Investment Management Contract Job Trends in London

Investment Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Investment Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 108 179
Rank change year-on-year -161 +71 -12
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 121 326 245
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.85% 2.35% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 2.61% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 286 221
10th Percentile £416 £519 £513
25th Percentile £625 £619 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £688 £700
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -
75th Percentile £856 £850 £788
90th Percentile £875 £938 £850
England median daily rate £750 £675 £675
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
England median hourly rate - - £25.00
% change year-on-year - - -66.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Investment Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,937 12,504 16,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.26% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,531 7,979 11,519
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 152 259
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.44 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.30 £80.68 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

Investment Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Investment Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Investment Management job vacancy trend in London

Investment Management
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Investment Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Investment Management

Investment Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Management in London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Management in London

Investment Management
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Investment Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Investment Management

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 13 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 -10 14 £850 +65.85% 10
Investment Management
England

Investment Management
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 24 (19.83%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (14.05%) Apache
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.65%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (10.74%) Aladdin
2 3 (2.48%) Markit EDM
3 2 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.65%) Eagle PACE
3 2 (1.65%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.83%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 43 (35.54%) AWS
2 25 (20.66%) dbt
2 25 (20.66%) Snowflake
3 12 (9.92%) Azure
4 10 (8.26%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (6.61%) Amazon Kinesis
5 8 (6.61%) GitHub
5 8 (6.61%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (5.79%) GCP
6 7 (5.79%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.48%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.48%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.48%) Serverless
10 2 (1.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.65%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.83%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.65%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (20.66%) Dremio
2 24 (19.83%) Amazon Athena
2 24 (19.83%) Apache Arrow
2 24 (19.83%) Apache Iceberg
2 24 (19.83%) Data Lake
3 17 (14.05%) Apache Ignite
4 9 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (6.61%) Flink
6 6 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.96%) Power BI
7 4 (3.31%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (1.65%) QlikView
9 2 (1.65%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.83%) Big Data
10 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (5.79%) JIRA
2 4 (3.31%) TestRail
3 1 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 83 (68.60%) Finance
2 53 (43.80%) Front Office
3 31 (25.62%) Banking
4 26 (21.49%) Social Skills
5 20 (16.53%) Investment Banking
6 13 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (9.09%) Back Office
8 5 (4.13%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.83%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.83%) Legal
10 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Retail
10 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (32.23%) Analyst
2 32 (26.45%) Python Engineer
3 30 (24.79%) AWS Engineer
4 27 (22.31%) Business Analyst
5 25 (20.66%) Senior
6 24 (19.83%) AWS Software Engineer
6 24 (19.83%) Python Software Engineer
6 24 (19.83%) Software Engineer
7 18 (14.88%) Developer
8 17 (14.05%) Java Engineer
8 17 (14.05%) Java Software Engineer
9 16 (13.22%) Senior Java Engineer
9 16 (13.22%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 16 (13.22%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (10.74%) Asset Management Analyst
10 13 (10.74%) Asset Management Business Analyst
11 11 (9.09%) Investment Management Business Analyst
11 11 (9.09%) Lead
11 11 (9.09%) Python Developer
12 8 (6.61%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (20.66%) NumPy
2 24 (19.83%) Pandas
2 24 (19.83%) SciPy
3 17 (14.05%) gRPC
3 17 (14.05%) Protocol Buffers
4 11 (9.09%) React
5 9 (7.44%) Kafka
6 7 (5.79%) AngularJS
6 7 (5.79%) Node.js
6 7 (5.79%) Vue
7 3 (2.48%) FastAPI
7 3 (2.48%) XML
8 2 (1.65%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (1.65%) Gherkin
8 2 (1.65%) LangChain
8 2 (1.65%) LangGraph
8 2 (1.65%) REST
8 2 (1.65%) SOAP
9 1 (0.83%) Flask
9 1 (0.83%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 36 (29.75%) Fixed Income
2 27 (22.31%) Equities
3 26 (21.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (14.05%) Derivative
4 17 (14.05%) Hedge funds
4 17 (14.05%) Pricing Data
5 7 (5.79%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.96%) Data Structures
7 4 (3.31%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.31%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.48%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.65%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.65%) Clustering
9 2 (1.65%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.65%) iPad
9 2 (1.65%) iPhone
10 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.83%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.13%) Windows
2 2 (1.65%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.83%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (54.55%) Asset Management
2 52 (42.98%) Agile
3 28 (23.14%) Software Engineering
4 22 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (14.05%) DevOps
6 16 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (12.40%) Analytics
7 15 (12.40%) Data Modelling
8 14 (11.57%) CI/CD
8 14 (11.57%) User Acceptance Testing
9 13 (10.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (9.92%) Data Engineering
10 12 (9.92%) Data Integration
10 12 (9.92%) ETL
11 11 (9.09%) Business Analysis
11 11 (9.09%) Risk Management
11 11 (9.09%) User Stories
12 10 (8.26%) Business Intelligence
12 10 (8.26%) Platform Engineering
12 10 (8.26%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 43 (35.54%) Python
2 26 (21.49%) JavaScript
3 25 (20.66%) Java
4 24 (19.83%) TypeScript
5 23 (19.01%) SQL
6 2 (1.65%) C#
6 2 (1.65%) Go
6 2 (1.65%) Korn
6 2 (1.65%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.83%) R
7 1 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (3.31%) ISTQB
2 2 (1.65%) Degree
2 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.61%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.83%) MiFID
2 1 (0.83%) QA
2 1 (0.83%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (2.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (7.44%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.61%) Argo
3 5 (4.13%) Terraform
4 2 (1.65%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.83%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (12.40%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.61%) Charles River
3 6 (4.96%) Oracle
4 5 (4.13%) Bloomberg
4 5 (4.13%) Databricks
5 3 (2.48%) eFront
5 3 (2.48%) GoldenSource
6 2 (1.65%) HP
6 2 (1.65%) Refinitiv
6 2 (1.65%) SimCorp
7 1 (0.83%) Cisco
7 1 (0.83%) Informatica
7 1 (0.83%) Murex
7 1 (0.83%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.83%) Workday