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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 218 337 301
Rank change year-on-year +119 -36 -67
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 458 407 820
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 0.71% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 0.79% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 344 720
10th Percentile £513 £450 £449
25th Percentile £575 £525 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £715 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% +12.50% +2.13%
75th Percentile £850 £750 £738
90th Percentile £853 £800 £830
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - £40.70
25th Percentile - £22.00 £41.38
Median hourly rate £40.00 £24.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -44.19% -
75th Percentile - £26.00 £53.00
90th Percentile - - £58.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £24.00 £41.75
% change year-on-year - -42.51% -

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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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 20 May 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 20 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
England +128 449 £722 +7.00% 206
London +97 435 £725 +7.41% 190
Work from Home +121 242 £763 +12.96% 52
UK excluding London +22 20 £550 +15.79% 61
North of England +36 10 £425 +141.48% 4
North West +22 10 £425 +141.48% 2
Scotland +19 8 £693 +45.89% 7
West Midlands +22 2 £605 -3.20% 2
Midlands +18 2 £605 -3.20% 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
1 174 (37.99%) Apache Airflow
2 157 (34.28%) Apache
3 4 (0.87%) Confluence
4 3 (0.66%) SAS
5 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.44%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 22 (4.80%) Aladdin
2 10 (2.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (1.97%) Markit EDM
3 9 (1.97%) SimCorp Dimension
4 7 (1.53%) SAP FI
5 6 (1.31%) thinkFolio
6 1 (0.22%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.22%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 257 (56.11%) AWS
2 162 (35.37%) GCP
3 128 (27.95%) Azure
4 107 (23.36%) dbt
5 90 (19.65%) Snowflake
6 10 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (2.18%) Power Platform
7 6 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (0.87%) Asana
8 4 (0.87%) Slack
9 3 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (0.66%) Azure Stack
9 3 (0.66%) IaaS
9 3 (0.66%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.44%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.44%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.44%) GitHub
11 1 (0.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.22%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.75%) Network Security
2 6 (1.31%) DHCP
2 6 (1.31%) DNS
3 5 (1.09%) Firewall
4 4 (0.87%) BGP
4 4 (0.87%) OSPF
4 4 (0.87%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.87%) VPN
5 3 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (0.66%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (0.66%) HTTP
5 3 (0.66%) iSCSI
5 3 (0.66%) MPLS
5 3 (0.66%) SAN
5 3 (0.66%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.66%) SNMP
5 3 (0.66%) WAN
5 3 (0.66%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.22%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (33.84%) Apache Ignite
2 103 (22.49%) Apache Arrow
2 103 (22.49%) Dremio
3 101 (22.05%) Amazon Athena
4 92 (20.09%) Data Lake
5 65 (14.19%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (4.59%) Big Data
7 10 (2.18%) Power BI
8 5 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.87%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.66%) DB2
10 3 (0.66%) Tableau
11 2 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.22%) Data Hub
12 1 (0.22%) DBAmp
12 1 (0.22%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.22%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 49 (10.70%) Cypress.io
2 13 (2.84%) JIRA
3 5 (1.09%) Git
4 3 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.44%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.44%) webpack
6 1 (0.22%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 377 (82.31%) Finance
2 286 (62.45%) Front Office
3 219 (47.82%) Banking
4 104 (22.71%) Investment Banking
5 48 (10.48%) Back Office
6 42 (9.17%) Social Skills
7 7 (1.53%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.44%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.44%) Law
9 2 (0.44%) Legal
9 2 (0.44%) Retail
10 1 (0.22%) Billing
10 1 (0.22%) Marketing
10 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.22%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.22%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.22%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 159 (34.72%) Developer
2 158 (34.50%) Software Engineer
