Investment Management Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Investment Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Investment Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 539 469
Rank change year-on-year +58 -70 +176
Permanent jobs citing Investment Management 28 27 104
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.066% 0.075% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.084% 0.084% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 12 18 25
10th Percentile - £43,875 £50,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,688 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £76,626 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +2.17% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70,625 £100,000 £89,041
90th Percentile £91,625 - £92,616
UK median annual salary £105,000 £105,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Investment Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,283 31,985 30,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.49% 89.04% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19,187 14,363 22,780
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Investment Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Investment Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Investment Management job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Investment Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Investment Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Investment Management

Investment Management
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Investment Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Investment Management in the UK excluding London

Investment Management
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Investment Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Scotland +20 15 - -
North West +29 11 £70,000 +7.69% 6
North of England +11 11 £70,000 -30.00% 6
South East +34 1 - - 8
South West +11 1 £70,000 -17.89%
Investment Management
UK

Investment Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) AWS
3 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 2 (7.14%) iPaaS
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.14%) OneDrive
4 2 (7.14%) SaaS
5 1 (3.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (28.57%) Telnet
2 2 (7.14%) DHCP
2 2 (7.14%) DNS
2 2 (7.14%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) JIRA
General
1 17 (60.71%) Finance
2 12 (42.86%) Front Office
3 11 (39.29%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 4 (14.29%) Banking
6 3 (10.71%) Law
6 3 (10.71%) Private Banking
7 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (3.57%) Back Office
8 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (3.57%) Legal
8 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (3.57%) Public Speaking
8 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Senior
2 8 (28.57%) Platform Specialist
3 6 (21.43%) Applications Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Java Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Senior Applications Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Senior Java Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Senior Business Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Senior Technical Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Technical Business Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Applications Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Java Applications Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (7.14%) Middleware
2 2 (7.14%) OAuth
2 2 (7.14%) OAuth2
2 2 (7.14%) Spring
2 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Equities
1 9 (32.14%) Fixed Income
2 5 (17.86%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.14%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.57%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.57%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.57%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Windows
1 10 (35.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Asset Management
2 12 (42.86%) Coaching
2 12 (42.86%) Order Management
3 8 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (28.57%) ITIL
3 8 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 6 (21.43%) Agile
4 6 (21.43%) Decision-Making
4 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (21.43%) Thought Leadership
5 5 (17.86%) Acceptance Criteria
5 5 (17.86%) Data Analysis
5 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (17.86%) User Stories
6 4 (14.29%) Data Integration
6 4 (14.29%) DevOps
6 4 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (14.29%) Sprint Retrospective
7 3 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (10.71%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) SQL
2 10 (35.71%) PowerShell
3 9 (32.14%) Java
4 2 (7.14%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) ACCA
2 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.57%) CIMA
2 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) Charles River
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.57%) Canon