Investment Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Investment Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Investment Management over the 6 months to 28 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 310 322 336
Rank change year-on-year +12 +14 -56
Permanent jobs citing Investment Management 538 1,420 1,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.99% 1.13% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.18% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 472 1,241 1,165
10th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £92,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.81% -2.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £138,750 £122,500 £126,250
90th Percentile £146,250 £140,000 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £61,450 £45,000
% change year-on-year +22.05% +36.56% -22.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Investment Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,121 120,104 122,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.09% 95.72% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 36,956 73,203 81,032
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,313 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.69% +7.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +4.17%

Investment Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Management in the UK

Investment Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Investment Management in the UK

Investment Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Investment Management over the 6 months to 28 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Investment Management in the UK

Investment Management
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 Management within the UK over the 6 months to 28 November 2023. 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 +6 521 £102,500 +7.89% 208
London +18 493 £105,000 +10.53% 180
Work from Home -12 172 £97,500 +8.33% 87
UK excluding London +123 44 £75,000 +22.05% 49
North of England +89 16 £80,000 +33.33% 10
Scotland +40 16 £65,000 +8.33% 10
North West +78 9 £52,000 -13.33% 7
South East +107 6 £70,000 +3.70% 11
East of England +118 2 £77,500 +3.33% 1
Yorkshire +87 2 £85,572 -9.92% 3
South West +65 2 £71,250 -5.00% 7
Midlands +123 1 £105,000 +70.87% 8
West Midlands +110 1 £105,000 +70.87% 6
North East +36 1 £58,000 -22.67%
Wales +4 1 £60,000 -20.00% 2

Investment Management
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 30 (5.58%) Apache
1 30 (5.58%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.30%) Site Server
4 5 (0.93%) Confluence
5 2 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.37%) MS Exchange
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.19%) CMS
6 1 (0.19%) Drupal
6 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.12%) Photoshop
4 5 (0.93%) Adobe After Effects
4 5 (0.93%) Adobe Premiere
4 5 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.19%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.19%) InDesign
6 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (1.12%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.74%) Front Arena
3 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.37%) thinkFolio
4 1 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 250 (46.47%) AWS
2 187 (34.76%) GCP
3 161 (29.93%) Azure
4 19 (3.53%) Serverless
5 14 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (2.60%) Amazon S3
5 14 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (2.42%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (2.42%) Amazon EMR
6 13 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (2.23%) Power Platform
8 10 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (1.49%) GitHub
9 8 (1.49%) WhatsApp
10 7 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (0.93%) IaaS
11 5 (0.93%) PaaS
12 4 (0.74%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.04%) DNS
2 10 (1.86%) Firewall
3 9 (1.67%) DHCP
4 7 (1.30%) iSCSI
4 7 (1.30%) NAS
4 7 (1.30%) SAN
5 5 (0.93%) IP Telephony
5 5 (0.93%) LAN
5 5 (0.93%) WAN
6 3 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.56%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.19%) Internet
7 1 (0.19%) Network Security
7 1 (0.19%) PBX
7 1 (0.19%) PPP
7 1 (0.19%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (5.58%) Apache Ignite
3 28 (5.20%) SQL Server
4 14 (2.60%) Tick Data
5 13 (2.42%) DynamoDB
6 10 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (1.86%) Power BI
7 9 (1.67%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.49%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.30%) Tableau
10 6 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.74%) Redis
12 3 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.56%) KDB
12 3 (0.56%) Kdb+
12 3 (0.56%) MySQL
13 2 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.37%) Dremio
13 2 (0.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 48 (8.92%) Cypress.io
2 31 (5.76%) Git
3 25 (4.65%) JIRA
4 17 (3.16%) JUnit
5 16 (2.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 16 (2.97%) Cucumber
5 16 (2.97%) Maven
6 15 (2.79%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.12%) GCC
8 5 (0.93%) Selenium
9 4 (0.74%) NUnit
9 4 (0.74%) Subversion
10 3 (0.56%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.56%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.37%) Liquibase
12 1 (0.19%) Karma Test Runner
12 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 391 (72.68%) Finance
2 246 (45.72%) Front Office
3 88 (16.36%) Banking
4 76 (14.13%) Social Skills
5 29 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (3.53%) Investment Banking
7 17 (3.16%) Financial Institution
8 16 (2.97%) Back Office
9 11 (2.04%) Legal
10 8 (1.49%) Marketing
11 7 (1.30%) Law
11 7 (1.30%) Private Banking
12 6 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.93%) Billing
13 5 (0.93%) Publishing
13 5 (0.93%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 270 (50.19%) Developer
2 167 (31.04%) Software Engineer
3 161 (29.93%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 103 (19.14%) React Developer
5 96 (17.84%) .NET Developer
6 87 (16.17%) Full Stack Developer
7 83 (15.43%) Full Stack Engineer
7 83 (15.43%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 79 (14.68%) Analyst
9 78 (14.50%) .NET Software Engineer
10 76 (14.13%) .NET Software Developer
11 62 (11.52%) Python Developer
12 59 (10.97%) Finance Manager
13 49 (9.11%) Python Engineer
14 48 (8.92%) Python Software Engineer
15 44 (8.18%) Business Analyst
16 41 (7.62%) Software Manager
17 40 (7.43%) Software Asset Manager
18 31 (5.76%) Business Manager
18 31 (5.76%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (31.04%) React
2 154 (28.62%) Redux
3 128 (23.79%) .NET
4 91 (16.91%) AngularJS
5 83 (15.43%) ASP.NET
6 82 (15.24%) Vue
7 80 (14.87%) ASP.NET Core
8 75 (13.94%) Node.js
9 54 (10.04%) Material-UI
10 28 (5.20%) gRPC
10 28 (5.20%) OpenFin
11 25 (4.65%) GraphQL
11 25 (4.65%) Spring
12 15 (2.79%) HTML
13 14 (2.60%) Middleware
14 13 (2.42%) YAML
15 12 (2.23%) JSON
15 12 (2.23%) Protocol Buffers
16 11 (2.04%) .NET Core
16 11 (2.04%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 210 (39.03%) Fixed Income
2 161 (29.93%) Hedge funds
3 145 (26.95%) Derivative
4 120 (22.30%) Equities
5 108 (20.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 31 (5.76%) Product Ownership
7 20 (3.72%) Greenfield Project
7 20 (3.72%) Mobile App
7 20 (3.72%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.12%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.12%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.12%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.12%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.93%) Blog
11 4 (0.74%) Animation
11 4 (0.74%) Credit Derivative
11 4 (0.74%) Motion Graphics
12 3 (0.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 35 (6.51%) Windows
2 31 (5.76%) Linux
3 22 (4.09%) Apple iOS
4 19 (3.53%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.67%) Unix
5 9 (1.67%) Windows 10
6 8 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.93%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.56%) Android
8 3 (0.56%) CentOS
8 3 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.37%) AIX
9 2 (0.37%) Fedora
9 2 (0.37%) HPUX
9 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.37%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (53.72%) Agile
2 268 (49.81%) Asset Management
3 205 (38.10%) Software Engineering
4 151 (28.07%) Full Stack Development
5 131 (24.35%) Fintech
6 121 (22.49%) DevOps
7 91 (16.91%) TDD
8 81 (15.06%) Analytics
9 70 (13.01%) Roadmaps
10 50 (9.29%) User Experience
11 48 (8.92%) Microservices
12 46 (8.55%) CI/CD
13 45 (8.36%) Machine Learning
14 44 (8.18%) Artificial Intelligence
15 41 (7.62%) Problem-Solving
16 38 (7.06%) Computer Science
17 37 (6.88%) Low Latency
18 31 (5.76%) Order Management
18 31 (5.76%) SDLC
19 30 (5.58%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 178 (33.09%) TypeScript
2 174 (32.34%) Python
3 145 (26.95%) JavaScript
4 136 (25.28%) C#
5 100 (18.59%) SQL
6 78 (14.50%) Java
7 41 (7.62%) PowerShell
8 34 (6.32%) Kotlin
9 26 (4.83%) C++
10 13 (2.42%) Bash
11 10 (1.86%) R
12 7 (1.30%) C
12 7 (1.30%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.56%) Go
14 2 (0.37%) F#
14 2 (0.37%) Rust
14 2 (0.37%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.19%) Bourne shell
15 1 (0.19%) Ruby
15 1 (0.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 54 (10.04%) Degree
2 17 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (1.12%) CCIE
4 6 (1.12%) CCNP
4 6 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (1.12%) Master's Degree
4 6 (1.12%) MCSA
5 3 (0.56%) CREST Certified
5 3 (0.56%) PhD
6 2 (0.37%) CISM
6 2 (0.37%) CISSP
6 2 (0.37%) GCFA
6 2 (0.37%) GCIH
6 2 (0.37%) MCSE
6 2 (0.37%) VCAP
6 2 (0.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.19%) CFA
7 1 (0.19%) CRISC
7 1 (0.19%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (15.99%) QA
2 4 (0.74%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.56%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.37%) SLA
5 1 (0.19%) GDPR
5 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.19%) NIST
5 1 (0.19%) PMO
5 1 (0.19%) WAI
System Software
1 27 (5.02%) Active Directory
2 17 (3.16%) Docker
3 12 (2.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.30%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.74%) DFS Replication
7 4 (0.74%) vSphere
8 3 (0.56%) NFS
9 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.37%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.19%) GFS2
10 1 (0.19%) GPFS
10 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 13 (2.42%) Ansible
1 13 (2.42%) Terraform
2 10 (1.86%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (0.74%) NetBackup
4 4 (0.74%) Puppet
4 4 (0.74%) SCCM
4 4 (0.74%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 3 (0.56%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.37%) SCOM
6 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.19%) Grafana
7 1 (0.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 58 (10.78%) Microsoft
2 54 (10.04%) Google
3 24 (4.46%) Finsemble
4 22 (4.09%) Citrix
5 19 (3.53%) ServiceNow
6 14 (2.60%) Atlassian
7 13 (2.42%) VMware
8 12 (2.23%) Bloomberg
8 12 (2.23%) Charles River
8 12 (2.23%) Cisco
9 11 (2.04%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.49%) Adobe
10 8 (1.49%) Oracle
11 7 (1.30%) Juniper
11 7 (1.30%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.30%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.12%) CheckPoint
12 6 (1.12%) F5
12 6 (1.12%) Fortinet
12 6 (1.12%) Riverbed