Investment Management Contracts

Investment Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Investment Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Investment Management over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 239 365 306
Rank change year-on-year +126 -59 -68
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 429 402 812
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.99% 0.68% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 0.76% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 334 703
10th Percentile £500 £445 £457
25th Percentile £588 £518 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% +2.13%
75th Percentile £850 £750 £738
90th Percentile £888 £838 £830
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - £27.70
25th Percentile - £22.00 £33.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £24.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -44.19% -
75th Percentile - £26.00 £53.00
90th Percentile - - £58.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £24.00 £33.50
% change year-on-year - -28.36% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Investment Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,480 53,073 80,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.37% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 36,804 56,457
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,751 1,910
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 6 May 2024.

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 9 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 6 May 2024. 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 +120 416 £700 +3.70% 159
London +104 402 £720 +6.67% 140
Work from Home +140 224 £750 +11.11% 44
UK excluding London +29 23 £525 +10.53% 27
Scotland +18 11 £647 +36.11% 5
North of England +33 10 £425 +141.48% 4
North West +32 10 £425 +141.48% 2
Midlands +31 2 £605 -3.20% 4
West Midlands +21 2 £605 -3.20% 4

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
1 145 (33.80%) Apache Airflow
2 129 (30.07%) Apache
3 5 (1.17%) Confluence
4 3 (0.70%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.70%) SAS
5 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 24 (5.59%) Aladdin
2 9 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.63%) Markit EDM
3 7 (1.63%) SAP FI
3 7 (1.63%) SimCorp Dimension
4 4 (0.93%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.23%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.23%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 232 (54.08%) AWS
2 153 (35.66%) GCP
3 120 (27.97%) Azure
4 90 (20.98%) dbt
5 77 (17.95%) Snowflake
6 11 (2.56%) Power Platform
7 9 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.17%) Asana
8 5 (1.17%) Slack
9 4 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.93%) IaaS
10 3 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.70%) Azure Stack
10 3 (0.70%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.47%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.47%) GitHub
12 1 (0.23%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.63%) DHCP
1 7 (1.63%) DNS
1 7 (1.63%) Network Security
2 5 (1.17%) VPN
3 4 (0.93%) BGP
3 4 (0.93%) OSPF
3 4 (0.93%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (0.70%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (0.70%) Firewall
4 3 (0.70%) HTTP
4 3 (0.70%) iSCSI
4 3 (0.70%) MPLS
4 3 (0.70%) SAN
4 3 (0.70%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.70%) SNMP
4 3 (0.70%) WAN
4 3 (0.70%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.23%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (30.07%) Apache Ignite
2 85 (19.81%) Amazon Athena
2 85 (19.81%) Apache Arrow
2 85 (19.81%) Dremio
3 79 (18.41%) Data Lake
4 54 (12.59%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (3.96%) Big Data
6 11 (2.56%) Power BI
7 6 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.93%) DB2
8 4 (0.93%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.70%) Data Hub
9 3 (0.70%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.47%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.47%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.47%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.23%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 39 (9.09%) Cypress.io
2 13 (3.03%) JIRA
3 6 (1.40%) Git
4 3 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.47%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.47%) webpack
6 1 (0.23%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 351 (81.82%) Finance
2 258 (60.14%) Front Office
3 200 (46.62%) Banking
4 98 (22.84%) Investment Banking
5 48 (11.19%) Social Skills
6 47 (10.96%) Back Office
7 7 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.70%) Legal
9 3 (0.70%) Marketing
10 2 (0.47%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.47%) Law
10 2 (0.47%) Retail
