Investment Banking Jobs in London

Investment Banking
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in permanent job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Investment Banking over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 199 398
Rank change year-on-year +60 +199 -142
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 539 631 643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.29% 1.86% 0.94%
As % of the General category 3.37% 2.70% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 443 545 469
10th Percentile £70,250 £63,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £115,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +35.29% +3.03%
75th Percentile £148,750 £140,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £160,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £120,000 £110,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +37.50% -3.03%

All General Skills
London

Investment Banking is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 16,013 23,368 46,901
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 67.89% 68.72% 68.26%
Number of salaries quoted 11,363 16,161 22,597
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,502 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +6.43% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £120,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Investment Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in London.

Salary trend for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Investment Banking in London

Investment Banking
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Investment Banking within the London region over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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
Central London -3 40 £100,000 -9.09% 7
East London +31 13 £150,000 - 3
Investment Banking
England

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 224 (41.56%) Apache
2 221 (41.00%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.74%) Confluence
3 4 (0.74%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.56%) IIS
5 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.19%) CMS
6 1 (0.19%) GemFire
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 63 (11.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (11.50%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (10.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (2.60%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.56%) Adaptiv
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 263 (48.79%) AWS
2 221 (41.00%) dbt
3 200 (37.11%) Snowflake
4 113 (20.96%) GCP
5 27 (5.01%) Azure
6 11 (2.04%) GitHub
7 9 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (0.93%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.74%) Firebase
9 4 (0.74%) PaaS
10 3 (0.56%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.37%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.37%) SaaS
12 1 (0.19%) Entra ID
12 1 (0.19%) IaaS
12 1 (0.19%) NuGet
12 1 (0.19%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.86%) Firewall
2 7 (1.30%) VPN
3 6 (1.11%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (0.74%) Internet
5 3 (0.56%) HTTP
6 2 (0.37%) DHCP
6 2 (0.37%) DNS
6 2 (0.37%) IPv4
7 1 (0.19%) LAN
7 1 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (41.19%) Apache Arrow
2 221 (41.00%) Amazon Athena
2 221 (41.00%) Apache Ignite
2 221 (41.00%) Dremio
3 203 (37.66%) Data Lake
4 17 (3.15%) SQL Server
5 8 (1.48%) KDB
6 6 (1.11%) Kdb+
7 5 (0.93%) Power BI
8 4 (0.74%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.74%) Tableau
9 3 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.56%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.37%) Big Data
10 2 (0.37%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.37%) Qlik Sense
10 2 (0.37%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.37%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 18 (3.34%) Git
2 8 (1.48%) GitLab
3 7 (1.30%) Maven
4 6 (1.11%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.74%) Crashlytics
5 4 (0.74%) JIRA
6 3 (0.56%) FitNesse
6 3 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.56%) Selenium
6 3 (0.56%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.56%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
General
1 539 (100.00%) Banking
2 396 (73.47%) Finance
3 332 (61.60%) Front Office
4 57 (10.58%) Social Skills
5 24 (4.45%) Financial Institution
6 12 (2.23%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (1.48%) Corporate Banking
7 8 (1.48%) Law
8 7 (1.30%) Legal
9 6 (1.11%) Marketing
10 5 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.37%) Advertising
12 2 (0.37%) Back Office
12 2 (0.37%) Mandarin Language
12 2 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.19%) Automotive
13 1 (0.19%) Games
13 1 (0.19%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.19%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 180 (33.40%) Developer
2 146 (27.09%) Software Engineer
3 114 (21.15%) Lead
4 96 (17.81%) Senior
5 95 (17.63%) Analyst
6 93 (17.25%) Java Engineer
7 87 (16.14%) Java Developer
8 84 (15.58%) Java Software Engineer
9 78 (14.47%) Python Engineer
9 78 (14.47%) Python Software Engineer
10 75 (13.91%) AWS Engineer
10 75 (13.91%) AWS Software Engineer
11 66 (12.24%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 64 (11.87%) Senior Software Engineer
13 60 (11.13%) Software Developer
14 56 (10.39%) Architect
14 56 (10.39%) Business Strategy Analyst
14 56 (10.39%) Strategy Analyst
15 51 (9.46%) Lead Developer
15 51 (9.46%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (40.82%) Pandas
2 219 (40.63%) gRPC
2 219 (40.63%) NumPy
2 219 (40.63%) Protocol Buffers
2 219 (40.63%) SciPy
3 22 (4.08%) Spring
4 21 (3.90%) AngularJS
5 17 (3.15%) React
6 15 (2.78%) Spring Boot
7 14 (2.60%) FIX Protocol
8 12 (2.23%) .NET
9 11 (2.04%) HTML
10 10 (1.86%) HTML5
10 10 (1.86%) RESTful
10 10 (1.86%) Web Services
11 9 (1.67%) .NET Core
12 8 (1.48%) ASP.NET
13 7 (1.30%) .NET Framework
13 7 (1.30%) ASP.NET Web API
13 7 (1.30%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 274 (50.83%) Fixed Income
2 246 (45.64%) Equities
2 246 (45.64%) Hedge funds
3 243 (45.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 239 (44.34%) Derivative
5 57 (10.58%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (4.45%) Pricing Data
7 19 (3.53%) Product Ownership
8 15 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.67%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.48%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.48%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.30%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.11%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.11%) Equity Derivative
12 6 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.93%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.93%) Cloud Native
13 5 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.31%) Windows
2 32 (5.94%) Linux
3 15 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (2.23%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.86%) Unix
6 4 (0.74%) Android
6 4 (0.74%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.56%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.19%) AIX
8 1 (0.19%) CentOS
8 1 (0.19%) Debian
8 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.19%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (59.55%) Asset Management
2 305 (56.59%) Agile
3 253 (46.94%) Software Engineering
4 211 (39.15%) Investment Management
5 89 (16.51%) Line Management
6 88 (16.33%) Greeks
7 62 (11.50%) Business Strategy
8 57 (10.58%) Electronic Trading
9 56 (10.39%) Benchmarking
9 56 (10.39%) Business Forecasting
9 56 (10.39%) Competitor Analysis
9 56 (10.39%) Creative Thinking
9 56 (10.39%) Planning and Forecasting
10 48 (8.91%) Multithreading
11 42 (7.79%) Low Latency
12 38 (7.05%) Analytics
13 34 (6.31%) Microservices
14 29 (5.38%) DevOps
14 29 (5.38%) Roadmaps
15 28 (5.19%) Algorithmic Trading
Programming Languages
1 319 (59.18%) Java
2 286 (53.06%) Python
3 243 (45.08%) JavaScript
4 227 (42.12%) TypeScript
5 46 (8.53%) SQL
6 21 (3.90%) Ruby
7 19 (3.53%) Bash
7 19 (3.53%) C#
8 17 (3.15%) Perl
9 15 (2.78%) PowerShell
10 14 (2.60%) Kotlin
10 14 (2.60%) Scala
11 8 (1.48%) Korn
12 4 (0.74%) C++
12 4 (0.74%) Swift
13 3 (0.56%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.56%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.56%) XAML
14 2 (0.37%) VBA
15 1 (0.19%) XPath
Qualifications
1 23 (4.27%) Degree
2 16 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (0.93%) Master's Degree
4 4 (0.74%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.37%) MCSA
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.19%) CCAB
6 1 (0.19%) CISA
6 1 (0.19%) CISM
6 1 (0.19%) CISSP
6 1 (0.19%) MBA
6 1 (0.19%) QiCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (16.33%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.48%) QA
3 3 (0.56%) SLA
4 1 (0.19%) COBIT
4 1 (0.19%) COREP
4 1 (0.19%) IFRS
4 1 (0.19%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.19%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.19%) ITGC
4 1 (0.19%) MiFID
4 1 (0.19%) NIST
4 1 (0.19%) PMO
4 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (2.41%) Active Directory
1 13 (2.41%) Docker
2 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (0.37%) VMware NSX
2 2 (0.37%) vSphere
3 1 (0.19%) GridGain
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (4.45%) Kubernetes
2 18 (3.34%) Ansible
3 13 (2.41%) Puppet
4 8 (1.48%) Red Hat Satellite
5 7 (1.30%) Control-M
5 7 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.74%) Grafana
6 4 (0.74%) Terraform
7 3 (0.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 3 (0.56%) SafeCom
8 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.19%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.19%) SCCM
8 1 (0.19%) SCOM
8 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 83 (15.40%) Microsoft
2 16 (2.97%) Bloomberg
2 16 (2.97%) Red Hat
3 14 (2.60%) BISAM
4 11 (2.04%) Oracle
5 9 (1.67%) Citrix
5 9 (1.67%) Sun
5 9 (1.67%) TOWER Software
6 7 (1.30%) VMware
7 6 (1.11%) Cisco
7 6 (1.11%) Fortinet
7 6 (1.11%) Palo Alto
7 6 (1.11%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.74%) Amplitude
8 4 (0.74%) Splunk
9 3 (0.56%) IBM
9 3 (0.56%) SolarWinds
9 3 (0.56%) Sybase
9 3 (0.56%) Veritas
10 2 (0.37%) Cognos