Investment Banking Contracts in the North of England

Investment Banking
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Investment Banking over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 174 187
Rank change year-on-year +27 +13 +34
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 16 10 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.49% 0.21% 0.37%
As % of the General category 0.83% 0.39% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 9
10th Percentile £365 £385 £303
25th Percentile £388 £406 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £450
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +38.89% -25.00%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £523
90th Percentile - - £588
England median daily rate £750 £725 £700
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -1.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.50 -
England median hourly rate £100.00 £19.50 -
% change year-on-year +412.82% - -

All General Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,936 2,554 3,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 59.02% 54.64% 55.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,193 1,497 2,189
10th Percentile £240 £261 £300
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £600
90th Percentile £656 £669 £688
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 312 92
10th Percentile £12.91 £12.13 £14.28
25th Percentile £16.25 £13.31 £16.85
Median hourly rate £24.88 £16.06 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.92% -35.76% +25.00%
75th Percentile £44.53 £33.30 £37.30
90th Percentile £71.25 £48.75 £53.31
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.57% -5.38% +51.16%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Investment Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in the North of England

Investment Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Investment Banking in the North of England

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in the North of England

Investment Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Investment Banking in the North of England

Investment Banking
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
North West +21 10 £725 +16.00% 3
Yorkshire +20 6 £385 -3.75% 1
Investment Banking
England

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
2 2 (12.50%) Apache
3 1 (6.25%) Confluence
3 1 (6.25%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
2 1 (6.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Skype
1 3 (18.75%) VPN
2 1 (6.25%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Apache Hive
1 2 (12.50%) Hadoop
1 2 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
1 2 (12.50%) Eclipse
1 2 (12.50%) GitLab
1 2 (12.50%) Maven
1 2 (12.50%) Selenium
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 16 (100.00%) Banking
2 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (25.00%) Retail
4 3 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (12.50%) Retail Banking
6 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Lead
1 3 (18.75%) Service Desk Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Developer
2 2 (12.50%) IT Manager
2 2 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Credit Risk Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Lead Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Risk Manager
3 1 (6.25%) SAS Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Server Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Service Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Apache POI
1 2 (12.50%) JDBC
1 2 (12.50%) PySpark
2 1 (6.25%) Middleware
2 1 (6.25%) React
2 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Credit Risk
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Derivative
3 1 (6.25%) Equities
3 1 (6.25%) Fixed Income
3 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (25.00%) ITSM
4 3 (18.75%) Backlog Management
4 3 (18.75%) Chat Support
4 3 (18.75%) Kanban
4 3 (18.75%) Scrum
4 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (12.50%) Business Transformation
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) IT Strategy
5 2 (12.50%) Manual Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Project Governance
5 2 (12.50%) Software Delivery
5 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 2 (12.50%) Test Scripting
5 2 (12.50%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Java
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Go
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) Kotlin
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) PMO
2 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Cisco
1 3 (18.75%) Citrix
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
1 3 (18.75%) Remedy
2 2 (12.50%) Cloudera
3 1 (6.25%) Dell
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) HP
3 1 (6.25%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) Veeam