Investment Banking Jobs

Investment Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Investment Banking over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 251 416 594
Rank change year-on-year +165 +178 -101
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 1,203 726 908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.11% 0.78% 0.53%
As % of the General category 1.93% 1.16% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 566 596 537
10th Percentile £77,500 £60,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £87,500 £70,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £110,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +33.33% -2.94%
75th Percentile £148,750 £135,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £165,000 £157,500 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £67,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +26.87% +11.67% -5.88%

All General Skills
UK

Investment Banking is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 62,409 62,826 112,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 57.55% 67.49% 65.31%
Number of salaries quoted 40,598 35,177 52,328
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,874 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

Investment Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Investment Banking in the UK

Investment Banking
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Investment Banking in the UK

Investment Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Investment Banking over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Investment Banking in the UK

Investment Banking
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 Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 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 +91 853 £117,500 +6.82% 143
London +46 615 £120,000 +4.35% 118
UK excluding London +304 585 £85,000 +26.87% 43
Work from Home +120 421 £135,000 +22.73% 53
Scotland +112 346 £85,000 +21.43% 4
South West +149 224 - - 5
South East -4 6 £42,500 -61.36% 11
North of England +13 4 £110,000 +83.33% 13
North West -20 4 £110,000 +83.33% 13
West Midlands -17 2 £95,000 +80.09%
Midlands -38 2 £95,000 +80.09%
East of England - 2 £100,000 - 1
Northern Ireland -6 1 £65,000 +4.00% 1

Investment Banking
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
1 344 (28.60%) Apache
2 320 (26.60%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (2.58%) Confluence
4 22 (1.83%) GemFire
5 18 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (1.41%) Apache Spark
7 15 (1.25%) Cloud Foundry
8 8 (0.67%) SharePoint
9 6 (0.50%) SAS
10 5 (0.42%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.25%) CMS
11 3 (0.25%) IIS
12 1 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.083%) Documentum
12 1 (0.083%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 81 (6.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (6.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 56 (4.66%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.00%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.083%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 14 (1.16%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 556 (46.22%) AWS
2 336 (27.93%) dbt
3 300 (24.94%) Snowflake
4 152 (12.64%) GCP
5 46 (3.82%) Azure
6 29 (2.41%) Power Platform
7 25 (2.08%) Google Play
8 13 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (1.00%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (0.67%) GitHub
12 4 (0.33%) Firebase
12 4 (0.33%) Serverless
13 3 (0.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (0.25%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (0.25%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (0.25%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (0.25%) Datadog
13 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.16%) Firewall
2 13 (1.08%) DSL
3 10 (0.83%) Internet
4 8 (0.67%) Remote Desktop
5 7 (0.58%) VPN
6 6 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (0.42%) WAN
8 4 (0.33%) LAN
9 2 (0.17%) DHCP
9 2 (0.17%) DNS
10 1 (0.083%) HTTP
10 1 (0.083%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.083%) SSH
10 1 (0.083%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 337 (28.01%) Apache Arrow
2 336 (27.93%) Dremio
3 332 (27.60%) Data Lake
4 320 (26.60%) Amazon Athena
4 320 (26.60%) Apache Ignite
5 65 (5.40%) Tableau
6 35 (2.91%) Big Data
7 32 (2.66%) MongoDB
8 29 (2.41%) Power BI
9 27 (2.24%) NoSQL
10 21 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
10 21 (1.75%) CockroachDB
10 21 (1.75%) Hazelcast
11 18 (1.50%) MySQL
12 17 (1.41%) SQL Server
13 16 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
13 16 (1.33%) Relational Database
14 13 (1.08%) DB2
15 9 (0.75%) BusinessObjects
16 8 (0.67%) KDB
Development Applications
1 75 (6.23%) Cypress.io
2 73 (6.07%) JUnit
3 67 (5.57%) Selenium
4 63 (5.24%) WebDriver
5 60 (4.99%) Jasmine
5 60 (4.99%) Karma Test Runner
5 60 (4.99%) Protractor
6 33 (2.74%) Maven
7 25 (2.08%) Android Studio
8 21 (1.75%) Jaeger
9 20 (1.66%) Cucumber
9 20 (1.66%) Git
10 18 (1.50%) Jenkins
11 15 (1.25%) JIRA
12 12 (1.00%) GitLab
13 6 (0.50%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.33%) Crashlytics
15 3 (0.25%) FitNesse
15 3 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
15 3 (0.25%) SonarQube
General
1 1,203 (100.00%) Banking
2 1,056 (87.78%) Finance
3 575 (47.80%) Law
4 571 (47.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 473 (39.32%) Front Office
6 177 (14.71%) Social Skills
7 147 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
8 104 (8.65%) Financial Institution
9 81 (6.73%) Marketing
10 57 (4.74%) Presentation Skills
11 50 (4.16%) Legal
12 28 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
13 25 (2.08%) Corporate Banking
14 24 (2.00%) Prime Brokerage
15 21 (1.75%) Games
16 19 (1.58%) French Language
17 15 (1.25%) Publishing
18 10 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
19 5 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
19 5 (0.42%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 492 (40.90%) Software Engineer
2 295 (24.52%) Java Engineer
3 293 (24.36%) Lead
4 287 (23.86%) Java Software Engineer
5 204 (16.96%) Analyst
6 200 (16.63%) Senior
7 196 (16.29%) Developer
8 181 (15.05%) Lead Software Engineer
9 166 (13.80%) Python Engineer
9 166 (13.80%) Python Software Engineer
10 161 (13.38%) AWS Engineer
10 161 (13.38%) AWS Software Engineer
11 125 (10.39%) Lead Java Engineer
12 117 (9.73%) Senior Software Engineer
13 93 (7.73%) Java Developer
14 83 (6.90%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 79 (6.57%) Architect
16 76 (6.32%) Software Developer
17 72 (5.99%) Lead Developer
18 71 (5.90%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 319 (26.52%) Pandas
2 318 (26.43%) gRPC
2 318 (26.43%) NumPy
2 318 (26.43%) Protocol Buffers
2 318 (26.43%) SciPy
3 176 (14.63%) Spring
4 151 (12.55%) React
5 113 (9.39%) Spring Boot
6 102 (8.48%) HTML
7 96 (7.98%) CSS
8 90 (7.48%) AngularJS
9 87 (7.23%) Kafka
