Fixed Income Job Trends in London

Fixed Income
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fixed Income in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Fixed Income over the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 38 116
Rank change year-on-year -199 +78 +95
Permanent jobs citing Fixed Income 179 877 590
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.95% 6.81% 2.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.60% 15.13% 6.34%
Number of salaries quoted 158 469 551
10th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £77,500
25th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £115,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £144,375
90th Percentile £150,000 £152,500 £157,500
England median annual salary £112,500 £115,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% +4.76%

All Generic Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,893 5,795 9,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 36.70% 44.99% 40.97%
Number of salaries quoted 4,058 3,294 6,729
10th Percentile £38,925 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £135,875 £125,000
England median annual salary £59,773 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +9.09% -15.38%

Fixed Income
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Fixed Income job vacancy trend in London

Fixed Income
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Fixed Income.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Fixed Income

Fixed Income
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Fixed Income in London over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Fixed Income in London

Fixed Income
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Fixed Income within the London region over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. 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
Central London +8 19 £97,500 +8.33% 17
Fixed Income
England

Fixed Income
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 5 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.23%) Apache
3 3 (1.68%) Confluence
4 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.56%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.56%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 65 (36.31%) AWS
2 24 (13.41%) GCP
3 19 (10.61%) Azure
3 19 (10.61%) GitHub
4 9 (5.03%) Snowflake
5 6 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (3.35%) Amazon Kinesis
5 6 (3.35%) dbt
5 6 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (2.23%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.12%) Dagster
8 2 (1.12%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.56%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (0.56%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.56%) Prefect
9 1 (0.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.61%) Multicast
2 3 (1.68%) DHCP
2 3 (1.68%) DNS
2 3 (1.68%) VLAN
3 1 (0.56%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.94%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.35%) Flink
3 4 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (2.23%) Apache Arrow
3 4 (2.23%) Apache Iceberg
3 4 (2.23%) Apache Ignite
3 4 (2.23%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.23%) Dremio
3 4 (2.23%) Power BI
3 4 (2.23%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.23%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.23%) Tableau
4 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (10.61%) JIRA
2 15 (8.38%) Git
3 3 (1.68%) Selenium
4 2 (1.12%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.12%) GitLab
5 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 128 (71.51%) Finance
2 107 (59.78%) Front Office
3 46 (25.70%) Banking
4 22 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (10.61%) Social Skills
6 13 (7.26%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.79%) Law
8 5 (2.79%) Retail
9 4 (2.23%) Local Government
9 4 (2.23%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.68%) Back Office
10 3 (1.68%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.68%) Spanish Language
11 2 (1.12%) Advertising
11 2 (1.12%) Games
11 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.56%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 100 (55.87%) Developer
2 66 (36.87%) Software Engineer
3 44 (24.58%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 42 (23.46%) Lead
5 41 (22.91%) React Developer
6 37 (20.67%) Lead Developer
7 32 (17.88%) Lead Software Developer
7 32 (17.88%) Lead Software Engineer
7 32 (17.88%) Python Engineer
8 28 (15.64%) Senior
9 22 (12.29%) Python Developer
9 22 (12.29%) Python Software Engineer
10 21 (11.73%) Analyst
11 18 (10.06%) Business Analyst
12 16 (8.94%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 16 (8.94%) Java Developer
13 15 (8.38%) C++ Software Engineer
13 15 (8.38%) Senior Software Engineer
14 13 (7.26%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
15 12 (6.70%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (43.58%) React
2 48 (26.82%) Node.js
2 48 (26.82%) Redux
3 41 (22.91%) Kafka
4 40 (22.35%) FIX Protocol
5 34 (18.99%) GraphQL
6 24 (13.41%) WebSockets
7 15 (8.38%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 15 (8.38%) Highcharts JS
7 15 (8.38%) OpenFin
8 14 (7.82%) pytest
9 10 (5.59%) .NET
10 9 (5.03%) AngularJS
11 8 (4.47%) Vue
12 5 (2.79%) gRPC
13 4 (2.23%) NumPy
13 4 (2.23%) Pandas
13 4 (2.23%) Protocol Buffers
13 4 (2.23%) SciPy
14 3 (1.68%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 61 (34.08%) Derivative
2 55 (30.73%) Equities
3 31 (17.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (8.94%) Hedge funds
5 14 (7.82%) Algorithms
6 7 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (3.35%) OTC Derivatives
8 5 (2.79%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (2.79%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.23%) Pricing Data
10 3 (1.68%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.68%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.68%) Eurex
10 3 (1.68%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.12%) Credit Risk
11 2 (1.12%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.12%) Wiki
12 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.56%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 26 (14.53%) Linux
2 12 (6.70%) Windows
3 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (49.72%) Agile
2 77 (43.02%) Software Engineering
3 58 (32.40%) Investment Management
4 48 (26.82%) Portfolio Management
5 45 (25.14%) Low Latency
6 36 (20.11%) Analytics
7 33 (18.44%) Order Management
8 32 (17.88%) Full-Stack Development
9 28 (15.64%) Performance Optimisation
9 28 (15.64%) Visualisation
10 27 (15.08%) Process Improvement
11 26 (14.53%) Electronic Trading
12 24 (13.41%) Asset Management
12 24 (13.41%) Data Visualisation
13 23 (12.85%) Decision-Making
14 22 (12.29%) Containerisation
14 22 (12.29%) SDLC
15 20 (11.17%) Fintech
15 20 (11.17%) Requirements Gathering
16 17 (9.50%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 89 (49.72%) Python
2 77 (43.02%) JavaScript
3 63 (35.20%) TypeScript
4 58 (32.40%) Java
5 32 (17.88%) Go
6 21 (11.73%) C++
6 21 (11.73%) SQL
7 12 (6.70%) C#
8 6 (3.35%) VBA
9 4 (2.23%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.56%) Groovy
10 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 11 (6.15%) Degree
2 3 (1.68%) ISEB
2 3 (1.68%) ISTQB
2 3 (1.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.56%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.06%) QA
2 14 (7.82%) MiFID
3 8 (4.47%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (2.79%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.23%) EMIR
6 2 (1.12%) PMO
7 1 (0.56%) GAAP
7 1 (0.56%) IFRS
System Software
1 4 (2.23%) Docker
2 3 (1.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (5.03%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.35%) Argo
3 3 (1.68%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (4.47%) Bloomberg
2 7 (3.91%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.23%) GoldenSource
3 4 (2.23%) ION Trading
4 3 (1.68%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.68%) CQG
4 3 (1.68%) Oracle
4 3 (1.68%) Patsystems
4 3 (1.68%) Reuters
4 3 (1.68%) Trayport
5 1 (0.56%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.56%) Refinitiv