Fixed Income Jobs

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 cited Fixed Income over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 320 375
Rank change year-on-year +69 +55 +144
Permanent jobs citing Fixed Income 724 913 790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.28% 0.82% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.43% 2.46% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 419 873 745
10th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £73,750
25th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.98% -6.52%
75th Percentile £137,500 £143,750 £143,750
90th Percentile £148,750 £165,000 £160,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £100,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +28.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 21,126 37,173 39,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.38% 33.24% 43.56%
Number of salaries quoted 9,864 23,657 21,867
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £97,500 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 22 June 2025.

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 22 June 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
England +51 712 £115,000 - 916
London +20 676 £115,000 - 782
Work from Home -17 343 £122,500 +6.52% 279
UK excluding London +221 43 - - 294
East of England - 27 - - 8
Scotland +107 8 - - 20
North of England +57 6 - - 29
North West +22 6 - - 10
South East - 2 - - 202

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
1 184 (25.41%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (14.64%) Apache
3 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
4 4 (0.55%) Confluence
5 3 (0.41%) GemFire
6 1 (0.14%) MTS
Applications
1 267 (36.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 54 (7.46%) Aladdin
2 39 (5.39%) thinkFolio
3 7 (0.97%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.14%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 255 (35.22%) AWS
2 184 (25.41%) dbt
3 145 (20.03%) GCP
4 95 (13.12%) Snowflake
5 28 (3.87%) Azure
6 19 (2.62%) Dagster
7 13 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (0.69%) Figma
9 5 (0.69%) SaaS
10 4 (0.55%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.41%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.41%) OpenShift
11 3 (0.41%) Power Platform
11 3 (0.41%) Serverless
12 2 (0.28%) AWS Step Functions
13 1 (0.14%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.80%) Multicast
2 7 (0.97%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (0.69%) DHCP
3 5 (0.69%) DNS
3 5 (0.69%) Firewall
3 5 (0.69%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.55%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (25.41%) Amazon Athena
1 184 (25.41%) Apache Iceberg
1 184 (25.41%) Dremio
2 176 (24.31%) Apache Arrow
3 117 (16.16%) Data Lake
4 93 (12.85%) PostgreSQL
5 74 (10.22%) Apache Ignite
6 9 (1.24%) SQL Server
7 7 (0.97%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.69%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.69%) Redis
9 4 (0.55%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.41%) InterSystems Cache
10 3 (0.41%) Power BI
10 3 (0.41%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.28%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.28%) SAP BW
12 1 (0.14%) KDB
12 1 (0.14%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 14 (1.93%) JIRA
2 10 (1.38%) Git
3 5 (0.69%) TeamCity
4 4 (0.55%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.55%) NUnit
5 3 (0.41%) MSTest
5 3 (0.41%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.14%) Moq
General
1 682 (94.20%) Finance
2 438 (60.50%) Banking
3 382 (52.76%) Front Office
4 297 (41.02%) Social Skills
5 278 (38.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 275 (37.98%) Analytical Skills
7 271 (37.43%) Financial Institution
8 268 (37.02%) German Language
9 267 (36.88%) French Language
10 109 (15.06%) Investment Banking
11 17 (2.35%) Law
12 7 (0.97%) Legal
13 6 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.83%) Spanish Language
14 4 (0.55%) Marketing
15 2 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 346 (47.79%) Analyst
2 267 (36.88%) Credit Analyst
