Investment Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Investment Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Investment Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Investment Management over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 375 391
Rank change year-on-year +60 +16 +68
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 26 18 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.088% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.10% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 32
10th Percentile £375 - £300
25th Percentile £424 £413 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% -
75th Percentile £576 £690 £641
90th Percentile £640 £722 £700
UK median daily rate £725 £725 £669
% change year-on-year - +8.41% +11.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.00
Median hourly rate - - £24.00
75th Percentile - - £26.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year - +66.67% -42.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Investment Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,611 17,183 20,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.67% 83.60% 89.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,236 10,256 14,118
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 836 2,100 1,244
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.38 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.38% +7.86% +75.00%
75th Percentile £62.24 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.02 £36.40
% change year-on-year -23.66% -1.02% +41.73%

Investment Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Management in the UK excluding London

Investment Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Investment Management in the UK excluding London

Investment Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Management in the UK excluding London

Investment Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Investment Management in the UK excluding London

Investment Management
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 Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 May 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 +19 19 £475 -31.46% 10
East of England - 3 £400 - 2
North of England +6 2 £625 +47.06% 11
North West -5 2 £625 +47.06% 4
Midlands +15 1 £625 +3.31% 16
West Midlands +7 1 £625 +3.31% 16
South West - 1 - - 3
Investment Management
UK

Investment Management
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 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.85%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) Azure
1 4 (15.38%) IaaS
2 2 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (7.69%) OpenShift
3 1 (3.85%) AWS
3 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.85%) GitHub
3 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) DHCP
1 4 (15.38%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) Relational Database
2 3 (11.54%) DB2
2 3 (11.54%) MongoDB
3 2 (7.69%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (3.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) JIRA
2 3 (11.54%) JUnit
3 2 (7.69%) Bitbucket
3 2 (7.69%) Git
General
1 23 (88.46%) Finance
2 16 (61.54%) Banking
2 16 (61.54%) Investment Banking
3 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
4 9 (34.62%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (30.77%) Front Office
6 4 (15.38%) Legal
7 1 (3.85%) Law
7 1 (3.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Developer
2 4 (15.38%) Architect
2 4 (15.38%) Scrum Master
3 3 (11.54%) Data Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Java Developer
3 3 (11.54%) Report Specialist
4 2 (7.69%) Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Applications Support
4 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Applications Support Specialist
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Developer
5 1 (3.85%) C# Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
5 1 (3.85%) Python Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Risk Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) SAP Financial Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) .NET
1 3 (11.54%) AngularJS
1 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET
1 3 (11.54%) JMS
1 3 (11.54%) Kafka
1 3 (11.54%) Spring
2 2 (7.69%) Loki
2 2 (7.69%) Middleware
2 2 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.54%) Data Structures
2 3 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (11.54%) Equities
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) CMDB
3 2 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.85%) Derivative
4 1 (3.85%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (38.46%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Unix
3 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) Wealth Management
2 15 (57.69%) Agile
3 14 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (26.92%) DevOps
4 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (26.92%) ITIL
5 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (19.23%) Project Management
5 5 (19.23%) Roadmaps
5 5 (19.23%) Waterfall
6 4 (15.38%) Asset Management
6 4 (15.38%) Conflict Resolution
6 4 (15.38%) Data Analysis
6 4 (15.38%) Data Protection
6 4 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (15.38%) Kanban
6 4 (15.38%) Scrum
6 4 (15.38%) SDLC
6 4 (15.38%) Service Delivery
6 4 (15.38%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) Python
2 5 (19.23%) Shell Script
3 3 (11.54%) C#
3 3 (11.54%) Java
3 3 (11.54%) SQL
3 3 (11.54%) TypeScript
4 2 (7.69%) MUMPS
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) MiFID
2 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (7.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (7.69%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.54%) Terraform
3 2 (7.69%) Ansible
3 2 (7.69%) Grafana
3 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) ServiceNow
1 3 (11.54%) Splunk
1 3 (11.54%) Sybase
2 2 (7.69%) Veritas
2 2 (7.69%) VMware
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Netskope
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Proofpoint
3 1 (3.85%) SAP
3 1 (3.85%) Symantec