Investment Banking Contracts in London

Investment Banking
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in contract job vacancies advertised in London. 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 77 55 58
Rank change year-on-year -22 +3 +9
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 530 1,138 1,675
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.00% 4.31% 4.34%
As % of the General category 4.75% 6.82% 7.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 849 1,242
10th Percentile £500 £525 £530
25th Percentile £600 £588 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £700 £725
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £850 £810 £800
90th Percentile £888 £950 £875
England median daily rate £725 £700 £713
% change year-on-year +3.57% -1.75% +9.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £60.33
25th Percentile - - £64.56
Median hourly rate - - £73.25
75th Percentile - - £81.06
90th Percentile - - £84.78
England median hourly rate £19.50 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +166.67%

All General Skills
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 London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,148 16,693 23,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.17% 63.27% 60.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,947 12,095 16,785
10th Percentile £336 £375 £381
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 214 297
10th Percentile £15.90 £16.45 £19.44
25th Percentile £18.19 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.71 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% -15.44% +33.83%
75th Percentile £44.75 £57.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £30.75 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -5.38% +51.16% -4.44%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London -12 76 £700 -1.75% 8
East London +1 4 £620 +15.35% 3
South London -3 2 £575 +12.20%
Investment Banking
England

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 91 (17.17%) Apache
2 90 (16.98%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.13%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.75%) Confluence
7 3 (0.57%) CMS
7 3 (0.57%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.38%) nginx
9 1 (0.19%) GemFire
9 1 (0.19%) IIS
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.38%) Sketch
5 2 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.19%) InVision
Business Applications
1 12 (2.26%) Aladdin
2 11 (2.08%) ION Anvil
2 11 (2.08%) Loan IQ
3 8 (1.51%) ION MarketView
4 5 (0.94%) IntelliMatch
5 4 (0.75%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.38%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.19%) Finacle
7 1 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle FAH
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.19%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.19%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.19%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 122 (23.02%) AWS
2 89 (16.79%) dbt
3 76 (14.34%) Snowflake
4 62 (11.70%) GCP
5 44 (8.30%) Azure
6 14 (2.64%) Power Platform
7 8 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (1.32%) Power Automate
9 6 (1.13%) GitHub
9 6 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (1.13%) Serverless
10 5 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (0.94%) npm
10 5 (0.94%) Yarn
11 4 (0.75%) Cloud Run
11 4 (0.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (0.75%) OpenShift
12 3 (0.57%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.57%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.94%) Firewall
2 4 (0.75%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (0.75%) Internet
2 4 (0.75%) SSH
3 3 (0.57%) DMZ
3 3 (0.57%) LAN
3 3 (0.57%) VPN
3 3 (0.57%) WAN
4 2 (0.38%) AMQP
4 2 (0.38%) IPsec
4 2 (0.38%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.19%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (16.79%) Amazon Athena
1 89 (16.79%) Apache Arrow
1 89 (16.79%) Apache Ignite
1 89 (16.79%) Dremio
2 78 (14.72%) Data Lake
3 35 (6.60%) Relational Database
4 31 (5.85%) SQL Server
5 12 (2.26%) KDB
6 10 (1.89%) Big Data
7 9 (1.70%) Power BI
8 7 (1.32%) Oracle Database
9 6 (1.13%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.94%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.94%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.75%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.75%) MySQL
12 3 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.57%) Impala
12 3 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (5.66%) JIRA
2 23 (4.34%) Git
3 21 (3.96%) TeamCity
4 15 (2.83%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.89%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.51%) Visual Studio
7 7 (1.32%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.94%) GitLab
8 5 (0.94%) MLflow
8 5 (0.94%) TestRail
9 4 (0.75%) JUnit
9 4 (0.75%) Selenium
10 3 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.57%) PHPUnit
10 3 (0.57%) SpecFlow
10 3 (0.57%) webpack
11 2 (0.38%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.38%) Mocha
11 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 530 (100.00%) Banking
2 304 (57.36%) Finance
3 199 (37.55%) Front Office
4 114 (21.51%) Social Skills
5 57 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (6.23%) Retail
7 32 (6.04%) Retail Banking
8 29 (5.47%) Corporate Banking
9 10 (1.89%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.89%) Wholesale Banking
10 9 (1.70%) Back Office
11 7 (1.32%) Prime Brokerage
11 7 (1.32%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.13%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
13 4 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.75%) Legal
13 4 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.38%) French Language
14 2 (0.38%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 186 (35.09%) Developer
2 108 (20.38%) Analyst
3 71 (13.40%) Business Analyst
4 67 (12.64%) Senior
5 66 (12.45%) Java Developer
6 65 (12.26%) Lead
7 58 (10.94%) Software Engineer
8 36 (6.79%) Java Engineer
9 35 (6.60%) Architect
10 33 (6.23%) C# Developer
10 33 (6.23%) Python Engineer
11 32 (6.04%) AWS Engineer
11 32 (6.04%) Python Software Engineer
11 32 (6.04%) Software Developer
12 31 (5.85%) Java Software Engineer
13 30 (5.66%) AWS Software Engineer
13 30 (5.66%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 28 (5.28%) Project Manager
14 28 (5.28%) Python Developer
15 27 (5.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (16.98%) gRPC
2 89 (16.79%) Pandas
3 88 (16.60%) NumPy
3 88 (16.60%) Protocol Buffers
3 88 (16.60%) SciPy
4 47 (8.87%) .NET
5 36 (6.79%) FIX Protocol
6 30 (5.66%) React
7 21 (3.96%) WPF
8 14 (2.64%) CSS
9 13 (2.45%) Spring
10 12 (2.26%) AngularJS
11 11 (2.08%) HTML
12 10 (1.89%) .NET Framework
13 9 (1.70%) Redux
13 9 (1.70%) XML
14 8 (1.51%) .NET Core
14 8 (1.51%) Kafka
14 8 (1.51%) Middleware
14 8 (1.51%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 169 (31.89%) Derivative
2 160 (30.19%) Fixed Income
3 133 (25.09%) Equities
4 128 (24.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 105 (19.81%) Hedge funds
6 40 (7.55%) Product Ownership
7 20 (3.77%) Equity Derivative
8 14 (2.64%) Market Risk
9 10 (1.89%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.51%) Credit Risk
10 8 (1.51%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (1.51%) OTC Derivatives
10 8 (1.51%) Pricing Data
11 7 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.32%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.13%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (0.94%) Reference Data
13 5 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 45 (8.49%) Linux
2 41 (7.74%) Windows
3 35 (6.60%) Unix
4 3 (0.57%) Android
5 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.19%) VMS
6 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (38.87%) Agile
2 110 (20.75%) Asset Management
3 109 (20.57%) Software Engineering
4 92 (17.36%) Investment Management
5 62 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (10.00%) DevOps
7 46 (8.68%) Test Automation
8 44 (8.30%) Electronic Trading
9 43 (8.11%) Line Management
10 39 (7.36%) Project Management
11 38 (7.17%) Analytics
11 38 (7.17%) Wealth Management
12 35 (6.60%) SDLC
13 34 (6.42%) Stakeholder Management
14 31 (5.85%) Migration
15 29 (5.47%) Greeks
16 28 (5.28%) Risk Management
17 26 (4.91%) Fintech
18 25 (4.72%) CI/CD
18 25 (4.72%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 184 (34.72%) Python
2 181 (34.15%) Java
3 121 (22.83%) SQL
4 107 (20.19%) TypeScript
5 98 (18.49%) JavaScript
6 85 (16.04%) C#
7 25 (4.72%) PowerShell
8 23 (4.34%) C++
9 21 (3.96%) Scala
10 10 (1.89%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.70%) VBA
12 8 (1.51%) Ruby
13 7 (1.32%) Perl
14 5 (0.94%) Bash
14 5 (0.94%) PHP
14 5 (0.94%) R
14 5 (0.94%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.75%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.57%) Go
Qualifications
1 38 (7.17%) Degree
2 13 (2.45%) Numerate Degree
3 10 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.13%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.75%) APMP
5 4 (0.75%) PMP
6 3 (0.57%) CISM
6 3 (0.57%) CISSP
6 3 (0.57%) MCSE
6 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.57%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.57%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.38%) ISEB
7 2 (0.38%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 2 (0.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.98%) Data Quality
2 31 (5.85%) QA
3 16 (3.02%) PMO
4 15 (2.83%) EMIR
5 11 (2.08%) MiFID
6 10 (1.89%) SLA
7 3 (0.57%) Dodd-Frank
7 3 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.38%) SEPA
9 1 (0.19%) Basel II
9 1 (0.19%) Basel III
9 1 (0.19%) COREP
9 1 (0.19%) GAAP
9 1 (0.19%) GRC
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.19%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (2.83%) Docker
2 11 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.19%) GridGain
3 1 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (2.83%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.26%) ITRS Geneos
3 10 (1.89%) Ansible
3 10 (1.89%) Grafana
4 8 (1.51%) Terraform
5 6 (1.13%) Puppet
6 3 (0.57%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.19%) Argo
7 1 (0.19%) Consul
7 1 (0.19%) Control-M
7 1 (0.19%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.19%) Kibana
7 1 (0.19%) Netcool
7 1 (0.19%) Packer
7 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.19%) Rancher
7 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 38 (7.17%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.66%) Bloomberg
3 17 (3.21%) Oracle
4 14 (2.64%) ION Trading
5 12 (2.26%) BISAM
6 10 (1.89%) Databricks
7 8 (1.51%) Refinitiv
8 6 (1.13%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.13%) IBM
8 6 (1.13%) Murex
9 4 (0.75%) Alteryx
9 4 (0.75%) Citrix
9 4 (0.75%) Google
9 4 (0.75%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.75%) SmartStream
10 3 (0.57%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.57%) Cisco
10 3 (0.57%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.57%) Solace
10 3 (0.57%) Splunk