Investment Banking Contracts in Central London

Investment Banking
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Investment Banking over the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 56 40
Rank change year-on-year -5 -16 +11
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 67 96 245
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.03% 3.64% 5.50%
As % of the General category 4.53% 5.60% 8.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 77 115
10th Percentile £492 £525 £318
25th Percentile £563 £600 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £680 £713
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% -4.56% +1.79%
75th Percentile £770 £831 £825
90th Percentile £902 £955 £925
London median daily rate £688 £712 £725
% change year-on-year -3.44% -1.79% +3.57%

All General Skills
Central London

Investment Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,480 1,713 2,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 66.94% 65.01% 63.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 928 1,241 1,849
10th Percentile £348 £350 £363
25th Percentile £463 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% - +2.22%
75th Percentile £685 £688 £701
90th Percentile £779 £800 £800
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 29
10th Percentile £13.73 £17.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £22.88 £18.75
Median hourly rate £33.75 £26.75 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.17% -37.79% +53.57%
75th Percentile £40.44 £60.44 £58.75
90th Percentile £64.38 £71.13 £60.15
London median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £30.25
% change year-on-year +7.69% +7.44% -13.57%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Investment Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in Central London

Investment Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Investment Banking in Central London

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in Central London over the 6 months to 5 January 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in Central London

Investment Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Investment Banking in Central London

Investment Banking
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 5 January 2025. 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
City of London -13 62 £650 -4.41% 6
West End of London - 2 £600 -
City of Westminster - 1 £600 -
Investment Banking
London

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 4 (5.97%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) Apache
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.99%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.43%) Azure
2 6 (8.96%) AWS
3 5 (7.46%) GCP
4 4 (5.97%) Snowflake
5 3 (4.48%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.49%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.49%) OCI
7 1 (1.49%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.49%) BGP
2 1 (1.49%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.49%) Firewall
2 1 (1.49%) LAN
2 1 (1.49%) Multicast
2 1 (1.49%) PBX
2 1 (1.49%) PSTN
2 1 (1.49%) VoIP
2 1 (1.49%) WAN
2 1 (1.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.46%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.97%) Big Data
2 4 (5.97%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.97%) Hadoop
3 3 (4.48%) KDB
3 3 (4.48%) Power BI
4 2 (2.99%) Apache Hive
4 2 (2.99%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.99%) Impala
4 2 (2.99%) Tableau
5 1 (1.49%) Kdb+
5 1 (1.49%) Metadata
5 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.49%) Redis
5 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.49%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.49%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 10 (14.93%) Jenkins
2 7 (10.45%) TeamCity
3 5 (7.46%) Git
4 4 (5.97%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.99%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (2.99%) Eclipse
5 2 (2.99%) Gradle
5 2 (2.99%) IntelliJ
5 2 (2.99%) Maven
5 2 (2.99%) NUnit
6 1 (1.49%) JIRA
6 1 (1.49%) MSTest
6 1 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.49%) Oracle Forms
General
1 67 (100.00%) Banking
2 36 (53.73%) Finance
3 15 (22.39%) Social Skills
4 13 (19.40%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (16.42%) Retail Banking
6 9 (13.43%) Front Office
7 8 (11.94%) Corporate Banking
7 8 (11.94%) Retail
8 3 (4.48%) Financial Institution
8 3 (4.48%) Marketing
9 1 (1.49%) Back Office
9 1 (1.49%) Legal
9 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (40.30%) Developer
2 14 (20.90%) Senior
3 13 (19.40%) Analyst
4 7 (10.45%) Business Analyst
5 6 (8.96%) Angular Developer
5 6 (8.96%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (8.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (8.96%) Lead
5 6 (8.96%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Data Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Python Developer
6 5 (7.46%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (5.97%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.97%) Deployment Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Designer
7 4 (5.97%) Java Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Lead Designer
7 4 (5.97%) Process Analyst
7 4 (5.97%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (5.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.93%) React
2 8 (11.94%) AngularJS
3 7 (10.45%) HTML
3 7 (10.45%) HTML5
4 5 (7.46%) Spring
5 4 (5.97%) Django
5 4 (5.97%) FastAPI
5 4 (5.97%) RxJS
6 3 (4.48%) .NET
6 3 (4.48%) CSS
6 3 (4.48%) PySpark
6 3 (4.48%) React Native
6 3 (4.48%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.99%) .NET Framework
7 2 (2.99%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (2.99%) CSS3
7 2 (2.99%) Entity Framework
7 2 (2.99%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (2.99%) Node.js
8 1 (1.49%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.45%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (8.96%) Credit Risk
3 4 (5.97%) Derivative
3 4 (5.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (5.97%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.48%) Equities
4 3 (4.48%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.99%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.99%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.99%) N-Tier
5 2 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.49%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.49%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.49%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.49%) TWAP
6 1 (1.49%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.48%) Windows
2 2 (2.99%) Android
2 2 (2.99%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (31.34%) Agile
2 18 (26.87%) CI/CD
3 11 (16.42%) Low Latency
3 11 (16.42%) Wealth Management
4 9 (13.43%) Code Quality
4 9 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (13.43%) User Experience
5 8 (11.94%) Clean Code
5 8 (11.94%) DevOps
5 8 (11.94%) High Availability
5 8 (11.94%) Process Improvement
5 8 (11.94%) SDLC
5 8 (11.94%) UX Design
6 7 (10.45%) Architectural Patterns
6 7 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (10.45%) Test Automation
7 6 (8.96%) Business Analysis
7 6 (8.96%) Electronic Trading
7 6 (8.96%) Machine Learning
7 6 (8.96%) OO
Programming Languages
1 19 (28.36%) Java
2 17 (25.37%) Python
3 15 (22.39%) SQL
4 11 (16.42%) TypeScript
5 6 (8.96%) Scala
6 4 (5.97%) C#
6 4 (5.97%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.99%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.99%) R
8 1 (1.49%) Bash
8 1 (1.49%) C++
8 1 (1.49%) Go
8 1 (1.49%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 9 (13.43%) Degree
2 5 (7.46%) SC Cleared
2 5 (7.46%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.99%) IIBA
3 2 (2.99%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.49%) CBAP
4 1 (1.49%) CCIE
4 1 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.49%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.48%) EMIR
3 2 (2.99%) MiFID
3 2 (2.99%) QA
4 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.49%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (16.42%) Docker
2 2 (2.99%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.99%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.49%) HDFS
3 1 (1.49%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 12 (17.91%) Ansible
2 11 (16.42%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.99%) Terraform
4 1 (1.49%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.49%) Grafana
4 1 (1.49%) Karpenter
4 1 (1.49%) Podman
4 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (7.46%) Google
2 4 (5.97%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.48%) Adobe
4 2 (2.99%) Cisco
4 2 (2.99%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.49%) GoldenSource
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle
5 1 (1.49%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.49%) Splunk