Investment Banking Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Investment Banking
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in contract job vacancies in Sheffield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Investment Banking over the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 45 47
Rank change year-on-year -20 +2 -
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 16 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 2.44% 1.46% 0.90%
As % of the General category 3.47% 2.27% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £114 £490 £655
25th Percentile £226 £625 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -39.64% +3.70% -
75th Percentile £439 - £688
90th Percentile £443 - £695
South Yorkshire median daily rate £423 £700 £675
% change year-on-year -39.64% +3.70% -

All General Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 461 264 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 70.27% 64.23% 71.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 127 155
10th Percentile £309 £258 £400
25th Percentile £400 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £513 £582
Median % change year-on-year -6.34% -11.89% +15.80%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £666
90th Percentile £650 £650 £735
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £505 £556
% change year-on-year -5.94% -9.09% +11.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £14.08 £13.14 £18.65
25th Percentile £14.43 £15.22 £18.88
Median hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% - +5.26%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Investment Banking job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Investment Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Investment Banking

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in Sheffield over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in Sheffield

Investment Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 12 (75.00%) DMZ
1 12 (75.00%) DNS
1 12 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 12 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 12 (75.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 16 (100.00%) Banking
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Operations Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (6.25%) Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Lead
3 1 (6.25%) Lead Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 12 (75.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (18.75%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) Derivative
3 1 (6.25%) Equities
3 1 (6.25%) Fixed Income
3 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Business Strategy
1 12 (75.00%) Design Patterns
1 12 (75.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (18.75%) KYC
2 3 (18.75%) Project Management
2 3 (18.75%) Release Management
3 1 (6.25%) Agile
3 1 (6.25%) Kanban
3 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (6.25%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (6.25%) Requirements Management
3 1 (6.25%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
System Software
1 12 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) F5
1 12 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft