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 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 176 142 192
Rank change year-on-year -34 +50 +216
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 259 528 634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.99% 2.23% 1.84%
As % of the General category 2.60% 3.29% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 229 430 547
10th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £63,750
25th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +35.29%
75th Percentile £138,750 £148,750 £140,000
90th Percentile £148,750 £165,000 £160,000
England median annual salary £112,500 £117,500 £110,000
% change year-on-year -4.26% +6.82% +37.50%

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 9,972 16,032 23,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 76.68% 67.75% 68.72%
Number of salaries quoted 5,480 11,386 16,346
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,250
25th Percentile £55,938 £50,000 £54,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -5.41% +5.71%
75th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £118,750 £120,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -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 13 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 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
Central London +31 40 £112,500 +12.50% 24
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
1 109 (42.08%) Apache
2 107 (41.31%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.09%) Confluence
4 1 (0.39%) SAS
4 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (6.18%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.16%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.39%) Stata
Business Applications
1 7 (2.70%) Orchestrade
2 5 (1.93%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.16%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 125 (48.26%) AWS
2 107 (41.31%) dbt
2 107 (41.31%) Snowflake
3 38 (14.67%) Amazon ECS
3 38 (14.67%) Amazon EKS
4 35 (13.51%) GCP
5 34 (13.13%) Amazon EC2
5 34 (13.13%) Dagster
6 17 (6.56%) Azure
7 7 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.32%) Serverless
9 5 (1.93%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.93%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.16%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.16%) GitHub
11 3 (1.16%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.77%) npm
12 2 (0.77%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.79%) TCP/IP
2 8 (3.09%) Firewall
3 5 (1.93%) BGP
3 5 (1.93%) EIGRP
3 5 (1.93%) HSRP
3 5 (1.93%) IPsec
3 5 (1.93%) OSPF
3 5 (1.93%) SNMP
3 5 (1.93%) VPN
3 5 (1.93%) VRRP
3 5 (1.93%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.39%) NAS
4 1 (0.39%) SAN
4 1 (0.39%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (41.70%) Apache Arrow
2 107 (41.31%) Amazon Athena
2 107 (41.31%) Apache Iceberg
2 107 (41.31%) Dremio
3 75 (28.96%) Apache Ignite
3 75 (28.96%) Data Lake
4 15 (5.79%) SQL Server
5 11 (4.25%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.93%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (1.93%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.77%) Power BI
8 2 (0.77%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.39%) Big Data
9 1 (0.39%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.39%) Tableau
9 1 (0.39%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 16 (6.18%) Git
2 13 (5.02%) TeamCity
3 11 (4.25%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.25%) JIRA
4 7 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (2.32%) Browser DevTools
5 6 (2.32%) Selenium
6 4 (1.54%) Maven
6 4 (1.54%) NUnit
6 4 (1.54%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (1.16%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.16%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.16%) FitNesse
7 3 (1.16%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.77%) GitLab
8 2 (0.77%) JUnit
8 2 (0.77%) webpack
9 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
General
1 259 (100.00%) Banking
2 186 (71.81%) Finance
3 143 (55.21%) Front Office
4 35 (13.51%) Social Skills
5 21 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.63%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.32%) Games
8 4 (1.54%) Back Office
9 3 (1.16%) French Language
10 2 (0.77%) Marketing
10 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.39%) Legal
11 1 (0.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 112 (43.24%) Software Engineer
2 107 (41.31%) AWS Engineer
2 107 (41.31%) AWS Software Engineer
3 105 (40.54%) Developer
4 86 (33.20%) Java Engineer
5 82 (31.66%) Java Software Engineer
6 72 (27.80%) Senior
7 70 (27.03%) Python Engineer
8 69 (26.64%) Python Software Engineer
9 61 (23.55%) Senior Software Engineer
10 55 (21.24%) Senior Java Engineer
10 55 (21.24%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 40 (15.44%) AWS Developer
12 39 (15.06%) Software Developer
13 32 (12.36%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 32 (12.36%) Snowflake Developer
13 32 (12.36%) Snowflake Engineer
14 27 (10.42%) Java Developer
15 25 (9.65%) Python Developer
16 19 (7.34%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (28.96%) gRPC
1 75 (28.96%) NumPy
1 75 (28.96%) Pandas
1 75 (28.96%) Protocol Buffers
1 75 (28.96%) SciPy
2 66 (25.48%) PySpark
3 23 (8.88%) React
4 14 (5.41%) HTML
5 13 (5.02%) CSS
5 13 (5.02%) GraphQL
5 13 (5.02%) Web Services
6 12 (4.63%) HTML5
7 11 (4.25%) CSS3
7 11 (4.25%) FIX Protocol
7 11 (4.25%) RESTful
8 10 (3.86%) .NET
8 10 (3.86%) Jest
8 10 (3.86%) Middleware
8 10 (3.86%) Redux
8 10 (3.86%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 145 (55.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 119 (45.95%) Derivative
3 118 (45.56%) Hedge funds
4 116 (44.79%) Fixed Income
5 114 (44.02%) Equities
6 41 (15.83%) Pricing Data
7 14 (5.41%) FPGA
8 10 (3.86%) Management Information System
8 10 (3.86%) Mobile App
9 9 (3.47%) Cloud Native
10 6 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.93%) Blackberry
11 5 (1.93%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.93%) IPTV
11 5 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (1.16%) Algorithms
13 3 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 34 (13.13%) Linux
2 17 (6.56%) Windows
3 10 (3.86%) Unix
4 5 (1.93%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.93%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.39%) Solaris
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (57.92%) Agile
2 114 (44.02%) Software Engineering
3 108 (41.70%) Asset Management
4 56 (21.62%) Migration
5 53 (20.46%) Investment Management
6 38 (14.67%) Low Latency
7 37 (14.29%) Data Management
8 29 (11.20%) DevOps
9 26 (10.04%) Analytics
10 23 (8.88%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (7.72%) CI/CD
12 19 (7.34%) Unit Testing
13 18 (6.95%) Disaster Recovery
14 17 (6.56%) Mentoring
15 15 (5.79%) Change Management
15 15 (5.79%) Continuous Integration
16 14 (5.41%) Fintech
16 14 (5.41%) Microservices
16 14 (5.41%) User Experience
17 13 (5.02%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 164 (63.32%) Java
2 138 (53.28%) Python
3 98 (37.84%) JavaScript
4 87 (33.59%) TypeScript
5 70 (27.03%) SQL
6 34 (13.13%) C++
7 23 (8.88%) C#
8 15 (5.79%) C
9 7 (2.70%) Bash
9 7 (2.70%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.93%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.93%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.54%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.77%) Bicep
12 2 (0.77%) Go
12 2 (0.77%) Rust
13 1 (0.39%) Perl
13 1 (0.39%) R
13 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (6.56%) Degree
2 5 (1.93%) CCNA
2 5 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (1.54%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.16%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.77%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.39%) CFA
6 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.32%) GDPR
2 5 (1.93%) QA
3 3 (1.16%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.16%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.77%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (3.47%) Docker
2 7 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (1.16%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.16%) vSphere
4 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (4.25%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.86%) Ansible
3 7 (2.70%) Terraform
4 5 (1.93%) SCCM
5 3 (1.16%) Control-M
5 3 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (5.02%) Microsoft
1 13 (5.02%) Oracle
2 8 (3.09%) Arista
2 8 (3.09%) Cisco
3 6 (2.32%) Bloomberg
3 6 (2.32%) Databricks
4 5 (1.93%) CheckPoint
4 5 (1.93%) Fortinet
4 5 (1.93%) IBM
4 5 (1.93%) Meraki
4 5 (1.93%) Refinitiv
4 5 (1.93%) Remedy
4 5 (1.93%) SolarWinds
5 4 (1.54%) NetApp
5 4 (1.54%) VMware
6 3 (1.16%) Barracuda Networks
6 3 (1.16%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.16%) SimCorp
7 2 (0.77%) Darktrace
7 2 (0.77%) Murex