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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 254 316
Rank change year-on-year -106 +62 +175
Permanent jobs citing Fixed Income 431 956 773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 1.11% 1.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.87% 3.37% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 373 932 719
10th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £73,750
25th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £115,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +6.98% -4.44%
75th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £165,000 £160,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £100,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +33.33% +20.00%

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 23,095 28,363 30,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.86% 41.46%
Number of salaries quoted 10,998 16,225 19,815
10th Percentile £29,250 £30,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £46,298
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.85% +3.20%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -121 420 £125,000 +8.70% 185
London -47 408 £125,000 +8.70% 180
Work from Home -96 308 £127,500 +10.87% 42
UK excluding London +88 18 - - 18
Scotland +91 8 - - 1
North West - 6 - - 3
North of England - 6 - - 3
South East +27 2 - - 8
East of England - 2 - -

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
1 193 (44.78%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (25.29%) Apache
3 5 (1.16%) Confluence
4 4 (0.93%) Cloud Foundry
4 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.70%) GemFire
6 1 (0.23%) MTS
Applications
1 20 (4.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 40 (9.28%) Aladdin
2 39 (9.05%) thinkFolio
3 5 (1.16%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.23%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 273 (63.34%) AWS
2 193 (44.78%) dbt
3 134 (31.09%) GCP
4 106 (24.59%) Snowflake
5 18 (4.18%) Azure
6 7 (1.62%) SaaS
7 5 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (1.16%) Figma
8 4 (0.93%) Amazon S3
9 3 (0.70%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.70%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (0.70%) Dagster
9 3 (0.70%) OpenShift
9 3 (0.70%) Power Platform
9 3 (0.70%) Serverless
10 2 (0.46%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.25%) Multicast
2 5 (1.16%) FIX Connectivity
3 3 (0.70%) DHCP
3 3 (0.70%) DNS
3 3 (0.70%) Firewall
3 3 (0.70%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.23%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (44.78%) Amazon Athena
1 193 (44.78%) Apache Arrow
1 193 (44.78%) Apache Iceberg
1 193 (44.78%) Dremio
2 105 (24.36%) PostgreSQL
3 85 (19.72%) Apache Ignite
4 82 (19.03%) Data Lake
5 8 (1.86%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.16%) Redis
7 4 (0.93%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.93%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.93%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.70%) InterSystems Cache
8 3 (0.70%) Power BI
8 3 (0.70%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.46%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.46%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.23%) KDB
10 1 (0.23%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 16 (3.71%) JIRA
2 6 (1.39%) Git
3 5 (1.16%) TeamCity
4 4 (0.93%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.93%) NUnit
5 3 (0.70%) MSTest
5 3 (0.70%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.23%) Moq
General
1 387 (89.79%) Finance
2 338 (78.42%) Front Office
3 190 (44.08%) Banking
4 120 (27.84%) Investment Banking
5 50 (11.60%) Social Skills
6 31 (7.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
8 24 (5.57%) Financial Institution
9 20 (4.64%) French Language
9 20 (4.64%) German Language
10 17 (3.94%) Law
11 8 (1.86%) Legal
11 8 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.93%) Marketing
12 4 (0.93%) Spanish Language
13 3 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.46%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 276 (64.04%) Software Engineer
2 207 (48.03%) Developer
3 193 (44.78%) AWS Engineer
3 193 (44.78%) AWS Software Engineer
