Investment Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Investment Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Investment Management over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 411 365
Rank change year-on-year +89 -46 -50
Permanent jobs citing Investment Management 880 792 1,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.89% 0.76% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.80% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 753 668 1,346
10th Percentile £62,750 £55,875 £56,250
25th Percentile £81,250 £73,750 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £90,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £142,500 £116,250 £128,750
90th Percentile £148,750 £150,000 £140,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -4.17%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,746 99,225 149,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,834 58,281 83,297
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Investment Management in the UK

Investment Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Investment Management over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Investment Management in the UK

Investment Management
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Investment Management within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +87 782 £105,000 +16.67% 133
London +95 762 £105,000 +10.53% 118
Work from Home +122 471 £112,500 +18.42% 33
UK excluding London +58 118 £70,000 +7.69% 21
Scotland +19 96 £75,286 +7.55% 4
North of England +42 9 £84,036 +72.38% 4
West Midlands +21 8 £40,000 -46.67% 2
Midlands +18 8 £40,000 -46.67% 2
North West -2 7 £66,250 +26.19% 2
Wales +7 2 £70,000 +1.82% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £85,572 - 2
South East -13 1 £77,500 +19.23% 3
South West -37 1 £75,000 - 6
East of England - 1 £75,000 -

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
1 297 (33.75%) Apache Airflow
2 260 (29.55%) Apache
3 23 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.59%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.14%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.45%) Site Server
7 2 (0.23%) Appian
8 1 (0.11%) CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Confluence
8 1 (0.11%) Drupal
8 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 14 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.45%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.11%) InDesign
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 25 (2.84%) Aladdin
2 13 (1.48%) thinkFolio
3 10 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.45%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 601 (68.30%) AWS
2 324 (36.82%) GCP
3 266 (30.23%) Azure
4 206 (23.41%) dbt
5 187 (21.25%) Snowflake
6 21 (2.39%) BlazeMeter
6 21 (2.39%) Power Platform
7 10 (1.14%) GitHub
8 8 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (0.68%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (0.68%) Rubrik
10 5 (0.57%) Amazon S3
10 5 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (0.45%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (0.45%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (0.45%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (0.45%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (0.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 4 (0.45%) Serverless
12 3 (0.34%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.59%) DHCP
1 14 (1.59%) DNS
2 11 (1.25%) SAN
3 7 (0.80%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.57%) LAN
4 5 (0.57%) WAN
5 4 (0.45%) iSCSI
5 4 (0.45%) NAS
6 2 (0.23%) SSH
7 1 (0.11%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.11%) Internet
7 1 (0.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (29.32%) Apache Ignite
2 206 (23.41%) Amazon Athena
3 205 (23.30%) Dremio
4 204 (23.18%) Apache Arrow
5 181 (20.57%) Data Lake
6 85 (9.66%) PostgreSQL
7 56 (6.36%) Big Data
8 54 (6.14%) SQL Server
9 21 (2.39%) Relational Database
10 19 (2.16%) NoSQL
11 16 (1.82%) MongoDB
12 15 (1.70%) Apache Cassandra
12 15 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (1.48%) Apache Hive
13 13 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (1.36%) Redis
15 11 (1.25%) Power BI
16 7 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
17 4 (0.45%) InterSystems Cache
18 3 (0.34%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 52 (5.91%) Cypress.io
2 36 (4.09%) Git
3 26 (2.95%) JUnit
4 19 (2.16%) Jasmine
5 15 (1.70%) Karma Test Runner
5 15 (1.70%) Visual Studio Code
6 12 (1.36%) JIRA
7 7 (0.80%) Moq
8 4 (0.45%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.45%) Maven
9 2 (0.23%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.23%) Selenium
10 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.11%) ERwin
10 1 (0.11%) GitLab
10 1 (0.11%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.11%) Subversion
General
1 781 (88.75%) Finance
2 538 (61.14%) Front Office
3 423 (48.07%) Banking
4 183 (20.80%) Investment Banking
5 114 (12.95%) Back Office
6 101 (11.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 98 (11.14%) Law
8 92 (10.45%) Private Banking
9 61 (6.93%) Social Skills
10 28 (3.18%) Analytical Skills
11 11 (1.25%) Billing
11 11 (1.25%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.91%) Legal
13 6 (0.68%) French Language
13 6 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.34%) Marketing
15 3 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.11%) Retail
16 1 (0.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 379 (43.07%) Software Engineer
