Investment Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Investment Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 285 374
Rank change year-on-year +133 +89 -177
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 215 196 265
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.41% 0.76% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 0.84% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 154 215
10th Percentile £545 £475 £438
25th Percentile £588 £550 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £850 £750 £750
90th Percentile £888 £838 £850
UK median daily rate £700 £675 £600
% change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £24.00 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £24.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -44.19% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,424 23,302 40,603
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.87% 89.87% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,958 16,466 29,448
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £714
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 564 535 543
10th Percentile £15.05 £19.00 £13.55
25th Percentile £24.19 £30.88 £20.12
Median hourly rate £40.13 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.05% +57.14% +35.92%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.95
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Investment Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Investment Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Investment Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Investment Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Investment Management.

Investment Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Investment Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Investment Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Investment Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Investment Management
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 75 (34.88%) Apache Airflow
2 63 (29.30%) Apache
3 3 (1.40%) Confluence
4 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.79%) SimCorp Dimension
2 3 (1.40%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.93%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.93%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.47%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 113 (52.56%) AWS
2 73 (33.95%) dbt
3 65 (30.23%) GCP
4 60 (27.91%) Snowflake
5 29 (13.49%) Azure
6 5 (2.33%) Asana
6 5 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.33%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.33%) Slack
7 4 (1.86%) IaaS
8 2 (0.93%) GitHub
9 1 (0.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.47%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.47%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.26%) DHCP
1 7 (3.26%) DNS
2 5 (2.33%) VPN
3 3 (1.40%) BGP
3 3 (1.40%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (1.40%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (1.40%) HTTP
3 3 (1.40%) MPLS
3 3 (1.40%) Network Security
3 3 (1.40%) OSPF
3 3 (1.40%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.40%) SNMP
3 3 (1.40%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.40%) WAN
3 3 (1.40%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.47%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (31.63%) Amazon Athena
1 68 (31.63%) Apache Arrow
1 68 (31.63%) Dremio
2 63 (29.30%) Apache Ignite
3 59 (27.44%) Data Lake
4 12 (5.58%) Big Data
5 5 (2.33%) Power BI
6 3 (1.40%) Data Hub
7 2 (0.93%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.93%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.47%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.47%) DB2
8 1 (0.47%) DBAmp
8 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (4.19%) JIRA
2 3 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.93%) Git
General
1 184 (85.58%) Finance
2 142 (66.05%) Front Office
3 100 (46.51%) Banking
4 60 (27.91%) Investment Banking
5 42 (19.53%) Back Office
6 11 (5.12%) Social Skills
7 3 (1.40%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 59 (27.44%) Developer
2 54 (25.12%) Software Engineer
3 53 (24.65%) Analyst
4 49 (22.79%) Senior
5 38 (17.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 33 (15.35%) Financial Analyst
7 32 (14.88%) AWS Engineer
8 30 (13.95%) Python Developer
9 29 (13.49%) Finance Manager
9 29 (13.49%) Lead
10 28 (13.02%) Python Engineer
11 24 (11.16%) Business Analyst
11 24 (11.16%) Python Software Engineer
12 21 (9.77%) AWS Software Engineer
13 20 (9.30%) Banking Analyst
13 20 (9.30%) SQL Analyst
13 20 (9.30%) Technical Analyst
14 19 (8.84%) Java Engineer
14 19 (8.84%) Java Software Engineer
14 19 (8.84%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (33.95%) gRPC
1 73 (33.95%) Protocol Buffers
2 59 (27.44%) Pandas
3 58 (26.98%) NumPy
3 58 (26.98%) SciPy
4 20 (9.30%) Node.js
4 20 (9.30%) React
4 20 (9.30%) Redux
5 10 (4.65%) GraphQL
5 10 (4.65%) Material-UI
6 6 (2.79%) AngularJS
7 5 (2.33%) Vue
8 3 (1.40%) ADO
9 2 (0.93%) PySpark
10 1 (0.47%) Flask
10 1 (0.47%) Hibernate
10 1 (0.47%) HTML
10 1 (0.47%) HTML5
10 1 (0.47%) Lightning Web Components
10 1 (0.47%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 129 (60.00%) Hedge funds
2 118 (54.88%) Derivative
3 100 (46.51%) Fixed Income
4 82 (38.14%) Equities
5 64 (29.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 13 (6.05%) Clustering
7 11 (5.12%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.33%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.33%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.86%) DTCC
9 4 (1.86%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.86%) Pricing Data
10 2 (0.93%) Credit Derivative
10 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.47%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.47%) CSOC
11 1 (0.47%) Equity Risk
11 1 (0.47%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.33%) Windows
2 4 (1.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (86.51%) Asset Management
2 118 (54.88%) Agile
3 91 (42.33%) Software Engineering
4 40 (18.60%) Mentoring
5 30 (13.95%) Analytics
6 22 (10.23%) Greeks
6 22 (10.23%) Performance Attribution
7 21 (9.77%) Line Management
7 21 (9.77%) Wealth Management
8 20 (9.30%) Fintech
9 18 (8.37%) Product Management
10 16 (7.44%) Full Stack Development
10 16 (7.44%) Quantitative Research
11 13 (6.05%) DevOps
11 13 (6.05%) Migration
12 12 (5.58%) User Stories
13 11 (5.12%) Artificial Intelligence
13 11 (5.12%) Machine Learning
13 11 (5.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 10 (4.65%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 158 (73.49%) Python
2 84 (39.07%) JavaScript
3 75 (34.88%) Java
4 74 (34.42%) TypeScript
5 57 (26.51%) SQL
6 38 (17.67%) C#
7 18 (8.37%) R
8 11 (5.12%) Go
9 10 (4.65%) Kotlin
10 8 (3.72%) Scala
11 6 (2.79%) Ruby
12 4 (1.86%) Perl
13 1 (0.47%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 4 (1.86%) CCNP
1 4 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (1.40%) CCDP
3 1 (0.47%) CCNA
3 1 (0.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (12.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.47%) FATCA
2 1 (0.47%) QA
System Software
1 5 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.86%) Firmware
3 1 (0.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (5.12%) Kubernetes
1 11 (5.12%) Terraform
2 10 (4.65%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.40%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (8.37%) Bloomberg
2 9 (4.19%) Palo Alto
3 8 (3.72%) Zscaler
4 7 (3.26%) Microsoft
5 6 (2.79%) SimCorp
6 5 (2.33%) Databricks
7 4 (1.86%) Arista
7 4 (1.86%) Charles River
7 4 (1.86%) Cisco
8 3 (1.40%) Aruba
8 3 (1.40%) Infoblox
8 3 (1.40%) Meraki
8 3 (1.40%) Splunk
9 2 (0.93%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.93%) SAP
10 1 (0.47%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.47%) Informatica
10 1 (0.47%) Oracle
10 1 (0.47%) Pardot
10 1 (0.47%) Sybase