Investment Banking Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Investment Banking
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Investment Banking over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 237 326
Rank change year-on-year -49 +89 +79
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 108 102 77
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.74% 0.40%
As % of the General category 1.03% 1.22% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 42 40
10th Percentile £169 £172 £396
25th Percentile £375 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £488 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% -18.75% +16.50%
75th Percentile £584 £677 £641
90th Percentile £681 £734 £722
UK median daily rate £625 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.75
Median hourly rate - £44.04 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - +138.05% +27.94%
75th Percentile - - £19.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £32.87 £60.77 £18.50
% change year-on-year -45.92% +228.49% -32.68%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 general skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 10,502 8,362 10,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.32% 60.56% 55.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,492 4,725 6,647
10th Percentile £204 £210 £210
25th Percentile £363 £356 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -3.90% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,112 494 956
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.23 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.13 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.38 £26.06 £29.33
Median % change year-on-year -17.96% -11.13% +30.59%
75th Percentile £44.94 £53.75 £56.77
90th Percentile £69.65 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £27.35 £30.24
% change year-on-year -15.90% -9.55% +20.95%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Investment Banking job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Investment Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Investment Banking

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in the UK excluding London

Investment Banking
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Investment Banking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Investment Banking

Investment Banking
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
North of England -15 57 £434 -31.96% 2
North West +12 52 £625 +8.70% 2
Midlands -13 47 £500 -26.25% 3
West Midlands -8 46 £500 -26.25% 3
Scotland -17 33 £538 +19.44% 1
Yorkshire -32 18 £423 -39.64%
Northern Ireland -4 10 £550 +129.17%
South West - 5 £190 -
South East -24 2 £159 - 25
East Midlands - 1 - -
Investment Banking
UK

Investment Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 8 (7.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (6.48%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.78%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (7.41%) AWS
2 7 (6.48%) Azure
3 3 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (2.78%) GitHub
3 3 (2.78%) Power Platform
3 3 (2.78%) Smartsheet
4 2 (1.85%) Snowflake
5 1 (0.93%) Apigee
5 1 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.93%) GCP
5 1 (0.93%) IaaS
5 1 (0.93%) SaaS
5 1 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 41 (37.96%) DNS
2 29 (26.85%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 29 (26.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 22 (20.37%) DMZ
4 17 (15.74%) HTTP
4 17 (15.74%) SSL
4 17 (15.74%) TCP/IP
5 16 (14.81%) BIG-IP
5 16 (14.81%) Wireshark
6 13 (12.04%) Network Security
7 11 (10.19%) BGP
8 8 (7.41%) DHCP
9 7 (6.48%) Cisco ISE
9 7 (6.48%) Cisco Wireless
9 7 (6.48%) NX-OS
9 7 (6.48%) VXLAN
9 7 (6.48%) Wireless
10 4 (3.70%) Multicast
10 4 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.89%) Relational Database
2 10 (9.26%) MongoDB
3 9 (8.33%) DB2
4 3 (2.78%) MSDE
4 3 (2.78%) Power BI
5 2 (1.85%) Big Data
5 2 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.85%) KDB
5 2 (1.85%) Kdb+
5 2 (1.85%) Tableau
6 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (14.81%) Fiddler
2 10 (9.26%) JUnit
3 7 (6.48%) JIRA
4 5 (4.63%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.78%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.78%) IntelliJ
5 3 (2.78%) PyCharm
5 3 (2.78%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.85%) Git
7 1 (0.93%) GitLab
General
1 108 (100.00%) Banking
2 57 (52.78%) Finance
3 35 (32.41%) Social Skills
4 20 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (12.04%) Financial Institution
6 12 (11.11%) Front Office
7 8 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (4.63%) Corporate Banking
8 5 (4.63%) Retail
8 5 (4.63%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.93%) Legal
Job Titles
1 27 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 23 (21.30%) Developer
3 20 (18.52%) Analyst
4 13 (12.04%) Operations Engineer
5 12 (11.11%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 12 (11.11%) IP Network Engineer
5 12 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 12 (11.11%) Web Engineer
6 11 (10.19%) Cisco Engineer
6 11 (10.19%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 9 (8.33%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 9 (8.33%) SQL Developer
7 9 (8.33%) Sybase Developer
8 8 (7.41%) Architect
9 7 (6.48%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
9 7 (6.48%) Data Analyst
9 7 (6.48%) RF Engineer
9 7 (6.48%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (6.48%) Wireless Engineer
9 7 (6.48%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.19%) Kafka
2 10 (9.26%) Spring
3 9 (8.33%) JMS
4 4 (3.70%) Middleware
4 4 (3.70%) REST
5 2 (1.85%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.85%) React
5 2 (1.85%) SOAP
6 1 (0.93%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.93%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.93%) JSON
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.93%) RESTful
6 1 (0.93%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.93%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 33 (30.56%) Management Information System
2 13 (12.04%) Onboarding
3 9 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 9 (8.33%) Equities
4 7 (6.48%) Data Centre
4 7 (6.48%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (5.56%) CMDB
5 6 (5.56%) Virtual Team
6 5 (4.63%) Blackberry
6 5 (4.63%) BYOD
7 3 (2.78%) PMI
7 3 (2.78%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.96%) Linux
2 5 (4.63%) Windows
3 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (30.56%) Load Balancing
2 30 (27.78%) Agile
3 26 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (20.37%) SDLC
5 14 (12.96%) Waterfall
6 13 (12.04%) Business Strategy
6 13 (12.04%) Design Patterns
6 13 (12.04%) Project Management
7 12 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
7 12 (11.11%) Malware Detection/Protection
8 11 (10.19%) Performance Tuning
8 11 (10.19%) Wealth Management
9 9 (8.33%) Change Control
9 9 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (8.33%) Database Tuning
9 9 (8.33%) Multithreading
9 9 (8.33%) Open Source
9 9 (8.33%) Programme Management
10 8 (7.41%) Business Analysis
10 8 (7.41%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 29 (26.85%) Python
2 19 (17.59%) SQL
3 16 (14.81%) Java
4 10 (9.26%) Shell Script
5 7 (6.48%) Lisp
6 6 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.78%) C#
8 2 (1.85%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.93%) Bash
9 1 (0.93%) Perl
9 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.93%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (6.48%) CCNP
1 7 (6.48%) Cisco Certification
1 7 (6.48%) Degree
2 6 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (2.78%) PMI Certification
3 3 (2.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.63%) PMO
2 3 (2.78%) MiFID
2 3 (2.78%) P3O
3 2 (1.85%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.85%) QA
4 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (23.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (11.11%) Firmware
3 4 (3.70%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.78%) Docker
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (9.26%) Ansible
2 7 (6.48%) FortiGate
3 6 (5.56%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.70%) Terraform
5 1 (0.93%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 34 (31.48%) F5
2 25 (23.15%) VMware
3 16 (14.81%) Blue Coat
3 16 (14.81%) McAfee
3 16 (14.81%) NetApp
4 13 (12.04%) ServiceNow
5 11 (10.19%) Cisco
6 10 (9.26%) Sybase
7 7 (6.48%) Ekahau
7 7 (6.48%) Remedy
8 4 (3.70%) Microsoft
9 3 (2.78%) Planview
10 2 (1.85%) Avaloq
11 1 (0.93%) Greenplum
11 1 (0.93%) Infoblox
11 1 (0.93%) MobileIron
11 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.93%) Oracle
11 1 (0.93%) Splunk