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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 409 357
Rank change year-on-year +78 -52 -35
Permanent jobs citing Investment Management 837 801 1,591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.85% 0.76% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.79% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 715 676 1,321
10th Percentile £62,500 £55,625 £56,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £90,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £142,500 £116,250 £128,750
90th Percentile £148,750 £150,000 £140,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% +18.18% -8.33%

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 84,343 100,922 147,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.11% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,769 59,097 83,311
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,488
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Investment Management in the UK

Investment Management
Top 14 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 24 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 +79 740 £105,000 +16.67% 169
London +92 720 £105,000 +13.51% 150
Work from Home +114 438 £112,500 +18.42% 57
UK excluding London +60 117 £72,500 +11.54% 33
Scotland +22 95 £75,286 +7.55% 10
North of England +42 9 £84,036 +60.07% 6
West Midlands +35 7 £40,000 -46.67% 3
Midlands +8 7 £40,000 -46.67% 4
North West +1 7 £66,250 +26.19% 3
Wales +9 2 £70,000 +1.82% 3
Yorkshire - 2 £85,572 - 3
East of England - 2 £77,500 -
South East -4 1 £77,500 +19.23% 5
South West -28 1 £75,000 - 3

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
1 251 (29.99%) Apache Airflow
2 220 (26.28%) Apache
3 24 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.67%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.31%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.72%) Site Server
7 4 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.24%) Appian
9 1 (0.12%) CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Confluence
9 1 (0.12%) Drupal
Applications
1 15 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.12%) InDesign
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 23 (2.75%) Aladdin
2 11 (1.31%) thinkFolio
3 10 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.36%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 557 (66.55%) AWS
2 323 (38.59%) GCP
3 260 (31.06%) Azure
4 171 (20.43%) dbt
5 152 (18.16%) Snowflake
6 21 (2.51%) BlazeMeter
6 21 (2.51%) Power Platform
7 11 (1.31%) GitHub
8 8 (0.96%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (0.72%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (0.72%) Rubrik
10 4 (0.48%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (0.48%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.48%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 3 (0.36%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.36%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (0.36%) Serverless
12 2 (0.24%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.79%) DHCP
1 15 (1.79%) DNS
2 11 (1.31%) SAN
3 8 (0.96%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.72%) iSCSI
4 6 (0.72%) NAS
5 5 (0.60%) LAN
5 5 (0.60%) WAN
6 2 (0.24%) SSH
7 1 (0.12%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.12%) Internet
7 1 (0.12%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (26.05%) Apache Ignite
2 171 (20.43%) Amazon Athena
3 170 (20.31%) Dremio
4 169 (20.19%) Apache Arrow
5 146 (17.44%) Data Lake
6 74 (8.84%) PostgreSQL
7 56 (6.69%) SQL Server
8 50 (5.97%) Big Data
9 20 (2.39%) Relational Database
10 18 (2.15%) NoSQL
11 16 (1.91%) MongoDB
11 16 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 15 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
13 14 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 13 (1.55%) Apache Hive
15 12 (1.43%) Redis
16 11 (1.31%) Power BI
17 7 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
18 4 (0.48%) InterSystems Cache
19 3 (0.36%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 45 (5.38%) Cypress.io
2 35 (4.18%) Git
3 26 (3.11%) JUnit
4 19 (2.27%) Jasmine
5 15 (1.79%) Karma Test Runner
5 15 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
6 13 (1.55%) JIRA
7 7 (0.84%) Moq
8 4 (0.48%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.48%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.48%) Maven
9 2 (0.24%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.12%) ERwin
10 1 (0.12%) GitLab
10 1 (0.12%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.12%) Selenium
10 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 741 (88.53%) Finance
2 498 (59.50%) Front Office
3 382 (45.64%) Banking
4 153 (18.28%) Investment Banking
5 115 (13.74%) Back Office
6 95 (11.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 94 (11.23%) Law
8 91 (10.87%) Private Banking
9 61 (7.29%) Social Skills
10 29 (3.46%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (1.43%) Billing
12 11 (1.31%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.84%) Legal
14 6 (0.72%) French Language
14 6 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.36%) Marketing
18 2 (0.24%) Retail Banking
19 1 (0.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 369 (44.09%) Developer
2 354 (42.29%) Software Engineer
3 251 (29.99%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 149 (17.80%) Python Developer
5 144 (17.20%) Senior
6 139 (16.61%) Analyst
7 122 (14.58%) Python Engineer
8 116 (13.86%) Python Software Engineer
9 106 (12.66%) .NET Software Engineer
10 103 (12.31%) React Developer
11 100 (11.95%) Lead
12 97 (11.59%) .NET Developer
13 96 (11.47%) Java Engineer
14 94 (11.23%) Java Software Engineer
15 91 (10.87%) Full Stack Engineer
15 91 (10.87%) Full Stack Software Engineer
16 90 (10.75%) .NET Software Developer
17 87 (10.39%) Finance Manager
18 76 (9.08%) Senior Developer
19 75 (8.96%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 246 (29.39%) gRPC
1 246 (29.39%) Protocol Buffers
2 231 (27.60%) React
3 201 (24.01%) Redux
4 179 (21.39%) AngularJS
5 139 (16.61%) Pandas
6 138 (16.49%) NumPy
7 137 (16.37%) .NET
7 137 (16.37%) SciPy
8 101 (12.07%) Vue
9 91 (10.87%) Material-UI
10 84 (10.04%) Spring
11 68 (8.12%) ASP.NET
12 54 (6.45%) .NET Core
13 46 (5.50%) HTML
14 45 (5.38%) ASP.NET Core
14 45 (5.38%) RESTful
15 43 (5.14%) Node.js
16 37 (4.42%) Spring Boot
17 36 (4.30%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 491 (58.66%) Hedge funds
2 436 (52.09%) Fixed Income
3 366 (43.73%) Derivative
4 334 (39.90%) Equities
5 276 (32.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 59 (7.05%) Cloud Native
7 47 (5.62%) Product Ownership
8 41 (4.90%) Public Cloud
9 30 (3.58%) Clustering
10 23 (2.75%) Algorithms
11 19 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.79%) Data Structures
13 13 (1.55%) Management Information System
14 9 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (0.96%) Replication
16 6 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
16 6 (0.72%) Pricing Data
17 4 (0.48%) Credit Derivative
17 4 (0.48%) Data Centre
18 3 (0.36%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 33 (3.94%) Windows
2 16 (1.91%) Windows Server
3 13 (1.55%) Windows 10
4 11 (1.31%) Linux
5 8 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (0.84%) Unix
7 5 (0.60%) CentOS
8 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.12%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 653 (78.02%) Asset Management
2 565 (67.50%) Agile
3 478 (57.11%) Software Engineering
4 196 (23.42%) Full Stack Development
5 149 (17.80%) Artificial Intelligence
6 148 (17.68%) Machine Learning
7 130 (15.53%) DevOps
8 117 (13.98%) Wealth Management
9 113 (13.50%) Fintech
10 86 (10.27%) Analytics
11 83 (9.92%) Mentoring
12 70 (8.36%) CI/CD
13 69 (8.24%) Automated Trading
13 69 (8.24%) Operational Stability
14 65 (7.77%) Line Management
15 63 (7.53%) Microservices
16 61 (7.29%) SDLC
17 57 (6.81%) Computer Science
18 56 (6.69%) TDD
19 53 (6.33%) Greeks
Programming Languages
1 489 (58.42%) Python
2 348 (41.58%) TypeScript
3 330 (39.43%) JavaScript
4 293 (35.01%) Java
5 232 (27.72%) SQL
6 192 (22.94%) C#
7 47 (5.62%) R
8 36 (4.30%) T-SQL
9 33 (3.94%) Go
10 28 (3.35%) Kotlin
11 21 (2.51%) PowerShell
12 13 (1.55%) Ruby
13 12 (1.43%) Scala
14 9 (1.08%) Bash
15 8 (0.96%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.84%) C++
17 3 (0.36%) MATLAB
17 3 (0.36%) VBA
18 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
18 1 (0.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 65 (7.77%) Degree
2 31 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (1.19%) MCSA
3 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (0.96%) CREST Certified
5 2 (0.24%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.12%) ACCA
6 1 (0.12%) CFA
6 1 (0.12%) CIMA
6 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.12%) CISM
6 1 (0.12%) CISSP
6 1 (0.12%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (0.12%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.12%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.17%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.73%) QA
3 27 (3.23%) SLA
4 15 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.79%) WAI
5 9 (1.08%) GDPR
6 6 (0.72%) SOC 1
7 2 (0.24%) PMO
8 1 (0.12%) EMIR
8 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.12%) MiFID
8 1 (0.12%) UCITS
System Software
1 25 (2.99%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.39%) Docker
3 15 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.72%) DFS Replication
4 6 (0.72%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.60%) NFS
6 4 (0.48%) XenApp
6 4 (0.48%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 61 (7.29%) Terraform
2 53 (6.33%) Kubernetes
3 31 (3.70%) Prometheus
4 21 (2.51%) Grafana
5 13 (1.55%) Ansible
6 7 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.72%) NetBackup
7 6 (0.72%) Puppet
7 6 (0.72%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 3 (0.36%) Control-M
8 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.12%) CASB
10 1 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.12%) Podman
10 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.12%) SCCM
10 1 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 72 (8.60%) Google
2 65 (7.77%) Bloomberg
3 45 (5.38%) Microsoft
4 25 (2.99%) Splunk
5 24 (2.87%) Charles River
6 21 (2.51%) Dynatrace
7 15 (1.79%) Citrix
7 15 (1.79%) VMware
8 13 (1.55%) BISAM
9 10 (1.19%) Cisco
10 9 (1.08%) FactSet
10 9 (1.08%) Refinitiv
10 9 (1.08%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.96%) MobileIron
12 7 (0.84%) Alteryx
13 6 (0.72%) Juniper
13 6 (0.72%) Veeam
14 5 (0.60%) Adobe
14 5 (0.60%) Intel
14 5 (0.60%) Red Hat