Investment Management Contracts

Investment Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 211 341 302
Rank change year-on-year +130 -39 -59
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 453 397 798
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.06% 0.70% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 0.78% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 334 701
10th Percentile £505 £450 £450
25th Percentile £578 £525 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £715 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% +12.50% +2.13%
75th Percentile £850 £750 £738
90th Percentile £859 £800 £830
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - £40.70
25th Percentile - £22.00 £41.38
Median hourly rate £40.00 £24.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -44.19% -
75th Percentile - £26.00 £53.00
90th Percentile - - £58.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £24.00 £41.75
% change year-on-year - -42.51% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

Investment Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Management in the UK

Investment Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Investment Management in the UK

Investment Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Investment Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Investment Management in the UK

Investment Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Investment Management in the UK

Investment Management
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England +127 444 £720 +6.59% 184
London +106 430 £725 +7.41% 172
Work from Home +124 241 £750 +11.11% 56
UK excluding London +30 20 £550 +15.79% 59
North of England +39 10 £425 +141.48% 3
North West +27 10 £425 +141.48% 2
Scotland +20 8 £693 +45.89% 6
West Midlands +24 2 £605 -3.20% 1
Midlands +23 2 £605 -3.20% 1

Investment Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 168 (37.09%) Apache Airflow
2 153 (33.77%) Apache
3 4 (0.88%) Confluence
4 3 (0.66%) SAS
5 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.44%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 22 (4.86%) Aladdin
2 10 (2.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (1.99%) Markit EDM
3 9 (1.99%) SimCorp Dimension
4 7 (1.55%) SAP FI
5 6 (1.32%) thinkFolio
6 1 (0.22%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.22%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 253 (55.85%) AWS
2 160 (35.32%) GCP
3 125 (27.59%) Azure
4 105 (23.18%) dbt
5 88 (19.43%) Snowflake
6 10 (2.21%) Power Platform
7 9 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.88%) Asana
9 4 (0.88%) Slack
10 3 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.66%) Azure Stack
10 3 (0.66%) IaaS
10 3 (0.66%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.44%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.44%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.44%) GitHub
12 1 (0.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 1 (0.22%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.77%) Network Security
2 6 (1.32%) DHCP
2 6 (1.32%) DNS
3 5 (1.10%) Firewall
4 4 (0.88%) BGP
4 4 (0.88%) OSPF
4 4 (0.88%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.88%) VPN
5 3 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (0.66%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (0.66%) HTTP
5 3 (0.66%) iSCSI
5 3 (0.66%) MPLS
5 3 (0.66%) SAN
5 3 (0.66%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.66%) SNMP
5 3 (0.66%) WAN
5 3 (0.66%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.22%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (33.33%) Apache Ignite
2 101 (22.30%) Apache Arrow
2 101 (22.30%) Dremio
3 99 (21.85%) Amazon Athena
4 90 (19.87%) Data Lake
5 61 (13.47%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (4.19%) Big Data
7 10 (2.21%) Power BI
8 5 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.88%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.66%) DB2
10 3 (0.66%) Tableau
11 2 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.22%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.22%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.22%) DBAmp
12 1 (0.22%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 45 (9.93%) Cypress.io
2 13 (2.87%) JIRA
3 5 (1.10%) Git
4 3 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.44%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.44%) webpack
6 1 (0.22%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 372 (82.12%) Finance
2 284 (62.69%) Front Office
3 215 (47.46%) Banking
4 104 (22.96%) Investment Banking
5 48 (10.60%) Back Office
6 42 (9.27%) Social Skills
7 7 (1.55%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.44%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.44%) Law
9 2 (0.44%) Legal
9 2 (0.44%) Retail
10 1 (0.22%) Billing
10 1 (0.22%) Marketing
