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 10 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 577 523
Rank change year-on-year +90 -54 +192
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 17 20 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.043% 0.047% 0.12%
As % of the General category 0.073% 0.079% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 6 12 19
10th Percentile - £48,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £53,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £63,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -1.92% -
75th Percentile £79,375 £91,563 £78,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,375 £89,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £107,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.98% +19.44%

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 23,213 25,376 18,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 58.45% 59.30% 63.33%
Number of salaries quoted 12,275 11,061 13,441
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

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 10 December 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 10 December 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
North West +48 8 £67,500 +4.65% 8
North of England +36 8 £67,500 +4.65% 16
Scotland +2 4 - - 12
Midlands +33 3 £80,000 +28.00% 19
West Midlands +33 3 £80,000 +33.33% 12
South West +29 3 - - 10
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 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.88%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
1 1 (5.88%) SAS
1 1 (5.88%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Cloud Computing
1 6 (35.29%) Snowflake
2 5 (29.41%) Power Platform
3 3 (17.65%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.88%) dbt
4 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
2 5 (29.41%) Data Vault
2 5 (29.41%) Power BI
3 2 (11.76%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 2 (11.76%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.88%) Apache Hive
4 1 (5.88%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (5.88%) Big Data
4 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
4 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.88%) Impala
4 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
4 1 (5.88%) Redshift Spectrum
4 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) ER Studio
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 17 (100.00%) Banking
2 16 (94.12%) Finance
3 5 (29.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (29.41%) Law
4 4 (23.53%) Financial Institution
4 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
5 3 (17.65%) Advertising
5 3 (17.65%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (17.65%) Private Banking
6 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (11.76%) Marketing
7 1 (5.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Developer
1 5 (29.41%) Snowflake Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Lead
2 4 (23.53%) Software Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Design Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Java Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Python Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Analytics Manager
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Modeller
5 1 (5.88%) Finance Modeller
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Kafka
2 3 (17.65%) Snowpark
2 3 (17.65%) Spring
3 2 (11.76%) Pandas
3 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.88%) Django
4 1 (5.88%) Middleware
4 1 (5.88%) NumPy
4 1 (5.88%) PyTorch
4 1 (5.88%) React
4 1 (5.88%) RESTful
4 1 (5.88%) scikit-learn
4 1 (5.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) Algorithms
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.88%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.88%) Derivative
3 1 (5.88%) Fixed Income
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Machine Learning
2 6 (35.29%) Analytics
2 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (35.29%) Data Governance
2 6 (35.29%) Data Management
2 6 (35.29%) Data Modelling
2 6 (35.29%) Data Science
3 5 (29.41%) Agile
3 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (29.41%) Statistics
4 4 (23.53%) Asset Management
4 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
5 3 (17.65%) AI
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
5 3 (17.65%) DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Project Management
5 3 (17.65%) SDLC
5 3 (17.65%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) SQL
2 9 (52.94%) Python
3 5 (29.41%) ANSI SQL
4 4 (23.53%) Java
5 2 (11.76%) R
6 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Databricks