Investment Banking Jobs

Investment Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in permanent job vacancies. 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 388 257 419
Rank change year-on-year -131 +162 +157
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 370 1,142 730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 1.15% 0.72%
As % of the General category 0.96% 1.92% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 242 447 634
10th Percentile £63,875 £67,500 £58,250
25th Percentile £89,063 £87,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £115,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% +37.50%
75th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £132,500
90th Percentile £148,750 £165,000 £157,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +13.33% +11.11% +12.50%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 38,385 59,384 69,119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 69.34% 59.82% 68.21%
Number of salaries quoted 18,492 39,693 37,378
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £43,162
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Investment Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in the UK

Investment Banking
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Investment Banking in the UK

Investment Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Investment Banking in the UK

Investment Banking
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Investment Banking within the UK 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
England -56 367 £112,500 -4.26% 291
London -34 259 £115,000 -4.17% 265
Work from Home +46 230 £115,000 -14.81% 104
UK excluding London -163 109 £85,000 +13.33% 105
North of England +123 77 £34,000 -69.09% 4
North West +79 74 £34,000 -69.09% 3
Midlands +89 19 £67,500 - 19
West Midlands +59 12 £85,000 - 18
South East +99 7 £90,000 +111.76% 57
East Midlands - 7 £60,000 - 1
East of England +40 2 - -
South West -60 2 £95,000 - 4
Scotland -85 2 £100,000 +17.65% 9
North East - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 109 (29.46%) Apache
2 107 (28.92%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.43%) Confluence
4 4 (1.08%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (5.14%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.08%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.27%) Stata
Business Applications
1 8 (2.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (1.89%) Orchestrade
3 3 (0.81%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.27%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 220 (59.46%) AWS
2 112 (30.27%) Azure
2 112 (30.27%) Snowflake
3 107 (28.92%) dbt
4 40 (10.81%) Amazon EKS
5 38 (10.27%) Amazon ECS
6 36 (9.73%) Amazon EC2
7 35 (9.46%) GCP
8 34 (9.19%) Dagster
9 8 (2.16%) Serverless
10 7 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.35%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.35%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.35%) Datadog
12 5 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (0.81%) Amazon Kinesis
13 3 (0.81%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (0.81%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.05%) TCP/IP
2 8 (2.16%) Firewall
2 8 (2.16%) VPN
3 5 (1.35%) BGP
3 5 (1.35%) EIGRP
3 5 (1.35%) HSRP
3 5 (1.35%) IPsec
3 5 (1.35%) OSPF
3 5 (1.35%) SNMP
3 5 (1.35%) VRRP
3 5 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.81%) Skype
5 1 (0.27%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.27%) NAS
5 1 (0.27%) SAN
5 1 (0.27%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (29.19%) Apache Arrow
2 107 (28.92%) Amazon Athena
2 107 (28.92%) Apache Iceberg
2 107 (28.92%) Dremio
3 105 (28.38%) SQL Server
4 75 (20.27%) Apache Ignite
4 75 (20.27%) Data Lake
5 11 (2.97%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (1.35%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.54%) Power BI
8 2 (0.54%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.27%) Big Data
9 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.27%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 103 (27.84%) JIRA
2 96 (25.95%) Selenium
3 94 (25.41%) GitLab
3 94 (25.41%) Maven
4 93 (25.14%) SonarQube
5 91 (24.59%) Cucumber
6 90 (24.32%) Bitbucket
6 90 (24.32%) Sonatype Nexus
7 16 (4.32%) Git
8 13 (3.51%) Jenkins
8 13 (3.51%) TeamCity
9 7 (1.89%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (1.62%) Browser DevTools
11 4 (1.08%) NUnit
11 4 (1.08%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.81%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.81%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.81%) FitNesse
13 2 (0.54%) webpack
General
1 370 (100.00%) Banking
2 292 (78.92%) Finance
3 145 (39.19%) Front Office
4 94 (25.41%) Retail
5 92 (24.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 90 (24.32%) Corporate Banking
7 44 (11.89%) Social Skills
8 26 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
9 14 (3.78%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.89%) Law
