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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 487 476
Rank change year-on-year -29 -11 +205
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 33 26 239
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.062% 0.094% 0.40%
As % of the General category 0.12% 0.14% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 16 14 18
10th Percentile £36,000 £33,000 -
25th Percentile £49,625 £49,063 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £76,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.43% +8.93% +3.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £97,500 £93,125
90th Percentile £78,750 £101,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £115,000 £108,750
% change year-on-year -13.04% +5.75% +8.75%

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 27,292 18,819 35,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 51.06% 68.11% 59.33%
Number of salaries quoted 14,340 9,237 24,778
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £64,456 £68,525 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%

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 16 March 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 16 March 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
West Midlands +6 12 £50,000 -20.00% 4
Midlands -9 12 £50,000 -23.08% 5
East of England - 7 - -
North of England -41 6 £50,250 +47.79% 1
North West -15 4 £67,500 +98.53% 1
Scotland -18 4 - - 5
South East -12 2 - - 15
South West -34 2 - -
Yorkshire -43 2 £33,000 -
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 10 (30.30%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (27.27%) Apache
2 9 (27.27%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.03%) Confluence
3 1 (3.03%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 18 (54.55%) AWS
2 12 (36.36%) Amazon S3
3 9 (27.27%) OpenShift
4 4 (12.12%) Snowflake
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 3 (9.09%) Serverless
5 3 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (6.06%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (30.30%) Tableau
2 9 (27.27%) Apache Hive
2 9 (27.27%) Impala
2 9 (27.27%) Oracle Database
2 9 (27.27%) Parquet
2 9 (27.27%) Spark SQL
3 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (9.09%) Data Vault
4 3 (9.09%) Power BI
5 1 (3.03%) DB2
5 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (36.36%) Git
2 9 (27.27%) IBM UrbanCode
3 3 (9.09%) GitLab
3 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 33 (100.00%) Banking
2 19 (57.58%) Finance
3 7 (21.21%) Advertising
3 7 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (21.21%) Legal
4 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
5 4 (12.12%) Financial Institution
6 3 (9.09%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (9.09%) Marketing
6 3 (9.09%) Private Banking
7 2 (6.06%) Billing
7 2 (6.06%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
8 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (3.03%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Analyst
1 9 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
1 9 (27.27%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
1 9 (27.27%) Banking Analyst
1 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 9 (27.27%) Transformation Analyst
2 7 (21.21%) Developer
3 5 (15.15%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Technical Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Business Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Data Business Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Java Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Senior
4 4 (12.12%) Senior Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Lead
5 3 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
5 3 (9.09%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (27.27%) PySpark
2 5 (15.15%) Pandas
3 1 (3.03%) Middleware
3 1 (3.03%) NumPy
3 1 (3.03%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.03%) scikit-learn
3 1 (3.03%) Snowpark
3 1 (3.03%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.06%) Hedge funds
2 2 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.03%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
1 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) Analytics
1 13 (39.39%) Data Governance
2 12 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 11 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (30.30%) Agile
4 10 (30.30%) AI
4 10 (30.30%) Data Transformation
4 10 (30.30%) ETL
4 10 (30.30%) User Acceptance Testing
5 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (27.27%) Scrum
6 7 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (18.18%) DevOps
7 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (15.15%) Backlog Management
8 5 (15.15%) Data Analysis
8 5 (15.15%) Data Engineering
8 5 (15.15%) Data Validation
8 5 (15.15%) Decision Table
8 5 (15.15%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 14 (42.42%) Python
1 14 (42.42%) SQL
2 6 (18.18%) Java
3 3 (9.09%) ANSI SQL
4 1 (3.03%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 3 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 3 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (9.09%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 2 (6.06%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (30.30%) Data Quality
2 5 (15.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 5 (15.15%) GDPR
2 5 (15.15%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.09%) Ansible
2 3 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (39.39%) Oracle
2 9 (27.27%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.06%) SAP
4 1 (3.03%) Databricks