Investment Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Investment Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 121 250 331
Rank change year-on-year +129 +81 -128
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 267 217 319
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.81% 0.91% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 1.01% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 183 258
10th Percentile £550 £475 £438
25th Percentile £588 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £850 £750 £750
90th Percentile £888 £793 £850
UK median daily rate £725 £650 £600
% change year-on-year +11.54% +8.33% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £24.00 -
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Investment Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Investment Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Investment Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Investment Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Investment Management.

Investment Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Investment Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Investment Management over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Investment Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Investment Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 128 (47.94%) Apache Airflow
2 114 (42.70%) Apache
3 3 (1.12%) Confluence
4 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (3.37%) SimCorp Dimension
2 3 (1.12%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.75%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.75%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.37%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.37%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.37%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 168 (62.92%) AWS
2 129 (48.31%) dbt
3 101 (37.83%) Snowflake
4 66 (24.72%) GCP
5 25 (9.36%) Azure
6 12 (4.49%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.50%) Asana
7 4 (1.50%) Dagster
7 4 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.50%) Slack
8 2 (0.75%) GitHub
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.37%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.37%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.00%) Firewall
2 4 (1.50%) DHCP
2 4 (1.50%) DNS
2 4 (1.50%) VPN
3 3 (1.12%) BGP
3 3 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (1.12%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (1.12%) HTTP
3 3 (1.12%) MPLS
3 3 (1.12%) Network Security
3 3 (1.12%) OSPF
3 3 (1.12%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.12%) SNMP
3 3 (1.12%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.12%) WAN
3 3 (1.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (47.19%) Dremio
2 122 (45.69%) Apache Arrow
3 118 (44.19%) Amazon Athena
4 110 (41.20%) Data Lake
5 106 (39.70%) Apache Ignite
6 26 (9.74%) Big Data
7 12 (4.49%) Power BI
8 8 (3.00%) Tableau
9 2 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.37%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.37%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.37%) DBAmp
10 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (2.62%) JIRA
2 3 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.37%) Git
3 1 (0.37%) Selenium
General
1 231 (86.52%) Finance
2 176 (65.92%) Front Office
3 133 (49.81%) Banking
4 96 (35.96%) Investment Banking
5 27 (10.11%) Back Office
6 13 (4.87%) Social Skills
7 5 (1.87%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.37%) Billing
9 1 (0.37%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.37%) Law
9 1 (0.37%) Legal
9 1 (0.37%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 86 (32.21%) Software Engineer
2 71 (26.59%) AWS Engineer
3 70 (26.22%) Senior
4 57 (21.35%) Developer
5 55 (20.60%) Analyst
6 54 (20.22%) Python Engineer
7 52 (19.48%) AWS Software Engineer
8 48 (17.98%) Python Software Engineer
9 45 (16.85%) Senior Software Engineer
10 43 (16.10%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 38 (14.23%) Java Engineer
11 38 (14.23%) Java Software Engineer
12 35 (13.11%) Lead
13 34 (12.73%) Financial Analyst
14 31 (11.61%) Business Analyst
15 30 (11.24%) Senior Java Engineer
15 30 (11.24%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 29 (10.86%) Finance Manager
16 29 (10.86%) Python Developer
17 20 (7.49%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (46.82%) gRPC
2 124 (46.44%) Protocol Buffers
3 101 (37.83%) Pandas
4 100 (37.45%) NumPy
4 100 (37.45%) SciPy
5 26 (9.74%) React
6 25 (9.36%) Node.js
6 25 (9.36%) Redux
7 10 (3.75%) AngularJS
7 10 (3.75%) Vue
8 6 (2.25%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.87%) Material-UI
10 4 (1.50%) PySpark
11 3 (1.12%) ADO
12 1 (0.37%) OpenFin
12 1 (0.37%) Playwright
12 1 (0.37%) Reactive Extensions
12 1 (0.37%) REST
12 1 (0.37%) RxJS
12 1 (0.37%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 164 (61.42%) Hedge funds
2 144 (53.93%) Fixed Income
3 143 (53.56%) Derivative
4 122 (45.69%) Equities
5 109 (40.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 23 (8.61%) Product Ownership
7 21 (7.87%) Clustering
8 16 (5.99%) Pricing Data
9 4 (1.50%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.50%) Video Conferencing
10 3 (1.12%) DTCC
10 3 (1.12%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 1 (0.37%) CSOC
12 1 (0.37%) Embedded Systems
12 1 (0.37%) Equity Risk
12 1 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.37%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.37%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.37%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.50%) Windows
2 1 (0.37%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (86.89%) Asset Management
2 162 (60.67%) Agile
3 126 (47.19%) Software Engineering
4 45 (16.85%) Analytics
5 43 (16.10%) Greeks
6 30 (11.24%) Mentoring
7 29 (10.86%) Fintech
7 29 (10.86%) Performance Attribution
8 22 (8.24%) Product Management
9 21 (7.87%) Line Management
10 20 (7.49%) DevOps
10 20 (7.49%) Wealth Management
11 19 (7.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 17 (6.37%) Migration
13 15 (5.62%) Artificial Intelligence
13 15 (5.62%) Full Stack Development
13 15 (5.62%) Machine Learning
13 15 (5.62%) User Stories
14 13 (4.87%) Acceptance Criteria
15 11 (4.12%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 195 (73.03%) Python
2 129 (48.31%) JavaScript
3 114 (42.70%) Java
4 111 (41.57%) TypeScript
5 54 (20.22%) SQL
6 25 (9.36%) C#
7 19 (7.12%) Go
8 10 (3.75%) R
9 6 (2.25%) Ruby
9 6 (2.25%) Scala
10 5 (1.87%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (4.12%) CCNP
1 11 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (3.00%) CCNA
3 3 (1.12%) CCDP
4 1 (0.37%) Degree
4 1 (0.37%) PMP
4 1 (0.37%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (17.98%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.75%) GDPR
2 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.37%) FATCA
3 1 (0.37%) QA
System Software
1 4 (1.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.37%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (7.12%) Kubernetes
1 19 (7.12%) Terraform
2 18 (6.74%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (5.62%) Palo Alto
2 12 (4.49%) Bloomberg
3 11 (4.12%) Arista
3 11 (4.12%) Cisco
4 9 (3.37%) SimCorp
5 8 (3.00%) CheckPoint
5 8 (3.00%) F5
5 8 (3.00%) Fortinet
5 8 (3.00%) Riverbed
6 7 (2.62%) Zscaler
7 6 (2.25%) Microsoft
8 3 (1.12%) Aruba
8 3 (1.12%) Charles River
8 3 (1.12%) Infoblox
8 3 (1.12%) Meraki
8 3 (1.12%) SAP
8 3 (1.12%) Splunk
9 2 (0.75%) Databricks
10 1 (0.37%) eFront
10 1 (0.37%) Finsemble