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 advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Investment Banking over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 202 401
Rank change year-on-year +62 +199 -155
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 520 634 636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.20% 1.84% 0.94%
As % of the General category 3.25% 2.68% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 419 544 470
10th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £115,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +39.39% -
75th Percentile £148,750 £140,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £165,000 £160,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £120,000 £110,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +37.50% -3.03%

All General Skills
London

Investment Banking is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 15,996 23,679 45,972
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 67.71% 68.69% 68.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11,380 16,328 22,465
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,448 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,988 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +6.43% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £120,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024. 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 +6 41 £97,500 -11.36% 8
East London +28 13 £150,000 - 3
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
1 198 (38.08%) Apache
2 195 (37.50%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.15%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.77%) Confluence
4 4 (0.77%) IIS
5 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.19%) GemFire
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 67 (12.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (12.69%) Microsoft Office
3 62 (11.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (2.69%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.96%) Adaptiv
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 240 (46.15%) AWS
2 195 (37.50%) dbt
3 174 (33.46%) Snowflake
4 106 (20.38%) GCP
5 28 (5.38%) Azure
6 13 (2.50%) GitHub
7 9 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (0.96%) PaaS
8 5 (0.96%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.77%) Firebase
10 3 (0.58%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (0.58%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (0.58%) SaaS
11 2 (0.38%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.38%) IaaS
11 2 (0.38%) OCI
12 1 (0.19%) NuGet
12 1 (0.19%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.54%) Firewall
2 6 (1.15%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (1.15%) VPN
3 5 (0.96%) Internet
4 3 (0.58%) HTTP
5 2 (0.38%) DHCP
5 2 (0.38%) DNS
5 2 (0.38%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (37.69%) Apache Arrow
2 195 (37.50%) Amazon Athena
2 195 (37.50%) Apache Ignite
2 195 (37.50%) Dremio
3 176 (33.85%) Data Lake
4 18 (3.46%) SQL Server
5 8 (1.54%) KDB
6 6 (1.15%) Kdb+
7 5 (0.96%) Power BI
8 4 (0.77%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.77%) Tableau
9 3 (0.58%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.38%) Big Data
10 2 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.38%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.38%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.38%) Qlik Sense
10 2 (0.38%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.38%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 20 (3.85%) Git
2 10 (1.92%) GitLab
3 7 (1.35%) Maven
3 7 (1.35%) TeamCity
4 4 (0.77%) Crashlytics
4 4 (0.77%) FitNesse
4 4 (0.77%) JIRA
4 4 (0.77%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (0.77%) Selenium
4 4 (0.77%) SonarQube
4 4 (0.77%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
General
1 520 (100.00%) Banking
2 375 (72.12%) Finance
3 306 (58.85%) Front Office
4 59 (11.35%) Social Skills
5 24 (4.62%) Financial Institution
6 11 (2.12%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (1.54%) Corporate Banking
7 8 (1.54%) Law
7 8 (1.54%) Legal
8 6 (1.15%) Marketing
9 5 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.38%) Advertising
11 2 (0.38%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.19%) Automotive
12 1 (0.19%) Back Office
12 1 (0.19%) Games
12 1 (0.19%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.19%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 177 (34.04%) Developer
2 130 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 105 (20.19%) Lead
4 99 (19.04%) Analyst
5 86 (16.54%) Senior
6 85 (16.35%) Java Developer
7 82 (15.77%) Java Engineer
8 73 (14.04%) Java Software Engineer
9 67 (12.88%) Python Engineer
9 67 (12.88%) Python Software Engineer
10 63 (12.12%) AWS Engineer
10 63 (12.12%) AWS Software Engineer
11 62 (11.92%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 60 (11.54%) Business Strategy Analyst
12 60 (11.54%) Strategy Analyst
13 56 (10.77%) Software Developer
14 53 (10.19%) Senior Software Engineer
15 52 (10.00%) Architect
16 47 (9.04%) Lead Developer
16 47 (9.04%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (37.31%) Pandas
2 193 (37.12%) gRPC
2 193 (37.12%) NumPy
2 193 (37.12%) Protocol Buffers
2 193 (37.12%) SciPy
3 23 (4.42%) Spring
4 22 (4.23%) AngularJS
5 17 (3.27%) React
6 16 (3.08%) Spring Boot
7 14 (2.69%) .NET
7 14 (2.69%) FIX Protocol
8 12 (2.31%) Web Services
9 11 (2.12%) HTML
9 11 (2.12%) RESTful
10 10 (1.92%) HTML5
11 9 (1.73%) .NET Core
11 9 (1.73%) ASP.NET
12 8 (1.54%) .NET Framework
12 8 (1.54%) ASP.NET MVC
12 8 (1.54%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 248 (47.69%) Fixed Income
2 221 (42.50%) Hedge funds
3 220 (42.31%) Equities
4 217 (41.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 213 (40.96%) Derivative
6 61 (11.73%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (3.65%) Product Ownership
8 18 (3.46%) Pricing Data
9 15 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (2.12%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.73%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.54%) Data Centre
13 7 (1.35%) Data Structures
13 7 (1.35%) Onboarding
14 6 (1.15%) Equity Derivative
14 6 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
15 5 (0.96%) Algorithms
15 5 (0.96%) Cloud Native
15 5 (0.96%) Credit Risk
15 5 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.54%) Windows
2 33 (6.35%) Linux
3 16 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (2.50%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.92%) Unix
6 4 (0.77%) Android
6 4 (0.77%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.58%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.19%) AIX
8 1 (0.19%) CentOS
8 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (57.88%) Asset Management
2 282 (54.23%) Agile
3 227 (43.65%) Software Engineering
4 191 (36.73%) Investment Management
5 81 (15.58%) Line Management
6 76 (14.62%) Greeks
7 66 (12.69%) Business Strategy
8 60 (11.54%) Benchmarking
8 60 (11.54%) Business Forecasting
8 60 (11.54%) Competitor Analysis
8 60 (11.54%) Creative Thinking
8 60 (11.54%) Planning and Forecasting
9 57 (10.96%) Electronic Trading
10 48 (9.23%) Multithreading
11 41 (7.88%) Low Latency
12 37 (7.12%) Analytics
13 35 (6.73%) Microservices
14 32 (6.15%) DevOps
15 29 (5.58%) Roadmaps
15 29 (5.58%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 294 (56.54%) Java
2 261 (50.19%) Python
3 217 (41.73%) JavaScript
4 201 (38.65%) TypeScript
5 48 (9.23%) SQL
6 23 (4.42%) Ruby
7 21 (4.04%) C#
8 20 (3.85%) Bash
9 18 (3.46%) Perl
9 18 (3.46%) PowerShell
10 14 (2.69%) Kotlin
10 14 (2.69%) Scala
11 10 (1.92%) Korn
12 4 (0.77%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.77%) Swift
12 4 (0.77%) XAML
13 3 (0.58%) C++
13 3 (0.58%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.38%) VBA
15 1 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 23 (4.42%) Degree
2 16 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (0.96%) Master's Degree
4 4 (0.77%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.38%) MCSA
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.19%) CCAB
6 1 (0.19%) CISA
6 1 (0.19%) CISM
6 1 (0.19%) CISSP
6 1 (0.19%) MBA
6 1 (0.19%) QiCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (14.62%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.54%) QA
3 5 (0.96%) SLA
4 1 (0.19%) COBIT
4 1 (0.19%) COREP
4 1 (0.19%) IFRS
4 1 (0.19%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.19%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.19%) ITGC
4 1 (0.19%) PMO
4 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.50%) Docker
3 2 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.38%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.38%) vSphere
4 1 (0.19%) GridGain
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (4.62%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.65%) Ansible
3 14 (2.69%) Puppet
4 10 (1.92%) Control-M
4 10 (1.92%) Red Hat Satellite
5 7 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 5 (0.96%) Grafana
7 5 (0.96%) SafeCom
8 4 (0.77%) Terraform
9 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.19%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.19%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.19%) SCCM
9 1 (0.19%) SCOM
9 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 88 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.27%) Red Hat
3 16 (3.08%) Bloomberg
4 15 (2.88%) Oracle
5 14 (2.69%) BISAM
6 11 (2.12%) Sun
6 11 (2.12%) TOWER Software
7 9 (1.73%) Citrix
8 7 (1.35%) VMware
9 6 (1.15%) Cisco
9 6 (1.15%) Fortinet
9 6 (1.15%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.15%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.96%) SolarWinds
10 5 (0.96%) Splunk
10 5 (0.96%) Veritas
11 4 (0.77%) Amplitude
12 3 (0.58%) IBM
12 3 (0.58%) Sybase
13 2 (0.38%) Cognos