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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 255 373
Rank change year-on-year -17 +118 +337
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 215 443 280
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.11% 1.25% 0.75%
As % of the General category 1.42% 2.07% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 103 413 256
10th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £60,625
25th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £135,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +22.73% +37.50%
75th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £150,000
90th Percentile £148,750 £165,000 £160,000
UK median annual salary £112,500 £120,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +9.09% +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 15,151 21,449 24,567
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 78.09% 60.34% 65.55%
Number of salaries quoted 7,542 15,278 16,919
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £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 £102,500 £95,000 £105,000
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 13 June 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 75 (34.88%) Apache
1 75 (34.88%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.33%) Confluence
3 2 (0.93%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.86%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 167 (77.67%) AWS
2 96 (44.65%) Azure
3 75 (34.88%) dbt
3 75 (34.88%) Snowflake
4 11 (5.12%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (5.12%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (5.12%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (5.12%) Dagster
4 11 (5.12%) GCP
5 4 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.47%) Collibra
6 1 (0.47%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.47%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.47%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.98%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (46.51%) SQL Server
2 75 (34.88%) Amazon Athena
2 75 (34.88%) Apache Arrow
2 75 (34.88%) Apache Iceberg
2 75 (34.88%) Dremio
3 59 (27.44%) Apache Ignite
3 59 (27.44%) Data Lake
4 7 (3.26%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.93%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.47%) Power BI
8 1 (0.47%) Power Query
8 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 96 (44.65%) JIRA
2 90 (41.86%) Bitbucket
2 90 (41.86%) Cucumber
2 90 (41.86%) GitLab
2 90 (41.86%) Maven
2 90 (41.86%) Selenium
2 90 (41.86%) SonarQube
2 90 (41.86%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (2.79%) Git
4 4 (1.86%) NUnit
4 4 (1.86%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (1.86%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (1.86%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.93%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.93%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 215 (100.00%) Banking
2 199 (92.56%) Finance
3 90 (41.86%) Corporate Banking
3 90 (41.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 90 (41.86%) Retail
4 85 (39.53%) Front Office
5 3 (1.40%) Social Skills
6 2 (0.93%) Back Office
7 1 (0.47%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 165 (76.74%) Software Engineer
2 75 (34.88%) AWS Engineer
2 75 (34.88%) AWS Software Engineer
3 67 (31.16%) Java Engineer
3 67 (31.16%) Java Software Engineer
4 60 (27.91%) Senior
5 56 (26.05%) Python Engineer
5 56 (26.05%) Python Software Engineer
6 54 (25.12%) Senior Java Engineer
6 54 (25.12%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 54 (25.12%) Senior Software Engineer
7 49 (22.79%) Developer
8 20 (9.30%) C++ Developer
9 18 (8.37%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
9 18 (8.37%) Software Developer
10 16 (7.44%) AWS Developer
10 16 (7.44%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 16 (7.44%) Snowflake Developer
10 16 (7.44%) Snowflake Engineer
11 14 (6.51%) Linux Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (42.79%) Kafka
1 92 (42.79%) React
1 92 (42.79%) REST
2 91 (42.33%) HTML
2 91 (42.33%) HTML5
3 90 (41.86%) CSS
3 90 (41.86%) CSS3
3 90 (41.86%) Jest
3 90 (41.86%) JPA
3 90 (41.86%) Redux
3 90 (41.86%) RESTful
3 90 (41.86%) Sass
3 90 (41.86%) Spring
3 90 (41.86%) Spring Boot
4 59 (27.44%) gRPC
4 59 (27.44%) NumPy
4 59 (27.44%) Pandas
4 59 (27.44%) Protocol Buffers
4 59 (27.44%) SciPy
5 27 (12.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 90 (41.86%) Enterprise Software
1 90 (41.86%) Product Ownership
2 87 (40.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 80 (37.21%) Derivative
4 75 (34.88%) Equities
4 75 (34.88%) Fixed Income
4 75 (34.88%) Hedge funds
5 48 (22.33%) Pricing Data
6 14 (6.51%) FPGA
7 7 (3.26%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.47%) Clustering
9 1 (0.47%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (0.47%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.47%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.70%) Linux
2 8 (3.72%) Unix
3 3 (1.40%) Windows
4 1 (0.47%) Solaris
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (86.98%) Agile
2 165 (76.74%) Software Engineering
3 103 (47.91%) Migration
4 99 (46.05%) DevOps
5 95 (44.19%) CI/CD
5 95 (44.19%) Mentoring
6 93 (43.26%) Test Automation
7 91 (42.33%) Microservices
8 90 (41.86%) Containerisation
8 90 (41.86%) Front End Development
8 90 (41.86%) Full-Stack Development
8 90 (41.86%) Performance Optimisation
8 90 (41.86%) Responsive Web Design
8 90 (41.86%) SDLC
8 90 (41.86%) Strategic Thinking
8 90 (41.86%) User Experience
9 75 (34.88%) Asset Management
10 48 (22.33%) Investment Management
11 19 (8.84%) Low Latency
12 16 (7.44%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 185 (86.05%) Java
2 154 (71.63%) JavaScript
3 150 (69.77%) TypeScript
4 123 (57.21%) SQL
5 82 (38.14%) Python
6 24 (11.16%) C++
7 15 (6.98%) C
8 13 (6.05%) C#
9 5 (2.33%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.86%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.40%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.93%) Bicep
12 2 (0.93%) R
13 1 (0.47%) Bash
13 1 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (0.47%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (43.26%) QA
2 90 (41.86%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.40%) GDPR
3 3 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 92 (42.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 92 (42.79%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.93%) Ansible
Vendors
1 90 (41.86%) Solace
2 10 (4.65%) Oracle
3 4 (1.86%) IBM
4 2 (0.93%) Darktrace
5 1 (0.47%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.47%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.47%) Splunk