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 8 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 102 159
Rank change year-on-year -7 +57 -45
Permanent jobs citing Fixed Income 18 23 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.68% 1.39% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.42% 3.18% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 15 17 10
10th Percentile £71,250 £81,500 £87,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £93,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £120,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -12.50% +15.38%
75th Percentile - £150,000 £148,750
90th Percentile £105,500 £157,500 £160,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £105,000 £120,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% -12.50% +15.38%

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 743 724 1,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 28.09% 43.61% 40.05%
Number of salaries quoted 518 595 680
10th Percentile £45,700 £40,000 £45,977
25th Percentile £62,500 £54,375 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £123,250 £132,500 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +1.35%

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 8 October 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) MTS
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Bloomberg TOMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.56%) SaaS
2 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DHCP
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
1 1 (5.56%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (5.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) KDB
2 1 (5.56%) Kdb+
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
1 1 (5.56%) QUnit
General
1 10 (55.56%) Front Office
2 9 (50.00%) Finance
3 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
4 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Back Office
6 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.56%) General Ledger
6 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Linux Engineer
1 5 (27.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Investment Management Business Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) .NET Developer
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Developer
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (5.56%) C# Developer
4 1 (5.56%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Credit Risk Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Implementation Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) KDB Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Quantitative Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.56%) Node.js
3 1 (5.56%) Spring
3 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Equities
2 5 (27.78%) Derivative
3 3 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (16.67%) Hedge funds
4 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
5 1 (5.56%) Credit Risk
5 1 (5.56%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (5.56%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (5.56%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Observability
2 5 (27.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 3 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 3 (16.67%) Portfolio Management
3 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.11%) Algorithmic Trading
4 2 (11.11%) Analytics
4 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 2 (11.11%) Electronic Trading
4 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (11.11%) Investment Management
4 2 (11.11%) Low Latency
4 2 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
4 2 (11.11%) Re-Platforming
4 2 (11.11%) Technology Transformation
5 1 (5.56%) Smart Order Routing
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Python
1 6 (33.33%) SQL
2 5 (27.78%) Shell Script
3 3 (16.67%) C#
4 2 (11.11%) C++
4 2 (11.11%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.56%) Tcl
5 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GAAP
1 1 (5.56%) IFRS
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Bloomberg
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) FIS
3 1 (5.56%) ION Trading
3 1 (5.56%) MarketAxess
3 1 (5.56%) SunGard
3 1 (5.56%) Sybase
3 1 (5.56%) Tradeweb