10 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.22%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.22%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.22%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 157 (34.66%) Developer
2 155 (34.22%) Software Engineer
3 124 (27.37%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 106 (23.40%) Python Engineer
5 105 (23.18%) Analyst
6 98 (21.63%) Python Software Engineer
7 93 (20.53%) Python Developer
8 75 (16.56%) React Developer
9 72 (15.89%) Senior
10 57 (12.58%) Business Analyst
11 55 (12.14%) Finance Manager
12 53 (11.70%) Financial Analyst
13 52 (11.48%) AWS Engineer
14 39 (8.61%) Full Stack Developer
14 39 (8.61%) Full Stack Engineer
14 39 (8.61%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 35 (7.73%) AWS Software Engineer
15 35 (7.73%) Lead
16 33 (7.28%) Senior Software Engineer
17 32 (7.06%) Finance Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (36.64%) gRPC
1 166 (36.64%) Protocol Buffers
2 108 (23.84%) React
2 108 (23.84%) Redux
3 86 (18.98%) Pandas
4 84 (18.54%) NumPy
5 82 (18.10%) SciPy
6 71 (15.67%) Material-UI
7 24 (5.30%) .NET
7 24 (5.30%) Node.js
8 18 (3.97%) AngularJS
9 16 (3.53%) .NET Core
10 15 (3.31%) Vue
11 8 (1.77%) ASP.NET
11 8 (1.77%) ASP.NET Core
11 8 (1.77%) GraphQL
11 8 (1.77%) WPF
12 4 (0.88%) RESTful
13 3 (0.66%) Flash
13 3 (0.66%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 266 (58.72%) Hedge funds
2 239 (52.76%) Fixed Income
3 191 (42.16%) Derivative
4 187 (41.28%) Equities
5 135 (29.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 34 (7.51%) Product Ownership
7 19 (4.19%) Clustering
8 10 (2.21%) Pricing Data
9 7 (1.55%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.10%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (0.88%) DTCC
12 3 (0.66%) Client/Server
12 3 (0.66%) NVMe
13 2 (0.44%) Embedded Systems
13 2 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.44%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.44%) Virtual Team
14 1 (0.22%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.65%) Windows
2 8 (1.77%) Linux
3 4 (0.88%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.88%) Unix
4 3 (0.66%) Data ONTAP
4 3 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.66%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (81.02%) Asset Management
2 254 (56.07%) Agile
3 202 (44.59%) Software Engineering
4 99 (21.85%) Full Stack Development
5 91 (20.09%) Artificial Intelligence
5 91 (20.09%) Machine Learning
6 61 (13.47%) Automated Trading
7 58 (12.80%) Fintech
8 51 (11.26%) DevOps
9 40 (8.83%) Mentoring
10 38 (8.39%) Analytics
11 31 (6.84%) Greeks
12 28 (6.18%) Line Management
12 28 (6.18%) Wealth Management
13 25 (5.52%) Performance Attribution
14 23 (5.08%) TDD
15 22 (4.86%) Migration
15 22 (4.86%) Stakeholder Management
16 21 (4.64%) Roadmaps
17 20 (4.42%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 280 (61.81%) Python
2 183 (40.40%) TypeScript
3 139 (30.68%) JavaScript
4 110 (24.28%) SQL
5 105 (23.18%) Java
6 72 (15.89%) C#
7 17 (3.75%) Go
8 16 (3.53%) R
9 8 (1.77%) Kotlin
10 7 (1.55%) Scala
11 6 (1.32%) Perl
11 6 (1.32%) Ruby
12 5 (1.10%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.88%) VBA
14 3 (0.66%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.44%) C++
16 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (1.55%) CCNP
3 5 (1.10%) Degree
4 4 (0.88%) CCNA
5 3 (0.66%) CCDP
5 3 (0.66%) CFA
6 2 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (0.44%) CIMA
6 2 (0.44%) CISSP
6 2 (0.44%) PMP
7 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.22%) CCSK
7 1 (0.22%) CISM
7 1 (0.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.22%) ISEB
7 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (8.83%) Data Quality
2 27 (5.96%) QA
3 3 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.44%) NIST
5 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.22%) EMIR
5 1 (0.22%) FATCA
5 1 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (1.55%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.32%) Docker
3 3 (0.66%) GPFS
3 3 (0.66%) NFS
4 2 (0.44%) Firmware
4 2 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (4.64%) Kubernetes
2 20 (4.42%) Terraform
3 16 (3.53%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.88%) CASB
4 4 (0.88%) Control-M
5 3 (0.66%) Kibana
5 3 (0.66%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.22%) Ansible
7 1 (0.22%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.22%) Puppet
7 1 (0.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 67 (14.79%) Google
2 39 (8.61%) Bloomberg
3 15 (3.31%) Palo Alto
4 12 (2.65%) BISAM
5 11 (2.43%) Microsoft
6 9 (1.99%) SAP
6 9 (1.99%) SimCorp
7 8 (1.77%) Cisco
8 7 (1.55%) Arista
8 7 (1.55%) Charles River
8 7 (1.55%) Databricks
8 7 (1.55%) Zscaler
9 4 (0.88%) CheckPoint
9 4 (0.88%) F5
9 4 (0.88%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.88%) IBM
9 4 (0.88%) Oracle
9 4 (0.88%) Riverbed
9 4 (0.88%) Sybase
10 3 (0.66%) EMC