Investment Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Investment Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Investment Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Investment Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 395 447
Rank change year-on-year +30 +52 -54
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 20 49 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.099% 0.21% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.24% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 32 40
10th Percentile - £303 £185
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.91%
75th Percentile £690 £650 £650
90th Percentile £722 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £715 £675 £600
% change year-on-year +5.93% +12.50% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £40.48
25th Percentile - £22.00 £40.81
Median hourly rate - £24.00 £41.75
Median % change year-on-year - -42.51% -
75th Percentile - £26.00 £42.81
90th Percentile - - £43.23
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £24.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -44.19% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Investment Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,112 20,583 27,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.30% 89.45% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,187 18,951
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,254 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Investment Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Investment Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Investment Management in the UK excluding London

Investment Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Investment Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Investment Management in the UK excluding London

Investment Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Management in the UK excluding London

Investment Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Investment Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Investment Management in the UK excluding London

Investment Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Investment Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
North of England +39 10 £425 +141.48% 3
North West +27 10 £425 +141.48% 2
Scotland +20 8 £693 +45.89% 6
West Midlands +24 2 £605 -3.20% 1
Midlands +23 2 £605 -3.20% 1
Investment Management
UK

Investment Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (15.00%) SAS
Business Applications
1 7 (35.00%) SAP FI
1 7 (35.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.00%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (15.00%) IaaS
3 3 (15.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.00%) dbt
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) DHCP
1 3 (15.00%) DNS
1 3 (15.00%) Fibre Channel
1 3 (15.00%) iSCSI
1 3 (15.00%) SAN
2 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) DB2
2 1 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (5.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 17 (85.00%) Finance
2 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (40.00%) Banking
4 7 (35.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Consultant
2 7 (35.00%) SAP Consultant
2 7 (35.00%) SAP FI Consultant
3 4 (20.00%) Python Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Storage Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Hardware Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Information Security Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Platform Architect
6 1 (5.00%) QA Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) QA Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Security Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Flash
1 3 (15.00%) POSIX
2 1 (5.00%) ADO
2 1 (5.00%) Flask
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) Middleware
2 1 (5.00%) Pandas
2 1 (5.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Client/Server
1 3 (15.00%) NVMe
2 2 (10.00%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Unix
3 3 (15.00%) Data ONTAP
3 3 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (15.00%) Windows
3 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (30.00%) High Availability
3 6 (30.00%) Wealth Management
4 4 (20.00%) SDLC
5 3 (15.00%) Capacity Management
5 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (15.00%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (15.00%) DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (15.00%) Observability
5 3 (15.00%) OO
5 3 (15.00%) Preventative Maintenance
5 3 (15.00%) Problem Management
5 3 (15.00%) Storage Management
6 2 (10.00%) Agile
6 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
6 2 (10.00%) Risk Management
6 2 (10.00%) Storage Virtualisation
6 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Python
2 6 (30.00%) Perl
3 5 (25.00%) SQL
4 4 (20.00%) Java
5 1 (5.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.00%) NIST
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
1 3 (15.00%) GPFS
1 3 (15.00%) NFS
2 2 (10.00%) Firmware
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) PowerCLI
3 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.00%) Puppet
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) SAP
2 4 (20.00%) IBM
3 3 (15.00%) Brocade
3 3 (15.00%) EMC
3 3 (15.00%) Google
3 3 (15.00%) NetApp
3 3 (15.00%) Sybase
3 3 (15.00%) Veritas
4 2 (10.00%) VMware
5 1 (5.00%) Databricks
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle
5 1 (5.00%) Solace