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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 550 484
Rank change year-on-year +50 -66 +182
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 16 20 79
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.038% 0.055% 0.23%
As % of the General category 0.068% 0.087% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 11 11 17
10th Percentile £48,500 £33,000 -
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £73,125 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £96,250 £90,500
UK median annual salary £110,000 £110,000 £107,500
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +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 general skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 23,702 23,022 20,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 56.24% 63.72% 59.42%
Number of salaries quoted 12,257 9,490 14,323
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,220 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £59,556
% change year-on-year -12.50% +0.75% -3.55%

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 January 2026.

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 January 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
Midlands +30 8 £50,000 -32.20% 4
West Midlands +28 8 £50,000 -20.00% 4
North West +27 6 £67,500 +95.65%
North of England +18 6 £67,500 +95.65%
South West +6 2 - - 1
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 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Snowflake
2 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (31.25%) Power Platform
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (12.50%) dbt
3 2 (12.50%) Serverless
3 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 5 (31.25%) Data Vault
2 5 (31.25%) Power BI
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (6.25%) DB2
4 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) GitLab
2 2 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 16 (100.00%) Banking
2 10 (62.50%) Finance
3 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 5 (31.25%) Advertising
5 4 (25.00%) Financial Institution
6 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (18.75%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (18.75%) Private Banking
7 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (6.25%) Law
7 1 (6.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) AWS Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Developer
1 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Snowflake Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Lead
3 3 (18.75%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Analytics Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Snowpark
2 1 (6.25%) Middleware
2 1 (6.25%) NumPy
2 1 (6.25%) Pandas
2 1 (6.25%) PyTorch
2 1 (6.25%) scikit-learn
2 1 (6.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) AI Agents
3 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Data Governance
1 6 (37.50%) Data Management
1 6 (37.50%) Data Modelling
1 6 (37.50%) Data Science
1 6 (37.50%) Machine Learning
2 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (31.25%) DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (31.25%) Statistics
3 4 (25.00%) Analytics
3 4 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 4 (25.00%) Project Management
3 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 2 (12.50%) High Availability
4 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
2 5 (31.25%) ANSI SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks