Investment Banking Contracts 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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 63 53
Rank change year-on-year -2 -10 +7
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 541 608 1,057
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.99% 3.54% 4.19%
As % of the General category 5.85% 5.69% 6.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 504 784
10th Percentile £442 £525 £500
25th Percentile £613 £613 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £838 £888 £825
90th Percentile £881 - £950
England median daily rate £750 £775 £700
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £73.25 - -
25th Percentile £78.13 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £94.38 - -
90th Percentile £97.75 - -
England median hourly rate £87.50 £19.50 £44.25
% change year-on-year +348.72% -55.93% -26.25%

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 common skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,244 10,687 16,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 68.15% 62.25% 63.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,167 7,575 11,737
10th Percentile £331 £334 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +2.39%
75th Percentile £690 £700 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £825
England median daily rate £513 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -3.30% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 197 188
10th Percentile £15.84 £16.40 £17.99
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.50 £21.92
Median hourly rate £32.25 £33.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% -5.51% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £48.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £68.30 £73.25
England median hourly rate £26.31 £35.00 £30.52
% change year-on-year -24.83% +14.68% +27.17%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Investment Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in London.

Daily rate trend for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in London over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in London.

Hourly rate trend for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Investment Banking in London over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

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 18 July 2025. 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 0 82 £675 -3.57% 30
South London - 4 £725 - 12
East London +14 3 £900 +66.67% 1
Investment Banking
England

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 61 (11.28%) Apache
2 57 (10.54%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.40%) Confluence
4 9 (1.66%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.92%) MQSeries
6 3 (0.55%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.18%) Appian
7 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.37%) UserZoom
5 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.18%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (0.92%) ION Anvil
2 4 (0.74%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.55%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.55%) thinkFolio
4 2 (0.37%) Actimize
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.18%) Bankmaster
5 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.18%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.18%) Murex MxG2000
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 139 (25.69%) AWS
2 91 (16.82%) Azure
3 58 (10.72%) Snowflake
4 56 (10.35%) dbt
5 37 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (4.99%) Power Platform
7 25 (4.62%) GCP
8 15 (2.77%) GitHub
9 11 (2.03%) SaaS
10 10 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (1.85%) npm
10 10 (1.85%) Yarn
11 8 (1.48%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (1.11%) Figma
13 6 (1.11%) OpenShift
14 5 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (0.92%) PowerApps
14 5 (0.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.92%) Multicast
2 4 (0.74%) FIX Connectivity
3 3 (0.55%) BGP
3 3 (0.55%) Firewall
3 3 (0.55%) OSPF
3 3 (0.55%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.55%) Unicast
4 1 (0.18%) ATM
4 1 (0.18%) DHCP
4 1 (0.18%) DNS
4 1 (0.18%) tcpdump
4 1 (0.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (10.54%) Amazon Athena
2 56 (10.35%) Apache Arrow
2 56 (10.35%) Apache Iceberg
2 56 (10.35%) Dremio
3 41 (7.58%) Data Lake
4 40 (7.39%) Apache Ignite
5 38 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
6 27 (4.99%) Power BI
7 26 (4.81%) Redis
7 26 (4.81%) SQL Server
8 24 (4.44%) Relational Database
9 19 (3.51%) MongoDB
10 15 (2.77%) DB2
11 14 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (1.66%) Power Query
12 9 (1.66%) Tableau
13 8 (1.48%) Data Mining
13 8 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (1.29%) Metadata
14 7 (1.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 51 (9.43%) Git
2 29 (5.36%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.51%) JIRA
4 17 (3.14%) JUnit
5 15 (2.77%) Bitbucket
6 11 (2.03%) TeamCity
7 10 (1.85%) webpack
8 7 (1.29%) Maven
8 7 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
9 6 (1.11%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.92%) Selenium
11 4 (0.74%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.55%) GitLab
12 3 (0.55%) Postman
13 2 (0.37%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.37%) ERwin
13 2 (0.37%) Gradle
13 2 (0.37%) MagicDraw
13 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 541 (100.00%) Banking
2 337 (62.29%) Finance
3 173 (31.98%) Social Skills
4 148 (27.36%) Front Office
5 140 (25.88%) Analytical Skills
6 57 (10.54%) Retail Banking
7 52 (9.61%) Retail
8 50 (9.24%) Corporate Banking
9 26 (4.81%) Financial Institution
10 22 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (2.59%) Back Office
12 8 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.29%) Legal
14 5 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.92%) Marketing
15 2 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.37%) Portuguese Language
15 2 (0.37%) Spanish Language
16 1 (0.18%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.18%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 229 (42.33%) Developer
2 110 (20.33%) Senior
3 89 (16.45%) Analyst
4 80 (14.79%) Java Developer
5 72 (13.31%) Software Engineer
6 60 (11.09%) AWS Engineer
7 56 (10.35%) AWS Software Engineer
7 56 (10.35%) Java Engineer
8 53 (9.80%) Python Developer
9 52 (9.61%) Python Engineer
10 51 (9.43%) Java Software Engineer
10 51 (9.43%) Senior Developer
11 47 (8.69%) Business Analyst
12 45 (8.32%) Python Software Engineer
13 43 (7.95%) AWS Developer
14 39 (7.21%) Senior Software Engineer
15 38 (7.02%) Senior Java Engineer
15 38 (7.02%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 32 (5.91%) Lead
17 29 (5.36%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (11.46%) Pandas
2 61 (11.28%) React
3 60 (11.09%) NumPy
4 59 (10.91%) Kafka
5 58 (10.72%) SciPy
6 51 (9.43%) .NET
7 47 (8.69%) gRPC
8 46 (8.50%) Protocol Buffers
9 31 (5.73%) AngularJS
9 31 (5.73%) Spring
10 29 (5.36%) FastAPI
11 28 (5.18%) PySpark
12 24 (4.44%) CSS
13 21 (3.88%) FIX Protocol
13 21 (3.88%) Flask
14 19 (3.51%) ActiveMQ
14 19 (3.51%) Vue
15 18 (3.33%) Polars
16 17 (3.14%) REST
17 16 (2.96%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 132 (24.40%) Derivative
2 124 (22.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 107 (19.78%) Equities
4 94 (17.38%) Fixed Income
5 80 (14.79%) Hedge funds
6 39 (7.21%) Market Risk
7 35 (6.47%) Pricing Data
8 22 (4.07%) Data Structures
9 21 (3.88%) Product Ownership
10 20 (3.70%) Onboarding
11 17 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
11 17 (3.14%) Management Information System
12 14 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (2.40%) Algorithms
13 13 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
13 13 (2.40%) Reference Data
14 9 (1.66%) Cloud Native
15 8 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (1.48%) Blockchain
15 8 (1.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 61 (11.28%) Linux
2 21 (3.88%) Windows
3 8 (1.48%) Unix
4 3 (0.55%) Android
4 3 (0.55%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.55%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (33.64%) Agile
2 108 (19.96%) Problem-Solving
3 102 (18.85%) DevOps
3 102 (18.85%) Software Engineering
4 70 (12.94%) Analytics
5 63 (11.65%) Asset Management
5 63 (11.65%) Wealth Management
6 62 (11.46%) CI/CD
6 62 (11.46%) Risk Management
7 54 (9.98%) SDLC
8 53 (9.80%) Electronic Trading
8 53 (9.80%) Mathematics
9 48 (8.87%) Computer Science
10 46 (8.50%) TDD
11 43 (7.95%) Investment Management
12 41 (7.58%) Multithreading
13 38 (7.02%) Data Engineering
13 38 (7.02%) Stakeholder Management
14 37 (6.84%) Low Latency
15 36 (6.65%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 213 (39.37%) Python
2 208 (38.45%) Java
3 166 (30.68%) SQL
4 98 (18.11%) JavaScript
5 80 (14.79%) C#
6 76 (14.05%) TypeScript
7 47 (8.69%) C++
8 20 (3.70%) Shell Script
9 16 (2.96%) PowerShell
9 16 (2.96%) Rust
10 13 (2.40%) Scala
11 8 (1.48%) Bicep
11 8 (1.48%) DAML
12 7 (1.29%) Bash
12 7 (1.29%) C
12 7 (1.29%) Haskell
13 5 (0.92%) VBA
14 4 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.74%) Perl
15 3 (0.55%) RPG
Qualifications
1 53 (9.80%) Degree
2 23 (4.25%) Numerate Degree
3 22 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (0.92%) Master's Degree
4 5 (0.92%) PMP
5 4 (0.74%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.55%) CCIE
6 3 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (0.55%) FFIEC
6 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.55%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.37%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.37%) CISA
7 2 (0.37%) CISSP
7 2 (0.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (0.18%) ACCA
8 1 (0.18%) CCA
8 1 (0.18%) CIMA
8 1 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.44%) QA
2 23 (4.25%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.96%) MiFID
4 10 (1.85%) Basel II
5 8 (1.48%) GDPR
6 6 (1.11%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.74%) Basel III
7 4 (0.74%) Dodd-Frank
7 4 (0.74%) EMIR
7 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.74%) SLA
8 3 (0.55%) PMO
9 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.18%) COREP
10 1 (0.18%) FATCA
10 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.18%) NIST
10 1 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 47 (8.69%) Docker
2 2 (0.37%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.37%) Lustre
3 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 48 (8.87%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.51%) Ansible
3 14 (2.59%) Terraform
4 9 (1.66%) Grafana
4 9 (1.66%) ITRS Geneos
4 9 (1.66%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.92%) Kibana
5 5 (0.92%) logstash
6 3 (0.55%) Argo
6 3 (0.55%) Control-M
6 3 (0.55%) Istio
6 3 (0.55%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.55%) Puppet
6 3 (0.55%) Rundeck
6 3 (0.55%) SCCM
7 2 (0.37%) Karpenter
7 2 (0.37%) Podman
8 1 (0.18%) Galera Cluster
8 1 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (4.07%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.88%) Oracle
3 19 (3.51%) Databricks
4 15 (2.77%) Sybase
5 10 (1.85%) Atlassian
5 10 (1.85%) Solace
6 9 (1.66%) Bloomberg
6 9 (1.66%) Google
6 9 (1.66%) Splunk
7 8 (1.48%) ION Trading
8 5 (0.92%) IBM
8 5 (0.92%) Murex
8 5 (0.92%) Red Hat
8 5 (0.92%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.74%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.74%) Planview
9 4 (0.74%) Refinitiv
9 4 (0.74%) Reuters
10 3 (0.55%) Portware
10 3 (0.55%) TIBCO