Investment Management Job Trends in England

Investment Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Investment Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 362 233
Rank change year-on-year -154 -129 +28
Permanent jobs citing Investment Management 249 298 781
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.69% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.78% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 189 280 755
10th Percentile £66,250 £76,125 £71,250
25th Percentile £80,000 £100,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £125,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +19.05% -
75th Percentile £142,500 £137,500 £122,500
90th Percentile £187,500 - £148,750
UK median annual salary £100,000 £125,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +19.05% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Investment Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76,488 38,338 53,847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.64% 88.97% 82.73%
Number of salaries quoted 53,556 21,844 28,773
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

Investment Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Investment Management job vacancy trend in England

Investment Management
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Investment Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Investment Management

Investment Management
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Investment Management in England over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Investment Management in England

Investment Management
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 Management within the England region over the 6 months to 10 October 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 -114 193 £100,000 -21.57% 497
North of England -21 46 £100,000 +53.85% 15
North East -49 24 £100,000 +53.85% 3
North West -7 22 £100,000 +53.85% 9
South East -50 6 £60,000 - 17
Midlands - 2 £38,000 - 8
South West -74 1 - - 9
West Midlands - 1 £38,000 - 8
East of England - 1 - - 3
East Midlands - 1 - -
Investment Management
UK

Investment Management
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 7 (2.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (1.20%) Confluence
3 1 (0.40%) Apache
3 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.40%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.40%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 81 (32.53%) AWS
2 52 (20.88%) Amazon Bedrock
3 47 (18.88%) Anthropic Claude
4 44 (17.67%) Snowflake
5 26 (10.44%) Azure
6 18 (7.23%) GCP
6 18 (7.23%) GitHub
7 11 (4.42%) GitHub Copilot
8 10 (4.02%) Amazon S3
8 10 (4.02%) Serverless
9 9 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (3.61%) Power Platform
10 7 (2.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (2.81%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (2.81%) ChatGPT
10 7 (2.81%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (2.41%) Datadog
12 4 (1.61%) Vyond
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.20%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (0.80%) Network Security
3 1 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.61%) Power BI
2 7 (2.81%) DynamoDB
3 6 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.41%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.20%) Star Schema
5 2 (0.80%) Flink
6 1 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.40%) Db2
6 1 (0.40%) Metadata
6 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (18.88%) Claude Code
2 7 (2.81%) GitLab
3 6 (2.41%) CircleCI
3 6 (2.41%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.01%) JIRA
5 1 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.40%) CocoaPods
5 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.40%) fastlane
5 1 (0.40%) Git
5 1 (0.40%) Maven
5 1 (0.40%) NUnit
5 1 (0.40%) Xcode
General
1 180 (72.29%) Finance
2 83 (33.33%) Banking
3 75 (30.12%) Social Skills
4 44 (17.67%) Front Office
5 31 (12.45%) Marketing
6 28 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (4.02%) Financial Institution
7 10 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.41%) Back Office
8 6 (2.41%) General Ledger
9 5 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.01%) Private Banking
10 3 (1.20%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.20%) Law
11 2 (0.80%) Advertising
11 2 (0.80%) Legal
