Investment Management Job Trends

Investment Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Investment Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 280 269
Rank change year-on-year -202 -11 +67
Permanent jobs citing Investment Management 173 538 616
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 1.01% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 1.11% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 135 514 496
10th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £83,125 £80,000 £73,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £138,750
90th Percentile £140,500 £152,500 £146,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £76,626 £75,000
% change year-on-year -8.65% +2.17% +25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Investment Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,596 48,532 50,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.69% 89.94%
Number of salaries quoted 28,664 23,590 38,164
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

Investment Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Investment Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Investment Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Investment Management

Investment Management
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Investment Management in the UK

Investment Management
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 Management 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 -189 158 £105,000 - 30
London -139 143 £110,000 +4.76% 21
Work from Home -122 86 £130,000 +18.18% 10
UK excluding London +58 28 £70,000 -8.65% 15
Scotland +20 15 - -
North West +29 11 £70,000 +7.69% 6
North of England +11 11 £70,000 -30.00% 6
South East +34 1 - - 8
South West +11 1 £70,000 -17.89%

Investment Management
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 52 (30.06%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (16.76%) Apache
3 10 (5.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (5.20%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.58%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (9.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.89%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.58%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 81 (46.82%) AWS
2 53 (30.64%) dbt
3 36 (20.81%) Azure
4 30 (17.34%) Snowflake
5 27 (15.61%) GCP
6 24 (13.87%) Power Platform
7 21 (12.14%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (7.51%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (6.36%) GitHub
10 10 (5.78%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (5.78%) Amazon Kinesis
10 10 (5.78%) Entra ID
10 10 (5.78%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (5.78%) SaaS
11 9 (5.20%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (5.20%) ChatGPT
11 9 (5.20%) Microsoft Copilot
12 8 (4.62%) OneDrive
13 7 (4.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (4.05%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.62%) Telnet
2 7 (4.05%) DHCP
2 7 (4.05%) DNS
3 5 (2.89%) SD-WAN
3 5 (2.89%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.89%) VPN
3 5 (2.89%) WAN
4 3 (1.73%) Firewall
5 1 (0.58%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (30.06%) Amazon Athena
1 52 (30.06%) Apache Arrow
1 52 (30.06%) Apache Iceberg
1 52 (30.06%) Dremio
2 39 (22.54%) Data Lake
3 29 (16.76%) Apache Ignite
4 24 (13.87%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (13.87%) Power BI
5 10 (5.78%) Flink
6 8 (4.62%) Qlik Sense
7 7 (4.05%) NoSQL
8 6 (3.47%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.16%) Power Query
11 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.58%) MySQL
11 1 (0.58%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.58%) Tableau
11 1 (0.58%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 9 (5.20%) JIRA
2 5 (2.89%) CircleCI
2 5 (2.89%) GitLab
2 5 (2.89%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.73%) Git
4 2 (1.16%) Plastic SCM
General
1 139 (80.35%) Finance
2 90 (52.02%) Front Office
3 53 (30.64%) Banking
4 38 (21.97%) Social Skills
5 30 (17.34%) Investment Banking
6 29 (16.76%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.31%) Private Banking
9 3 (1.73%) Law
10 2 (1.16%) Back Office
10 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.16%) Retail
11 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Legal
11 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 63 (36.42%) Senior
2 58 (33.53%) AWS Engineer
2 58 (33.53%) Python Engineer
3 55 (31.79%) Software Engineer
4 52 (30.06%) AWS Software Engineer
4 52 (30.06%) Python Software Engineer
5 38 (21.97%) Developer
6 35 (20.23%) Java Engineer
7 33 (19.08%) Senior Java Engineer
8 30 (17.34%) Analyst
9 29 (16.76%) Java Software Engineer
10 27 (15.61%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 27 (15.61%) Senior Software Engineer
11 25 (14.45%) Python Developer
12 24 (13.87%) AWS Developer
13 23 (13.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 15 (8.67%) DevOps Engineer
15 14 (8.09%) Senior Analyst
16 13 (7.51%) Data Analyst
17 12 (6.94%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (30.06%) NumPy
1 52 (30.06%) Pandas
1 52 (30.06%) SciPy
2 34 (19.65%) gRPC
3 33 (19.08%) React
4 29 (16.76%) Node.js
4 29 (16.76%) Protocol Buffers
5 25 (14.45%) Vue
6 23 (13.29%) AngularJS
7 16 (9.25%) Kafka
8 8 (4.62%) FIX Protocol
9 6 (3.47%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (2.89%) RESTful
10 5 (2.89%) web3js
11 3 (1.73%) PySpark
12 2 (1.16%) .NET
12 2 (1.16%) Middleware
12 2 (1.16%) OAuth
12 2 (1.16%) OAuth2
12 2 (1.16%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 68 (39.31%) Fixed Income
2 62 (35.84%) Equities
3 54 (31.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 31 (17.92%) Derivative
4 31 (17.92%) Hedge funds
5 29 (16.76%) Pricing Data
6 13 (7.51%) Onboarding
7 10 (5.78%) Product Ownership
8 8 (4.62%) AI Agents
9 7 (4.05%) Cloud Native
9 7 (4.05%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (2.89%) Blockchain
10 5 (2.89%) Web3
11 4 (2.31%) Management Information System
12 2 (1.16%) Mobile App
13 1 (0.58%) Equity Derivative
13 1 (0.58%) OTC Derivatives
13 1 (0.58%) PMI
13 1 (0.58%) Public Cloud
13 1 (0.58%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.40%) Windows
2 15 (8.67%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.47%) Windows 10
4 5 (2.89%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.16%) Linux
6 1 (0.58%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (48.55%) Agile
2 79 (45.66%) Asset Management
3 61 (35.26%) Software Engineering
4 36 (20.81%) Order Management
5 34 (19.65%) Analytics
5 34 (19.65%) Risk Management
6 29 (16.76%) AI
6 29 (16.76%) Decision-Making
7 28 (16.18%) DevOps
8 26 (15.03%) Fintech
9 25 (14.45%) Business Intelligence
10 23 (13.29%) Performance Attribution
10 23 (13.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (12.14%) CI/CD
12 16 (9.25%) Project Management
13 14 (8.09%) Data Analytics
13 14 (8.09%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (7.51%) Infrastructure as Code
14 13 (7.51%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (7.51%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 88 (50.87%) Python
2 63 (36.42%) JavaScript
3 58 (33.53%) TypeScript
4 50 (28.90%) Java
5 32 (18.50%) SQL
6 14 (8.09%) PowerShell
7 9 (5.20%) Go
8 3 (1.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.16%) C#
9 2 (1.16%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.16%) R
9 2 (1.16%) VB
10 1 (0.58%) C++
10 1 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (15.61%) Degree
2 8 (4.62%) PMI Certification
3 7 (4.05%) IIBA
3 7 (4.05%) PMP
4 3 (1.73%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.16%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.58%) ACCA
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.58%) CFA
6 1 (0.58%) CIMA
6 1 (0.58%) CISM
6 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.73%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.16%) QA
3 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.58%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (6.36%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.20%) Docker
3 5 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (9.25%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.78%) Argo
2 10 (5.78%) Terraform
3 9 (5.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (2.89%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (13.87%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.94%) Charles River
3 9 (5.20%) Databricks
4 7 (4.05%) Alteryx
4 7 (4.05%) Anaplan
5 5 (2.89%) VMware
6 4 (2.31%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.73%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.16%) eFront
9 1 (0.58%) Avaya
9 1 (0.58%) Canon
9 1 (0.58%) Cisco
9 1 (0.58%) Citrix
9 1 (0.58%) FactSet
9 1 (0.58%) Informatica
9 1 (0.58%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.58%) Oracle
9 1 (0.58%) SAP
9 1 (0.58%) SimCorp