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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 105 112
Rank change year-on-year -52 +7 +8
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 568 1,140 1,771
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.54% 2.39% 2.51%
As % of the General category 2.67% 4.04% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 847 1,285
10th Percentile £500 £500 £525
25th Percentile £600 £575 £618
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £700 £725
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £856 £811 £813
90th Percentile £888 £950 £875
UK median daily rate £750 £700 £725
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £17.90
25th Percentile £18.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £70.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -72.14% +169.23% +15.56%
75th Percentile £20.75 - £62.50
90th Percentile - - £77.35
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £68.75 £40.50
% change year-on-year -71.64% +69.75% +25.58%

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 21,251 28,243 40,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.55% 59.16% 57.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,633 19,891 28,416
10th Percentile £280 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,819 896 1,282
10th Percentile £12.88 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.68 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.50 £31.92 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +48.47% +2.14%
75th Percentile £52.20 £60.03 £46.23
90th Percentile £67.38 £70.00 £59.94
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.40 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.41% +44.00% +4.65%

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 2 June 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 2 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
London -20 540 £750 +7.14% 135
South East +15 11 - - 8
North of England +20 10 £625 +38.89% 9
North West +5 8 £625 +38.89% 9
South West - 3 £463 - 3
Midlands +20 1 - - 2
West Midlands +11 1 - - 2
North East - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £400 -
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
1 121 (21.30%) Apache
2 113 (19.89%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.41%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.88%) Confluence
4 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.70%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.53%) CMS
6 3 (0.53%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.53%) nginx
7 2 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.35%) IIS
8 1 (0.18%) GemFire
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 16 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.18%) InVision
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.18%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (2.11%) Aladdin
2 11 (1.94%) ION Anvil
3 8 (1.41%) ION MarketView
4 3 (0.53%) IntelliMatch
4 3 (0.53%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.35%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.18%) Misys Opics
6 1 (0.18%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.18%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 155 (27.29%) AWS
2 119 (20.95%) dbt
3 103 (18.13%) Snowflake
4 72 (12.68%) GCP
5 47 (8.27%) Azure
6 19 (3.35%) Power Platform
7 11 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (1.06%) npm
8 6 (1.06%) Yarn
9 5 (0.88%) Azure AKS
9 5 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (0.88%) GitHub
9 5 (0.88%) Power Automate
10 4 (0.70%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.70%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (0.70%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (0.70%) Cloud Run
10 4 (0.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (0.70%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (0.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.82%) Firewall
2 14 (2.46%) Cisco Nexus
2 14 (2.46%) DMZ
2 14 (2.46%) VPN
3 6 (1.06%) SSH
4 4 (0.70%) FIX Connectivity
4 4 (0.70%) Internet
5 3 (0.53%) AMQP
6 1 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.18%) LAN
6 1 (0.18%) Network Security
6 1 (0.18%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.18%) WAN
6 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (20.95%) Apache Arrow
1 119 (20.95%) Dremio
2 113 (19.89%) Amazon Athena
2 113 (19.89%) Apache Ignite
3 110 (19.37%) Data Lake
4 32 (5.63%) SQL Server
5 29 (5.11%) Relational Database
6 18 (3.17%) Big Data
7 14 (2.46%) Power BI
8 11 (1.94%) KDB
9 10 (1.76%) NoSQL
10 8 (1.41%) MongoDB
10 8 (1.41%) Tableau
11 6 (1.06%) MySQL
12 5 (0.88%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.88%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.70%) Apache Hive
13 4 (0.70%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.70%) Impala
Development Applications
1 27 (4.75%) JIRA
2 26 (4.58%) Git
3 19 (3.35%) Jenkins
4 18 (3.17%) TeamCity
5 12 (2.11%) Cucumber
6 9 (1.58%) Visual Studio
7 7 (1.23%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.06%) JUnit
8 6 (1.06%) Selenium
9 5 (0.88%) MLflow
9 5 (0.88%) SpecFlow
10 4 (0.70%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.70%) Maven
10 4 (0.70%) PHPUnit
11 3 (0.53%) Mocha
11 3 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.53%) webpack
12 2 (0.35%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.35%) GitLab
12 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 568 (100.00%) Banking
2 336 (59.15%) Finance
3 223 (39.26%) Front Office
4 102 (17.96%) Social Skills
5 55 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (5.81%) Retail
