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 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 153 130
Rank change year-on-year +37 -23 +77
Permanent jobs citing Fixed Income 14 14 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.70% 0.52% 1.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.93% 1.23% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 13 8 41
10th Percentile £71,000 - £62,500
25th Percentile - £85,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £120,000 £143,125 £137,500
90th Percentile £146,500 £146,500 £150,000
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -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 725 1,138 954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 36.07% 41.93% 32.82%
Number of salaries quoted 570 710 856
10th Percentile £39,750 £42,500 £39,085
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £116,375 £122,500
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 20 December 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 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
1 1 (7.14%) Prefect
1 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
1 5 (35.71%) Front Office
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Senior
3 4 (28.57%) Analyst
3 4 (28.57%) Business Analyst
3 4 (28.57%) C# Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Senior Analyst
3 4 (28.57%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 2 (14.29%) .NET Software Developer
4 2 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (14.29%) C# Software Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Credit Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Front Office Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Lead
4 2 (14.29%) Quantitative Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Junior .NET Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Junior C# .NET Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Junior C# Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Junior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) .NET
2 2 (14.29%) .NET Core
3 1 (7.14%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 1 (7.14%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (7.14%) PyXLL
3 1 (7.14%) Streamlit
3 1 (7.14%) WinForms
3 1 (7.14%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Derivative
1 1 (7.14%) Equities
1 1 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Electronic Trading
2 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Agile
3 2 (14.29%) Analytics
3 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 2 (14.29%) Data Analytics
3 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 2 (14.29%) Low Latency
3 2 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 2 (14.29%) SDLC
3 2 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (7.14%) Containerisation
4 1 (7.14%) Curve Construction
4 1 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (7.14%) Predictive Modelling
4 1 (7.14%) Quantitative Trading
4 1 (7.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) C#
2 4 (28.57%) C++
2 4 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) ION Trading
2 1 (7.14%) Bloomberg
2 1 (7.14%) Refinitiv