Investment Banking Contracts in England

Investment Banking
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Investment Banking over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 105 111
Rank change year-on-year -58 +6 +14
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 556 1,171 1,743
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.51% 2.38% 2.48%
As % of the General category 2.60% 4.02% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 863 1,271
10th Percentile £500 £508 £525
25th Percentile £600 £575 £618
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £700 £713
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -1.75% +9.62%
75th Percentile £850 £806 £800
90th Percentile £888 £950 £875
UK median daily rate £725 £700 £713
% change year-on-year +3.57% -1.75% +9.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £21.50
25th Percentile £18.25 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £60.00
75th Percentile £20.75 - £74.88
90th Percentile - - £82.30
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £66.56 £53.50
% change year-on-year -70.70% +24.42% +137.78%

All General Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,403 29,127 39,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.21% 59.21% 56.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,789 20,459 27,904
10th Percentile £280 £313 £317
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,786 948 1,301
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.12 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.75 £32.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +51.16% -4.44%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £46.67
90th Percentile £65.50 £71.64 £59.00
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £33.82 £22.38
% change year-on-year -10.82% +51.12% -0.53%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in England

Investment Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Investment Banking in England

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in England

Investment Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Investment Banking in England

Investment Banking
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London -22 530 £750 +7.14% 110
South East +24 10 - - 3
North of England +13 10 £625 +38.89% 6
North West +9 8 £625 +38.89% 5
South West +13 2 £463 +2.78%
Midlands +26 1 - - 1
West Midlands +13 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £400 - 1
North East - 1 - -
Investment Banking
UK

