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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 582 351 248
Rank change year-on-year -231 -103 +43
Permanent jobs citing Investment Management 204 393 944
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.79% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.88% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 146 359 899
10th Percentile £64,375 £75,500 £71,250
25th Percentile £81,250 £97,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £142,500 £136,250 £142,500
90th Percentile £158,750 £137,500 £148,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £100,000 £65,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year +53.85% -4.41% +17.24%

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 78,311 44,508 67,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.48% 89.25% 80.98%
Number of salaries quoted 53,938 25,218 43,343
10th Percentile £30,775 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%

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 15 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Investment Management in the UK

Investment Management
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 Management within the UK over the 6 months to 15 August 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 -212 191 £100,000 -13.04% 378
London -197 133 £135,000 +8.00% 339
Work from Home -178 91 £135,000 +5.88% 126
UK excluding London -54 66 £100,000 +53.85% 70
North of England -4 51 £100,000 +53.85% 11
North West +9 29 £100,000 +53.85% 4
North East -39 22 £100,000 +53.85% 4
Scotland -2 9 £67,500 +17.39% 20
South East -27 2 £57,500 - 24
Midlands - 2 £38,000 - 12
South West - 2 £75,000 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £38,000 - 12
East Midlands - 1 - -

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 5 (2.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (0.98%) Confluence
3 1 (0.49%) Apache
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.47%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.49%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 75 (36.76%) AWS
2 26 (12.75%) Snowflake
3 21 (10.29%) Anthropic Claude
4 19 (9.31%) Amazon Bedrock
5 17 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (6.86%) Amazon S3
6 14 (6.86%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (6.86%) Azure
6 14 (6.86%) Serverless
7 13 (6.37%) GCP
8 12 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (5.39%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (5.39%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (5.39%) Datadog
10 9 (4.41%) Power Platform
11 7 (3.43%) GitHub
12 4 (1.96%) Vyond
13 2 (0.98%) Collibra
13 2 (0.98%) Google Gemini
14 1 (0.49%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.47%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.49%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.88%) DynamoDB
2 11 (5.39%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (5.39%) NoSQL
3 9 (4.41%) Power BI
4 8 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.45%) Flink
6 4 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.98%) Metadata
7 2 (0.98%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.98%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.98%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.49%) Db2
8 1 (0.49%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (10.29%) Claude Code
2 12 (5.88%) GitLab
3 11 (5.39%) CircleCI
3 11 (5.39%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.94%) JIRA
5 1 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.49%) CocoaPods
5 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.49%) fastlane
5 1 (0.49%) Git
5 1 (0.49%) Maven
5 1 (0.49%) NUnit
5 1 (0.49%) Xcode
General
1 147 (72.06%) Finance
2 57 (27.94%) Banking
3 51 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 40 (19.61%) Front Office
5 20 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (7.84%) Marketing
7 14 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (4.90%) Financial Institution
9 8 (3.92%) Legal
9 8 (3.92%) Private Banking
10 6 (2.94%) Law
11 5 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.96%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.47%) Back Office
14 2 (0.98%) Advertising
15 1 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.49%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.49%) Publishing
15 1 (0.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (25.49%) Developer
2 47 (23.04%) Lead
3 39 (19.12%) Software Engineer
4 36 (17.65%) Senior
5 26 (12.75%) Architect
5 26 (12.75%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 20 (9.80%) Analyst
6 20 (9.80%) Lead Developer
7 19 (9.31%) Python Engineer
8 18 (8.82%) Business Analyst
8 18 (8.82%) Enterprise Architect
8 18 (8.82%) Finance Manager
9 16 (7.84%) Lead Software Developer
9 16 (7.84%) Lead Software Engineer
9 16 (7.84%) React Developer
10 15 (7.35%) Data Engineer
11 13 (6.37%) Senior Developer
12 11 (5.39%) Java Engineer
13 10 (4.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 9 (4.41%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (17.16%) React
2 32 (15.69%) Kafka
3 30 (14.71%) Node.js
4 26 (12.75%) Redux
5 18 (8.82%) GraphQL
5 18 (8.82%) LangChain
5 18 (8.82%) LangGraph
6 13 (6.37%) RESTful
7 11 (5.39%) gRPC
7 11 (5.39%) RabbitMQ
8 10 (4.90%) web3js
9 9 (4.41%) AngularJS
10 7 (3.43%) .NET
10 7 (3.43%) CSS
10 7 (3.43%) HTML
10 7 (3.43%) PySpark
11 6 (2.94%) Pandas
12 5 (2.45%) PyTorch
13 4 (1.96%) Great Expectations
13 4 (1.96%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 44 (21.57%) Hedge funds
2 30 (14.71%) Fixed Income
3 27 (13.24%) AI Agents
4 19 (9.31%) Onboarding
5 16 (7.84%) Marketing Technology
6 15 (7.35%) Equities
7 14 (6.86%) Cloud Native
8 13 (6.37%) Blockchain
9 12 (5.88%) Derivative
10 10 (4.90%) Web3
11 9 (4.41%) Algorithms
12 7 (3.43%) Management Information System
12 7 (3.43%) Reference Data
13 4 (1.96%) e-Learning
13 4 (1.96%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.96%) Taxonomies
14 3 (1.47%) Client/Server
14 3 (1.47%) Data Structures
14 3 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.49%) Linux
1 1 (0.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (27.45%) Asset Management
2 53 (25.98%) Software Engineering
3 49 (24.02%) Agile
4 44 (21.57%) AI
5 39 (19.12%) Analytics
6 32 (15.69%) Fintech
6 32 (15.69%) Portfolio Management
7 30 (14.71%) Machine Learning
8 27 (13.24%) Roadmaps
9 25 (12.25%) Full-Stack Development
10 23 (11.27%) Data Science
11 21 (10.29%) CI/CD
11 21 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (10.29%) Test Automation
12 20 (9.80%) Wealth Management
13 19 (9.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 19 (9.31%) Microservices
13 19 (9.31%) Stakeholder Management
14 18 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
14 18 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 71 (34.80%) Python
2 42 (20.59%) Java
3 40 (19.61%) TypeScript
4 37 (18.14%) SQL
5 31 (15.20%) JavaScript
6 27 (13.24%) Go
7 9 (4.41%) C#
8 7 (3.43%) C++
9 2 (0.98%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.98%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.98%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.49%) C
10 1 (0.49%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.49%) R
10 1 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (11.76%) Degree
2 6 (2.94%) ACCA
2 6 (2.94%) CIMA
3 4 (1.96%) PhD
4 3 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.49%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.29%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.45%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.96%) WCAG
4 3 (1.47%) QA
5 2 (0.98%) GDPR
5 2 (0.98%) IFRS
5 2 (0.98%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.98%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (5.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (8.82%) Terraform
2 11 (5.39%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (14.22%) Databricks
2 10 (4.90%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.41%) Adobe
4 7 (3.43%) Charles River
5 5 (2.45%) Bloomberg
5 5 (2.45%) Refinitiv
6 4 (1.96%) Synthesia
7 3 (1.47%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.47%) Oracle
7 3 (1.47%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.98%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.98%) Anaplan
8 2 (0.98%) Foundry
8 2 (0.98%) Informatica
9 1 (0.49%) DocuSign
9 1 (0.49%) MarketAxess
9 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.49%) Splunk
9 1 (0.49%) Sybase
9 1 (0.49%) Varonis