Portfolio Management Jobs

Portfolio Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Portfolio Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Portfolio Management over the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 525 466
Rank change year-on-year +306 -59 +149
Permanent jobs citing Portfolio Management 712 373 717
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.41% 0.40% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 0.46% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 196 305 515
10th Percentile £57,492 £41,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,288 £45,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £64,080 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.65% -1.42% -23.53%
75th Percentile £118,750 £86,250 £92,144
90th Percentile £136,250 £115,000 £114,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,984 £53,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.74% -10.42% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Portfolio 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 47,277 80,571 105,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.52% 86.76% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 25,823 58,144 61,428
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £99,404 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.26% +3.81%

Portfolio Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Portfolio Management in the UK

Portfolio Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Portfolio Management in the UK

Portfolio Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Portfolio Management over the 6 months to 3 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Portfolio Management in the UK

Portfolio Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Portfolio Management within the UK over the 6 months to 3 April 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 +292 691 £85,000 +30.77% 366
London +272 539 £100,000 +17.65% 266
UK excluding London +160 160 £58,984 +9.74% 120
Work from Home +66 73 £82,500 +31.39% 144
North of England +73 48 £58,984 -7.95% 30
East of England +99 43 £67,500 +12.50% 15
North West +53 43 £58,984 -5.63% 18
South East +91 38 £65,769 +17.91% 34
Midlands +49 16 £72,500 +48.91% 22
West Midlands +20 11 £72,500 +64.42% 18
Scotland +114 9 £85,253 +107.93% 8
East Midlands +50 5 £47,500 -2.44% 4
Yorkshire +60 3 £50,000 -21.97% 8
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 2
South West +76 2 £55,805 +17.30% 7
North East +31 2 £70,000 +9.24% 4
Wales +40 1 £47,500 -8.65% 3

