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 have cited Investment Banking over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 420 575
Rank change year-on-year +157 +155 -80
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 1,090 770 858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.11% 0.74% 0.56%
As % of the General category 1.86% 1.07% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 402 660 535
10th Percentile £65,125 £57,500 £54,250
25th Percentile £87,500 £71,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £108,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.75% +35.94% -
75th Percentile £148,750 £132,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £157,500 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% +4.35%

All General Skills
UK

Investment Banking is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 58,670 71,907 98,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.84% 68.71% 63.59%
Number of salaries quoted 39,462 38,624 51,085
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Investment Banking in the UK

Investment Banking
Top 11 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 27 April 2024. 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 +87 719 £115,000 +4.55% 131
UK excluding London +354 581 £75,000 +11.11% 17
London +46 505 £117,500 +2.17% 120
Scotland +114 363 £85,000 +21.43% 4
Work from Home +68 274 £135,000 +22.73% 25
South West +164 199 - - 2
South East +33 8 £42,500 -59.52% 1
North of England +28 4 £110,000 +83.33% 5
Northern Ireland +15 4 £65,000 +30.00% 2
North West -8 4 £110,000 +83.33% 3
East of England - 3 £100,000 - 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
1 168 (15.41%) Apache
2 160 (14.68%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (2.66%) Confluence
4 22 (2.02%) GemFire
5 21 (1.93%) Apache Spark
6 15 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
7 14 (1.28%) Cloud Foundry
7 14 (1.28%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.55%) SAS
9 5 (0.46%) IIS
9 5 (0.46%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.092%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.092%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.092%) WebSphere
Applications
1 134 (12.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 128 (11.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 107 (9.82%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.10%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.092%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 13 (1.19%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.55%) Adaptiv
3 1 (0.092%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.092%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.092%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 407 (37.34%) AWS
2 160 (14.68%) dbt
3 133 (12.20%) Snowflake
4 109 (10.00%) GCP
5 53 (4.86%) Azure
6 24 (2.20%) Google Play
7 18 (1.65%) GitHub
8 15 (1.38%) Power Platform
9 9 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (0.46%) PaaS
11 4 (0.37%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (0.37%) Firebase
12 3 (0.28%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (0.28%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (0.28%) SaaS
12 3 (0.28%) Serverless
13 2 (0.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 2 (0.18%) IaaS
13 2 (0.18%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.65%) DSL
2 10 (0.92%) Internet
3 9 (0.83%) Firewall
4 6 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (0.55%) VPN
5 3 (0.28%) HTTP
6 2 (0.18%) DHCP
6 2 (0.18%) DNS
6 2 (0.18%) IPv4
7 1 (0.092%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.092%) VSAN
7 1 (0.092%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (14.77%) Apache Arrow
2 160 (14.68%) Amazon Athena
2 160 (14.68%) Apache Ignite
2 160 (14.68%) Dremio
3 152 (13.94%) Data Lake
4 56 (5.14%) Tableau
5 35 (3.21%) MongoDB
6 27 (2.48%) NoSQL
7 26 (2.39%) Big Data
8 21 (1.93%) Apache Cassandra
8 21 (1.93%) CockroachDB
8 21 (1.93%) Hazelcast
9 19 (1.74%) SQL Server
10 18 (1.65%) DB2
11 17 (1.56%) MySQL
11 17 (1.56%) Relational Database
12 15 (1.38%) Power BI
13 14 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (0.73%) BusinessObjects
14 8 (0.73%) KDB
Development Applications
1 74 (6.79%) Cypress.io
2 72 (6.61%) JUnit
3 69 (6.33%) Selenium
4 65 (5.96%) WebDriver
5 60 (5.50%) Jasmine
5 60 (5.50%) Karma Test Runner
5 60 (5.50%) Protractor
6 34 (3.12%) Maven
7 30 (2.75%) Git
8 24 (2.20%) Android Studio
9 21 (1.93%) Jaeger
10 18 (1.65%) Cucumber
11 17 (1.56%) JIRA
12 16 (1.47%) Jenkins
13 13 (1.19%) GitLab
14 8 (0.73%) TeamCity
15 5 (0.46%) FitNesse
15 5 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
15 5 (0.46%) SonarQube
16 4 (0.37%) Crashlytics
General
1 1,090 (100.00%) Banking
2 938 (86.06%) Finance
3 569 (52.20%) Law
4 566 (51.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 297 (27.25%) Front Office
6 175 (16.06%) Social Skills
7 140 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
8 125 (11.47%) Financial Institution
9 97 (8.90%) Marketing
10 53 (4.86%) Presentation Skills
11 52 (4.77%) Legal
12 25 (2.29%) Corporate Banking
12 25 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
13 22 (2.02%) Prime Brokerage
14 21 (1.93%) Games
15 17 (1.56%) French Language
16 15 (1.38%) Publishing
17 10 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
18 7 (0.64%) Private Banking
19 5 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 411 (37.71%) Software Engineer
2 241 (22.11%) Analyst
3 240 (22.02%) Java Engineer
4 235 (21.56%) Lead
5 231 (21.19%) Java Software Engineer
6 185 (16.97%) Developer
7 161 (14.77%) Lead Software Engineer
8 133 (12.20%) Senior
9 116 (10.64%) Lead Java Engineer
