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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 129 182
Rank change year-on-year -48 +53 +234
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 253 584 632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.98% 2.43% 1.96%
As % of the General category 2.58% 3.61% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 200 506 524
10th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £63,750
25th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +35.29%
75th Percentile £135,625 £148,750 £141,563
90th Percentile £155,000 £165,000 £160,000
England median annual salary £113,750 £117,500 £110,000
% change year-on-year -3.19% +6.82% +33.33%

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 9,816 16,183 22,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 76.81% 67.35% 68.63%
Number of salaries quoted 5,261 11,370 15,468
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,500 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,037 £73,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.09% -4.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £55,565 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.84% -12.50% -

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 31 May 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 31 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
Central London +25 33 £115,250 +15.25% 28
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 85 (33.60%) Apache
2 83 (32.81%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.16%) Confluence
4 2 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.40%) SAS
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (5.14%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Stata
4 1 (0.40%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 7 (2.77%) Orchestrade
2 5 (1.98%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.58%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 101 (39.92%) AWS
2 83 (32.81%) dbt
2 83 (32.81%) Snowflake
3 17 (6.72%) Azure
4 15 (5.93%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (5.14%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (4.35%) Dagster
6 11 (4.35%) GCP
7 7 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.77%) Serverless
8 6 (2.37%) Amazon S3
8 6 (2.37%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.58%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (1.19%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.19%) GitHub
11 3 (1.19%) PaaS
12 2 (0.79%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.32%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.37%) BGP
2 6 (2.37%) EIGRP
2 6 (2.37%) Firewall
2 6 (2.37%) HSRP
2 6 (2.37%) IPsec
2 6 (2.37%) OSPF
2 6 (2.37%) SNMP
2 6 (2.37%) VPN
2 6 (2.37%) VRRP
2 6 (2.37%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.40%) NAS
3 1 (0.40%) SAN
3 1 (0.40%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (33.20%) Apache Arrow
2 83 (32.81%) Amazon Athena
2 83 (32.81%) Apache Iceberg
2 83 (32.81%) Dremio
3 51 (20.16%) Apache Ignite
3 51 (20.16%) Data Lake
4 14 (5.53%) SQL Server
5 11 (4.35%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.98%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (1.98%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.19%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.19%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (0.79%) Big Data
9 2 (0.79%) KDB
9 2 (0.79%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (5.93%) Git
2 12 (4.74%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.35%) JIRA
3 11 (4.35%) TeamCity
4 6 (2.37%) Browser DevTools
5 5 (1.98%) Maven
5 5 (1.98%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (1.58%) NUnit
6 4 (1.58%) Selenium
6 4 (1.58%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (1.58%) Vite
7 3 (1.19%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.19%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.79%) GitLab
8 2 (0.79%) JUnit
8 2 (0.79%) webpack
9 1 (0.40%) FitNesse
9 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 253 (100.00%) Banking
2 184 (72.73%) Finance
3 126 (49.80%) Front Office
4 43 (17.00%) Social Skills
5 23 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (8.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (7.91%) Law
8 17 (6.72%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.77%) Games
10 6 (2.37%) Marketing
11 3 (1.19%) Back Office
11 3 (1.19%) French Language
11 3 (1.19%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.79%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.79%) Retail
13 1 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.40%) Legal
