Investment Banking Jobs in London

Investment Banking
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Investment Banking over the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 141 250
Rank change year-on-year -67 +109 +53
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 284 439 603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.69% 2.27% 1.50%
As % of the General category 2.27% 3.45% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 255 276 488
10th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £85,000 £84,063 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £107,500 £96,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +11.69% +13.24%
75th Percentile £130,000 £143,750 £123,750
90th Percentile £148,750 £155,000 £153,250
England median annual salary £112,500 £107,500 £92,000
% change year-on-year +4.65% +16.85% +11.52%

All General Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 12,525 12,714 28,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 74.56% 65.66% 70.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5,975 9,737 20,051
10th Percentile £42,600 £39,085 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.35% +5.71%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £117,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Investment Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in London.

Salary trend for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in London over the 6 months to 20 January 2025.

Salary histogram for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Investment Banking within the London region over the 6 months to 20 January 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
Central London -31 27 £87,500 -5.41% 7
Investment Banking
England

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 103 (36.27%) Apache
2 101 (35.56%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.41%) Confluence
4 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 31 (10.92%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 172 (60.56%) AWS
2 101 (35.56%) dbt
2 101 (35.56%) Snowflake
3 71 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 55 (19.37%) GCP
5 51 (17.96%) Amazon EKS
6 47 (16.55%) Amazon EC2
7 23 (8.10%) Dagster
8 20 (7.04%) Amazon SQS
8 20 (7.04%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (7.04%) AWS Step Functions
8 20 (7.04%) Serverless
9 19 (6.69%) Azure
10 7 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (1.76%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.76%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.76%) PowerApps
12 1 (0.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 1 (0.35%) IaaS
12 1 (0.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.87%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.41%) ISDN
2 4 (1.41%) Unified Communications
2 4 (1.41%) WebEx
3 3 (1.06%) Firewall
4 1 (0.35%) DHCP
4 1 (0.35%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (36.27%) Apache Arrow
2 101 (35.56%) Amazon Athena
2 101 (35.56%) Apache Iceberg
2 101 (35.56%) Apache Ignite
2 101 (35.56%) Data Lake
2 101 (35.56%) Dremio
3 13 (4.58%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.11%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.76%) Big Data
5 5 (1.76%) Hadoop
5 5 (1.76%) KDB
6 4 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.70%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.70%) Power BI
9 1 (0.35%) Flink
9 1 (0.35%) Kdb+
9 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.35%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 11 (3.87%) JIRA
2 4 (1.41%) Git
2 4 (1.41%) Selenium
3 3 (1.06%) FitNesse
3 3 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (1.06%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.06%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.70%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.35%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.35%) Maven
General
1 284 (100.00%) Banking
2 217 (76.41%) Finance
3 179 (63.03%) Front Office
4 20 (7.04%) Social Skills
5 10 (3.52%) Back Office
6 8 (2.82%) Financial Institution
6 8 (2.82%) Publishing
7 7 (2.46%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.70%) Law
10 1 (0.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 126 (44.37%) Software Engineer
2 104 (36.62%) Senior
3 97 (34.15%) AWS Engineer
3 97 (34.15%) AWS Software Engineer
4 92 (32.39%) Java Engineer
4 92 (32.39%) Python Engineer
5 90 (31.69%) Senior Software Engineer
6 88 (30.99%) Java Software Engineer
7 87 (30.63%) Python Software Engineer
8 76 (26.76%) Developer
9 72 (25.35%) Senior Java Engineer
10 70 (24.65%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 45 (15.85%) Analyst
12 32 (11.27%) Business Analyst
13 31 (10.92%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
14 28 (9.86%) Lead
15 27 (9.51%) Principal Engineer
15 27 (9.51%) Principal Software Engineer
16 24 (8.45%) Business Manager
16 24 (8.45%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (36.27%) Pandas
2 102 (35.92%) gRPC
3 101 (35.56%) NumPy
3 101 (35.56%) Protocol Buffers
3 101 (35.56%) SciPy
4 47 (16.55%) PySpark
5 29 (10.21%) AngularJS
6 20 (7.04%) Lambda Expressions
7 15 (5.28%) Kafka
8 14 (4.93%) React
9 10 (3.52%) .NET
9 10 (3.52%) CSS
9 10 (3.52%) HTML
10 8 (2.82%) CSS3
10 8 (2.82%) HTML5
11 5 (1.76%) RESTful
12 4 (1.41%) Middleware
12 4 (1.41%) Sass
12 4 (1.41%) WebSockets
12 4 (1.41%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 170 (59.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 160 (56.34%) Hedge funds
3 158 (55.63%) Fixed Income
4 157 (55.28%) Derivative
4 157 (55.28%) Equities
5 54 (19.01%) Pricing Data
6 32 (11.27%) Product Ownership
7 12 (4.23%) FPGA
8 6 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.76%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.41%) Blackberry
10 4 (1.41%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.41%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.41%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.41%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.06%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.06%) Market Risk
11 3 (1.06%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (8.10%) Linux
2 16 (5.63%) Windows
3 7 (2.46%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.76%) Unix
4 5 (1.76%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (61.97%) Agile
2 153 (53.87%) Asset Management
3 134 (47.18%) Software Engineering
4 96 (33.80%) Investment Management
5 71 (25.00%) Migration
6 43 (15.14%) Fintech
7 35 (12.32%) Roadmaps
8 34 (11.97%) Artificial Intelligence
8 34 (11.97%) Machine Learning
8 34 (11.97%) Mentoring
9 33 (11.62%) Business Intelligence
10 32 (11.27%) Analytics
11 29 (10.21%) Full-Stack Development
12 28 (9.86%) DevOps
12 28 (9.86%) Low Latency
13 18 (6.34%) Computer Science
14 16 (5.63%) Change Management
15 15 (5.28%) Disaster Recovery
16 13 (4.58%) Business Analysis
17 12 (4.23%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 176 (61.97%) Python
2 174 (61.27%) Java
3 132 (46.48%) JavaScript
4 127 (44.72%) TypeScript
5 96 (33.80%) SQL
6 22 (7.75%) C++
7 12 (4.23%) C
8 10 (3.52%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.82%) C#
10 7 (2.46%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.76%) Scala
12 4 (1.41%) Bash
12 4 (1.41%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.70%) Formula Language
13 2 (0.70%) VBA
13 2 (0.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 17 (5.99%) Degree
2 8 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.41%) AWS Certification
3 4 (1.41%) ISTQB
4 3 (1.06%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.35%) MCSA
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.82%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.76%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.76%) QA
3 2 (0.70%) SLA
4 1 (0.35%) COBIT
System Software
1 11 (3.87%) Docker
2 10 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.06%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.35%) Lustre
5 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.82%) Ansible
2 8 (2.82%) SCCM
3 6 (2.11%) Terraform
4 4 (1.41%) Cisco Prime
4 4 (1.41%) Puppet
5 3 (1.06%) Control-M
6 1 (0.35%) Karpenter
6 1 (0.35%) Podman
6 1 (0.35%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 32 (11.27%) Bloomberg
2 31 (10.92%) BISAM
3 22 (7.75%) Microsoft
4 11 (3.87%) VMware
5 9 (3.17%) Oracle
6 7 (2.46%) Cisco
7 5 (1.76%) Databricks
8 4 (1.41%) GoldenSource
8 4 (1.41%) Remedy
9 3 (1.06%) Arista
9 3 (1.06%) Citrix
9 3 (1.06%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.06%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.70%) Solace
11 1 (0.35%) Google
11 1 (0.35%) Pure Storage
11 1 (0.35%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.35%) Reuters