Investment Banking Job Trends 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 20 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 327 300
Rank change year-on-year -209 -27 +99
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 155 352 787
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.89% 0.93%
As % of the General category 0.39% 1.23% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 74 225 464
10th Percentile £48,950 £63,000 £70,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £88,750 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £112,500 £117,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% -4.26% +6.82%
75th Percentile £125,000 £135,000 £148,750
90th Percentile £142,375 £148,750 £165,000
UK median annual salary £95,000 £112,500 £115,000
% change year-on-year -15.56% -2.17% +4.55%

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 general skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 40,126 28,556 50,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 48.82% 72.48% 59.41%
Number of salaries quoted 23,275 14,330 35,674
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Investment Banking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Investment Banking job vacancy trend in England

Investment Banking
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Investment Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Investment Banking

Investment Banking
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2026.

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 20 May 2026. 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 -102 125 £102,500 -10.87% 76
West Midlands -27 17 £50,000 -41.18% 3
Midlands -33 17 £50,000 -25.93% 3
North of England -98 12 £33,000 -4.35% 7
North West -58 10 - - 4
East of England -12 7 - -
South East -21 2 - - 20
Yorkshire -45 2 £33,000 - 3
Investment Banking
UK

Investment Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 24 (15.48%) Apache
1 24 (15.48%) Apache Airflow
1 24 (15.48%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.58%) Ethereum
2 4 (2.58%) SAS
3 1 (0.65%) Confluence
3 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (8.39%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.65%) Sketch
2 1 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.23%) Oracle ERP
1 5 (3.23%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.65%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 49 (31.61%) AWS
2 27 (17.42%) Amazon S3
3 25 (16.13%) OpenShift
4 17 (10.97%) Azure
5 9 (5.81%) GCP
6 6 (3.87%) OCI
7 5 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (3.23%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.23%) Serverless
8 4 (2.58%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.94%) SaaS
9 3 (1.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.29%) Datadog
10 2 (1.29%) IaaS
10 2 (1.29%) PaaS
11 1 (0.65%) dbt
11 1 (0.65%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 19 (12.26%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.65%) DHCP
2 1 (0.65%) DNS
2 1 (0.65%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (17.42%) Tableau
2 24 (15.48%) Apache Hive
2 24 (15.48%) Impala
2 24 (15.48%) Oracle Database
2 24 (15.48%) Parquet
2 24 (15.48%) Spark SQL
3 8 (5.16%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.52%) NoSQL
4 7 (4.52%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.87%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (3.23%) Data Lake
6 5 (3.23%) Power BI
6 5 (3.23%) Redis
7 4 (2.58%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.94%) SAS EBI
9 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.65%) DB2
9 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (18.71%) Git
2 24 (15.48%) IBM UrbanCode
3 7 (4.52%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.58%) GitLab
5 2 (1.29%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.29%) JIRA
5 2 (1.29%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 155 (100.00%) Banking
2 111 (71.61%) Finance
3 30 (19.35%) Social Skills
4 28 (18.06%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (14.84%) Legal
6 20 (12.90%) Front Office
7 12 (7.74%) Law
8 10 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (4.52%) Marketing
9 7 (4.52%) Retail
10 5 (3.23%) Advertising
11 4 (2.58%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (2.58%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (2.58%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.94%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.29%) Billing
14 1 (0.65%) French Language
14 1 (0.65%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.65%) German Language
14 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (27.74%) Developer