2 369 (41.93%) Developer
3 253 (28.75%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 168 (19.09%) Senior
5 160 (18.18%) Python Developer
6 149 (16.93%) Python Engineer
7 144 (16.36%) Analyst
8 143 (16.25%) Python Software Engineer
9 114 (12.95%) Java Engineer
10 112 (12.73%) Java Software Engineer
11 110 (12.50%) React Developer
12 108 (12.27%) Lead
13 101 (11.48%) AWS Engineer
14 100 (11.36%) .NET Software Engineer
15 96 (10.91%) Senior Software Engineer
16 92 (10.45%) Full Stack Engineer
16 92 (10.45%) Full Stack Software Engineer
17 90 (10.23%) .NET Developer
18 86 (9.77%) Finance Manager
19 84 (9.55%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 293 (33.30%) gRPC
2 292 (33.18%) Protocol Buffers
3 235 (26.70%) React
4 202 (22.95%) Redux
5 172 (19.55%) AngularJS
6 168 (19.09%) Pandas
7 167 (18.98%) NumPy
8 166 (18.86%) SciPy
9 132 (15.00%) .NET
10 98 (11.14%) Material-UI
11 94 (10.68%) Vue
12 84 (9.55%) Spring
13 62 (7.05%) ASP.NET
14 56 (6.36%) .NET Core
15 45 (5.11%) RESTful
16 44 (5.00%) HTML
17 39 (4.43%) ASP.NET Core
18 38 (4.32%) Node.js
19 37 (4.20%) Spring Boot
20 36 (4.09%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 536 (60.91%) Hedge funds
2 470 (53.41%) Fixed Income
3 394 (44.77%) Derivative
4 369 (41.93%) Equities
5 302 (34.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 59 (6.70%) Cloud Native
7 51 (5.80%) Product Ownership
8 41 (4.66%) Public Cloud
9 36 (4.09%) Clustering
10 23 (2.61%) Algorithms
11 18 (2.05%) Pricing Data
11 18 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.70%) Data Structures
13 13 (1.48%) Management Information System
14 8 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (0.80%) Replication
16 6 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
17 4 (0.45%) Credit Derivative
17 4 (0.45%) Reference Data
18 3 (0.34%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 31 (3.52%) Windows
2 16 (1.82%) Windows Server
3 13 (1.48%) Windows 10
4 11 (1.25%) Linux
5 8 (0.91%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.80%) Unix
6 7 (0.80%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (0.57%) CentOS
8 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.11%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 696 (79.09%) Asset Management
2 602 (68.41%) Agile
3 512 (58.18%) Software Engineering
4 196 (22.27%) Full Stack Development
5 165 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
6 164 (18.64%) Machine Learning
7 130 (14.77%) DevOps
8 117 (13.30%) Wealth Management
9 104 (11.82%) Fintech
10 88 (10.00%) Analytics
11 81 (9.20%) Mentoring
12 80 (9.09%) Automated Trading
13 70 (7.95%) Operational Stability
14 69 (7.84%) CI/CD
14 69 (7.84%) Greeks
15 66 (7.50%) Line Management
15 66 (7.50%) Microservices
16 63 (7.16%) SDLC
17 56 (6.36%) Computer Science
18 52 (5.91%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 538 (61.14%) Python
2 379 (43.07%) TypeScript
3 356 (40.45%) JavaScript
4 327 (37.16%) Java
5 241 (27.39%) SQL
6 188 (21.36%) C#
7 47 (5.34%) R
8 39 (4.43%) Go
9 36 (4.09%) T-SQL
10 24 (2.73%) Kotlin
11 19 (2.16%) PowerShell
12 13 (1.48%) Ruby
13 12 (1.36%) Scala
14 9 (1.02%) Bash
15 8 (0.91%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.68%) C++
17 3 (0.34%) MATLAB
17 3 (0.34%) VBA
18 1 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 1 (0.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 64 (7.27%) Degree
2 30 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (1.02%) MCSA
3 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (0.80%) CREST Certified
5 2 (0.23%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.11%) ACCA
6 1 (0.11%) CFA
6 1 (0.11%) CIMA
6 1 (0.11%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.11%) CISM
6 1 (0.11%) CISSP
6 1 (0.11%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (0.11%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.11%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.11%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (8.64%) Data Quality
2 44 (5.00%) QA
3 27 (3.07%) SLA
4 15 (1.70%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.70%) WAI
5 9 (1.02%) GDPR
6 6 (0.68%) SOC 1
7 2 (0.23%) PMO
8 1 (0.11%) EMIR
8 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.11%) MiFID
8 1 (0.11%) UCITS
System Software
1 22 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.27%) Docker
3 14 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.68%) DFS Replication
4 6 (0.68%) XenApp
4 6 (0.68%) XenDesktop
5 5 (0.57%) NFS
6 4 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (7.84%) Terraform
2 59 (6.70%) Kubernetes
3 37 (4.20%) Prometheus
4 21 (2.39%) Grafana
5 13 (1.48%) Ansible
6 7 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.68%) NetBackup
7 6 (0.68%) Puppet
7 6 (0.68%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 3 (0.34%) Control-M
8 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.11%) CASB
10 1 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.11%) Podman
10 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.11%) SCCM
10 1 (0.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 82 (9.32%) Google
2 69 (7.84%) Bloomberg
3 44 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 25 (2.84%) Splunk
5 24 (2.73%) Charles River
6 21 (2.39%) Dynatrace
7 16 (1.82%) Citrix
8 14 (1.59%) BISAM
8 14 (1.59%) VMware
9 9 (1.02%) Cisco
9 9 (1.02%) Salesforce
10 8 (0.91%) FactSet
10 8 (0.91%) Refinitiv
11 7 (0.80%) Alteryx
11 7 (0.80%) MobileIron
12 6 (0.68%) Veeam
13 5 (0.57%) Adobe
13 5 (0.57%) Intel
13 5 (0.57%) Red Hat
14 4 (0.45%) Juniper