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 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 295 438 563
Rank change year-on-year +143 +125 -58
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 968 773 839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.00% 0.72% 0.55%
As % of the General category 1.66% 1.04% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 377 669 536
10th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £87,500 £71,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £110,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +33.33% +3.13%
75th Percentile £148,750 £132,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £162,500 £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 58,348 74,370 95,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 60.04% 68.97% 63.10%
Number of salaries quoted 39,616 39,731 51,150
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 16 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 16 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 +62 609 £115,000 +4.55% 112
London +51 483 £115,000 +2.22% 105
UK excluding London +313 481 £75,000 +11.11% 12
Scotland +129 351 £85,000 +21.43% 4
Work from Home +55 252 £125,000 +13.64% 28
South West +99 109 - - 2
South East +31 9 £42,500 -59.52% 1
North of England +27 4 £110,000 +76.00% 3
Northern Ireland +12 4 £65,000 +26.21% 1
North West -5 4 £110,000 +83.33% 2
East of England - 4 £90,000 -

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
1 136 (14.05%) Apache
2 128 (13.22%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (2.27%) GemFire
4 20 (2.07%) Apache Spark
5 19 (1.96%) Confluence
6 13 (1.34%) Cloud Foundry
6 13 (1.34%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.62%) IIS
7 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.52%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.31%) SAS
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 112 (11.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 106 (10.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 100 (10.33%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.10%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 11 (1.14%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.83%) Adaptiv
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 369 (38.12%) AWS
2 128 (13.22%) dbt
3 103 (10.64%) GCP
4 89 (9.19%) Snowflake
5 54 (5.58%) Azure
6 23 (2.38%) Google Play
7 21 (2.17%) GitHub
8 11 (1.14%) Power Platform
9 9 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (0.72%) PaaS
11 6 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (0.41%) Firebase
12 4 (0.41%) SaaS
13 3 (0.31%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (0.31%) Azure Data Factory
14 2 (0.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 2 (0.21%) IaaS
14 2 (0.21%) OCI
15 1 (0.10%) Azure Service Bus
15 1 (0.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.86%) DSL
2 10 (1.03%) Firewall
3 7 (0.72%) Internet
4 6 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (0.62%) VPN
5 5 (0.52%) HTTP
6 4 (0.41%) IPv4
7 2 (0.21%) DHCP
7 2 (0.21%) DNS
7 2 (0.21%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.21%) WAN
8 1 (0.10%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.10%) LAN
8 1 (0.10%) MPLS
8 1 (0.10%) VSAN
8 1 (0.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (13.33%) Apache Arrow
2 128 (13.22%) Amazon Athena
2 128 (13.22%) Apache Ignite
2 128 (13.22%) Dremio
3 109 (11.26%) Data Lake
4 42 (4.34%) Tableau
5 34 (3.51%) MongoDB
6 27 (2.79%) NoSQL
7 24 (2.48%) Big Data
8 21 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
8 21 (2.17%) CockroachDB
8 21 (2.17%) Hazelcast
9 20 (2.07%) SQL Server
10 18 (1.86%) DB2
11 17 (1.76%) MySQL
11 17 (1.76%) Relational Database
12 13 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (1.14%) Power BI
14 8 (0.83%) KDB
15 6 (0.62%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 73 (7.54%) Cypress.io
2 72 (7.44%) JUnit
3 70 (7.23%) Selenium
4 66 (6.82%) WebDriver
5 60 (6.20%) Jasmine
5 60 (6.20%) Karma Test Runner
5 60 (6.20%) Protractor
6 33 (3.41%) Maven
7 32 (3.31%) Git
8 23 (2.38%) Android Studio
9 21 (2.17%) Jaeger
10 17 (1.76%) Cucumber
11 16 (1.65%) GitLab
11 16 (1.65%) Jenkins
11 16 (1.65%) JIRA
12 9 (0.93%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.62%) FitNesse
13 6 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (0.62%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.41%) Crashlytics
General
1 968 (100.00%) Banking
2 818 (84.50%) Finance
3 465 (48.04%) Law
4 464 (47.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 252 (26.03%) Front Office
6 124 (12.81%) Social Skills
7 113 (11.67%) Financial Institution
8 92 (9.50%) Marketing
9 84 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
10 40 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
11 39 (4.03%) Legal
12 21 (2.17%) Prime Brokerage
13 18 (1.86%) Games
14 16 (1.65%) Corporate Banking
15 15 (1.55%) Publishing
16 13 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.93%) Private Banking
18 8 (0.83%) French Language
19 3 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
19 3 (0.31%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 387 (39.98%) Software Engineer
2 218 (22.52%) Java Engineer
3 211 (21.80%) Lead
4 209 (21.59%) Java Software Engineer
5 196 (20.25%) Analyst
6 192 (19.83%) Developer
7 151 (15.60%) Lead Software Engineer
8 110 (11.36%) Lead Java Engineer
9 104 (10.74%) Senior
10 87 (8.99%) Java Developer
