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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 512 454
Rank change year-on-year +299 -58 +163
Permanent jobs citing Portfolio Management 713 368 719
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 194 303 517
10th Percentile £57,492 £41,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,096 £45,375 £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 £86,875 £92,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £115,000 £116,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,984 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.35% -12.50% +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 47,280 80,404 105,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.55% 86.78% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 25,837 58,088 61,888
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,095
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 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,590
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.41% +3.98%

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 2 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 2 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 +298 691 £85,000 +30.77% 360
London +259 537 £100,000 +17.65% 263
UK excluding London +150 163 £58,984 +12.35% 115
Work from Home +52 73 £82,500 +31.39% 155
North of England +76 49 £58,984 -7.95% 26
North West +58 44 £58,984 -5.63% 16
East of England +91 43 £67,500 +12.50% 15
South East +90 38 £65,769 +19.58% 37
Midlands +45 17 £72,500 +48.91% 20
West Midlands +16 12 £72,500 +64.42% 18
Scotland +118 10 £85,253 +107.93% 8
East Midlands +48 5 £47,500 -2.44% 2
Yorkshire +51 3 £50,000 -21.97% 6
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
South West +76 2 £55,805 +17.30% 8
North East +29 2 £70,000 +9.24% 4
Wales +41 1 £47,500 -8.65% 1

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 (1.68%) 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 (61.15%) 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 (1.82%) 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
4 1 (0.14%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 32 (4.49%) AWS
2 31 (4.35%) dbt
3 29 (4.07%) Azure
4 23 (3.23%) GCP
5 18 (2.52%) 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
9 3 (0.42%) Azure AKS
9 3 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.42%) GitHub
10 2 (0.28%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.28%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.28%) OCI
10 2 (0.28%) PaaS
10 2 (0.28%) Serverless
10 2 (0.28%) Smartsheet
11 1 (0.14%) Amazon S3
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 (2.66%) Amazon Athena
2 18 (2.52%) Apache Iceberg
2 18 (2.52%) Dremio
3 16 (2.24%) MongoDB
4 12 (1.68%) Apache Hive
4 12 (1.68%) NoSQL
4 12 (1.68%) 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 (2.10%) 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
1 624 (87.52%) Finance
2 471 (66.06%) Banking
2 471 (66.06%) Social Skills
3 461 (64.66%) Analytical Skills
4 444 (62.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 437 (61.29%) Financial Institution
6 435 (61.01%) French Language
6 435 (61.01%) German Language
7 92 (12.90%) Front Office
8 21 (2.95%) Law
9 9 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (1.26%) Legal
10 8 (1.12%) Public Sector
11 3 (0.42%) Back Office
11 3 (0.42%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.42%) Retail
12 2 (0.28%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 515 (72.23%) Analyst
2 442 (61.99%) Credit Analyst
3 435 (61.01%) Research Analyst
4 63 (8.84%) Business Analyst
5 60 (8.42%) Business Manager
6 47 (6.59%) Portfolio Manager
7 38 (5.33%) IT Manager
8 35 (4.91%) 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
13 23 (3.23%) Senior
14 21 (2.95%) Developer
15 20 (2.81%) Python Engineer
16 18 (2.52%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.66%) NumPy
1 19 (2.66%) Pandas
2 18 (2.52%) PySpark
2 18 (2.52%) SciPy
3 16 (2.24%) GraphQL
4 15 (2.10%) React
5 13 (1.82%) REST
6 12 (1.68%) 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 3 (0.42%) .NET
9 3 (0.42%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (0.42%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (0.28%) Django
10 2 (0.28%) SAP Fiori
10 2 (0.28%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 511 (71.67%) Fixed Income
2 447 (62.69%) Credit Risk
3 65 (9.12%) Hedge funds
4 63 (8.84%) Derivative
5 58 (8.13%) Product Ownership
6 54 (7.57%) Equities
7 40 (5.61%) Management Information System
8 34 (4.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 27 (3.79%) Onboarding
10 5 (0.70%) 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%) Data Centre
14 1 (0.14%) Greenfield Project
14 1 (0.14%) Legacy Systems
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 (72.37%) Asset Management
2 478 (67.04%) Risk Management
3 467 (65.50%) Decision-Making
4 451 (63.25%) Business Strategy
5 436 (61.15%) Credit Risk Analysis
5 436 (61.15%) Financial Modelling
6 435 (61.01%) Risk Assessment
7 114 (15.99%) Agile
8 95 (13.32%) Project Management
9 93 (13.04%) Investment Management
10 92 (12.90%) Roadmaps
11 64 (8.98%) Analytics
12 56 (7.85%) PRINCE2
13 45 (6.31%) Front End Development
13 45 (6.31%) Quantitative Analysis
13 45 (6.31%) Risk Analytics
14 42 (5.89%) Project Delivery
15 39 (5.47%) Artificial Intelligence
16 37 (5.19%) Problem-Solving
17 35 (4.91%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 72 (10.10%) Python
2 54 (7.57%) SQL
3 24 (3.37%) Java
4 13 (1.82%) JavaScript
5 12 (1.68%) 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 (71.67%) Degree
2 439 (61.57%) Master's Degree
3 435 (61.01%) 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 (2.10%) 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 1 (0.14%) Grafana
4 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 436 (61.15%) Bloomberg
2 22 (3.09%) SAP
3 20 (2.81%) IBM
4 19 (2.66%) BISAM
4 19 (2.66%) Charles River
5 12 (1.68%) Calypso
5 12 (1.68%) SimCorp
6 10 (1.40%) Oracle
7 9 (1.26%) Microsoft
8 7 (0.98%) Planview
9 4 (0.56%) EMC
9 4 (0.56%) NetApp
9 4 (0.56%) VMware
10 3 (0.42%) Google
10 3 (0.42%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.42%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.42%) Sophis
11 1 (0.14%) Avaloq
11 1 (0.14%) Cisco
11 1 (0.14%) Splunk