Investment Management Job Trends in London

Investment Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Investment Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 90 81
Rank change year-on-year -170 -9 +89
Permanent jobs citing Investment Management 150 449 816
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.74% 3.58% 3.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 3.72% 3.82%
Number of salaries quoted 122 426 775
10th Percentile £80,125 £77,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £142,500 £136,250 £142,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £152,500 £148,750
England median annual salary £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% +16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,535 12,058 21,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.71% 96.07% 91.11%
Number of salaries quoted 11,114 7,346 16,001
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,357 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.38% -6.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £123,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

Investment Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Investment Management job vacancy trend in London

Investment Management
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Investment Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Investment Management

Investment Management
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Investment Management in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Investment Management in London

Investment Management
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 Management within the London region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Central London -15 18 £100,000 +29.03% 15
Investment Management
England

Investment Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 13 (8.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 84 (56.00%) AWS
2 49 (32.67%) Azure
3 27 (18.00%) GCP
4 24 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (12.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (12.00%) Amazon S3
6 18 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (12.00%) Serverless
7 17 (11.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 16 (10.67%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (10.67%) Cloud Computing
8 16 (10.67%) Datadog
9 14 (9.33%) ChatGPT
9 14 (9.33%) Microsoft Copilot
9 14 (9.33%) Power Platform
10 12 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (8.00%) Entra ID
11 11 (7.33%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (6.67%) SaaS
13 9 (6.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.67%) WAN
2 8 (5.33%) DHCP
2 8 (5.33%) DNS
2 8 (5.33%) SD-WAN
2 8 (5.33%) TCP/IP
2 8 (5.33%) VPN
3 2 (1.33%) LAN
3 2 (1.33%) Network Security
3 2 (1.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.00%) DynamoDB
2 17 (11.33%) NoSQL
2 17 (11.33%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (10.67%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (9.33%) Power BI
5 13 (8.67%) Data Lake
6 8 (5.33%) Flink
7 1 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.67%) Metadata
7 1 (0.67%) MySQL
7 1 (0.67%) Power Query
7 1 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (10.67%) CircleCI
1 16 (10.67%) GitLab
1 16 (10.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.33%) Claude Code
2 2 (1.33%) JIRA
3 1 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.67%) Maven
General
1 122 (81.33%) Finance
2 63 (42.00%) Front Office
3 42 (28.00%) Social Skills
4 30 (20.00%) Banking
5 9 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.33%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.67%) Legal
8 3 (2.00%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 76 (50.67%) Developer
2 49 (32.67%) Software Engineer
3 47 (31.33%) Lead
4 45 (30.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 37 (24.67%) Lead Developer
6 35 (23.33%) Senior
7 32 (21.33%) Lead Software Developer
7 32 (21.33%) Lead Software Engineer
8 16 (10.67%) Python Developer
8 16 (10.67%) React Developer
8 16 (10.67%) Senior Developer
9 14 (9.33%) Java Engineer
9 14 (9.33%) Python Engineer
10 13 (8.67%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (7.33%) Analyst
11 11 (7.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 11 (7.33%) Java Software Engineer
12 10 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (6.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (38.67%) React
2 56 (37.33%) Kafka
3 53 (35.33%) Node.js
4 48 (32.00%) Redux
5 34 (22.67%) GraphQL
6 18 (12.00%) RESTful
7 16 (10.67%) gRPC
7 16 (10.67%) RabbitMQ
7 16 (10.67%) web3js
8 10 (6.67%) Vue
9 8 (5.33%) AngularJS
10 5 (3.33%) .NET
11 3 (2.00%) PySpark
12 2 (1.33%) REST
12 2 (1.33%) Spring
12 2 (1.33%) Spring Boot
13 1 (0.67%) AWS CDK
13 1 (0.67%) NestJS
13 1 (0.67%) Next.js
13 1 (0.67%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 51 (34.00%) Fixed Income
2 19 (12.67%) Cloud Native
3 18 (12.00%) Derivative
4 16 (10.67%) Blockchain
4 16 (10.67%) Equities
4 16 (10.67%) Web3
5 10 (6.67%) AI Agents
5 10 (6.67%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (3.33%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.67%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.00%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.67%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.67%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.67%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.67%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.67%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.67%) Windows
2 8 (5.33%) Apple iOS
2 8 (5.33%) Windows 10
2 8 (5.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (47.33%) Software Engineering
2 70 (46.67%) Agile
3 50 (33.33%) Portfolio Management
4 37 (24.67%) Analytics
5 34 (22.67%) DevOps
5 34 (22.67%) Order Management
6 29 (19.33%) CI/CD
6 29 (19.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 28 (18.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (16.67%) Asset Management
9 24 (16.00%) Performance Monitoring
10 21 (14.00%) AI
10 21 (14.00%) Microservices
11 18 (12.00%) Line Management
11 18 (12.00%) Low Latency
11 18 (12.00%) Risk Analytics
12 17 (11.33%) Fintech
12 17 (11.33%) Mentoring
12 17 (11.33%) Observability
12 17 (11.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 76 (50.67%) Python
2 60 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 53 (35.33%) JavaScript
4 52 (34.67%) Go
5 49 (32.67%) Java
6 5 (3.33%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.33%) SQL
7 3 (2.00%) C#
8 1 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 16 (10.67%) Degree
2 10 (6.67%) IIBA
2 10 (6.67%) PMI Certification
2 10 (6.67%) PMP
3 2 (1.33%) ACCA
3 2 (1.33%) CIMA
3 2 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.67%) CISM
4 1 (0.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.33%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.67%) QA
3 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.67%) GDPR
3 1 (0.67%) IFRS
3 1 (0.67%) IFRS 17
3 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.67%) Solvency II
System Software
1 20 (13.33%) Docker
2 13 (8.67%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (18.00%) Kubernetes
2 23 (15.33%) Terraform
3 16 (10.67%) Prometheus
4 10 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (4.67%) Argo
6 4 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (17.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.33%) Alteryx
2 8 (5.33%) Anaplan
2 8 (5.33%) VMware
3 4 (2.67%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.00%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.33%) Cisco
5 2 (1.33%) Informatica
5 2 (1.33%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.33%) SimCorp
5 2 (1.33%) Zscaler
6 1 (0.67%) Charles River
6 1 (0.67%) Databricks
6 1 (0.67%) FNZ
6 1 (0.67%) MarketAxess
6 1 (0.67%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.67%) Refinitiv
6 1 (0.67%) Splunk
6 1 (0.67%) Tradeweb
6 1 (0.67%) Triple Point