Fixed Income Job Trends in the City of London

Fixed Income
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fixed Income in permanent job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Fixed Income over the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 108 141
Rank change year-on-year -14 +33 -32
Permanent jobs citing Fixed Income 24 33 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.65% 1.76% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.48% 4.20% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 23 22 15
10th Percentile £71,250 £76,250 £89,400
25th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £102,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £97,000 £140,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.95% -30.71% +34.62%
75th Percentile £85,000 £127,500 £155,625
90th Percentile £107,500 £157,250 £159,000
Central London median annual salary £82,500 £97,000 £140,000
% change year-on-year -14.95% -30.71% +34.62%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Fixed Income falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 969 785 997
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 26.32% 41.84% 36.37%
Number of salaries quoted 704 605 743
10th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £45,050
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £140,000 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +4.17% -7.10%

Fixed Income
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Fixed Income relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Fixed Income job vacancy trend in the City of London

Fixed Income
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Fixed Income.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Fixed Income

Fixed Income
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Fixed Income in the City of London over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Fixed Income in the City of London

Fixed Income
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (8.33%) SaaS
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) DHCP
1 2 (8.33%) DNS
1 2 (8.33%) VLAN
2 1 (4.17%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) KDB
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) GitLab
General
1 14 (58.33%) Finance
2 12 (50.00%) Front Office
3 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Financial Institution
5 2 (8.33%) Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (8.33%) General Ledger
5 2 (8.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Developer
1 5 (20.83%) Linux Engineer
1 5 (20.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) .NET Software Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) C# Software Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Desktop Support
3 2 (8.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Investment Management Business Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Senior
3 2 (8.33%) SQL Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Credit Risk Java Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Quantitative Modeller
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (25.00%) .NET
3 2 (8.33%) Spring
3 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.17%) FpML
4 1 (4.17%) Kafka
4 1 (4.17%) Node.js
4 1 (4.17%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Equities
2 7 (29.17%) Derivative
3 4 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
4 3 (12.50%) Hedge funds
5 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
6 1 (4.17%) Credit Risk
6 1 (4.17%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (4.17%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Observability
1 6 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (20.83%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (20.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 4 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (12.50%) Analytics
4 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (12.50%) Portfolio Management
4 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 2 (8.33%) Data Migration
5 2 (8.33%) DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) Electronic Trading
5 2 (8.33%) Investment Management
5 2 (8.33%) Microservices
5 2 (8.33%) Process Improvement
5 2 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (8.33%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) SQL
2 6 (25.00%) C#
2 6 (25.00%) Python
3 5 (20.83%) Java
3 5 (20.83%) Shell Script
4 2 (8.33%) C++
4 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) GAAP
1 2 (8.33%) IFRS
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) SCCM
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Bloomberg
4 1 (4.17%) FIS
4 1 (4.17%) SunGard