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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 454 588 530
Rank change year-on-year +134 -58 +189
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 73 18 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.038% 0.094%
As % of the General category 0.34% 0.069% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 7 13 26
10th Percentile £66,250 £53,750 £41,875
25th Percentile £69,375 £55,000 £51,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +28.79% +1.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £96,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £101,500 £83,750
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 21,716 26,127 19,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 61.40% 55.02% 63.72%
Number of salaries quoted 12,120 11,201 14,184
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,309 £50,139
Median % change year-on-year -15.52% +0.34% -4.50%
75th Percentile £61,250 £66,050 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £51,058 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.90% - -

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 9 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 9 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
North of England +73 41 £67,500 -28.95% 31
North West +62 40 £67,500 -28.95% 27
Scotland +16 18 £88,750 +4.41% 23
Midlands +53 8 £80,000 +25.49% 3
South West +40 8 - -
West Midlands +39 6 £80,000 +28.00% 3
East Midlands - 2 - -
East of England - 1 - -
North East - 1 - - 3
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 (5.48%) Apache Spark
1 4 (5.48%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (4.11%) SAS
3 1 (1.37%) Confluence
3 1 (1.37%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 49 (67.12%) AWS
2 36 (49.32%) Azure
3 7 (9.59%) Cloud Computing
3 7 (9.59%) Snowflake
4 4 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (5.48%) Amazon S3
4 4 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (5.48%) Serverless
5 3 (4.11%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.37%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (60.27%) SQL Server
2 9 (12.33%) Relational Database
3 8 (10.96%) Apache Cassandra
3 8 (10.96%) NoSQL
4 5 (6.85%) RDBMS
5 4 (5.48%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (5.48%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (5.48%) Apache Hive
5 4 (5.48%) Apache Iceberg
5 4 (5.48%) Big Data
5 4 (5.48%) DynamoDB
5 4 (5.48%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (5.48%) Impala
5 4 (5.48%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.48%) Redshift Spectrum
6 3 (4.11%) Data Vault
6 3 (4.11%) Power BI
7 1 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (54.79%) GitLab
2 37 (50.68%) JIRA
2 37 (50.68%) Maven
3 36 (49.32%) Bitbucket
3 36 (49.32%) Cucumber
3 36 (49.32%) Selenium
3 36 (49.32%) SonarQube
3 36 (49.32%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (4.11%) ER Studio
5 2 (2.74%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.37%) JUnit
General
1 73 (100.00%) Banking
2 70 (95.89%) Finance
3 56 (76.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 39 (53.42%) Corporate Banking
5 36 (49.32%) Retail
6 20 (27.40%) Law
7 10 (13.70%) Social Skills
8 5 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (6.85%) Marketing
9 4 (5.48%) Financial Institution
9 4 (5.48%) Publishing
10 3 (4.11%) Private Banking
11 2 (2.74%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 52 (71.23%) Software Engineer
2 10 (13.70%) Lead
3 8 (10.96%) Java Engineer
3 8 (10.96%) Java Software Engineer
3 8 (10.96%) Python Engineer
3 8 (10.96%) Python Software Engineer
4 5 (6.85%) Design Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) AWS Software Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) Developer
5 4 (5.48%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) Data Modeller
6 3 (4.11%) Finance Modeller
6 3 (4.11%) Lead DevOps
6 3 (4.11%) Snowflake Developer
6 3 (4.11%) Technical Leader
6 3 (4.11%) Technical Manager
7 1 (1.37%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.37%) Python Developer
7 1 (1.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (72.60%) Kafka
2 49 (67.12%) Spring
3 45 (61.64%) Spring Boot
4 40 (54.79%) React
4 40 (54.79%) RESTful
5 37 (50.68%) CSS
5 37 (50.68%) HTML
5 37 (50.68%) REST
6 36 (49.32%) CSS3
6 36 (49.32%) HTML5
6 36 (49.32%) Jest
6 36 (49.32%) JPA
6 36 (49.32%) Redux
6 36 (49.32%) Sass
7 5 (6.85%) Pandas
8 4 (5.48%) AngularJS
8 4 (5.48%) Django
9 2 (2.74%) Snowpark
10 1 (1.37%) PyTorch
10 1 (1.37%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 39 (53.42%) Product Ownership
2 36 (49.32%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (10.96%) Cloud Native
4 5 (6.85%) Algorithms
4 5 (6.85%) Mainframe
5 4 (5.48%) Derivative
5 4 (5.48%) Fixed Income
5 4 (5.48%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.37%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.37%) Linux
1 1 (1.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (78.08%) Agile
2 52 (71.23%) Software Engineering
3 48 (65.75%) SDLC
4 46 (63.01%) CI/CD
5 44 (60.27%) Mentoring
6 41 (56.16%) DevOps
6 41 (56.16%) Microservices
7 38 (52.05%) Test Automation
7 38 (52.05%) User Experience
8 37 (50.68%) Full-Stack Development
9 36 (49.32%) Containerisation
9 36 (49.32%) Front End Development
9 36 (49.32%) Migration
9 36 (49.32%) Performance Optimisation
9 36 (49.32%) Responsive Web Design
9 36 (49.32%) Strategic Thinking
10 15 (20.55%) Machine Learning
11 12 (16.44%) Operational Stability
12 10 (13.70%) Analytics
12 10 (13.70%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (76.71%) SQL
2 50 (68.49%) Java
3 41 (56.16%) JavaScript
4 40 (54.79%) TypeScript
5 15 (20.55%) Python
6 4 (5.48%) R
7 3 (4.11%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (1.37%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (2.74%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (49.32%) Accessibility
1 36 (49.32%) QA
2 4 (5.48%) Data Quality
System Software
1 37 (50.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (61.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 36 (49.32%) Solace
2 8 (10.96%) Oracle
3 4 (5.48%) Databricks
4 1 (1.37%) IBM
4 1 (1.37%) Microsoft