Investment Banking Jobs 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 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 363 674
Rank change year-on-year -149 +311 +16
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 26 448 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.074% 0.68% 0.15%
As % of the General category 0.12% 1.17% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 14 18 80
10th Percentile £33,000 - £45,625
25th Percentile £47,813 £41,250 £51,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.93% +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £97,500 £93,125 £85,000
90th Percentile £101,000 £100,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £115,000 £112,500 £105,000
% change year-on-year +2.22% +7.14% +27.27%

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 22,557 38,370 44,576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 64.24% 58.12% 69.48%
Number of salaries quoted 11,163 25,707 19,838
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,045 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,393 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,772 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Investment Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in the UK excluding London

Investment Banking
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Investment Banking in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Investment Banking in the UK excluding London

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 3 April 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 3 April 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
South East +104 7 £90,000 +111.76% 16
Scotland -85 7 £100,000 +17.65% 11
North of England +90 5 £34,000 -69.09% 11
North West +36 4 £34,000 -69.09% 9
Midlands - 4 £65,000 - 25
South West +23 2 £95,000 - 8
West Midlands - 2 £73,750 - 25
East Midlands - 2 £60,000 -
Northern Ireland +35 1 £50,000 -23.08% 7
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
Investment Banking
UK

Investment Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (11.54%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (3.85%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) AWS
1 5 (19.23%) Azure
1 5 (19.23%) Cloud Computing
1 5 (19.23%) Datadog
1 5 (19.23%) Snowflake
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (7.69%) Serverless
4 1 (3.85%) GCP
4 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) Skype
1 3 (11.54%) VPN
2 1 (3.85%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.85%) Metadata
2 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) CircleCI
1 2 (7.69%) GitLab
1 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 26 (100.00%) Banking
2 22 (84.62%) Finance
3 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 6 (23.08%) Law
5 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (19.23%) Retail Banking
6 4 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (11.54%) Advertising
7 3 (11.54%) Financial Institution
7 3 (11.54%) Marketing
7 3 (11.54%) Retail
8 2 (7.69%) Front Office
9 1 (3.85%) Back Office
9 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Analyst
2 5 (19.23%) Banking Analyst
2 5 (19.23%) Due Diligence Analyst
2 5 (19.23%) Lead
3 4 (15.38%) Business Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Senior
4 3 (11.54%) Lead Software Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Senior Business Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Service Desk Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) IT Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Product Owner
5 2 (7.69%) Technical Product Owner
6 1 (3.85%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Onboarding Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) Kafka
2 5 (19.23%) GraphQL
2 5 (19.23%) RESTful
3 3 (11.54%) AngularJS
3 3 (11.54%) React
4 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.85%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (3.85%) JSON
5 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Derivative
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Equities
3 1 (3.85%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (3.85%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Windows
1 3 (11.54%) Windows 10
2 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Data Management
2 7 (26.92%) Microservices
3 6 (23.08%) Agile
3 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (23.08%) Time Management
4 5 (19.23%) Analytics
4 5 (19.23%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 5 (19.23%) API Development
4 5 (19.23%) API Integration
4 5 (19.23%) Business Strategy
4 5 (19.23%) Coaching
4 5 (19.23%) Data Engineering
4 5 (19.23%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (19.23%) Decision-Making
4 5 (19.23%) Digital Banking
4 5 (19.23%) Due Diligence
4 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
4 5 (19.23%) Observability
4 5 (19.23%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (19.23%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) C#
2 6 (23.08%) Java
3 2 (7.69%) Bash
3 2 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Degree
2 3 (11.54%) AWS Certification
2 3 (11.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Grafana
1 7 (26.92%) Prometheus
2 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Databricks
2 4 (15.38%) Google
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.54%) Cisco
3 3 (11.54%) Citrix
3 3 (11.54%) Remedy
4 1 (3.85%) Bloomberg
4 1 (3.85%) NYFIX
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) Sun