Investment Banking Java Developer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Java Developer - Investment Banking
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Developer - Investment Banking daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £775, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 330 441
Rank change year-on-year +47 +111 +142
Contract jobs requiring an Investment Banking Java Developer 34 16 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.33% 0.11% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.12% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 16 15
10th Percentile £732 £594 £700
25th Percentile £736 - £763
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £600 £925
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% -35.14% +15.63%
75th Percentile £822 - £938
90th Percentile £839 £606 -
UK median daily rate £775 £600 £800
% change year-on-year +29.17% -25.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,551 13,668 22,950
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.93% 93.70% 95.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,412 9,204 16,204
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £760 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 543 548
10th Percentile £13.88 £14.25 £16.98
25th Percentile £17.80 £22.50 £24.94
Median hourly rate £34.48 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -14.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.75 £66.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.83
UK median hourly rate £26.39 £38.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -31.47% -10.47% +70.13%

Investment Banking Java Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Investment Banking Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Investment Banking Java Developer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Investment Banking Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Investment Banking Java Developer.

Investment Banking Java Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Investment Banking Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 5 July 2025, Investment Banking Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Investment Banking Java Developer in the job title.

1 34 (100.00%) Java
1 34 (100.00%) Banking
1 34 (100.00%) Investment Banking
2 33 (97.06%) Performance Tuning
3 32 (94.12%) Multithreading
4 31 (91.18%) Social Skills
4 31 (91.18%) Python
4 31 (91.18%) Linux
5 30 (88.24%) SQL
5 30 (88.24%) Relational Database
6 29 (85.29%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (85.29%) Analytical Skills
7 28 (82.35%) Data Structures
7 28 (82.35%) SDLC
7 28 (82.35%) Kafka
7 28 (82.35%) Database Tuning
7 28 (82.35%) Open Source
7 28 (82.35%) MongoDB
7 28 (82.35%) Sybase
7 28 (82.35%) DB2
7 28 (82.35%) JUnit
7 28 (82.35%) JMS
7 28 (82.35%) Shell Script
7 28 (82.35%) Spring
7 28 (82.35%) Agile
7 28 (82.35%) Equities
7 28 (82.35%) Finance
8 15 (44.12%) Front Office
9 6 (17.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (11.76%) Bloomberg

Investment Banking Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (8.82%) GitHub
1 3 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Multicast
1 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (88.24%) Relational Database
2 28 (82.35%) DB2
2 28 (82.35%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 28 (82.35%) JUnit
2 2 (5.88%) Maven
General
1 34 (100.00%) Banking
1 34 (100.00%) Investment Banking
2 31 (91.18%) Social Skills
3 29 (85.29%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (82.35%) Finance
5 15 (44.12%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (82.35%) JMS
1 28 (82.35%) Kafka
1 28 (82.35%) Spring
2 4 (11.76%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (5.88%) Middleware
3 2 (5.88%) MyBatis
3 2 (5.88%) Swing
3 2 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (82.35%) Data Structures
1 28 (82.35%) Equities
2 6 (17.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (11.76%) Clustering
3 4 (11.76%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.88%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (5.88%) Fixed Income
6 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (91.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (97.06%) Performance Tuning
2 32 (94.12%) Multithreading
3 29 (85.29%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (82.35%) Agile
4 28 (82.35%) Database Tuning
4 28 (82.35%) Open Source
4 28 (82.35%) SDLC
5 4 (11.76%) Electronic Trading
5 4 (11.76%) Low Latency
6 3 (8.82%) CI/CD
6 3 (8.82%) Decision-Making
6 3 (8.82%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (8.82%) DevOps
6 3 (8.82%) Garbage Collection
7 2 (5.88%) Design Patterns
7 2 (5.88%) High Availability
7 2 (5.88%) Performance Optimisation
8 1 (2.94%) Algorithmic Trading
8 1 (2.94%) Market Making
8 1 (2.94%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 34 (100.00%) Java
2 31 (91.18%) Python
3 30 (88.24%) SQL
4 28 (82.35%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.88%) Perl
5 2 (5.88%) Ruby
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) ITRS Geneos
1 3 (8.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (82.35%) Sybase
2 4 (11.76%) Bloomberg
2 4 (11.76%) Refinitiv
3 3 (8.82%) Solace