7 31 (5.46%) Retail Banking
8 29 (5.11%) Corporate Banking
9 10 (1.76%) Wholesale Banking
10 8 (1.41%) Back Office
11 6 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.88%) Legal
13 4 (0.70%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.70%) Prime Brokerage
13 4 (0.70%) Public Sector
14 3 (0.53%) Public Speaking
14 3 (0.53%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
15 2 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 195 (34.33%) Developer
2 113 (19.89%) Analyst
3 77 (13.56%) Senior
4 74 (13.03%) Java Developer
5 73 (12.85%) Business Analyst
5 73 (12.85%) Software Engineer
6 66 (11.62%) Lead
7 47 (8.27%) Java Engineer
8 46 (8.10%) Python Engineer
9 45 (7.92%) Architect
10 43 (7.57%) Python Software Engineer
11 42 (7.39%) Java Software Engineer
12 41 (7.22%) AWS Engineer
13 39 (6.87%) AWS Software Engineer
14 38 (6.69%) Senior Software Engineer
14 38 (6.69%) Solutions Architect
15 36 (6.34%) Python Developer
16 35 (6.16%) Software Developer
17 33 (5.81%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 32 (5.63%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (20.25%) gRPC
2 113 (19.89%) Pandas
3 112 (19.72%) NumPy
3 112 (19.72%) Protocol Buffers
3 112 (19.72%) SciPy
4 48 (8.45%) .NET
5 35 (6.16%) FIX Protocol
5 35 (6.16%) React
6 18 (3.17%) Spring
7 16 (2.82%) WPF
8 14 (2.46%) CSS
8 14 (2.46%) HTML
9 13 (2.29%) AngularJS
10 12 (2.11%) Kafka
10 12 (2.11%) REST
11 11 (1.94%) .NET Framework
12 10 (1.76%) XML
13 9 (1.58%) HTML5
13 9 (1.58%) JPA
13 9 (1.58%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 191 (33.63%) Derivative
2 187 (32.92%) Fixed Income
3 161 (28.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 159 (27.99%) Equities
5 138 (24.30%) Hedge funds
6 40 (7.04%) Product Ownership
7 20 (3.52%) Equity Derivative
8 14 (2.46%) Pricing Data
9 13 (2.29%) Market Risk
10 12 (2.11%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.76%) Credit Risk
12 9 (1.58%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (1.58%) Management Information System
13 8 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.41%) OTC Derivatives
14 6 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
15 5 (0.88%) Data Structures
15 5 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
15 5 (0.88%) Mobile App
15 5 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (8.45%) Linux
2 42 (7.39%) Windows
3 37 (6.51%) Unix
4 2 (0.35%) Android
4 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.35%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (42.08%) Agile
2 147 (25.88%) Asset Management
3 137 (24.12%) Software Engineering
4 114 (20.07%) Investment Management
5 59 (10.39%) DevOps
5 59 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (9.68%) Line Management
7 47 (8.27%) Wealth Management
8 42 (7.39%) Analytics
8 42 (7.39%) Test Automation
9 40 (7.04%) Electronic Trading
10 38 (6.69%) Greeks
11 37 (6.51%) SDLC
12 34 (5.99%) Stakeholder Management
13 31 (5.46%) Microservices
13 31 (5.46%) Scrum
14 30 (5.28%) Business Analysis
15 29 (5.11%) CI/CD
15 29 (5.11%) Project Management
15 29 (5.11%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 223 (39.26%) Python
2 211 (37.15%) Java
3 132 (23.24%) TypeScript
4 131 (23.06%) SQL
5 128 (22.54%) JavaScript
6 80 (14.08%) C#
7 30 (5.28%) C++
8 23 (4.05%) PowerShell
9 20 (3.52%) Scala
10 11 (1.94%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.58%) Perl
11 9 (1.58%) VBA
12 8 (1.41%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.06%) Bash
13 6 (1.06%) PHP
13 6 (1.06%) Ruby
14 5 (0.88%) R
15 4 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.53%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (6.87%) Degree
2 11 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (1.94%) Numerate Degree
3 6 (1.06%) Master's Degree
4 4 (0.70%) PMP
5 3 (0.53%) CISM
5 3 (0.53%) CISSP
5 3 (0.53%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.35%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.35%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 2 (0.35%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (0.18%) APMP
7 1 (0.18%) ISEB
7 1 (0.18%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.18%) MCSE
7 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (8.45%) Data Quality
2 30 (5.28%) QA
3 13 (2.29%) EMIR
4 9 (1.58%) MiFID
5 8 (1.41%) PMO
5 8 (1.41%) SLA
6 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.53%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.35%) SEPA
9 1 (0.18%) Basel II
9 1 (0.18%) Basel III
9 1 (0.18%) GAAP
9 1 (0.18%) GDPR
9 1 (0.18%) GRC
9 1 (0.18%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (3.35%) Docker
2 12 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.18%) GridGain
3 1 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 18 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.94%) Ansible
2 11 (1.94%) Grafana
3 10 (1.76%) ITRS Geneos
4 9 (1.58%) Terraform
5 4 (0.70%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.70%) Puppet
6 1 (0.18%) Argo
6 1 (0.18%) Control-M
6 1 (0.18%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.18%) Kibana
6 1 (0.18%) Netcool
6 1 (0.18%) PowerBroker
6 1 (0.18%) Rancher
Vendors
1 28 (4.93%) Bloomberg
1 28 (4.93%) Microsoft
2 15 (2.64%) Oracle
3 14 (2.46%) Cisco
3 14 (2.46%) ION Trading
4 13 (2.29%) Blue Coat
4 13 (2.29%) CheckPoint
4 13 (2.29%) Fortinet
4 13 (2.29%) Juniper
5 12 (2.11%) BISAM
6 10 (1.76%) Databricks
7 6 (1.06%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.06%) Refinitiv
8 5 (0.88%) Alteryx
8 5 (0.88%) Citrix
8 5 (0.88%) Google
8 5 (0.88%) IBM
9 4 (0.70%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.70%) SmartStream
10 3 (0.53%) Solace