Fixed Income
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fixed Income in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Fixed Income over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 348 483 511
Rank change year-on-year +135 +28 -275
Permanent jobs citing Fixed Income 454 774 729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 0.63% 0.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.33% 1.46% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 409 704 674
10th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £67,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £112,500 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £142,500 £136,250 £132,500
90th Percentile £153,750 £150,000 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -9.38% +18.52% +68.75%

All Generic Skills
UK

Fixed Income is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 19,511 52,884 56,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.83% 43.05% 44.00%
Number of salaries quoted 14,245 29,698 33,809
10th Percentile £33,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% +7.92% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

Fixed Income
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Fixed Income as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Fixed Income in the UK

Fixed Income
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Fixed Income.

Salary trend for Fixed Income in the UK

Fixed Income
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Fixed Income over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Fixed Income in the UK

Fixed Income
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Fixed Income within the UK over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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
England +123 447 £110,000 -2.22% 189
London +91 435 £110,000 -2.22% 176
Work from Home +136 157 £105,000 -8.70% 63
UK excluding London +248 15 £72,500 -9.38% 26
East of England - 6 - -
Midlands +137 5 £60,000 +9.09%
Northern Ireland +40 4 £75,000 +36.99% 3
East Midlands - 4 - -
West Midlands +128 1 £60,000 +9.09%

