Investment Management Contracts in England

Investment Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Investment Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Investment Management 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 188 303 260
Rank change year-on-year +115 -43 -51
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 471 380 772
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.26% 0.81% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 0.90% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 331 696
10th Percentile £500 £454 £469
25th Percentile £569 £550 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £850 £750 £750
90th Percentile £860 £800 £828
UK median daily rate £725 £650 £600
% change year-on-year +11.54% +8.33% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £22.00 £57.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £24.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -60.00% -
75th Percentile - £26.00 £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £24.00 £41.75
% change year-on-year +66.67% -42.51% -0.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Investment Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Investment Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Management in England

Investment Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Investment Management in England

Investment Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Management in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Management in England

Investment Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Investment Management in England

Investment Management
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 Management 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 +92 461 £725 +7.41% 137
North of England +21 8 £425 +141.48% 6
North West +19 8 £425 +141.48% 4
Midlands +17 1 £550 - 3
West Midlands - 1 £550 - 2
Investment Management
UK

Investment Management
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
1 201 (42.68%) Apache Airflow
2 187 (39.70%) Apache
3 4 (0.85%) Confluence
4 3 (0.64%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (4.03%) Aladdin
2 10 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (1.91%) SimCorp Dimension
4 8 (1.70%) Markit EDM
5 7 (1.49%) SAP FI
6 6 (1.27%) thinkFolio
7 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 280 (59.45%) AWS
2 160 (33.97%) GCP
3 137 (29.09%) dbt
4 122 (25.90%) Azure
5 108 (22.93%) Snowflake
6 18 (3.82%) Power Platform
7 10 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (0.85%) Asana
10 4 (0.85%) Dagster
10 4 (0.85%) Slack
11 3 (0.64%) Azure Stack
12 2 (0.42%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (0.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (0.42%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.42%) GitHub
13 1 (0.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 1 (0.21%) Azure Monitor
13 1 (0.21%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.12%) Firewall
2 8 (1.70%) Network Security
3 4 (0.85%) BGP
3 4 (0.85%) DHCP
3 4 (0.85%) DNS
3 4 (0.85%) OSPF
3 4 (0.85%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.85%) 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%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.21%) IGRP
5 1 (0.21%) RIP
5 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (38.00%) Apache Ignite
2 134 (28.45%) Dremio
3 130 (27.60%) Apache Arrow
4 126 (26.75%) Amazon Athena
5 121 (25.69%) Data Lake
6 65 (13.80%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (5.73%) Big Data
8 18 (3.82%) Power BI
9 10 (2.12%) Tableau
10 9 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.85%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.42%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
14 1 (0.21%) Data Mining
14 1 (0.21%) DBAmp
14 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 50 (10.62%) Cypress.io
2 14 (2.97%) JIRA
3 5 (1.06%) Git
4 3 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.42%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.42%) webpack
6 1 (0.21%) Selenium
6 1 (0.21%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 388 (82.38%) Finance
2 298 (63.27%) Front Office
3 232 (49.26%) Banking
4 124 (26.33%) Investment Banking
5 45 (9.55%) Social Skills
6 33 (7.01%) Back Office
7 13 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (0.85%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.64%) Law
10 3 (0.64%) Legal
11 2 (0.42%) Retail
12 1 (0.21%) Billing
12 1 (0.21%) Marketing
