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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 348 402
Rank change year-on-year +102 +54 +119
Permanent jobs citing Fixed Income 729 812 777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.31% 0.78% 0.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.51% 2.28% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 421 765 726
10th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £73,000
25th Percentile £93,750 £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 £152,500 £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 20,763 35,685 41,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.18% 34.42% 43.59%
Number of salaries quoted 9,606 23,135 22,550
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,085 £46,350
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 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +80 722 £115,000 - 202
London +34 687 £115,000 - 194
Work from Home +32 343 £115,000 - 54
UK excluding London +202 38 - - 14
East of England - 28 - -
Scotland +119 4 - - 4
North of England +41 4 - - 6
North West +5 4 - -
South East - 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
1 167 (22.91%) Apache Airflow
2 100 (13.72%) Apache
3 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.41%) GemFire
5 2 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.14%) MTS
Applications
1 279 (38.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 59 (8.09%) Aladdin
2 39 (5.35%) thinkFolio
3 5 (0.69%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 225 (30.86%) AWS
2 167 (22.91%) dbt
3 137 (18.79%) GCP
4 83 (11.39%) Snowflake
5 26 (3.57%) Azure
6 21 (2.88%) Dagster
7 13 (1.78%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (1.51%) 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 (0.27%) AWS Step Functions
13 1 (0.14%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (0.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.37%) Multicast
2 5 (0.69%) DHCP
2 5 (0.69%) DNS
2 5 (0.69%) Firewall
2 5 (0.69%) FIX Connectivity
2 5 (0.69%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.55%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (22.91%) Amazon Athena
1 167 (22.91%) Apache Iceberg
1 167 (22.91%) Dremio
2 157 (21.54%) Apache Arrow
3 130 (17.83%) Data Lake
4 81 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
5 68 (9.33%) Apache Ignite
6 7 (0.96%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.96%) SQL Server
7 5 (0.69%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.55%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.55%) Redis
9 3 (0.41%) InterSystems Cache
9 3 (0.41%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.27%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.27%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.14%) KDB
11 1 (0.14%) Kdb+
11 1 (0.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (1.37%) Git
1 10 (1.37%) JIRA
2 4 (0.55%) NUnit
2 4 (0.55%) TeamCity
3 3 (0.41%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.41%) MSTest
3 3 (0.41%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.14%) Moq
General
1 690 (94.65%) Finance
2 432 (59.26%) Banking
3 385 (52.81%) Front Office
4 306 (41.98%) Social Skills
5 285 (39.09%) Analytical Skills
5 285 (39.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 284 (38.96%) Financial Institution
7 280 (38.41%) German Language
8 279 (38.27%) French Language
9 95 (13.03%) Investment Banking
10 12 (1.65%) Law
11 7 (0.96%) Legal
12 6 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.55%) Spanish Language
14 2 (0.27%) Marketing
15 1 (0.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 361 (49.52%) Analyst
2 279 (38.27%) Credit Analyst
2 279 (38.27%) Research Analyst
3 214 (29.36%) Software Engineer
4 185 (25.38%) Developer
5 157 (21.54%) AWS Engineer
5 157 (21.54%) AWS Software Engineer
6 150 (20.58%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 129 (17.70%) Python Engineer
8 119 (16.32%) Python Software Engineer
9 108 (14.81%) AWS Developer
10 94 (12.89%) Java Engineer
11 91 (12.48%) Java Software Engineer
12 73 (10.01%) Python Developer
13 63 (8.64%) Senior
14 57 (7.82%) Business Analyst
15 56 (7.68%) Senior Software Engineer
16 54 (7.41%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
17 52 (7.13%) Business Manager
18 47 (6.45%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (18.79%) Pandas
2 135 (18.52%) NumPy
2 135 (18.52%) SciPy
3 122 (16.74%) React
4 96 (13.17%) Node.js
5 94 (12.89%) AngularJS
6 89 (12.21%) Vue
7 65 (8.92%) gRPC
7 65 (8.92%) Protocol Buffers
8 55 (7.54%) Redux
9 53 (7.27%) PySpark
10 20 (2.74%) FIX Protocol
11 11 (1.51%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 10 (1.37%) pytest
13 9 (1.23%) .NET
14 6 (0.82%) Kafka
15 5 (0.69%) OpenFin
15 5 (0.69%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (0.69%) Spring
16 4 (0.55%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 279 (38.27%) Credit Risk
2 276 (37.86%) Equities
3 262 (35.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 259 (35.53%) Derivative
5 242 (33.20%) Hedge funds
6 50 (6.86%) Onboarding
7 40 (5.49%) Pricing Data
8 26 (3.57%) Algorithms
9 21 (2.88%) Product Ownership
10 15 (2.06%) Data Structures
11 12 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (1.10%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.96%) Cloud Native
15 6 (0.82%) Credit Derivative
15 6 (0.82%) Management Information System
16 5 (0.69%) Bitcoin
16 5 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
16 5 (0.69%) Eurex
17 4 (0.55%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.16%) Linux
2 12 (1.65%) Unix
3 9 (1.23%) Rocky
4 7 (0.96%) CentOS
5 5 (0.69%) Windows
6 4 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 549 (75.31%) Asset Management
2 371 (50.89%) Agile
3 349 (47.87%) Risk Management
4 343 (47.05%) Portfolio Management
5 315 (43.21%) Investment Management
6 293 (40.19%) Credit Risk Analysis
7 282 (38.68%) Decision-Making
8 281 (38.55%) Business Strategy
9 280 (38.41%) Financial Modelling
10 279 (38.27%) Risk Assessment
11 226 (31.00%) Software Engineering
12 112 (15.36%) Fintech
13 109 (14.95%) Data Management
14 93 (12.76%) Migration
15 89 (12.21%) Roadmaps
16 81 (11.11%) Performance Attribution
17 79 (10.84%) Data Governance
17 79 (10.84%) Regulatory Compliance
18 61 (8.37%) Order Management
19 59 (8.09%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 288 (39.51%) Python
2 175 (24.01%) TypeScript
3 174 (23.87%) JavaScript
4 142 (19.48%) Java
5 116 (15.91%) SQL
6 17 (2.33%) C++
7 15 (2.06%) C#
8 9 (1.23%) Bash
9 5 (0.69%) Perl
10 3 (0.41%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 308 (42.25%) Degree
2 279 (38.27%) CFA
2 279 (38.27%) Master's Degree
3 9 (1.23%) 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 (0.27%) ACCA
5 2 (0.27%) CIMA
5 2 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.14%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.66%) MiFID
2 19 (2.61%) 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 (1.23%) Grafana
2 5 (0.69%) CSIRT
2 5 (0.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 285 (39.09%) Bloomberg
2 58 (7.96%) BISAM
3 45 (6.17%) Charles River
4 39 (5.35%) Calypso
4 39 (5.35%) SimCorp
5 9 (1.23%) Atlassian
5 9 (1.23%) Red Hat
5 9 (1.23%) Solace
6 8 (1.10%) Oracle
7 6 (0.82%) Microsoft
8 5 (0.69%) CQG
8 5 (0.69%) ION Trading
8 5 (0.69%) Patsystems
8 5 (0.69%) Reuters
8 5 (0.69%) Trayport
9 4 (0.55%) TIBCO
10 2 (0.27%) Murex
10 2 (0.27%) SAP
11 1 (0.14%) Cisco
11 1 (0.14%) Citrix