Fixed Income Jobs

Fixed Income
UK

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 401 522
Rank change year-on-year +53 +121 -89
Permanent jobs citing Fixed Income 812 785 1,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 0.83% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.26% 1.92% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 765 735 1,021
10th Percentile £77,500 £73,300 £71,250
25th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £107,500 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -6.52% +15.00%
75th Percentile £143,750 £143,750 £136,250
90th Percentile £165,000 £160,000 £162,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £100,000 £80,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% +28.00% +19.05%

All Generic Skills
UK

Fixed Income is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,876 40,905 81,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.09% 43.15% 48.47%
Number of salaries quoted 23,224 22,549 34,301
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,116 £46,350 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Fixed Income
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Fixed Income as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Fixed Income in the UK

Fixed Income
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Fixed Income.

Salary trend for Fixed Income in the UK

Fixed Income
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Fixed Income over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Fixed Income in the UK

Fixed Income
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Fixed Income within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 +58 798 £115,000 +6.98% 143
London +63 790 £115,000 +6.98% 136
Work from Home +27 518 £115,000 +6.98% 63
UK excluding London -20 19 £100,000 +25.00% 10
Scotland - 7 - - 2
South West - 6 - -
Northern Ireland - 4 £102,500 - 3
West Midlands -11 1 £44,700 -44.13%
Midlands -12 1 £44,700 -44.13%
North West - 1 £42,500 - 4
North of England - 1 £42,500 - 4

