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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 169 118
Rank change year-on-year +31 -51 +8
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 622 599 1,236
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.13% 1.39% 2.14%
As % of the General category 3.35% 2.40% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 439 901
10th Percentile £400 £500 £500
25th Percentile £550 £588 £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year +1.72% +3.57% -1.75%
75th Percentile £863 £850 £806
90th Percentile £888 £888 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -14.09% +6.80% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £62.84
25th Percentile - £18.25 £63.83
Median hourly rate £100.00 £19.50 £66.56
Median % change year-on-year +412.82% -70.70% +24.42%
75th Percentile - £20.75 £68.20
90th Percentile - - £68.53
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 18,540 24,958 33,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.38% 58.04% 58.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,787 15,748 23,448
10th Percentile £293 £275 £313
25th Percentile £408 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 789 1,935 1,032
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.76 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.50 £17.92
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% -11.29% +54.55%
75th Percentile £56.00 £52.89 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.55 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.59 £28.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -13.74% -5.00% +57.89%

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 12 May 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 12 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
England +28 507 £750 +3.45% 351
London +12 482 £750 - 322
Work from Home +45 258 £753 -5.94% 115
UK excluding London +123 115 £473 -14.09% 117
Scotland +65 77 £450 -18.18% 14
Northern Ireland - 17 £470 - 12
North of England +25 16 £475 -24.00% 5
North West +15 10 £725 +16.00% 4
Yorkshire +19 6 £385 -3.75% 1
West Midlands +24 4 £550 - 20
Midlands +20 4 £550 - 21
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 58 (9.32%) Apache
2 49 (7.88%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (3.54%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.09%) Confluence
5 6 (0.96%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.80%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.32%) CMS
7 2 (0.32%) GemFire
7 2 (0.32%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
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 37 (5.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.64%) ION Anvil
2 3 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.48%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.32%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 2 (0.32%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.16%) Bankmaster
4 1 (0.16%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.16%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.16%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 118 (18.97%) AWS
2 68 (10.93%) Azure
3 57 (9.16%) Snowflake
4 50 (8.04%) dbt
5 31 (4.98%) GCP
6 28 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (3.22%) Amazon ECS
8 19 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (3.05%) GitHub
9 17 (2.73%) Dagster
10 16 (2.57%) Cloud Computing
10 16 (2.57%) Power Platform
11 12 (1.93%) npm
11 12 (1.93%) OpenShift
11 12 (1.93%) Yarn
12 9 (1.45%) SaaS
13 8 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.13%) Amazon S3
15 6 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.61%) FIX Connectivity
2 8 (1.29%) DHCP
2 8 (1.29%) DNS
3 5 (0.80%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.64%) VPN
5 3 (0.48%) Skype
6 2 (0.32%) 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 49 (7.88%) Amazon Athena
1 49 (7.88%) Apache Arrow
1 49 (7.88%) Apache Iceberg
1 49 (7.88%) Dremio
2 37 (5.95%) Relational Database
3 35 (5.63%) Apache Ignite
4 33 (5.31%) Data Lake
5 28 (4.50%) SQL Server
6 27 (4.34%) MongoDB
7 25 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
8 24 (3.86%) DB2
8 24 (3.86%) Redis
9 17 (2.73%) KDB
10 16 (2.57%) Power BI
11 14 (2.25%) Kdb+
12 13 (2.09%) Tableau
13 11 (1.77%) Big Data
14 10 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
15 8 (1.29%) Apache Hive
15 8 (1.29%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 44 (7.07%) Git
2 41 (6.59%) Jenkins
3 36 (5.79%) JIRA
4 25 (4.02%) JUnit
5 19 (3.05%) Bitbucket
6 17 (2.73%) Cucumber
7 16 (2.57%) TeamCity
8 12 (1.93%) webpack
9 10 (1.61%) Visual Studio
10 8 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (0.96%) Maven
12 5 (0.80%) GitLab
13 3 (0.48%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.32%) Eclipse
14 2 (0.32%) ERwin
14 2 (0.32%) MagicDraw
14 2 (0.32%) NUnit
14 2 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
14 2 (0.32%) PHPUnit
14 2 (0.32%) Selenium
General
1 622 (100.00%) Banking
2 372 (59.81%) Finance
3 235 (37.78%) Social Skills
4 154 (24.76%) Analytical Skills
5 146 (23.47%) Front Office
6 52 (8.36%) Retail Banking
7 45 (7.23%) Retail
8 41 (6.59%) Corporate Banking
9 35 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
10 25 (4.02%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.93%) Back Office
12 6 (0.96%) Legal
12 6 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.64%) Marketing
