Investment Management Contracts in London

Investment Management
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Investment Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Investment Management over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 201 161
Rank change year-on-year +105 -40 -49
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 429 344 693
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.46% 1.33% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 1.46% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 298 635
10th Percentile £538 £462 £488
25th Percentile £588 £550 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +12.50% +2.13%
75th Percentile £850 £750 £738
90th Percentile £875 £829 £838
England median daily rate £717 £675 £600
% change year-on-year +6.26% +12.50% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £24.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -42.86% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Investment Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,475 23,527 35,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.65% 90.92% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,094 16,975 26,024
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 269 415
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.40 £17.55
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.84 £37.34 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% -0.43% +14.77%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £51.61
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.30 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

Investment Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Management in London

Investment Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Investment Management in London

Investment Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Management in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Management in London

Investment Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Investment Management in London

Investment Management
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 Management within the London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Central London +23 14 £725 - 6
West London - 2 £684 -
Investment Management
England

Investment Management
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
1 167 (38.93%) Apache Airflow
2 152 (35.43%) Apache
3 4 (0.93%) Confluence
4 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 22 (5.13%) Aladdin
2 9 (2.10%) SimCorp Dimension
3 7 (1.63%) Markit EDM
4 6 (1.40%) thinkFolio
5 3 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.23%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.23%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 247 (57.58%) AWS
2 158 (36.83%) GCP
3 118 (27.51%) Azure
4 102 (23.78%) dbt
5 88 (20.51%) Snowflake
6 9 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (1.86%) Power Platform
8 5 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.93%) Asana
9 4 (0.93%) Slack
10 3 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.70%) Azure Stack
11 2 (0.47%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.47%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.86%) Network Security
2 5 (1.17%) Firewall
3 4 (0.93%) BGP
3 4 (0.93%) OSPF
3 4 (0.93%) VPN
4 3 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (0.70%) DHCP
4 3 (0.70%) DNS
4 3 (0.70%) HTTP
4 3 (0.70%) MPLS
4 3 (0.70%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.70%) SNMP
4 3 (0.70%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.70%) WAN
4 3 (0.70%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.23%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.23%) IGRP
5 1 (0.23%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (35.20%) Apache Ignite
2 100 (23.31%) Apache Arrow
2 100 (23.31%) Dremio
3 99 (23.08%) Amazon Athena
4 88 (20.51%) Data Lake
5 61 (14.22%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (3.96%) Big Data
7 8 (1.86%) Power BI
8 5 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.93%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.47%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.47%) Tableau
11 1 (0.23%) DBAmp
11 1 (0.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 45 (10.49%) Cypress.io
2 13 (3.03%) JIRA
3 4 (0.93%) Git
4 3 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.47%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.47%) webpack
6 1 (0.23%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 351 (81.82%) Finance
2 283 (65.97%) Front Office
3 206 (48.02%) Banking
4 96 (22.38%) Investment Banking
5 48 (11.19%) Back Office
6 31 (7.23%) Social Skills
7 6 (1.40%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.47%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.47%) Law
