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 22 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 416 505 533
Rank change year-on-year +89 +28 +188
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 123 99 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.20% 0.10%
As % of the General category 0.55% 0.37% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 5 12 30
10th Percentile - £53,875 £42,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £60,625 £56,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +27.82% +2.31%
75th Percentile £78,750 £96,563 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,500 £102,000 £80,250
UK median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +23.53%

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 22,320 26,550 20,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 65.18% 54.38% 63.63%
Number of salaries quoted 11,317 11,711 14,594
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £50,000 £50,139
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -0.28% -4.50%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,070
UK median annual salary £52,500 £59,430 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.66% -0.95% -

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 22 October 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 22 October 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 of England +88 83 £67,500 -28.95% 3
North West +82 81 £67,500 -28.95% 2
Scotland 0 18 £88,750 +4.41% 2
Midlands +45 17 £75,000 +17.65% 4
West Midlands +52 12 £75,000 +20.00% 4
South West -14 6 - - 1
East Midlands - 5 - -
East of England - 2 - -
North East - 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 4 (3.25%) Apache Spark
1 4 (3.25%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (2.44%) SAS
3 1 (0.81%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 103 (83.74%) AWS
2 90 (73.17%) Azure
3 7 (5.69%) Cloud Computing
3 7 (5.69%) Snowflake
4 4 (3.25%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (3.25%) Amazon S3
4 4 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (3.25%) Serverless
5 3 (2.44%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.81%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (79.67%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.32%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.50%) Apache Cassandra
3 8 (6.50%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.07%) RDBMS
5 4 (3.25%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (3.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (3.25%) Apache Hive
5 4 (3.25%) Apache Iceberg
5 4 (3.25%) Big Data
5 4 (3.25%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.25%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.25%) Impala
5 4 (3.25%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.25%) Redshift Spectrum
6 3 (2.44%) Data Vault
6 3 (2.44%) Power BI
7 1 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 94 (76.42%) GitLab
2 91 (73.98%) Maven
3 90 (73.17%) Bitbucket
3 90 (73.17%) Cucumber
3 90 (73.17%) JIRA
3 90 (73.17%) Selenium
3 90 (73.17%) SonarQube
3 90 (73.17%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (2.44%) ER Studio
5 2 (1.63%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.81%) JUnit
General
1 123 (100.00%) Banking
2 121 (98.37%) Finance
3 109 (88.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 91 (73.98%) Corporate Banking
5 90 (73.17%) Retail
6 19 (15.45%) Law
7 8 (6.50%) Social Skills
8 4 (3.25%) Marketing
8 4 (3.25%) Publishing
9 3 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.63%) Advertising
11 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.81%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 106 (86.18%) Software Engineer
2 8 (6.50%) Java Engineer
2 8 (6.50%) Java Software Engineer
2 8 (6.50%) Lead
2 8 (6.50%) Python Engineer
2 8 (6.50%) Python Software Engineer
3 5 (4.07%) Design Engineer
4 4 (3.25%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (3.25%) AWS Software Engineer
4 4 (3.25%) Developer
4 4 (3.25%) Lead Software Engineer
5 3 (2.44%) Data Modeller
5 3 (2.44%) Finance Modeller
5 3 (2.44%) Snowflake Developer
5 3 (2.44%) Technical Leader
5 3 (2.44%) Technical Manager
6 1 (0.81%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.81%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (0.81%) Python Developer
6 1 (0.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (86.99%) Kafka
2 103 (83.74%) Spring
3 99 (80.49%) Spring Boot
4 94 (76.42%) React
4 94 (76.42%) RESTful
5 91 (73.98%) CSS
5 91 (73.98%) HTML
5 91 (73.98%) REST
6 90 (73.17%) CSS3
6 90 (73.17%) HTML5
6 90 (73.17%) Jest
6 90 (73.17%) JPA
6 90 (73.17%) Redux
6 90 (73.17%) Sass
7 4 (3.25%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.25%) Django
7 4 (3.25%) Pandas
8 2 (1.63%) Snowpark
9 1 (0.81%) Middleware
9 1 (0.81%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 93 (75.61%) Product Ownership
2 90 (73.17%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (6.50%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.07%) Mainframe
5 4 (3.25%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.25%) Derivative
5 4 (3.25%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.81%) Linux
1 1 (0.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (89.43%) Agile
2 106 (86.18%) Software Engineering
3 102 (82.93%) SDLC
4 100 (81.30%) CI/CD
5 98 (79.67%) Mentoring
6 95 (77.24%) Microservices
7 93 (75.61%) DevOps
8 92 (74.80%) Test Automation
9 91 (73.98%) Full-Stack Development
9 91 (73.98%) User Experience
10 90 (73.17%) Containerisation
10 90 (73.17%) Front End Development
10 90 (73.17%) Migration
10 90 (73.17%) Performance Optimisation
10 90 (73.17%) Responsive Web Design
10 90 (73.17%) Strategic Thinking
11 14 (11.38%) Machine Learning
12 12 (9.76%) Operational Stability
13 9 (7.32%) Stakeholder Management
14 8 (6.50%) AI
Programming Languages
1 109 (88.62%) SQL
2 104 (84.55%) Java
3 95 (77.24%) JavaScript
4 94 (76.42%) TypeScript
5 14 (11.38%) Python
6 3 (2.44%) ANSI SQL
6 3 (2.44%) R
7 1 (0.81%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (73.17%) Accessibility
1 90 (73.17%) QA
2 4 (3.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 91 (73.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 99 (80.49%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 90 (73.17%) Solace
2 8 (6.50%) Oracle
3 4 (3.25%) Databricks
4 1 (0.81%) IBM
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft