Investment Banking Job Trends

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 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 407 302
Rank change year-on-year -64 -105 +157
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 184 316 530
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.59% 0.95%
As % of the General category 0.52% 0.89% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 132 278 297
10th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £54,500
25th Percentile £76,250 £83,813 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £111,250 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% +3.49% +19.44%
75th Percentile £135,000 £128,750 £143,750
90th Percentile £136,250 £147,875 £153,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £85,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -41.18% +38.21% -8.89%

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 general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 35,175 35,608 34,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.63% 66.54% 61.95%
Number of salaries quoted 19,086 16,201 25,207
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £41,011
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +3.45% -6.07%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -4.76%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Investment Banking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Investment Banking job vacancy trend in the UK

Investment Banking
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Investment Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Investment Banking

Investment Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Investment Banking in the UK

Investment Banking
Top 9 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 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
England -39 184 £110,000 -2.22% 66
London -40 163 £114,000 +1.33% 54
Work from Home -14 78 £110,000 -4.35% 27
UK excluding London +51 18 £50,000 -41.18% 34
Midlands +27 10 £50,000 -32.20% 3
West Midlands +27 10 £50,000 -20.00% 3
North West +21 6 £67,500 +98.53% 2
North of England +10 6 £67,500 +98.53% 2
South West +11 2 - -

