Investment Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Investment Banking over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 421 569
Rank change year-on-year +158 +148 -76
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 1,088 771 850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.11% 0.74% 0.55%
As % of the General category 1.85% 1.07% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 405 661 527
10th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £54,500
25th Percentile £87,500 £71,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £110,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +33.33% +3.13%
75th Percentile £148,750 £132,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £157,500 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% +4.35%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 58,747 72,001 97,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.84% 68.71% 63.55%
Number of salaries quoted 39,559 38,660 51,043
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in the UK

Investment Banking
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Investment Banking in the UK

Investment Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Investment Banking in the UK

Investment Banking
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Investment Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +84 717 £115,000 +4.55% 130
UK excluding London +334 574 £75,000 +11.11% 16
London +55 510 £117,500 +4.44% 120
Scotland +113 363 £85,000 +21.43% 4
Work from Home +60 277 £133,750 +21.59% 25
South West +140 191 - - 2
South East +30 8 £42,500 -59.52% 1
North of England +21 4 £110,000 +83.33% 5
Northern Ireland +10 4 £65,000 +30.00% 2
North West -13 4 £110,000 +83.33% 3
East of England - 4 £90,000 - 1

Investment Banking
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 (15.44%) Apache
2 160 (14.71%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (2.57%) Confluence
4 22 (2.02%) GemFire
5 21 (1.93%) Apache Spark
6 14 (1.29%) Cloud Foundry
6 14 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (1.29%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.55%) SAS
8 5 (0.46%) IIS
8 5 (0.46%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.092%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.092%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.092%) WebSphere
Applications
1 133 (12.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 127 (11.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 107 (9.83%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.01%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.092%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 13 (1.19%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.55%) Adaptiv
3 1 (0.092%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.092%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.092%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 408 (37.50%) AWS
2 160 (14.71%) dbt
3 133 (12.22%) Snowflake
4 109 (10.02%) GCP
5 55 (5.06%) Azure
6 24 (2.21%) Google Play
7 19 (1.75%) GitHub
8 15 (1.38%) Power Platform
9 9 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (0.46%) PaaS
12 4 (0.37%) Firebase
13 3 (0.28%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (0.28%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (0.28%) SaaS
13 3 (0.28%) Serverless
14 2 (0.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 2 (0.18%) IaaS
14 2 (0.18%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.65%) DSL
2 10 (0.92%) Internet
3 9 (0.83%) Firewall
4 6 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (0.55%) VPN
5 3 (0.28%) HTTP
6 2 (0.18%) DHCP
6 2 (0.18%) DNS
6 2 (0.18%) IPv4
7 1 (0.092%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.092%) VSAN
7 1 (0.092%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (14.80%) Apache Arrow
2 160 (14.71%) Amazon Athena
2 160 (14.71%) Apache Ignite
2 160 (14.71%) Dremio
3 152 (13.97%) Data Lake
4 55 (5.06%) Tableau
5 35 (3.22%) MongoDB
6 27 (2.48%) NoSQL
7 26 (2.39%) Big Data
8 21 (1.93%) Apache Cassandra
8 21 (1.93%) CockroachDB
8 21 (1.93%) Hazelcast
9 20 (1.84%) SQL Server
10 18 (1.65%) DB2
11 17 (1.56%) MySQL
11 17 (1.56%) Relational Database
12 15 (1.38%) Power BI
13 14 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (0.74%) KDB
15 7 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 74 (6.80%) Cypress.io
2 72 (6.62%) JUnit
3 69 (6.34%) Selenium
4 65 (5.97%) WebDriver
5 60 (5.51%) Jasmine
5 60 (5.51%) Karma Test Runner
5 60 (5.51%) Protractor
6 34 (3.13%) Maven
7 31 (2.85%) Git
8 24 (2.21%) Android Studio
9 21 (1.93%) Jaeger
10 18 (1.65%) Cucumber
11 17 (1.56%) JIRA
12 16 (1.47%) Jenkins
13 14 (1.29%) GitLab
14 8 (0.74%) TeamCity
15 5 (0.46%) FitNesse
15 5 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
15 5 (0.46%) SonarQube
16 4 (0.37%) Crashlytics
General
1 1,088 (100.00%) Banking
2 934 (85.85%) Finance
3 561 (51.56%) Law
4 558 (51.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 296 (27.21%) Front Office
6 172 (15.81%) Social Skills
7 134 (12.32%) Analytical Skills
8 124 (11.40%) Financial Institution
9 97 (8.92%) Marketing
10 52 (4.78%) Presentation Skills
11 51 (4.69%) Legal
12 24 (2.21%) Corporate Banking
12 24 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
13 22 (2.02%) Prime Brokerage
14 21 (1.93%) Games
15 16 (1.47%) French Language
16 15 (1.38%) Publishing
17 9 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
18 7 (0.64%) Private Banking
19 5 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 412 (37.87%) Software Engineer
2 240 (22.06%) Analyst
2 240 (22.06%) Java Engineer
3 235 (21.60%) Lead
4 231 (21.23%) Java Software Engineer
5 186 (17.10%) Developer
6 161 (14.80%) Lead Software Engineer
7 132 (12.13%) Senior
8 116 (10.66%) Lead Java Engineer
9 104 (9.56%) Python Engineer
9 104 (9.56%) Python Software Engineer
10 95 (8.73%) AWS Engineer
10 95 (8.73%) AWS Software Engineer
11 86 (7.90%) Java Developer
12 82 (7.54%) Business Strategy Analyst
12 82 (7.54%) Strategy Analyst
13 61 (5.61%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 51 (4.69%) Architect
14 51 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
15 50 (4.60%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (16.54%) Spring
2 159 (14.61%) Pandas
3 158 (14.52%) gRPC
3 158 (14.52%) NumPy
3 158 (14.52%) Protocol Buffers
3 158 (14.52%) SciPy
4 146 (13.42%) React
5 124 (11.40%) Spring Boot
6 102 (9.38%) HTML
7 97 (8.92%) CSS
8 95 (8.73%) AngularJS
9 90 (8.27%) Kafka
10 62 (5.70%) JSON
11 61 (5.61%) jQuery
12 60 (5.51%) Hibernate
12 60 (5.51%) J2EE
12 60 (5.51%) Jest
12 60 (5.51%) JMS
12 60 (5.51%) Node.js
12 60 (5.51%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 233 (21.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 215 (19.76%) Fixed Income
3 198 (18.20%) Derivative
4 187 (17.19%) Hedge funds
5 178 (16.36%) Equities
6 170 (15.63%) Cloud Native
7 122 (11.21%) Self-Motivation
8 117 (10.75%) Algorithms
9 67 (6.16%) Data Structures
10 57 (5.24%) Product Ownership
11 54 (4.96%) Public Cloud
12 40 (3.68%) Management Information System
13 26 (2.39%) Credit Risk
14 24 (2.21%) Private Cloud
15 23 (2.11%) Onboarding
16 21 (1.93%) Replication
17 20 (1.84%) Mobile App
18 16 (1.47%) Distributed Applications
19 14 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
19 14 (1.29%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 42 (3.86%) Linux
2 40 (3.68%) Windows
3 28 (2.57%) Android
4 20 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (1.65%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.92%) Unix
7 4 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.28%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.092%) AIX
9 1 (0.092%) CentOS
9 1 (0.092%) Solaris
9 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.092%) VMS
9 1 (0.092%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 638 (58.64%) Agile
2 549 (50.46%) Software Engineering
3 392 (36.03%) Asset Management
4 336 (30.88%) SDLC
5 315 (28.95%) CI/CD
6 299 (27.48%) Operational Stability
7 289 (26.56%) Machine Learning
8 285 (26.19%) Artificial Intelligence
9 226 (20.77%) Community of Practice
10 174 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
11 163 (14.98%) Investment Management
12 126 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 125 (11.49%) Coaching
14 122 (11.21%) Information Architecture
15 120 (11.03%) Visualisation
16 119 (10.94%) TDD
17 118 (10.85%) Architectural Design
18 109 (10.02%) Multithreading
19 107 (9.83%) Analytics
20 101 (9.28%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 509 (46.78%) Java
2 325 (29.87%) Python
3 298 (27.39%) JavaScript
4 248 (22.79%) TypeScript
5 174 (15.99%) SQL
6 38 (3.49%) Kotlin
7 36 (3.31%) C#
7 36 (3.31%) Groovy
8 35 (3.22%) Scala
9 29 (2.67%) Ruby
10 24 (2.21%) Bash
11 22 (2.02%) Perl
11 22 (2.02%) PL/SQL
12 21 (1.93%) PowerShell
13 15 (1.38%) T-SQL
14 14 (1.29%) Korn
15 8 (0.74%) R
16 5 (0.46%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.46%) XAML
17 4 (0.37%) C++
Qualifications
1 119 (10.94%) Degree
2 18 (1.65%) Master's Degree
3 17 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (1.01%) MBA
5 6 (0.55%) Tableau Certification
6 4 (0.37%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.28%) CISA
7 3 (0.28%) CISM
7 3 (0.28%) CISSP
8 2 (0.18%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.18%) CRISC
8 2 (0.18%) MCSA
8 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.18%) PhD
8 2 (0.18%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.092%) CCAB
9 1 (0.092%) QiCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.16%) Data Quality
2 45 (4.14%) Accessibility
3 24 (2.21%) SLA
4 12 (1.10%) QA
5 5 (0.46%) SEPA
5 5 (0.46%) TARGET2
6 2 (0.18%) EMIR
6 2 (0.18%) MiFID
7 1 (0.092%) COBIT
7 1 (0.092%) COREP
7 1 (0.092%) IFRS
7 1 (0.092%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.092%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.092%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.092%) ITGC
7 1 (0.092%) PMO
7 1 (0.092%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 17 (1.56%) Docker
3 2 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.18%) vSphere
4 1 (0.092%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.092%) GridGain
4 1 (0.092%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.092%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.092%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 46 (4.23%) Kubernetes
2 35 (3.22%) Grafana
3 24 (2.21%) Prometheus
4 23 (2.11%) Ansible
5 21 (1.93%) HAProxy
5 21 (1.93%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (1.93%) Kibana
5 21 (1.93%) Terraform
5 21 (1.93%) Zipkin
6 18 (1.65%) Puppet
7 14 (1.29%) Red Hat Satellite
8 12 (1.10%) Control-M
8 12 (1.10%) Graphite
9 7 (0.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 7 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.55%) SafeCom
11 1 (0.092%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.092%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
11 1 (0.092%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.092%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 153 (14.06%) Microsoft
2 66 (6.07%) Oracle
3 41 (3.77%) Alteryx
4 35 (3.22%) Splunk
5 25 (2.30%) Google
6 21 (1.93%) Dynatrace
6 21 (1.93%) Red Hat
6 21 (1.93%) Sybase
7 20 (1.84%) Cognos
7 20 (1.84%) Databricks
8 15 (1.38%) Bloomberg
8 15 (1.38%) Sun
8 15 (1.38%) TOWER Software
9 13 (1.19%) BISAM
10 9 (0.83%) Citrix
10 9 (0.83%) ServiceNow
11 8 (0.74%) VMware
12 7 (0.64%) Fortinet
12 7 (0.64%) Pega
12 7 (0.64%) UiPath