11 1 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.23%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.23%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 151 (35.20%) Developer
2 138 (32.17%) Software Engineer
3 115 (26.81%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 101 (23.54%) Analyst
5 92 (21.45%) Python Engineer
6 84 (19.58%) Python Developer
7 82 (19.11%) Python Software Engineer
8 66 (15.38%) React Developer
9 63 (14.69%) Senior
10 55 (12.82%) Finance Manager
11 54 (12.59%) Financial Analyst
12 53 (12.35%) Business Analyst
13 40 (9.32%) AWS Engineer
14 36 (8.39%) Full Stack Developer
14 36 (8.39%) Full Stack Engineer
14 36 (8.39%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 35 (8.16%) Lead
16 30 (6.99%) Finance Business Analyst
17 27 (6.29%) Full Stack Python Developer
18 26 (6.06%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (33.10%) gRPC
1 142 (33.10%) Protocol Buffers
2 99 (23.08%) React
2 99 (23.08%) Redux
3 75 (17.48%) Pandas
4 72 (16.78%) NumPy
5 70 (16.32%) SciPy
6 64 (14.92%) Material-UI
7 26 (6.06%) .NET
8 21 (4.90%) Node.js
9 19 (4.43%) AngularJS
10 16 (3.73%) .NET Core
11 15 (3.50%) Vue
12 10 (2.33%) ASP.NET
12 10 (2.33%) ASP.NET Core
13 9 (2.10%) GraphQL
14 8 (1.86%) WPF
15 5 (1.17%) PySpark
16 4 (0.93%) RESTful
17 3 (0.70%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 246 (57.34%) Hedge funds
2 214 (49.88%) Fixed Income
3 179 (41.72%) Derivative
4 168 (39.16%) Equities
5 121 (28.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 29 (6.76%) Product Ownership
7 17 (3.96%) Clustering
8 6 (1.40%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.40%) Pricing Data
8 6 (1.40%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (1.17%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.93%) DTCC
11 3 (0.70%) Client/Server
11 3 (0.70%) Embedded Systems
11 3 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.70%) NVMe
12 2 (0.47%) Credit Derivative
12 2 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.50%) Windows
2 10 (2.33%) Linux
3 5 (1.17%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.93%) Unix
5 3 (0.70%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.70%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.23%) Android
6 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (79.25%) Asset Management
2 235 (54.78%) Agile
3 187 (43.59%) Software Engineering
4 93 (21.68%) Full Stack Development
5 83 (19.35%) Machine Learning
6 82 (19.11%) Artificial Intelligence
7 57 (13.29%) Fintech
8 53 (12.35%) Automated Trading
8 53 (12.35%) DevOps
9 40 (9.32%) Mentoring
10 37 (8.62%) Analytics
11 31 (7.23%) Wealth Management
12 28 (6.53%) Line Management
13 25 (5.83%) Greeks
13 25 (5.83%) TDD
14 23 (5.36%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (4.90%) Business Intelligence
15 21 (4.90%) Performance Attribution
16 19 (4.43%) Migration
16 19 (4.43%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 258 (60.14%) Python
2 165 (38.46%) TypeScript
3 127 (29.60%) JavaScript
4 108 (25.17%) SQL
5 95 (22.14%) Java
6 75 (17.48%) C#
7 18 (4.20%) R
8 15 (3.50%) Go
9 9 (2.10%) Kotlin
10 8 (1.86%) Scala
11 7 (1.63%) Perl
12 6 (1.40%) Ruby
13 5 (1.17%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.93%) VBA
15 3 (0.70%) C++
15 3 (0.70%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
17 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (1.17%) CCNP
1 5 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (1.17%) Degree
2 3 (0.70%) CCDP
2 3 (0.70%) CFA
3 2 (0.47%) CCNA
3 2 (0.47%) CIMA
3 2 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.47%) PMP
4 1 (0.23%) ISEB
4 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 29 (6.76%) QA
3 3 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.23%) EMIR
4 1 (0.23%) FATCA
4 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.23%) MiFID
4 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (2.10%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.40%) Docker
3 3 (0.70%) Firmware
3 3 (0.70%) GPFS
3 3 (0.70%) NFS
4 2 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (4.43%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.20%) Terraform
3 14 (3.26%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.70%) CASB
4 3 (0.70%) Kibana
4 3 (0.70%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 2 (0.47%) Control-M
5 2 (0.47%) SCCM
6 1 (0.23%) Ansible
6 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.23%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 59 (13.75%) Google
2 38 (8.86%) Bloomberg
3 13 (3.03%) Microsoft
3 13 (3.03%) Palo Alto
4 12 (2.80%) BISAM
5 8 (1.86%) Databricks
5 8 (1.86%) SAP
5 8 (1.86%) Zscaler
6 7 (1.63%) Charles River
6 7 (1.63%) SimCorp
7 6 (1.40%) Cisco
8 5 (1.17%) Arista
8 5 (1.17%) Oracle
9 4 (0.93%) IBM
9 4 (0.93%) Sybase
10 3 (0.70%) Brocade
10 3 (0.70%) EMC
10 3 (0.70%) NetApp
10 3 (0.70%) Splunk
10 3 (0.70%) Veritas