10 104 (9.54%) Python Engineer
10 104 (9.54%) Python Software Engineer
11 95 (8.72%) AWS Engineer
11 95 (8.72%) AWS Software Engineer
12 86 (7.89%) Java Developer
13 80 (7.34%) Business Strategy Analyst
13 80 (7.34%) Strategy Analyst
14 61 (5.60%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 51 (4.68%) Architect
15 51 (4.68%) Senior Software Engineer
16 50 (4.59%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (16.51%) Spring
2 159 (14.59%) Pandas
3 158 (14.50%) gRPC
3 158 (14.50%) NumPy
3 158 (14.50%) Protocol Buffers
3 158 (14.50%) SciPy
4 147 (13.49%) React
5 124 (11.38%) Spring Boot
6 103 (9.45%) HTML
7 98 (8.99%) CSS
8 94 (8.62%) AngularJS
9 90 (8.26%) Kafka
10 62 (5.69%) JSON
11 61 (5.60%) jQuery
12 60 (5.50%) Hibernate
12 60 (5.50%) J2EE
12 60 (5.50%) Jest
12 60 (5.50%) JMS
12 60 (5.50%) Node.js
12 60 (5.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 233 (21.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 215 (19.72%) Fixed Income
3 197 (18.07%) Derivative
4 187 (17.16%) Hedge funds
5 178 (16.33%) Equities
6 170 (15.60%) Cloud Native
7 122 (11.19%) Self-Motivation
8 117 (10.73%) Algorithms
9 67 (6.15%) Data Structures
10 58 (5.32%) Product Ownership
11 54 (4.95%) Public Cloud
12 40 (3.67%) Management Information System
13 26 (2.39%) Credit Risk
14 24 (2.20%) Private Cloud
15 23 (2.11%) Onboarding
16 21 (1.93%) Mobile App
16 21 (1.93%) Replication
17 16 (1.47%) Distributed Applications
18 15 (1.38%) OTC Derivatives
19 14 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.76%) Linux
2 39 (3.58%) Windows
3 28 (2.57%) Android
4 19 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.56%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.92%) Unix
7 4 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.28%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.092%) AIX
9 1 (0.092%) CentOS
9 1 (0.092%) Solaris
9 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.092%) VMS
9 1 (0.092%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 639 (58.62%) Agile
2 548 (50.28%) Software Engineering
3 388 (35.60%) Asset Management
4 336 (30.83%) SDLC
5 314 (28.81%) CI/CD
6 299 (27.43%) Operational Stability
7 290 (26.61%) Machine Learning
8 285 (26.15%) Artificial Intelligence
9 226 (20.73%) Community of Practice
10 178 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
11 162 (14.86%) Investment Management
12 126 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 125 (11.47%) Coaching
14 123 (11.28%) Information Architecture
15 121 (11.10%) Visualisation
16 118 (10.83%) Architectural Design
16 118 (10.83%) TDD
17 109 (10.00%) Multithreading
18 108 (9.91%) Analytics
19 100 (9.17%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 509 (46.70%) Java
2 324 (29.72%) Python
3 299 (27.43%) JavaScript
4 248 (22.75%) TypeScript
5 173 (15.87%) SQL
6 38 (3.49%) Kotlin
7 36 (3.30%) Groovy
8 35 (3.21%) Scala
9 34 (3.12%) C#
10 28 (2.57%) Ruby
11 23 (2.11%) Bash
12 22 (2.02%) PL/SQL
13 21 (1.93%) Perl
13 21 (1.93%) PowerShell
14 15 (1.38%) T-SQL
15 13 (1.19%) Korn
16 8 (0.73%) R
17 5 (0.46%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.46%) XAML
18 4 (0.37%) Swift
Qualifications
1 122 (11.19%) Degree
2 18 (1.65%) Master's Degree
3 17 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (1.01%) MBA
5 6 (0.55%) Tableau Certification
6 4 (0.37%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.28%) CISA
7 3 (0.28%) CISM
7 3 (0.28%) CISSP
8 2 (0.18%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.18%) CRISC
8 2 (0.18%) MCSA
8 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.18%) PhD
8 2 (0.18%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.092%) CCAB
9 1 (0.092%) QiCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.15%) Data Quality
2 46 (4.22%) Accessibility
3 24 (2.20%) SLA
4 12 (1.10%) QA
5 5 (0.46%) SEPA
5 5 (0.46%) TARGET2
6 2 (0.18%) EMIR
6 2 (0.18%) MiFID
7 1 (0.092%) COBIT
7 1 (0.092%) COREP
7 1 (0.092%) IFRS
7 1 (0.092%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.092%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.092%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.092%) ITGC
7 1 (0.092%) PMO
7 1 (0.092%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (1.74%) Active Directory
2 17 (1.56%) Docker
3 2 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.18%) vSphere
4 1 (0.092%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.092%) GridGain
4 1 (0.092%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.092%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.092%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 46 (4.22%) Kubernetes
2 35 (3.21%) Grafana
3 24 (2.20%) Prometheus
4 22 (2.02%) Ansible
5 21 (1.93%) HAProxy
5 21 (1.93%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (1.93%) Kibana
5 21 (1.93%) Terraform
5 21 (1.93%) Zipkin
6 17 (1.56%) Puppet
7 13 (1.19%) Red Hat Satellite
8 12 (1.10%) Control-M
8 12 (1.10%) Graphite
9 7 (0.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 7 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.55%) SafeCom
11 1 (0.092%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.092%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
11 1 (0.092%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.092%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 153 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 66 (6.06%) Oracle
3 42 (3.85%) Alteryx
4 35 (3.21%) Splunk
5 25 (2.29%) Google
6 21 (1.93%) Dynatrace
6 21 (1.93%) Sybase
7 20 (1.83%) Cognos
7 20 (1.83%) Databricks
7 20 (1.83%) Red Hat
8 15 (1.38%) Bloomberg
9 14 (1.28%) Sun
9 14 (1.28%) TOWER Software
10 13 (1.19%) BISAM
11 9 (0.83%) Citrix
11 9 (0.83%) ServiceNow
12 8 (0.73%) VMware
13 7 (0.64%) Fortinet
13 7 (0.64%) Pega
13 7 (0.64%) UiPath