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 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 327 361
Rank change year-on-year +63 +34 +83
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 109 44 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.71% 0.24% 0.30%
As % of the General category 1.17% 0.45% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 24 35
10th Percentile £224 £318 £353
25th Percentile £394 £346 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £575 £718 £638
90th Percentile £633 £757 £650
UK median daily rate £725 £750 £700
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £20.83 £16.75
25th Percentile - £24.70 £28.86
Median hourly rate - £31.77 £66.56
Median % change year-on-year - -52.27% +64.35%
75th Percentile - £38.22 £69.69
90th Percentile - £41.71 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £87.50 £31.77 £66.56
% change year-on-year +175.42% -52.27% +64.35%

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 common skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,349 9,882 12,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 61.13% 53.40% 55.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,614 5,698 8,180
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £358 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £689 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 833 1,214 833
10th Percentile £13.08 £13.69 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.06 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.14 £38.12 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.92% +46.62% +30.00%
75th Percentile £47.50 £59.95 £58.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £30.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% +27.07% +22.25%

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 2 August 2025.

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 2 August 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
Scotland +47 63 £519 +54.93% 10
Northern Ireland +7 23 £470 +213.33% 16
North of England 0 19 £400 -42.86% 5
North West +5 14 £625 -13.79% 3
Yorkshire -2 8 £370 -47.14% 2
Midlands -8 5 £550 -28.10% 17
West Midlands -7 4 £550 -28.10% 17
South West +27 2 £178 -61.62% 1
South East +11 2 £550 - 29
East Midlands - 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 3 (2.75%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.75%) Confluence
1 3 (2.75%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.83%) GemFire
2 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.92%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (9.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.92%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (8.26%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (3.67%) AWS
2 4 (3.67%) Power Platform
3 3 (2.75%) Apigee
3 3 (2.75%) Smartsheet
4 2 (1.83%) Azure
4 2 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (1.83%) GitHub
4 2 (1.83%) OpenShift
4 2 (1.83%) Snowflake
5 1 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.92%) GCP
5 1 (0.92%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.26%) DNS
2 6 (5.50%) DHCP
3 5 (4.59%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.75%) DMZ
4 3 (2.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (2.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (2.75%) HTTP
4 3 (2.75%) Network Security
4 3 (2.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (22.94%) Relational Database
2 19 (17.43%) DB2
3 17 (15.60%) MongoDB
4 8 (7.34%) KDB
4 8 (7.34%) Kdb+
5 5 (4.59%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.67%) Power BI
7 3 (2.75%) Tableau
8 2 (1.83%) Apache Ignite
8 2 (1.83%) MSDE
8 2 (1.83%) MySQL
8 2 (1.83%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.83%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.92%) MS Access
9 1 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.92%) QlikView
9 1 (0.92%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (16.51%) JUnit
2 11 (10.09%) JIRA
3 5 (4.59%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.75%) Git
5 2 (1.83%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.83%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.83%) PyCharm
5 2 (1.83%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.83%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 109 (100.00%) Banking
2 82 (75.23%) Finance
3 63 (57.80%) Social Skills
4 30 (27.52%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (20.18%) Front Office
6 12 (11.01%) Retail
7 10 (9.17%) Corporate Banking
7 10 (9.17%) Retail Banking
8 9 (8.26%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.83%) Legal
9 2 (1.83%) Military
9 2 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.92%) Back Office
10 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (35.78%) Developer
2 25 (22.94%) Analyst
3 24 (22.02%) Java Developer
4 17 (15.60%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 16 (14.68%) SQL Developer
5 16 (14.68%) Sybase Developer
6 13 (11.93%) Python Developer
7 12 (11.01%) Senior
8 9 (8.26%) Linux Developer
8 9 (8.26%) Python Engineer
8 9 (8.26%) Senior Developer
8 9 (8.26%) Senior Python Developer
9 8 (7.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 8 (7.34%) Business Analyst
9 8 (7.34%) C++ Developer
9 8 (7.34%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
9 8 (7.34%) JavaScript Engineer
9 8 (7.34%) Senior C++ Developer
9 8 (7.34%) Support Analyst
10 7 (6.42%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (21.10%) Spring
2 20 (18.35%) Kafka
3 17 (15.60%) JMS
4 4 (3.67%) AngularJS
4 4 (3.67%) RESTful
4 4 (3.67%) SOAP
4 4 (3.67%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.75%) Hibernate
5 3 (2.75%) REST
6 2 (1.83%) Middleware
6 2 (1.83%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.92%) jQuery
7 1 (0.92%) React
7 1 (0.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (19.27%) Data Structures
2 19 (17.43%) Equities
3 13 (11.93%) Management Information System
4 11 (10.09%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (9.17%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (7.34%) Blackberry
7 6 (5.50%) BYOD
8 5 (4.59%) Onboarding
9 4 (3.67%) CMDB
9 4 (3.67%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (3.67%) Virtual Team
10 3 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (2.75%) Data Centre
10 3 (2.75%) Derivative
10 3 (2.75%) PMI
10 3 (2.75%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.83%) Algorithms
11 2 (1.83%) Fixed Income
11 2 (1.83%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 36 (33.03%) Linux
2 15 (13.76%) Windows
3 5 (4.59%) Unix
4 2 (1.83%) Android
4 2 (1.83%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (40.37%) Agile
1 44 (40.37%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (27.52%) SDLC
3 22 (20.18%) Wealth Management
4 20 (18.35%) Performance Tuning
5 19 (17.43%) Multithreading
5 19 (17.43%) Open Source
6 17 (15.60%) Database Tuning
7 16 (14.68%) Data Science
8 14 (12.84%) Decision-Making
9 13 (11.93%) Risk Management
10 12 (11.01%) Artificial Intelligence
10 12 (11.01%) Critical Thinking
10 12 (11.01%) Investment Management
11 11 (10.09%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 11 (10.09%) Project Management
12 10 (9.17%) Containerisation
12 10 (9.17%) Data Security
12 10 (9.17%) DevOps
12 10 (9.17%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (42.20%) Python
2 42 (38.53%) Java
3 36 (33.03%) SQL
4 18 (16.51%) Shell Script
5 13 (11.93%) JavaScript
6 10 (9.17%) TypeScript
7 8 (7.34%) C++
8 3 (2.75%) Bash
8 3 (2.75%) C#
8 3 (2.75%) Perl
9 2 (1.83%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.92%) Go
10 1 (0.92%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.92%) R
10 1 (0.92%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (12.84%) Degree
2 3 (2.75%) PMI Certification
2 3 (2.75%) PMP
3 2 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.34%) PMO
2 4 (3.67%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.75%) P3O
4 1 (0.92%) Basel III
4 1 (0.92%) MiFID
4 1 (0.92%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (8.26%) Docker
2 3 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.83%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (11.93%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.75%) Terraform
3 2 (1.83%) AirWatch
3 2 (1.83%) Ansible
3 2 (1.83%) Data Guard
3 2 (1.83%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (1.83%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 21 (19.27%) Sybase
2 6 (5.50%) F5
2 6 (5.50%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.59%) Oracle
3 5 (4.59%) VMware
4 4 (3.67%) Planview
5 3 (2.75%) Infoblox
5 3 (2.75%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.83%) Adobe
6 2 (1.83%) Apple
6 2 (1.83%) Databricks
6 2 (1.83%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.83%) Sun
7 1 (0.92%) Dell
7 1 (0.92%) HP
7 1 (0.92%) IBM
7 1 (0.92%) Proofpoint
7 1 (0.92%) Symantec
7 1 (0.92%) Thunderhead
7 1 (0.92%) Veeam