Investment Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 30 (16.30%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (15.76%) Apache
3 10 (5.43%) Tomcat
3 10 (5.43%) WebSphere
3 10 (5.43%) WebSphere Application Server
4 6 (3.26%) Confluence
5 3 (1.63%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.09%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.54%) SAS
7 1 (0.54%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (4.89%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.17%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.54%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.54%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 55 (29.89%) AWS
2 37 (20.11%) Snowflake
3 32 (17.39%) dbt
4 11 (5.98%) Power Platform
5 10 (5.43%) Azure
6 5 (2.72%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (2.72%) GitHub
7 4 (2.17%) GCP
7 4 (2.17%) Serverless
8 3 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.09%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.09%) Azure Batch
9 2 (1.09%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.09%) Collibra
9 2 (1.09%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.09%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.78%) TCP/IP
2 10 (5.43%) SSL
3 1 (0.54%) DNS
3 1 (0.54%) Firewall
3 1 (0.54%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (16.85%) Data Lake
2 29 (15.76%) Amazon Athena
2 29 (15.76%) Apache Arrow
2 29 (15.76%) Apache Iceberg
2 29 (15.76%) Apache Ignite
2 29 (15.76%) Dremio
3 12 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.52%) SQL Server
4 11 (5.98%) DB2
4 11 (5.98%) Power BI
5 5 (2.72%) Data Vault
6 4 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.17%) Redis
6 4 (2.17%) Tableau
7 3 (1.63%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.63%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.09%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.09%) KDB
Development Applications
1 10 (5.43%) Git
2 8 (4.35%) JIRA
3 7 (3.80%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.26%) GitLab
5 2 (1.09%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.09%) JConsole
5 2 (1.09%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.09%) VisualVM
5 2 (1.09%) webpack
6 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.54%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 184 (100.00%) Banking
2 104 (56.52%) Finance
3 55 (29.89%) Front Office
4 36 (19.57%) Social Skills
5 13 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.89%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.80%) Advertising
8 5 (2.72%) Marketing
9 4 (2.17%) Private Banking
10 3 (1.63%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.63%) Law
11 2 (1.09%) Back Office
11 2 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.09%) Legal
11 2 (1.09%) Spanish Language
11 2 (1.09%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.54%) French Language
12 1 (0.54%) Games
12 1 (0.54%) International Banking
12 1 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 79 (42.93%) Developer
2 36 (19.57%) AWS Engineer
3 35 (19.02%) Senior
4 31 (16.85%) Java Engineer
4 31 (16.85%) Software Engineer
5 30 (16.30%) Java Software Engineer
6 29 (15.76%) AWS Software Engineer
6 29 (15.76%) Python Engineer
6 29 (15.76%) Python Software Engineer
7 28 (15.22%) Java Developer
8 27 (14.67%) Senior Java Engineer
8 27 (14.67%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 27 (14.67%) Senior Software Engineer
9 26 (14.13%) C++ Developer
10 21 (11.41%) Full-Stack Developer
10 21 (11.41%) Linux Developer
10 21 (11.41%) React Developer
11 20 (10.87%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 20 (10.87%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
12 18 (9.78%) Low Latency C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (16.85%) gRPC
2 30 (16.30%) NumPy
2 30 (16.30%) Pandas
3 29 (15.76%) Protocol Buffers
3 29 (15.76%) SciPy
4 25 (13.59%) React
4 25 (13.59%) REST
5 21 (11.41%) WebSockets
6 10 (5.43%) LAPP Stack
6 10 (5.43%) LDAP
6 10 (5.43%) WebSphere MQ
7 6 (3.26%) .NET
8 4 (2.17%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (2.17%) HTML
9 3 (1.63%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.63%) CSS
9 3 (1.63%) Kafka
9 3 (1.63%) Snowpark
9 3 (1.63%) Spring
10 2 (1.09%) OpenTracing
Miscellaneous
1 43 (23.37%) Derivative
2 40 (21.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 37 (20.11%) Equities
4 36 (19.57%) Fixed Income
5 31 (16.85%) Pricing Data
6 30 (16.30%) Hedge funds
7 18 (9.78%) FPGA
8 17 (9.24%) Management Information System
9 11 (5.98%) Data Structures
10 10 (5.43%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (4.89%) Credit Risk
11 9 (4.89%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (4.89%) Product Ownership
12 6 (3.26%) Grid Computing
13 5 (2.72%) Algorithms
13 5 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
14 4 (2.17%) Onboarding
15 3 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
15 3 (1.63%) Legacy Code
16 2 (1.09%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 43 (23.37%) Linux
2 17 (9.24%) Windows
3 13 (7.07%) Unix
4 10 (5.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.54%) Solaris
5 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (35.87%) Agile
2 42 (22.83%) Software Engineering
3 34 (18.48%) Asset Management
4 30 (16.30%) Investment Management
4 30 (16.30%) Low Latency
5 25 (13.59%) Full-Stack Development
6 22 (11.96%) Analytics
7 20 (10.87%) Release Management
8 18 (9.78%) DevOps
9 16 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (7.61%) Change Management
11 13 (7.07%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (7.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (7.07%) User Acceptance Testing
12 12 (6.52%) Data Modelling
12 12 (6.52%) Multithreading
13 11 (5.98%) Data Governance
13 11 (5.98%) Stakeholder Management
14 10 (5.43%) Machine Learning
14 10 (5.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 97 (52.72%) Java
2 72 (39.13%) Python
3 54 (29.35%) TypeScript
4 35 (19.02%) JavaScript
5 29 (15.76%) C++
6 24 (13.04%) SQL
7 19 (10.33%) C
8 10 (5.43%) C#
9 8 (4.35%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.72%) ANSI SQL
11 3 (1.63%) Bash
12 2 (1.09%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.54%) Perl
13 1 (0.54%) R
13 1 (0.54%) VBA
13 1 (0.54%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 29 (15.76%) Degree
2 12 (6.52%) AWS Certification
3 10 (5.43%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.63%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.63%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.09%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.54%) APMP
6 1 (0.54%) CISSP
6 1 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.54%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.54%) Novell Certification
6 1 (0.54%) PhD
6 1 (0.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.43%) SLA
2 3 (1.63%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.63%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.09%) QA
3 2 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.54%) FINRA
4 1 (0.54%) GDPR
4 1 (0.54%) NIST
4 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.54%) PMO
4 1 (0.54%) SEPA
System Software
1 10 (5.43%) Docker
2 3 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (5.98%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.17%) Terraform
3 3 (1.63%) Ansible
3 3 (1.63%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.09%) logstash
5 1 (0.54%) Argo
5 1 (0.54%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.54%) Control-M
5 1 (0.54%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.54%) Grafana
5 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.54%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (6.52%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.98%) IBM
2 11 (5.98%) Oracle
2 11 (5.98%) Red Hat
2 11 (5.98%) ServiceNow
3 9 (4.89%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.63%) Informatica
5 2 (1.09%) Anaplan
5 2 (1.09%) Databricks
5 2 (1.09%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.54%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.54%) Murex
6 1 (0.54%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.54%) SimCorp