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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 110 244
Rank change year-on-year 0 +134 +29
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 244 266 198
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.41% 2.01% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 2.31% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 242 180
10th Percentile £538 £563 £475
25th Percentile £625 £663 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £663
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +20.75% -1.85%
75th Percentile £838 £850 £750
90th Percentile £875 £888 £775
UK median daily rate £750 £725 £650
% change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -

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 9,305 11,517 19,986
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.83% 87.24% 89.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,241 7,714 14,067
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -2.33% -1.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 402 474
10th Percentile £12.62 £17.52 £17.50
25th Percentile £18.54 £30.56 £26.00
Median hourly rate £34.48 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -14.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.20 £67.50
90th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.38%

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 4 August 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 82 (33.61%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (17.21%) Apache
3 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 46 (18.85%) Aladdin
2 19 (7.79%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.41%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 155 (63.52%) AWS
2 98 (40.16%) GCP
3 82 (33.61%) dbt
4 49 (20.08%) Snowflake
5 45 (18.44%) Azure
6 11 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.46%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (2.05%) Figma
9 4 (1.64%) Dagster
10 3 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (0.82%) SaaS
12 1 (0.41%) Asana
12 1 (0.41%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (0.41%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (0.41%) Entra ID
12 1 (0.41%) GoToWebinar
12 1 (0.41%) IBM Blueworks
12 1 (0.41%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.41%) VPN
1 1 (0.41%) WebEx
1 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (33.61%) Amazon Athena
1 82 (33.61%) Apache Iceberg
1 82 (33.61%) Dremio
2 78 (31.97%) Apache Arrow
3 69 (28.28%) PostgreSQL
4 49 (20.08%) Data Lake
5 42 (17.21%) Apache Ignite
6 5 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (2.05%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.82%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.41%) Big Data
8 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.41%) DB2
8 1 (0.41%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (1.64%) JIRA
2 2 (0.82%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.41%) JUnit
General
1 220 (90.16%) Finance
2 192 (78.69%) Front Office
3 86 (35.25%) Banking
4 44 (18.03%) Investment Banking
5 18 (7.38%) Social Skills
6 12 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.05%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (0.82%) Back Office
8 2 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.41%) Law
9 1 (0.41%) Legal
9 1 (0.41%) Local Government
9 1 (0.41%) Marketing
9 1 (0.41%) Military
9 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 148 (60.66%) Software Engineer
2 126 (51.64%) Developer
3 106 (43.44%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 78 (31.97%) AWS Engineer
4 78 (31.97%) AWS Software Engineer
5 70 (28.69%) Python Engineer
6 66 (27.05%) Python Software Engineer
7 58 (23.77%) Java Engineer
7 58 (23.77%) Java Software Engineer
8 52 (21.31%) Senior
9 50 (20.49%) Analyst
10 48 (19.67%) Business Analyst
11 42 (17.21%) React Developer
11 42 (17.21%) Senior Java Engineer
11 42 (17.21%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 42 (17.21%) Senior Software Engineer
12 38 (15.57%) Business Manager
13 36 (14.75%) AWS Developer
14 35 (14.34%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
15 27 (11.07%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (45.90%) React
2 84 (34.43%) NumPy
2 84 (34.43%) Pandas
3 82 (33.61%) SciPy
4 81 (33.20%) Node.js
5 70 (28.69%) Redux
6 56 (22.95%) AngularJS
6 56 (22.95%) Vue
7 42 (17.21%) gRPC
7 42 (17.21%) Protocol Buffers
8 13 (5.33%) Kafka
9 12 (4.92%) GraphQL
10 11 (4.51%) .NET
10 11 (4.51%) SOAP
11 7 (2.87%) REST
12 6 (2.46%) .NET Core
13 5 (2.05%) Dapper ORM
13 5 (2.05%) Entity Framework
13 5 (2.05%) LINQ
13 5 (2.05%) OpenFin
Miscellaneous
1 190 (77.87%) Fixed Income
2 102 (41.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 100 (40.98%) Equities
4 98 (40.16%) Hedge funds
5 78 (31.97%) Derivative
6 42 (17.21%) Pricing Data
7 23 (9.43%) Onboarding
8 13 (5.33%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (4.10%) Product Ownership
10 8 (3.28%) Data Structures
11 5 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.82%) Clustering
12 2 (0.82%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.41%) Algorithms
13 1 (0.41%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.41%) Equity Derivative
13 1 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (85.66%) Agile
2 193 (79.10%) Asset Management
3 159 (65.16%) Software Engineering
4 93 (38.11%) Fintech
5 51 (20.90%) Portfolio Management
6 49 (20.08%) Performance Attribution
7 48 (19.67%) Order Management
8 45 (18.44%) Analytics
9 40 (16.39%) Business Analysis
10 38 (15.57%) User Experience
11 37 (15.16%) Risk Management
12 33 (13.52%) Business Intelligence
13 31 (12.70%) TDD
14 28 (11.48%) Full-Stack Development
15 23 (9.43%) Data Mapping
16 14 (5.74%) User Acceptance Testing
17 13 (5.33%) DevOps
17 13 (5.33%) Quantitative Research
18 11 (4.51%) Problem-Solving
18 11 (4.51%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 181 (74.18%) Python
2 154 (63.11%) JavaScript
3 149 (61.07%) TypeScript
4 79 (32.38%) Java
5 58 (23.77%) SQL
6 13 (5.33%) C#
7 12 (4.92%) Go
8 1 (0.41%) Bash
8 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.41%) MUMPS
8 1 (0.41%) R
8 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (2.05%) Degree
2 3 (1.23%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.82%) CFA
4 1 (0.41%) CBAP
4 1 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.41%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.82%) Data Quality
1 2 (0.82%) MiFID
2 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.41%) AIFMD
2 1 (0.41%) GDPR
2 1 (0.41%) QA
2 1 (0.41%) UCITS
System Software
1 6 (2.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (2.46%) Terraform
2 2 (0.82%) Ansible
3 1 (0.41%) Plesk
3 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (13.11%) BISAM
2 27 (11.07%) Charles River
3 19 (7.79%) Calypso
3 19 (7.79%) SimCorp
4 4 (1.64%) Murex
4 4 (1.64%) Oracle
5 3 (1.23%) Microsoft
6 2 (0.82%) Informatica
7 1 (0.41%) Adobe
7 1 (0.41%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.41%) Cisco
7 1 (0.41%) Databricks
7 1 (0.41%) Meraki
7 1 (0.41%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.41%) Rackspace
7 1 (0.41%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.41%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.41%) Sybase
7 1 (0.41%) Zscaler