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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 312 411
Rank change year-on-year -88 +99 +168
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 275 756 708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.60% 0.89% 0.77%
As % of the General category 0.89% 1.50% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 239 412 599
10th Percentile £66,000 £66,375 £60,000
25th Percentile £89,375 £90,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £117,500 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +6.82% +33.33%
75th Percentile £138,750 £148,750 £135,000
90th Percentile £148,750 £165,000 £160,000
UK median annual salary £112,500 £115,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% +37.50%

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 31,047 50,509 63,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 67.42% 59.28% 68.59%
Number of salaries quoted 16,351 35,638 34,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,445 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.86% +0.42%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £83,426
90th Percentile £102,500 £93,750 £103,750
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -35 257 £115,000 -4.17% 245
South East +108 7 £90,000 +111.76% 41
North of England +86 5 £34,000 -69.09% 5
North West +32 4 £34,000 -69.09% 5
Midlands - 3 £67,500 - 13
South West -70 2 £95,000 - 5
East Midlands - 2 £60,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £85,000 - 12
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
1 107 (38.91%) Apache
2 105 (38.18%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.27%) Confluence
4 5 (1.82%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (6.91%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.45%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.36%) Stata
Business Applications
1 8 (2.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (2.55%) Orchestrade
3 3 (1.09%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.36%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 126 (45.82%) AWS
2 110 (40.00%) Snowflake
3 105 (38.18%) dbt
4 38 (13.82%) Amazon ECS
4 38 (13.82%) Amazon EKS
5 35 (12.73%) GCP
6 34 (12.36%) Amazon EC2
6 34 (12.36%) Dagster
7 21 (7.64%) Azure
8 7 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.18%) Serverless
10 5 (1.82%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.82%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (1.82%) Datadog
10 5 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.45%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.09%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.45%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.18%) Firewall
2 6 (2.18%) VPN
3 3 (1.09%) BGP
3 3 (1.09%) EIGRP
3 3 (1.09%) HSRP
3 3 (1.09%) IPsec
3 3 (1.09%) OSPF
3 3 (1.09%) Skype
3 3 (1.09%) SNMP
3 3 (1.09%) VRRP
3 3 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.36%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.36%) NAS
4 1 (0.36%) SAN
4 1 (0.36%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (38.55%) Apache Arrow
2 105 (38.18%) Amazon Athena
2 105 (38.18%) Apache Iceberg
2 105 (38.18%) Dremio
3 73 (26.55%) Apache Ignite
3 73 (26.55%) Data Lake
4 15 (5.45%) SQL Server
5 11 (4.00%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (1.82%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.09%) Power BI
9 2 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.73%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.36%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.36%) KDB
10 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (5.82%) Git
2 13 (4.73%) JIRA
2 13 (4.73%) TeamCity
3 11 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.55%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (2.18%) Browser DevTools
5 6 (2.18%) Selenium
6 4 (1.45%) Maven
6 4 (1.45%) NUnit
6 4 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (1.09%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.09%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.09%) FitNesse
7 3 (1.09%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.73%) GitLab
8 2 (0.73%) JUnit
8 2 (0.73%) webpack
9 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
General
1 275 (100.00%) Banking
2 197 (71.64%) Finance
3 145 (52.73%) Front Office
4 40 (14.55%) Social Skills
5 25 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.36%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.18%) Games
7 6 (2.18%) Law
8 5 (1.82%) Back Office
8 5 (1.82%) Marketing
8 5 (1.82%) Retail Banking
9 4 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.45%) Retail
10 3 (1.09%) Advertising
10 3 (1.09%) French Language
11 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Legal
11 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 113 (41.09%) Software Engineer
2 110 (40.00%) Developer
3 105 (38.18%) AWS Engineer
3 105 (38.18%) AWS Software Engineer
4 85 (30.91%) Java Engineer
5 80 (29.09%) Java Software Engineer
6 73 (26.55%) Senior
7 68 (24.73%) Python Engineer
8 67 (24.36%) Python Software Engineer
9 59 (21.45%) Senior Software Engineer
10 53 (19.27%) Senior Java Engineer
10 53 (19.27%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 40 (14.55%) AWS Developer
12 39 (14.18%) Software Developer
13 32 (11.64%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 32 (11.64%) Snowflake Developer
13 32 (11.64%) Snowflake Engineer
14 29 (10.55%) Java Developer
15 26 (9.45%) Python Developer
16 25 (9.09%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (26.91%) Pandas
2 73 (26.55%) gRPC
2 73 (26.55%) NumPy
2 73 (26.55%) Protocol Buffers
2 73 (26.55%) SciPy
3 66 (24.00%) PySpark
4 27 (9.82%) React
5 18 (6.55%) GraphQL
6 16 (5.82%) RESTful
7 15 (5.45%) HTML
8 14 (5.09%) CSS
9 13 (4.73%) AngularJS
9 13 (4.73%) Web Services
10 12 (4.36%) FIX Protocol
10 12 (4.36%) HTML5
10 12 (4.36%) Kafka
11 11 (4.00%) CSS3
12 10 (3.64%) .NET
12 10 (3.64%) Middleware
12 10 (3.64%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 145 (52.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 118 (42.91%) Derivative
3 116 (42.18%) Hedge funds
4 115 (41.82%) Fixed Income
5 114 (41.45%) Equities
6 39 (14.18%) Pricing Data
7 14 (5.09%) Cloud Native
7 14 (5.09%) FPGA
8 10 (3.64%) Mobile App
9 8 (2.91%) Management Information System
10 7 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.82%) Blackberry
12 5 (1.82%) Data Centre
13 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (1.09%) Algorithms
14 3 (1.09%) Equity Derivative
14 3 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
14 3 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 35 (12.73%) Linux
2 20 (7.27%) Windows
3 11 (4.00%) Unix
4 8 (2.91%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.82%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.36%) Solaris
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (56.36%) Agile
2 115 (41.82%) Software Engineering
3 106 (38.55%) Asset Management
4 56 (20.36%) Migration
5 51 (18.55%) Investment Management
6 44 (16.00%) Data Management
7 38 (13.82%) Low Latency
8 31 (11.27%) Analytics
9 28 (10.18%) DevOps
9 28 (10.18%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (8.00%) Mentoring
11 21 (7.64%) CI/CD
12 20 (7.27%) Unit Testing
13 19 (6.91%) Microservices
14 18 (6.55%) Disaster Recovery
15 15 (5.45%) Change Management
15 15 (5.45%) Continuous Integration
15 15 (5.45%) Project Management
16 14 (5.09%) Electronic Trading
16 14 (5.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 171 (62.18%) Java
2 144 (52.36%) Python
3 97 (35.27%) JavaScript
4 85 (30.91%) TypeScript
5 72 (26.18%) SQL
6 34 (12.36%) C++
7 29 (10.55%) C#
8 15 (5.45%) C
9 7 (2.55%) Bash
9 7 (2.55%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.82%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.82%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.45%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.73%) Go
12 2 (0.73%) Rust
12 2 (0.73%) VBA
13 1 (0.36%) Bicep
13 1 (0.36%) R
13 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 24 (8.73%) Degree
2 7 (2.55%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (1.09%) Azure Certification
3 3 (1.09%) CCNA
3 3 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (0.73%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.36%) CFA
5 1 (0.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.55%) QA
2 6 (2.18%) GDPR
3 4 (1.45%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.09%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.09%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.73%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (3.64%) Docker
2 7 (2.55%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (1.09%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.09%) vSphere
4 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (4.36%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.64%) Ansible
3 7 (2.55%) Terraform
4 5 (1.82%) Grafana
4 5 (1.82%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.82%) SCCM
5 3 (1.09%) Control-M
5 3 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (6.18%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.09%) Oracle
3 11 (4.00%) Databricks
4 9 (3.27%) Cisco
5 8 (2.91%) Remedy
6 6 (2.18%) Arista
7 5 (1.82%) Bloomberg
7 5 (1.82%) IBM
8 4 (1.45%) NetApp
8 4 (1.45%) VMware
9 3 (1.09%) Barracuda Networks
9 3 (1.09%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.09%) Citrix
9 3 (1.09%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.09%) Google
9 3 (1.09%) Meraki
9 3 (1.09%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.09%) Refinitiv
9 3 (1.09%) SimCorp
9 3 (1.09%) SolarWinds