Investment Management Contracts

Investment Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 243 353
Rank change year-on-year +52 +110 -55
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 402 422 407
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.37% 0.97% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 1.12% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 381 337
10th Percentile £488 £500 £445
25th Percentile £582 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £838 £850 £750
90th Percentile £938 £888 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.00
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year - +66.67% -44.19%
75th Percentile - - £26.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £24.00
% change year-on-year - - -28.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Investment Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Management in the UK

Investment Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Investment Management in the UK

Investment Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Management in the UK

Investment Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Investment Management in the UK

Investment Management
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 Management within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +36 378 £725 +3.57% 371
London +9 365 £725 +3.57% 275
Work from Home +64 287 £725 -3.33% 85
UK excluding London +68 31 £450 -14.29% 135
Scotland +22 23 £450 -30.39% 8
North of England +13 4 £625 +47.06% 24
North West +9 2 £625 +47.06% 11
Yorkshire - 2 £488 - 8
East of England - 2 £400 - 16
Midlands +21 1 £625 +3.31% 28
West Midlands +13 1 £625 +3.31% 20
South West - 1 - - 13

Investment Management
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 48 (11.94%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (5.97%) Apache
3 5 (1.24%) Confluence
4 3 (0.75%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.25%) MQSeries
Applications
1 12 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.00%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 56 (13.93%) Aladdin
2 14 (3.48%) thinkFolio
3 2 (0.50%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 111 (27.61%) AWS
2 87 (21.64%) GCP
3 55 (13.68%) Azure
4 49 (12.19%) dbt
5 24 (5.97%) Snowflake
6 9 (2.24%) Dagster
7 8 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (1.99%) Power Platform
8 7 (1.74%) SaaS
9 6 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.24%) Asana
10 5 (1.24%) Figma
10 5 (1.24%) Slack
11 4 (1.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (1.00%) IaaS
12 2 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.50%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.50%) GitHub
12 2 (0.50%) OpenShift
12 2 (0.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.24%) DHCP
1 5 (1.24%) VPN
2 4 (1.00%) DNS
2 4 (1.00%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.25%) Firewall
4 1 (0.25%) LAN
4 1 (0.25%) Network Security
4 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (28.36%) Data Lake
2 48 (11.94%) Amazon Athena
2 48 (11.94%) Apache Iceberg
2 48 (11.94%) Dremio
3 46 (11.44%) PostgreSQL
4 39 (9.70%) Apache Arrow
5 23 (5.72%) Apache Ignite
6 8 (1.99%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.24%) Amazon QuickSight
7 5 (1.24%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.24%) Power BI
7 5 (1.24%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.00%) InterSystems Cache
8 4 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.75%) DB2
9 3 (0.75%) Star Schema
10 2 (0.50%) Impala
10 2 (0.50%) KDB
10 2 (0.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (4.98%) JIRA
2 5 (1.24%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.00%) Bitbucket
3 4 (1.00%) Git
4 3 (0.75%) JUnit
5 2 (0.50%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.50%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.25%) Selenium
6 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 347 (86.32%) Finance
2 268 (66.67%) Front Office
3 92 (22.89%) Banking
4 46 (11.44%) Social Skills
5 38 (9.45%) Investment Banking
6 26 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (3.98%) Back Office
8 13 (3.23%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.49%) Law
10 4 (1.00%) Legal
11 3 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.25%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.25%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.25%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 119 (29.60%) Developer
2 103 (25.62%) Analyst
3 95 (23.63%) Software Engineer
4 83 (20.65%) Business Analyst
5 80 (19.90%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 62 (15.42%) Business Manager
7 44 (10.95%) Python Engineer
8 39 (9.70%) AWS Engineer
8 39 (9.70%) AWS Software Engineer
9 38 (9.45%) React Developer
10 37 (9.20%) Head of Finance
11 35 (8.71%) Python Software Engineer
12 34 (8.46%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
13 33 (8.21%) Python Developer
14 28 (6.97%) Lead
14 28 (6.97%) Product Manager
15 27 (6.72%) AWS Developer
16 25 (6.22%) Senior
17 22 (5.47%) Data Governance Manager
17 22 (5.47%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (21.39%) React
2 62 (15.42%) Redux
3 57 (14.18%) Node.js
4 51 (12.69%) NumPy
4 51 (12.69%) Pandas
5 48 (11.94%) SciPy
6 47 (11.69%) AngularJS
7 43 (10.70%) Vue
8 23 (5.72%) gRPC
8 23 (5.72%) Protocol Buffers
9 13 (3.23%) .NET
9 13 (3.23%) PySpark
10 7 (1.74%) Kafka
11 5 (1.24%) OpenFin
12 4 (1.00%) Middleware
12 4 (1.00%) Spring
13 3 (0.75%) ASP.NET
13 3 (0.75%) FIX Protocol
13 3 (0.75%) JMS
14 2 (0.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 243 (60.45%) Fixed Income
2 184 (45.77%) Hedge funds
3 165 (41.04%) Derivative
4 155 (38.56%) Equities
5 145 (36.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 59 (14.68%) Product Ownership
7 26 (6.47%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.99%) Pricing Data
9 9 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.99%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.00%) Data Centre
13 4 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
14 3 (0.75%) Clustering
14 3 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
14 3 (0.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 2 (0.50%) Algorithms
15 2 (0.50%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.73%) Apple iOS
1 19 (4.73%) Linux
2 7 (1.74%) Windows
3 2 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (72.14%) Agile
2 193 (48.01%) Asset Management
3 116 (28.86%) Roadmaps
4 105 (26.12%) Software Engineering
5 102 (25.37%) Migration
6 100 (24.88%) Data Governance
7 94 (23.38%) Regulatory Compliance
8 83 (20.65%) Fintech
9 78 (19.40%) Analytics
10 70 (17.41%) Data Management
11 64 (15.92%) Portfolio Management
12 46 (11.44%) Business Intelligence
13 44 (10.95%) Performance Attribution
14 42 (10.45%) Business Analysis
14 42 (10.45%) Order Management
15 40 (9.95%) User Experience
16 31 (7.71%) Wealth Management
17 30 (7.46%) Risk Management
18 29 (7.21%) Problem-Solving
19 26 (6.47%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 157 (39.05%) Python
2 99 (24.63%) TypeScript
3 95 (23.63%) JavaScript
4 64 (15.92%) SQL
5 34 (8.46%) Java
6 13 (3.23%) C#
7 8 (1.99%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.00%) MUMPS
9 3 (0.75%) C
9 3 (0.75%) C++
10 2 (0.50%) Bash
10 2 (0.50%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.25%) Perl
11 1 (0.25%) R
11 1 (0.25%) RPG
Qualifications
1 29 (7.21%) Degree
2 3 (0.75%) CFA
2 3 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (0.75%) PMI Certification
2 3 (0.75%) PMP
3 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (0.25%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.25%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.25%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.96%) MiFID
2 9 (2.24%) PMO
3 6 (1.49%) QA
4 5 (1.24%) EMIR
5 3 (0.75%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (1.49%) Docker
2 5 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.00%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (1.74%) Ansible
1 7 (1.74%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.49%) Terraform
3 3 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.50%) Grafana
4 2 (0.50%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.25%) Plesk
Vendors
1 37 (9.20%) BISAM
2 26 (6.47%) Charles River
3 20 (4.98%) Microsoft
4 16 (3.98%) SimCorp
5 14 (3.48%) Calypso
6 6 (1.49%) Palo Alto
7 5 (1.24%) Bloomberg
7 5 (1.24%) Zscaler
8 4 (1.00%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.00%) Splunk
9 3 (0.75%) eFront
9 3 (0.75%) HP
9 3 (0.75%) Informatica
9 3 (0.75%) Oracle
9 3 (0.75%) Refinitiv
9 3 (0.75%) Reuters
9 3 (0.75%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.75%) Sybase
10 2 (0.50%) Cisco
10 2 (0.50%) Veritas