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 9 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 614 432 274
Rank change year-on-year -182 -158 +291
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 26 126 509
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.034% 0.36% 0.86%
As % of the General category 0.076% 0.54% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 10
10th Percentile - £55,750 £54,875
25th Percentile £29,500 £66,250 £66,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £77,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -57.42% -8.82% +28.79%
75th Percentile £36,500 £102,500 £90,000
90th Percentile - £104,000 £98,000
UK median annual salary £105,000 £112,500 £115,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -2.17% +4.55%

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 general skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 34,053 23,133 31,976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.53% 66.84% 53.87%
Number of salaries quoted 20,993 11,387 18,259
10th Percentile £28,750 £25,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,640 £63,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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
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 9 August 2026. 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 of England -110 11 £33,000 -51.11% 6
North West -73 9 - - 3
West Midlands -32 8 - - 4
Midlands -37 8 - - 5
East of England -24 7 - -
Scotland -8 6 - - 4
South East -42 2 - - 12
Yorkshire - 2 £33,000 - 2
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 9 (34.62%) Apache
1 9 (34.62%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (34.62%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) Amazon S3
1 9 (34.62%) AWS
1 9 (34.62%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (34.62%) Apache Hive
1 9 (34.62%) Impala
1 9 (34.62%) Oracle Database
1 9 (34.62%) Parquet
1 9 (34.62%) Spark SQL
1 9 (34.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) Git
1 9 (34.62%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 26 (100.00%) Banking
2 12 (46.15%) Finance
3 7 (26.92%) Legal
4 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.69%) Advertising
5 2 (7.69%) Billing
5 2 (7.69%) Marketing
5 2 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Analyst
1 9 (34.62%) Banking Analyst
1 9 (34.62%) Java Engineer
1 9 (34.62%) Transformation Analyst
2 8 (30.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Java Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Senior
3 5 (19.23%) Senior Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Senior Java Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Technical Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) Business Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) Data Business Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Recruitment Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) AngularJS
1 9 (34.62%) PySpark
1 9 (34.62%) React
1 9 (34.62%) REST
1 9 (34.62%) Spring
1 9 (34.62%) Spring Boot
2 4 (15.38%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Hedge funds
1 2 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Mentoring
2 10 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (34.62%) Agile
3 9 (34.62%) AI
3 9 (34.62%) Analytics
3 9 (34.62%) Architectural Patterns
3 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
3 9 (34.62%) Data Governance
3 9 (34.62%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (34.62%) Data Transformation
3 9 (34.62%) Design Patterns
3 9 (34.62%) ETL
3 9 (34.62%) Full-Stack Development
3 9 (34.62%) Observability
3 9 (34.62%) Scrum
3 9 (34.62%) Secure Coding
3 9 (34.62%) Test Automation
3 9 (34.62%) User Acceptance Testing
4 6 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (19.23%) Decision Table
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) Java
2 9 (34.62%) Python
2 9 (34.62%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (34.62%) Data Quality
2 5 (19.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 5 (19.23%) GDPR
2 5 (19.23%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Oracle
1 9 (34.62%) Red Hat
2 2 (7.69%) SAP