Fixed Income Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Fixed Income
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fixed Income in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Fixed Income over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 264 292
Rank change year-on-year +123 +28 +242
Permanent jobs citing Fixed Income 382 403 478
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.43% 1.19% 1.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.16% 3.36% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 376 374 470
10th Percentile £85,000 £75,375 £73,750
25th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.98% -14.00%
75th Percentile £137,500 £146,250 £150,000
90th Percentile £152,500 £165,000 £160,000
UK median annual salary £115,000 £112,500 £107,500
% change year-on-year +2.22% +4.65% -6.52%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,205 12,005 16,380
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.50% 35.53% 38.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,862 9,227 11,835
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,300 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.61% -8.77% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £101,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Fixed Income
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Fixed Income as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Fixed Income trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Fixed Income
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Fixed Income.

Fixed Income salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Fixed Income
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Fixed Income over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Fixed Income salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Fixed Income
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 154 (40.31%) Apache Airflow
2 117 (30.63%) Apache
3 3 (0.79%) GemFire
Business Applications
1 53 (13.87%) Aladdin
2 32 (8.38%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 199 (52.09%) AWS
2 150 (39.27%) dbt
3 143 (37.43%) GCP
4 90 (23.56%) Snowflake
5 34 (8.90%) Amazon EC2
5 34 (8.90%) Amazon ECS
5 34 (8.90%) Amazon EKS
5 34 (8.90%) Dagster
6 11 (2.88%) Azure
7 5 (1.31%) Figma
8 4 (1.05%) SaaS
9 3 (0.79%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.79%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (48.69%) Data Lake
2 150 (39.27%) Amazon Athena
2 150 (39.27%) Apache Arrow
2 150 (39.27%) Apache Iceberg
2 150 (39.27%) Dremio
3 101 (26.44%) Apache Ignite
4 69 (18.06%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.79%) InterSystems Cache
5 3 (0.79%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.79%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.79%) RDBMS
5 3 (0.79%) Redis
5 3 (0.79%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (0.79%) Jenkins
1 3 (0.79%) JIRA
1 3 (0.79%) MSTest
1 3 (0.79%) NUnit
1 3 (0.79%) SpecFlow
1 3 (0.79%) TeamCity
General
1 378 (98.95%) Front Office
2 377 (98.69%) Finance
3 114 (29.84%) Banking
4 90 (23.56%) Investment Banking
5 6 (1.57%) Law
6 1 (0.26%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 202 (52.88%) Software Engineer
2 150 (39.27%) AWS Engineer
2 150 (39.27%) AWS Software Engineer
3 130 (34.03%) Developer
4 128 (33.51%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 107 (28.01%) Python Engineer
5 107 (28.01%) Python Software Engineer
6 86 (22.51%) Java Engineer
7 83 (21.73%) Java Software Engineer
8 76 (19.90%) AWS Developer
9 71 (18.59%) Analyst
10 63 (16.49%) Senior
11 61 (15.97%) Senior Software Engineer
12 56 (14.66%) Python Developer
13 55 (14.40%) Business Analyst
14 52 (13.61%) Senior Java Engineer
14 52 (13.61%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 45 (11.78%) Business Manager
15 45 (11.78%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
16 38 (9.95%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (35.08%) NumPy
1 134 (35.08%) Pandas
1 134 (35.08%) SciPy
2 109 (28.53%) React
3 98 (25.65%) gRPC
3 98 (25.65%) Protocol Buffers
4 93 (24.35%) Node.js
5 74 (19.37%) AngularJS
6 71 (18.59%) Vue
7 69 (18.06%) Redux
8 50 (13.09%) PySpark
9 5 (1.31%) .NET
9 5 (1.31%) OpenFin
10 3 (0.79%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 3 (0.79%) CSS
10 3 (0.79%) FIX Protocol
10 3 (0.79%) JSON
10 3 (0.79%) Middleware
10 3 (0.79%) Spring
10 3 (0.79%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 272 (71.20%) Hedge funds
2 270 (70.68%) Derivative
3 249 (65.18%) Equities
3 249 (65.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 41 (10.73%) Product Ownership
5 40 (10.47%) Pricing Data
6 38 (9.95%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.57%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.57%) Credit Derivative
8 5 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.79%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.79%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.79%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.57%) Linux
2 3 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (98.17%) Agile
2 320 (83.77%) Investment Management
3 253 (66.23%) Asset Management
4 204 (53.40%) Software Engineering
5 146 (38.22%) Migration
6 112 (29.32%) Data Governance
6 112 (29.32%) Regulatory Compliance
6 112 (29.32%) Roadmaps
7 104 (27.23%) Fintech
8 96 (25.13%) Data Management
9 71 (18.59%) Performance Attribution
10 53 (13.87%) Business Intelligence
11 45 (11.78%) Business Analysis
11 45 (11.78%) Portfolio Management
12 40 (10.47%) Order Management
12 40 (10.47%) Risk Management
13 38 (9.95%) Data Mapping
13 38 (9.95%) User Experience
14 33 (8.64%) Analytics
15 20 (5.24%) Credit Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 246 (64.40%) Python
2 186 (48.69%) JavaScript
2 186 (48.69%) TypeScript
3 106 (27.75%) Java
4 75 (19.63%) SQL
5 5 (1.31%) C#
6 3 (0.79%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (1.83%) Degree
2 1 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (14.40%) MiFID
2 6 (1.57%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.79%) QA
Vendors
1 53 (13.87%) BISAM
2 38 (9.95%) Charles River
3 32 (8.38%) Calypso
3 32 (8.38%) SimCorp
4 3 (0.79%) Oracle
4 3 (0.79%) Solace
4 3 (0.79%) TIBCO