Fixed Income
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
1 438 (53.94%) Apache Airflow
2 429 (52.83%) Apache
3 4 (0.49%) Confluence
4 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
Applications
1 15 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 29 (3.57%) Aladdin
2 15 (1.85%) thinkFolio
3 2 (0.25%) ION Anvil
3 2 (0.25%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.25%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.12%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 640 (78.82%) AWS
2 417 (51.35%) GCP
3 321 (39.53%) dbt
4 263 (32.39%) Snowflake
5 258 (31.77%) Azure
6 13 (1.60%) Power Platform
7 4 (0.49%) Serverless
8 3 (0.37%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (0.37%) Amazon S3
8 3 (0.37%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (0.37%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (0.37%) SaaS
9 2 (0.25%) WeChat
10 1 (0.12%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.12%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.12%) GitHub
10 1 (0.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.74%) Internet
2 3 (0.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 417 (51.35%) Apache Ignite
2 321 (39.53%) Apache Arrow
2 321 (39.53%) Dremio
3 309 (38.05%) Amazon Athena
4 274 (33.74%) Data Lake
5 99 (12.19%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (1.60%) Big Data
6 13 (1.60%) Power BI
7 12 (1.48%) Tableau
8 11 (1.35%) SQL Server
9 9 (1.11%) KDB
10 7 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.62%) Kdb+
12 3 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.37%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.25%) Data Mart
13 2 (0.25%) MySQL
13 2 (0.25%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 63 (7.76%) Cypress.io
2 10 (1.23%) JIRA
3 8 (0.99%) Git
4 7 (0.86%) Maven
5 4 (0.49%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.37%) GitLab
7 2 (0.25%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.12%) GDB
8 1 (0.12%) Gradle
8 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 723 (89.04%) Finance
2 719 (88.55%) Front Office
3 478 (58.87%) Banking
4 359 (44.21%) Investment Banking
5 61 (7.51%) Back Office
6 33 (4.06%) Social Skills
7 25 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.60%) Law
10 9 (1.11%) Legal
11 7 (0.86%) Billing
11 7 (0.86%) Marketing
11 7 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.37%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.25%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 423 (52.09%) Software Engineer
2 412 (50.74%) Developer
3 306 (37.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 243 (29.93%) Python Engineer
5 240 (29.56%) Python Software Engineer
6 208 (25.62%) Python Developer
7 156 (19.21%) Senior
8 150 (18.47%) Senior Software Engineer
9 146 (17.98%) Lead
10 133 (16.38%) React Developer
11 128 (15.76%) AWS Engineer
12 126 (15.52%) Analyst
13 124 (15.27%) AWS Software Engineer
14 111 (13.67%) Finance Manager
15 109 (13.42%) Java Engineer
16 106 (13.05%) Java Software Engineer
17 92 (11.33%) .NET Developer
18 80 (9.85%) .NET Software Developer
18 80 (9.85%) .NET Software Engineer
18 80 (9.85%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 436 (53.69%) gRPC
1 436 (53.69%) Protocol Buffers
2 312 (38.42%) Pandas
3 298 (36.70%) NumPy
3 298 (36.70%) SciPy
4 271 (33.37%) React
5 236 (29.06%) Redux
6 123 (15.15%) Material-UI
7 113 (13.92%) AngularJS
8 110 (13.55%) Vue
9 102 (12.56%) .NET
10 57 (7.02%) .NET Core
11 48 (5.91%) Node.js
12 44 (5.42%) ASP.NET
12 44 (5.42%) ASP.NET Core
13 20 (2.46%) FIX Protocol
14 12 (1.48%) GraphQL
15 9 (1.11%) Spring
16 6 (0.74%) Spring Boot
17 4 (0.49%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 606 (74.63%) Hedge funds
2 566 (69.70%) Equities
3 495 (60.96%) Derivative
4 478 (58.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 73 (8.99%) Product Ownership
6 42 (5.17%) Pricing Data
7 15 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.48%) Onboarding
9 8 (0.99%) Reference Data
9 8 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (0.86%) Credit Derivative
10 7 (0.86%) Interest Rate Derivative
10 7 (0.86%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.37%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.37%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.37%) Equity Derivative
12 2 (0.25%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.25%) Distributed Applications
12 2 (0.25%) FPGA
12 2 (0.25%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.48%) Linux
2 4 (0.49%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.37%) Windows
4 2 (0.25%) Unix
4 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 679 (83.62%) Asset Management
2 643 (79.19%) Agile
3 594 (73.15%) Software Engineering
4 579 (71.31%) Investment Management
5 167 (20.57%) Full Stack Development
6 150 (18.47%) Machine Learning
7 149 (18.35%) Artificial Intelligence
8 117 (14.41%) Greeks
9 113 (13.92%) Analytics
9 113 (13.92%) Fintech
10 105 (12.93%) Automated Trading
11 104 (12.81%) Line Management
12 67 (8.25%) TDD
13 48 (5.91%) Performance Attribution
14 45 (5.54%) Roadmaps
15 44 (5.42%) DevOps
16 42 (5.17%) Portfolio Management
16 42 (5.17%) Product Management
17 41 (5.05%) Electronic Trading
18 39 (4.80%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 651 (80.17%) Python
2 530 (65.27%) TypeScript
3 438 (53.94%) JavaScript
4 342 (42.12%) Java
5 189 (23.28%) SQL
6 105 (12.93%) C#
7 35 (4.31%) R
8 13 (1.60%) Scala
9 12 (1.48%) Kotlin
9 12 (1.48%) Ruby
10 9 (1.11%) C++
11 8 (0.99%) VBA
12 3 (0.37%) Bash
12 3 (0.37%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.12%) C
13 1 (0.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (4.06%) Degree
2 16 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (0.62%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.37%) AWS Certification
4 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (0.37%) CFA
5 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (15.39%) Data Quality
2 42 (5.17%) QA
3 3 (0.37%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (0.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.37%) Control-M
1 3 (0.37%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.25%) Ansible
3 1 (0.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 99 (12.19%) Google
2 85 (10.47%) Bloomberg
3 21 (2.59%) Charles River
4 16 (1.97%) Oracle
5 14 (1.72%) BISAM
6 9 (1.11%) ION Trading
7 6 (0.74%) Microsoft
8 5 (0.62%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.49%) SAP
10 2 (0.25%) Calypso
10 2 (0.25%) Murex
10 2 (0.25%) Solace
10 2 (0.25%) TIBCO
11 1 (0.12%) FactSet
11 1 (0.12%) Progress
11 1 (0.12%) Refinitiv
11 1 (0.12%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.12%) Sybase
11 1 (0.12%) Vertica