Investment Banking Jobs in Scotland

Investment Banking
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Investment Banking over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 183 145
Rank change year-on-year +114 -38 +31
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 363 38 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.41% 0.80% 1.80%
As % of the General category 7.50% 1.07% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4 37 10
10th Percentile £74,750 £65,000 £47,000
25th Percentile £78,125 £67,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -3.45% +26.09%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £88,500 - £85,875
UK median annual salary £115,000 £108,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.75% +35.94% -

All General Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 4,843 3,561 3,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 72.13% 75.17% 61.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,558 1,705 1,917
10th Percentile £27,500 £33,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £59,526 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% +13.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,548 £87,419 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Investment Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in Scotland

Investment Banking
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in Scotland.

Salary trend for Investment Banking in Scotland

Investment Banking
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Investment Banking within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Glasgow +69 363 £85,000 +26.39% 4
Investment Banking
UK

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 21 (5.79%) GemFire
2 19 (5.23%) Apache Spark
3 14 (3.86%) Cloud Foundry
4 5 (1.38%) Apache
4 5 (1.38%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 192 (52.89%) AWS
2 24 (6.61%) Google Play
3 23 (6.34%) Azure
4 12 (3.31%) GCP
5 2 (0.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (0.55%) Datadog
5 2 (0.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.96%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (8.82%) MongoDB
2 23 (6.34%) NoSQL
3 21 (5.79%) Apache Cassandra
3 21 (5.79%) CockroachDB
3 21 (5.79%) Hazelcast
4 19 (5.23%) Big Data
5 18 (4.96%) Data Lake
5 18 (4.96%) DB2
5 18 (4.96%) Tableau
6 15 (4.13%) MySQL
6 15 (4.13%) Relational Database
7 14 (3.86%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.28%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 74 (20.39%) Cypress.io
2 72 (19.83%) JUnit
3 60 (16.53%) Jasmine
3 60 (16.53%) Karma Test Runner
3 60 (16.53%) Protractor
3 60 (16.53%) Selenium
3 60 (16.53%) WebDriver
4 27 (7.44%) Maven
5 24 (6.61%) Android Studio
6 21 (5.79%) Jaeger
7 15 (4.13%) Jenkins
8 14 (3.86%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.93%) Git
General
1 363 (100.00%) Banking
2 359 (98.90%) Finance
2 359 (98.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 359 (98.90%) Law
3 87 (23.97%) Marketing
4 84 (23.14%) Financial Institution
5 26 (7.16%) Presentation Skills
6 25 (6.89%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (6.06%) Prime Brokerage
8 20 (5.51%) Games
9 15 (4.13%) Publishing
10 10 (2.75%) Social Skills
11 7 (1.93%) Legal
12 2 (0.55%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 298 (82.09%) Software Engineer
2 170 (46.83%) Java Engineer
2 170 (46.83%) Java Software Engineer
3 125 (34.44%) Lead
3 125 (34.44%) Lead Software Engineer
4 89 (24.52%) Lead Java Engineer
5 50 (13.77%) Python Engineer
5 50 (13.77%) Python Software Engineer
6 41 (11.29%) AWS Engineer
6 41 (11.29%) AWS Software Engineer
7 40 (11.02%) Senior
8 27 (7.44%) Full Stack Engineer
8 27 (7.44%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 26 (7.16%) Engineering Manager
9 26 (7.16%) Senior Manager
9 26 (7.16%) Software Engineering Manager
10 24 (6.61%) Android Engineer
10 24 (6.61%) Android Software Engineer
11 20 (5.51%) Principal Engineer
11 20 (5.51%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (43.53%) Spring
2 122 (33.61%) React
3 109 (30.03%) Spring Boot
4 87 (23.97%) CSS
4 87 (23.97%) HTML
5 84 (23.14%) Kafka
6 75 (20.66%) AngularJS
7 60 (16.53%) Hibernate
7 60 (16.53%) J2EE
7 60 (16.53%) Jest
7 60 (16.53%) JMS
7 60 (16.53%) jQuery
7 60 (16.53%) JSON
7 60 (16.53%) Node.js
7 60 (16.53%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 34 (9.37%) JPA
8 34 (9.37%) REST
9 24 (6.61%) Android Jetpack
9 24 (6.61%) Jetpack Compose
10 23 (6.34%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 163 (44.90%) Cloud Native
2 97 (26.72%) Algorithms
3 60 (16.53%) Data Structures
4 44 (12.12%) Public Cloud
5 28 (7.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 24 (6.61%) Private Cloud
7 22 (6.06%) Product Ownership
8 21 (5.79%) Replication
9 18 (4.96%) Management Information System
10 16 (4.41%) Distributed Applications
11 7 (1.93%) Credit Derivative
11 7 (1.93%) Derivative
11 7 (1.93%) Fixed Income
11 7 (1.93%) Hedge funds
11 7 (1.93%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 7 (1.93%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.93%) Reference Data
12 1 (0.28%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.28%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.61%) Android
2 5 (1.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (95.32%) Software Engineering
2 333 (91.74%) Agile
3 300 (82.64%) SDLC
4 283 (77.96%) Operational Stability
5 279 (76.86%) CI/CD
6 245 (67.49%) Artificial Intelligence
6 245 (67.49%) Machine Learning
7 216 (59.50%) Community of Practice
8 117 (32.23%) Architectural Design
8 117 (32.23%) Information Architecture
9 90 (24.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 89 (24.52%) Coaching
11 87 (23.97%) TDD
12 86 (23.69%) Visualisation
13 82 (22.59%) Asset Management
14 69 (19.01%) BDD
15 67 (18.46%) Decision-Making
16 64 (17.63%) Computer Science
17 63 (17.36%) Mathematics
17 63 (17.36%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 247 (68.04%) Java
2 113 (31.13%) JavaScript
3 110 (30.30%) SQL
4 85 (23.42%) Python
5 84 (23.14%) TypeScript
6 36 (9.92%) Groovy
7 24 (6.61%) Kotlin
8 19 (5.23%) Scala
9 18 (4.96%) PL/SQL
10 15 (4.13%) T-SQL
11 12 (3.31%) C#
12 5 (1.38%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.55%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (3.03%) Degree
2 3 (0.83%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.55%) PhD
4 1 (0.28%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.74%) Accessibility
2 18 (4.96%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (0.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 30 (8.26%) Grafana
2 23 (6.34%) Prometheus
3 21 (5.79%) HAProxy
3 21 (5.79%) ITRS Geneos
3 21 (5.79%) Kibana
3 21 (5.79%) Kubernetes
3 21 (5.79%) Zipkin
4 17 (4.68%) Terraform
5 7 (1.93%) Graphite
Vendors
1 49 (13.50%) Oracle
2 30 (8.26%) Splunk
3 24 (6.61%) Google
4 21 (5.79%) Dynatrace
5 19 (5.23%) Databricks
6 18 (4.96%) Alteryx
6 18 (4.96%) Cognos
6 18 (4.96%) Sybase
7 1 (0.28%) IBM