Investment Banking Contracts

Investment Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Investment Banking over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 175 120
Rank change year-on-year +36 -55 +9
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 614 605 1,297
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.10% 1.39% 2.17%
As % of the General category 3.33% 2.38% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 431 940
10th Percentile £400 £500 £500
25th Percentile £539 £586 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year - +3.57% -
75th Percentile £853 £850 £802
90th Percentile £888 £900 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £619 £515
% change year-on-year -23.26% +20.19% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £43.84
25th Percentile - £18.25 £50.72
Median hourly rate £100.00 £19.50 £64.38
Median % change year-on-year +412.82% -69.71% +20.33%
75th Percentile - £20.75 £67.66
90th Percentile - - £68.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £19.50 £66.56
% change year-on-year - -70.70% +121.88%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 18,465 25,387 34,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.16% 58.23% 58.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,795 16,033 24,201
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.23% -0.80% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 794 1,939 1,062
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £13.42
25th Percentile £17.85 £15.50 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -14.29% +59.71%
75th Percentile £56.00 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £28.13 £30.54
% change year-on-year -10.58% -7.91% +65.08%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Investment Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in the UK

Investment Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking.

Daily rate trend for Investment Banking in the UK

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in the UK

Investment Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking.

Hourly rate trend for Investment Banking in the UK

Investment Banking
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +24 502 £750 +3.45% 224
London +11 476 £750 +1.35% 201
Work from Home +44 247 £755 -2.58% 67
UK excluding London +123 113 £475 -23.26% 33
Scotland +60 76 £450 -27.30% 4
North of England +34 15 £475 -29.63% 4
Northern Ireland +5 15 £470 -7.16% 5
North West +13 10 £725 +7.41% 4
Midlands +29 6 £565 - 13
West Midlands +21 6 £565 - 12
Yorkshire - 5 £385 -
East of England - 1 - -

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 55 (8.96%) Apache
2 45 (7.33%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (3.42%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.95%) Confluence
5 7 (1.14%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.81%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.33%) CMS
7 2 (0.33%) GemFire
7 2 (0.33%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.16%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.16%) MS Project Server
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 33 (5.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.98%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.49%) ION Anvil
1 3 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (0.49%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (0.33%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 2 (0.33%) Oracle iProcurement
2 2 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.16%) Actimize
3 1 (0.16%) Bankmaster
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.16%) PeopleSoft Financials
3 1 (0.16%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 112 (18.24%) AWS
2 67 (10.91%) Azure
3 52 (8.47%) Snowflake
4 46 (7.49%) dbt
5 31 (5.05%) GCP
6 27 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
8 19 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (3.09%) GitHub
9 17 (2.77%) Dagster
10 15 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
11 14 (2.28%) Power Platform
12 13 (2.12%) OpenShift
13 12 (1.95%) npm
13 12 (1.95%) Yarn
14 8 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (1.14%) Amazon S3
15 7 (1.14%) SaaS
16 6 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.79%) FIX Connectivity
2 8 (1.30%) DHCP
2 8 (1.30%) DNS
3 5 (0.81%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.65%) VPN
5 3 (0.49%) Skype
6 2 (0.33%) Firewall
7 1 (0.16%) BGP
7 1 (0.16%) Intranet
7 1 (0.16%) LAN
7 1 (0.16%) Network Security
7 1 (0.16%) OSPF
7 1 (0.16%) PBX
7 1 (0.16%) PSTN
7 1 (0.16%) SMTP
7 1 (0.16%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.16%) VoIP
7 1 (0.16%) WAN
7 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (7.33%) Amazon Athena
1 45 (7.33%) Apache Arrow
1 45 (7.33%) Apache Iceberg
1 45 (7.33%) Dremio
2 34 (5.54%) Relational Database
3 31 (5.05%) Apache Ignite
4 29 (4.72%) Data Lake
5 27 (4.40%) MongoDB
6 26 (4.23%) SQL Server
7 23 (3.75%) Redis
8 22 (3.58%) DB2
9 21 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
10 18 (2.93%) KDB
11 14 (2.28%) Power BI
11 14 (2.28%) Tableau
12 13 (2.12%) Kdb+
13 11 (1.79%) Big Data
14 10 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
15 8 (1.30%) Apache Hive
15 8 (1.30%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 43 (7.00%) Git
2 42 (6.84%) Jenkins
3 35 (5.70%) JIRA
4 24 (3.91%) JUnit
5 19 (3.09%) Bitbucket
6 17 (2.77%) Cucumber
7 16 (2.61%) TeamCity
8 12 (1.95%) webpack
9 11 (1.79%) Visual Studio
10 7 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (0.98%) Maven
12 5 (0.81%) GitLab
13 3 (0.49%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.33%) Eclipse
14 2 (0.33%) ERwin
14 2 (0.33%) MagicDraw
14 2 (0.33%) NUnit
14 2 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
14 2 (0.33%) PHPUnit
14 2 (0.33%) Selenium
General
1 614 (100.00%) Banking
2 368 (59.93%) Finance
3 220 (35.83%) Social Skills
4 155 (25.24%) Analytical Skills
5 143 (23.29%) Front Office
6 53 (8.63%) Retail Banking
7 45 (7.33%) Retail
8 41 (6.68%) Corporate Banking
9 35 (5.70%) Organisational Skills
10 23 (3.75%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.95%) Back Office
12 8 (1.30%) Legal
13 6 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.65%) Marketing
16 2 (0.33%) General Ledger
16 2 (0.33%) International Banking
16 2 (0.33%) Military
16 2 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 302 (49.19%) Developer
2 92 (14.98%) Senior
3 89 (14.50%) Java Developer
4 87 (14.17%) Python Developer
5 86 (14.01%) Analyst
6 57 (9.28%) Software Engineer
7 50 (8.14%) AWS Engineer
8 48 (7.82%) Senior Developer
9 45 (7.33%) AWS Software Engineer
10 43 (7.00%) Python Engineer
11 38 (6.19%) Java Engineer
12 36 (5.86%) Java Software Engineer
13 34 (5.54%) Lead
14 31 (5.05%) Business Analyst
15 30 (4.89%) C# Developer
16 27 (4.40%) AWS Developer
17 26 (4.23%) Python Software Engineer
17 26 (4.23%) SQL Developer
18 23 (3.75%) C++ Developer
18 23 (3.75%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (10.91%) React
2 56 (9.12%) .NET
3 53 (8.63%) Kafka
4 49 (7.98%) Spring
5 43 (7.00%) PySpark
6 41 (6.68%) Pandas
7 40 (6.51%) NumPy
8 39 (6.35%) SciPy
9 36 (5.86%) gRPC
9 36 (5.86%) Protocol Buffers
10 32 (5.21%) AngularJS
10 32 (5.21%) FastAPI
11 28 (4.56%) CSS
12 22 (3.58%) Django
12 22 (3.58%) HTML
12 22 (3.58%) JMS
13 17 (2.77%) HTML5
14 14 (2.28%) FIX Protocol
15 13 (2.12%) ActiveMQ
15 13 (2.12%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 119 (19.38%) Derivative
2 111 (18.08%) Equities
3 93 (15.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 71 (11.56%) Fixed Income
5 58 (9.45%) Hedge funds
6 33 (5.37%) Algorithms
7 30 (4.89%) Data Structures
8 23 (3.75%) Market Risk
8 23 (3.75%) Onboarding
9 19 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (3.09%) Management Information System
10 17 (2.77%) Greenfield Project
10 17 (2.77%) Product Ownership
11 14 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (1.95%) Pricing Data
13 11 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.63%) Credit Risk
15 9 (1.47%) Data Centre
16 8 (1.30%) Equity Derivative
16 8 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 79 (12.87%) Linux
2 52 (8.47%) Windows
3 19 (3.09%) Unix
4 6 (0.98%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.81%) Android
5 5 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (35.02%) Agile
2 134 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
3 98 (15.96%) DevOps
4 94 (15.31%) Software Engineering
5 87 (14.17%) SDLC
6 76 (12.38%) Wealth Management
7 70 (11.40%) CI/CD
8 67 (10.91%) Risk Management
9 58 (9.45%) Artificial Intelligence
10 56 (9.12%) Analytics
11 53 (8.63%) Asset Management
12 51 (8.31%) Electronic Trading
13 50 (8.14%) Machine Learning
14 45 (7.33%) Mathematics
14 45 (7.33%) Multithreading
15 44 (7.17%) Data Science
15 44 (7.17%) TDD
16 41 (6.68%) Continuous Improvement
16 41 (6.68%) Decision-Making
17 40 (6.51%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 247 (40.23%) Python
2 228 (37.13%) Java
3 172 (28.01%) SQL
4 96 (15.64%) TypeScript
5 91 (14.82%) JavaScript
6 82 (13.36%) C#
7 52 (8.47%) C++
8 30 (4.89%) Scala
9 25 (4.07%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.47%) Perl
10 9 (1.47%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.30%) Haskell
12 7 (1.14%) R
12 7 (1.14%) Rust
13 6 (0.98%) Bash
13 6 (0.98%) Bicep
13 6 (0.98%) VBA
14 4 (0.65%) OCaml
15 3 (0.49%) C
15 3 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 54 (8.79%) Degree
2 20 (3.26%) Numerate Degree
3 10 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (1.14%) Master's Degree
5 5 (0.81%) AWS Certification
5 5 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (0.65%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.33%) CBAP
7 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.33%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.33%) PMP
7 2 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.16%) CCNP
8 1 (0.16%) CISA
8 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.16%) CISSP
8 1 (0.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (0.16%) PhD
8 1 (0.16%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.42%) Data Quality
2 17 (2.77%) QA
3 11 (1.79%) PMO
4 10 (1.63%) MiFID
5 6 (0.98%) EMIR
6 5 (0.81%) Basel II
7 4 (0.65%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.65%) Dodd-Frank
7 4 (0.65%) GDPR
8 3 (0.49%) SLA
9 2 (0.33%) Basel III
9 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.16%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.16%) NIST
10 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 68 (11.07%) Docker
2 8 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.65%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.49%) Lustre
4 3 (0.49%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 3 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.33%) HDFS
5 2 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 76 (12.38%) Kubernetes
2 55 (8.96%) Ansible
3 15 (2.44%) Terraform
4 10 (1.63%) Grafana
5 8 (1.30%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.65%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.65%) SCCM
7 3 (0.49%) AirWatch
7 3 (0.49%) Control-M
7 3 (0.49%) Istio
7 3 (0.49%) Karpenter
7 3 (0.49%) Podman
7 3 (0.49%) Puppet
7 3 (0.49%) Rundeck
8 2 (0.33%) Galera Cluster
9 1 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 28 (4.56%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.07%) Databricks
3 23 (3.75%) Sybase
4 22 (3.58%) Oracle
5 12 (1.95%) Atlassian
5 12 (1.95%) ServiceNow
6 11 (1.79%) Google
6 11 (1.79%) Splunk
7 8 (1.30%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.14%) Citrix
8 7 (1.14%) VMware
9 6 (0.98%) ION Trading
9 6 (0.98%) Planview
10 5 (0.81%) Cisco
11 4 (0.65%) Virgin Media
12 3 (0.49%) Apple
12 3 (0.49%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.49%) IBM
12 3 (0.49%) Murex
12 3 (0.49%) Solace