14 2 (0.32%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.32%) Military
14 2 (0.32%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.16%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 298 (47.91%) Developer
2 99 (15.92%) Senior
3 92 (14.79%) Python Developer
4 87 (13.99%) Java Developer
5 85 (13.67%) Analyst
6 60 (9.65%) Software Engineer
7 54 (8.68%) AWS Engineer
8 50 (8.04%) Senior Developer
9 49 (7.88%) AWS Software Engineer
10 48 (7.72%) Python Engineer
11 42 (6.75%) Java Engineer
12 40 (6.43%) Java Software Engineer
13 35 (5.63%) Business Analyst
13 35 (5.63%) Lead
14 30 (4.82%) Python Software Engineer
15 29 (4.66%) AWS Developer
15 29 (4.66%) C# Developer
16 28 (4.50%) SQL Developer
17 25 (4.02%) Linux Developer
17 25 (4.02%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (11.09%) React
2 55 (8.84%) .NET
2 55 (8.84%) Kafka
3 47 (7.56%) Pandas
4 46 (7.40%) NumPy
4 46 (7.40%) Spring
5 44 (7.07%) SciPy
6 43 (6.91%) PySpark
7 40 (6.43%) gRPC
7 40 (6.43%) Protocol Buffers
8 34 (5.47%) FastAPI
9 31 (4.98%) AngularJS
10 28 (4.50%) CSS
11 23 (3.70%) JMS
12 22 (3.54%) HTML
13 21 (3.38%) Django
14 15 (2.41%) HTML5
15 14 (2.25%) ActiveMQ
15 14 (2.25%) FIX Protocol
15 14 (2.25%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 120 (19.29%) Derivative
2 116 (18.65%) Equities
3 100 (16.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 77 (12.38%) Fixed Income
5 63 (10.13%) Hedge funds
6 32 (5.14%) Data Structures
7 31 (4.98%) Algorithms
8 30 (4.82%) Market Risk
9 23 (3.70%) Onboarding
10 22 (3.54%) Management Information System
11 20 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
12 19 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
13 17 (2.73%) Product Ownership
14 16 (2.57%) Distributed Systems
14 16 (2.57%) Pricing Data
15 13 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (1.45%) Data Centre
17 8 (1.29%) Credit Risk
17 8 (1.29%) Virtual Team
18 7 (1.13%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 82 (13.18%) Linux
2 53 (8.52%) Windows
3 16 (2.57%) Unix
4 6 (0.96%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.80%) Android
5 5 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (36.01%) Agile
2 137 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
3 100 (16.08%) DevOps
4 99 (15.92%) Software Engineering
5 89 (14.31%) SDLC
6 76 (12.22%) Wealth Management
7 68 (10.93%) CI/CD
7 68 (10.93%) Risk Management
8 58 (9.32%) Artificial Intelligence
9 57 (9.16%) Analytics
9 57 (9.16%) Asset Management
10 50 (8.04%) Electronic Trading
10 50 (8.04%) Machine Learning
11 47 (7.56%) TDD
12 46 (7.40%) Data Science
13 44 (7.07%) Scrum
14 43 (6.91%) Decision-Making
14 43 (6.91%) Mathematics
14 43 (6.91%) Multithreading
15 42 (6.75%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 254 (40.84%) Python
2 230 (36.98%) Java
3 178 (28.62%) SQL
4 100 (16.08%) TypeScript
5 97 (15.59%) JavaScript
6 81 (13.02%) C#
7 52 (8.36%) C++
8 28 (4.50%) Scala
8 28 (4.50%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.61%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.45%) Perl
10 9 (1.45%) Rust
11 8 (1.29%) Haskell
12 7 (1.13%) R
13 6 (0.96%) Bash
13 6 (0.96%) Bicep
13 6 (0.96%) VBA
14 4 (0.64%) C
14 4 (0.64%) OCaml
15 3 (0.48%) Jython
Qualifications
1 53 (8.52%) Degree
2 20 (3.22%) Numerate Degree
3 11 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (0.80%) AWS Certification
4 5 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (0.64%) Azure Certification
5 4 (0.64%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.48%) PMP
7 2 (0.32%) CBAP
7 2 (0.32%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.32%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.16%) CCNP
8 1 (0.16%) CISA
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 20 (3.22%) Data Quality
2 18 (2.89%) QA
3 12 (1.93%) PMO
4 10 (1.61%) MiFID
5 7 (1.13%) Basel II
6 6 (0.96%) EMIR
7 4 (0.64%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.64%) Dodd-Frank
7 4 (0.64%) GDPR
8 3 (0.48%) SLA
9 2 (0.32%) Basel III
9 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.16%) COREP
10 1 (0.16%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.16%) NIST
10 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 67 (10.77%) Docker
2 8 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.64%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.48%) Lustre
4 3 (0.48%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 3 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.32%) HDFS
5 2 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 75 (12.06%) Kubernetes
2 53 (8.52%) Ansible
3 15 (2.41%) Terraform
4 10 (1.61%) Grafana
5 8 (1.29%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.64%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.64%) SCCM
7 3 (0.48%) AirWatch
7 3 (0.48%) Control-M
7 3 (0.48%) Istio
7 3 (0.48%) Karpenter
7 3 (0.48%) Podman
7 3 (0.48%) Puppet
7 3 (0.48%) Rundeck
8 2 (0.32%) Galera Cluster
9 1 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.16%) Kibana
9 1 (0.16%) logstash
Vendors
1 28 (4.50%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.02%) Databricks
3 24 (3.86%) Oracle
3 24 (3.86%) Sybase
4 12 (1.93%) Atlassian
4 12 (1.93%) ServiceNow
5 11 (1.77%) Splunk
6 10 (1.61%) Google
7 7 (1.13%) Citrix
7 7 (1.13%) ION Trading
7 7 (1.13%) Red Hat
7 7 (1.13%) VMware
8 6 (0.96%) Planview
9 5 (0.80%) Cisco
10 4 (0.64%) Virgin Media
11 3 (0.48%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.48%) IBM
11 3 (0.48%) Murex
11 3 (0.48%) Solace
11 3 (0.48%) Veritas