Investment Management Contracts in London

Investment Management
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Investment Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Investment Management over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 206 165
Rank change year-on-year +92 -41 -56
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 364 343 706
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.04% 1.25% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 1.37% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 289 634
10th Percentile £500 £450 £500
25th Percentile £588 £550 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -
75th Percentile £850 £775 £738
90th Percentile £888 £838 £832
England median daily rate £700 £700 £600
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £24.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -42.86% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Investment Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,764 24,998 36,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.35% 91.09% 92.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,289 17,888 26,458
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £680
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 285 428
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.63 £17.86
25th Percentile £19.94 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.75 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +7.64% +13.14%
75th Percentile £48.75 £60.75 £50.65
90th Percentile £66.93 £78.30 £69.05
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Investment Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Management in London

Investment Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Investment Management in London

Investment Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Management in London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Management in London

Investment Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Investment Management in London

Investment Management
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 Management within the London region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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 +41 21 £694 -4.31% 10
West London - 2 £684 -
Investment Management
England

Investment Management
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
1 111 (30.49%) Apache Airflow
2 103 (28.30%) Apache
3 4 (1.10%) Confluence
4 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 22 (6.04%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.37%) SimCorp Dimension
3 2 (0.55%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.27%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.27%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 193 (53.02%) AWS
2 137 (37.64%) GCP
3 96 (26.37%) Azure
4 71 (19.51%) dbt
5 60 (16.48%) Snowflake
6 10 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (1.92%) Power Platform
8 5 (1.37%) Asana
8 5 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.37%) Slack
9 3 (0.82%) Azure Stack
10 2 (0.55%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.55%) GitHub
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.27%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.27%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.27%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.65%) Network Security
2 5 (1.37%) VPN
3 3 (0.82%) BGP
3 3 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (0.82%) DHCP
3 3 (0.82%) DNS
3 3 (0.82%) HTTP
3 3 (0.82%) MPLS
3 3 (0.82%) OSPF
3 3 (0.82%) SD-WAN
3 3 (0.82%) SNMP
3 3 (0.82%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.82%) WAN
3 3 (0.82%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.27%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (28.30%) Apache Ignite
2 69 (18.96%) Amazon Athena
2 69 (18.96%) Apache Arrow
2 69 (18.96%) Dremio
3 59 (16.21%) Data Lake
4 38 (10.44%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (2.47%) Big Data
6 6 (1.65%) Power BI
7 4 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.10%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.55%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.27%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.27%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.27%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (7.42%) Cypress.io
2 10 (2.75%) JIRA
3 4 (1.10%) Git
4 3 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.55%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.55%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.55%) webpack
6 1 (0.27%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.27%) Zephyr
General
1 288 (79.12%) Finance
2 230 (63.19%) Front Office
