Fixed Income Job Trends in England

Fixed Income
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fixed Income in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Fixed Income over the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 438 211 305
Rank change year-on-year -227 +94 +167
Permanent jobs citing Fixed Income 176 715 424
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.34% 1.44% 0.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.94% 3.86% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 158 521 379
10th Percentile £91,425 £77,500 £75,000
25th Percentile £98,750 £85,000 £88,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £110,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - -
75th Percentile £137,500 £138,750 £142,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £152,500 £153,750
UK median annual salary £112,500 £110,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% - -

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,677 18,527 16,722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.92% 37.22% 37.01%
Number of salaries quoted 9,402 8,906 12,487
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,563 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £43,929
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Fixed Income
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Fixed Income relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Fixed Income job vacancy trend in England

Fixed Income
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Fixed Income.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Fixed Income

Fixed Income
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Fixed Income in England over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Fixed Income in England

Fixed Income
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Fixed Income within the England region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -149 175 £112,500 +2.27% 55
Fixed Income
UK

Fixed Income
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 67 (38.07%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (21.02%) Apache
3 3 (1.70%) Confluence
4 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.14%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.57%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 90 (51.14%) AWS
2 69 (39.20%) dbt
3 45 (25.57%) Snowflake
4 31 (17.61%) GCP
5 11 (6.25%) GitHub
6 6 (3.41%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (3.41%) Amazon Kinesis
6 6 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (3.41%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.84%) Azure
8 3 (1.70%) Dagster
9 2 (1.14%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.14%) SaaS
10 1 (0.57%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.66%) Multicast
2 2 (1.14%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (37.50%) Amazon Athena
1 66 (37.50%) Apache Arrow
1 66 (37.50%) Apache Iceberg
1 66 (37.50%) Dremio
2 37 (21.02%) Apache Ignite
2 37 (21.02%) Data Lake
3 29 (16.48%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.41%) Flink
4 6 (3.41%) Power BI
4 6 (3.41%) Tableau
5 5 (2.84%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.27%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.57%) KDB
7 1 (0.57%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (9.66%) JIRA
2 6 (3.41%) Git
3 3 (1.70%) Selenium
4 2 (1.14%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.57%) GitLab
5 1 (0.57%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.57%) Postman
5 1 (0.57%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 138 (78.41%) Finance
2 113 (64.20%) Front Office
3 74 (42.05%) Banking
4 45 (25.57%) Investment Banking
5 17 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (9.09%) Social Skills
7 5 (2.84%) Back Office
7 5 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.27%) Local Government
8 4 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.27%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.70%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.70%) Spanish Language
10 2 (1.14%) Games
10 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.14%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 87 (49.43%) Software Engineer
2 84 (47.73%) Python Engineer
3 78 (44.32%) Python Software Engineer
4 75 (42.61%) Developer
5 72 (40.91%) AWS Engineer
6 66 (37.50%) AWS Software Engineer
7 57 (32.39%) Senior
8 47 (26.70%) Senior Software Engineer
9 39 (22.16%) Java Engineer
9 39 (22.16%) Java Software Engineer
10 37 (21.02%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 35 (19.89%) Senior Java Engineer
11 35 (19.89%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 30 (17.05%) Python Developer
13 29 (16.48%) AWS Developer
14 23 (13.07%) Electronic Trading Developer
14 23 (13.07%) React Developer
15 21 (11.93%) Analyst
16 17 (9.66%) Business Analyst
17 13 (7.39%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (37.50%) NumPy
1 66 (37.50%) Pandas
1 66 (37.50%) SciPy
2 64 (36.36%) React
3 41 (23.30%) FIX Protocol
4 37 (21.02%) gRPC
4 37 (21.02%) Node.js
4 37 (21.02%) Protocol Buffers
5 31 (17.61%) AngularJS
5 31 (17.61%) Vue
6 20 (11.36%) Highcharts JS
6 20 (11.36%) OpenFin
6 20 (11.36%) WebSockets
7 14 (7.95%) Kafka
8 13 (7.39%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 13 (7.39%) pytest
9 10 (5.68%) .NET
9 10 (5.68%) GraphQL
10 8 (4.55%) Redux
11 5 (2.84%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 95 (53.98%) Equities
2 79 (44.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 65 (36.93%) Derivative
4 39 (22.16%) Hedge funds
5 38 (21.59%) Pricing Data
6 14 (7.95%) Algorithms
7 6 (3.41%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.84%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.70%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.70%) Eurex
9 3 (1.70%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.14%) OTC Derivatives
10 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.14%) Wiki
11 1 (0.57%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.57%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.57%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.50%) Linux
2 6 (3.41%) Windows
3 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (63.64%) Agile
2 89 (50.57%) Software Engineering
3 81 (46.02%) Investment Management
4 69 (39.20%) Asset Management
5 46 (26.14%) Low Latency
6 38 (21.59%) Order Management
7 35 (19.89%) Analytics
7 35 (19.89%) Electronic Trading
7 35 (19.89%) Risk Management
8 31 (17.61%) Fintech
9 29 (16.48%) Performance Attribution
10 26 (14.77%) Visualisation
11 24 (13.64%) Containerisation
12 22 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
13 21 (11.93%) Process Improvement
13 21 (11.93%) SDLC
14 20 (11.36%) Dashboard Development
14 20 (11.36%) Data Visualisation
14 20 (11.36%) Performance Tuning
15 17 (9.66%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 106 (60.23%) Python
2 97 (55.11%) JavaScript
3 80 (45.45%) TypeScript
4 65 (36.93%) Java
5 21 (11.93%) C++
6 14 (7.95%) SQL
7 10 (5.68%) C#
8 8 (4.55%) Go
9 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (7.39%) Degree
2 3 (1.70%) ISEB
2 3 (1.70%) ISTQB
2 3 (1.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (0.57%) CISM
3 1 (0.57%) CISSP
3 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.57%) CRISC
3 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.09%) QA
2 7 (3.98%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.98%) MiFID
3 5 (2.84%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.14%) PMO
5 1 (0.57%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.57%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (1.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (3.98%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.41%) Argo
Vendors
1 5 (2.84%) Bloomberg
1 5 (2.84%) GoldenSource
1 5 (2.84%) ION Trading
2 4 (2.27%) Atlassian
2 4 (2.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.70%) CQG
3 3 (1.70%) Oracle
3 3 (1.70%) Patsystems
3 3 (1.70%) Reuters
3 3 (1.70%) Trayport
4 1 (0.57%) Calypso
4 1 (0.57%) Charles River
4 1 (0.57%) FactSet
4 1 (0.57%) Murex
4 1 (0.57%) Refinitiv