Hybrid/Remote Fixed Income Job Trends

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 28 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 158 339
Rank change year-on-year -166 +181 +93
Permanent jobs citing Fixed Income 63 325 209
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.38% 2.17% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.10% 5.30% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 54 323 176
10th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £125,000 £85,000 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% +9.52% -3.45%
75th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £142,813
90th Percentile £150,000 £152,500 £150,000
UK median annual salary £112,500 £115,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% +4.76%

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 5,742 6,127 10,352
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.90% 40.95% 37.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3,574 3,505 8,429
10th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £33,102
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £103,200 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -15.38%

Fixed Income
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Fixed Income and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Fixed Income job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Fixed Income
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Fixed Income.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Fixed Income

Fixed Income
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Fixed Income over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Fixed Income salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Fixed Income
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (11.11%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) ION Anvil
2 1 (1.59%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 51 (80.95%) AWS
2 19 (30.16%) GCP
3 14 (22.22%) dbt
4 7 (11.11%) Azure
4 7 (11.11%) Snowflake
5 6 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (9.52%) Amazon Kinesis
5 6 (9.52%) GitHub
5 6 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.70%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.22%) Amazon Athena
1 14 (22.22%) Apache Arrow
1 14 (22.22%) Apache Iceberg
1 14 (22.22%) Dremio
2 13 (20.63%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (11.11%) Apache Ignite
3 7 (11.11%) Data Lake
4 6 (9.52%) Flink
5 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (12.70%) JIRA
General
1 62 (98.41%) Front Office
2 61 (96.83%) Finance
3 15 (23.81%) Banking
4 8 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (11.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (69.84%) Software Engineer
2 41 (65.08%) Developer
3 37 (58.73%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 23 (36.51%) Python Engineer
5 21 (33.33%) Lead
5 21 (33.33%) Lead Developer
5 21 (33.33%) Lead Software Developer
5 21 (33.33%) Lead Software Engineer
6 20 (31.75%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (26.98%) Python Software Engineer
8 14 (22.22%) AWS Software Engineer
9 13 (20.63%) Java Engineer
9 13 (20.63%) Java Software Engineer
10 10 (15.87%) Python Developer
11 9 (14.29%) React Developer
12 8 (12.70%) Platform Specialist
13 7 (11.11%) AWS Developer
14 6 (9.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 6 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
14 6 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (58.73%) Node.js
1 37 (58.73%) React
2 30 (47.62%) Kafka
2 30 (47.62%) Redux
3 24 (38.10%) GraphQL
4 14 (22.22%) NumPy
4 14 (22.22%) Pandas
4 14 (22.22%) SciPy
5 13 (20.63%) AngularJS
5 13 (20.63%) Vue
6 8 (12.70%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (11.11%) gRPC
7 7 (11.11%) Protocol Buffers
8 3 (4.76%) .NET
8 3 (4.76%) .NET Core
9 1 (1.59%) WinForms
9 1 (1.59%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 29 (46.03%) Equities
2 15 (23.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (22.22%) Derivative
4 7 (11.11%) Hedge funds
4 7 (11.11%) Pricing Data
5 1 (1.59%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.70%) Windows
1 8 (12.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (92.06%) Investment Management
2 52 (82.54%) Agile
3 45 (71.43%) Software Engineering
4 39 (61.90%) Order Management
5 30 (47.62%) Portfolio Management
6 28 (44.44%) Asset Management
7 19 (30.16%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (20.63%) Fintech
9 8 (12.70%) Coaching
9 8 (12.70%) ITIL
9 8 (12.70%) Risk Management
10 7 (11.11%) Performance Attribution
11 6 (9.52%) CI/CD
11 6 (9.52%) DevOps
11 6 (9.52%) Front End Development
11 6 (9.52%) Line Management
11 6 (9.52%) Mentoring
11 6 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 2 (3.17%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 46 (73.02%) Python
2 44 (69.84%) JavaScript
2 44 (69.84%) TypeScript
3 37 (58.73%) Java
4 24 (38.10%) Go
5 9 (14.29%) SQL
6 8 (12.70%) PowerShell
7 4 (6.35%) C#
8 1 (1.59%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (1.59%) CFA
1 1 (1.59%) Degree
Systems Management
1 6 (9.52%) Argo
1 6 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (12.70%) Charles River
2 2 (3.17%) ION Trading
3 1 (1.59%) Bloomberg