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 in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Investment Banking over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 184 235
Rank change year-on-year +118 +51 -30
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 287 26 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.04% 0.69% 0.26%
As % of the General category 7.53% 0.93% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5 25 13
10th Percentile - £65,000 £49,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £65,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £67,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.87% +3.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £115,000 £110,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +33.33% -2.94%

All General Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 3,813 2,806 3,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 66.92% 73.96% 65.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,377 1,519 2,130
10th Percentile £28,650 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £41,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,350 £72,433 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,500 £83,750 £84,056
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.19%

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 26 July 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 +53 287 £85,000 +26.87% 1
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 (7.32%) GemFire
2 15 (5.23%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (0.70%) Apache
3 2 (0.70%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 135 (47.04%) AWS
2 25 (8.71%) Google Play
3 13 (4.53%) Azure
4 3 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (1.05%) Datadog
4 3 (1.05%) GCP
4 3 (1.05%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.01%) NoSQL
2 21 (7.32%) Apache Cassandra
2 21 (7.32%) CockroachDB
2 21 (7.32%) Hazelcast
3 15 (5.23%) Elasticsearch
3 15 (5.23%) MongoDB
3 15 (5.23%) MySQL
3 15 (5.23%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.35%) Big Data
4 1 (0.35%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 75 (26.13%) Cypress.io
2 69 (24.04%) JUnit
3 60 (20.91%) Jasmine
3 60 (20.91%) Karma Test Runner
3 60 (20.91%) Protractor
3 60 (20.91%) Selenium
3 60 (20.91%) WebDriver
4 25 (8.71%) Android Studio
5 24 (8.36%) Maven
6 21 (7.32%) Jaeger
7 15 (5.23%) Cucumber
8 7 (2.44%) Git
9 2 (0.70%) Jenkins
General
1 287 (100.00%) Banking
2 282 (98.26%) Finance
2 282 (98.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 282 (98.26%) Law
3 33 (11.50%) Marketing
4 31 (10.80%) Financial Institution
5 22 (7.67%) Presentation Skills
5 22 (7.67%) Prime Brokerage
6 20 (6.97%) Games
7 15 (5.23%) Publishing
8 6 (2.09%) Social Skills
9 3 (1.05%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.05%) Front Office
9 3 (1.05%) Legal
Job Titles
1 258 (89.90%) Software Engineer
2 149 (51.92%) Java Engineer
2 149 (51.92%) Java Software Engineer
3 98 (34.15%) Lead
3 98 (34.15%) Lead Software Engineer
4 80 (27.87%) Lead Java Engineer
5 32 (11.15%) Python Engineer
5 32 (11.15%) Python Software Engineer
6 31 (10.80%) Senior
7 25 (8.71%) Android Engineer
7 25 (8.71%) Android Software Engineer
8 24 (8.36%) AWS Engineer
8 24 (8.36%) AWS Software Engineer
9 20 (6.97%) Principal Engineer
9 20 (6.97%) Principal Software Engineer
10 19 (6.62%) Engineering Manager
10 19 (6.62%) Senior Manager
10 19 (6.62%) Software Engineering Manager
11 15 (5.23%) Full Stack Engineer
11 15 (5.23%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (50.17%) Spring
2 123 (42.86%) React
3 84 (29.27%) Spring Boot
4 75 (26.13%) CSS
4 75 (26.13%) HTML
5 68 (23.69%) Kafka
6 62 (21.60%) AngularJS
7 60 (20.91%) Hibernate
7 60 (20.91%) J2EE
7 60 (20.91%) Jest
7 60 (20.91%) JMS
7 60 (20.91%) jQuery
7 60 (20.91%) JSON
7 60 (20.91%) Node.js
7 60 (20.91%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 25 (8.71%) Android Jetpack
8 25 (8.71%) Jetpack Compose
9 24 (8.36%) OpenTelemetry
10 21 (7.32%) JPA
10 21 (7.32%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 116 (40.42%) Cloud Native
2 96 (33.45%) Algorithms
3 60 (20.91%) Data Structures
4 24 (8.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 21 (7.32%) Replication
6 16 (5.57%) Distributed Applications
7 15 (5.23%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.39%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.05%) Credit Derivative
9 3 (1.05%) Derivative
9 3 (1.05%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.05%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.05%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 3 (1.05%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.05%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.35%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 25 (8.71%) Android
2 2 (0.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (97.21%) Software Engineering
2 263 (91.64%) Agile
3 242 (84.32%) SDLC
4 223 (77.70%) Operational Stability
5 220 (76.66%) CI/CD
6 187 (65.16%) Artificial Intelligence
6 187 (65.16%) Machine Learning
7 170 (59.23%) Community of Practice
8 85 (29.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 85 (29.62%) Visualisation
9 81 (28.22%) TDD
10 71 (24.74%) Architectural Design
10 71 (24.74%) Information Architecture
11 66 (23.00%) BDD
12 65 (22.65%) Multithreading
13 60 (20.91%) Web Development
14 57 (19.86%) Computer Science
15 54 (18.82%) Mathematics
16 45 (15.68%) Coaching
16 45 (15.68%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 198 (68.99%) Java
2 96 (33.45%) JavaScript
3 80 (27.87%) SQL
4 71 (24.74%) TypeScript
5 50 (17.42%) Python
6 36 (12.54%) Groovy
7 25 (8.71%) Kotlin
8 15 (5.23%) T-SQL
9 12 (4.18%) C#
10 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (1.74%) Degree
2 3 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (1.05%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (1.74%) Docker
2 2 (0.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 31 (10.80%) Grafana
2 24 (8.36%) Prometheus
3 21 (7.32%) HAProxy
3 21 (7.32%) ITRS Geneos
3 21 (7.32%) Kibana
3 21 (7.32%) Zipkin
4 18 (6.27%) Terraform
5 7 (2.44%) Graphite
6 5 (1.74%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 31 (10.80%) Splunk
2 27 (9.41%) Oracle
3 25 (8.71%) Google
4 21 (7.32%) Dynatrace
5 2 (0.70%) IBM
6 1 (0.35%) Databricks