11 2 (0.80%) Retail
12 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 57 (22.89%) Developer
2 52 (20.88%) Software Engineer
3 42 (16.87%) Architect
4 37 (14.86%) Enterprise Architect
5 36 (14.46%) Finance Manager
5 36 (14.46%) Python Engineer
6 35 (14.06%) Lead
7 34 (13.65%) Senior
8 28 (11.24%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 27 (10.84%) Python Software Engineer
10 25 (10.04%) Analyst
11 22 (8.84%) Business Analyst
11 22 (8.84%) Python Developer
12 19 (7.63%) Software Developer
13 16 (6.43%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
13 16 (6.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 14 (5.62%) Java Engineer
15 12 (4.82%) Data Engineer
15 12 (4.82%) Lead Developer
16 11 (4.42%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (15.66%) LangChain
1 39 (15.66%) LangGraph
2 15 (6.02%) CrewAI
2 15 (6.02%) pydantic
3 13 (5.22%) .NET
3 13 (5.22%) React
4 11 (4.42%) Terraform
5 9 (3.61%) Django
6 8 (3.21%) HTML
6 8 (3.21%) Kafka
6 8 (3.21%) Node.js
6 8 (3.21%) RESTful
7 7 (2.81%) AngularJS
7 7 (2.81%) CSS
8 6 (2.41%) gRPC
8 6 (2.41%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (2.01%) web3js
10 4 (1.61%) Pandas
11 3 (1.20%) Smart Contracts
11 3 (1.20%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 92 (36.95%) Hedge funds
2 58 (23.29%) AI Agents
3 24 (9.64%) Equities
4 17 (6.83%) Onboarding
5 15 (6.02%) Fixed Income
6 12 (4.82%) Derivative
6 12 (4.82%) Marketing Technology
7 10 (4.02%) Cloud Native
8 9 (3.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (3.21%) Blockchain
10 7 (2.81%) Equity Derivative
11 5 (2.01%) Algorithms
11 5 (2.01%) Reference Data
11 5 (2.01%) Web3
12 4 (1.61%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.61%) e-Learning
12 4 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (1.20%) Client/Server
13 3 (1.20%) Mobile App
13 3 (1.20%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.20%) Linux
1 3 (1.20%) Windows
2 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (35.74%) AI
2 85 (34.14%) Asset Management
3 73 (29.32%) Software Engineering
4 50 (20.08%) Roadmaps
5 44 (17.67%) Analytics
5 44 (17.67%) Machine Learning
6 37 (14.86%) Data Science
6 37 (14.86%) Fintech
6 37 (14.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 23 (9.24%) Agile
7 23 (9.24%) CI/CD
8 22 (8.84%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (8.84%) Validation
9 21 (8.43%) Wealth Management
10 20 (8.03%) LLM
10 20 (8.03%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (7.23%) Data Engineering
11 18 (7.23%) Full-Stack Development
11 18 (7.23%) Test Automation
12 16 (6.43%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 83 (33.33%) Python
2 47 (18.88%) SQL
3 30 (12.05%) Java
4 19 (7.63%) TypeScript
5 18 (7.23%) R
6 15 (6.02%) C#
7 10 (4.02%) JavaScript
8 9 (3.61%) C++
9 6 (2.41%) Go
10 2 (0.80%) Bash
10 2 (0.80%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.40%) C
11 1 (0.40%) VB
11 1 (0.40%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (6.02%) Degree
2 3 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (0.80%) CISSP
3 2 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.80%) GIAC
3 2 (0.80%) GSEC
3 2 (0.80%) OSCP
4 1 (0.40%) AAT
4 1 (0.40%) ACCA
4 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.40%) CIMA
4 1 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (0.40%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.84%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.81%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.01%) WCAG
4 3 (1.20%) QA
5 2 (0.80%) PMO
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.40%) GDPR
6 1 (0.40%) IFRS
6 1 (0.40%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.40%) Solvency II
System Software
1 7 (2.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (3.21%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 44 (17.67%) Databricks
2 15 (6.02%) Google
3 11 (4.42%) Adobe
3 11 (4.42%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.61%) Yardi
5 8 (3.21%) Bloomberg
5 8 (3.21%) Charles River
6 6 (2.41%) Refinitiv
7 4 (1.61%) Synthesia
8 3 (1.20%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.80%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.80%) Anaplan
9 2 (0.80%) Foundry
9 2 (0.80%) Oracle
9 2 (0.80%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.40%) Cisco
10 1 (0.40%) Informatica
10 1 (0.40%) MarketAxess
10 1 (0.40%) Splunk
10 1 (0.40%) Sybase