Investment Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Investment Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 85 149 284
Rank change year-on-year +64 +135 +89
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 287 221 199
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.90% 1.44% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.18% 1.64% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 203 157
10th Percentile £538 £550 £475
25th Percentile £638 £588 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £875 £850 £750
90th Percentile £938 £888 £838
UK median daily rate £725 £700 £675
% change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.00
Median hourly rate - - £24.00
75th Percentile - - £26.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year - +66.67% -44.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Investment Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Investment Management
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 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 remote working options citing Investment Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 48 (16.72%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (8.01%) Apache
3 2 (0.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 53 (18.47%) Aladdin
2 14 (4.88%) thinkFolio
3 2 (0.70%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 100 (34.84%) AWS
2 87 (30.31%) GCP
3 49 (17.07%) dbt
4 44 (15.33%) Azure
5 20 (6.97%) Snowflake
6 9 (3.14%) Dagster
7 7 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (2.09%) SaaS
9 5 (1.74%) Asana
9 5 (1.74%) Figma
9 5 (1.74%) Slack
10 3 (1.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.70%) GitHub
11 2 (0.70%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.35%) Entra ID
12 1 (0.35%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.35%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.74%) VPN
2 4 (1.39%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (39.72%) Data Lake
2 48 (16.72%) Amazon Athena
2 48 (16.72%) Apache Iceberg
2 48 (16.72%) Dremio
3 46 (16.03%) PostgreSQL
4 39 (13.59%) Apache Arrow
5 23 (8.01%) Apache Ignite
6 2 (0.70%) InterSystems Cache
6 2 (0.70%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.70%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.70%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.35%) DB2
7 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (3.14%) JIRA
2 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.35%) Git
2 1 (0.35%) JUnit
General
1 264 (91.99%) Finance
2 233 (81.18%) Front Office
3 49 (17.07%) Banking
4 15 (5.23%) Investment Banking
5 11 (3.83%) Social Skills
6 8 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.05%) Back Office
8 2 (0.70%) Legal
9 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.35%) Law
9 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (31.71%) Software Engineer
2 86 (29.97%) Developer
3 78 (27.18%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 64 (22.30%) Analyst
5 56 (19.51%) Business Analyst
6 42 (14.63%) Python Engineer
7 39 (13.59%) AWS Engineer
7 39 (13.59%) AWS Software Engineer
8 37 (12.89%) Business Manager
8 37 (12.89%) Head of Finance
9 35 (12.20%) React Developer
10 34 (11.85%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
11 33 (11.50%) Python Software Engineer
12 27 (9.41%) AWS Developer
13 26 (9.06%) Lead
14 22 (7.67%) Data Governance Analyst
14 22 (7.67%) Data Governance Manager
14 22 (7.67%) Governance Manager
14 22 (7.67%) Python Developer
15 20 (6.97%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (27.18%) React
2 62 (21.60%) Redux
3 57 (19.86%) Node.js
4 48 (16.72%) NumPy
4 48 (16.72%) Pandas
4 48 (16.72%) SciPy
5 45 (15.68%) AngularJS
6 43 (14.98%) Vue
7 23 (8.01%) gRPC
7 23 (8.01%) Protocol Buffers
8 9 (3.14%) PySpark
9 5 (1.74%) OpenFin
10 4 (1.39%) .NET
11 3 (1.05%) Middleware
12 2 (0.70%) ASP.NET
12 2 (0.70%) Web Services
13 1 (0.35%) ADO
13 1 (0.35%) JMS
13 1 (0.35%) Kafka
13 1 (0.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 225 (78.40%) Fixed Income
2 159 (55.40%) Hedge funds
3 147 (51.22%) Derivative
4 129 (44.95%) Equities
5 125 (43.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 37 (12.89%) Product Ownership
7 26 (9.06%) Onboarding
8 12 (4.18%) Pricing Data
9 5 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.39%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.39%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (0.70%) Clustering
12 1 (0.35%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.35%) Cloud Native
12 1 (0.35%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.35%) Equity Derivative
12 1 (0.35%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.35%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.35%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.39%) Linux
1 4 (1.39%) Windows
2 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (83.62%) Agile
2 159 (55.40%) Asset Management
3 101 (35.19%) Software Engineering
4 98 (34.15%) Data Governance
4 98 (34.15%) Migration
5 92 (32.06%) Regulatory Compliance
5 92 (32.06%) Roadmaps
6 82 (28.57%) Fintech
7 68 (23.69%) Data Management
8 54 (18.82%) Analytics
9 44 (15.33%) Performance Attribution
10 42 (14.63%) Portfolio Management
11 40 (13.94%) User Experience
12 39 (13.59%) Business Analysis
13 37 (12.89%) Business Intelligence
14 22 (7.67%) User Acceptance Testing
15 20 (6.97%) Order Management
16 19 (6.62%) Data Mapping
17 18 (6.27%) Full-Stack Development
18 17 (5.92%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 134 (46.69%) Python
2 95 (33.10%) TypeScript
3 92 (32.06%) JavaScript
4 47 (16.38%) SQL
5 29 (10.10%) Java
6 4 (1.39%) C#
7 2 (0.70%) MUMPS
7 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.35%) Bash
8 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 5 (1.74%) Degree
2 3 (1.05%) CFA
2 3 (1.05%) PMI Certification
2 3 (1.05%) PMP
3 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.35%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.71%) MiFID
System Software
1 5 (1.74%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (0.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) Firmware
2 1 (0.35%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 3 (1.05%) Ansible
1 3 (1.05%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.70%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.35%) Grafana
3 1 (0.35%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.35%) Plesk
3 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (12.89%) BISAM
2 22 (7.67%) Charles River
3 16 (5.57%) SimCorp
4 14 (4.88%) Calypso
5 8 (2.79%) Microsoft
6 5 (1.74%) Palo Alto
6 5 (1.74%) Zscaler
7 3 (1.05%) HP
8 2 (0.70%) Informatica
9 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.35%) Cisco
9 1 (0.35%) eFront
9 1 (0.35%) FactSet
9 1 (0.35%) Meraki
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle
9 1 (0.35%) Rackspace
9 1 (0.35%) Splunk
9 1 (0.35%) Sybase
9 1 (0.35%) Veritas
9 1 (0.35%) VMware