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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 69 185
Rank change year-on-year -82 +116 -25
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 11 364 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 5.34% 0.76%
As % of the General category 0.53% 7.53% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 33
10th Percentile £89,000 - £65,100
25th Percentile £91,250 £80,000 £65,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +21.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £108,750 £90,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £111,000 - £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 2,066 4,832 3,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 68.82% 70.90% 75.07%
Number of salaries quoted 911 1,563 1,590
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,851 £38,500 £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 £61,250 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,751 £81,250 £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
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 30 May 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 -12 11 £100,000 +17.65% 2
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 4 (36.36%) Apache Spark
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (36.36%) Serverless
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (18.18%) Snowflake
4 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (36.36%) NoSQL
1 4 (36.36%) Relational Database
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (18.18%) Apache Hive
2 2 (18.18%) Apache Iceberg
2 2 (18.18%) Big Data
2 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
2 2 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (18.18%) Impala
2 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
2 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
2 2 (18.18%) Redshift Spectrum
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) CircleCI
General
1 11 (100.00%) Banking
2 10 (90.91%) Finance
3 8 (72.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (72.73%) Law
4 2 (18.18%) Financial Institution
4 2 (18.18%) Marketing
4 2 (18.18%) Publishing
4 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Software Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Java Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Java Software Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Python Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Python Software Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) IT Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Software Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Lead
4 2 (18.18%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) Kafka
2 6 (54.55%) Spring
3 4 (36.36%) Spring Boot
4 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
4 2 (18.18%) Django
4 2 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (18.18%) Pandas
4 2 (18.18%) React
4 2 (18.18%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Algorithms
2 2 (18.18%) Derivative
2 2 (18.18%) Fixed Income
2 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
1 8 (72.73%) Software Engineering
2 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 6 (54.55%) Operational Stability
3 6 (54.55%) SDLC
4 4 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (36.36%) Community of Practice
4 4 (36.36%) Machine Learning
4 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
4 4 (36.36%) Microservices
5 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (27.27%) DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) Analytics
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
6 2 (18.18%) Information Architecture
6 2 (18.18%) Low Latency
6 2 (18.18%) Software Architecture
6 2 (18.18%) TDD
6 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
1 6 (54.55%) Python
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Bash
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
3 1 (9.09%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Grafana
2 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Databricks
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle