Investment Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Investment Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Investment Management over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 309 413 362
Rank change year-on-year +104 -51 -44
Permanent jobs citing Investment Management 931 786 1,600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 0.78% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 0.81% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 792 667 1,335
10th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £81,250 £73,750 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £90,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £142,500 £116,250 £128,750
90th Percentile £148,750 £150,000 £140,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year - +10.64% -2.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Investment Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Investment Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Investment Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Investment Management in the UK

Investment Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Investment Management.

Salary trend for Investment Management in the UK

Investment Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Investment Management over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Investment Management in the UK

Investment Management
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Investment Management within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
England +101 834 £105,000 +16.67% 137
London +97 816 £105,000 +10.53% 124
Work from Home +109 504 £112,500 +9.76% 40
UK excluding London +33 115 £65,000 - 21
Scotland +25 95 £65,000 -13.33% 6
North of England +40 8 £82,500 +69.23% 4
West Midlands +3 8 £40,000 -46.67% 1
Midlands -12 8 £40,000 -46.67% 1
North West -5 7 £66,250 +26.19% 2
Wales +8 2 £70,000 +3.70% 2
South East -10 1 £77,500 +19.23% 4
South West -37 1 £75,000 - 4
Yorkshire - 1 £85,572 - 2

Investment Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 343 (36.84%) Apache Airflow
2 298 (32.01%) Apache
3 23 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.50%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.07%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.32%) Site Server
8 2 (0.21%) Appian
9 1 (0.11%) Confluence
9 1 (0.11%) Drupal
9 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 14 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 25 (2.69%) Aladdin
2 14 (1.50%) thinkFolio
3 10 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.43%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 652 (70.03%) AWS
2 339 (36.41%) GCP
3 277 (29.75%) Azure
4 239 (25.67%) dbt
5 214 (22.99%) Snowflake
6 21 (2.26%) BlazeMeter
7 20 (2.15%) Power Platform
8 13 (1.40%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (1.18%) AWS Step Functions
10 10 (1.07%) Amazon EMR
10 10 (1.07%) Amazon S3
11 9 (0.97%) GitHub
12 8 (0.86%) Dagster
12 8 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (0.75%) Serverless
14 6 (0.64%) Amazon EventBridge
14 6 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (0.64%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.40%) DHCP
1 13 (1.40%) DNS
2 9 (0.97%) SAN
3 6 (0.64%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.32%) iSCSI
4 3 (0.32%) LAN
4 3 (0.32%) NAS
4 3 (0.32%) WAN
5 2 (0.21%) SSH
6 1 (0.11%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.11%) Firewall
6 1 (0.11%) Internet
6 1 (0.11%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 292 (31.36%) Apache Ignite
2 237 (25.46%) Amazon Athena
3 234 (25.13%) Dremio
4 231 (24.81%) Apache Arrow
5 207 (22.23%) Data Lake
6 99 (10.63%) PostgreSQL
7 62 (6.66%) Big Data
8 51 (5.48%) SQL Server
9 25 (2.69%) Relational Database
10 23 (2.47%) NoSQL
11 16 (1.72%) MongoDB
12 15 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
13 14 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (1.40%) Apache Hive
15 12 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 11 (1.18%) Redis
17 10 (1.07%) Power BI
18 7 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
18 7 (0.75%) Metadata
19 6 (0.64%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 62 (6.66%) Cypress.io
2 38 (4.08%) Git
3 25 (2.69%) JUnit
4 19 (2.04%) Jasmine
5 15 (1.61%) Karma Test Runner
5 15 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
6 11 (1.18%) JIRA
7 7 (0.75%) Moq
8 4 (0.43%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.32%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.32%) Maven
10 2 (0.21%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.21%) Selenium
11 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.11%) ERwin
11 1 (0.11%) GitLab
11 1 (0.11%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.11%) Subversion
11 1 (0.11%) webpack
General
1 830 (89.15%) Finance
2 578 (62.08%) Front Office
3 452 (48.55%) Banking
4 202 (21.70%) Investment Banking
5 116 (12.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 114 (12.24%) Back Office
7 111 (11.92%) Law
8 92 (9.88%) Private Banking
9 62 (6.66%) Social Skills
10 33 (3.54%) Analytical Skills
11 11 (1.18%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.07%) Billing
13 8 (0.86%) Legal
14 6 (0.64%) French Language
14 6 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.21%) Marketing
17 1 (0.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 413 (44.36%) Software Engineer
2 383 (41.14%) Developer
3 268 (28.79%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 186 (19.98%) Senior
5 174 (18.69%) Python Developer
5 174 (18.69%) Python Engineer
6 166 (17.83%) Python Software Engineer
7 148 (15.90%) Analyst
8 126 (13.53%) Java Engineer
9 123 (13.21%) React Developer
10 122 (13.10%) Java Software Engineer
11 121 (13.00%) AWS Engineer
12 114 (12.24%) Lead
13 112 (12.03%) Senior Software Engineer
14 99 (10.63%) .NET Software Engineer
15 97 (10.42%) Full Stack Engineer
15 97 (10.42%) Full Stack Software Engineer
16 88 (9.45%) .NET Developer
16 88 (9.45%) Finance Manager
17 83 (8.92%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 334 (35.88%) gRPC
2 332 (35.66%) Protocol Buffers
3 256 (27.50%) React
4 219 (23.52%) Redux
5 192 (20.62%) Pandas
6 191 (20.52%) NumPy
7 187 (20.09%) SciPy
8 173 (18.58%) AngularJS
9 134 (14.39%) .NET
10 112 (12.03%) Material-UI
11 95 (10.20%) Vue
12 81 (8.70%) Spring
13 61 (6.55%) ASP.NET
14 59 (6.34%) .NET Core
15 46 (4.94%) RESTful
16 45 (4.83%) Node.js
17 42 (4.51%) HTML
18 38 (4.08%) ASP.NET Core
19 37 (3.97%) Spring Boot
20 35 (3.76%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 577 (61.98%) Hedge funds
2 506 (54.35%) Fixed Income
3 416 (44.68%) Derivative
4 399 (42.86%) Equities
5 321 (34.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 59 (6.34%) Cloud Native
7 55 (5.91%) Product Ownership
8 42 (4.51%) Clustering
9 41 (4.40%) Public Cloud
10 24 (2.58%) Pricing Data
11 23 (2.47%) Algorithms
12 17 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.61%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.40%) Management Information System
15 7 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (0.75%) Private Cloud
16 6 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
16 6 (0.64%) N-Tier
16 6 (0.64%) Replication
17 5 (0.54%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.22%) Windows
2 15 (1.61%) Windows Server
3 14 (1.50%) Windows 10
4 8 (0.86%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.86%) Linux
5 7 (0.75%) Unix
6 6 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.32%) CentOS
8 2 (0.21%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.11%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 752 (80.77%) Asset Management
2 643 (69.07%) Agile
3 553 (59.40%) Software Engineering
4 210 (22.56%) Full Stack Development
5 178 (19.12%) Artificial Intelligence
6 177 (19.01%) Machine Learning
7 135 (14.50%) DevOps
8 117 (12.57%) Wealth Management
9 107 (11.49%) Fintech
10 97 (10.42%) Analytics
11 91 (9.77%) Automated Trading
12 81 (8.70%) Greeks
12 81 (8.70%) Mentoring
13 70 (7.52%) CI/CD
13 70 (7.52%) Operational Stability
14 67 (7.20%) Line Management
15 66 (7.09%) Microservices
16 64 (6.87%) SDLC
17 55 (5.91%) TDD
18 54 (5.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 591 (63.48%) Python
2 418 (44.90%) TypeScript
3 391 (42.00%) JavaScript
4 357 (38.35%) Java
5 255 (27.39%) SQL
6 191 (20.52%) C#
7 47 (5.05%) R
8 45 (4.83%) Go
9 36 (3.87%) T-SQL
10 23 (2.47%) Kotlin
11 18 (1.93%) PowerShell
12 13 (1.40%) Ruby
13 12 (1.29%) Scala
14 8 (0.86%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.64%) Bash
16 5 (0.54%) C++
17 3 (0.32%) MATLAB
17 3 (0.32%) VBA
18 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
18 1 (0.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 62 (6.66%) Degree
2 27 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (0.86%) MCSA
3 8 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (0.64%) CREST Certified
5 2 (0.21%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.11%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.11%) ACCA
6 1 (0.11%) CFA
6 1 (0.11%) CIMA
6 1 (0.11%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.11%) CISM
6 1 (0.11%) CISSP
6 1 (0.11%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (0.11%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.11%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.11%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (10.10%) Data Quality
2 46 (4.94%) QA
3 27 (2.90%) SLA
4 15 (1.61%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.61%) WAI
5 9 (0.97%) GDPR
6 6 (0.64%) SOC 1
7 2 (0.21%) PMO
8 1 (0.11%) EMIR
8 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.11%) MiFID
8 1 (0.11%) UCITS
System Software
1 21 (2.26%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.04%) Docker
3 13 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.86%) XenApp
4 8 (0.86%) XenDesktop
5 6 (0.64%) DFS Replication
6 3 (0.32%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.32%) NFS
7 2 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 77 (8.27%) Terraform
2 64 (6.87%) Kubernetes
3 43 (4.62%) Prometheus
4 21 (2.26%) Grafana
5 11 (1.18%) Ansible
6 7 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.64%) NetBackup
7 6 (0.64%) Puppet
7 6 (0.64%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 3 (0.32%) Control-M
8 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.21%) SCCM
9 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.11%) CASB
10 1 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.11%) Podman
10 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 93 (9.99%) Google
2 73 (7.84%) Bloomberg
3 45 (4.83%) Microsoft
4 25 (2.69%) Splunk
5 23 (2.47%) Charles River
6 21 (2.26%) Dynatrace
7 19 (2.04%) Citrix
8 14 (1.50%) BISAM
9 13 (1.40%) VMware
10 8 (0.86%) Cisco
10 8 (0.86%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.75%) Alteryx
11 7 (0.75%) FactSet
11 7 (0.75%) Refinitiv
12 6 (0.64%) MobileIron
12 6 (0.64%) Veeam
13 4 (0.43%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.43%) InterSystems
13 4 (0.43%) Jaspersoft
13 4 (0.43%) Vertica