Fixed Income
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 42 (9.25%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (7.93%) Apache
3 3 (0.66%) Confluence
3 3 (0.66%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.44%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.88%) ION Anvil
1 4 (0.88%) ION MarketView
2 3 (0.66%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.66%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.22%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 209 (46.04%) AWS
2 187 (41.19%) GCP
3 116 (25.55%) Azure
4 8 (1.76%) GitHub
4 8 (1.76%) SaaS
5 4 (0.88%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (0.66%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.44%) dbt
7 2 (0.44%) Serverless
7 2 (0.44%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.22%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.22%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.22%) Datadog
8 1 (0.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.22%) IaaS
8 1 (0.22%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.54%) FIX Connectivity
2 5 (1.10%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.44%) DHCP
3 2 (0.44%) DNS
3 2 (0.44%) NAS
3 2 (0.44%) SAN
4 1 (0.22%) LAN
4 1 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.22%) WAN
4 1 (0.22%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.73%) Apache Ignite
2 25 (5.51%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (3.52%) Relational Database
4 8 (1.76%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.32%) Oracle Database
5 6 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (0.66%) Power BI
7 2 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.44%) Apache Arrow
7 2 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.44%) Dremio
7 2 (0.44%) MySQL
8 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.22%) Flink
8 1 (0.22%) KDB
8 1 (0.22%) Metadata
8 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 46 (10.13%) Cypress.io
2 13 (2.86%) Git
3 8 (1.76%) JIRA
4 5 (1.10%) Maven
5 2 (0.44%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.22%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
General
1 328 (72.25%) Finance
2 297 (65.42%) Front Office
3 76 (16.74%) Banking
4 49 (10.79%) Social Skills
5 27 (5.95%) Back Office
6 26 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (4.85%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.86%) Games
9 7 (1.54%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.32%) Billing
11 2 (0.44%) Legal
11 2 (0.44%) Marketing
12 1 (0.22%) French Language
12 1 (0.22%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.22%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 285 (62.78%) Developer
2 168 (37.00%) Software Engineer
3 162 (35.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 96 (21.15%) React Developer
5 95 (20.93%) Python Developer
6 87 (19.16%) .NET Developer
7 78 (17.18%) Full Stack Developer
7 78 (17.18%) Full Stack Engineer
7 78 (17.18%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 77 (16.96%) .NET Software Developer
8 77 (16.96%) .NET Software Engineer
9 74 (16.30%) Analyst
10 64 (14.10%) Python Engineer
11 62 (13.66%) Python Software Engineer
12 60 (13.22%) Finance Manager
13 57 (12.56%) Business Analyst
14 52 (11.45%) Java Developer
15 44 (9.69%) Lead
16 43 (9.47%) Quantitative Developer
17 40 (8.81%) Software Asset Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (38.11%) React
2 158 (34.80%) Redux
3 92 (20.26%) .NET
4 82 (18.06%) AngularJS
5 81 (17.84%) Vue
6 79 (17.40%) ASP.NET
6 79 (17.40%) ASP.NET Core
7 62 (13.66%) Node.js
8 57 (12.56%) Material-UI
9 55 (12.11%) FIX Protocol
10 31 (6.83%) gRPC
11 28 (6.17%) OpenFin
12 23 (5.07%) GraphQL
13 14 (3.08%) Protocol Buffers
13 14 (3.08%) Spring
14 12 (2.64%) .NET Core
15 10 (2.20%) Middleware
16 8 (1.76%) Pandas
17 7 (1.54%) Spring Boot
18 6 (1.32%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 193 (42.51%) Hedge funds
2 187 (41.19%) Equities
3 181 (39.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 180 (39.65%) Derivative
5 36 (7.93%) Greenfield Project
6 33 (7.27%) Product Ownership
7 18 (3.96%) Mobile App
8 13 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (2.86%) Onboarding
9 10 (2.20%) Reference Data
10 9 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.76%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.76%) Market Risk
12 6 (1.32%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.32%) Equity Derivative
13 5 (1.10%) Credit Derivative
14 4 (0.88%) Algorithms
15 3 (0.66%) Distributed Computing
16 2 (0.44%) Distributed Applications
16 2 (0.44%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.29%) Apple iOS
1 24 (5.29%) Linux
2 11 (2.42%) Windows
3 10 (2.20%) Unix
4 6 (1.32%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.44%) Android
5 2 (0.44%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (56.17%) Asset Management
2 233 (51.32%) Agile
3 206 (45.37%) Investment Management
3 206 (45.37%) Software Engineering
4 139 (30.62%) Fintech
5 134 (29.52%) Full Stack Development
6 90 (19.82%) Analytics
7 85 (18.72%) TDD
8 80 (17.62%) DevOps
9 64 (14.10%) Electronic Trading
10 57 (12.56%) Order Management
11 54 (11.89%) Roadmaps
12 49 (10.79%) Computer Science
13 41 (9.03%) Artificial Intelligence
13 41 (9.03%) Machine Learning
14 39 (8.59%) Low Latency
14 39 (8.59%) Portfolio Management
15 32 (7.05%) Microservices
16 30 (6.61%) Multithreading
17 27 (5.95%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 167 (36.78%) TypeScript
2 159 (35.02%) Python
3 145 (31.94%) JavaScript
4 103 (22.69%) Java
5 99 (21.81%) C#
6 80 (17.62%) SQL
7 30 (6.61%) C++
8 23 (5.07%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.64%) R
10 4 (0.88%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.66%) Scala
12 2 (0.44%) Go
13 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 55 (12.11%) Degree
2 39 (8.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (3.96%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.44%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (17.18%) QA
2 2 (0.44%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.44%) PMO
2 2 (0.44%) SLA
3 1 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (1.32%) Docker
2 2 (0.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (1.10%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.88%) Grafana
3 2 (0.44%) Ansible
3 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.44%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.44%) SCCM
4 1 (0.22%) Control-M
4 1 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.22%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 46 (10.13%) Google
2 32 (7.05%) Bloomberg
3 24 (5.29%) Finsemble
4 19 (4.19%) Oracle
5 14 (3.08%) MarketAxess
5 14 (3.08%) Tradeweb
6 11 (2.42%) Calypso
7 10 (2.20%) Charles River
8 8 (1.76%) ION Trading
9 5 (1.10%) Microsoft
10 2 (0.44%) Apple
10 2 (0.44%) Dell
10 2 (0.44%) HP
10 2 (0.44%) Solace
10 2 (0.44%) Sun
10 2 (0.44%) TIBCO
10 2 (0.44%) VMware
11 1 (0.22%) BMC
11 1 (0.22%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow