Investment Banking Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Investment Banking
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Investment Banking over the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 586 525
Rank change year-on-year +110 -61 +194
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 39 19 27
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.040% 0.088%
As % of the General category 0.18% 0.072% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 8 13 23
10th Percentile - £53,750 £41,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £55,000 £46,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £85,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% +28.79% +1.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £96,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £101,500 £86,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +16.67%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 requiring common skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 22,104 26,365 19,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 60.51% 55.15% 63.53%
Number of salaries quoted 12,385 11,318 14,100
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £50,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.85% +1.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61,500 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £82,000
UK median annual salary £51,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.17% - -

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Investment Banking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Investment Banking job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Investment Banking
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Investment Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Investment Banking

Investment Banking
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Investment Banking in the UK excluding London

Investment Banking
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 November 2025. 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
Scotland +11 18 £88,750 +4.41% 5
North West +58 13 £67,500 -28.95% 10
North of England +56 13 £67,500 -28.95% 11
South West +39 8 - -
Midlands +56 3 £80,000 +25.49% 1
West Midlands +54 3 £80,000 +28.00% 1
Investment Banking
UK

Investment Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (10.26%) Apache Spark
1 4 (10.26%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (7.69%) SAS
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.56%) Confluence
3 1 (2.56%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 13 (33.33%) AWS
2 9 (23.08%) Cloud Computing
2 9 (23.08%) Snowflake
3 5 (12.82%) Power Platform
4 4 (10.26%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (10.26%) Amazon S3
4 4 (10.26%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (10.26%) Serverless
5 1 (2.56%) dbt
5 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.64%) SQL Server
2 9 (23.08%) Relational Database
3 8 (20.51%) Apache Cassandra
3 8 (20.51%) NoSQL
4 5 (12.82%) Data Vault
4 5 (12.82%) Power BI
4 5 (12.82%) RDBMS
5 4 (10.26%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (10.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (10.26%) Apache Hive
5 4 (10.26%) Apache Iceberg
5 4 (10.26%) Big Data
5 4 (10.26%) DynamoDB
5 4 (10.26%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (10.26%) Impala
5 4 (10.26%) MongoDB
5 4 (10.26%) Redshift Spectrum
6 2 (5.13%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) GitLab
2 3 (7.69%) ER Studio
3 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.56%) JIRA
4 1 (2.56%) JUnit
4 1 (2.56%) Maven
General
1 39 (100.00%) Banking
2 36 (92.31%) Finance
3 20 (51.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (51.28%) Law
4 10 (25.64%) Social Skills
5 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (12.82%) Marketing
6 4 (10.26%) Financial Institution
6 4 (10.26%) Publishing
7 3 (7.69%) Advertising
7 3 (7.69%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (7.69%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (41.03%) Software Engineer
2 10 (25.64%) Lead
3 8 (20.51%) Java Engineer
3 8 (20.51%) Java Software Engineer
3 8 (20.51%) Python Engineer
3 8 (20.51%) Python Software Engineer
4 6 (15.38%) Developer
5 5 (12.82%) Design Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) Snowflake Developer
6 4 (10.26%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) AWS Software Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Lead Software Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Data Modeller
7 3 (7.69%) Finance Modeller
7 3 (7.69%) Lead DevOps
7 3 (7.69%) Technical Leader
7 3 (7.69%) Technical Manager
8 1 (2.56%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Python Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (43.59%) Kafka
2 13 (33.33%) Spring
3 9 (23.08%) Spring Boot
4 5 (12.82%) Pandas
5 4 (10.26%) AngularJS
5 4 (10.26%) Django
5 4 (10.26%) React
5 4 (10.26%) RESTful
6 3 (7.69%) Snowpark
7 1 (2.56%) CSS
7 1 (2.56%) HTML
7 1 (2.56%) J2EE
7 1 (2.56%) JSON
7 1 (2.56%) Middleware
7 1 (2.56%) NumPy
7 1 (2.56%) PyTorch
7 1 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.56%) REST
7 1 (2.56%) scikit-learn
7 1 (2.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.82%) Algorithms
2 5 (12.82%) Mainframe
2 5 (12.82%) Product Ownership
3 4 (10.26%) Derivative
3 4 (10.26%) Fixed Income
3 4 (10.26%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) Agile
2 17 (43.59%) Machine Learning
3 16 (41.03%) Software Engineering
4 12 (30.77%) Operational Stability
4 12 (30.77%) SDLC
5 11 (28.21%) Analytics
5 11 (28.21%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (25.64%) CI/CD
7 9 (23.08%) AI
7 9 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (23.08%) Decision-Making
7 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (20.51%) Community of Practice
8 8 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (20.51%) Data Modelling
8 8 (20.51%) Mentoring
9 7 (17.95%) Data Analytics
10 6 (15.38%) Data Governance
10 6 (15.38%) Data Management
10 6 (15.38%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (56.41%) SQL
2 17 (43.59%) Python
3 14 (35.90%) Java
4 5 (12.82%) ANSI SQL
4 5 (12.82%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.26%) R
5 4 (10.26%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (5.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (23.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) Oracle
2 4 (10.26%) Databricks
3 1 (2.56%) IBM
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft