Investment Management Contracts

Investment Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 218 330 301
Rank change year-on-year +112 -29 -60
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 466 407 808
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 0.73% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 0.81% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 345 719
10th Percentile £500 £450 £438
25th Percentile £575 £526 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £663 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.43% +10.42% +2.13%
75th Percentile £850 £750 £738
90th Percentile - £794 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -19.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £22.00 £40.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £24.00 £41.75
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -42.51% -
75th Percentile - £26.00 £48.25
90th Percentile - - £56.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £24.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year - -40.74% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Investment Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Investment Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Investment Management in the UK

Investment Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Investment Management in the UK

Investment Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Management over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Management in the UK

Investment Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Investment Management in the UK

Investment Management
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +117 460 £725 +7.41% 174
London +104 448 £725 +7.41% 149
Work from Home +130 253 £788 +16.67% 35
UK excluding London +2 13 £488 +2.63% 27
North of England +28 9 £425 +141.48% 5
North West +26 9 £425 +141.48% 2
Scotland +10 3 £647 +36.11% 7
Midlands +22 1 £550 -12.00% 3
West Midlands +14 1 £550 -12.00% 2

Investment Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 189 (40.56%) Apache Airflow
2 175 (37.55%) Apache
3 4 (0.86%) Confluence
4 3 (0.64%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 20 (4.29%) Aladdin
2 11 (2.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (1.93%) Markit EDM
3 9 (1.93%) SimCorp Dimension
4 7 (1.50%) SAP FI
5 6 (1.29%) thinkFolio
6 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.21%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.21%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.21%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 270 (57.94%) AWS
2 161 (34.55%) GCP
3 124 (26.61%) Azure
3 124 (26.61%) dbt
4 100 (21.46%) Snowflake
5 15 (3.22%) Power Platform
6 11 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (0.86%) Asana
8 4 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (0.86%) Slack
9 3 (0.64%) Azure Stack
10 2 (0.43%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.43%) Dagster
10 2 (0.43%) GitHub
11 1 (0.21%) IaaS
11 1 (0.21%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.21%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.72%) Firewall
1 8 (1.72%) Network Security
2 5 (1.07%) DHCP
2 5 (1.07%) DNS
3 4 (0.86%) BGP
3 4 (0.86%) OSPF
3 4 (0.86%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.86%) VPN
4 3 (0.64%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (0.64%) HTTP
4 3 (0.64%) MPLS
4 3 (0.64%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.64%) SNMP
4 3 (0.64%) WAN
4 3 (0.64%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.21%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.21%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.21%) RIP
5 1 (0.21%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (36.27%) Apache Ignite
2 121 (25.97%) Dremio
3 119 (25.54%) Apache Arrow
4 115 (24.68%) Amazon Athena
5 108 (23.18%) Data Lake
6 65 (13.95%) PostgreSQL
7 25 (5.36%) Big Data
8 15 (3.22%) Power BI
9 8 (1.72%) Tableau
10 7 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.86%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.64%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
14 2 (0.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 1 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
15 1 (0.21%) Data Mining
15 1 (0.21%) DB2
15 1 (0.21%) DBAmp
Development Applications
1 50 (10.73%) Cypress.io
2 14 (3.00%) JIRA
3 5 (1.07%) Git
4 3 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.43%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.43%) webpack
6 1 (0.21%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 385 (82.62%) Finance
2 294 (63.09%) Front Office
3 227 (48.71%) Banking
4 116 (24.89%) Investment Banking
5 43 (9.23%) Social Skills
6 39 (8.37%) Back Office
7 12 (2.58%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.64%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.64%) Legal
10 2 (0.43%) Billing
10 2 (0.43%) Law
10 2 (0.43%) Retail
11 1 (0.21%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.21%) Marketing
11 1 (0.21%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.21%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.21%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.21%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 166 (35.62%) Software Engineer
2 157 (33.69%) Developer
3 128 (27.47%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 118 (25.32%) Python Engineer
5 110 (23.61%) Python Software Engineer
6 107 (22.96%) Analyst
7 95 (20.39%) Python Developer
8 80 (17.17%) React Developer
9 77 (16.52%) Senior
10 64 (13.73%) AWS Engineer
11 57 (12.23%) Business Analyst
12 53 (11.37%) Financial Analyst
13 50 (10.73%) Finance Manager
14 45 (9.66%) AWS Software Engineer
15 40 (8.58%) Full Stack Developer
15 40 (8.58%) Senior Software Engineer
16 39 (8.37%) Full Stack Engineer
16 39 (8.37%) Full Stack Software Engineer
17 36 (7.73%) Lead
18 34 (7.30%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (39.91%) gRPC
1 186 (39.91%) Protocol Buffers
2 113 (24.25%) React
3 112 (24.03%) Redux
4 101 (21.67%) Pandas
5 98 (21.03%) NumPy
6 96 (20.60%) SciPy
7 73 (15.67%) Material-UI
8 26 (5.58%) Node.js
9 21 (4.51%) .NET
10 17 (3.65%) AngularJS
11 15 (3.22%) .NET Core
11 15 (3.22%) Vue
12 8 (1.72%) WPF
13 6 (1.29%) ASP.NET
13 6 (1.29%) ASP.NET Core
13 6 (1.29%) GraphQL
14 5 (1.07%) PySpark
15 4 (0.86%) RESTful
16 3 (0.64%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 273 (58.58%) Hedge funds
2 256 (54.94%) Fixed Income
3 198 (42.49%) Equities
4 190 (40.77%) Derivative
5 146 (31.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 40 (8.58%) Product Ownership
7 21 (4.51%) Clustering
8 14 (3.00%) Pricing Data
9 9 (1.93%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.07%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.07%) Video Conferencing
11 3 (0.64%) DTCC
12 2 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.43%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.21%) CSOC
13 1 (0.21%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.21%) NVMe
13 1 (0.21%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.21%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.58%) Windows
2 5 (1.07%) Linux
3 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.43%) Unix
3 2 (0.43%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (80.26%) Asset Management
2 265 (56.87%) Agile
3 211 (45.28%) Software Engineering
4 102 (21.89%) Full Stack Development
5 94 (20.17%) Artificial Intelligence
5 94 (20.17%) Machine Learning
6 65 (13.95%) Automated Trading
7 60 (12.88%) Fintech
8 50 (10.73%) DevOps
9 46 (9.87%) Analytics
10 37 (7.94%) Greeks
11 36 (7.73%) Mentoring
12 28 (6.01%) Line Management
12 28 (6.01%) Performance Attribution
13 24 (5.15%) Stakeholder Management
14 23 (4.94%) Migration
14 23 (4.94%) Portfolio Management
14 23 (4.94%) Wealth Management
15 22 (4.72%) TDD
16 21 (4.51%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 293 (62.88%) Python
2 198 (42.49%) TypeScript
3 151 (32.40%) JavaScript
4 115 (24.68%) Java
5 107 (22.96%) SQL
6 60 (12.88%) C#
7 19 (4.08%) Go
8 12 (2.58%) R
9 6 (1.29%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.29%) Ruby
9 6 (1.29%) Scala
10 5 (1.07%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.86%) VBA
12 3 (0.64%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.43%) C++
13 2 (0.43%) Perl
14 1 (0.21%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (1.93%) CCNP
3 6 (1.29%) CCNA
4 5 (1.07%) Degree
5 3 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (0.64%) CCDP
5 3 (0.64%) CFA
5 3 (0.64%) CISSP
6 2 (0.43%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.43%) CCSK
6 2 (0.43%) CIMA
6 2 (0.43%) CISM
6 2 (0.43%) PMP
7 1 (0.21%) ISEB
7 1 (0.21%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.21%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (10.73%) Data Quality
2 24 (5.15%) QA
3 4 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.43%) NIST
6 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.21%) EMIR
6 1 (0.21%) FATCA
6 1 (0.21%) GDPR
6 1 (0.21%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (1.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.86%) Docker
3 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.21%) Firmware
4 1 (0.21%) GPFS
4 1 (0.21%) NFS
4 1 (0.21%) XenApp
4 1 (0.21%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 21 (4.51%) Terraform
2 20 (4.29%) Kubernetes
3 18 (3.86%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.86%) CASB
4 4 (0.86%) Control-M
5 3 (0.64%) Kibana
5 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.21%) SCCM
6 1 (0.21%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 69 (14.81%) Google
2 39 (8.37%) Bloomberg
3 17 (3.65%) Palo Alto
4 13 (2.79%) Microsoft
5 12 (2.58%) BISAM
6 10 (2.15%) Cisco
6 10 (2.15%) SAP
7 9 (1.93%) Arista
7 9 (1.93%) SimCorp
8 7 (1.50%) Charles River
8 7 (1.50%) Zscaler
9 6 (1.29%) CheckPoint
9 6 (1.29%) Databricks
9 6 (1.29%) F5
9 6 (1.29%) Fortinet
9 6 (1.29%) Riverbed
10 4 (0.86%) Oracle
11 3 (0.64%) Aruba
11 3 (0.64%) Infoblox
11 3 (0.64%) Splunk