3 163 (44.78%) Banking
4 77 (21.15%) Investment Banking
5 47 (12.91%) Back Office
6 37 (10.16%) Social Skills
7 4 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.82%) Legal
8 3 (0.82%) Marketing
9 2 (0.55%) Law
9 2 (0.55%) Retail
10 1 (0.27%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.27%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 133 (36.54%) Developer
2 117 (32.14%) Software Engineer
3 102 (28.02%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 96 (26.37%) Analyst
5 67 (18.41%) Python Developer
6 64 (17.58%) Python Engineer
7 60 (16.48%) Python Software Engineer
8 55 (15.11%) Senior
9 54 (14.84%) Finance Manager
10 52 (14.29%) React Developer
11 50 (13.74%) Financial Analyst
12 49 (13.46%) Business Analyst
13 33 (9.07%) Lead
14 30 (8.24%) Full Stack Developer
14 30 (8.24%) Full Stack Engineer
14 30 (8.24%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 26 (7.14%) .NET Software Developer
15 26 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
15 26 (7.14%) Finance Business Analyst
15 26 (7.14%) Software Asset Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (30.22%) gRPC
1 110 (30.22%) Protocol Buffers
2 86 (23.63%) React
2 86 (23.63%) Redux
3 64 (17.58%) Pandas
4 62 (17.03%) NumPy
5 60 (16.48%) SciPy
6 50 (13.74%) Material-UI
7 28 (7.69%) .NET
8 23 (6.32%) Node.js
9 20 (5.49%) AngularJS
10 17 (4.67%) Vue
11 15 (4.12%) .NET Core
12 12 (3.30%) ASP.NET
12 12 (3.30%) ASP.NET Core
13 11 (3.02%) GraphQL
14 8 (2.20%) WPF
15 4 (1.10%) RESTful
16 3 (0.82%) PySpark
17 2 (0.55%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 210 (57.69%) Hedge funds
2 187 (51.37%) Fixed Income
3 165 (45.33%) Derivative
4 144 (39.56%) Equities
5 107 (29.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 25 (6.87%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.02%) Clustering
8 6 (1.65%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.65%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.65%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.10%) DTCC
10 3 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.55%) Credit Derivative
11 2 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.55%) Pricing Data
11 2 (0.55%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.27%) CSOC
12 1 (0.27%) Equity Risk
12 1 (0.27%) FMCG
12 1 (0.27%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.57%) Windows
2 6 (1.65%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.82%) Linux
4 2 (0.55%) Android
5 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (80.49%) Asset Management
2 204 (56.04%) Agile
3 161 (44.23%) Software Engineering
4 79 (21.70%) Full Stack Development
5 63 (17.31%) Machine Learning
6 62 (17.03%) Artificial Intelligence
7 58 (15.93%) Fintech
8 45 (12.36%) DevOps
9 40 (10.99%) Mentoring
10 37 (10.16%) Automated Trading
11 34 (9.34%) Analytics
12 28 (7.69%) Line Management
13 26 (7.14%) TDD
14 24 (6.59%) Performance Attribution
15 23 (6.32%) Wealth Management
16 19 (5.22%) Greeks
17 17 (4.67%) Portfolio Management
17 17 (4.67%) Product Management
18 16 (4.40%) Migration
18 16 (4.40%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 211 (57.97%) Python
2 141 (38.74%) TypeScript
3 113 (31.04%) JavaScript
4 90 (24.73%) SQL
5 77 (21.15%) Java
6 76 (20.88%) C#
7 16 (4.40%) R
8 11 (3.02%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.47%) Go
10 6 (1.65%) Ruby
10 6 (1.65%) Scala
11 4 (1.10%) VBA
12 3 (0.82%) C++
13 2 (0.55%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.55%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (1.65%) Degree
2 3 (0.82%) CCDP
2 3 (0.82%) CCNP
2 3 (0.82%) CFA
2 3 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (0.55%) CIMA
3 2 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.55%) PMP
4 1 (0.27%) ISEB
4 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.69%) QA
2 27 (7.42%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.55%) MiFID
5 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.27%) EMIR
5 1 (0.27%) FATCA
System Software
1 9 (2.47%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (3.02%) Terraform
2 9 (2.47%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.20%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.82%) CASB
4 3 (0.82%) Kibana
5 2 (0.55%) SCCM
6 1 (0.27%) Control-M
6 1 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 40 (10.99%) Google
2 34 (9.34%) Bloomberg
3 12 (3.30%) Microsoft
4 11 (3.02%) Palo Alto
5 10 (2.75%) BISAM
6 9 (2.47%) Charles River
7 8 (2.20%) Zscaler
8 5 (1.37%) Databricks
8 5 (1.37%) SimCorp
9 4 (1.10%) Oracle
10 3 (0.82%) Arista
10 3 (0.82%) Aruba
10 3 (0.82%) Cisco
10 3 (0.82%) FactSet
10 3 (0.82%) Infoblox
10 3 (0.82%) Meraki
10 3 (0.82%) Splunk
11 2 (0.55%) Avaloq
11 2 (0.55%) Pardot
11 2 (0.55%) Salesforce