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 26 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 270 346 476
Rank change year-on-year +76 +130 +52
Permanent jobs citing Fixed Income 754 526 953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.99% 0.90% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.05% 2.36% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 726 482 859
10th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £74,350
25th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £110,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -2.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £148,750 £152,375 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 £65,000 £78,500
% change year-on-year +38.46% -17.20% +16.30%

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 24,750 22,260 64,109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.56% 37.91% 45.44%
Number of salaries quoted 10,956 16,186 31,701
10th Percentile £32,875 £34,234 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,628 £45,321 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +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 26 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Fixed Income in the UK

Fixed Income
Top 10 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 26 October 2024. 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 +50 749 £112,500 +2.27% 52
London +56 743 £112,500 +2.27% 46
Work from Home +184 566 £115,000 +6.98% 23
UK excluding London -46 9 £90,000 +38.46% 8
Northern Ireland +26 3 £100,000 +42.86% 2
South East - 2 £90,000 -
South West - 2 - -
West Midlands -31 1 £57,500 -4.17%
Midlands -39 1 £57,500 -4.17%
East of England -52 1 - -

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
1 524 (69.50%) Apache
2 488 (64.72%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 54 (7.16%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.80%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.53%) Eagle PACE
3 4 (0.53%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.27%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.13%) Front Arena
Cloud Services
1 659 (87.40%) AWS
2 450 (59.68%) dbt
3 390 (51.72%) Snowflake
4 318 (42.18%) GCP
5 113 (14.99%) Amazon ECS
6 93 (12.33%) Amazon EC2
7 92 (12.20%) Amazon EKS
8 37 (4.91%) Azure
9 36 (4.77%) Power Platform
10 23 (3.05%) Serverless
11 22 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
12 20 (2.65%) AWS Step Functions
13 2 (0.27%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.27%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.27%) SaaS
14 1 (0.13%) AWS Data Pipeline
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.93%) HTTP
2 3 (0.40%) FIX Connectivity
3 2 (0.27%) Internet
3 2 (0.27%) Multicast
4 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 488 (64.72%) Apache Ignite
2 450 (59.68%) Apache Arrow
2 450 (59.68%) Dremio
3 422 (55.97%) Data Lake
4 414 (54.91%) Amazon Athena
5 61 (8.09%) PostgreSQL
6 36 (4.77%) Power BI
6 36 (4.77%) Tableau
7 32 (4.24%) Big Data
8 9 (1.19%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.80%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.40%) KDB
10 3 (0.40%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.27%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.27%) MySQL
11 2 (0.27%) Redis
12 1 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.13%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 22 (2.92%) Cypress.io
2 4 (0.53%) JIRA
3 2 (0.27%) webpack
General
1 735 (97.48%) Finance
2 708 (93.90%) Front Office
3 554 (73.47%) Banking
4 501 (66.45%) Investment Banking
5 29 (3.85%) Social Skills
6 23 (3.05%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.59%) Publishing
8 10 (1.33%) Financial Institution
8 10 (1.33%) French Language
8 10 (1.33%) German Language
9 6 (0.80%) Back Office
10 2 (0.27%) Law
10 2 (0.27%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 424 (56.23%) Software Engineer
2 265 (35.15%) Developer
3 258 (34.22%) Python Engineer
4 257 (34.08%) Python Software Engineer
5 246 (32.63%) AWS Engineer
6 244 (32.36%) AWS Software Engineer
7 230 (30.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 190 (25.20%) Java Engineer
8 190 (25.20%) Java Software Engineer
9 186 (24.67%) Senior
10 169 (22.41%) Senior Software Engineer
11 154 (20.42%) Lead
12 135 (17.90%) Analyst
13 129 (17.11%) Senior Java Engineer
13 129 (17.11%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 120 (15.92%) Python Developer
15 105 (13.93%) React Developer
16 86 (11.41%) AWS Developer
17 85 (11.27%) Business Analyst
18 75 (9.95%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 488 (64.72%) gRPC
1 488 (64.72%) Protocol Buffers
2 430 (57.03%) NumPy
2 430 (57.03%) Pandas
2 430 (57.03%) SciPy
3 141 (18.70%) React
4 127 (16.84%) Redux
5 109 (14.46%) Node.js
6 92 (12.20%) PySpark
7 56 (7.43%) AngularJS
8 36 (4.77%) Vue
9 30 (3.98%) Material-UI
10 20 (2.65%) Lambda Expressions
11 9 (1.19%) REST
12 7 (0.93%) Django
12 7 (0.93%) Flask
12 7 (0.93%) JSON
13 5 (0.66%) FIX Protocol
14 3 (0.40%) .NET
14 3 (0.40%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 577 (76.53%) Hedge funds
2 555 (73.61%) Equities
3 529 (70.16%) Derivative
4 525 (69.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 123 (16.31%) Product Ownership
6 99 (13.13%) Pricing Data
7 11 (1.46%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.33%) Credit Risk
9 9 (1.19%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.66%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (0.66%) Eurex
11 4 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (0.53%) Reference Data
12 3 (0.40%) Equity Derivative
13 2 (0.27%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.27%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.27%) Onboarding
14 1 (0.13%) Distributed Systems
14 1 (0.13%) FPGA
14 1 (0.13%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.72%) Linux
2 3 (0.40%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 692 (91.78%) Asset Management
2 653 (86.60%) Agile
3 563 (74.67%) Software Engineering
4 500 (66.31%) Investment Management
5 163 (21.62%) Fintech
6 140 (18.57%) Line Management
7 119 (15.78%) Greeks
8 109 (14.46%) Analytics
9 101 (13.40%) Full-Stack Development
10 93 (12.33%) Migration
11 89 (11.80%) Machine Learning
12 88 (11.67%) Artificial Intelligence
13 80 (10.61%) Performance Attribution
13 80 (10.61%) Roadmaps
14 75 (9.95%) User Experience
15 59 (7.82%) Portfolio Management
16 51 (6.76%) Business Analysis
17 48 (6.37%) Business Intelligence
18 46 (6.10%) Credit Risk Analysis
18 46 (6.10%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 697 (92.44%) Python
2 551 (73.08%) TypeScript
3 521 (69.10%) JavaScript
4 440 (58.36%) Java
5 267 (35.41%) SQL
6 12 (1.59%) Kotlin
6 12 (1.59%) Scala
7 10 (1.33%) C#
8 6 (0.80%) C++
9 3 (0.40%) R
9 3 (0.40%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.40%) VBA
10 2 (0.27%) Go
11 1 (0.13%) C
Qualifications
1 24 (3.18%) Degree
2 16 (2.12%) Master's Degree
3 10 (1.33%) CFA
4 4 (0.53%) PhD
5 2 (0.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.13%) CISA
6 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.13%) CISSP
6 1 (0.13%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (21.49%) Data Quality
2 3 (0.40%) QA
3 1 (0.13%) COBIT
3 1 (0.13%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (1.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (1.06%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.40%) Grafana
2 3 (0.40%) MOM
Vendors
1 164 (21.75%) Bloomberg
2 69 (9.15%) Reuters
3 48 (6.37%) BISAM
4 30 (3.98%) Google
5 5 (0.66%) CQG
5 5 (0.66%) ION Trading
5 5 (0.66%) Patsystems
5 5 (0.66%) Trayport
6 4 (0.53%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.40%) Oracle
8 2 (0.27%) Charles River
8 2 (0.27%) Solace
9 1 (0.13%) Monzo
9 1 (0.13%) Murex
9 1 (0.13%) Revolut