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 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 291 387
Rank change year-on-year -51 +96 +210
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 402 880 670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.82% 0.92% 0.82%
As % of the General category 1.16% 1.61% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 220 598 527
10th Percentile £69,625 £77,500 £62,000
25th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £76,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £117,500 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +6.82% +33.33%
75th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £136,875
90th Percentile £155,000 £165,000 £160,000
UK median annual salary £112,500 £115,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% +33.33%

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 34,510 54,569 55,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 70.06% 56.92% 67.38%
Number of salaries quoted 16,266 36,777 31,395
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £32,276
25th Percentile £38,550 £36,250 £43,739
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 14 June 2025.

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 14 June 2025. 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 -50 288 £115,000 -4.17% 401
North of England +136 82 £34,500 -68.64% 10
North West +100 79 £34,500 -68.64% 6
Midlands +97 19 £67,500 -28.95% 21
West Midlands +74 12 £85,000 -10.53% 21
South West -61 7 £95,000 - 2
East Midlands - 7 £60,000 -
South East +99 5 £90,000 +111.76% 105
East of England +46 2 - -
North East - 2 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 3
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 92 (22.89%) Apache
2 91 (22.64%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.99%) Confluence
4 4 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.75%) SAS
5 3 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.50%) UserZoom
5 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.25%) Stata
Business Applications
1 7 (1.74%) Orchestrade
1 7 (1.74%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.00%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 205 (51.00%) AWS
2 111 (27.61%) Azure
3 96 (23.88%) Snowflake
4 91 (22.64%) dbt
5 19 (4.73%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (2.99%) GCP
8 11 (2.74%) Dagster
9 8 (1.99%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.74%) Serverless
11 6 (1.49%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.24%) Datadog
13 4 (1.00%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (1.00%) GitHub
13 4 (1.00%) Power Platform
14 3 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.98%) TCP/IP
2 8 (1.99%) VPN
3 6 (1.49%) BGP
3 6 (1.49%) EIGRP
3 6 (1.49%) Firewall
3 6 (1.49%) HSRP
3 6 (1.49%) IPsec
3 6 (1.49%) OSPF
3 6 (1.49%) SNMP
3 6 (1.49%) VRRP
3 6 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.50%) Skype
5 1 (0.25%) NAS
5 1 (0.25%) SAN
5 1 (0.25%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (25.87%) SQL Server
2 91 (22.64%) Amazon Athena
2 91 (22.64%) Apache Arrow
2 91 (22.64%) Apache Iceberg
2 91 (22.64%) Dremio
3 59 (14.68%) Apache Ignite
3 59 (14.68%) Data Lake
4 12 (2.99%) Relational Database
5 7 (1.74%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.24%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (1.24%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.00%) Big Data
7 4 (1.00%) Power BI
7 4 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.75%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (0.50%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 103 (25.62%) JIRA
2 97 (24.13%) Maven
3 94 (23.38%) Selenium
4 92 (22.89%) GitLab
5 91 (22.64%) Cucumber
5 91 (22.64%) SonarQube
6 90 (22.39%) Bitbucket
6 90 (22.39%) Sonatype Nexus
7 17 (4.23%) Git
8 14 (3.48%) Jenkins
9 11 (2.74%) TeamCity
10 8 (1.99%) Vite
11 6 (1.49%) Browser DevTools
12 5 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
13 4 (1.00%) NUnit
13 4 (1.00%) Team Foundation Server
14 3 (0.75%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 3 (0.75%) Cypress.io
15 2 (0.50%) webpack
General
1 402 (100.00%) Banking
2 327 (81.34%) Finance
3 146 (36.32%) Front Office
4 135 (33.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 96 (23.88%) Retail
6 92 (22.89%) Corporate Banking
7 59 (14.68%) Social Skills
8 47 (11.69%) Law
9 32 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
10 22 (5.47%) Financial Institution
11 12 (2.99%) Marketing
12 7 (1.74%) Games
12 7 (1.74%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.00%) Agriculture
13 4 (1.00%) Back Office
14 3 (0.75%) Advertising
14 3 (0.75%) French Language
14 3 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 227 (56.47%) Software Engineer
2 109 (27.11%) Developer
3 97 (24.13%) Java Engineer
4 93 (23.13%) Java Software Engineer
5 91 (22.64%) AWS Engineer
5 91 (22.64%) AWS Software Engineer
6 84 (20.90%) Senior
7 77 (19.15%) Python Engineer
7 77 (19.15%) Python Software Engineer
8 62 (15.42%) Senior Software Engineer
9 57 (14.18%) Senior Java Engineer
9 57 (14.18%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 44 (10.95%) Lead
11 41 (10.20%) AWS Developer
12 37 (9.20%) Software Developer
13 32 (7.96%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 32 (7.96%) Snowflake Developer
13 32 (7.96%) Snowflake Engineer
14 28 (6.97%) Java Developer
15 27 (6.72%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (33.83%) React
2 109 (27.11%) Spring
3 108 (26.87%) Jest
3 108 (26.87%) Kafka
4 107 (26.62%) RESTful
5 103 (25.62%) HTML
6 102 (25.37%) CSS
7 101 (25.12%) HTML5
8 100 (24.88%) CSS3
8 100 (24.88%) Redux
9 98 (24.38%) REST
10 94 (23.38%) Spring Boot
11 93 (23.13%) JPA
12 90 (22.39%) Sass
13 59 (14.68%) gRPC
13 59 (14.68%) NumPy
13 59 (14.68%) Pandas
13 59 (14.68%) Protocol Buffers
13 59 (14.68%) SciPy
14 43 (10.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 131 (32.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 117 (29.10%) Derivative
3 101 (25.12%) Fixed Income
4 100 (24.88%) Hedge funds
5 98 (24.38%) Equities
6 97 (24.13%) Product Ownership
7 94 (23.38%) Enterprise Software
8 48 (11.94%) Pricing Data
9 37 (9.20%) Cloud Native
10 16 (3.98%) Algorithms
11 15 (3.73%) FPGA
12 14 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
13 13 (3.23%) Management Information System
13 13 (3.23%) Mobile App
14 6 (1.49%) IPTV
15 5 (1.24%) Blackberry
15 5 (1.24%) Data Centre
15 5 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
15 5 (1.24%) Mainframe
15 5 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.20%) Linux
2 15 (3.73%) Windows
3 9 (2.24%) Unix
4 7 (1.74%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.24%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.25%) Solaris
7 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (66.17%) Agile
2 228 (56.72%) Software Engineering
3 144 (35.82%) CI/CD
4 138 (34.33%) SDLC
5 122 (30.35%) DevOps
6 119 (29.60%) Migration
7 117 (29.10%) Microservices
8 112 (27.86%) Mentoring
9 111 (27.61%) Full-Stack Development
10 110 (27.36%) User Experience
11 101 (25.12%) Containerisation
12 100 (24.88%) Responsive Web Design
13 99 (24.63%) Performance Optimisation
14 98 (24.38%) Asset Management
15 96 (23.88%) Test Automation
16 94 (23.38%) Front End Development
17 90 (22.39%) Strategic Thinking
18 60 (14.93%) Investment Management
19 46 (11.44%) Data Management
20 45 (11.19%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 273 (67.91%) Java
2 177 (44.03%) TypeScript
3 175 (43.53%) JavaScript
4 168 (41.79%) SQL
5 144 (35.82%) Python
6 38 (9.45%) C++
7 29 (7.21%) C#
8 16 (3.98%) C
9 7 (1.74%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.49%) Go
10 6 (1.49%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.24%) Bash
11 5 (1.24%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.24%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.75%) R
13 2 (0.50%) Bicep
13 2 (0.50%) Rust
14 1 (0.25%) Perl
14 1 (0.25%) Smalltalk
14 1 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (8.46%) Degree
2 6 (1.49%) AWS Certification
2 6 (1.49%) CCNA
2 6 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (1.49%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.00%) CISA
3 4 (1.00%) CISSP
3 4 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.00%) PhD
4 3 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (0.75%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.25%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (23.38%) QA
2 91 (22.64%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.49%) GDPR
4 3 (0.75%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.75%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (0.75%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.50%) ITGC
6 1 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 101 (25.12%) Docker
2 4 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.75%) vSphere
4 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 114 (28.36%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.73%) Terraform
3 8 (1.99%) Ansible
4 5 (1.24%) Grafana
4 5 (1.24%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.24%) SCCM
5 4 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.25%) Control-M
Vendors
1 90 (22.39%) Solace
2 19 (4.73%) Oracle
3 11 (2.74%) Microsoft
4 10 (2.49%) Databricks
5 8 (1.99%) Bloomberg
5 8 (1.99%) Cisco
6 7 (1.74%) Remedy
7 6 (1.49%) Arista
7 6 (1.49%) CheckPoint
7 6 (1.49%) Fortinet
7 6 (1.49%) Meraki
7 6 (1.49%) Refinitiv
7 6 (1.49%) SolarWinds
8 5 (1.24%) IBM
9 4 (1.00%) NetApp
9 4 (1.00%) SimCorp
10 3 (0.75%) Barracuda Networks
10 3 (0.75%) Google
11 2 (0.50%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.50%) Murex