10 64 (5.32%) JSON
11 62 (5.15%) Hibernate
12 61 (5.07%) J2EE
12 61 (5.07%) jQuery
12 61 (5.07%) Node.js
13 60 (4.99%) Jest
13 60 (4.99%) JMS
13 60 (4.99%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 420 (34.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 401 (33.33%) Fixed Income
3 385 (32.00%) Derivative
4 368 (30.59%) Hedge funds
5 360 (29.93%) Equities
6 160 (13.30%) Cloud Native
7 118 (9.81%) Algorithms
8 70 (5.82%) Self-Motivation
9 69 (5.74%) Product Ownership
10 63 (5.24%) Data Structures
11 48 (3.99%) Pricing Data
12 35 (2.91%) Public Cloud
13 31 (2.58%) Management Information System
14 25 (2.08%) Onboarding
15 23 (1.91%) Mobile App
16 21 (1.75%) Credit Risk
16 21 (1.75%) Replication
17 19 (1.58%) Private Cloud
18 18 (1.50%) OTC Derivatives
19 16 (1.33%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 49 (4.07%) Windows
2 41 (3.41%) Linux
3 29 (2.41%) Android
4 20 (1.66%) Windows Server
5 19 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (1.08%) Unix
7 4 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.33%) Windows XP
8 3 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.17%) AIX
10 1 (0.083%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 790 (65.67%) Agile
2 691 (57.44%) Software Engineering
3 481 (39.98%) Asset Management
4 313 (26.02%) SDLC
5 296 (24.61%) Investment Management
6 285 (23.69%) CI/CD
7 279 (23.19%) Operational Stability
8 273 (22.69%) Machine Learning
9 267 (22.19%) Artificial Intelligence
10 213 (17.71%) Community of Practice
11 188 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
12 128 (10.64%) Greeks
13 127 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
14 125 (10.39%) Line Management
14 125 (10.39%) Visualisation
15 119 (9.89%) TDD
16 115 (9.56%) Coaching
17 114 (9.48%) Analytics
18 109 (9.06%) Information Architecture
19 106 (8.81%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 653 (54.28%) Java
2 488 (40.57%) Python
3 462 (38.40%) JavaScript
4 405 (33.67%) TypeScript
5 185 (15.38%) SQL
6 36 (2.99%) Groovy
6 36 (2.99%) Kotlin
7 35 (2.91%) C#
8 27 (2.24%) Scala
9 24 (2.00%) Ruby
10 23 (1.91%) Bash
11 22 (1.83%) Perl
12 20 (1.66%) PowerShell
13 15 (1.25%) T-SQL
14 14 (1.16%) PL/SQL
15 12 (1.00%) Korn
16 8 (0.67%) R
17 6 (0.50%) Shell Script
18 5 (0.42%) C++
19 4 (0.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 130 (10.81%) Degree
2 20 (1.66%) Master's Degree
3 16 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (1.00%) MBA
5 6 (0.50%) Tableau Certification
6 4 (0.33%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.25%) CISA
7 3 (0.25%) CISM
7 3 (0.25%) CISSP
7 3 (0.25%) PhD
8 2 (0.17%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.17%) CRISC
8 2 (0.17%) MCSA
8 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.17%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.083%) CCAB
9 1 (0.083%) CFA
9 1 (0.083%) QiCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (11.64%) Data Quality
2 36 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.33%) SLA
4 13 (1.08%) QA
5 5 (0.42%) SEPA
5 5 (0.42%) TARGET2
6 4 (0.33%) NIST
7 3 (0.25%) MiFID
8 2 (0.17%) EMIR
9 1 (0.083%) COBIT
9 1 (0.083%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.083%) ITGC
9 1 (0.083%) PMO
System Software
1 26 (2.16%) Docker
2 9 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.67%) XenApp
3 8 (0.67%) XenDesktop
4 7 (0.58%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.17%) vSphere
6 1 (0.083%) GridGain
6 1 (0.083%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.083%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 40 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 35 (2.91%) Grafana
3 29 (2.41%) Terraform
4 24 (2.00%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.75%) Ansible
5 21 (1.75%) HAProxy
5 21 (1.75%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (1.75%) Kibana
5 21 (1.75%) Zipkin
6 16 (1.33%) Puppet
7 12 (1.00%) Graphite
7 12 (1.00%) Red Hat Satellite
8 7 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.33%) Control-M
10 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.083%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.083%) SCCM
10 1 (0.083%) SCOM
10 1 (0.083%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.083%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 106 (8.81%) Microsoft
2 51 (4.24%) Oracle
3 40 (3.33%) Alteryx
4 35 (2.91%) Splunk
5 29 (2.41%) Bloomberg
6 25 (2.08%) Google
7 21 (1.75%) Dynatrace
8 19 (1.58%) Red Hat
9 17 (1.41%) Sybase
10 16 (1.33%) Citrix
10 16 (1.33%) VMware
11 15 (1.25%) Cognos
11 15 (1.25%) Databricks
12 14 (1.16%) BISAM
13 12 (1.00%) Reuters
13 12 (1.00%) TOWER Software
14 9 (0.75%) ServiceNow
15 8 (0.67%) Sun
16 7 (0.58%) Fortinet
16 7 (0.58%) Pega