Investment Banking Contracts in Central London

Investment Banking
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in contract job vacancies advertised in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Investment Banking over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 51 71
Rank change year-on-year -8 +20 -13
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 80 144 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.32% 3.85% 3.26%
As % of the General category 5.02% 6.16% 5.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 109 99
10th Percentile £455 £511 £560
25th Percentile £563 £608 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £725
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £788 £825 £838
90th Percentile £963 £1,063 £913
London median daily rate £750 £700 £725
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
London median hourly rate - - £43.00
% change year-on-year - - +91.11%

All General Skills
Central London

Investment Banking is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,593 2,338 2,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 66.18% 62.56% 56.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,124 1,648 1,882
10th Percentile £331 £325 £344
25th Percentile £438 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% +2.27%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £688
90th Percentile £800 £825 £780
London median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 29
10th Percentile £19.98 £14.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.06 £21.00
Median hourly rate £24.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% -13.58% +131.43%
75th Percentile £27.50 £47.54 £51.75
90th Percentile £41.60 £56.75 £63.15
London median hourly rate £28.25 £31.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year -10.32% -13.70% +32.73%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Investment Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in Central London

Investment Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Investment Banking in Central London

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in Central London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in Central London

Investment Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Investment Banking in Central London

Investment Banking
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Investment Banking within the Central London region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -3 80 £675 -3.57% 7
Investment Banking
London

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.25%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.50%) Azure
2 11 (13.75%) AWS
3 7 (8.75%) Power Platform
4 5 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (6.25%) Power Automate
5 4 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.50%) NuGet
7 1 (1.25%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) Firewall
2 1 (1.25%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.50%) SQL Server
2 8 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 7 (8.75%) KDB
4 4 (5.00%) MySQL
5 3 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.50%) Data Mart
6 2 (2.50%) Metadata
6 2 (2.50%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.50%) Power BI
7 1 (1.25%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.25%) Big Data
7 1 (1.25%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.25%) Impala
7 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.25%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (11.25%) TeamCity
2 4 (5.00%) Bitbucket
2 4 (5.00%) PHPUnit
3 3 (3.75%) Git
3 3 (3.75%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.75%) JIRA
4 1 (1.25%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.25%) GitLab
4 1 (1.25%) JUnit
General
1 80 (100.00%) Banking
2 29 (36.25%) Finance
3 21 (26.25%) Social Skills
4 14 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (16.25%) Front Office
6 9 (11.25%) Corporate Banking
7 8 (10.00%) Retail
7 8 (10.00%) Retail Banking
8 3 (3.75%) Back Office
9 2 (2.50%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.50%) Public Speaking
10 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.25%) Legal
10 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (43.75%) Developer
2 14 (17.50%) Analyst
3 10 (12.50%) C# Developer
4 9 (11.25%) Architect
4 9 (11.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (11.25%) Senior
5 8 (10.00%) Business Analyst
6 7 (8.75%) Java Developer
7 6 (7.50%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (7.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) .NET Developer
8 5 (6.25%) AWS Developer
8 5 (6.25%) Banking Analyst
8 5 (6.25%) Data Analyst
8 5 (6.25%) Python Developer
8 5 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (5.00%) Front Office Developer
9 4 (5.00%) Market Analyst
9 4 (5.00%) PHP Developer
9 4 (5.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.75%) .NET
2 5 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (6.25%) React
2 5 (6.25%) WCF
2 5 (6.25%) WinForms
3 4 (5.00%) .NET Core
3 4 (5.00%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (5.00%) Laravel
3 4 (5.00%) Symfony
3 4 (5.00%) Yii
4 3 (3.75%) REST
4 3 (3.75%) Spring
4 3 (3.75%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.50%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.50%) Middleware
5 2 (2.50%) Rendezvous
6 1 (1.25%) CSS
6 1 (1.25%) DAO
6 1 (1.25%) Hibernate
6 1 (1.25%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.75%) Derivative
3 3 (3.75%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.50%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.25%) Equities
5 1 (1.25%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.25%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.25%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.00%) Windows
2 10 (12.50%) Linux
3 3 (3.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (20.00%) DevOps
2 14 (17.50%) Agile
2 14 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (13.75%) SDLC
3 11 (13.75%) Wealth Management
4 10 (12.50%) OO
5 9 (11.25%) OOP
5 9 (11.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (10.00%) Migration
6 8 (10.00%) Risk Management
7 7 (8.75%) Microservices
8 6 (7.50%) Configuration Management
8 6 (7.50%) Test Automation
8 6 (7.50%) Unit Testing
9 5 (6.25%) Analytics
9 5 (6.25%) Contact Management
9 5 (6.25%) Data Analysis
9 5 (6.25%) Electronic Trading
9 5 (6.25%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 30 (37.50%) SQL
2 22 (27.50%) C#
3 14 (17.50%) Python
4 11 (13.75%) Java
5 9 (11.25%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.25%) C++
7 4 (5.00%) PHP
7 4 (5.00%) T-SQL
8 3 (3.75%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.75%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.50%) Perl
9 2 (2.50%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.50%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.25%) Bash
10 1 (1.25%) Jython
Qualifications
1 5 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (1.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) SLA
2 4 (5.00%) QA
3 3 (3.75%) PMO
4 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.50%) Docker
3 1 (1.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (2.50%) Puppet
2 1 (1.25%) Ansible
2 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.25%) Bloomberg
3 3 (3.75%) GoldenSource
3 3 (3.75%) Murex
3 3 (3.75%) Oracle
4 2 (2.50%) Adobe
4 2 (2.50%) Alteryx
4 2 (2.50%) Citrix
4 2 (2.50%) Solace
4 2 (2.50%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow