Prime Brokerage Job Trends in the City of London

Prime Brokerage
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Prime Brokerage in permanent job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Prime Brokerage over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 - 165
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Permanent jobs citing Prime Brokerage 4 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.13% - 0.21%
As % of the General category 0.26% - 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £98,750 - £58,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 - £65,750
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.20%
75th Percentile £116,250 - £78,750
90th Percentile - - £80,000
Central London median annual salary £107,500 - £65,750
% change year-on-year - - +5.20%

All General Skills
City of London

Prime Brokerage falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,516 1,283 1,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 48.82% 74.64% 66.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,007 1,004 1,275
10th Percentile £44,000 £36,750 £41,339
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -4.11%
75th Percentile £98,750 £91,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £109,250 £118,750 £113,250
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%

Prime Brokerage
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Prime Brokerage job vacancy trend in the City of London

Prime Brokerage
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Prime Brokerage.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Prime Brokerage

Prime Brokerage
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) JUnit
1 3 (75.00%) Maven
1 3 (75.00%) Mockito
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Back Office
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) FIX Protocol
1 3 (75.00%) FIXML
1 3 (75.00%) FpML
1 3 (75.00%) REST
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
1 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 4 (100.00%) Multithreading
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven
2 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (75.00%) SOLID
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Multithreaded Programming
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) C++