Investment Management Jobs

Investment Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Investment Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Investment Management over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 311 409
Rank change year-on-year -18 +98 -46
Permanent jobs citing Investment Management 478 926 784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.88% 0.93% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 1.09% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 452 787 667
10th Percentile £76,250 £65,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £105,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £136,250 £142,500 £116,250
90th Percentile £152,500 £148,750 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

All Process and 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 51,147 84,812 96,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.75% 85.58% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 26,984 59,843 56,946
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Investment Management in the UK

Investment Management
Top 10 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 10 May 2025. 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 -29 472 £115,000 +9.52% 356
London -2 449 £115,000 +9.52% 320
Work from Home +53 352 £115,000 +2.22% 92
UK excluding London +90 27 £65,000 - 95
North of England +66 15 £65,000 -21.21% 9
North West +18 12 £65,000 -1.89% 5
Scotland +43 6 £57,500 -11.54% 8
South East +102 4 £77,500 - 52
North East - 3 £92,500 - 2
South West +112 2 £85,253 +13.67% 1

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
1 135 (28.24%) Apache Airflow
2 62 (12.97%) Apache
3 8 (1.67%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.21%) Confluence
5 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 59 (12.34%) Aladdin
2 37 (7.74%) thinkFolio
3 3 (0.63%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 213 (44.56%) AWS
2 133 (27.82%) dbt
2 133 (27.82%) GCP
3 47 (9.83%) Azure
4 42 (8.79%) Snowflake
5 20 (4.18%) Dagster
6 15 (3.14%) Amazon S3
6 15 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (3.14%) Serverless
7 10 (2.09%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (1.46%) AWS Step Functions
9 7 (1.46%) Power Platform
10 6 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (1.26%) Datadog
11 5 (1.05%) Figma
12 4 (0.84%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (0.84%) GitHub
12 4 (0.84%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.63%) SAN
2 1 (0.21%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (32.85%) Data Lake
2 125 (26.15%) Amazon Athena
3 124 (25.94%) Apache Iceberg
3 124 (25.94%) Dremio
4 104 (21.76%) Apache Arrow
5 72 (15.06%) PostgreSQL
6 62 (12.97%) Apache Ignite
7 15 (3.14%) NoSQL
7 15 (3.14%) SQL Server
8 12 (2.51%) MongoDB
9 10 (2.09%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.67%) Apache Hive
11 7 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.26%) Power BI
13 4 (0.84%) Tick Data
14 2 (0.42%) Crystal Reports
14 2 (0.42%) SAP BW
14 2 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
14 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (2.72%) Git
2 6 (1.26%) CircleCI
2 6 (1.26%) GitLab
2 6 (1.26%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (0.63%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.63%) git-flow
4 3 (0.63%) Selenium
5 2 (0.42%) JIRA
5 2 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.21%) Maven
General
1 441 (92.26%) Finance
2 372 (77.82%) Front Office
3 112 (23.43%) Banking
4 53 (11.09%) Investment Banking
5 20 (4.18%) Social Skills
6 10 (2.09%) Retail
7 5 (1.05%) Financial Institution
8 3 (0.63%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.63%) Legal
9 2 (0.42%) Back Office
9 2 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.21%) Law
10 1 (0.21%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.21%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.21%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 170 (35.56%) Software Engineer
2 153 (32.01%) Developer
3 118 (24.69%) AWS Engineer
3 118 (24.69%) AWS Software Engineer
4 113 (23.64%) Python Engineer
5 110 (23.01%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 100 (20.92%) Analyst
7 92 (19.25%) Python Software Engineer
8 79 (16.53%) Business Analyst
9 75 (15.69%) AWS Developer
10 71 (14.85%) Senior
11 67 (14.02%) Business Manager
12 57 (11.92%) Python Developer
13 56 (11.72%) Java Engineer
14 55 (11.51%) Java Software Engineer
15 52 (10.88%) Senior Software Engineer
16 49 (10.25%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
17 45 (9.41%) React Developer
18 43 (9.00%) Lead
19 41 (8.58%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (28.66%) React
2 124 (25.94%) NumPy
2 124 (25.94%) Pandas
2 124 (25.94%) SciPy
3 108 (22.59%) Node.js
4 78 (16.32%) AngularJS
5 75 (15.69%) Vue
6 73 (15.27%) Redux
7 68 (14.23%) gRPC
8 62 (12.97%) Protocol Buffers
9 20 (4.18%) PySpark
10 18 (3.77%) REST
11 12 (2.51%) GraphQL
11 12 (2.51%) Kafka
12 10 (2.09%) Web Services
13 9 (1.88%) .NET
14 7 (1.46%) RESTful
15 6 (1.26%) Flask
15 6 (1.26%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (1.26%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 365 (76.36%) Fixed Income
2 254 (53.14%) Hedge funds
3 238 (49.79%) Equities
4 235 (49.16%) Derivative
5 225 (47.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 80 (16.74%) Product Ownership
7 42 (8.79%) Onboarding
8 41 (8.58%) Pricing Data
9 17 (3.56%) Cloud Native
10 10 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.26%) Blockchain
11 6 (1.26%) Web3
12 3 (0.63%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.42%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.42%) Client/Server
13 2 (0.42%) Cyber Defence
13 2 (0.42%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.42%) N-Tier
13 2 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.21%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.77%) Apple iOS
2 9 (1.88%) Windows
3 6 (1.26%) Linux
4 3 (0.63%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (83.68%) Agile
2 262 (54.81%) Asset Management
3 202 (42.26%) Software Engineering
4 152 (31.80%) Roadmaps
5 116 (24.27%) Migration
6 114 (23.85%) Data Governance
7 112 (23.43%) Fintech
7 112 (23.43%) Regulatory Compliance
8 99 (20.71%) Portfolio Management
9 88 (18.41%) Data Management
10 80 (16.74%) Analytics
11 73 (15.27%) Performance Attribution
12 63 (13.18%) Order Management
13 61 (12.76%) Business Intelligence
14 55 (11.51%) Risk Management
15 51 (10.67%) Front End Development
16 50 (10.46%) Business Analysis
17 42 (8.79%) Data Mapping
18 40 (8.37%) Risk Analytics
19 37 (7.74%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 265 (55.44%) Python
2 174 (36.40%) TypeScript
3 159 (33.26%) JavaScript
4 88 (18.41%) Java
4 88 (18.41%) SQL
5 8 (1.67%) C#
6 7 (1.46%) Go
7 6 (1.26%) C++
8 5 (1.05%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.42%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 48 (10.04%) Degree
2 7 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (0.63%) A+ Certification
4 2 (0.42%) ACCA
4 2 (0.42%) CIMA
4 2 (0.42%) MCSE
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.42%) VCAP
4 2 (0.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (11.51%) MiFID
2 4 (0.84%) QA
3 3 (0.63%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.21%) AIFMD
4 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.21%) NIST
4 1 (0.21%) UCITS
System Software
1 18 (3.77%) Docker
2 5 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.42%) vSphere
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (1.88%) Terraform
2 7 (1.46%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.46%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.63%) Ansible
3 3 (0.63%) SCCM
3 3 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.21%) Puppet
4 1 (0.21%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.21%) vRealize
Vendors
1 57 (11.92%) BISAM
2 44 (9.21%) Charles River
3 40 (8.37%) SimCorp
4 36 (7.53%) Calypso
5 10 (2.09%) Ping Identity
6 8 (1.67%) Oracle
7 7 (1.46%) Microsoft
8 5 (1.05%) Citrix
9 3 (0.63%) Databricks
9 3 (0.63%) VMware
10 2 (0.42%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.42%) eFront
10 2 (0.42%) Intel
10 2 (0.42%) SAP
11 1 (0.21%) Informatica
11 1 (0.21%) Okta
11 1 (0.21%) Splunk
11 1 (0.21%) Tenable
11 1 (0.21%) Veeam
11 1 (0.21%) Yardi