Portfolio 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 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (1.69%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.70%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.42%) Confluence
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 436 (61.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 21 (2.95%) Aladdin
2 13 (1.83%) thinkFolio
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.28%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.28%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.28%) SAP PS
3 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.28%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.14%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 34 (4.78%) AWS
2 31 (4.35%) dbt
3 29 (4.07%) Azure
4 23 (3.23%) GCP
5 18 (2.53%) Dagster
6 6 (0.84%) Power Platform
7 5 (0.70%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (0.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (0.56%) Entra ID
8 4 (0.56%) SaaS
8 4 (0.56%) Serverless
9 3 (0.42%) Amazon S3
9 3 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (0.42%) Azure AKS
9 3 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.42%) GitHub
10 2 (0.28%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (0.28%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.28%) OCI
10 2 (0.28%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.56%) Firewall
2 1 (0.14%) FTP
2 1 (0.14%) HTTP
2 1 (0.14%) Intranet
2 1 (0.14%) Network Security
2 1 (0.14%) SWIFTNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.67%) Amazon Athena
2 18 (2.53%) Apache Iceberg
2 18 (2.53%) Dremio
3 16 (2.25%) MongoDB
4 12 (1.69%) Apache Hive
4 12 (1.69%) NoSQL
4 12 (1.69%) SQL Server
5 6 (0.84%) Power BI
6 3 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.42%) Tableau
7 2 (0.28%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.28%) DTS
7 2 (0.28%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.28%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.14%) Big Data
8 1 (0.14%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (2.11%) Git
2 10 (1.40%) JIRA
3 4 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (0.42%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.42%) Selenium
5 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.14%) GitLab
5 1 (0.14%) Maven
General
1 626 (87.92%) Finance
2 471 (66.15%) Social Skills
3 470 (66.01%) Banking
4 458 (64.33%) Analytical Skills
5 444 (62.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 437 (61.38%) Financial Institution
7 435 (61.10%) French Language
7 435 (61.10%) German Language
8 92 (12.92%) Front Office
9 21 (2.95%) Law
10 9 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.12%) Public Sector
12 6 (0.84%) Legal
13 5 (0.70%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.42%) Back Office
14 3 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.42%) Retail
15 2 (0.28%) Billing
15 2 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 515 (72.33%) Analyst
2 442 (62.08%) Credit Analyst
3 435 (61.10%) Research Analyst
4 63 (8.85%) Business Analyst
5 60 (8.43%) Business Manager
6 47 (6.60%) Portfolio Manager
7 38 (5.34%) IT Manager
8 35 (4.92%) Lead
9 33 (4.63%) Product Analyst
9 33 (4.63%) Product Business Analyst
9 33 (4.63%) Product Manager
10 32 (4.49%) Project Manager
11 28 (3.93%) IT Project Manager
11 28 (3.93%) Portfolio Project Manager
11 28 (3.93%) Project Portfolio Manager
12 25 (3.51%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
12 25 (3.51%) Senior
13 23 (3.23%) Developer
14 20 (2.81%) Python Engineer
15 18 (2.53%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.67%) NumPy
1 19 (2.67%) Pandas
2 18 (2.53%) PySpark
2 18 (2.53%) SciPy
3 16 (2.25%) GraphQL
4 15 (2.11%) React
5 13 (1.83%) REST
6 12 (1.69%) Redux
7 6 (0.84%) Angular 2
7 6 (0.84%) AngularJS
7 6 (0.84%) CSS
7 6 (0.84%) HTML
7 6 (0.84%) jQuery
8 5 (0.70%) Node.js
9 4 (0.56%) Django
10 3 (0.42%) .NET
10 3 (0.42%) FIX Protocol
10 3 (0.42%) Flask
10 3 (0.42%) Oracle Fusion
11 2 (0.28%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 511 (71.77%) Fixed Income
2 444 (62.36%) Credit Risk
3 65 (9.13%) Hedge funds
4 63 (8.85%) Derivative
5 58 (8.15%) Product Ownership
6 54 (7.58%) Equities
7 40 (5.62%) Management Information System
8 34 (4.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 27 (3.79%) Onboarding
10 7 (0.98%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.56%) Security Posture
12 3 (0.42%) Equity Derivative
13 2 (0.28%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.28%) NHS
13 2 (0.28%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.28%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.28%) Virtual Team
14 1 (0.14%) Greenfield Project
14 1 (0.14%) Legacy Systems
14 1 (0.14%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.63%) Apple iOS
2 7 (0.98%) Windows
3 6 (0.84%) Linux
4 4 (0.56%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 516 (72.47%) Asset Management
2 475 (66.71%) Risk Management
3 467 (65.59%) Decision-Making
4 451 (63.34%) Business Strategy
5 436 (61.24%) Credit Risk Analysis
5 436 (61.24%) Financial Modelling
6 435 (61.10%) Risk Assessment
7 114 (16.01%) Agile
8 95 (13.34%) Investment Management
9 92 (12.92%) Project Management
9 92 (12.92%) Roadmaps
10 64 (8.99%) Analytics
11 56 (7.87%) PRINCE2
12 45 (6.32%) Front End Development
12 45 (6.32%) Quantitative Analysis
12 45 (6.32%) Risk Analytics
13 42 (5.90%) Project Delivery
14 39 (5.48%) Artificial Intelligence
15 37 (5.20%) Problem-Solving
16 35 (4.92%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 74 (10.39%) Python
2 54 (7.58%) SQL
3 26 (3.65%) Java
4 13 (1.83%) JavaScript
5 12 (1.69%) C#
6 9 (1.26%) TypeScript
7 7 (0.98%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.56%) Go
9 2 (0.28%) ABAP
9 2 (0.28%) R
10 1 (0.14%) Bash
10 1 (0.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 511 (71.77%) Degree
2 439 (61.66%) Master's Degree
3 435 (61.10%) CFA
4 8 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 7 (0.98%) PMP
6 4 (0.56%) Security Cleared
7 3 (0.42%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.42%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.14%) MAPM
9 1 (0.14%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.63%) PMO
2 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
2 3 (0.42%) GDPR
2 3 (0.42%) P3O
3 2 (0.28%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.28%) QA
3 2 (0.28%) SLA
4 1 (0.14%) AIFMD
4 1 (0.14%) COBIT
4 1 (0.14%) GRC
4 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.14%) MiFID
4 1 (0.14%) UCITS
System Software
1 15 (2.11%) Docker
2 4 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (1.26%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.84%) Terraform
3 4 (0.56%) Ansible
3 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.56%) NetBackup
4 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.14%) Grafana
5 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 436 (61.24%) Bloomberg
2 22 (3.09%) SAP
3 20 (2.81%) IBM
4 19 (2.67%) BISAM
4 19 (2.67%) Charles River
5 14 (1.97%) SimCorp
6 12 (1.69%) Calypso
7 10 (1.40%) Oracle
8 9 (1.26%) Microsoft
9 7 (0.98%) Planview
10 4 (0.56%) EMC
10 4 (0.56%) NetApp
10 4 (0.56%) VMware
11 3 (0.42%) Google
11 3 (0.42%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.42%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.42%) Sophis
12 1 (0.14%) Avaloq
12 1 (0.14%) Cisco
12 1 (0.14%) Splunk