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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 242 434 585
Rank change year-on-year +192 +151 -76
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 1,162 720 868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.16% 0.72% 0.53%
As % of the General category 1.95% 1.06% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 472 623 523
10th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £88,438 £70,625 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £117,500 £110,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +37.50% -3.03%
75th Percentile £148,750 £132,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £157,500 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +25.93% +12.50% -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 59,592 67,843 105,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.64% 68.21% 64.61%
Number of salaries quoted 39,690 36,730 51,592
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £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 20 May 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 20 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 +109 790 £120,000 +9.09% 153
UK excluding London +357 608 £85,000 +25.93% 37
London +57 550 £125,000 +8.70% 135
Scotland +115 367 £85,000 +21.43% 8
Work from Home +103 337 £135,000 +22.73% 41
South West +161 225 - -
South East +15 7 £42,500 -61.36% 13
North of England +17 4 £110,000 +83.33% 9
North West -18 4 £110,000 +83.33% 8
West Midlands +4 2 £95,000 +85.37% 4
Midlands -16 2 £95,000 +85.37% 4
East of England - 2 £100,000 - 1
Northern Ireland +10 1 £65,000 +26.21% 2

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
1 251 (21.60%) Apache
2 239 (20.57%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (2.67%) Confluence
4 22 (1.89%) GemFire
5 21 (1.81%) Apache Spark
6 18 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
7 15 (1.29%) Cloud Foundry
8 10 (0.86%) SharePoint
9 6 (0.52%) SAS
10 5 (0.43%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.26%) IIS
12 2 (0.17%) CMS
13 1 (0.086%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.086%) Oracle Coherence
13 1 (0.086%) WebSphere
Applications
1 109 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 106 (9.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 84 (7.23%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.03%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.086%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 14 (1.20%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.17%) Adaptiv
3 1 (0.086%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.086%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 488 (42.00%) AWS
2 243 (20.91%) dbt
3 218 (18.76%) Snowflake
4 133 (11.45%) GCP
5 51 (4.39%) Azure
6 25 (2.15%) Google Play
7 16 (1.38%) Power Platform
8 10 (0.86%) GitHub
9 9 (0.77%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (0.34%) Firebase
10 4 (0.34%) Serverless
11 3 (0.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (0.26%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (0.26%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.26%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.26%) Datadog
11 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (0.17%) SaaS
13 1 (0.086%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.55%) DSL
2 12 (1.03%) Firewall
3 10 (0.86%) Internet
4 7 (0.60%) VPN
5 6 (0.52%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (0.26%) WAN
7 2 (0.17%) DHCP
7 2 (0.17%) DNS
7 2 (0.17%) HTTP
7 2 (0.17%) LAN
7 2 (0.17%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.086%) IPv4
8 1 (0.086%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.086%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (21.00%) Apache Arrow
2 243 (20.91%) Data Lake
2 243 (20.91%) Dremio
3 239 (20.57%) Amazon Athena
3 239 (20.57%) Apache Ignite
4 58 (4.99%) Tableau
5 37 (3.18%) MongoDB
6 27 (2.32%) Big Data
6 27 (2.32%) NoSQL
7 21 (1.81%) Apache Cassandra
7 21 (1.81%) CockroachDB
7 21 (1.81%) Hazelcast
8 18 (1.55%) DB2
9 17 (1.46%) MySQL
9 17 (1.46%) Relational Database
9 17 (1.46%) SQL Server
10 16 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (1.38%) Power BI
11 9 (0.77%) BusinessObjects
12 8 (0.69%) KDB
Development Applications
1 75 (6.45%) Cypress.io
2 72 (6.20%) JUnit
3 67 (5.77%) Selenium
4 63 (5.42%) WebDriver
5 60 (5.16%) Jasmine
5 60 (5.16%) Karma Test Runner
5 60 (5.16%) Protractor
6 33 (2.84%) Maven
7 25 (2.15%) Android Studio
8 22 (1.89%) Git
9 21 (1.81%) Jaeger
10 19 (1.64%) Cucumber
11 18 (1.55%) Jenkins
12 14 (1.20%) JIRA
13 8 (0.69%) GitLab
14 6 (0.52%) TeamCity
15 4 (0.34%) Crashlytics
16 3 (0.26%) FitNesse
16 3 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
16 3 (0.26%) SonarQube
General
1 1,162 (100.00%) Banking
2 1,015 (87.35%) Finance
3 597 (51.38%) Law
4 594 (51.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 381 (32.79%) Front Office
6 182 (15.66%) Social Skills
7 152 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
8 124 (10.67%) Financial Institution
9 98 (8.43%) Marketing
10 56 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
11 50 (4.30%) Legal
12 28 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
13 27 (2.32%) Corporate Banking
14 24 (2.07%) Prime Brokerage
15 21 (1.81%) Games
16 19 (1.64%) French Language
17 15 (1.29%) Publishing
18 10 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
19 6 (0.52%) Private Banking
20 5 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 460 (39.59%) Software Engineer
2 275 (23.67%) Java Engineer
3 273 (23.49%) Lead
4 265 (22.81%) Java Software Engineer
5 230 (19.79%) Analyst
