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 5 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 155 120
Rank change year-on-year +38 -35 +98
Permanent jobs citing Fixed Income 13 12 52
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.81% 0.43% 1.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.84% 1.07% 4.87%
Number of salaries quoted 10 8 52
10th Percentile £81,000 £85,000 £62,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £105,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £145,625 £143,125 £142,500
90th Percentile £160,500 £146,500 £143,750
Central London median annual salary £107,500 £105,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +2.38% +16.67% -14.29%

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 705 1,121 1,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 43.73% 40.59% 35.23%
Number of salaries quoted 571 671 951
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £39,085
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.23%
75th Percentile £105,000 £93,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £131,250 £118,750 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.23%

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 5 November 2025.

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Prefect
2 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 8 (61.54%) Front Office
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Front Office Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Java Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Release Manager
5 2 (15.38%) C# Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Lead
5 2 (15.38%) Quantitative Developer
6 1 (7.69%) .NET Software Developer
6 1 (7.69%) .NET Team Leader
6 1 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (7.69%) C# Software Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Junior .NET Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Junior C# .NET Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Junior C# Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Junior Software Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Lead Python Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
2 1 (7.69%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 1 (7.69%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (7.69%) PyXLL
2 1 (7.69%) Streamlit
2 1 (7.69%) WinForms
2 1 (7.69%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Algorithms
1 3 (23.08%) Data Structures
1 3 (23.08%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (23.08%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Derivative
2 1 (7.69%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (38.46%) Electronic Trading
2 5 (38.46%) Low Latency
3 3 (23.08%) Analytics
3 3 (23.08%) Concurrent Programming
3 3 (23.08%) Design Patterns
3 3 (23.08%) Distributed Cache
3 3 (23.08%) Integration Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Multithreading
3 3 (23.08%) Observability
3 3 (23.08%) Regression Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Re-Platforming
4 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) Data Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
5 1 (7.69%) Curve Construction
5 1 (7.69%) Information Security
5 1 (7.69%) Migration
5 1 (7.69%) Risk Management
5 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) C#
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) C++
2 3 (23.08%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Solace
2 1 (7.69%) Bloomberg
2 1 (7.69%) ION Trading
2 1 (7.69%) Refinitiv