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

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 315 420
Rank change year-on-year -56 +105 +149
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 367 767 671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.75% 0.89% 0.74%
As % of the General category 1.08% 1.51% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 240 440 576
10th Percentile £63,625 £67,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £89,688 £89,688 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £117,500 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +6.82% +37.50%
75th Percentile £137,500 £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 34,006 50,931 61,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 69.28% 59.27% 68.20%
Number of salaries quoted 16,407 35,700 33,463
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £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 13 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 13 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 -34 259 £115,000 -4.17% 265
North of England +123 77 £34,000 -69.09% 4
North West +79 74 £34,000 -69.09% 3
Midlands +89 19 £67,500 - 19
West Midlands +59 12 £85,000 - 18
South East +99 7 £90,000 +111.76% 57
East Midlands - 7 £60,000 - 1
East of England +40 2 - -
South West -60 2 £95,000 - 4
North East - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
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
1 109 (29.70%) Apache
2 107 (29.16%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.45%) Confluence
4 4 (1.09%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (5.18%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.09%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.27%) Stata
Business Applications
1 8 (2.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (1.91%) Orchestrade
3 3 (0.82%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.27%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 218 (59.40%) AWS
2 112 (30.52%) Azure
2 112 (30.52%) Snowflake
3 107 (29.16%) dbt
4 38 (10.35%) Amazon ECS
4 38 (10.35%) Amazon EKS
5 35 (9.54%) GCP
6 34 (9.26%) Amazon EC2
6 34 (9.26%) Dagster
7 7 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (1.63%) Serverless
9 5 (1.36%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.36%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (1.36%) Datadog
9 5 (1.36%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.82%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (0.82%) GitHub
11 3 (0.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.09%) TCP/IP
2 8 (2.18%) Firewall
2 8 (2.18%) VPN
3 5 (1.36%) BGP
3 5 (1.36%) EIGRP
3 5 (1.36%) HSRP
3 5 (1.36%) IPsec
3 5 (1.36%) OSPF
3 5 (1.36%) SNMP
3 5 (1.36%) VRRP
3 5 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.82%) Skype
5 1 (0.27%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.27%) NAS
5 1 (0.27%) SAN
5 1 (0.27%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (29.43%) Apache Arrow
2 107 (29.16%) Amazon Athena
2 107 (29.16%) Apache Iceberg
2 107 (29.16%) Dremio
3 105 (28.61%) SQL Server
4 75 (20.44%) Apache Ignite
4 75 (20.44%) Data Lake
5 11 (3.00%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.36%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (1.36%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.54%) Power BI
8 2 (0.54%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.27%) Big Data
9 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.27%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.27%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 103 (28.07%) JIRA
2 96 (26.16%) Selenium
3 94 (25.61%) Maven
4 93 (25.34%) SonarQube
5 92 (25.07%) GitLab
6 91 (24.80%) Cucumber
7 90 (24.52%) Bitbucket
7 90 (24.52%) Sonatype Nexus
8 16 (4.36%) Git
9 13 (3.54%) TeamCity
10 11 (3.00%) Jenkins
11 7 (1.91%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (1.63%) Browser DevTools
13 4 (1.09%) NUnit
13 4 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
14 3 (0.82%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 3 (0.82%) Cypress.io
14 3 (0.82%) FitNesse
15 2 (0.54%) webpack
General
1 367 (100.00%) Banking
2 290 (79.02%) Finance
3 145 (39.51%) Front Office
4 94 (25.61%) Retail
5 91 (24.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 90 (24.52%) Corporate Banking
7 43 (11.72%) Social Skills
8 26 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (3.27%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.63%) Games
10 6 (1.63%) Law
11 5 (1.36%) Back Office
11 5 (1.36%) Marketing
11 5 (1.36%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.82%) Advertising
13 3 (0.82%) French Language
14 2 (0.54%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 205 (55.86%) Software Engineer