2 33 (21.29%) Analyst
3 23 (14.84%) Transformation Analyst
4 22 (14.19%) Banking Analyst
5 20 (12.90%) Business Analyst
6 19 (12.26%) C++ Developer
6 19 (12.26%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
6 19 (12.26%) Linux Developer
6 19 (12.26%) Linux Scripter
6 19 (12.26%) Low Latency C++ Developer
7 18 (11.61%) Senior
8 15 (9.68%) Data Business Analyst
9 12 (7.74%) Technical Analyst
10 11 (7.10%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (7.10%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (7.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (7.10%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
10 11 (7.10%) Lead
11 10 (6.45%) Java Engineer
12 8 (5.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (15.48%) PySpark
2 17 (10.97%) React
3 14 (9.03%) REST
4 13 (8.39%) Pandas
5 12 (7.74%) AngularJS
6 9 (5.81%) Spring
6 9 (5.81%) Spring Boot
7 7 (4.52%) .NET
7 7 (4.52%) Kafka
8 5 (3.23%) WebSockets
9 4 (2.58%) Smart Contracts
9 4 (2.58%) web3js
10 2 (1.29%) .NET Core
10 2 (1.29%) .NET Framework
10 2 (1.29%) ASP.NET
10 2 (1.29%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.29%) FIX Protocol
10 2 (1.29%) FpML
10 2 (1.29%) RxJS
11 1 (0.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.55%) Derivative
2 19 (12.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 19 (12.26%) FPGA
3 11 (7.10%) Fixed Income
4 10 (6.45%) Hedge funds
5 9 (5.81%) Product Ownership
6 8 (5.16%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (3.23%) Reference Data
9 4 (2.58%) Blockchain
9 4 (2.58%) Credit Risk
9 4 (2.58%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.58%) Equities
9 4 (2.58%) Equity Derivative
9 4 (2.58%) Web3
10 3 (1.94%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.94%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (17.42%) Linux
2 6 (3.87%) Unix
3 3 (1.94%) Windows
4 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (37.42%) Agile
2 47 (30.32%) AI
3 38 (24.52%) Analytics
4 37 (23.87%) User Acceptance Testing
5 36 (23.23%) CI/CD
6 34 (21.94%) ETL
7 33 (21.29%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (20.65%) Low Latency
9 31 (20.00%) Data Governance
10 27 (17.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (16.77%) Data Transformation
11 26 (16.77%) Scrum
12 25 (16.13%) Data Pipeline
13 20 (12.90%) Mentoring
14 19 (12.26%) Performance Tuning
14 19 (12.26%) Stakeholder Management
15 18 (11.61%) DevOps
16 17 (10.97%) Data Analytics
16 17 (10.97%) Test Automation
16 17 (10.97%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 51 (32.90%) Python
2 46 (29.68%) Java
3 43 (27.74%) SQL
4 30 (19.35%) C++
5 20 (12.90%) C
6 15 (9.68%) C#
7 13 (8.39%) TypeScript
8 9 (5.81%) Rust
9 6 (3.87%) Go
10 4 (2.58%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.58%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.94%) Bash
11 3 (1.94%) R
12 1 (0.65%) Groovy
12 1 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (7.74%) Degree
2 6 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.94%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (1.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 2 (1.29%) CISSP
4 2 (1.29%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.65%) APMP
5 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.65%) CISA
5 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.65%) CRISC
5 1 (0.65%) GCIH
5 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (18.06%) Data Quality
2 15 (9.68%) GDPR
3 11 (7.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 11 (7.10%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.94%) MiFID
4 3 (1.94%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.29%) EMIR
5 2 (1.29%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.29%) QA
5 2 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.29%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.65%) GAAP
6 1 (0.65%) IFRS
6 1 (0.65%) NIST
6 1 (0.65%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (8.39%) Docker
2 2 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (9.03%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.16%) Terraform
3 6 (3.87%) Ansible
4 2 (1.29%) Grafana
4 2 (1.29%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.65%) Control-M
5 1 (0.65%) Netcool
Vendors
1 37 (23.87%) Oracle
2 24 (15.48%) Red Hat
3 6 (3.87%) Databricks
4 4 (2.58%) SAP
5 3 (1.94%) Alteryx
5 3 (1.94%) Informatica
5 3 (1.94%) Talend
6 2 (1.29%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.29%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.65%) FXall
7 1 (0.65%) GoldenSource
7 1 (0.65%) IBM
7 1 (0.65%) Murex
7 1 (0.65%) Reuters
7 1 (0.65%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.65%) Splunk
7 1 (0.65%) Sybase
7 1 (0.65%) VMware