Investment Banking Jobs

Investment Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Investment Banking over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 252 405 589
Rank change year-on-year +153 +184 -94
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 1,185 727 899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.13% 0.77% 0.53%
As % of the General category 1.94% 1.13% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 524 603 535
10th Percentile £74,125 £57,500 £53,000
25th Percentile £87,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £110,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +33.33% -2.94%
75th Percentile £148,750 £133,125 £108,750
90th Percentile £165,000 £157,500 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £67,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +26.87% +11.67% -5.88%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 61,046 64,137 109,886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.17% 67.76% 65.12%
Number of salaries quoted 40,257 35,476 51,779
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,350 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,799 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in the UK

Investment Banking
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Investment Banking in the UK

Investment Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Investment Banking in the UK

Investment Banking
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Investment Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +88 821 £117,500 +6.82% 151
UK excluding London +341 600 £85,000 +26.87% 36
London +50 582 £120,000 +4.35% 125
Work from Home +97 384 £135,000 +22.73% 52
Scotland +106 360 £85,000 +21.43% 5
South West +154 225 - - 3
South East -4 6 £42,500 -61.36% 9
North of England +19 4 £110,000 +83.33% 9
North West -18 4 £110,000 +83.33% 9
Midlands -21 2 £95,000 +80.09% 1
West Midlands -22 2 £95,000 +80.09% 1
East of England - 2 £100,000 -
Northern Ireland -2 1 £65,000 +8.33% 1

Investment Banking
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
1 302 (25.49%) Apache
2 282 (23.80%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (2.62%) Confluence
4 22 (1.86%) GemFire
5 20 (1.69%) Apache Spark
6 18 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 15 (1.27%) Cloud Foundry
8 8 (0.68%) SharePoint
9 6 (0.51%) SAS
10 5 (0.42%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.25%) CMS
11 3 (0.25%) IIS
12 1 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.084%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 89 (7.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 86 (7.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 64 (5.40%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.01%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.084%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 14 (1.18%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 529 (44.64%) AWS
2 294 (24.81%) dbt
3 262 (22.11%) Snowflake
4 137 (11.56%) GCP
5 50 (4.22%) Azure
6 25 (2.11%) Google Play
7 24 (2.03%) Power Platform
8 9 (0.76%) GitHub
9 8 (0.68%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (0.34%) Firebase
10 4 (0.34%) Serverless
11 3 (0.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (0.25%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (0.25%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.25%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.25%) Datadog
11 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 1 (0.084%) Power Automate
13 1 (0.084%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.35%) DSL
2 14 (1.18%) Firewall
3 10 (0.84%) Internet
4 7 (0.59%) VPN
5 6 (0.51%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (0.42%) WAN
7 4 (0.34%) LAN
8 2 (0.17%) DHCP
8 2 (0.17%) DNS
9 1 (0.084%) HTTP
9 1 (0.084%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.084%) SSH
9 1 (0.084%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 295 (24.89%) Apache Arrow
2 294 (24.81%) Dremio
3 293 (24.73%) Data Lake
4 282 (23.80%) Amazon Athena
4 282 (23.80%) Apache Ignite
5 64 (5.40%) Tableau
6 35 (2.95%) MongoDB
7 34 (2.87%) Big Data
8 27 (2.28%) NoSQL
9 24 (2.03%) Power BI
10 21 (1.77%) Apache Cassandra
10 21 (1.77%) CockroachDB
10 21 (1.77%) Hazelcast
11 18 (1.52%) MySQL
12 17 (1.43%) SQL Server
13 16 (1.35%) DB2
13 16 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
13 16 (1.35%) Relational Database
14 9 (0.76%) BusinessObjects
15 8 (0.68%) KDB
Development Applications
1 75 (6.33%) Cypress.io
2 73 (6.16%) JUnit
3 67 (5.65%) Selenium
4 63 (5.32%) WebDriver
5 60 (5.06%) Jasmine
5 60 (5.06%) Karma Test Runner
5 60 (5.06%) Protractor
6 33 (2.78%) Maven
7 25 (2.11%) Android Studio
8 21 (1.77%) Git
8 21 (1.77%) Jaeger
9 20 (1.69%) Cucumber
9 20 (1.69%) Jenkins
10 15 (1.27%) JIRA
11 11 (0.93%) GitLab
12 6 (0.51%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.34%) Crashlytics
14 3 (0.25%) FitNesse
14 3 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
14 3 (0.25%) SonarQube
General
1 1,185 (100.00%) Banking
2 1,036 (87.43%) Finance
3 591 (49.87%) Law
4 587 (49.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 432 (36.46%) Front Office
6 179 (15.11%) Social Skills
7 152 (12.83%) Analytical Skills
8 115 (9.70%) Financial Institution
9 92 (7.76%) Marketing
10 57 (4.81%) Presentation Skills
11 50 (4.22%) Legal
12 28 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
13 26 (2.19%) Corporate Banking
14 24 (2.03%) Prime Brokerage
15 21 (1.77%) Games
16 19 (1.60%) French Language
17 15 (1.27%) Publishing
18 10 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
19 5 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
19 5 (0.42%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 481 (40.59%) Software Engineer
2 290 (24.47%) Java Engineer
3 284 (23.97%) Lead
4 281 (23.71%) Java Software Engineer
5 209 (17.64%) Analyst
6 188 (15.86%) Senior
7 187 (15.78%) Developer
8 178 (15.02%) Lead Software Engineer
9 155 (13.08%) Python Engineer
9 155 (13.08%) Python Software Engineer
10 146 (12.32%) AWS Engineer
10 146 (12.32%) AWS Software Engineer
11 125 (10.55%) Lead Java Engineer
12 106 (8.95%) Senior Software Engineer
13 89 (7.51%) Java Developer
14 73 (6.16%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 70 (5.91%) Architect
16 66 (5.57%) Software Developer
17 62 (5.23%) Lead Developer
17 62 (5.23%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 281 (23.71%) Pandas
2 280 (23.63%) gRPC
2 280 (23.63%) NumPy
2 280 (23.63%) Protocol Buffers
2 280 (23.63%) SciPy
3 180 (15.19%) Spring
4 151 (12.74%) React
5 120 (10.13%) Spring Boot
6 104 (8.78%) HTML
7 100 (8.44%) CSS
8 94 (7.93%) AngularJS
9 90 (7.59%) Kafka
10 62 (5.23%) Hibernate
10 62 (5.23%) JSON
11 61 (5.15%) J2EE
11 61 (5.15%) jQuery
11 61 (5.15%) Node.js
12 60 (5.06%) Jest
12 60 (5.06%) JMS
12 60 (5.06%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 377 (31.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 359 (30.30%) Fixed Income
3 342 (28.86%) Derivative
4 326 (27.51%) Hedge funds
5 319 (26.92%) Equities
6 166 (14.01%) Cloud Native
7 118 (9.96%) Algorithms
8 78 (6.58%) Self-Motivation
9 68 (5.74%) Product Ownership
10 63 (5.32%) Data Structures
11 47 (3.97%) Public Cloud
12 42 (3.54%) Pricing Data
13 34 (2.87%) Management Information System
14 25 (2.11%) Onboarding
15 23 (1.94%) Mobile App
15 23 (1.94%) Private Cloud
16 21 (1.77%) Replication
17 20 (1.69%) Credit Risk
18 18 (1.52%) OTC Derivatives
19 16 (1.35%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 45 (3.80%) Windows
2 40 (3.38%) Linux
3 29 (2.45%) Android
4 19 (1.60%) Windows Server
5 18 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (1.01%) Unix
7 4 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.34%) Windows XP
8 3 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.17%) AIX
10 1 (0.084%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 766 (64.64%) Agile
2 669 (56.46%) Software Engineering
3 460 (38.82%) Asset Management
4 327 (27.59%) SDLC
5 300 (25.32%) CI/CD
6 293 (24.73%) Operational Stability
7 287 (24.22%) Machine Learning
8 281 (23.71%) Artificial Intelligence
9 272 (22.95%) Investment Management
10 223 (18.82%) Community of Practice
11 187 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
12 127 (10.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 125 (10.55%) Visualisation
14 123 (10.38%) Coaching
15 119 (10.04%) Information Architecture
16 118 (9.96%) TDD
17 116 (9.79%) Greeks
18 113 (9.54%) Analytics
19 111 (9.37%) Architectural Design
20 106 (8.95%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 626 (52.83%) Java
2 451 (38.06%) Python
3 425 (35.86%) JavaScript
4 370 (31.22%) TypeScript
5 173 (14.60%) SQL
6 38 (3.21%) Kotlin
7 36 (3.04%) Groovy
8 33 (2.78%) C#
9 30 (2.53%) Scala
10 23 (1.94%) Ruby
11 22 (1.86%) Bash
12 20 (1.69%) Perl
13 19 (1.60%) PowerShell
14 17 (1.43%) PL/SQL
15 15 (1.27%) T-SQL
16 11 (0.93%) Korn
17 8 (0.68%) R
18 5 (0.42%) C++
18 5 (0.42%) Shell Script
19 4 (0.34%) Swift
Qualifications
1 128 (10.80%) Degree
2 20 (1.69%) Master's Degree
3 16 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (1.01%) MBA
5 6 (0.51%) Tableau Certification
6 4 (0.34%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.25%) CISA
7 3 (0.25%) CISM
7 3 (0.25%) CISSP
7 3 (0.25%) PhD
8 2 (0.17%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.17%) CRISC
8 2 (0.17%) MCSA
8 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.17%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.084%) CCAB
9 1 (0.084%) CFA
9 1 (0.084%) QiCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (10.80%) Data Quality
2 43 (3.63%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.43%) SLA
4 13 (1.10%) QA
5 5 (0.42%) SEPA
5 5 (0.42%) TARGET2
6 4 (0.34%) NIST
7 3 (0.25%) MiFID
8 2 (0.17%) EMIR
9 1 (0.084%) COBIT
9 1 (0.084%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.084%) ITGC
9 1 (0.084%) PMO
9 1 (0.084%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (2.03%) Docker
2 8 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.51%) XenApp
4 6 (0.51%) XenDesktop
5 2 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.17%) vSphere
6 1 (0.084%) GridGain
6 1 (0.084%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 44 (3.71%) Kubernetes
2 35 (2.95%) Grafana
3 27 (2.28%) Terraform
4 24 (2.03%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.77%) HAProxy
5 21 (1.77%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (1.77%) Kibana
5 21 (1.77%) Zipkin
6 20 (1.69%) Ansible
7 15 (1.27%) Puppet
8 12 (1.01%) Graphite
9 11 (0.93%) Red Hat Satellite
10 7 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.34%) Control-M
12 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.084%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.084%) SCCM
12 1 (0.084%) SCOM
12 1 (0.084%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.084%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 112 (9.45%) Microsoft
2 54 (4.56%) Oracle
3 43 (3.63%) Alteryx
4 35 (2.95%) Splunk
5 25 (2.11%) Google
6 21 (1.77%) Dynatrace
7 20 (1.69%) Sybase
8 18 (1.52%) Cognos
8 18 (1.52%) Databricks
8 18 (1.52%) Red Hat
9 16 (1.35%) Bloomberg
10 14 (1.18%) BISAM
10 14 (1.18%) Citrix
10 14 (1.18%) VMware
11 11 (0.93%) TOWER Software
12 9 (0.76%) ServiceNow
12 9 (0.76%) Sun
13 7 (0.59%) Fortinet
13 7 (0.59%) Pega
13 7 (0.59%) UiPath