Hybrid/Remote Investment Management Job Trends

Investment Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Investment Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 132 235
Rank change year-on-year -184 +103 +114
Permanent jobs citing Investment Management 83 339 422
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.46% 2.54% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 2.68% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 59 336 401
10th Percentile £99,000 £80,000 £67,500
25th Percentile £127,500 £87,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £115,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% +2.22% +18.42%
75th Percentile £150,000 £136,250 £143,750
90th Percentile - £152,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £110,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Investment 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,857 12,645 29,601
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.17% 94.76% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 10,372 8,952 23,522
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,644 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +7.21% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.86%

Investment Management
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Investment Management and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Investment Management job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Investment Management
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Investment Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Investment Management

Investment Management
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Investment Management over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Investment Management salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Investment Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (9.64%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (9.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 51 (61.45%) AWS
2 17 (20.48%) Azure
2 17 (20.48%) GCP
3 10 (12.05%) Amazon EKS
3 10 (12.05%) Amazon Kinesis
3 10 (12.05%) GitHub
3 10 (12.05%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (9.64%) Entra ID
4 8 (9.64%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (9.64%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.20%) Collibra
5 1 (1.20%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (1.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (1.20%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.64%) DHCP
1 8 (9.64%) DNS
1 8 (9.64%) SD-WAN
1 8 (9.64%) TCP/IP
1 8 (9.64%) Telnet
1 8 (9.64%) VPN
1 8 (9.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.05%) Flink
2 9 (10.84%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.20%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.20%) Metadata
3 1 (1.20%) MySQL
3 1 (1.20%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (9.64%) JIRA
General
1 80 (96.39%) Finance
2 61 (73.49%) Front Office
3 18 (21.69%) Social Skills
4 16 (19.28%) Banking
5 9 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (7.23%) Legal
Job Titles
1 42 (50.60%) Software Engineer
2 40 (48.19%) Developer
2 40 (48.19%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 32 (38.55%) Lead
4 28 (33.73%) Lead Developer
4 28 (33.73%) Lead Software Developer
4 28 (33.73%) Lead Software Engineer
5 12 (14.46%) Python Engineer
5 12 (14.46%) React Developer
5 12 (14.46%) Senior
6 10 (12.05%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (12.05%) Java Engineer
6 10 (12.05%) Java Software Engineer
6 10 (12.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 9 (10.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 8 (9.64%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 8 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (9.64%) Java Developer
8 8 (9.64%) Platform Specialist
8 8 (9.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (54.22%) React
2 42 (50.60%) Kafka
3 41 (49.40%) Node.js
4 40 (48.19%) Redux
5 32 (38.55%) GraphQL
6 9 (10.84%) Vue
7 8 (9.64%) AngularJS
7 8 (9.64%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 54 (65.06%) Fixed Income
2 16 (19.28%) Equities
3 8 (9.64%) Derivative
4 6 (7.23%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.82%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.20%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.20%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.20%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (19.28%) Windows
1 16 (19.28%) Windows Server
2 8 (9.64%) Apple iOS
2 8 (9.64%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (65.06%) Agile
2 43 (51.81%) Software Engineering
3 42 (50.60%) Order Management
4 41 (49.40%) Portfolio Management
5 25 (30.12%) Full-Stack Development
6 19 (22.89%) Asset Management
7 11 (13.25%) CI/CD
8 10 (12.05%) DevOps
8 10 (12.05%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (12.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 9 (10.84%) Fintech
9 9 (10.84%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (9.64%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (9.64%) Identity Access Management
10 8 (9.64%) ITIL
10 8 (9.64%) Performance Monitoring
10 8 (9.64%) Proactive Management
10 8 (9.64%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (9.64%) Service Delivery
10 8 (9.64%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (54.22%) Java
1 45 (54.22%) Python
2 40 (48.19%) JavaScript
2 40 (48.19%) TypeScript
3 36 (43.37%) Go
4 9 (10.84%) SQL
5 8 (9.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (7.23%) ACCA
1 6 (7.23%) CIMA
1 6 (7.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.82%) QA
2 2 (2.41%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.20%) GDPR
3 1 (1.20%) IFRS
3 1 (1.20%) IFRS 17
3 1 (1.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (9.64%) Active Directory
1 8 (9.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (12.05%) Argo
1 10 (12.05%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (4.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (13.25%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.84%) Charles River
3 8 (9.64%) VMware
4 1 (1.20%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.20%) Databricks
4 1 (1.20%) FNZ
4 1 (1.20%) Informatica
4 1 (1.20%) MarketAxess
4 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.20%) SimCorp
4 1 (1.20%) Tradeweb
4 1 (1.20%) Triple Point