Investment Management Job Trends in Manchester

Investment Management
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Investment Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 156 145
Rank change year-on-year +27 -11 +72
Permanent jobs citing Investment Management 8 1 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.28% 0.037% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.040% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +30.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £75,938 - -
90th Percentile £93,750 - -
North West median annual salary £63,750 £65,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% +27.45% -15.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,290 2,520 2,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 79.99% 93.51% 90.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,360 1,176 1,749
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%

Investment Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Investment Management job vacancy trend in Manchester

Investment Management
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Investment Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Investment Management

Investment Management
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Investment Management in Manchester over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Investment Management in Manchester

Investment Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (25.00%) iPaaS
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) OneDrive
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DHCP
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Senior
2 4 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Java Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Applications Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Java Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Applications Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Java Applications Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Middleware
1 2 (25.00%) OAuth
1 2 (25.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (25.00%) Spring
1 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
2 2 (25.00%) AI
2 2 (25.00%) API Design
2 2 (25.00%) BDD
2 2 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (25.00%) CRM
2 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Microservices
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (25.00%) SDLC
2 2 (25.00%) TDD
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Kotlin
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft