By Daniel Lanyon on Tuesday 27 November 2018
With digital disruption abundant in finance, large firms are seeking out an increasingly scarce and expensive resource with gusto.
What does it take to enter the City in 2018? Banks, concerned by digital disruption, are overwhelming looking to recruit technology talent.
Research shows that more than half of jobs advertised this month at leading investment banks in the UK such as UBS and Goldman Sachs are for technology focused roles.
The numbers, compiled by efinancial careers, a job listings website, suggest that when it comes to modern day investment banking PPE is out and coding is in.
Looking at nine large international banks - Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Citi, Deutsche Bank, UBS and BNP Paribas - the trend is clearly broader too. They have in aggregate 1,800 jobs open, nearly 40 per cent of which are vacancies are for technologists, quants or strats.
Source: efinancialcareers
At Goldman Sachs and UBS this stands at 53 and 54 per cent respectively, despite both firms having big technology and operations hubs in Poland. Goldman Sachs already employs 670 people in Warsaw and plans to add another 300 in the coming years, according to efinancial careers.
Goldman Sachs is advertising far more engineering jobs in London than in Warsaw, where it has fewer than 40 engineering vacancies.
Top tech talent is a pertinent issue in the UK where, despite London boasting one of the largest global pools of developers in the world, competiton is rife to attract talent.