3 127 (27.73%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 110 (24.02%) Python Engineer
5 105 (22.93%) Analyst
6 102 (22.27%) Python Software Engineer
7 96 (20.96%) Python Developer
8 79 (17.25%) React Developer
9 72 (15.72%) Senior
10 57 (12.45%) Business Analyst
11 54 (11.79%) AWS Engineer
11 54 (11.79%) Finance Manager
12 53 (11.57%) Financial Analyst
13 41 (8.95%) Full Stack Developer
13 41 (8.95%) Full Stack Engineer
13 41 (8.95%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 35 (7.64%) AWS Software Engineer
14 35 (7.64%) Lead
15 33 (7.21%) Full Stack Python Developer
15 33 (7.21%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (37.55%) gRPC
1 172 (37.55%) Protocol Buffers
2 111 (24.24%) React
2 111 (24.24%) Redux
3 86 (18.78%) Pandas
4 84 (18.34%) NumPy
5 82 (17.90%) SciPy
6 75 (16.38%) Material-UI
7 24 (5.24%) Node.js
8 23 (5.02%) .NET
9 17 (3.71%) AngularJS
10 16 (3.49%) .NET Core
11 14 (3.06%) Vue
12 8 (1.75%) GraphQL
12 8 (1.75%) WPF
13 7 (1.53%) ASP.NET
13 7 (1.53%) ASP.NET Core
14 4 (0.87%) RESTful
15 3 (0.66%) ADO
15 3 (0.66%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 270 (58.95%) Hedge funds
2 241 (52.62%) Fixed Income
3 190 (41.48%) Equities
4 189 (41.27%) Derivative
5 134 (29.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 34 (7.42%) Product Ownership
7 21 (4.59%) Clustering
8 10 (2.18%) Pricing Data
9 8 (1.75%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.09%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.09%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (0.87%) DTCC
12 3 (0.66%) Client/Server
12 3 (0.66%) NVMe
13 2 (0.44%) Embedded Systems
13 2 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.44%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.44%) Virtual Team
14 1 (0.22%) Security Operations Centre
14 1 (0.22%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.62%) Windows
2 8 (1.75%) Linux
3 4 (0.87%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.87%) Unix
4 3 (0.66%) Data ONTAP
4 3 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.66%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (81.00%) Asset Management
2 256 (55.90%) Agile
3 204 (44.54%) Software Engineering
4 102 (22.27%) Full Stack Development
5 95 (20.74%) Artificial Intelligence
5 95 (20.74%) Machine Learning
6 65 (14.19%) Automated Trading
7 57 (12.45%) Fintech
8 53 (11.57%) DevOps
9 40 (8.73%) Mentoring
10 38 (8.30%) Analytics
11 31 (6.77%) Greeks
12 28 (6.11%) Line Management
12 28 (6.11%) Wealth Management
13 25 (5.46%) Performance Attribution
14 23 (5.02%) Migration
15 22 (4.80%) Stakeholder Management
15 22 (4.80%) TDD
16 21 (4.59%) Roadmaps
17 20 (4.37%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 285 (62.23%) Python
2 186 (40.61%) TypeScript
3 140 (30.57%) JavaScript
4 110 (24.02%) SQL
5 107 (23.36%) Java
6 71 (15.50%) C#
7 19 (4.15%) Go
8 15 (3.28%) R
9 8 (1.75%) Kotlin
10 7 (1.53%) Scala
11 6 (1.31%) Perl
11 6 (1.31%) Ruby
12 5 (1.09%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.87%) VBA
14 3 (0.66%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.44%) C++
16 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (1.53%) CCNP
3 6 (1.31%) Degree
4 4 (0.87%) CCNA
5 3 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (0.66%) CCDP
5 3 (0.66%) CFA
5 3 (0.66%) CISSP
6 2 (0.44%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.44%) CCSK
6 2 (0.44%) CIMA
6 2 (0.44%) CISM
6 2 (0.44%) PMP
7 1 (0.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.22%) ISEB
7 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (8.73%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.68%) QA
3 3 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.44%) NIST
5 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.22%) EMIR
5 1 (0.22%) FATCA
5 1 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (1.53%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.31%) Docker
3 3 (0.66%) GPFS
3 3 (0.66%) NFS
4 2 (0.44%) Firmware
4 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (5.02%) Kubernetes
2 22 (4.80%) Terraform
3 18 (3.93%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.87%) CASB
4 4 (0.87%) Control-M
5 3 (0.66%) Kibana
5 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.66%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 1 (0.22%) Ansible
6 1 (0.22%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.22%) Puppet
6 1 (0.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 71 (15.50%) Google
2 39 (8.52%) Bloomberg
3 15 (3.28%) Palo Alto
4 12 (2.62%) BISAM
4 12 (2.62%) Microsoft
5 9 (1.97%) SAP
5 9 (1.97%) SimCorp
6 8 (1.75%) Cisco
7 7 (1.53%) Arista
7 7 (1.53%) Charles River
7 7 (1.53%) Databricks
7 7 (1.53%) Zscaler
8 4 (0.87%) CheckPoint
8 4 (0.87%) F5
8 4 (0.87%) Fortinet
8 4 (0.87%) IBM
8 4 (0.87%) Oracle
8 4 (0.87%) Riverbed
8 4 (0.87%) Sybase
9 3 (0.66%) Infoblox