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 11 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 379 284
Rank change year-on-year -157 -95 +140
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 167 280 948
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.68% 1.03%
As % of the General category 0.38% 0.97% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 87 237 369
10th Percentile £50,000 £67,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £112,500 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% -2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £123,750 £138,750 £148,750
90th Percentile £136,250 £148,750 £162,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -41.18% +13.33% +11.11%

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 43,386 28,966 55,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 51.91% 70.61% 60.45%
Number of salaries quoted 23,703 15,777 39,144
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,818 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.53% +6.99% -9.52%

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 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Investment Banking in the UK

Investment Banking
Top 13 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 11 April 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 -160 162 £95,000 -15.56% 71
London -104 129 £105,000 -8.70% 64
Work from Home -64 55 £90,000 -21.74% 28
UK excluding London -62 37 £50,000 -41.18% 30
West Midlands 0 15 £50,000 -41.18% 4
Midlands -32 15 £50,000 -25.93% 6
North of England -60 9 £33,000 -2.94%
North West -28 7 £67,500 +98.53%
East of England - 7 - -
Scotland -19 5 - - 4
South East -46 2 - - 19
South West -50 2 - -
Yorkshire -54 2 £33,000 -

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 25 (14.97%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (14.37%) Apache
2 24 (14.37%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.40%) SAS
4 3 (1.80%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.80%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.80%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.80%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (1.20%) Confluence
5 2 (1.20%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.60%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (7.78%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.60%) Sketch
3 1 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Fidessa
1 2 (1.20%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (1.20%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.60%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 53 (31.74%) AWS
2 27 (16.17%) Amazon S3
3 24 (14.37%) OpenShift
4 16 (9.58%) Azure
5 10 (5.99%) GCP
5 10 (5.99%) Power Platform
6 7 (4.19%) Snowflake
7 6 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (2.99%) Serverless
9 4 (2.40%) GitHub
10 3 (1.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.80%) Datadog
10 3 (1.80%) dbt
10 3 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.20%) Azure Batch
11 2 (1.20%) Collibra
11 2 (1.20%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.98%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.80%) SSL
3 1 (0.60%) DHCP
3 1 (0.60%) DNS
3 1 (0.60%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (17.96%) Tableau
2 24 (14.37%) Apache Hive
2 24 (14.37%) Impala
2 24 (14.37%) Oracle Database
2 24 (14.37%) Parquet
2 24 (14.37%) Spark SQL
3 11 (6.59%) SQL Server
4 10 (5.99%) Power BI
5 7 (4.19%) MongoDB
5 7 (4.19%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.99%) Redis
7 4 (2.40%) DB2
7 4 (2.40%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.80%) SAS EBI
9 2 (1.20%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.20%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 31 (18.56%) Git
2 24 (14.37%) IBM UrbanCode
3 8 (4.79%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.99%) GitLab
5 2 (1.20%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.20%) JIRA
5 2 (1.20%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 167 (100.00%) Banking
2 103 (61.68%) Finance
3 28 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (16.17%) Social Skills
5 24 (14.37%) Front Office
6 23 (13.77%) Legal
7 11 (6.59%) Law
8 9 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (4.79%) Marketing
10 7 (4.19%) Corporate Banking
11 6 (3.59%) Advertising
11 6 (3.59%) Financial Institution
12 5 (2.99%) Retail
13 4 (2.40%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (2.40%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.80%) Private Banking
15 2 (1.20%) Billing
16 1 (0.60%) Back Office
16 1 (0.60%) General Ledger
16 1 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (37.13%) Developer
2 35 (20.96%) Analyst
3 23 (13.77%) Transformation Analyst
4 22 (13.17%) Banking Analyst
5 21 (12.57%) Java Developer
6 20 (11.98%) C++ Developer