2 107 (29.16%) AWS Engineer
2 107 (29.16%) AWS Software Engineer
2 107 (29.16%) Developer
3 86 (23.43%) Java Engineer
4 82 (22.34%) Java Software Engineer
5 75 (20.44%) Senior
6 70 (19.07%) Python Engineer
7 69 (18.80%) Python Software Engineer
8 61 (16.62%) Senior Software Engineer
9 55 (14.99%) Senior Java Engineer
9 55 (14.99%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 40 (10.90%) AWS Developer
11 39 (10.63%) Software Developer
12 32 (8.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 32 (8.72%) Snowflake Developer
12 32 (8.72%) Snowflake Engineer
13 29 (7.90%) Java Developer
14 25 (6.81%) Python Developer
15 24 (6.54%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (31.61%) React
2 106 (28.88%) RESTful
3 104 (28.34%) HTML
4 103 (28.07%) CSS
5 102 (27.79%) HTML5
5 102 (27.79%) Kafka
6 101 (27.52%) CSS3
7 100 (27.25%) Jest
7 100 (27.25%) Redux
8 98 (26.70%) REST
8 98 (26.70%) Spring
9 91 (24.80%) JPA
9 91 (24.80%) Sass
9 91 (24.80%) Spring Boot
10 75 (20.44%) gRPC
10 75 (20.44%) NumPy
10 75 (20.44%) Pandas
10 75 (20.44%) Protocol Buffers
10 75 (20.44%) SciPy
11 66 (17.98%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 146 (39.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 120 (32.70%) Derivative
3 118 (32.15%) Hedge funds
4 116 (31.61%) Fixed Income
5 115 (31.34%) Equities
6 94 (25.61%) Enterprise Software
7 92 (25.07%) Product Ownership
8 41 (11.17%) Pricing Data
9 14 (3.81%) Cloud Native
9 14 (3.81%) FPGA
10 10 (2.72%) Management Information System
10 10 (2.72%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.36%) Blackberry
13 5 (1.36%) Data Centre
13 5 (1.36%) IPTV
13 5 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.82%) Equity Derivative
14 3 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 35 (9.54%) Linux
2 20 (5.45%) Windows
3 11 (3.00%) Unix
4 8 (2.18%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.36%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Solaris
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (67.30%) Agile
2 207 (56.40%) Software Engineering
3 147 (40.05%) Migration
4 119 (32.43%) DevOps
5 112 (30.52%) Mentoring
6 111 (30.25%) CI/CD
7 109 (29.70%) Microservices
8 108 (29.43%) Asset Management
9 104 (28.34%) User Experience
10 100 (27.25%) Responsive Web Design
11 98 (26.70%) Containerisation
11 98 (26.70%) Test Automation
12 97 (26.43%) SDLC
13 94 (25.61%) Front End Development
13 94 (25.61%) Full-Stack Development
13 94 (25.61%) Performance Optimisation
14 90 (24.52%) Strategic Thinking
15 53 (14.44%) Investment Management
16 45 (12.26%) Data Management
17 38 (10.35%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 261 (71.12%) Java
2 188 (51.23%) JavaScript
3 177 (48.23%) TypeScript
4 161 (43.87%) SQL
5 144 (39.24%) Python
6 34 (9.26%) C++
7 29 (7.90%) C#
8 15 (4.09%) C
9 7 (1.91%) Bash
9 7 (1.91%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.36%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.36%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.09%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.54%) Bicep
12 2 (0.54%) Go
12 2 (0.54%) Rust
13 1 (0.27%) Perl
13 1 (0.27%) R
13 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (6.54%) Degree
2 7 (1.91%) AWS Certification
3 5 (1.36%) CCNA
3 5 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (0.82%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.54%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.27%) CFA
6 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (26.43%) QA
2 94 (25.61%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.63%) GDPR
4 3 (0.82%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (0.82%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.54%) Data Quality
System Software
1 100 (27.25%) Docker
2 7 (1.91%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.82%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.82%) vSphere
4 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 102 (27.79%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.72%) Ansible
3 7 (1.91%) Terraform
4 5 (1.36%) Grafana
4 5 (1.36%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.36%) SCCM
5 3 (0.82%) Control-M
5 3 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (24.52%) Solace
2 17 (4.63%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.81%) Oracle
4 11 (3.00%) Cisco
4 11 (3.00%) Databricks
5 8 (2.18%) Arista
5 8 (2.18%) Remedy
6 7 (1.91%) Bloomberg
7 5 (1.36%) CheckPoint
7 5 (1.36%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.36%) IBM
7 5 (1.36%) Meraki
7 5 (1.36%) Refinitiv
7 5 (1.36%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.09%) NetApp
8 4 (1.09%) VMware
9 3 (0.82%) Barracuda Networks
9 3 (0.82%) Citrix
9 3 (0.82%) Google
9 3 (0.82%) SimCorp