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 27 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 129 141
Rank change year-on-year -8 +12 +31
Permanent jobs citing Fixed Income 15 19 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.46% 0.92% 1.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.51% 2.21% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 12 12 34
10th Percentile £75,500 £39,100 £78,925
25th Percentile £80,938 £85,000 £102,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £103,750 £109,375 £143,125
90th Percentile £124,000 £130,000 £168,000
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +4.76%

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 996 861 1,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.58% 41.51% 33.81%
Number of salaries quoted 715 631 874
10th Percentile £42,050 £41,250 £38,134
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £123,750 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -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 27 March 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 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Aladdin
1 1 (6.67%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) Prefect
1 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Front Office
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.67%) Advertising
4 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Senior
2 6 (40.00%) Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Business Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Senior Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Senior Business Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 3 (20.00%) SQL Developer
5 2 (13.33%) C# Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Credit Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) .NET Software Developer
6 1 (6.67%) .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (6.67%) C# Software Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
2 1 (6.67%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (6.67%) FpML
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) Spring
2 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (6.67%) Spring Integration
2 1 (6.67%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Derivative
3 1 (6.67%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Electronic Trading
2 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (13.33%) Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (13.33%) Microservices
4 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (13.33%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (6.67%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (6.67%) Data Analytics
5 1 (6.67%) DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Low Latency
5 1 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (6.67%) Predictive Modelling
5 1 (6.67%) Process Improvement
5 1 (6.67%) Prototyping
5 1 (6.67%) SDLC
5 1 (6.67%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) C#
2 3 (20.00%) C++
2 3 (20.00%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) CFA
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Bloomberg
2 1 (6.67%) ION Trading
2 1 (6.67%) Refinitiv