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 91 (16.37%) Apache
2 90 (16.19%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.62%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.08%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.90%) Confluence
5 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.54%) CMS
6 3 (0.54%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.36%) nginx
8 1 (0.18%) GemFire
8 1 (0.18%) IIS
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.36%) Sketch
5 2 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.18%) InVision
Business Applications
1 12 (2.16%) Aladdin
2 11 (1.98%) ION Anvil
2 11 (1.98%) Loan IQ
3 8 (1.44%) ION MarketView
4 5 (0.90%) IntelliMatch
5 4 (0.72%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.36%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.18%) Finacle
7 1 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle FAH
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.18%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.18%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.18%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 123 (22.12%) AWS
2 89 (16.01%) dbt
3 76 (13.67%) Snowflake
4 62 (11.15%) GCP
5 45 (8.09%) Azure
6 15 (2.70%) Power Platform
7 8 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (1.26%) GitHub
8 7 (1.26%) Power Automate
9 6 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (1.08%) Serverless
10 5 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (0.90%) npm
10 5 (0.90%) Yarn
11 4 (0.72%) Cloud Run
11 4 (0.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (0.72%) OpenShift
12 3 (0.54%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.54%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.54%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.06%) Firewall
2 15 (2.70%) DMZ
2 15 (2.70%) VPN
3 13 (2.34%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (0.72%) FIX Connectivity
4 4 (0.72%) Internet
4 4 (0.72%) SSH
5 3 (0.54%) LAN
5 3 (0.54%) WAN
6 2 (0.36%) AMQP
6 2 (0.36%) IPsec
6 2 (0.36%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.18%) Network Security
7 1 (0.18%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (16.01%) Amazon Athena
1 89 (16.01%) Apache Arrow
1 89 (16.01%) Apache Ignite
1 89 (16.01%) Dremio
2 78 (14.03%) Data Lake
3 35 (6.29%) Relational Database
4 31 (5.58%) SQL Server
5 12 (2.16%) Big Data
5 12 (2.16%) KDB
6 10 (1.80%) Power BI
7 7 (1.26%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.26%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.90%) Apache Hive
8 5 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.90%) Hadoop
8 5 (0.90%) Impala
8 5 (0.90%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.90%) MySQL
9 4 (0.72%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 31 (5.58%) JIRA
2 24 (4.32%) Git
3 21 (3.78%) TeamCity
4 16 (2.88%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.80%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.44%) Visual Studio
7 7 (1.26%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.90%) GitLab
8 5 (0.90%) MLflow
8 5 (0.90%) TestRail
9 4 (0.72%) JUnit
9 4 (0.72%) Selenium
10 3 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.54%) PHPUnit
10 3 (0.54%) SpecFlow
10 3 (0.54%) webpack
11 2 (0.36%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.36%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.36%) Mocha
11 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 556 (100.00%) Banking
2 312 (56.12%) Finance
3 199 (35.79%) Front Office
4 119 (21.40%) Social Skills
5 61 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (6.29%) Retail
7 34 (6.12%) Retail Banking
8 31 (5.58%) Corporate Banking
9 10 (1.80%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.80%) Wholesale Banking
10 9 (1.62%) Back Office
11 8 (1.44%) Public Sector
12 7 (1.26%) Prime Brokerage
13 6 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.08%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
14 5 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.90%) Legal
15 4 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.36%) French Language
16 2 (0.36%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 191 (34.35%) Developer
2 111 (19.96%) Analyst
3 73 (13.13%) Business Analyst
4 68 (12.23%) Java Developer
5 67 (12.05%) Senior
6 65 (11.69%) Lead
7 58 (10.43%) Software Engineer
8 38 (6.83%) Architect
9 36 (6.47%) Java Engineer
10 33 (5.94%) C# Developer
10 33 (5.94%) Python Engineer
11 32 (5.76%) AWS Engineer
11 32 (5.76%) Python Software Engineer
11 32 (5.76%) Software Developer
12 31 (5.58%) Java Software Engineer
13 30 (5.40%) AWS Software Engineer
13 30 (5.40%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 30 (5.40%) Solutions Architect
14 29 (5.22%) Python Developer
15 28 (5.04%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (16.19%) gRPC
2 89 (16.01%) Pandas
3 88 (15.83%) NumPy
3 88 (15.83%) Protocol Buffers
3 88 (15.83%) SciPy
4 47 (8.45%) .NET
5 36 (6.47%) FIX Protocol
6 31 (5.58%) React
7 21 (3.78%) WPF
8 14 (2.52%) CSS
8 14 (2.52%) Spring
9 12 (2.16%) AngularJS
10 11 (1.98%) HTML
11 10 (1.80%) .NET Framework
12 9 (1.62%) Middleware
12 9 (1.62%) Redux
12 9 (1.62%) XML
13 8 (1.44%) .NET Core
13 8 (1.44%) Kafka
13 8 (1.44%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 169 (30.40%) Derivative
2 160 (28.78%) Fixed Income
3 133 (23.92%) Equities
4 129 (23.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 105 (18.88%) Hedge funds
6 41 (7.37%) Product Ownership
7 20 (3.60%) Equity Derivative
8 14 (2.52%) Market Risk
9 10 (1.80%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.44%) Credit Risk
10 8 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (1.44%) OTC Derivatives
10 8 (1.44%) Pricing Data
11 7 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.26%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.08%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (0.90%) Reference Data
13 5 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 46 (8.27%) Linux
2 41 (7.37%) Windows
3 37 (6.65%) Unix
4 3 (0.54%) Android
5 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.18%) VMS
6 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (38.31%) Agile
2 110 (19.78%) Asset Management
2 110 (19.78%) Software Engineering
3 92 (16.55%) Investment Management
4 65 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (9.53%) DevOps
6 47 (8.45%) Test Automation
7 44 (7.91%) Electronic Trading
8 43 (7.73%) Line Management
9 40 (7.19%) Project Management
9 40 (7.19%) Wealth Management
10 39 (7.01%) Analytics
11 38 (6.83%) SDLC
12 36 (6.47%) Stakeholder Management
13 32 (5.76%) Migration
14 29 (5.22%) Greeks
15 28 (5.04%) Risk Management
16 26 (4.68%) CI/CD
16 26 (4.68%) Design Patterns
16 26 (4.68%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 186 (33.45%) Python
2 183 (32.91%) Java
3 124 (22.30%) SQL
4 107 (19.24%) TypeScript
5 98 (17.63%) JavaScript
6 85 (15.29%) C#
7 25 (4.50%) PowerShell
8 23 (4.14%) C++
9 22 (3.96%) Scala
10 10 (1.80%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.62%) VBA
12 8 (1.44%) Ruby
13 7 (1.26%) Perl
14 6 (1.08%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.90%) Bash
15 5 (0.90%) PHP
15 5 (0.90%) R
16 4 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.72%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.54%) Go
Qualifications
1 41 (7.37%) Degree
2 13 (2.34%) Numerate Degree
3 11 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.08%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.72%) APMP
5 4 (0.72%) PMP
5 4 (0.72%) Security Cleared
6 3 (0.54%) CISM
6 3 (0.54%) CISSP
6 3 (0.54%) MCSE
6 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.54%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.36%) ISEB
7 2 (0.36%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 2 (0.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.18%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.65%) Data Quality
2 33 (5.94%) QA
3 16 (2.88%) PMO
4 15 (2.70%) EMIR
5 11 (1.98%) MiFID
6 10 (1.80%) SLA
7 3 (0.54%) Dodd-Frank
7 3 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.36%) SEPA
9 1 (0.18%) Basel II
9 1 (0.18%) Basel III
9 1 (0.18%) COREP
9 1 (0.18%) GAAP
9 1 (0.18%) GDPR
9 1 (0.18%) GRC
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.18%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (2.70%) Docker
2 11 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.18%) GridGain
3 1 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.16%) Ansible
2 12 (2.16%) ITRS Geneos
3 10 (1.80%) Grafana
4 8 (1.44%) Terraform
5 6 (1.08%) Puppet
6 3 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.18%) Argo
7 1 (0.18%) Consul
7 1 (0.18%) Control-M
7 1 (0.18%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.18%) Kibana
7 1 (0.18%) Netcool
7 1 (0.18%) Packer
7 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.18%) Rancher
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 40 (7.19%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.40%) Bloomberg
3 18 (3.24%) Oracle
4 15 (2.70%) Cisco
5 14 (2.52%) Fortinet
5 14 (2.52%) ION Trading
6 12 (2.16%) BISAM
6 12 (2.16%) Blue Coat
6 12 (2.16%) CheckPoint
6 12 (2.16%) Juniper
7 10 (1.80%) Databricks
8 8 (1.44%) Refinitiv
9 6 (1.08%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.08%) IBM
9 6 (1.08%) Murex
10 5 (0.90%) Alteryx
10 5 (0.90%) Google
11 4 (0.72%) Citrix
11 4 (0.72%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.72%) SmartStream