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 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 68 183
Rank change year-on-year -78 +115 -29
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 20 331 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.65% 4.81% 0.75%
As % of the General category 0.93% 7.17% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 31
10th Percentile £79,625 - £65,000
25th Percentile £84,688 £80,000 £65,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% +21.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £106,875 £90,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £110,250 - £85,000
UK median annual salary £112,500 £117,500 £110,000
% change year-on-year -4.26% +6.82% +33.33%

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 2,149 4,614 3,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.21% 67.04% 74.73%
Number of salaries quoted 916 1,619 1,531
10th Percentile £25,020 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £38,167 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £73,449
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

Salary histogram 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 19 June 2025. 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 -16 20 £97,500 +14.71% 38
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 6 (30.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (20.00%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) AWS
2 6 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (30.00%) Serverless
3 4 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (20.00%) Snowflake
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (45.00%) Relational Database
2 8 (40.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 8 (40.00%) NoSQL
3 5 (25.00%) RDBMS
3 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 4 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (20.00%) Apache Hive
4 4 (20.00%) Apache Iceberg
4 4 (20.00%) Big Data
4 4 (20.00%) DynamoDB
4 4 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (20.00%) Impala
4 4 (20.00%) MongoDB
4 4 (20.00%) Redshift Spectrum
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.00%) GitLab
3 2 (10.00%) CircleCI
4 1 (5.00%) JUnit
4 1 (5.00%) Maven
General
1 20 (100.00%) Banking
2 18 (90.00%) Finance
3 16 (80.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (80.00%) Law
4 4 (20.00%) Marketing
4 4 (20.00%) Publishing
4 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 16 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Java Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Python Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Python Software Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) AWS Software Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Lead
3 4 (20.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) IT Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior
5 2 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior IT Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (95.00%) Kafka
2 13 (65.00%) Spring
3 9 (45.00%) Spring Boot
4 4 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 4 (20.00%) Django
4 4 (20.00%) Pandas
4 4 (20.00%) React
4 4 (20.00%) RESTful
5 2 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (5.00%) CSS
6 1 (5.00%) HTML
6 1 (5.00%) J2EE
6 1 (5.00%) JSON
6 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (20.00%) Derivative
2 4 (20.00%) Fixed Income
2 4 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) Agile
2 16 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 12 (60.00%) Operational Stability
3 12 (60.00%) SDLC
4 8 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 8 (40.00%) Community of Practice
4 8 (40.00%) Machine Learning
4 8 (40.00%) Mentoring
5 7 (35.00%) Microservices
6 6 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (25.00%) Architectural Design
7 5 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
7 5 (25.00%) OO
7 5 (25.00%) OOD
7 5 (25.00%) TDD
8 4 (20.00%) Clean Code
8 4 (20.00%) Data Design
8 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
8 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Java
1 13 (65.00%) SQL
2 10 (50.00%) Python
3 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (10.00%) Bash
6 1 (5.00%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (55.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Grafana
2 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle
2 4 (20.00%) Databricks
3 1 (5.00%) IBM
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft