Investment Banking Contracts in London

Investment Banking
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Investment Banking over the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 65 55
Rank change year-on-year -15 -10 +4
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 426 565 1,390
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.15% 3.07% 4.54%
As % of the General category 4.83% 4.83% 7.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 414 995
10th Percentile £463 £500 £540
25th Percentile £600 £556 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £694 £711 £725
Median % change year-on-year -2.43% -1.93% +3.57%
75th Percentile £835 £823 £813
90th Percentile £881 £946 £913
England median daily rate £675 £700 £725
% change year-on-year -3.57% -3.45% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.25 - £39.25
Median hourly rate £77.50 - £40.50
75th Percentile £78.75 - £41.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £77.50 £18.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +318.92% -54.32% -32.50%

All General Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,827 11,700 19,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 65.34% 63.56% 63.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,574 8,378 13,787
10th Percentile £325 £336 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £725
90th Percentile £825 £800 £823
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 255 217
10th Percentile £20.68 £16.00 £17.07
25th Percentile £26.06 £18.64 £21.24
Median hourly rate £38.56 £28.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.28% - -18.75%
75th Percentile £55.25 £49.54 £54.00
90th Percentile £78.44 £73.71 £64.55
England median hourly rate £30.41 £25.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year +20.42% -8.18% +37.50%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in London over the 6 months to 11 February 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 11 February 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
Central London +2 71 £600 -11.76% 18
South London +8 3 £725 +9.43% 1
East London +12 1 £575 -21.77% 7
Investment Banking
England

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 30 (7.04%) Apache
2 26 (6.10%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (3.99%) Apache Spark
4 14 (3.29%) Confluence
5 6 (1.41%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.70%) Camunda
6 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.70%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.47%) CMS
7 2 (0.47%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.23%) Documentum
8 1 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.23%) IBM Notes
8 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.23%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.23%) MS Project Server
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 18 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.64%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.47%) Sketch
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.23%) InVision
7 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.41%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.17%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.17%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (0.70%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (0.70%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (0.70%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (0.70%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 3 (0.70%) Oracle iProcurement
3 3 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.47%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 2 (0.47%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.23%) Actimize
5 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 79 (18.54%) AWS
2 42 (9.86%) Azure
3 34 (7.98%) GCP
4 31 (7.28%) Snowflake
5 27 (6.34%) dbt
6 24 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
7 22 (5.16%) Amazon EC2
8 21 (4.93%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (3.29%) Dagster
10 10 (2.35%) PaaS
10 10 (2.35%) Power Platform
11 7 (1.64%) Amazon S3
11 7 (1.64%) GitHub
11 7 (1.64%) npm
11 7 (1.64%) OpenShift
11 7 (1.64%) Yarn
12 6 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.41%) Serverless
13 5 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.76%) FIX Connectivity
2 9 (2.11%) BGP
2 9 (2.11%) Cisco Nexus
2 9 (2.11%) LAN
3 8 (1.88%) Firewall
4 7 (1.64%) Cisco ISE
4 7 (1.64%) OSPF
4 7 (1.64%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.64%) VXLAN
4 7 (1.64%) Wireless
5 6 (1.41%) Multicast
6 5 (1.17%) Cisco IOS
6 5 (1.17%) IGMP
6 5 (1.17%) IOS XR
6 5 (1.17%) NX-OS
6 5 (1.17%) WAN
6 5 (1.17%) Wireshark
7 4 (0.94%) DHCP
7 4 (0.94%) Ethernet
7 4 (0.94%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.10%) Amazon Athena
1 26 (6.10%) Apache Arrow
1 26 (6.10%) Apache Iceberg
1 26 (6.10%) Apache Ignite
1 26 (6.10%) Data Lake
1 26 (6.10%) Dremio
2 23 (5.40%) SQL Server
3 14 (3.29%) Relational Database
4 12 (2.82%) Big Data
5 11 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (2.58%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.35%) Power BI
6 10 (2.35%) Redis
6 10 (2.35%) Tableau
7 9 (2.11%) DB2
7 9 (2.11%) Hadoop
7 9 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.64%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.41%) Apache Hive
9 6 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 48 (11.27%) Jenkins
2 28 (6.57%) Git
3 26 (6.10%) JIRA
4 20 (4.69%) Bitbucket
5 15 (3.52%) Artifactory
6 13 (3.05%) TeamCity
7 7 (1.64%) JUnit
7 7 (1.64%) webpack
8 5 (1.17%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.70%) IBM UrbanCode
10 3 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.47%) Axure RP
11 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket Server
11 2 (0.47%) GitLab
11 2 (0.47%) Maven
11 2 (0.47%) MLflow
11 2 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.23%) Jasmine
General
1 426 (100.00%) Banking
2 263 (61.74%) Finance
3 107 (25.12%) Front Office
4 105 (24.65%) Social Skills
5 83 (19.48%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (9.86%) Retail Banking
7 27 (6.34%) Corporate Banking
8 25 (5.87%) Retail
9 18 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (3.29%) Financial Institution
11 12 (2.82%) Back Office
12 7 (1.64%) Prime Brokerage
13 6 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.17%) Legal
15 3 (0.70%) Marketing
16 2 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.47%) Telecoms
17 1 (0.23%) Documentation Skills
17 1 (0.23%) Law
17 1 (0.23%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 190 (44.60%) Developer
2 75 (17.61%) Analyst
3 72 (16.90%) Senior
4 57 (13.38%) Java Developer
5 38 (8.92%) Python Developer
6 36 (8.45%) Business Analyst
7 33 (7.75%) Software Engineer
8 29 (6.81%) Senior Developer
9 28 (6.57%) AWS Engineer
10 25 (5.87%) Python Engineer
11 24 (5.63%) AWS Software Engineer
12 23 (5.40%) C# Developer
13 22 (5.16%) Lead
14 20 (4.69%) Java Engineer
14 20 (4.69%) Java Software Engineer
15 19 (4.46%) Gen AI Developer
16 18 (4.23%) Senior Software Engineer
17 17 (3.99%) Electronic Trading Developer
17 17 (3.99%) Project Manager
17 17 (3.99%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (9.86%) React
2 36 (8.45%) .NET
3 33 (7.75%) Spring
4 31 (7.28%) AngularJS
5 30 (7.04%) NumPy
5 30 (7.04%) Pandas
6 29 (6.81%) SciPy
7 27 (6.34%) gRPC
7 27 (6.34%) Protocol Buffers
8 26 (6.10%) PySpark
9 24 (5.63%) FastAPI
10 22 (5.16%) HTML
10 22 (5.16%) Kafka
11 20 (4.69%) Django
12 18 (4.23%) FIX Protocol
13 17 (3.99%) CSS
13 17 (3.99%) HTML5
14 11 (2.58%) Spring Boot
15 10 (2.35%) JMS
15 10 (2.35%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 95 (22.30%) Derivative
2 85 (19.95%) Equities
3 74 (17.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 63 (14.79%) Fixed Income
5 48 (11.27%) Hedge funds
6 24 (5.63%) Product Ownership
7 20 (4.69%) Algorithms
8 19 (4.46%) Data Structures
9 14 (3.29%) Market Risk
10 13 (3.05%) Credit Risk
10 13 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (2.58%) Public Cloud
11 11 (2.58%) Reference Data
12 10 (2.35%) Blockchain
13 9 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.64%) Data Centre
14 7 (1.64%) Equity Derivative
14 7 (1.64%) Onboarding
14 7 (1.64%) Pricing Data
15 6 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.04%) Linux
2 26 (6.10%) Windows
3 20 (4.69%) Unix
4 9 (2.11%) Android
5 8 (1.88%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (33.80%) Agile
2 67 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (14.79%) DevOps
4 61 (14.32%) CI/CD
5 57 (13.38%) SDLC
6 54 (12.68%) Electronic Trading
6 54 (12.68%) Wealth Management
7 47 (11.03%) Asset Management
8 46 (10.80%) Low Latency
8 46 (10.80%) Software Engineering
9 40 (9.39%) Migration
10 39 (9.15%) Analytics
11 37 (8.69%) Artificial Intelligence
12 34 (7.98%) Machine Learning
13 32 (7.51%) Design Patterns
13 32 (7.51%) Stakeholder Management
14 31 (7.28%) Test Automation
15 29 (6.81%) Continuous Improvement
16 28 (6.57%) Data Analysis
17 26 (6.10%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 152 (35.68%) Python
2 150 (35.21%) Java
3 106 (24.88%) SQL
4 69 (16.20%) TypeScript
5 58 (13.62%) JavaScript
6 54 (12.68%) C#
7 22 (5.16%) C++
8 17 (3.99%) Scala
9 7 (1.64%) DAML
10 6 (1.41%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.17%) Bash
12 4 (0.94%) R
12 4 (0.94%) VBA
13 3 (0.70%) Haskell
13 3 (0.70%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.70%) OCaml
13 3 (0.70%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.70%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.70%) Solidity
14 2 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 35 (8.22%) Degree
2 9 (2.11%) Master's Degree
3 8 (1.88%) Numerate Degree
4 6 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.17%) CCIE
5 5 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (0.94%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 3 (0.70%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.70%) Security Cleared
8 2 (0.47%) CBAP
8 2 (0.47%) IIBA
8 2 (0.47%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.47%) PMP
9 1 (0.23%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.46%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.35%) MiFID
3 9 (2.11%) PMO
4 6 (1.41%) EMIR
5 5 (1.17%) QA
6 3 (0.70%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.70%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.23%) PSD2
7 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.23%) SEPA
7 1 (0.23%) TARGET2
System Software
1 42 (9.86%) Docker
2 7 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.17%) Lustre
4 4 (0.94%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.47%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 54 (12.68%) Kubernetes
2 51 (11.97%) Ansible
3 13 (3.05%) Terraform
4 10 (2.35%) Grafana
5 8 (1.88%) ZABBIX
6 6 (1.41%) Podman
7 5 (1.17%) Karpenter
8 4 (0.94%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.70%) Rancher
9 3 (0.70%) SCCM
10 2 (0.47%) Galera Cluster
11 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.23%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.23%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 33 (7.75%) Oracle
2 26 (6.10%) Microsoft
3 15 (3.52%) Databricks
4 14 (3.29%) Google
5 11 (2.58%) Splunk
6 10 (2.35%) Bloomberg
6 10 (2.35%) Cisco
7 7 (1.64%) Adobe
7 7 (1.64%) Arista
7 7 (1.64%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.41%) BISAM
8 6 (1.41%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.41%) Sybase
9 4 (0.94%) ADVA
9 4 (0.94%) Calypso
9 4 (0.94%) Citrix
9 4 (0.94%) Cloudera
9 4 (0.94%) IBM
9 4 (0.94%) Juniper
9 4 (0.94%) ServiceNow