.13 -
England median hourly rate - £55.37 £77.50
% change year-on-year - -28.56% +318.92%

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 12,725 9,178 10,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 62.05% 68.52% 62.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,130 6,045 6,454
10th Percentile £350 £331 £330
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £574
Median % change year-on-year - -4.18% -3.12%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £780 £788 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 179 116
10th Percentile £15.55 £17.88 £17.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £24.50 £25.62
Median hourly rate £28.55 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.34% -10.03% +1.45%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £70.40 £73.13
England median hourly rate £29.00 £25.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.65% -28.36% +16.67%

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 14 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 14 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 -18 71 £684 +1.30% 22
East London +6 5 £875 -2.78% 2
South London -14 2 £650 +8.33% 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 12 (2.52%) Confluence
2 6 (1.26%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.05%) MTS
4 4 (0.84%) Apache
5 3 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.63%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.42%) IIS
7 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 17 (3.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.21%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.68%) Oracle EBS
1 8 (1.68%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (1.26%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.84%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (0.84%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 4 (0.84%) Oracle iProcurement
3 4 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.84%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (0.63%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.42%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.42%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.21%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.21%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.21%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.21%) OneSumX
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 80 (16.77%) Azure
2 58 (12.16%) AWS
3 28 (5.87%) GCP
4 17 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (3.35%) Entra ID
6 15 (3.14%) Power Platform
7 14 (2.94%) SaaS
8 13 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (2.52%) GitHub
10 11 (2.31%) OCI
11 6 (1.26%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.26%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.26%) PowerApps
11 6 (1.26%) Snowflake
12 5 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.05%) Azure Databricks
12 5 (1.05%) Cloud Run
12 5 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (0.84%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.31%) Multicast
2 10 (2.10%) FIX Connectivity
3 9 (1.89%) Firewall
4 6 (1.26%) VPN
5 4 (0.84%) BGP
5 4 (0.84%) HTTP
5 4 (0.84%) Network Security
5 4 (0.84%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.84%) 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 23 (4.82%) SQL Server
2 21 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (3.77%) Metadata
4 15 (3.14%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.73%) Power BI
6 10 (2.10%) Data Vault
6 10 (2.10%) KDB
6 10 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (1.68%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.47%) Chroma
8 7 (1.47%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.47%) Kdb+
8 7 (1.47%) Pinecone
8 7 (1.47%) Weaviate
9 6 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.26%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.26%) Redis
10 5 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (1.05%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.05%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 49 (10.27%) JIRA
2 29 (6.08%) Git
3 11 (2.31%) ER Studio
4 10 (2.10%) ERwin
5 8 (1.68%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.47%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.26%) TeamCity
7 6 (1.26%) webpack
8 5 (1.05%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.05%) GitLab
8 5 (1.05%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (0.63%) Maven
9 3 (0.63%) MSBuild
9 3 (0.63%) Selenium
10 2 (0.42%) GCC
10 2 (0.42%) GDB
10 2 (0.42%) Gradle
10 2 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.42%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.21%) Claude Code
General
1 477 (100.00%) Banking
2 322 (67.51%) Finance
3 152 (31.87%) Front Office
4 121 (25.37%) Social Skills
5 70 (14.68%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (8.18%) Financial Institution
7 35 (7.34%) Corporate Banking
8 32 (6.71%) Retail
8 32 (6.71%) Retail Banking
9 27 (5.66%) Back Office
10 16 (3.35%) Legal
11 14 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (2.10%) Spanish Language
13 9 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (1.05%) General Ledger
17 4 (0.84%) Games
17 4 (0.84%) Law
18 3 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 174 (36.48%) Developer
2 81 (16.98%) Senior
3 80 (16.77%) Analyst
4 60 (12.58%) Java Developer
5 58 (12.16%) Business Analyst
6 44 (9.22%) Senior Developer
7 31 (6.50%) Python Developer
8 26 (5.45%) Lead
9 22 (4.61%) C# Developer
9 22 (4.61%) Project Manager
9 22 (4.61%) Senior Java Developer
10 20 (4.19%) React Developer
10 20 (4.19%) Support Engineer
11 18 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
12 15 (3.14%) Senior React Developer
13 14 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 14 (2.94%) Data Modeller
13 14 (2.94%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 14 (2.94%) UI Developer
14 13 (2.73%) Senior UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (8.81%) React
2 37 (7.76%) .NET
3 30 (6.29%) REST
4 29 (6.08%) FIX Protocol
5 26 (5.45%) AngularJS
6 25 (5.24%) Kafka
7 22 (4.61%) Spring
8 19 (3.98%) Redux
9 17 (3.56%) RESTful
10 15 (3.14%) PySpark
10 15 (3.14%) Terraform
11 14 (2.94%) Flask
11 14 (2.94%) Pandas
11 14 (2.94%) Spring Boot
12 11 (2.31%) FastAPI
12 11 (2.31%) NumPy
12 11 (2.31%) WebSockets
13 10 (2.10%) CSS
13 10 (2.10%) OAuth
14 9 (1.89%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 85 (17.82%) Derivative
2 69 (14.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 57 (11.95%) Fixed Income
4 47 (9.85%) Equities
5 34 (7.13%) Product Ownership
6 26 (5.45%) Market Risk
6 26 (5.45%) Onboarding
7 25 (5.24%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (4.61%) Management Information System
9 18 (3.77%) Data Structures
9 18 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (3.56%) AI Agents
11 16 (3.35%) Reference Data
12 15 (3.14%) Hedge funds
13 13 (2.73%) Algorithms
14 12 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
15 11 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
16 10 (2.10%) Cloud Native
16 10 (2.10%) TWAP
16 10 (2.10%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 36 (7.55%) Linux
2 30 (6.29%) Windows
3 23 (4.82%) Unix
4 4 (0.84%) Android
5 3 (0.63%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.63%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.63%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.21%) Solaris
6 1 (0.21%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (26.21%) Agile
2 101 (21.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 83 (17.40%) Problem-Solving
4 70 (14.68%) CI/CD
5 64 (13.42%) AI
6 59 (12.37%) Low Latency
7 56 (11.74%) Software Engineering
8 55 (11.53%) Electronic Trading
9 51 (10.69%) Analytics
9 51 (10.69%) DevOps
10 45 (9.43%) Migration
11 44 (9.22%) Business Analysis
11 44 (9.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (8.39%) User Stories
13 39 (8.18%) Data Modelling
13 39 (8.18%) Event-Driven
13 39 (8.18%) Translating Business Requirements
14 38 (7.97%) Wealth Management
15 37 (7.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 36 (7.55%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 124 (26.00%) SQL
2 110 (23.06%) Python
3 107 (22.43%) Java
4 70 (14.68%) C#
5 50 (10.48%) TypeScript
6 40 (8.39%) JavaScript
7 19 (3.98%) C++
8 15 (3.14%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.94%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.47%) Bash
11 6 (1.26%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.05%) Tcl
13 4 (0.84%) Rust
14 3 (0.63%) Bicep
14 3 (0.63%) C
14 3 (0.63%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.42%) Korn
15 2 (0.42%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.42%) VBA
16 1 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (7.76%) Degree
2 11 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.68%) PMP
4 7 (1.47%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.26%) Security Cleared
6 5 (1.05%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.84%) ACCA
7 4 (0.84%) CBAP
7 4 (0.84%) CIMA
7 4 (0.84%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.84%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.42%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.42%) CCNP
8 2 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.21%) CISSP
9 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.21%) MCSA
9 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.21%) PhD
9 1 (0.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.03%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.14%) MiFID
3 14 (2.94%) QA
4 10 (2.10%) EMIR
5 5 (1.05%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.05%) PMO
6 4 (0.84%) IFRS
6 4 (0.84%) NIST
7 3 (0.63%) WCAG
8 2 (0.42%) GRC
9 1 (0.21%) COBIT
9 1 (0.21%) COREP
9 1 (0.21%) FINREP
9 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.21%) SEPA
9 1 (0.21%) TARGET2
System Software
1 22 (4.61%) Docker
2 20 (4.19%) Active Directory
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 21 (4.40%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.26%) SCCM
3 5 (1.05%) Ansible
4 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.63%) Grafana
5 3 (0.63%) WSUS
6 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (7.34%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.50%) Oracle
3 17 (3.56%) Databricks
4 16 (3.35%) Bloomberg
5 14 (2.94%) Murex
6 13 (2.73%) OpenAI
7 12 (2.52%) ION Trading
8 10 (2.10%) Citrix
9 9 (1.89%) Tradeweb
10 7 (1.47%) Cisco
10 7 (1.47%) MarketAxess
11 6 (1.26%) Reuters
11 6 (1.26%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.26%) Sybase
12 4 (0.84%) Google
12 4 (0.84%) SAP
12 4 (0.84%) Solace
13 3 (0.63%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.63%) Charles River
13 3 (0.63%) Palo Alto