10 87 (8.99%) Python Engineer
10 87 (8.99%) Python Software Engineer
11 86 (8.88%) Business Strategy Analyst
11 86 (8.88%) Strategy Analyst
12 83 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
12 83 (8.57%) AWS Software Engineer
13 65 (6.71%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 46 (4.75%) Software Developer
15 41 (4.24%) Architect
16 39 (4.03%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (18.18%) Spring
2 139 (14.36%) React
3 128 (13.22%) Pandas
4 127 (13.12%) NumPy
5 126 (13.02%) gRPC
5 126 (13.02%) Protocol Buffers
5 126 (13.02%) SciPy
6 121 (12.50%) Spring Boot
7 97 (10.02%) HTML
8 95 (9.81%) AngularJS
9 90 (9.30%) CSS
10 86 (8.88%) Kafka
11 62 (6.40%) JSON
12 61 (6.30%) jQuery
13 60 (6.20%) Hibernate
13 60 (6.20%) J2EE
13 60 (6.20%) Jest
13 60 (6.20%) JMS
13 60 (6.20%) Node.js
13 60 (6.20%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 180 (18.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 165 (17.05%) Cloud Native
3 164 (16.94%) Fixed Income
4 146 (15.08%) Derivative
5 142 (14.67%) Hedge funds
6 133 (13.74%) Equities
7 112 (11.57%) Algorithms
8 105 (10.85%) Self-Motivation
9 69 (7.13%) Data Structures
10 51 (5.27%) Public Cloud
11 49 (5.06%) Product Ownership
12 39 (4.03%) Management Information System
13 25 (2.58%) Credit Risk
14 23 (2.38%) Private Cloud
15 21 (2.17%) Replication
16 20 (2.07%) Onboarding
17 15 (1.55%) Distributed Applications
18 14 (1.45%) Credit Derivative
19 13 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
20 12 (1.24%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.44%) Linux
1 43 (4.44%) Windows
2 27 (2.79%) Android
3 22 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (2.07%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.24%) Unix
6 4 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.31%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.21%) Solaris
8 2 (0.21%) VMS
8 2 (0.21%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.10%) AIX
9 1 (0.10%) CentOS
9 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 591 (61.05%) Agile
2 505 (52.17%) Software Engineering
3 361 (37.29%) Asset Management
4 329 (33.99%) SDLC
5 311 (32.13%) CI/CD
6 291 (30.06%) Operational Stability
7 272 (28.10%) Artificial Intelligence
7 272 (28.10%) Machine Learning
8 219 (22.62%) Community of Practice
9 126 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
10 125 (12.91%) Investment Management
11 117 (12.09%) Architectural Design
12 116 (11.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 116 (11.98%) Information Architecture
13 115 (11.88%) TDD
14 112 (11.57%) Coaching
15 110 (11.36%) Visualisation
16 106 (10.95%) Multithreading
17 100 (10.33%) Analytics
18 98 (10.12%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 471 (48.66%) Java
2 288 (29.75%) Python
3 259 (26.76%) JavaScript
4 215 (22.21%) TypeScript
5 177 (18.29%) SQL
6 38 (3.93%) C#
7 37 (3.82%) Kotlin
7 37 (3.82%) Scala
8 36 (3.72%) Groovy
9 35 (3.62%) Ruby
10 26 (2.69%) Bash
11 24 (2.48%) Perl
12 23 (2.38%) PowerShell
13 22 (2.27%) PL/SQL
14 16 (1.65%) Korn
15 15 (1.55%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.62%) XAML
17 5 (0.52%) R
17 5 (0.52%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.41%) C++
Qualifications
1 84 (8.68%) Degree
2 18 (1.86%) Master's Degree
3 15 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (1.14%) MBA
5 4 (0.41%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.31%) Tableau Certification
7 2 (0.21%) CISA
7 2 (0.21%) CISM
7 2 (0.21%) CISSP
7 2 (0.21%) MCSA
7 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.21%) PhD
7 2 (0.21%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (0.10%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.10%) CCAB
8 1 (0.10%) CRISC
8 1 (0.10%) QiCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (5.27%) Data Quality
2 40 (4.13%) Accessibility
3 26 (2.69%) SLA
4 13 (1.34%) QA
5 3 (0.31%) SEPA
5 3 (0.31%) TARGET2
6 2 (0.21%) EMIR
6 2 (0.21%) MiFID
7 1 (0.10%) COBIT
7 1 (0.10%) COREP
7 1 (0.10%) IFRS
7 1 (0.10%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.10%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.10%) ITGC
7 1 (0.10%) PMO
7 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (2.27%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.45%) Docker
3 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.21%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.21%) vSphere
4 1 (0.10%) GridGain
4 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 33 (3.41%) Grafana
3 25 (2.58%) Ansible
4 22 (2.27%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.17%) HAProxy
5 21 (2.17%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (2.17%) Kibana
5 21 (2.17%) Zipkin
6 20 (2.07%) Puppet
7 19 (1.96%) Terraform
8 16 (1.65%) Red Hat Satellite
9 15 (1.55%) Control-M
10 10 (1.03%) Graphite
11 9 (0.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 8 (0.83%) SafeCom
13 7 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.21%) BMC PATROL
14 2 (0.21%) EMC NetWorker
14 2 (0.21%) NetBackup
15 1 (0.10%) SCCM
Vendors
1 136 (14.05%) Microsoft
2 69 (7.13%) Oracle
3 33 (3.41%) Splunk
4 29 (3.00%) Alteryx
5 24 (2.48%) Google
6 23 (2.38%) Red Hat
7 21 (2.17%) Dynatrace
7 21 (2.17%) Sybase
8 20 (2.07%) Cognos
9 19 (1.96%) Databricks
10 17 (1.76%) Sun
10 17 (1.76%) TOWER Software
11 13 (1.34%) Bloomberg
12 11 (1.14%) BISAM
13 10 (1.03%) Citrix
14 9 (0.93%) VMware
15 8 (0.83%) ServiceNow
15 8 (0.83%) SolarWinds
15 8 (0.83%) Veritas
16 7 (0.72%) Fortinet