13 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 108 (42.69%) Developer
2 106 (41.90%) Software Engineer
3 83 (32.81%) AWS Engineer
3 83 (32.81%) AWS Software Engineer
4 79 (31.23%) Java Engineer
5 75 (29.64%) Java Software Engineer
6 66 (26.09%) Senior
7 63 (24.90%) Python Engineer
7 63 (24.90%) Python Software Engineer
8 51 (20.16%) Senior Software Engineer
9 48 (18.97%) Senior Java Engineer
9 48 (18.97%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 41 (16.21%) AWS Developer
11 39 (15.42%) Software Developer
12 32 (12.65%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 32 (12.65%) Snowflake Developer
12 32 (12.65%) Snowflake Engineer
13 28 (11.07%) Lead
14 27 (10.67%) Java Developer
15 26 (10.28%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (20.16%) gRPC
1 51 (20.16%) NumPy
1 51 (20.16%) Pandas
1 51 (20.16%) Protocol Buffers
1 51 (20.16%) SciPy
2 43 (17.00%) PySpark
3 32 (12.65%) React
4 14 (5.53%) Jest
5 13 (5.14%) GraphQL
5 13 (5.14%) HTML
6 12 (4.74%) CSS
7 11 (4.35%) FIX Protocol
7 11 (4.35%) HTML5
7 11 (4.35%) RESTful
7 11 (4.35%) Spring
7 11 (4.35%) Web Services
8 10 (3.95%) CSS3
8 10 (3.95%) Kafka
8 10 (3.95%) Redux
8 10 (3.95%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 123 (48.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 100 (39.53%) Derivative
3 93 (36.76%) Fixed Income
3 93 (36.76%) Hedge funds
4 91 (35.97%) Equities
5 40 (15.81%) Pricing Data
6 20 (7.91%) Cloud Native
7 15 (5.93%) FPGA
8 12 (4.74%) Mobile App
9 11 (4.35%) Management Information System
10 10 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (3.56%) Algorithms
12 6 (2.37%) IPTV
13 5 (1.98%) Blackberry
13 5 (1.98%) Data Centre
13 5 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
15 3 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
15 3 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 34 (13.44%) Linux
2 13 (5.14%) Windows
3 9 (3.56%) Unix
4 5 (1.98%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.98%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.40%) Solaris
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (55.34%) Agile
2 107 (42.29%) Software Engineering
3 87 (34.39%) Asset Management
4 52 (20.55%) Investment Management
5 43 (17.00%) Low Latency
6 38 (15.02%) Data Management
7 34 (13.44%) CI/CD
8 30 (11.86%) Analytics
8 30 (11.86%) DevOps
8 30 (11.86%) Migration
9 27 (10.67%) SDLC
10 25 (9.88%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (8.30%) Unit Testing
12 19 (7.51%) Computer Science
12 19 (7.51%) Continuous Integration
13 17 (6.72%) Mentoring
13 17 (6.72%) User Experience
14 16 (6.32%) Artificial Intelligence
14 16 (6.32%) Microservices
15 15 (5.93%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 155 (61.26%) Java
2 119 (47.04%) Python
3 75 (29.64%) JavaScript
4 71 (28.06%) SQL
5 70 (27.67%) TypeScript
6 37 (14.62%) C++
7 22 (8.70%) C#
8 16 (6.32%) C
9 7 (2.77%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.98%) Bash
10 5 (1.98%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.98%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.98%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.58%) Go
12 2 (0.79%) Bicep
12 2 (0.79%) Rust
13 1 (0.40%) Perl
13 1 (0.40%) R
13 1 (0.40%) Smalltalk
13 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (8.70%) Degree
2 6 (2.37%) CCNA
2 6 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (1.19%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.19%) Azure Certification
3 3 (1.19%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.79%) CISA
4 2 (0.79%) CISSP
4 2 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.79%) PhD
5 1 (0.40%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.37%) GDPR
2 3 (1.19%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.19%) HIPAA
2 3 (1.19%) QA
2 3 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (1.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (3.56%) Docker
2 4 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.19%) vSphere
4 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (5.93%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.56%) Terraform
3 8 (3.16%) Ansible
4 5 (1.98%) SCCM
5 4 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.40%) Control-M
Vendors
1 16 (6.32%) Oracle
2 9 (3.56%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.16%) Bloomberg
4 7 (2.77%) Databricks
5 6 (2.37%) Arista
5 6 (2.37%) CheckPoint
5 6 (2.37%) Cisco
5 6 (2.37%) Fortinet
5 6 (2.37%) Meraki
5 6 (2.37%) Refinitiv
5 6 (2.37%) SolarWinds
6 5 (1.98%) IBM
6 5 (1.98%) Remedy
7 4 (1.58%) NetApp
7 4 (1.58%) SimCorp
8 3 (1.19%) Barracuda Networks
9 2 (0.79%) Darktrace
9 2 (0.79%) Murex
10 1 (0.40%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.40%) Splunk