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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 253 431 575
Rank change year-on-year +178 +144 -79
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 1,130 750 866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.15% 0.72% 0.55%
As % of the General category 1.91% 1.06% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 423 643 533
10th Percentile £66,500 £57,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £87,500 £71,875 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £110,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +37.50% -
75th Percentile £148,750 £132,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £157,500 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% +4.35%

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 59,028 70,875 99,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.86% 68.29% 63.83%
Number of salaries quoted 39,629 38,205 51,280
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,269 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £101,250 £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 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Investment Banking in the UK

Investment Banking
Top 11 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 3 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
England +100 754 £115,000 +4.55% 121
UK excluding London +369 612 £75,000 +11.11% 20
London +51 514 £117,500 +2.17% 108
Scotland +113 368 £85,000 +21.43% 6
Work from Home +81 291 £135,000 +22.73% 31
South West +158 225 - -
South East +12 8 £42,500 -59.52% 2
North of England +29 4 £110,000 +83.33% 5
Northern Ireland +13 4 £65,000 +30.00% 2
North West -12 4 £110,000 +83.33% 4
East of England - 3 £100,000 - 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
1 187 (16.55%) Apache
2 179 (15.84%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (2.74%) Confluence
4 22 (1.95%) GemFire
5 21 (1.86%) Apache Spark
6 18 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 15 (1.33%) Cloud Foundry
8 14 (1.24%) SharePoint
9 6 (0.53%) SAS
10 5 (0.44%) IIS
10 5 (0.44%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.088%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.088%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.088%) WebSphere
Applications
1 126 (11.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (10.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 98 (8.67%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.06%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.088%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 14 (1.24%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.53%) Adaptiv
3 1 (0.088%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.088%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.088%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 430 (38.05%) AWS
2 179 (15.84%) dbt
3 159 (14.07%) Snowflake
4 111 (9.82%) GCP
5 53 (4.69%) Azure
6 25 (2.21%) Google Play
7 17 (1.50%) GitHub
8 15 (1.33%) Power Platform
9 9 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (0.44%) PaaS
11 4 (0.35%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (0.35%) Firebase
11 4 (0.35%) Serverless
12 3 (0.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (0.27%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (0.27%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.27%) Datadog
12 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (0.27%) SaaS
13 2 (0.18%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.59%) DSL
2 12 (1.06%) Internet
3 9 (0.80%) Firewall
4 6 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (0.53%) VPN
5 3 (0.27%) HTTP
6 2 (0.18%) DHCP
6 2 (0.18%) DNS
6 2 (0.18%) IPv4
7 1 (0.088%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.088%) VSAN
7 1 (0.088%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (15.93%) Apache Arrow
2 179 (15.84%) Amazon Athena
2 179 (15.84%) Apache Ignite
2 179 (15.84%) Dremio
3 178 (15.75%) Data Lake
4 57 (5.04%) Tableau
5 36 (3.19%) MongoDB
6 27 (2.39%) NoSQL
7 26 (2.30%) Big Data
8 21 (1.86%) Apache Cassandra
8 21 (1.86%) CockroachDB
8 21 (1.86%) Hazelcast
9 19 (1.68%) SQL Server
10 18 (1.59%) DB2
11 17 (1.50%) MySQL
11 17 (1.50%) Relational Database
12 15 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (1.33%) Power BI
13 9 (0.80%) BusinessObjects
14 8 (0.71%) KDB
Development Applications
1 75 (6.64%) Cypress.io
2 72 (6.37%) JUnit
3 69 (6.11%) Selenium
4 65 (5.75%) WebDriver
5 60 (5.31%) Jasmine
5 60 (5.31%) Karma Test Runner
5 60 (5.31%) Protractor
6 34 (3.01%) Maven
7 29 (2.57%) Git
8 25 (2.21%) Android Studio
9 21 (1.86%) Jaeger
10 19 (1.68%) Cucumber
11 17 (1.50%) JIRA
12 16 (1.42%) Jenkins
13 12 (1.06%) GitLab
14 8 (0.71%) TeamCity
15 5 (0.44%) FitNesse
15 5 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
15 5 (0.44%) SonarQube
16 4 (0.35%) Crashlytics
General
1 1,130 (100.00%) Banking
2 976 (86.37%) Finance
3 600 (53.10%) Law
4 597 (52.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 326 (28.85%) Front Office
6 191 (16.90%) Social Skills
7 155 (13.72%) Analytical Skills
8 126 (11.15%) Financial Institution
9 98 (8.67%) Marketing
10 55 (4.87%) Presentation Skills
11 53 (4.69%) Legal
12 28 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
13 27 (2.39%) Corporate Banking
14 24 (2.12%) Prime Brokerage
15 21 (1.86%) Games
16 19 (1.68%) French Language
17 15 (1.33%) Publishing
18 10 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
19 7 (0.62%) Private Banking
20 5 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 424 (37.52%) Software Engineer
2 250 (22.12%) Java Engineer
3 248 (21.95%) Analyst
3 248 (21.95%) Lead
4 241 (21.33%) Java Software Engineer
5 184 (16.28%) Developer
6 166 (14.69%) Lead Software Engineer
7 147 (13.01%) Senior
8 119 (10.53%) Lead Java Engineer
9 113 (10.00%) Python Engineer
9 113 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
10 101 (8.94%) AWS Engineer
10 101 (8.94%) AWS Software Engineer
11 87 (7.70%) Java Developer
12 68 (6.02%) Business Strategy Analyst
12 68 (6.02%) Strategy Analyst
13 62 (5.49%) Senior Software Engineer
14 58 (5.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 55 (4.87%) Architect
16 52 (4.60%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (16.19%) Spring
2 178 (15.75%) Pandas
3 177 (15.66%) gRPC
3 177 (15.66%) NumPy
3 177 (15.66%) Protocol Buffers
3 177 (15.66%) SciPy
4 150 (13.27%) React
5 126 (11.15%) Spring Boot
6 106 (9.38%) HTML
7 101 (8.94%) CSS
8 96 (8.50%) AngularJS
9 92 (8.14%) Kafka
10 62 (5.49%) JSON
11 61 (5.40%) Hibernate
11 61 (5.40%) jQuery
12 60 (5.31%) J2EE
12 60 (5.31%) Jest
12 60 (5.31%) JMS
12 60 (5.31%) Node.js
12 60 (5.31%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 261 (23.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 245 (21.68%) Fixed Income
3 226 (20.00%) Derivative
4 216 (19.12%) Hedge funds
5 204 (18.05%) Equities
6 170 (15.04%) Cloud Native
7 119 (10.53%) Algorithms
8 112 (9.91%) Self-Motivation
9 67 (5.93%) Data Structures
10 61 (5.40%) Product Ownership
11 56 (4.96%) Public Cloud
12 40 (3.54%) Management Information System
13 26 (2.30%) Credit Risk
14 25 (2.21%) Onboarding
14 25 (2.21%) Private Cloud
15 23 (2.04%) Mobile App
16 21 (1.86%) Replication
17 18 (1.59%) OTC Derivatives
17 18 (1.59%) Pricing Data
18 16 (1.42%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.63%) Linux
2 38 (3.36%) Windows
3 29 (2.57%) Android
4 18 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.42%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.97%) Unix
7 4 (0.35%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.27%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.088%) AIX
9 1 (0.088%) CentOS
9 1 (0.088%) Solaris
9 1 (0.088%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.088%) VMS
9 1 (0.088%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 667 (59.03%) Agile
2 572 (50.62%) Software Engineering
3 395 (34.96%) Asset Management
4 339 (30.00%) SDLC
5 316 (27.96%) CI/CD
6 301 (26.64%) Operational Stability
7 294 (26.02%) Machine Learning
8 287 (25.40%) Artificial Intelligence
9 229 (20.27%) Community of Practice
10 189 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
11 183 (16.19%) Investment Management
12 130 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 129 (11.42%) Coaching
14 125 (11.06%) Information Architecture
14 125 (11.06%) Visualisation
15 122 (10.80%) TDD
16 118 (10.44%) Architectural Design
17 112 (9.91%) Multithreading
18 102 (9.03%) Analytics
19 95 (8.41%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 534 (47.26%) Java
2 346 (30.62%) Python
3 322 (28.50%) JavaScript
4 267 (23.63%) TypeScript
5 172 (15.22%) SQL
6 39 (3.45%) Kotlin
7 36 (3.19%) Groovy
8 34 (3.01%) C#
9 33 (2.92%) Scala
10 25 (2.21%) Ruby
11 22 (1.95%) Bash
11 22 (1.95%) PL/SQL
12 20 (1.77%) Perl
12 20 (1.77%) PowerShell
13 15 (1.33%) T-SQL
14 12 (1.06%) Korn
15 8 (0.71%) R
16 5 (0.44%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.44%) XAML
17 4 (0.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 130 (11.50%) Degree
2 18 (1.59%) Master's Degree
3 17 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (0.97%) MBA
5 6 (0.53%) Tableau Certification
6 4 (0.35%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.27%) CISA
7 3 (0.27%) CISM
7 3 (0.27%) CISSP
8 2 (0.18%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.18%) CRISC
8 2 (0.18%) MCSA
8 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.18%) PhD
8 2 (0.18%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.088%) CCAB
9 1 (0.088%) QiCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (6.99%) Data Quality
2 48 (4.25%) Accessibility
3 24 (2.12%) SLA
4 11 (0.97%) QA
5 5 (0.44%) SEPA
5 5 (0.44%) TARGET2
6 2 (0.18%) EMIR
6 2 (0.18%) MiFID
7 1 (0.088%) COBIT
7 1 (0.088%) COREP
7 1 (0.088%) IFRS
7 1 (0.088%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.088%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.088%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.088%) ITGC
7 1 (0.088%) PMO
7 1 (0.088%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (1.68%) Docker
2 18 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.18%) vSphere
4 1 (0.088%) GridGain
4 1 (0.088%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.088%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.088%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.088%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 48 (4.25%) Kubernetes
2 36 (3.19%) Grafana
3 25 (2.21%) Prometheus
4 22 (1.95%) Terraform
5 21 (1.86%) Ansible
5 21 (1.86%) HAProxy
5 21 (1.86%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (1.86%) Kibana
5 21 (1.86%) Zipkin
6 16 (1.42%) Puppet
7 12 (1.06%) Control-M
7 12 (1.06%) Graphite
7 12 (1.06%) Red Hat Satellite
8 7 (0.62%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 7 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.53%) SafeCom
10 1 (0.088%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.088%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 1 (0.088%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.088%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 146 (12.92%) Microsoft
2 66 (5.84%) Oracle
3 45 (3.98%) Alteryx
4 36 (3.19%) Splunk
5 26 (2.30%) Google
6 21 (1.86%) Dynatrace
6 21 (1.86%) Sybase
7 20 (1.77%) Cognos
7 20 (1.77%) Databricks
8 19 (1.68%) Red Hat
9 16 (1.42%) Bloomberg
10 15 (1.33%) Sun
11 14 (1.24%) BISAM
12 13 (1.15%) TOWER Software
13 9 (0.80%) Citrix
13 9 (0.80%) ServiceNow
14 8 (0.71%) VMware
15 7 (0.62%) Fortinet
15 7 (0.62%) Pega
15 7 (0.62%) UiPath