2 267 (36.88%) Research Analyst
3 247 (34.12%) Software Engineer
4 199 (27.49%) Developer
5 176 (24.31%) AWS Engineer
5 176 (24.31%) AWS Software Engineer
6 166 (22.93%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 144 (19.89%) Python Engineer
8 136 (18.78%) Python Software Engineer
9 115 (15.88%) AWS Developer
9 115 (15.88%) Java Engineer
10 112 (15.47%) Java Software Engineer
11 77 (10.64%) Senior
12 76 (10.50%) Python Developer
13 68 (9.39%) Senior Software Engineer
14 59 (8.15%) Business Analyst
15 58 (8.01%) Senior Java Engineer
15 58 (8.01%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 56 (7.73%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (21.55%) Pandas
2 152 (20.99%) NumPy
2 152 (20.99%) SciPy
3 142 (19.61%) React
4 110 (15.19%) Node.js
5 107 (14.78%) AngularJS
6 100 (13.81%) Vue
7 71 (9.81%) gRPC
7 71 (9.81%) Protocol Buffers
8 58 (8.01%) Redux
9 51 (7.04%) PySpark
10 24 (3.31%) FIX Protocol
11 16 (2.21%) Kafka
12 11 (1.52%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 10 (1.38%) .NET
13 10 (1.38%) pytest
14 8 (1.10%) GraphQL
15 7 (0.97%) Spring
16 6 (0.83%) Django
17 5 (0.69%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 283 (39.09%) Equities
2 270 (37.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 267 (36.88%) Credit Risk
4 247 (34.12%) Derivative
5 226 (31.22%) Hedge funds
6 52 (7.18%) Onboarding
6 52 (7.18%) Pricing Data
7 29 (4.01%) Algorithms
8 16 (2.21%) Data Structures
9 15 (2.07%) Product Ownership
10 12 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.10%) Cloud Native
11 8 (1.10%) Virtual Team
12 7 (0.97%) Eurex
13 6 (0.83%) Credit Derivative
13 6 (0.83%) Management Information System
14 5 (0.69%) Bitcoin
14 5 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
15 4 (0.55%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.59%) Linux
2 13 (1.80%) Unix
3 9 (1.24%) Rocky
4 7 (0.97%) CentOS
4 7 (0.97%) Windows
5 4 (0.55%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 551 (76.10%) Asset Management
2 376 (51.93%) Agile
3 352 (48.62%) Risk Management
4 337 (46.55%) Portfolio Management
5 311 (42.96%) Investment Management
6 275 (37.98%) Credit Risk Analysis
7 271 (37.43%) Business Strategy
8 270 (37.29%) Decision-Making
9 269 (37.15%) Risk Assessment
10 268 (37.02%) Financial Modelling
11 257 (35.50%) Software Engineering
12 120 (16.57%) Fintech
13 88 (12.15%) Performance Attribution
14 86 (11.88%) Data Management
15 83 (11.46%) Order Management
16 68 (9.39%) Migration
17 62 (8.56%) Roadmaps
18 55 (7.60%) Business Analysis
19 54 (7.46%) Business Intelligence
19 54 (7.46%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 307 (42.40%) Python
2 207 (28.59%) TypeScript
3 204 (28.18%) JavaScript
4 166 (22.93%) Java
5 114 (15.75%) SQL
6 17 (2.35%) C++
7 16 (2.21%) C#
8 9 (1.24%) Bash
9 8 (1.10%) Go
10 5 (0.69%) Perl
11 3 (0.41%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 296 (40.88%) Degree
2 267 (36.88%) CFA
2 267 (36.88%) Master's Degree
3 9 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (0.69%) CISSP
4 5 (0.69%) GCIA
4 5 (0.69%) GCIH
4 5 (0.69%) OSCE
4 5 (0.69%) OSCP
4 5 (0.69%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 5 (0.69%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 2 (0.28%) ACCA
5 2 (0.28%) CIMA
5 2 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.14%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.31%) MiFID
2 20 (2.76%) QA
3 8 (1.10%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (0.14%) Docker
1 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (1.24%) Grafana
2 7 (0.97%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.69%) CSIRT
4 1 (0.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 278 (38.40%) Bloomberg
2 53 (7.32%) BISAM
3 45 (6.22%) Charles River
4 39 (5.39%) Calypso
4 39 (5.39%) SimCorp
5 11 (1.52%) Atlassian
6 10 (1.38%) Oracle
6 10 (1.38%) Solace
7 9 (1.24%) ION Trading
7 9 (1.24%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.10%) Microsoft
9 7 (0.97%) CQG
9 7 (0.97%) Patsystems
9 7 (0.97%) Reuters
9 7 (0.97%) Trayport
10 4 (0.55%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.41%) Murex
12 2 (0.28%) Alteryx
12 2 (0.28%) SAP
13 1 (0.14%) FactSet