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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 196 166
Rank change year-on-year +104 -30 -55
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 448 355 706
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.56% 1.40% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 1.54% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 311 651
10th Percentile £525 £463 £488
25th Percentile £575 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +8.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £850 £750 £750
90th Percentile - £794 £825
England median daily rate £725 £675 £600
% change year-on-year +7.41% +12.50% +0.21%
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 £60.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -60.00% -

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 15,465 23,124 35,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.32% 90.91% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,089 16,746 26,132
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 264 402
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% +10.45% +8.07%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

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 1 June 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 1 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
Central London +28 14 £722 -0.38% 7
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
1 189 (42.19%) Apache Airflow
2 175 (39.06%) Apache
3 4 (0.89%) Confluence
4 3 (0.67%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 20 (4.46%) Aladdin
2 9 (2.01%) SimCorp Dimension
3 7 (1.56%) Markit EDM
4 6 (1.34%) thinkFolio
5 3 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.22%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 269 (60.04%) AWS
2 161 (35.94%) GCP
3 123 (27.46%) dbt
4 122 (27.23%) Azure
5 100 (22.32%) Snowflake
6 14 (3.13%) Power Platform
7 11 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.89%) Asana
9 4 (0.89%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (0.89%) Slack
10 3 (0.67%) Azure Stack
11 2 (0.45%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.45%) Dagster
11 2 (0.45%) GitHub
12 1 (0.22%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.79%) Firewall
1 8 (1.79%) Network Security
2 4 (0.89%) BGP
2 4 (0.89%) DHCP
2 4 (0.89%) DNS
2 4 (0.89%) OSPF
2 4 (0.89%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.89%) VPN
3 3 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (0.67%) HTTP
3 3 (0.67%) MPLS
3 3 (0.67%) SD-WAN
3 3 (0.67%) SNMP
3 3 (0.67%) WAN
3 3 (0.67%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.22%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.22%) IGRP
4 1 (0.22%) RIP
4 1 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (37.72%) Apache Ignite
2 121 (27.01%) Dremio
3 119 (26.56%) Apache Arrow
4 115 (25.67%) Amazon Athena
5 108 (24.11%) Data Lake
6 65 (14.51%) PostgreSQL
7 25 (5.58%) Big Data
8 14 (3.13%) Power BI
9 8 (1.79%) Tableau
10 7 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.89%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
14 2 (0.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 1 (0.22%) DBAmp
Development Applications
1 50 (11.16%) Cypress.io
2 14 (3.13%) JIRA
3 4 (0.89%) Git
4 3 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.45%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.45%) webpack
6 1 (0.22%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 369 (82.37%) Finance
2 294 (65.63%) Front Office
3 224 (50.00%) Banking
4 114 (25.45%) Investment Banking
5 39 (8.71%) Back Office
6 34 (7.59%) Social Skills
7 10 (2.23%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.67%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.67%) Legal
10 2 (0.45%) Law
10 2 (0.45%) Retail
11 1 (0.22%) Billing
11 1 (0.22%) Marketing
11 1 (0.22%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.22%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 166 (37.05%) Software Engineer
2 155 (34.60%) Developer
3 128 (28.57%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 116 (25.89%) Python Engineer
5 110 (24.55%) Python Software Engineer
6 107 (23.88%) Analyst
7 95 (21.21%) Python Developer
