Four banks dominate LinkedIn’s top London employers
Key Points
- JPMorganChase ranks No. 1 in LinkedIn's inaugural top 10 London employers list for 2026
- Four banks (JPMorganChase, Lloyds Banking Group, Citi and Barclays) take the top four positions
- Amazon is the highest-ranked technology firm at No. 5, with Google at No. 8
- The ranking is based on eight pillars including skills growth, employee promotions and company stability
- KPMG is the only professional services firm in the top 10, ranking at No. 9
Four banks have taken the top four positions in LinkedIn’s inaugural 2026 London employers ranking, led by JPMorganChase.
LinkedIn published the ranking on Tuesday (19 May). The full top 10 is as follows:
- JPMorganChase (Financial Services)
- Lloyds Banking Group (Financial Services)
- Citi (Financial Services)
- Barclays (Financial Services)
- Amazon (Software Development)
- BlackRock (Financial Services)
- Mastercard (Technology, Information and Internet)
- Google (Software Development)
- KPMG (Accounting)
- Bloomberg (Financial Services)
JPMorganChase, headquartered in New York, leads the list despite both Lloyds and Barclays running their headquarters in London.
LinkedIn data shows the most notable skills across JPMorganChase’s London workforce are AI, development tools and scientific computing.
Software engineer, product manager and managing director rank as the most common job titles at the bank, with engineering, finance and business development the largest job functions.
Lloyds Banking Group, the highest-placed UK-headquartered firm, lists data science, project management and business management as its most notable skills among London staff.
The most common job titles at Lloyds are software engineer, product team manager and business analyst, with finance, engineering and information technology the largest functions.
Citi at No. 3 sits behind Lloyds, with capital markets, investment banking and commercial banking topping its skills profile, while Barclays at No. 4 leads on commercial banking, capital markets and data science.
Amazon is the only retail/software development company in the top five, ranking ahead of BlackRock, Mastercard and Google. Its most notable skills in London are AI, scientific computing and mobile application development.
Google, headquartered in Mountain View, California, sits at No. 8, with the same top three skill categories appearing across Amazon, Google and JPMorganChase.
KPMG, which sits in LinkedIn’s accounting category and runs its headquarters in London, is the only professional services firm in the ranking. Its most notable skills are financial accounting, capital markets and digital literacy, with audit associate, audit supervisor and tax accountant the most common job titles.
Bloomberg rounds out the list at No. 10, with AI, economics and development tools as its top skills.
The methodology evaluates companies on eight pillars: ability to advance, skills growth, company stability, external opportunity, company affinity, gender diversity, educational background and employee presence in the city.
Ability to advance tracks employee promotions within a company and when they move to a new one. Skills growth looks at how employees gain skills while employed at the company. Company stability tracks attrition over the past year and the share of employees who stay at least three years.
To qualify, companies needed at least 250 global employees and at least 100 in London as of 31 December 2025. Attrition could be no higher than 10% over the methodology period, and any company that had layoffs of 10% or more of its workforce between 1 January 2025 and the list launch dropped out of the running.
LinkedIn excluded staffing and recruiting firms, educational institutions, government agencies, LinkedIn itself and Deloitte, which serves as Microsoft’s independent third-party auditor.
The data covers a 12-month period looking back from March 2026 and draws on anonymised and aggregated LinkedIn profiles in the London metropolitan area. The analysis excludes interns and contractors. LinkedIn has also published separate top 10 employer rankings for Manchester and Leeds.
