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 31 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 102 140
Rank change year-on-year -20 +38 -30
Permanent jobs citing Fixed Income 23 37 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.61% 1.95% 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.32% 4.64% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 22 25 18
10th Percentile £71,625 £76,250 £80,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £94,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £99,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.40% -13.91% +10.58%
75th Percentile £85,000 £130,000 £153,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £157,500 £158,250
Central London median annual salary £83,750 £99,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -15.40% -13.91% +10.58%

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 990 798 991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 26.09% 41.98% 35.67%
Number of salaries quoted 716 621 746
10th Percentile £44,500 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,313
90th Percentile £115,000 £145,000 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -6.45%

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 31 July 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 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.04%) AWS
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (8.70%) SaaS
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) DHCP
1 2 (8.70%) DNS
1 2 (8.70%) VLAN
2 1 (4.35%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) KDB
2 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 14 (60.87%) Finance
2 12 (52.17%) Front Office
3 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Financial Institution
5 2 (8.70%) Banking
5 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (8.70%) General Ledger
5 2 (8.70%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Developer
1 5 (21.74%) Linux Engineer
1 5 (21.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) .NET Software Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) C# Software Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Java Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Software Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Desktop Support
3 2 (8.70%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Senior
3 2 (8.70%) SQL Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) .NET Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Business Support Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) C# Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Implementation Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Implementation Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (26.09%) .NET
3 2 (8.70%) Spring
3 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.35%) FpML
4 1 (4.35%) Kafka
4 1 (4.35%) Node.js
4 1 (4.35%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Equities
2 6 (26.09%) Derivative
3 4 (17.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
5 2 (8.70%) Hedge funds
5 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
6 1 (4.35%) Credit Risk
6 1 (4.35%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (4.35%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) Observability
1 6 (26.09%) Software Engineering
2 5 (21.74%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (21.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (13.04%) Analytics
3 3 (13.04%) Asset Management
3 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
3 3 (13.04%) Data Analysis
3 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (13.04%) Project Delivery
3 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (8.70%) Data Migration
4 2 (8.70%) DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) Electronic Trading
4 2 (8.70%) ITIL
4 2 (8.70%) Migration
4 2 (8.70%) Portfolio Management
4 2 (8.70%) Process Improvement
4 2 (8.70%) Validation
4 2 (8.70%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) SQL
2 6 (26.09%) C#
2 6 (26.09%) Python
3 5 (21.74%) Java
3 5 (21.74%) Shell Script
4 2 (8.70%) C++
4 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) GAAP
1 2 (8.70%) IFRS
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) SCCM
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Oracle
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) Bloomberg
4 1 (4.35%) FIS
4 1 (4.35%) SunGard