8 80 (17.86%) React Developer
9 77 (17.19%) Senior
10 64 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
11 57 (12.72%) Business Analyst
12 53 (11.83%) Financial Analyst
13 50 (11.16%) Finance Manager
14 45 (10.04%) AWS Software Engineer
15 40 (8.93%) Full Stack Developer
15 40 (8.93%) Senior Software Engineer
16 39 (8.71%) Full Stack Engineer
16 39 (8.71%) Full Stack Software Engineer
17 36 (8.04%) Lead
18 34 (7.59%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (41.52%) gRPC
1 186 (41.52%) Protocol Buffers
2 113 (25.22%) React
3 112 (25.00%) Redux
4 100 (22.32%) Pandas
5 98 (21.88%) NumPy
6 96 (21.43%) SciPy
7 73 (16.29%) Material-UI
8 26 (5.80%) Node.js
9 21 (4.69%) .NET
10 17 (3.79%) AngularJS
11 15 (3.35%) .NET Core
11 15 (3.35%) Vue
12 8 (1.79%) WPF
13 6 (1.34%) ASP.NET
13 6 (1.34%) ASP.NET Core
13 6 (1.34%) GraphQL
14 5 (1.12%) PySpark
15 4 (0.89%) RESTful
16 2 (0.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 273 (60.94%) Hedge funds
2 256 (57.14%) Fixed Income
3 198 (44.20%) Equities
4 190 (42.41%) Derivative
5 146 (32.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 40 (8.93%) Product Ownership
7 21 (4.69%) Clustering
8 14 (3.13%) Pricing Data
9 9 (2.01%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.12%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
11 3 (0.67%) DTCC
12 2 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.45%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.22%) CSOC
13 1 (0.22%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.22%) Private Cloud
13 1 (0.22%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.46%) Windows
2 3 (0.67%) Linux
3 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (81.47%) Asset Management
2 264 (58.93%) Agile
3 211 (47.10%) Software Engineering
4 102 (22.77%) Full Stack Development
5 94 (20.98%) Artificial Intelligence
5 94 (20.98%) Machine Learning
6 65 (14.51%) Automated Trading
7 60 (13.39%) Fintech
8 50 (11.16%) DevOps
9 46 (10.27%) Analytics
10 37 (8.26%) Greeks
11 36 (8.04%) Mentoring
12 28 (6.25%) Line Management
12 28 (6.25%) Performance Attribution
13 23 (5.13%) Migration
13 23 (5.13%) Portfolio Management
14 22 (4.91%) TDD
15 21 (4.69%) Product Management
16 20 (4.46%) Roadmaps
16 20 (4.46%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 290 (64.73%) Python
2 198 (44.20%) TypeScript
3 151 (33.71%) JavaScript
4 113 (25.22%) Java
5 104 (23.21%) SQL
6 60 (13.39%) C#
7 19 (4.24%) Go
8 12 (2.68%) R
9 6 (1.34%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.34%) Ruby
9 6 (1.34%) Scala
10 5 (1.12%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.89%) VBA
12 3 (0.67%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.45%) C++
14 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 12 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (2.01%) CCNP
3 6 (1.34%) CCNA
4 5 (1.12%) Degree
5 3 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (0.67%) CCDP
5 3 (0.67%) CFA
5 3 (0.67%) CISSP
6 2 (0.45%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.45%) CCSK
6 2 (0.45%) CIMA
6 2 (0.45%) CISM
6 2 (0.45%) PMP
7 1 (0.22%) ISEB
7 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (11.16%) Data Quality
2 23 (5.13%) QA
3 4 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.22%) EMIR
5 1 (0.22%) FATCA
5 1 (0.22%) GDPR
5 1 (0.22%) MiFID
5 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (1.56%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.67%) Docker
3 2 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.22%) XenApp
4 1 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 21 (4.69%) Terraform
2 19 (4.24%) Kubernetes
3 18 (4.02%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.89%) CASB
4 4 (0.89%) Control-M
5 3 (0.67%) Kibana
5 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 68 (15.18%) Google
2 39 (8.71%) Bloomberg
3 17 (3.79%) Palo Alto
4 12 (2.68%) BISAM
5 11 (2.46%) Microsoft
6 10 (2.23%) Cisco
7 9 (2.01%) Arista
7 9 (2.01%) SimCorp
8 7 (1.56%) Charles River
8 7 (1.56%) Zscaler
9 6 (1.34%) CheckPoint
9 6 (1.34%) F5
9 6 (1.34%) Fortinet
9 6 (1.34%) Riverbed
10 5 (1.12%) Databricks
11 3 (0.67%) Aruba
11 3 (0.67%) Infoblox
11 3 (0.67%) Meraki
11 3 (0.67%) Oracle
11 3 (0.67%) Splunk