4 173 (40.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 168 (38.98%) Python Engineer
5 168 (38.98%) Python Software Engineer
6 134 (31.09%) Java Engineer
7 131 (30.39%) Java Software Engineer
8 113 (26.22%) AWS Developer
9 102 (23.67%) Senior
10 92 (21.35%) Senior Software Engineer
11 85 (19.72%) Analyst
12 81 (18.79%) Senior Java Engineer
12 81 (18.79%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 78 (18.10%) Python Developer
14 56 (12.99%) Business Analyst
15 50 (11.60%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
15 50 (11.60%) Java Developer
16 47 (10.90%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (40.14%) Pandas
2 169 (39.21%) NumPy
2 169 (39.21%) SciPy
3 161 (37.35%) React
4 129 (29.93%) Node.js
5 114 (26.45%) AngularJS
6 107 (24.83%) Vue
7 82 (19.03%) gRPC
7 82 (19.03%) Protocol Buffers
8 61 (14.15%) Redux
9 32 (7.42%) Kafka
10 27 (6.26%) PySpark
11 24 (5.57%) FIX Protocol
11 24 (5.57%) GraphQL
12 14 (3.25%) .NET
13 12 (2.78%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 11 (2.55%) pytest
15 8 (1.86%) OpenFin
16 7 (1.62%) Spring
17 6 (1.39%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 246 (57.08%) Equities
2 240 (55.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 192 (44.55%) Derivative
4 169 (39.21%) Hedge funds
5 79 (18.33%) Pricing Data
6 49 (11.37%) Onboarding
7 28 (6.50%) Algorithms
8 20 (4.64%) Credit Risk
9 14 (3.25%) Data Structures
10 11 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (1.86%) Cloud Native
12 8 (1.86%) Product Ownership
12 8 (1.86%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.62%) Management Information System
14 6 (1.39%) Credit Derivative
15 5 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
15 5 (1.16%) Eurex
16 3 (0.70%) Bitcoin
16 3 (0.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.34%) Linux
2 8 (1.86%) Unix
3 4 (0.93%) CentOS
3 4 (0.93%) Rocky
3 4 (0.93%) Windows
4 1 (0.23%) Debian
4 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (77.49%) Agile
2 294 (68.21%) Asset Management
3 280 (64.97%) Investment Management
4 279 (64.73%) Software Engineering
5 123 (28.54%) Fintech
6 121 (28.07%) Risk Management
7 114 (26.45%) Order Management
8 92 (21.35%) Portfolio Management
9 88 (20.42%) Performance Attribution
10 51 (11.83%) Business Analysis
11 45 (10.44%) Data Mapping
12 44 (10.21%) Full-Stack Development
13 41 (9.51%) Business Intelligence
14 36 (8.35%) Low Latency
15 28 (6.50%) Electronic Trading
16 25 (5.80%) Data Management
16 25 (5.80%) Decision-Making
16 25 (5.80%) SDLC
16 25 (5.80%) User Experience
17 24 (5.57%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 309 (71.69%) Python
2 243 (56.38%) JavaScript
2 243 (56.38%) TypeScript
3 182 (42.23%) Java
4 89 (20.65%) SQL
5 24 (5.57%) Go
6 20 (4.64%) C#
7 19 (4.41%) C++
8 4 (0.93%) Bash
9 3 (0.70%) Perl
10 2 (0.46%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (9.51%) Degree
2 20 (4.64%) CFA
2 20 (4.64%) Master's Degree
3 7 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.39%) CISSP
5 5 (1.16%) GCIA
5 5 (1.16%) GCIH
5 5 (1.16%) OSCE
5 5 (1.16%) OSCP
5 5 (1.16%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 5 (1.16%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 2 (0.46%) ACCA
6 2 (0.46%) CIMA
6 2 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.23%) CISM
7 1 (0.23%) CRISC
7 1 (0.23%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.41%) QA
2 8 (1.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
3 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (0.23%) Docker
1 1 (0.23%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (1.62%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.16%) CSIRT
3 4 (0.93%) Grafana
4 1 (0.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 45 (10.44%) Charles River
2 40 (9.28%) BISAM
2 40 (9.28%) Calypso
3 39 (9.05%) SimCorp
4 29 (6.73%) Bloomberg
5 9 (2.09%) Solace
6 8 (1.86%) Oracle
7 7 (1.62%) ION Trading
8 6 (1.39%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.16%) CQG
9 5 (1.16%) Microsoft
9 5 (1.16%) Patsystems
9 5 (1.16%) Reuters
9 5 (1.16%) Trayport
10 4 (0.93%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.93%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.70%) Murex
12 2 (0.46%) Alteryx
12 2 (0.46%) SAP
13 1 (0.23%) FactSet