6 183 (15.75%) Developer
7 178 (15.32%) Lead Software Engineer
8 166 (14.29%) Senior
9 137 (11.79%) Python Engineer
9 137 (11.79%) Python Software Engineer
10 126 (10.84%) Lead Java Engineer
11 125 (10.76%) AWS Engineer
11 125 (10.76%) AWS Software Engineer
12 85 (7.31%) Java Developer
13 84 (7.23%) Senior Software Engineer
14 70 (6.02%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 67 (5.77%) Architect
16 63 (5.42%) Software Developer
17 58 (4.99%) Lead Developer
18 56 (4.82%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (20.48%) Pandas
2 237 (20.40%) gRPC
2 237 (20.40%) NumPy
2 237 (20.40%) Protocol Buffers
2 237 (20.40%) SciPy
3 181 (15.58%) Spring
4 151 (12.99%) React
5 124 (10.67%) Spring Boot
6 107 (9.21%) HTML
7 102 (8.78%) CSS
8 96 (8.26%) AngularJS
9 92 (7.92%) Kafka
10 62 (5.34%) JSON
11 61 (5.25%) Hibernate
11 61 (5.25%) jQuery
11 61 (5.25%) Node.js
12 60 (5.16%) J2EE
12 60 (5.16%) Jest
12 60 (5.16%) JMS
12 60 (5.16%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 324 (27.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 306 (26.33%) Fixed Income
3 290 (24.96%) Derivative
4 277 (23.84%) Hedge funds
5 266 (22.89%) Equities
6 170 (14.63%) Cloud Native
7 117 (10.07%) Algorithms
8 98 (8.43%) Self-Motivation
9 63 (5.42%) Data Structures
10 62 (5.34%) Product Ownership
11 54 (4.65%) Public Cloud
12 37 (3.18%) Management Information System
13 30 (2.58%) Pricing Data
14 25 (2.15%) Onboarding
14 25 (2.15%) Private Cloud
15 23 (1.98%) Mobile App
16 22 (1.89%) Credit Risk
17 21 (1.81%) Replication
18 18 (1.55%) OTC Derivatives
19 16 (1.38%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 38 (3.27%) Windows
2 37 (3.18%) Linux
3 29 (2.50%) Android
4 15 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.86%) Unix
7 4 (0.34%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.26%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.17%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.086%) AIX
10 1 (0.086%) CentOS
10 1 (0.086%) Debian
10 1 (0.086%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 722 (62.13%) Agile
2 633 (54.48%) Software Engineering
3 437 (37.61%) Asset Management
4 334 (28.74%) SDLC
5 308 (26.51%) CI/CD
6 301 (25.90%) Operational Stability
7 294 (25.30%) Machine Learning
8 287 (24.70%) Artificial Intelligence
9 229 (19.71%) Community of Practice
10 226 (19.45%) Investment Management
11 185 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
12 128 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 127 (10.93%) Coaching
14 125 (10.76%) Information Architecture
14 125 (10.76%) Visualisation
15 117 (10.07%) Architectural Design
15 117 (10.07%) TDD
16 108 (9.29%) Analytics
17 105 (9.04%) Multithreading
18 97 (8.35%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 587 (50.52%) Java
2 400 (34.42%) Python
3 384 (33.05%) JavaScript
4 329 (28.31%) TypeScript
5 169 (14.54%) SQL
6 39 (3.36%) Kotlin
7 36 (3.10%) Groovy
8 33 (2.84%) Scala
9 32 (2.75%) C#
10 21 (1.81%) Ruby
11 20 (1.72%) PL/SQL
12 19 (1.64%) Bash
13 17 (1.46%) Perl
14 16 (1.38%) PowerShell
15 15 (1.29%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.69%) Korn
16 8 (0.69%) R
17 5 (0.43%) C++
17 5 (0.43%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.34%) Swift
Qualifications
1 126 (10.84%) Degree
2 18 (1.55%) Master's Degree
3 16 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (0.95%) MBA
5 6 (0.52%) Tableau Certification
6 4 (0.34%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.26%) CISA
7 3 (0.26%) CISM
7 3 (0.26%) CISSP
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%) PhD
8 2 (0.17%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.086%) CCAB
9 1 (0.086%) QiCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (8.95%) Data Quality
2 47 (4.04%) Accessibility
3 21 (1.81%) SLA
4 12 (1.03%) QA
5 5 (0.43%) SEPA
5 5 (0.43%) TARGET2
6 3 (0.26%) MiFID
7 2 (0.17%) EMIR
7 2 (0.17%) NIST
8 1 (0.086%) COBIT
8 1 (0.086%) COREP
8 1 (0.086%) IFRS
8 1 (0.086%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.086%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.086%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.086%) ITGC
8 1 (0.086%) PMO
8 1 (0.086%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (1.81%) Docker
2 11 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.17%) vSphere
4 2 (0.17%) XenApp
4 2 (0.17%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.086%) GridGain
5 1 (0.086%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.086%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.086%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.086%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 47 (4.04%) Kubernetes
2 35 (3.01%) Grafana
3 24 (2.07%) Prometheus
3 24 (2.07%) Terraform
4 21 (1.81%) HAProxy
4 21 (1.81%) ITRS Geneos
4 21 (1.81%) Kibana
4 21 (1.81%) Zipkin
5 18 (1.55%) Ansible
6 13 (1.12%) Puppet
7 12 (1.03%) Graphite
8 8 (0.69%) Red Hat Satellite
9 7 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.52%) Control-M
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.17%) SafeCom
12 1 (0.086%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.086%) SCCM
12 1 (0.086%) SCOM
12 1 (0.086%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 131 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 59 (5.08%) Oracle
3 45 (3.87%) Alteryx
4 35 (3.01%) Splunk
5 25 (2.15%) Google
6 21 (1.81%) Dynatrace
6 21 (1.81%) Sybase
7 20 (1.72%) Cognos
7 20 (1.72%) Databricks
8 16 (1.38%) Bloomberg
8 16 (1.38%) Red Hat
9 14 (1.20%) BISAM
10 11 (0.95%) Citrix
11 10 (0.86%) VMware
12 9 (0.77%) ServiceNow
12 9 (0.77%) Sun
12 9 (0.77%) TOWER Software
13 7 (0.60%) Fortinet
13 7 (0.60%) Pega
13 7 (0.60%) UiPath