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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 327 379
Rank change year-on-year +69 +52 +148
Permanent jobs citing Fixed Income 726 872 788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.30% 0.79% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.46% 2.36% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 413 831 742
10th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £73,000
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 £150,000 £165,000 £160,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £100,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +23.08%

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 20,981 37,012 40,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.48% 33.69% 43.78%
Number of salaries quoted 9,687 23,502 22,191
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,539 £46,500
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 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% -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 13 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 13 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 +55 714 £115,000 - 384
London +31 678 £115,000 - 297
Work from Home +7 338 £115,000 - 147
UK excluding London +219 43 - - 154
East of England - 28 - - 6
Scotland +115 8 - - 14
North of England +82 5 - - 15
North West +32 5 - - 6
South East - 2 - - 103

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
1 174 (23.97%) Apache Airflow
2 104 (14.33%) Apache
3 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (0.41%) GemFire
6 2 (0.28%) Confluence
7 1 (0.14%) MTS
Applications
1 277 (38.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 56 (7.71%) Aladdin
2 39 (5.37%) thinkFolio
3 6 (0.83%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 234 (32.23%) AWS
2 174 (23.97%) dbt
3 135 (18.60%) GCP
4 91 (12.53%) Snowflake
5 26 (3.58%) Azure
6 19 (2.62%) Dagster
7 13 (1.79%) 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%) Serverless
12 2 (0.28%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (0.28%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.14%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.52%) Multicast
2 6 (0.83%) 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
1 174 (23.97%) Amazon Athena
1 174 (23.97%) Apache Iceberg
1 174 (23.97%) Dremio
2 166 (22.87%) Apache Arrow
3 126 (17.36%) Data Lake
4 84 (11.57%) PostgreSQL
5 72 (9.92%) Apache Ignite
6 8 (1.10%) SQL Server
7 7 (0.96%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.69%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.55%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.55%) Redis
10 3 (0.41%) InterSystems Cache
10 3 (0.41%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.28%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.28%) Power BI
11 2 (0.28%) SAP BW
12 1 (0.14%) KDB
12 1 (0.14%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 12 (1.65%) JIRA
2 10 (1.38%) Git
3 4 (0.55%) NUnit
3 4 (0.55%) TeamCity
4 3 (0.41%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.41%) MSTest
4 3 (0.41%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.14%) Moq
General
1 686 (94.49%) Finance
2 442 (60.88%) Banking
3 377 (51.93%) Front Office
4 307 (42.29%) Social Skills
5 288 (39.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 284 (39.12%) Analytical Skills
7 282 (38.84%) Financial Institution
8 278 (38.29%) German Language
9 277 (38.15%) French Language
10 105 (14.46%) Investment Banking
11 17 (2.34%) Law
12 7 (0.96%) Legal
13 6 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.69%) Spanish Language
15 4 (0.55%) Marketing
16 1 (0.14%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 357 (49.17%) Analyst
2 277 (38.15%) Credit Analyst
2 277 (38.15%) Research Analyst
3 227 (31.27%) Software Engineer
4 183 (25.21%) Developer
5 166 (22.87%) AWS Engineer
5 166 (22.87%) AWS Software Engineer
6 150 (20.66%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 136 (18.73%) Python Engineer
8 128 (17.63%) Python Software Engineer
9 109 (15.01%) AWS Developer
10 107 (14.74%) Java Engineer
11 104 (14.33%) Java Software Engineer
12 72 (9.92%) Python Developer
13 71 (9.78%) Senior
14 64 (8.82%) Senior Software Engineer
15 58 (7.99%) Business Analyst
16 55 (7.58%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
17 54 (7.44%) Senior Java Engineer
17 54 (7.44%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (20.11%) Pandas
2 142 (19.56%) NumPy
2 142 (19.56%) SciPy
3 126 (17.36%) React
4 98 (13.50%) AngularJS
5 95 (13.09%) Node.js
6 91 (12.53%) Vue
7 69 (9.50%) gRPC
7 69 (9.50%) Protocol Buffers
8 51 (7.02%) PySpark
9 50 (6.89%) Redux
10 21 (2.89%) FIX Protocol
11 11 (1.52%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 10 (1.38%) pytest
13 9 (1.24%) .NET
14 8 (1.10%) Kafka
15 7 (0.96%) Spring
16 6 (0.83%) Django
17 5 (0.69%) OpenFin
17 5 (0.69%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 280 (38.57%) Equities
2 277 (38.15%) Credit Risk
3 268 (36.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 257 (35.40%) Derivative
5 236 (32.51%) Hedge funds
6 51 (7.02%) Onboarding
7 48 (6.61%) Pricing Data
8 29 (3.99%) Algorithms
9 16 (2.20%) Data Structures
10 15 (2.07%) Product Ownership
11 12 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (1.10%) Cloud Native
13 8 (1.10%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.83%) Credit Derivative
14 6 (0.83%) Eurex
14 6 (0.83%) Management Information System
15 5 (0.69%) Bitcoin
15 5 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
16 4 (0.55%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.31%) Linux
2 12 (1.65%) Unix
3 9 (1.24%) Rocky
4 7 (0.96%) CentOS
5 6 (0.83%) Windows
6 4 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 551 (75.90%) Asset Management
2 369 (50.83%) Agile
3 354 (48.76%) Risk Management
4 339 (46.69%) Portfolio Management
5 306 (42.15%) Investment Management
6 287 (39.53%) Credit Risk Analysis
7 281 (38.71%) Business Strategy
8 280 (38.57%) Decision-Making
9 278 (38.29%) Financial Modelling
9 278 (38.29%) Risk Assessment
10 237 (32.64%) Software Engineering
11 112 (15.43%) Fintech
12 99 (13.64%) Data Management
13 82 (11.29%) Performance Attribution
14 81 (11.16%) Migration
15 75 (10.33%) Roadmaps
16 67 (9.23%) Data Governance
16 67 (9.23%) Regulatory Compliance
17 66 (9.09%) Order Management
18 56 (7.71%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 293 (40.36%) Python
2 187 (25.76%) TypeScript
3 184 (25.34%) JavaScript
4 153 (21.07%) Java
5 115 (15.84%) SQL
6 17 (2.34%) C++
7 15 (2.07%) C#
8 9 (1.24%) Bash
9 5 (0.69%) Perl
10 3 (0.41%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 305 (42.01%) Degree
2 277 (38.15%) CFA
2 277 (38.15%) 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 27 (3.72%) MiFID
2 20 (2.75%) 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 (0.96%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.69%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 285 (39.26%) Bloomberg
2 55 (7.58%) BISAM
3 45 (6.20%) Charles River
4 39 (5.37%) Calypso
4 39 (5.37%) SimCorp
5 10 (1.38%) Atlassian
6 9 (1.24%) Oracle
6 9 (1.24%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.24%) Solace
7 7 (0.96%) Microsoft
8 6 (0.83%) CQG
8 6 (0.83%) ION Trading
8 6 (0.83%) Patsystems
8 6 (0.83%) Reuters
8 6 (0.83%) Trayport
9 4 (0.55%) TIBCO
10 2 (0.28%) Murex
10 2 (0.28%) SAP
11 1 (0.14%) Cisco
11 1 (0.14%) Citrix