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

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 313 618
Rank change year-on-year -160 +305 +150
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 127 539 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.75% 0.13%
As % of the General category 0.45% 1.37% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 6 17 61
10th Percentile £57,500 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £68,750 £55,000 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £85,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% +28.79% +10.00%
75th Percentile £104,375 £100,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £101,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £112,500 £115,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% +29.41%

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 28,313 39,441 32,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 65.03% 54.53% 65.75%
Number of salaries quoted 13,488 24,141 17,630
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £28,363
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,840 £75,772 £81,250
UK median annual salary £54,793 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.37% -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 19 July 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 19 July 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 +107 81 - - 2
North West +79 78 - - 2
Scotland -78 20 £97,500 +14.71% 2
Midlands +87 18 £60,000 -7.69% 14
West Midlands +63 11 - - 14
East Midlands - 7 £60,000 -
South West -81 6 - - 1
South East +62 3 - - 35
East of England +13 2 - -
North East - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
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 6 (4.72%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.15%) Cloud Foundry
3 3 (2.36%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 105 (82.68%) AWS
2 90 (70.87%) Azure
3 6 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (4.72%) Serverless
4 4 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (3.15%) Amazon S3
4 4 (3.15%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (3.15%) Snowflake
5 2 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.79%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (74.80%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.09%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.30%) Apache Cassandra
3 8 (6.30%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.94%) RDBMS
5 4 (3.15%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (3.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (3.15%) Apache Hive
5 4 (3.15%) Apache Iceberg
5 4 (3.15%) Big Data
5 4 (3.15%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.15%) Impala
5 4 (3.15%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.15%) Redshift Spectrum
6 2 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 93 (73.23%) GitLab
2 91 (71.65%) JIRA
2 91 (71.65%) Maven
3 90 (70.87%) Bitbucket
3 90 (70.87%) Cucumber
3 90 (70.87%) Selenium
3 90 (70.87%) SonarQube
3 90 (70.87%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (3.15%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.36%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.57%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.79%) JUnit
General
1 127 (100.00%) Banking
2 124 (97.64%) Finance
3 109 (85.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 90 (70.87%) Corporate Banking
4 90 (70.87%) Retail
5 22 (17.32%) Law
6 9 (7.09%) Social Skills
7 7 (5.51%) Marketing
8 6 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (3.15%) Publishing
10 3 (2.36%) Advertising
11 2 (1.57%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.79%) Back Office
12 1 (0.79%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 106 (83.46%) Software Engineer
2 8 (6.30%) Java Engineer
2 8 (6.30%) Java Software Engineer
2 8 (6.30%) Python Engineer
2 8 (6.30%) Python Software Engineer
3 7 (5.51%) Lead
4 5 (3.94%) Design Engineer
4 5 (3.94%) Senior
5 4 (3.15%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (3.15%) AWS Software Engineer
5 4 (3.15%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (2.36%) Analyst
6 3 (2.36%) Data Modeller
6 3 (2.36%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.36%) Finance Modeller
6 3 (2.36%) IT Engineer
6 3 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (2.36%) Senior Business Analyst
6 3 (2.36%) Technical Leader
6 3 (2.36%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (85.83%) Kafka
2 103 (81.10%) Spring
3 99 (77.95%) Spring Boot
4 94 (74.02%) React
4 94 (74.02%) RESTful
5 91 (71.65%) CSS
5 91 (71.65%) HTML
5 91 (71.65%) REST
6 90 (70.87%) CSS3
6 90 (70.87%) HTML5
6 90 (70.87%) Jest
6 90 (70.87%) JPA
6 90 (70.87%) Redux
6 90 (70.87%) Sass
7 4 (3.15%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.15%) Django
7 4 (3.15%) Pandas
8 2 (1.57%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.79%) J2EE
9 1 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 92 (72.44%) Product Ownership
2 90 (70.87%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (6.30%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.94%) Mainframe
5 4 (3.15%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.15%) Derivative
5 4 (3.15%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.15%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (88.98%) Agile
2 106 (83.46%) Software Engineering
3 102 (80.31%) CI/CD
3 102 (80.31%) SDLC
4 98 (77.17%) Mentoring
5 97 (76.38%) Microservices
6 94 (74.02%) DevOps
7 92 (72.44%) Containerisation
7 92 (72.44%) Test Automation
8 91 (71.65%) Full-Stack Development
8 91 (71.65%) User Experience
9 90 (70.87%) Front End Development
9 90 (70.87%) Migration
9 90 (70.87%) Performance Optimisation
9 90 (70.87%) Responsive Web Design
9 90 (70.87%) Strategic Thinking
10 12 (9.45%) Operational Stability
10 12 (9.45%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (8.66%) Machine Learning
12 8 (6.30%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 106 (83.46%) SQL
2 103 (81.10%) Java
3 95 (74.80%) JavaScript
4 94 (74.02%) TypeScript
5 13 (10.24%) Python
6 3 (2.36%) R
7 2 (1.57%) Bash
8 1 (0.79%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (2.36%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (71.65%) QA
2 90 (70.87%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 93 (73.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 101 (79.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.57%) Grafana
2 2 (1.57%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 90 (70.87%) Solace
2 5 (3.94%) Oracle
3 4 (3.15%) Databricks
4 1 (0.79%) IBM
4 1 (0.79%) Microsoft