Investment Banking Jobs in the South East

Investment Banking
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Investment Banking over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 390 403
Rank change year-on-year +99 +13 +73
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 7 7 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.074% 0.042% 0.034%
As % of the General category 0.11% 0.073% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 5
10th Percentile £83,500 - £79,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £41,250 £100,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £42,500 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +111.76% -61.36% +87.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £43,750 £115,000
90th Percentile £96,500 £66,250 -
England median annual salary £112,500 £117,500 £110,000
% change year-on-year -4.26% +6.82% +37.50%

All General Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,296 9,532 9,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 66.85% 56.71% 63.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,693 6,040 4,473
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £32,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Investment Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in the South East

Investment Banking
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in the South East.

Salary trend for Investment Banking in the South East

Investment Banking
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Investment Banking within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 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
Middlesex - 5 - -
Kent +39 2 £90,000 -10.00%
Investment Banking
England

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (28.57%) Datadog
1 2 (28.57%) Snowflake
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) FIX Connectivity
General
1 7 (100.00%) Banking
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (71.43%) Law
3 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (42.86%) Advertising
4 3 (42.86%) Marketing
5 2 (28.57%) Retail Banking
5 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
6 1 (14.29%) Front Office
6 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Business Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
1 3 (42.86%) Senior Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Senior Business Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
1 2 (28.57%) GraphQL
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
1 2 (28.57%) React
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Derivative
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Equities
2 1 (14.29%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Data Management
2 4 (57.14%) Business Development
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Contract Negotiation
3 3 (42.86%) Customer Retention
3 3 (42.86%) Financial Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) Market Research
3 3 (42.86%) Value Proposition
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) API Development
4 2 (28.57%) API Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Coaching
4 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Digital Banking
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C#
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Bloomberg
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) NYFIX
2 1 (14.29%) Sun