Investment Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Investment Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 258 351
Rank change year-on-year +126 +93 -152
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 247 208 291
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.68% 0.85% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 0.95% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 171 235
10th Percentile £550 £475 £438
25th Percentile £588 £550 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £788 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £850 £750 £750
90th Percentile £888 £800 £850
UK median daily rate £717 £669 £600
% change year-on-year +7.25% +11.46% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £24.00 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £24.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -44.19% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,922 21,983 40,479
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.64% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,713 15,568 29,399
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 508 539
10th Percentile £14.74 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £26.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.76% +40.19% +7.00%

Investment Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Investment Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Investment Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Investment Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Investment Management over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

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
1 107 (43.32%) Apache Airflow
2 89 (36.03%) Apache
3 3 (1.21%) Confluence
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (3.24%) SimCorp Dimension
2 2 (0.81%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.81%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.81%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.40%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 143 (57.89%) AWS
2 104 (42.11%) dbt
3 86 (34.82%) Snowflake
4 65 (26.32%) GCP
5 25 (10.12%) Azure
6 6 (2.43%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.62%) Asana
7 4 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.62%) Slack
8 2 (0.81%) GitHub
8 2 (0.81%) IaaS
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.40%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.02%) DHCP
1 5 (2.02%) DNS
2 4 (1.62%) Firewall
2 4 (1.62%) VPN
3 3 (1.21%) BGP
3 3 (1.21%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (1.21%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (1.21%) HTTP
3 3 (1.21%) MPLS
3 3 (1.21%) Network Security
3 3 (1.21%) OSPF
3 3 (1.21%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.21%) SNMP
3 3 (1.21%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.21%) WAN
3 3 (1.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (40.49%) Dremio
2 99 (40.08%) Apache Arrow
3 98 (39.68%) Amazon Athena
4 87 (35.22%) Apache Ignite
4 87 (35.22%) Data Lake
5 21 (8.50%) Big Data
6 6 (2.43%) Power BI
7 2 (0.81%) Tableau
8 1 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.40%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.40%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.40%) DBAmp
8 1 (0.40%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.40%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.83%) JIRA
2 3 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.40%) Git
General
1 214 (86.64%) Finance
2 164 (66.40%) Front Office
3 120 (48.58%) Banking
4 76 (30.77%) Investment Banking
5 42 (17.00%) Back Office
6 9 (3.64%) Social Skills
7 3 (1.21%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.40%) Legal
Job Titles
1 71 (28.74%) Software Engineer
2 64 (25.91%) Senior
3 58 (23.48%) Developer
4 57 (23.08%) AWS Engineer
5 54 (21.86%) Analyst
6 41 (16.60%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 41 (16.60%) Python Engineer
7 38 (15.38%) AWS Software Engineer
8 37 (14.98%) Python Software Engineer
9 35 (14.17%) Financial Analyst
10 33 (13.36%) Lead
11 32 (12.96%) Senior Software Engineer
12 31 (12.55%) Finance Manager
13 30 (12.15%) Python Developer
14 29 (11.74%) Java Engineer
14 29 (11.74%) Java Software Engineer
15 26 (10.53%) Business Analyst
16 21 (8.50%) Banking Analyst
16 21 (8.50%) Senior Java Engineer
16 21 (8.50%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (42.51%) gRPC
1 105 (42.51%) Protocol Buffers
2 81 (32.79%) Pandas
3 80 (32.39%) NumPy
3 80 (32.39%) SciPy
4 23 (9.31%) Node.js
4 23 (9.31%) React
4 23 (9.31%) Redux
5 8 (3.24%) AngularJS
5 8 (3.24%) Vue
6 7 (2.83%) GraphQL
6 7 (2.83%) Material-UI
7 3 (1.21%) ADO
8 2 (0.81%) PySpark
9 1 (0.40%) FIX Protocol
9 1 (0.40%) Flask
9 1 (0.40%) Lightning Web Components
9 1 (0.40%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 157 (63.56%) Hedge funds
2 137 (55.47%) Derivative
3 122 (49.39%) Fixed Income
4 103 (41.70%) Equities
5 86 (34.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 21 (8.50%) Clustering
7 15 (6.07%) Product Ownership
8 10 (4.05%) Pricing Data
9 4 (1.62%) DTCC
9 4 (1.62%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.62%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.81%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (0.81%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.40%) CSOC
11 1 (0.40%) Equity Risk
11 1 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.40%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.62%) Windows
2 2 (0.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (88.26%) Asset Management
2 138 (55.87%) Agile
3 109 (44.13%) Software Engineering
4 40 (16.19%) Mentoring
5 34 (13.77%) Greeks
6 31 (12.55%) Analytics
7 26 (10.53%) Performance Attribution
8 24 (9.72%) Fintech
9 21 (8.50%) Line Management
10 20 (8.10%) DevOps
10 20 (8.10%) Product Management
11 19 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 19 (7.69%) Wealth Management
12 16 (6.48%) Migration
13 15 (6.07%) Full Stack Development
14 14 (5.67%) User Stories
15 13 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence
15 13 (5.26%) Machine Learning
15 13 (5.26%) Quantitative Research
16 12 (4.86%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 185 (74.90%) Python
2 112 (45.34%) JavaScript
3 98 (39.68%) Java
4 94 (38.06%) TypeScript
5 58 (23.48%) SQL
6 38 (15.38%) C#
7 19 (7.69%) Go
8 14 (5.67%) R
9 7 (2.83%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.83%) Scala
10 6 (2.43%) Ruby
11 2 (0.81%) Perl
12 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 7 (2.83%) CCNP
1 7 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (1.62%) CCNA
3 3 (1.21%) CCDP
4 1 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.98%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.40%) FATCA
2 1 (0.40%) QA
System Software
1 4 (1.62%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.81%) Firmware
3 1 (0.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 19 (7.69%) Terraform
2 18 (7.29%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.21%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (6.48%) Bloomberg
2 11 (4.45%) Palo Alto
3 8 (3.24%) SimCorp
4 7 (2.83%) Arista
4 7 (2.83%) Cisco
4 7 (2.83%) Zscaler
5 5 (2.02%) Microsoft
6 4 (1.62%) CheckPoint
6 4 (1.62%) Databricks
6 4 (1.62%) F5
6 4 (1.62%) Fortinet
6 4 (1.62%) Riverbed
7 3 (1.21%) Aruba
7 3 (1.21%) Charles River
7 3 (1.21%) Infoblox
7 3 (1.21%) Meraki
7 3 (1.21%) Splunk
8 2 (0.81%) SAP
9 1 (0.40%) Informatica
9 1 (0.40%) Sybase