Investment Banking Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Investment Banking
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

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

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 50 48
Rank change year-on-year -22 -2 -
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 16 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 2.24% 1.12% 0.80%
As % of the General category 3.20% 1.79% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £114 - £655
25th Percentile £226 - £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
Yorkshire median daily rate £434 £700 £515
% change year-on-year -38.04% +35.92% +139.53%

All General Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 500 280 262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 70.03% 62.92% 69.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 138 166
10th Percentile £305 £209 £332
25th Percentile £400 £422 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £506 £568
Median % change year-on-year -6.13% -10.92% +13.60%
75th Percentile £539 £584 £650
90th Percentile £650 £650 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile £14.08 £13.14 £18.80
25th Percentile £14.43 £15.22 £19.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £35.00
90th Percentile - - £44.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -1.60% +12.50% +6.95%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Investment Banking job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Investment Banking

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in South Yorkshire

Investment Banking
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Sheffield -17 16 £423 -39.64% 1
Investment Banking
Yorkshire

Investment Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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