Investment Banking Jobs in London

Investment Banking
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in permanent job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Investment Banking over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 196 399
Rank change year-on-year +48 +203 -146
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 510 649 642
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.16% 1.84% 0.96%
As % of the General category 3.20% 2.68% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 402 554 484
10th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £118,750 £115,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% +39.39% -
75th Percentile £148,750 £139,375 £108,750
90th Percentile £165,000 £160,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £115,000 £110,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +33.33% -

All General Skills
London

Investment Banking is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 15,920 24,215 45,293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 67.56% 68.79% 67.86%
Number of salaries quoted 11,343 16,689 22,610
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,454 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,563 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +5.71% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £119,200 £112,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

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
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Investment Banking within the London region over the 6 months to 4 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +8 41 £97,500 -11.36% 9
East London +29 13 £150,000 - 3
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
1 182 (35.69%) Apache
2 179 (35.10%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.18%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.98%) IIS
5 4 (0.78%) Confluence
6 2 (0.39%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.20%) GemFire
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 73 (14.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (14.12%) Microsoft Office
3 68 (13.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (2.75%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.98%) Adaptiv
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 225 (44.12%) AWS
2 179 (35.10%) dbt
3 159 (31.18%) Snowflake
4 98 (19.22%) GCP
5 28 (5.49%) Azure
6 15 (2.94%) GitHub
7 9 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (0.98%) PaaS
8 5 (0.98%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.78%) Firebase
10 3 (0.59%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (0.59%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (0.59%) SaaS
11 2 (0.39%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.39%) IaaS
11 2 (0.39%) OCI
12 1 (0.20%) Entra ID
12 1 (0.20%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.57%) Firewall
2 6 (1.18%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (1.18%) Internet
2 6 (1.18%) VPN
3 3 (0.59%) HTTP
4 2 (0.39%) DHCP
4 2 (0.39%) DNS
4 2 (0.39%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (35.29%) Apache Arrow
2 179 (35.10%) Amazon Athena
2 179 (35.10%) Apache Ignite
2 179 (35.10%) Dremio
3 160 (31.37%) Data Lake
4 18 (3.53%) SQL Server
5 8 (1.57%) KDB
6 6 (1.18%) Kdb+
7 5 (0.98%) Power BI
8 4 (0.78%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.78%) Tableau
9 2 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.39%) Big Data
9 2 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.39%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.39%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.39%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.39%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (0.39%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.39%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 21 (4.12%) Git
2 11 (2.16%) GitLab
3 8 (1.57%) TeamCity
4 7 (1.37%) Maven
5 5 (0.98%) FitNesse
5 5 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (0.98%) Selenium
5 5 (0.98%) SonarQube
5 5 (0.98%) WebDriver
6 4 (0.78%) Crashlytics
6 4 (0.78%) JIRA
7 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
General
1 510 (100.00%) Banking
2 367 (71.96%) Finance
3 290 (56.86%) Front Office
4 58 (11.37%) Social Skills
5 24 (4.71%) Financial Institution
6 12 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (1.96%) Legal
8 8 (1.57%) Corporate Banking
8 8 (1.57%) Law
9 6 (1.18%) Marketing
10 5 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.39%) Advertising
12 2 (0.39%) Mandarin Language
13 1 (0.20%) Automotive
13 1 (0.20%) Back Office
13 1 (0.20%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.20%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.20%) Retail
13 1 (0.20%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 173 (33.92%) Developer
2 122 (23.92%) Software Engineer
3 106 (20.78%) Analyst
4 97 (19.02%) Lead
5 83 (16.27%) Java Developer
5 83 (16.27%) Senior
6 78 (15.29%) Java Engineer
7 69 (13.53%) Java Software Engineer
8 66 (12.94%) Business Strategy Analyst
8 66 (12.94%) Strategy Analyst
9 63 (12.35%) Python Engineer
9 63 (12.35%) Python Software Engineer
10 59 (11.57%) AWS Engineer
10 59 (11.57%) AWS Software Engineer
11 58 (11.37%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 52 (10.20%) Software Developer
13 50 (9.80%) Senior Software Engineer
14 48 (9.41%) Architect
15 43 (8.43%) Lead Developer
15 43 (8.43%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (34.90%) Pandas
2 177 (34.71%) gRPC
2 177 (34.71%) NumPy
2 177 (34.71%) Protocol Buffers
2 177 (34.71%) SciPy
3 23 (4.51%) Spring
4 21 (4.12%) AngularJS
5 16 (3.14%) React
5 16 (3.14%) Spring Boot
6 14 (2.75%) .NET
6 14 (2.75%) FIX Protocol
7 13 (2.55%) Web Services
8 11 (2.16%) RESTful
9 10 (1.96%) HTML
10 9 (1.76%) ASP.NET
10 9 (1.76%) HTML5
11 8 (1.57%) ASP.NET MVC
11 8 (1.57%) ASP.NET Web API
11 8 (1.57%) LINQ
11 8 (1.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 232 (45.49%) Fixed Income
2 205 (40.20%) Hedge funds
3 203 (39.80%) Equities
4 200 (39.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 197 (38.63%) Derivative
6 67 (13.14%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (3.73%) Product Ownership
8 18 (3.53%) Pricing Data
9 14 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (2.16%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.96%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.57%) Data Centre
13 7 (1.37%) Data Structures
13 7 (1.37%) Onboarding
14 6 (1.18%) Equity Derivative
14 6 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
15 5 (0.98%) Cloud Native
15 5 (0.98%) Credit Risk
15 5 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
16 4 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (6.86%) Windows
2 34 (6.67%) Linux
3 17 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (2.75%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.96%) Unix
6 4 (0.78%) Android
6 4 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.59%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.20%) AIX
8 1 (0.20%) CentOS
8 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (57.25%) Asset Management
2 265 (51.96%) Agile
3 210 (41.18%) Software Engineering
4 182 (35.69%) Investment Management
5 73 (14.31%) Line Management
6 72 (14.12%) Business Strategy
7 68 (13.33%) Greeks
8 66 (12.94%) Benchmarking
8 66 (12.94%) Business Forecasting
8 66 (12.94%) Competitor Analysis
8 66 (12.94%) Creative Thinking
8 66 (12.94%) Planning and Forecasting
9 56 (10.98%) Electronic Trading
10 48 (9.41%) Multithreading
11 41 (8.04%) Low Latency
12 37 (7.25%) Analytics
13 34 (6.67%) Microservices
14 33 (6.47%) DevOps
15 29 (5.69%) Roadmaps
15 29 (5.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 278 (54.51%) Java
2 246 (48.24%) Python
3 200 (39.22%) JavaScript
4 183 (35.88%) TypeScript
5 47 (9.22%) SQL
6 24 (4.71%) Ruby
7 21 (4.12%) Bash
7 21 (4.12%) C#
8 20 (3.92%) PowerShell
9 19 (3.73%) Perl
10 14 (2.75%) Kotlin
10 14 (2.75%) Scala
11 11 (2.16%) Korn
12 5 (0.98%) XAML
13 4 (0.78%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.78%) Swift
14 3 (0.59%) C++
14 3 (0.59%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.39%) VBA
16 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 24 (4.71%) Degree
2 16 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (0.98%) Master's Degree
4 4 (0.78%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.39%) MCSA
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.20%) CCAB
6 1 (0.20%) CISA
6 1 (0.20%) CISM
6 1 (0.20%) CISSP
6 1 (0.20%) MBA
6 1 (0.20%) QiCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.57%) QA
3 5 (0.98%) SLA
4 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.20%) COBIT
4 1 (0.20%) COREP
4 1 (0.20%) IFRS
4 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.20%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.20%) ITGC
4 1 (0.20%) PMO
4 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.55%) Docker
3 2 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.39%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.39%) vSphere
4 1 (0.20%) GridGain
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (4.71%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.92%) Ansible
3 15 (2.94%) Puppet
4 11 (2.16%) Control-M
4 11 (2.16%) Red Hat Satellite
5 7 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 5 (0.98%) Grafana
7 5 (0.98%) SafeCom
8 4 (0.78%) Terraform
9 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.20%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.20%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.20%) SCCM
9 1 (0.20%) SCOM
9 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 94 (18.43%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.53%) Red Hat
3 16 (3.14%) Bloomberg
4 15 (2.94%) Oracle
5 14 (2.75%) BISAM
6 12 (2.35%) Sun
6 12 (2.35%) TOWER Software
7 9 (1.76%) Citrix
8 7 (1.37%) VMware
9 6 (1.18%) Cisco
9 6 (1.18%) Fortinet
9 6 (1.18%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.18%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.98%) SolarWinds
10 5 (0.98%) Splunk
10 5 (0.98%) Veritas
11 4 (0.78%) Amplitude
12 3 (0.59%) IBM
12 3 (0.59%) Sybase
13 2 (0.39%) HP