Investment Banking Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Investment Banking
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Investment Banking over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 286 383
Rank change year-on-year +4 +97 +310
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 209 367 288
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.12% 1.07% 0.72%
As % of the General category 1.43% 1.76% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 96 336 261
10th Percentile £82,500 £84,375 £60,000
25th Percentile £105,000 £99,375 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £135,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +22.73% +33.33%
75th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £147,500
90th Percentile £148,125 £165,000 £160,000
UK median annual salary £112,500 £115,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% +33.33%

All General Skills
Work from Home

Investment Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 14,591 20,902 26,328
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 78.36% 61.15% 65.80%
Number of salaries quoted 7,261 15,103 17,567
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,750 £41,252 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Investment Banking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Investment Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Investment Banking trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Investment Banking
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Investment Banking.

Investment Banking salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Investment Banking
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Investment Banking over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Investment Banking salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 71 (33.97%) Apache
1 71 (33.97%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.39%) Confluence
3 2 (0.96%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.91%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 163 (77.99%) AWS
2 96 (45.93%) Azure
3 71 (33.97%) dbt
3 71 (33.97%) Snowflake
4 12 (5.74%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (5.74%) Amazon ECS
4 12 (5.74%) Amazon EKS
4 12 (5.74%) Dagster
4 12 (5.74%) GCP
5 4 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.48%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (47.37%) SQL Server
2 71 (33.97%) Amazon Athena
2 71 (33.97%) Apache Arrow
2 71 (33.97%) Apache Iceberg
2 71 (33.97%) Dremio
3 55 (26.32%) Apache Ignite
3 55 (26.32%) Data Lake
4 7 (3.35%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.39%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.96%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 96 (45.93%) JIRA
2 90 (43.06%) Bitbucket
2 90 (43.06%) Cucumber
2 90 (43.06%) GitLab
2 90 (43.06%) Maven
2 90 (43.06%) Selenium
2 90 (43.06%) SonarQube
2 90 (43.06%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (2.87%) Git
4 4 (1.91%) NUnit
4 4 (1.91%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (1.91%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (1.91%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.96%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.96%) Jenkins
General
1 209 (100.00%) Banking
2 197 (94.26%) Finance
3 90 (43.06%) Corporate Banking
3 90 (43.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 90 (43.06%) Retail
4 77 (36.84%) Front Office
5 5 (2.39%) Social Skills
6 2 (0.96%) Back Office
7 1 (0.48%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.48%) Law
Job Titles
1 161 (77.03%) Software Engineer
2 71 (33.97%) AWS Engineer
2 71 (33.97%) AWS Software Engineer
3 63 (30.14%) Java Engineer
3 63 (30.14%) Java Software Engineer
4 53 (25.36%) Senior
5 51 (24.40%) Python Engineer
5 51 (24.40%) Python Software Engineer
6 50 (23.92%) Senior Java Engineer
6 50 (23.92%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 50 (23.92%) Senior Software Engineer
7 46 (22.01%) Developer
8 18 (8.61%) Software Developer
9 17 (8.13%) C++ Developer
10 16 (7.66%) AWS Developer
10 16 (7.66%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 16 (7.66%) Snowflake Developer
10 16 (7.66%) Snowflake Engineer
11 15 (7.18%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
12 14 (6.70%) Linux Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (44.02%) Kafka
1 92 (44.02%) React
1 92 (44.02%) REST
2 91 (43.54%) HTML
2 91 (43.54%) HTML5
3 90 (43.06%) CSS
3 90 (43.06%) CSS3
3 90 (43.06%) Jest
3 90 (43.06%) JPA
3 90 (43.06%) Redux
3 90 (43.06%) RESTful
3 90 (43.06%) Sass
3 90 (43.06%) Spring
3 90 (43.06%) Spring Boot
4 55 (26.32%) gRPC
4 55 (26.32%) NumPy
4 55 (26.32%) Pandas
4 55 (26.32%) Protocol Buffers
4 55 (26.32%) SciPy
5 28 (13.40%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 90 (43.06%) Enterprise Software
1 90 (43.06%) Product Ownership
2 81 (38.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 76 (36.36%) Derivative
4 72 (34.45%) Hedge funds
5 71 (33.97%) Equities
5 71 (33.97%) Fixed Income
6 43 (20.57%) Pricing Data
7 14 (6.70%) FPGA
8 7 (3.35%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.48%) Clustering
10 1 (0.48%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.48%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (0.48%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.48%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.00%) Linux
2 8 (3.83%) Unix
3 3 (1.44%) Windows
4 1 (0.48%) Solaris
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (87.56%) Agile
2 161 (77.03%) Software Engineering
3 105 (50.24%) Migration
4 98 (46.89%) DevOps
5 95 (45.45%) CI/CD
6 94 (44.98%) Mentoring
7 93 (44.50%) Test Automation
8 91 (43.54%) Containerisation
9 90 (43.06%) Front End Development
9 90 (43.06%) Full-Stack Development
9 90 (43.06%) Microservices
9 90 (43.06%) Performance Optimisation
9 90 (43.06%) Responsive Web Design
9 90 (43.06%) SDLC
9 90 (43.06%) Strategic Thinking
9 90 (43.06%) User Experience
10 71 (33.97%) Asset Management
11 43 (20.57%) Investment Management
12 16 (7.66%) Data Management
12 16 (7.66%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 182 (87.08%) Java
2 150 (71.77%) JavaScript
3 146 (69.86%) TypeScript
4 124 (59.33%) SQL
5 79 (37.80%) Python
6 21 (10.05%) C++
7 15 (7.18%) C
8 13 (6.22%) C#
9 5 (2.39%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.91%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.44%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.96%) Bicep
12 2 (0.96%) R
13 1 (0.48%) Bash
13 1 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (0.48%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (44.50%) QA
2 91 (43.54%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.44%) GDPR
3 3 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 93 (44.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 93 (44.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.96%) Ansible
Vendors
1 90 (43.06%) Solace
2 9 (4.31%) Oracle
3 4 (1.91%) IBM
4 2 (0.96%) Darktrace
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.48%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.48%) Splunk