11 6 (1.62%) Games
11 6 (1.62%) Marketing
12 5 (1.35%) Back Office
12 5 (1.35%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.81%) Advertising
14 3 (0.81%) French Language
15 2 (0.54%) Legal
15 2 (0.54%) Telecoms
16 1 (0.27%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 205 (55.41%) Software Engineer
2 107 (28.92%) AWS Engineer
2 107 (28.92%) AWS Software Engineer
2 107 (28.92%) Developer
3 86 (23.24%) Java Engineer
4 82 (22.16%) Java Software Engineer
5 76 (20.54%) Senior
6 70 (18.92%) Python Engineer
7 69 (18.65%) Python Software Engineer
8 61 (16.49%) Senior Software Engineer
9 55 (14.86%) Senior Java Engineer
9 55 (14.86%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 40 (10.81%) AWS Developer
11 39 (10.54%) Software Developer
12 32 (8.65%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 32 (8.65%) Snowflake Developer
12 32 (8.65%) Snowflake Engineer
13 29 (7.84%) Java Developer
14 25 (6.76%) Python Developer
15 24 (6.49%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (31.35%) React
2 106 (28.65%) RESTful
3 104 (28.11%) HTML
3 104 (28.11%) Kafka
4 103 (27.84%) CSS
5 102 (27.57%) HTML5
6 101 (27.30%) CSS3
7 100 (27.03%) Jest
7 100 (27.03%) Redux
8 98 (26.49%) REST
8 98 (26.49%) Spring
9 91 (24.59%) JPA
9 91 (24.59%) Sass
9 91 (24.59%) Spring Boot
10 75 (20.27%) gRPC
10 75 (20.27%) NumPy
10 75 (20.27%) Pandas
10 75 (20.27%) Protocol Buffers
10 75 (20.27%) SciPy
11 66 (17.84%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 146 (39.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 120 (32.43%) Derivative
3 118 (31.89%) Hedge funds
4 116 (31.35%) Fixed Income
5 115 (31.08%) Equities
6 94 (25.41%) Enterprise Software
7 92 (24.86%) Product Ownership
8 41 (11.08%) Pricing Data
9 14 (3.78%) Cloud Native
9 14 (3.78%) FPGA
10 10 (2.70%) Management Information System
10 10 (2.70%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.35%) Blackberry
13 5 (1.35%) Data Centre
13 5 (1.35%) IPTV
13 5 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.81%) Equity Derivative
14 3 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 35 (9.46%) Linux
2 20 (5.41%) Windows
3 11 (2.97%) Unix
4 8 (2.16%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Solaris
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (66.76%) Agile
2 207 (55.95%) Software Engineering
3 147 (39.73%) Migration
4 121 (32.70%) DevOps
5 113 (30.54%) CI/CD
5 113 (30.54%) Mentoring
6 111 (30.00%) Microservices
7 109 (29.46%) Asset Management
8 104 (28.11%) User Experience
9 100 (27.03%) Containerisation
9 100 (27.03%) Responsive Web Design
10 98 (26.49%) Test Automation
11 97 (26.22%) SDLC
12 94 (25.41%) Front End Development
12 94 (25.41%) Full-Stack Development
12 94 (25.41%) Performance Optimisation
13 90 (24.32%) Strategic Thinking
14 53 (14.32%) Investment Management
15 45 (12.16%) Data Management
16 40 (10.81%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 261 (70.54%) Java
2 188 (50.81%) JavaScript
3 177 (47.84%) TypeScript
4 161 (43.51%) SQL
5 146 (39.46%) Python
6 34 (9.19%) C++
7 29 (7.84%) C#
8 15 (4.05%) C
9 9 (2.43%) Bash
10 7 (1.89%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.35%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.35%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.08%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.54%) Bicep
13 2 (0.54%) Go
13 2 (0.54%) Rust
14 1 (0.27%) Perl
14 1 (0.27%) R
14 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (6.76%) Degree
2 7 (1.89%) AWS Certification
3 5 (1.35%) CCNA
3 5 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (0.81%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.54%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.27%) CFA
6 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (26.49%) QA
2 94 (25.41%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.89%) GDPR
4 3 (0.81%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (0.81%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.54%) Data Quality
System Software
1 102 (27.57%) Docker
2 7 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.81%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.81%) vSphere
4 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 104 (28.11%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.70%) Ansible
3 9 (2.43%) Terraform
4 7 (1.89%) Grafana
4 7 (1.89%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.35%) SCCM
6 3 (0.81%) Control-M
6 3 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (24.32%) Solace
2 18 (4.86%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.78%) Oracle
4 11 (2.97%) Cisco
4 11 (2.97%) Databricks
5 8 (2.16%) Arista
5 8 (2.16%) Remedy
6 7 (1.89%) Bloomberg
7 5 (1.35%) CheckPoint
7 5 (1.35%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.35%) IBM
7 5 (1.35%) Meraki
7 5 (1.35%) Refinitiv
7 5 (1.35%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.08%) NetApp
8 4 (1.08%) VMware
9 3 (0.81%) Barracuda Networks
9 3 (0.81%) Citrix
9 3 (0.81%) Google
9 3 (0.81%) SimCorp