Investment Management Job Trends in the City of London

Investment Management
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Investment Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 124 107
Rank change year-on-year +8 -17 +70
Permanent jobs citing Investment Management 17 35 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.74% 1.33% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.39% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 10 35 51
10th Percentile £64,250 £51,750 £57,500
25th Percentile £92,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +6.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £107,500 £97,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £125,513 £110,000 £102,500
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% +3.23% -13.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Investment Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,975 2,524 2,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 86.36% 95.64% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,442 1,607 2,397
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £40,650
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,125 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Investment Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Investment Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Investment Management job vacancy trend in the City of London

Investment Management
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Investment Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Investment Management

Investment Management
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Investment Management in the City of London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Investment Management in the City of London

Investment Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) AWS
4 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.88%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.88%) MySQL
2 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Front Office
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Azure Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Lead
2 4 (23.53%) Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Backend Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Data Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Power BI Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Python Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Asset Management Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Developer Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Power BI Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Node.js
1 3 (17.65%) PySpark
1 3 (17.65%) React
2 1 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) DevOps
2 5 (29.41%) Fraud Detection
2 5 (29.41%) Identity Management
2 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (11.76%) Analytics
4 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
4 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis
4 2 (11.76%) Data Modelling
4 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
4 2 (11.76%) Line Management
5 1 (5.88%) AI
5 1 (5.88%) Business Analysis
5 1 (5.88%) Data Extraction
5 1 (5.88%) Dimensional Modelling
5 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.88%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.88%) Test Automation
5 1 (5.88%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) TypeScript
3 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Databricks
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft