Investment Banking Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Investment Banking
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Investment Banking over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 132 156
Rank change year-on-year +31 +24 +64
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 257 239 400
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.61% 1.59% 1.59%
As % of the General category 4.17% 2.70% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 199 274
10th Percentile £495 £500 £488
25th Percentile £675 £619 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £753 £800 £715
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +11.89% +2.14%
75th Percentile £881 £888 £820
90th Percentile £888 - £975
UK median daily rate £734 £725 £700
% change year-on-year +1.21% +3.57% -

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,166 8,864 14,673
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 62.52% 58.80% 58.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,169 5,820 10,341
10th Percentile £330 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £651 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 471 333
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.00 £19.00
25th Percentile £18.29 £22.61 £25.95
Median hourly rate £31.76 £38.12 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.68% -23.76% +52.58%
75th Percentile £64.52 £53.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.78 £72.50 £80.20
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £32.60
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.96% +48.16%

Investment Banking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Investment Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

Investment Banking
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.

Investment Banking daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Investment Banking over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Investment Banking daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Investment Banking
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Investment Banking hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Investment Banking
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:

Application Platforms
1 42 (16.34%) Apache
2 41 (15.95%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.17%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.78%) CMS
4 2 (0.78%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 14 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.39%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.39%) ION MarketView
1 1 (0.39%) Murex MxG2000
1 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.39%) Oracle E-Business Tax
1 1 (0.39%) Oracle FAH
1 1 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.39%) PeopleSoft Financials
1 1 (0.39%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 75 (29.18%) AWS
2 44 (17.12%) Snowflake
3 41 (15.95%) dbt
4 29 (11.28%) Azure
5 21 (8.17%) GCP
6 20 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (7.00%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (6.61%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (6.61%) Amazon EKS
8 17 (6.61%) Dagster
9 11 (4.28%) GitHub
10 9 (3.50%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (2.72%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.95%) npm
13 5 (1.95%) OpenShift
13 5 (1.95%) Yarn
14 4 (1.56%) SaaS
15 3 (1.17%) Amazon SQS
15 3 (1.17%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.89%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.39%) BGP
2 1 (0.39%) Firewall
2 1 (0.39%) LAN
2 1 (0.39%) Network Security
2 1 (0.39%) OSPF
2 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.39%) VPN
2 1 (0.39%) WAN
2 1 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (15.95%) Amazon Athena
1 41 (15.95%) Apache Arrow
1 41 (15.95%) Apache Iceberg
1 41 (15.95%) Dremio
2 33 (12.84%) Apache Ignite
2 33 (12.84%) Data Lake
3 30 (11.67%) Relational Database
4 24 (9.34%) MongoDB
5 22 (8.56%) DB2
6 20 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (5.45%) KDB
8 12 (4.67%) Kdb+
9 11 (4.28%) Redis
10 8 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (2.72%) Power BI
12 5 (1.95%) Data Mining
12 5 (1.95%) SQL Server
13 4 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (1.17%) NoSQL
14 3 (1.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (10.51%) Jenkins
2 21 (8.17%) JUnit
3 11 (4.28%) Git
4 8 (3.11%) JIRA
5 5 (1.95%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.95%) webpack
6 4 (1.56%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.17%) Maven
7 3 (1.17%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.78%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.78%) PHPUnit
8 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 257 (100.00%) Banking
2 142 (55.25%) Finance
3 90 (35.02%) Social Skills
4 83 (32.30%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (27.63%) Front Office
6 20 (7.78%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (7.00%) Corporate Banking
7 18 (7.00%) Retail
7 18 (7.00%) Retail Banking
8 3 (1.17%) Back Office
8 3 (1.17%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.78%) Legal
9 2 (0.78%) Marketing
9 2 (0.78%) Military
10 1 (0.39%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 138 (53.70%) Developer
2 70 (27.24%) Senior
3 58 (22.57%) Java Developer
4 55 (21.40%) Python Developer
5 45 (17.51%) AWS Engineer
6 42 (16.34%) Software Engineer
7 41 (15.95%) AWS Software Engineer
8 38 (14.79%) Python Engineer
9 37 (14.40%) Senior Developer
10 32 (12.45%) Java Engineer
11 31 (12.06%) Java Software Engineer
12 26 (10.12%) Python Software Engineer
13 25 (9.73%) Senior Software Engineer
14 24 (9.34%) Linux Developer
15 23 (8.95%) Gen AI Developer
16 22 (8.56%) Investment Banking Java Developer
16 22 (8.56%) Senior Java Engineer
16 22 (8.56%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 22 (8.56%) SQL Developer
17 20 (7.78%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (15.18%) Kafka
2 36 (14.01%) React
3 34 (13.23%) NumPy
3 34 (13.23%) Pandas
4 33 (12.84%) gRPC
4 33 (12.84%) Protocol Buffers
4 33 (12.84%) SciPy
5 29 (11.28%) PySpark
6 28 (10.89%) Spring
7 25 (9.73%) .NET
8 24 (9.34%) FastAPI
9 21 (8.17%) Django
9 21 (8.17%) JMS
10 12 (4.67%) FIX Protocol
11 11 (4.28%) ActiveMQ
12 8 (3.11%) Redux
13 7 (2.72%) AngularJS
13 7 (2.72%) CSS
13 7 (2.72%) RxJS
14 6 (2.33%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 81 (31.52%) Equities
2 68 (26.46%) Derivative
3 56 (21.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 54 (21.01%) Fixed Income
5 45 (17.51%) Hedge funds
6 24 (9.34%) Data Structures
7 20 (7.78%) Management Information System
8 17 (6.61%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (6.23%) Market Risk
9 16 (6.23%) Pricing Data
10 12 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (3.11%) Algorithms
13 6 (2.33%) Onboarding
13 6 (2.33%) Reference Data
14 5 (1.95%) Product Ownership
15 4 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
16 3 (1.17%) Blockchain
16 3 (1.17%) Credit Risk
16 3 (1.17%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 44 (17.12%) Linux
2 22 (8.56%) Windows
3 5 (1.95%) Unix
4 1 (0.39%) Android
4 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.39%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (48.25%) Agile
2 75 (29.18%) SDLC
3 68 (26.46%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (19.07%) DevOps
4 49 (19.07%) Software Engineering
5 45 (17.51%) Asset Management
6 40 (15.56%) Artificial Intelligence
7 38 (14.79%) Machine Learning
8 34 (13.23%) CI/CD
9 32 (12.45%) Data Science
10 30 (11.67%) Generative AI
11 28 (10.89%) Performance Tuning
12 27 (10.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (10.51%) LLM
12 27 (10.51%) Risk Management
13 25 (9.73%) Multithreading
14 24 (9.34%) Database Tuning
15 23 (8.95%) Technical Analysis
16 22 (8.56%) Analytics
16 22 (8.56%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 155 (60.31%) Python
2 141 (54.86%) Java
3 104 (40.47%) SQL
4 78 (30.35%) TypeScript
5 58 (22.57%) JavaScript
6 31 (12.06%) C#
7 22 (8.56%) Shell Script
8 14 (5.45%) C++
9 8 (3.11%) Perl
10 7 (2.72%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.33%) Scala
12 5 (1.95%) Bash
13 4 (1.56%) R
14 3 (1.17%) DAML
14 3 (1.17%) Jython
14 3 (1.17%) Ruby
15 2 (0.78%) PHP
15 2 (0.78%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.39%) C
16 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (7.78%) Degree
2 9 (3.50%) Numerate Degree
3 5 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.78%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.78%) CBAP
4 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
4 2 (0.78%) PMP
5 1 (0.39%) CCNP
5 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.39%) PhD
5 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.72%) MiFID
2 6 (2.33%) Basel II
2 6 (2.33%) EMIR
3 5 (1.95%) QA
4 4 (1.56%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.17%) PMO
6 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.78%) Dodd-Frank
6 2 (0.78%) SLA
7 1 (0.39%) Basel III
7 1 (0.39%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.39%) GDPR
7 1 (0.39%) NIST
7 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (17.12%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (0.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 45 (17.51%) Kubernetes
2 29 (11.28%) Ansible
3 6 (2.33%) Terraform
4 4 (1.56%) Grafana
4 4 (1.56%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.17%) Control-M
5 3 (1.17%) Istio
5 3 (1.17%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.17%) Puppet
5 3 (1.17%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.39%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (8.56%) Sybase
2 9 (3.50%) Oracle
3 8 (3.11%) Databricks
4 5 (1.95%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.56%) Microsoft
5 4 (1.56%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.17%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.17%) ION Trading
7 2 (0.78%) Dell
7 2 (0.78%) HP
7 2 (0.78%) IBM
7 2 (0.78%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.78%) Solace
7 2 (0.78%) Splunk
7 2 (0.78%) Sun
7 2 (0.78%) Veritas
7 2 (0.78%) VMware
8 1 (0.39%) Cisco
8 1 (0.39%) Murex
8 1 (0.39%) Palo Alto