9 2 (0.47%) Legal
9 2 (0.47%) Retail
10 1 (0.23%) Billing
10 1 (0.23%) Marketing
10 1 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.23%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.23%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 155 (36.13%) Software Engineer
2 154 (35.90%) Developer
3 124 (28.90%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 105 (24.48%) Analyst
5 101 (23.54%) Python Engineer
6 98 (22.84%) Python Software Engineer
7 92 (21.45%) Python Developer
8 75 (17.48%) React Developer
9 72 (16.78%) Senior
10 57 (13.29%) Business Analyst
11 54 (12.59%) Finance Manager
12 53 (12.35%) Financial Analyst
13 52 (12.12%) AWS Engineer
14 39 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
14 39 (9.09%) Full Stack Engineer
14 39 (9.09%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 35 (8.16%) AWS Software Engineer
15 35 (8.16%) Lead
16 33 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
17 32 (7.46%) Finance Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (38.69%) gRPC
1 166 (38.69%) Protocol Buffers
2 108 (25.17%) React
2 108 (25.17%) Redux
3 85 (19.81%) Pandas
4 84 (19.58%) NumPy
5 82 (19.11%) SciPy
6 71 (16.55%) Material-UI
7 24 (5.59%) .NET
7 24 (5.59%) Node.js
8 18 (4.20%) AngularJS
9 16 (3.73%) .NET Core
10 15 (3.50%) Vue
11 8 (1.86%) ASP.NET
11 8 (1.86%) ASP.NET Core
11 8 (1.86%) GraphQL
11 8 (1.86%) WPF
12 4 (0.93%) RESTful
13 2 (0.47%) Bazel
13 2 (0.47%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 265 (61.77%) Hedge funds
2 238 (55.48%) Fixed Income
3 190 (44.29%) Derivative
4 186 (43.36%) Equities
5 134 (31.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 33 (7.69%) Product Ownership
7 19 (4.43%) Clustering
8 10 (2.33%) Pricing Data
9 7 (1.63%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.17%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.17%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (0.93%) DTCC
12 2 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.47%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.23%) Analytical Mindset
13 1 (0.23%) CSOC
13 1 (0.23%) FMCG
13 1 (0.23%) Security Operations Centre
13 1 (0.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.10%) Windows
2 4 (0.93%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.47%) Linux
4 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (82.75%) Asset Management
2 251 (58.51%) Agile
3 200 (46.62%) Software Engineering
4 99 (23.08%) Full Stack Development
5 91 (21.21%) Artificial Intelligence
5 91 (21.21%) Machine Learning
6 61 (14.22%) Automated Trading
7 58 (13.52%) Fintech
8 48 (11.19%) DevOps
9 40 (9.32%) Mentoring
10 36 (8.39%) Analytics
11 31 (7.23%) Greeks
12 28 (6.53%) Line Management
13 25 (5.83%) Performance Attribution
14 23 (5.36%) TDD
15 22 (5.13%) Migration
15 22 (5.13%) Wealth Management
16 20 (4.66%) Portfolio Management
16 20 (4.66%) Product Management
16 20 (4.66%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 271 (63.17%) Python
2 183 (42.66%) TypeScript
3 139 (32.40%) JavaScript
4 103 (24.01%) SQL
5 101 (23.54%) Java
6 71 (16.55%) C#
7 17 (3.96%) Go
8 15 (3.50%) R
9 8 (1.86%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.40%) Ruby
10 6 (1.40%) Scala
11 4 (0.93%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.93%) VBA
12 3 (0.70%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.47%) C++
14 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (1.63%) CCNP
3 5 (1.17%) Degree
4 4 (0.93%) CCNA
5 3 (0.70%) CCDP
5 3 (0.70%) CFA
6 2 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (0.47%) CIMA
6 2 (0.47%) CISSP
6 2 (0.47%) PMP
7 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.23%) CCSK
7 1 (0.23%) CISM
7 1 (0.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.23%) ISEB
7 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (9.32%) Data Quality
2 25 (5.83%) QA
3 3 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.23%) EMIR
4 1 (0.23%) FATCA
4 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.23%) MiFID
4 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (1.63%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.70%) Docker
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (4.43%) Terraform
2 17 (3.96%) Kubernetes
3 16 (3.73%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.93%) CASB
4 4 (0.93%) Control-M
5 3 (0.70%) Kibana
6 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 64 (14.92%) Google
2 38 (8.86%) Bloomberg
3 15 (3.50%) Palo Alto
4 12 (2.80%) BISAM
5 9 (2.10%) Microsoft
5 9 (2.10%) SimCorp
6 8 (1.86%) Cisco
7 7 (1.63%) Arista
7 7 (1.63%) Charles River
7 7 (1.63%) Zscaler
8 5 (1.17%) Databricks
9 4 (0.93%) CheckPoint
9 4 (0.93%) F5
9 4 (0.93%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.93%) Riverbed
10 3 (0.70%) Aruba
10 3 (0.70%) Infoblox
10 3 (0.70%) Meraki
10 3 (0.70%) Oracle
10 3 (0.70%) Splunk