Investment Banking Contracts 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 advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Investment Banking over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 361 416
Rank change year-on-year +12 +55 -16
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 44 90 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.38% 0.31%
As % of the General category 0.39% 0.67% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 47 29
10th Percentile £400 £406 £182
25th Percentile £402 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% -1.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £681 £650 £625
90th Percentile £736 £750 £703
UK median daily rate £725 £700 £700
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £62.84 £15.85
25th Percentile £18.25 £63.83 £20.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 £66.56 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.70% +121.88% -
75th Percentile £20.75 £68.20 £39.38
90th Percentile - £68.53 £44.55
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £66.56 £53.50
% change year-on-year -70.70% +24.42% +137.78%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Investment Banking is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,235 13,480 17,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.64% 56.43% 55.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,412 9,215 11,847
10th Percentile £205 £230 £210
25th Percentile £363 £400 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,648 775 1,044
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.25 £29.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +54.67% -5.71%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.53 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £68.75 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% +47.73% -2.22%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Investment Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in the UK excluding London

Investment Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Investment Banking in the UK excluding London

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 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in the UK excluding London

Investment Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Investment Banking in the UK excluding London

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 5 May 2024. 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
Scotland +6 20 £585 -2.58% 8
North of England +22 11 £625 +38.89% 6
South East +26 9 - - 1
North West +15 9 £625 +38.89% 5
South West +23 2 £463 +2.78% 1
Northern Ireland +2 2 £506 +12.50% 2
Midlands +25 1 - - 3
West Midlands +19 1 - - 3
North East - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £400 - 1
Investment Banking
UK

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.82%) SAS
3 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.91%) AWS
1 7 (15.91%) Azure
2 5 (11.36%) OpenShift
3 4 (9.09%) IaaS
4 2 (4.55%) GCP
4 2 (4.55%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.27%) GitHub
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 11 (25.00%) DMZ
2 10 (22.73%) Firewall
2 10 (22.73%) VPN
3 5 (11.36%) DNS
3 5 (11.36%) SAN
4 4 (9.09%) DHCP
4 4 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (9.09%) iSCSI
5 2 (4.55%) NAS
5 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.27%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (2.27%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) DB2
2 3 (6.82%) Apache Hive
2 3 (6.82%) Big Data
2 3 (6.82%) Impala
3 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.55%) Power BI
3 2 (4.55%) Tableau
4 1 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.27%) CockroachDB
4 1 (2.27%) MySQL
4 1 (2.27%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (2.27%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.27%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Git
2 3 (6.82%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.82%) JIRA
General
1 44 (100.00%) Banking
2 20 (45.45%) Finance
3 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Corporate Banking
4 3 (6.82%) Retail
4 3 (6.82%) Retail Banking
5 2 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 10 (22.73%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 10 (22.73%) Cisco Engineer
2 10 (22.73%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 10 (22.73%) Developer
2 10 (22.73%) Juniper Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Analyst
3 5 (11.36%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Python Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Python Developer
5 3 (6.82%) Architect
5 3 (6.82%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.82%) Hardware Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.82%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.82%) Storage Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Big Data Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.82%) Flash
1 3 (6.82%) POSIX
1 3 (6.82%) REST
2 2 (4.55%) Middleware
2 2 (4.55%) Spring
3 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.27%) D3.js
3 1 (2.27%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.27%) HTML
3 1 (2.27%) HTML5
3 1 (2.27%) JPA
3 1 (2.27%) Kafka
3 1 (2.27%) React
3 1 (2.27%) RESTful
3 1 (2.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Client/Server
2 3 (6.82%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (6.82%) NVMe
3 2 (4.55%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.27%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.27%) Mashup
4 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (29.55%) Linux
2 10 (22.73%) Unix
3 6 (13.64%) Windows
3 6 (13.64%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.82%) Data ONTAP
4 3 (6.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (38.64%) High Availability
2 13 (29.55%) Agile
3 12 (27.27%) Wealth Management
4 11 (25.00%) ITSM
5 10 (22.73%) Architectural Patterns
5 10 (22.73%) Change Control
5 10 (22.73%) Design Patterns
5 10 (22.73%) Investment Management
6 8 (18.18%) SDLC
7 5 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (9.09%) Architectural Design
8 4 (9.09%) Computer Science
9 3 (6.82%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 3 (6.82%) Business Strategy
9 3 (6.82%) CI/CD
9 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (6.82%) Observability
9 3 (6.82%) Preventative Maintenance
9 3 (6.82%) Storage Management
9 3 (6.82%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.82%) Python
2 9 (20.45%) Perl
2 9 (20.45%) SQL
3 7 (15.91%) Java
4 3 (6.82%) Scala
5 1 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.27%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (4.55%) Degree
2 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.27%) FFIEC
2 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) GDPR
1 1 (2.27%) NIST
1 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 4 (9.09%) Docker
2 3 (6.82%) Firmware
2 3 (6.82%) GPFS
2 3 (6.82%) NFS
3 2 (4.55%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.82%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 2 (4.55%) Ansible
3 2 (4.55%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.27%) Puppet
4 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (25.00%) Cisco
2 10 (22.73%) Blue Coat
2 10 (22.73%) CheckPoint
2 10 (22.73%) Fortinet
2 10 (22.73%) Juniper
3 5 (11.36%) Google
3 5 (11.36%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.36%) Veritas
4 3 (6.82%) Brocade
4 3 (6.82%) EMC
4 3 (6.82%) IBM
4 3 (6.82%) NetApp
4 3 (6.82%) Sybase
5 1 (2.27%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.27%) F5
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle
5 1 (2.27%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.27%) VMware