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 in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Investment Banking over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 104 108
Rank change year-on-year -51 +4 +15
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 585 1,121 1,781
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.56% 2.38% 2.54%
As % of the General category 2.72% 4.03% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 833 1,299
10th Percentile £500 £500 £525
25th Percentile £600 £575 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £700 £725
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £875 £813 £825
90th Percentile £888 £950 £888
UK median daily rate £750 £700 £725
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.25 - £26.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 £70.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -72.14% +62.79% +156.72%
75th Percentile £20.75 - £68.69
90th Percentile - - £79.83
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £69.38 £40.50
% change year-on-year -71.89% +71.30% +25.58%

All General Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,502 27,813 40,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.33% 59.13% 57.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,781 19,606 28,322
10th Percentile £281 £315 £325
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% - +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 1,827 910 1,280
10th Percentile £12.88 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £31.97 £30.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% +36.21% +7.14%
75th Percentile £52.64 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £31.96 £23.00
% change year-on-year -4.57% +38.96% +9.26%

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 12 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 12 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 -16 557 £750 +7.14% 144
South East +20 11 - - 17
North of England +6 10 £625 +38.89% 18
North West +2 8 £625 +38.89% 18
South West - 3 £463 - 8
West Midlands +14 1 - - 4
Midlands +11 1 - - 4
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
1 147 (25.13%) Apache
2 137 (23.42%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.85%) Confluence
4 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.51%) CMS
6 3 (0.51%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.51%) nginx
7 2 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.34%) IIS
8 1 (0.17%) GemFire
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 14 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.17%) InVision
4 1 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (2.05%) Aladdin
2 11 (1.88%) ION Anvil
3 8 (1.37%) ION MarketView
4 3 (0.51%) IntelliMatch
4 3 (0.51%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.17%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.17%) Misys Opics
6 1 (0.17%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 182 (31.11%) AWS
2 145 (24.79%) dbt
3 127 (21.71%) Snowflake
4 88 (15.04%) GCP
5 50 (8.55%) Azure
6 21 (3.59%) Power Platform
7 13 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (1.20%) Azure AKS
11 6 (1.03%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (1.03%) npm
11 6 (1.03%) Yarn
12 5 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.85%) GitHub
12 5 (0.85%) Power Automate
13 4 (0.68%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (0.68%) Cloud Run
13 4 (0.68%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.74%) Firewall
2 14 (2.39%) Cisco Nexus
2 14 (2.39%) DMZ
2 14 (2.39%) VPN
3 6 (1.03%) SSH
4 4 (0.68%) Internet
5 3 (0.51%) AMQP
5 3 (0.51%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.17%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.17%) Network Security
6 1 (0.17%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (24.79%) Apache Arrow
1 145 (24.79%) Dremio
2 137 (23.42%) Amazon Athena
2 137 (23.42%) Apache Ignite
3 136 (23.25%) Data Lake
4 32 (5.47%) SQL Server
5 28 (4.79%) Relational Database
6 21 (3.59%) Big Data
7 16 (2.74%) Power BI
8 12 (2.05%) KDB
8 12 (2.05%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.54%) Tableau
10 8 (1.37%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.03%) MySQL
12 5 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.85%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.68%) Apache Hive
13 4 (0.68%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.68%) Impala
Development Applications
1 29 (4.96%) Git
2 25 (4.27%) JIRA
3 18 (3.08%) Jenkins
4 16 (2.74%) TeamCity
5 12 (2.05%) Cucumber
6 9 (1.54%) Visual Studio
7 7 (1.20%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.20%) Maven
8 6 (1.03%) JUnit
8 6 (1.03%) Selenium
9 5 (0.85%) MLflow
9 5 (0.85%) SpecFlow
10 4 (0.68%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.68%) PHPUnit
11 3 (0.51%) Mocha
11 3 (0.51%) NUnit
11 3 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.51%) webpack
12 2 (0.34%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 585 (100.00%) Banking
2 358 (61.20%) Finance
3 249 (42.56%) Front Office
4 103 (17.61%) Social Skills
5 54 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (5.13%) Retail
7 29 (4.96%) Retail Banking
8 27 (4.62%) Corporate Banking
9 10 (1.71%) Wholesale Banking
10 7 (1.20%) Back Office
11 5 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.85%) Legal
11 5 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.68%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.51%) Public Sector
13 3 (0.51%) Public Speaking
14 2 (0.34%) French Language
14 2 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.34%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 203 (34.70%) Developer
2 110 (18.80%) Analyst
3 87 (14.87%) Software Engineer
4 85 (14.53%) Senior
5 77 (13.16%) Java Developer
6 75 (12.82%) Lead
7 71 (12.14%) Business Analyst
8 56 (9.57%) Java Engineer
9 54 (9.23%) Architect
9 54 (9.23%) Python Engineer
10 51 (8.72%) AWS Engineer
10 51 (8.72%) Python Software Engineer
11 50 (8.55%) Java Software Engineer
12 49 (8.38%) AWS Software Engineer
13 47 (8.03%) Solutions Architect
14 44 (7.52%) Senior Software Engineer
15 43 (7.35%) Software Developer
16 41 (7.01%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 40 (6.84%) Lead Developer
18 39 (6.67%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (23.76%) gRPC
2 136 (23.25%) NumPy
2 136 (23.25%) Pandas
2 136 (23.25%) Protocol Buffers
2 136 (23.25%) SciPy
3 50 (8.55%) .NET
4 37 (6.32%) React
5 31 (5.30%) FIX Protocol
6 19 (3.25%) Spring
7 15 (2.56%) HTML
8 14 (2.39%) AngularJS
8 14 (2.39%) CSS
8 14 (2.39%) REST
8 14 (2.39%) WPF
9 13 (2.22%) Kafka
10 12 (2.05%) PySpark
11 11 (1.88%) .NET Framework
12 10 (1.71%) .NET Core
12 10 (1.71%) HTML5
12 10 (1.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 212 (36.24%) Derivative
2 209 (35.73%) Fixed Income
3 191 (32.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 186 (31.79%) Equities
5 163 (27.86%) Hedge funds
6 39 (6.67%) Product Ownership
7 19 (3.25%) Equity Derivative
8 16 (2.74%) Pricing Data
9 15 (2.56%) Algorithms
10 13 (2.22%) Market Risk
11 12 (2.05%) Credit Risk
12 9 (1.54%) Management Information System
13 8 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.37%) OTC Derivatives
14 6 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
14 6 (1.03%) Mobile App
15 5 (0.85%) Data Structures
15 5 (0.85%) Public Cloud
15 5 (0.85%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 45 (7.69%) Linux
2 42 (7.18%) Windows
3 37 (6.32%) Unix
4 2 (0.34%) Android
4 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.34%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (45.13%) Agile
2 175 (29.91%) Asset Management
3 163 (27.86%) Software Engineering
4 124 (21.20%) Investment Management
5 71 (12.14%) Line Management
6 61 (10.43%) DevOps
7 59 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (7.86%) Wealth Management
9 44 (7.52%) Greeks
10 42 (7.18%) Test Automation
11 41 (7.01%) Analytics
12 38 (6.50%) SDLC
13 34 (5.81%) Electronic Trading
13 34 (5.81%) Stakeholder Management
14 33 (5.64%) Migration
15 32 (5.47%) Microservices
16 31 (5.30%) Scrum
17 30 (5.13%) Business Analysis
17 30 (5.13%) CI/CD
17 30 (5.13%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 244 (41.71%) Python
2 234 (40.00%) Java
3 157 (26.84%) TypeScript
4 155 (26.50%) JavaScript
5 138 (23.59%) SQL
6 78 (13.33%) C#
7 30 (5.13%) C++
8 24 (4.10%) PowerShell
9 21 (3.59%) Scala
10 11 (1.88%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.54%) Perl
11 9 (1.54%) VBA
12 8 (1.37%) Bash
12 8 (1.37%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.03%) PHP
13 6 (1.03%) R
13 6 (1.03%) Ruby
14 4 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.51%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (6.67%) Degree
2 13 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (1.54%) Numerate Degree
4 6 (1.03%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.68%) PMP
6 3 (0.51%) CISM
6 3 (0.51%) CISSP
6 3 (0.51%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.34%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.34%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 2 (0.34%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.17%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (9.40%) Data Quality
2 27 (4.62%) QA
3 14 (2.39%) EMIR
4 10 (1.71%) MiFID
5 7 (1.20%) PMO
5 7 (1.20%) SLA
6 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.51%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.34%) Basel III
8 2 (0.34%) SEPA
9 1 (0.17%) Basel II
9 1 (0.17%) GAAP
9 1 (0.17%) GDPR
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (3.42%) Docker
2 12 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.17%) GridGain
3 1 (0.17%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 18 (3.08%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.88%) Ansible
2 11 (1.88%) Grafana
2 11 (1.88%) Terraform
3 7 (1.20%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.68%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.68%) Puppet
5 1 (0.17%) Argo
5 1 (0.17%) Control-M
5 1 (0.17%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.17%) Kibana
5 1 (0.17%) Netcool
5 1 (0.17%) PowerBroker
Vendors
1 35 (5.98%) Bloomberg
2 26 (4.44%) Microsoft
3 14 (2.39%) Cisco
3 14 (2.39%) ION Trading
4 13 (2.22%) Blue Coat
4 13 (2.22%) CheckPoint
4 13 (2.22%) Fortinet
4 13 (2.22%) Juniper
4 13 (2.22%) Oracle
5 12 (2.05%) BISAM
6 10 (1.71%) Databricks
7 8 (1.37%) Reuters
8 6 (1.03%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.03%) Google
9 5 (0.85%) Alteryx
9 5 (0.85%) Citrix
9 5 (0.85%) IBM
9 5 (0.85%) Refinitiv
10 4 (0.68%) Murex
10 4 (0.68%) SmartStream