Investment Banking Contracts in the North West

Investment Banking
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Investment Banking over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 126 133
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 +35
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 10 9 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.51% 0.33% 0.66%
As % of the General category 0.88% 0.62% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 8
10th Percentile - £385 £298
25th Percentile £463 £510 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £625 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +38.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £523
90th Percentile - - £542
England median daily rate £750 £725 £700
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -

All General Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,130 1,461 1,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 57.42% 53.67% 52.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 687 892 1,141
10th Percentile £272 £300 £305
25th Percentile £381 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 191 78
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.50 £16.13
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.50 £19.28
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £26.60
Median % change year-on-year +62.25% -33.38% +33.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £35.74 £38.39
90th Percentile £75.75 £51.91 £53.09
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.14 £33.39
% change year-on-year -8.76% -9.72% +56.74%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in the North West

Investment Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Investment Banking in the North West

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in the North West over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in the North West

Investment Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Investment Banking in the North West

Investment Banking
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Cheshire +1 6 £725 - 2
Manchester +17 4 £475 -8.77% 1
Investment Banking
England

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (30.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (20.00%) Apache
3 1 (10.00%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Skype
1 3 (30.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (20.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (20.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
1 2 (20.00%) Maven
1 2 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 10 (100.00%) Banking
2 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (20.00%) Retail
4 2 (20.00%) Retail Banking
5 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Service Desk Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Credit Risk Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Risk Manager
3 1 (10.00%) SAS Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Service Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Apache POI
1 2 (20.00%) JDBC
1 2 (20.00%) PySpark
2 1 (10.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
1 3 (30.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Chat Support
2 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (30.00%) ITSM
3 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (20.00%) IT Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (20.00%) Wealth Management
3 2 (20.00%) Workflow
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (10.00%) Architectural Design
4 1 (10.00%) Backlog Management
4 1 (10.00%) Culture Change
4 1 (10.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco
1 3 (30.00%) Citrix
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (30.00%) Remedy
2 2 (20.00%) Cloudera