6 20 (11.98%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
6 20 (11.98%) Linux Developer
6 20 (11.98%) Linux Scripter
6 20 (11.98%) Low Latency C++ Developer
7 19 (11.38%) Business Analyst
8 17 (10.18%) Senior
9 15 (8.98%) Data Business Analyst
9 15 (8.98%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (8.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 14 (8.38%) Lead
10 14 (8.38%) React Developer
11 12 (7.19%) Technical Analyst
12 11 (6.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (6.59%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (14.37%) PySpark
2 21 (12.57%) React
3 19 (11.38%) REST
4 14 (8.38%) Pandas
4 14 (8.38%) WebSockets
5 9 (5.39%) AngularJS
6 7 (4.19%) .NET
6 7 (4.19%) Kafka
7 4 (2.40%) LDAP
7 4 (2.40%) Spring
7 4 (2.40%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.80%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (1.80%) LAPP Stack
8 3 (1.80%) WebSphere MQ
9 2 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.20%) FpML
9 2 (1.20%) RESTful
9 2 (1.20%) RxJS
9 2 (1.20%) Smart Contracts
9 2 (1.20%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.98%) FPGA
2 17 (10.18%) Derivative
2 17 (10.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (5.39%) Fixed Income
3 9 (5.39%) Hedge funds
3 9 (5.39%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.99%) Credit Risk
6 5 (2.99%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.40%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.80%) Equities
8 3 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.80%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.20%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.20%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.20%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 35 (20.96%) Linux
2 10 (5.99%) Unix
3 7 (4.19%) Windows
4 3 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (35.33%) Agile
2 43 (25.75%) Analytics
3 40 (23.95%) AI
4 38 (22.75%) User Acceptance Testing
5 37 (22.16%) Data Governance
6 34 (20.36%) CI/CD
7 32 (19.16%) ETL
7 32 (19.16%) Low Latency
8 27 (16.17%) Data Pipeline
9 26 (15.57%) Data Transformation
9 26 (15.57%) Scrum
10 25 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (13.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (11.98%) DevOps
12 20 (11.98%) Full-Stack Development
13 19 (11.38%) Performance Tuning
14 18 (10.78%) Data Analysis
15 17 (10.18%) Data Analytics
15 17 (10.18%) Validation
16 16 (9.58%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 60 (35.93%) Java
2 55 (32.93%) Python
3 52 (31.14%) SQL
4 28 (16.77%) C++
5 21 (12.57%) C
5 21 (12.57%) TypeScript
6 17 (10.18%) C#
7 7 (4.19%) Rust
8 6 (3.59%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.99%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.40%) Bash
10 4 (2.40%) Go
10 4 (2.40%) R
11 2 (1.20%) ANSI SQL
11 2 (1.20%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.60%) Groovy
12 1 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (9.58%) Degree
2 6 (3.59%) AWS Certification
3 5 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (1.80%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 3 (1.80%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.20%) CISSP
5 2 (1.20%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.60%) APMP
6 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.60%) CISA
6 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.60%) CRISC
6 1 (0.60%) GCIH
6 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (17.37%) Data Quality
2 14 (8.38%) GDPR
3 11 (6.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 11 (6.59%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.80%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.80%) QA
4 3 (1.80%) SLA
5 2 (1.20%) EMIR
5 2 (1.20%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.20%) MiFID
5 2 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.20%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.60%) GAAP
6 1 (0.60%) IFRS
6 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.60%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (8.98%) Docker
2 2 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (8.38%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.79%) Terraform
3 6 (3.59%) Ansible
4 3 (1.80%) Grafana
4 3 (1.80%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.60%) Argo
5 1 (0.60%) Control-M
5 1 (0.60%) Netcool
Vendors
1 34 (20.36%) Oracle
2 27 (16.17%) Red Hat
3 6 (3.59%) Databricks
3 6 (3.59%) Informatica
4 4 (2.40%) IBM
4 4 (2.40%) SAP
5 3 (1.80%) Alteryx
5 3 (1.80%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.80%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.80%) Talend
6 2 (1.20%) Anaplan
6 2 (1.20%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.60%) FXall
7 1 (0.60%) GoldenSource
7 1 (0.60%) Murex
7 1 (0.60%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.60%) SimCorp
7 1 (0.60%) Splunk
7 1 (0.60%) Sybase
7 1 (0.60%) VMware