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

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 351 379
Rank change year-on-year +4 +28 +91
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Investment Management 20 16 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.088% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.11% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 30
10th Percentile £338 - £288
25th Percentile £375 £200 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £563
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -24.44% +25.00%
75th Percentile £575 £475 £650
90th Percentile £578 £498 £706
UK median daily rate £750 £725 £650
% change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £44.04 -
UK median hourly rate - £44.04 -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,799 15,012 19,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.20% 82.72% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,283 8,957 12,829
10th Percentile £238 £250 £260
25th Percentile £367 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,397 1,453 1,215
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £42.05 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.18% +12.12% +70.45%
75th Percentile £44.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.11 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.19
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.01% +56.38%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Management in the UK excluding London

Investment Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Investment Management
DemandTrendContract 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 23 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland -2 12 £550 +22.22% 3
East of England - 3 £400 - 1
South East +17 2 £450 - 47
North of England -24 1 £325 +62.50% 7
Yorkshire - 1 £325 - 2
South West - 1 - - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £475 -
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 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Apigee
1 3 (15.00%) AWS
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
1 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (15.00%) GitHub
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) DHCP
1 3 (15.00%) DNS
1 3 (15.00%) HTTP
1 3 (15.00%) SSL
1 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) MSDE
2 1 (5.00%) DB2
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (20.00%) JIRA
3 3 (15.00%) Bitbucket
3 3 (15.00%) Git
3 3 (15.00%) IntelliJ
3 3 (15.00%) PyCharm
3 3 (15.00%) Visual Studio
3 3 (15.00%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (5.00%) JUnit
General
1 16 (80.00%) Finance
2 12 (60.00%) Banking
2 12 (60.00%) Investment Banking
3 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (20.00%) Front Office
6 1 (5.00%) Law
6 1 (5.00%) Legal
6 1 (5.00%) Local Government
6 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.00%) Publishing
6 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Python Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Data Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Report Specialist
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Change Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Desktop Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Desktop Support
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Support Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (15.00%) REST
1 3 (15.00%) RESTful
1 3 (15.00%) SOAP
2 1 (5.00%) JMS
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (15.00%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (15.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (10.00%) CMDB
2 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.00%) Derivative
3 1 (5.00%) Equities
3 1 (5.00%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (5.00%) iPad
3 1 (5.00%) iPhone
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Linux
2 5 (25.00%) Windows
3 3 (15.00%) Unix
4 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Agile
1 12 (60.00%) Wealth Management
2 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 5 (25.00%) SDLC
4 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) ITIL
5 3 (15.00%) Asset Management
5 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (15.00%) Issue Tracking
5 3 (15.00%) IT Strategy
5 3 (15.00%) Migration
5 3 (15.00%) Project Management
5 3 (15.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 3 (15.00%) Technology Strategy
5 3 (15.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Python
2 7 (35.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) Bash
3 3 (15.00%) C#
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.00%) Perl
3 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) CBAP
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) MiFID
2 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
2 3 (15.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) F5
1 3 (15.00%) Infoblox
1 3 (15.00%) MuleSoft
1 3 (15.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Netskope
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Proofpoint
2 1 (5.00%) Splunk
2 1 (5.00%) Sybase
2 1 (5.00%) Symantec