12 1 (0.21%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.21%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.21%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.21%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 172 (36.52%) Software Engineer
2 153 (32.48%) Developer
3 127 (26.96%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 124 (26.33%) Python Engineer
5 115 (24.42%) Python Software Engineer
6 109 (23.14%) Analyst
7 94 (19.96%) Python Developer
8 80 (16.99%) React Developer
8 80 (16.99%) Senior
9 71 (15.07%) AWS Engineer
10 58 (12.31%) Business Analyst
11 52 (11.04%) AWS Software Engineer
12 51 (10.83%) Financial Analyst
13 48 (10.19%) Finance Manager
14 47 (9.98%) Senior Software Engineer
15 39 (8.28%) Full Stack Developer
16 38 (8.07%) Full Stack Engineer
16 38 (8.07%) Java Engineer
16 38 (8.07%) Java Software Engineer
16 38 (8.07%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (41.83%) gRPC
2 196 (41.61%) Protocol Buffers
3 113 (23.99%) React
4 112 (23.78%) Pandas
5 111 (23.57%) Redux
6 109 (23.14%) NumPy
7 107 (22.72%) SciPy
8 72 (15.29%) Material-UI
9 27 (5.73%) Node.js
10 20 (4.25%) .NET
11 16 (3.40%) AngularJS
12 15 (3.18%) .NET Core
13 14 (2.97%) Vue
14 8 (1.70%) WPF
15 7 (1.49%) PySpark
16 6 (1.27%) GraphQL
17 4 (0.85%) ASP.NET
17 4 (0.85%) ASP.NET Core
17 4 (0.85%) RESTful
18 3 (0.64%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 276 (58.60%) Hedge funds
2 265 (56.26%) Fixed Income
3 202 (42.89%) Equities
4 188 (39.92%) Derivative
5 154 (32.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 44 (9.34%) Product Ownership
7 21 (4.46%) Clustering
8 16 (3.40%) Pricing Data
9 12 (2.55%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (0.85%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.64%) DTCC
13 2 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.42%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.42%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.42%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 2 (0.42%) Virtual Team
14 1 (0.21%) CSOC
14 1 (0.21%) Greenfield Project
14 1 (0.21%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.34%) Windows
2 3 (0.64%) Linux
3 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (80.25%) Asset Management
2 272 (57.75%) Agile
3 219 (46.50%) Software Engineering
4 100 (21.23%) Full Stack Development
5 94 (19.96%) Artificial Intelligence
5 94 (19.96%) Machine Learning
6 65 (13.80%) Automated Trading
7 61 (12.95%) Fintech
8 58 (12.31%) Analytics
9 48 (10.19%) DevOps
10 43 (9.13%) Greeks
11 30 (6.37%) Mentoring
12 29 (6.16%) Performance Attribution
13 28 (5.94%) Line Management
14 25 (5.31%) Portfolio Management
15 23 (4.88%) Migration
16 22 (4.67%) Product Management
16 22 (4.67%) Roadmaps
16 22 (4.67%) Stakeholder Management
16 22 (4.67%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 301 (63.91%) Python
2 205 (43.52%) TypeScript
3 158 (33.55%) JavaScript
4 122 (25.90%) Java
5 108 (22.93%) SQL
6 53 (11.25%) C#
7 19 (4.03%) Go
8 10 (2.12%) R
9 6 (1.27%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.27%) Ruby
9 6 (1.27%) Scala
10 5 (1.06%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.85%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.85%) VBA
12 2 (0.42%) C++
13 1 (0.21%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 14 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (2.34%) CCNP
3 8 (1.70%) CCNA
4 6 (1.27%) 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 (0.42%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.42%) CCSK
6 2 (0.42%) CIMA
6 2 (0.42%) CISM
6 2 (0.42%) PMP
7 1 (0.21%) ISEB
7 1 (0.21%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (12.53%) Data Quality
2 20 (4.25%) QA
3 5 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.42%) GDPR
5 2 (0.42%) 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%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.64%) Docker
3 2 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.21%) XenApp
4 1 (0.21%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 21 (4.46%) Terraform
2 19 (4.03%) Kubernetes
3 18 (3.82%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.85%) CASB
4 4 (0.85%) Control-M
5 3 (0.64%) Kibana
5 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 68 (14.44%) Google
2 39 (8.28%) Bloomberg
3 19 (4.03%) Palo Alto
4 14 (2.97%) Microsoft
5 12 (2.55%) BISAM
5 12 (2.55%) Cisco
6 11 (2.34%) Arista
6 11 (2.34%) SAP
7 9 (1.91%) SimCorp
8 8 (1.70%) Charles River
8 8 (1.70%) CheckPoint
8 8 (1.70%) F5
8 8 (1.70%) Fortinet
8 8 (1.70%) Riverbed
9 7 (1.49%) Zscaler
10 5 (1.06%) Databricks
11 3 (0.64%) eFront
11 3 (0.64%) Infoblox
11 3 (0.64%) Meraki
11 3 (0.64%) Splunk