Investment Banking Jobs in England

Investment Banking
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Investment Banking over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 224 341 573
Rank change year-on-year +117 +232 -109
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 980 667 796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.25% 0.94% 0.54%
As % of the General category 2.19% 1.42% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 724 479 565
10th Percentile £77,500 £59,300 £55,000
25th Percentile £94,531 £75,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +29.41% -
75th Percentile £148,750 £140,000 £111,540
90th Percentile £165,000 £157,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £115,000 £110,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +33.33% -2.94%

All General Skills
England

Investment Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 44,799 46,891 99,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 57.17% 65.97% 67.50%
Number of salaries quoted 28,228 29,742 48,838
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,250 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,886 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.19%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in England

Investment Banking
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Investment Banking in England

Investment Banking
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Investment Banking in England

Investment Banking
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Investment Banking within the England region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
London +56 744 £115,000 - 73
South West +168 223 - - 1
West Midlands -5 5 £65,000 +17.12% 21
Midlands -22 5 £65,000 +17.12% 21
South East +7 3 £42,500 -5.56% 47
North of England +1 3 £102,500 +70.83% 4
North West -16 3 £102,500 +70.83% 4
East of England - 2 £100,000 -
Investment Banking
UK

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 521 (53.16%) Apache
2 483 (49.29%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (3.16%) Confluence
4 18 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.61%) SAS
7 4 (0.41%) CMS
8 1 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.10%) Documentum
8 1 (0.10%) GemFire
8 1 (0.10%) IIS
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 53 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 52 (5.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.22%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.10%) Camtasia
5 1 (0.10%) InDesign
5 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 39 (3.98%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.41%) Eagle PACE
2 4 (0.41%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 585 (59.69%) AWS
2 519 (52.96%) dbt
3 463 (47.24%) Snowflake
4 237 (24.18%) GCP
5 76 (7.76%) Amazon ECS
6 73 (7.45%) Amazon EC2
7 72 (7.35%) Amazon EKS
8 47 (4.80%) Power Platform
9 19 (1.94%) Azure
10 10 (1.02%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (0.51%) Serverless
12 4 (0.41%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (0.41%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (0.41%) Firebase
13 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (0.31%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.31%) PowerApps
14 2 (0.20%) Amazon EMR
14 2 (0.20%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.33%) Firewall
2 12 (1.22%) Remote Desktop
3 8 (0.82%) Internet
3 8 (0.82%) VPN
4 6 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (0.51%) WAN
6 4 (0.41%) LAN
6 4 (0.41%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.31%) DNS
8 2 (0.20%) DHCP
9 1 (0.10%) HTTP
9 1 (0.10%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.10%) SSH
9 1 (0.10%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 521 (53.16%) Apache Arrow
2 519 (52.96%) Dremio
3 498 (50.82%) Data Lake
4 485 (49.49%) Amazon Athena
5 483 (49.29%) Apache Ignite
6 68 (6.94%) Tableau
7 47 (4.80%) Power BI
8 33 (3.37%) Big Data
9 9 (0.92%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 7 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.51%) SQL Server
12 4 (0.41%) KDB
12 4 (0.41%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.31%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.31%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.31%) MySQL
14 2 (0.20%) OLAP
14 2 (0.20%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 16 (1.63%) JIRA
2 13 (1.33%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.22%) GitLab
4 8 (0.82%) Git
5 6 (0.61%) Maven
6 5 (0.51%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.51%) Selenium
7 4 (0.41%) Crashlytics
8 3 (0.31%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.20%) ERwin
9 2 (0.20%) MagicDraw
10 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.10%) FitNesse
10 1 (0.10%) JUnit
10 1 (0.10%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.10%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.10%) WebDriver
General
1 980 (100.00%) Banking
2 875 (89.29%) Finance
3 654 (66.73%) Front Office
4 235 (23.98%) Law
5 231 (23.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 150 (15.31%) Social Skills
7 128 (13.06%) Analytical Skills
8 41 (4.18%) Legal
9 30 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
10 27 (2.76%) Financial Institution
10 27 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
11 23 (2.35%) Corporate Banking
12 19 (1.94%) French Language
13 10 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.92%) Marketing
15 6 (0.61%) Publishing
16 5 (0.51%) Back Office
16 5 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.41%) Advertising
18 3 (0.31%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 301 (30.71%) Software Engineer
2 238 (24.29%) Lead
3 202 (20.61%) Senior
4 200 (20.41%) AWS Engineer
5 199 (20.31%) AWS Software Engineer
6 196 (20.00%) Analyst
7 193 (19.69%) Developer
8 186 (18.98%) Java Engineer
8 186 (18.98%) Python Engineer
9 184 (18.78%) Java Software Engineer
9 184 (18.78%) Python Software Engineer
10 151 (15.41%) Senior Software Engineer
11 120 (12.24%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 117 (11.94%) Architect
13 116 (11.84%) Software Developer
14 109 (11.12%) Team Leader
15 107 (10.92%) Lead Developer
15 107 (10.92%) Lead Software Engineer
15 107 (10.92%) Software Team Leader
16 106 (10.82%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 483 (49.29%) Pandas
2 481 (49.08%) gRPC
2 481 (49.08%) NumPy
2 481 (49.08%) Protocol Buffers
2 481 (49.08%) SciPy
3 72 (7.35%) PySpark
4 27 (2.76%) React
5 23 (2.35%) HTML
6 22 (2.24%) AngularJS
7 20 (2.04%) .NET
8 15 (1.53%) CSS
8 15 (1.53%) Spring
9 13 (1.33%) REST
10 12 (1.22%) XML
11 10 (1.02%) ASP.NET
11 10 (1.02%) FIX Protocol
12 9 (0.92%) JSON
12 9 (0.92%) SOAP
12 9 (0.92%) Spring Boot
13 8 (0.82%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 598 (61.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 589 (60.10%) Fixed Income
3 581 (59.29%) Derivative
4 567 (57.86%) Equities
5 564 (57.55%) Hedge funds
6 92 (9.39%) Product Ownership
7 72 (7.35%) Pricing Data
8 43 (4.39%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (2.35%) Mobile App
10 22 (2.24%) Credit Risk
11 19 (1.94%) Algorithms
12 18 (1.84%) OTC Derivatives
13 16 (1.63%) Market Risk
14 14 (1.43%) Management Information System
14 14 (1.43%) Onboarding
15 12 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
16 10 (1.02%) Data Centre
17 9 (0.92%) Cloud Native
17 9 (0.92%) Reference Data
18 7 (0.71%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 48 (4.90%) Windows
2 34 (3.47%) Linux
3 20 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (1.94%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.33%) Unix
6 4 (0.41%) Android
6 4 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.41%) Windows XP
7 3 (0.31%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.20%) AIX
8 2 (0.20%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 665 (67.86%) Agile
2 586 (59.80%) Asset Management
3 516 (52.65%) Software Engineering
4 410 (41.84%) Investment Management
5 206 (21.02%) Line Management
6 175 (17.86%) Greeks
7 147 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 109 (11.12%) Analytics
9 85 (8.67%) Business Analysis
10 82 (8.37%) Migration
11 73 (7.45%) Machine Learning
12 68 (6.94%) Artificial Intelligence
13 62 (6.33%) Project Management
14 60 (6.12%) Fintech
15 48 (4.90%) Business Intelligence
15 48 (4.90%) Workflow
16 46 (4.69%) Roadmaps
16 46 (4.69%) Time Management
17 37 (3.78%) Electronic Trading
18 36 (3.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 610 (62.24%) Python
2 563 (57.45%) Java
3 522 (53.27%) JavaScript
4 492 (50.20%) TypeScript
5 183 (18.67%) SQL
6 24 (2.45%) Ruby
7 23 (2.35%) Bash
8 22 (2.24%) Perl
9 18 (1.84%) C#
10 17 (1.73%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.33%) Scala
12 12 (1.22%) Korn
13 6 (0.61%) R
14 5 (0.51%) C++
14 5 (0.51%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.41%) Swift
16 3 (0.31%) VBA
17 2 (0.20%) VBScript
18 1 (0.10%) C
18 1 (0.10%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 121 (12.35%) Degree
2 15 (1.53%) Master's Degree
3 11 (1.12%) MBA
4 10 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (0.61%) Tableau Certification
6 5 (0.51%) CISA
6 5 (0.51%) CISSP
7 3 (0.31%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.31%) CISM
8 2 (0.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.20%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.20%) CRISC
8 2 (0.20%) MCSA
8 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.20%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.10%) CCAB
9 1 (0.10%) CFA
9 1 (0.10%) PhD
9 1 (0.10%) QiCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (19.90%) Data Quality
2 8 (0.82%) Accessibility
2 8 (0.82%) SLA
3 6 (0.61%) QA
4 5 (0.51%) SEPA
4 5 (0.51%) TARGET2
5 4 (0.41%) NIST
6 3 (0.31%) COBIT
7 2 (0.20%) MiFID
8 1 (0.10%) EMIR
8 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.10%) ITGC
8 1 (0.10%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (1.63%) Docker
2 13 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.22%) XenApp
3 12 (1.22%) XenDesktop
4 3 (0.31%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.20%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.20%) vSphere
6 1 (0.10%) GridGain
6 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (2.14%) Ansible
2 17 (1.73%) Puppet
2 17 (1.73%) Terraform
3 14 (1.43%) Kubernetes
4 12 (1.22%) Red Hat Satellite
5 7 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.51%) Graphite
7 4 (0.41%) Grafana
8 2 (0.20%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.10%) Control-M
9 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.10%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.10%) SCCM
9 1 (0.10%) SCOM
9 1 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 102 (10.41%) Bloomberg
2 75 (7.65%) Microsoft
3 64 (6.53%) Reuters
4 35 (3.57%) BISAM
5 27 (2.76%) Alteryx
6 20 (2.04%) Red Hat
6 20 (2.04%) VMware
7 19 (1.94%) Citrix
8 12 (1.22%) TOWER Software
9 10 (1.02%) Cisco
10 9 (0.92%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.71%) Pega
11 7 (0.71%) UiPath
12 6 (0.61%) Fortinet
12 6 (0.61%) Oracle
12 6 (0.61%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.41%) Amplitude
13 4 (0.41%) Splunk
13 4 (0.41%) Sun
14 3 (0.31%) Murex