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 22 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 216 122 316
Rank change year-on-year -94 +194 +183
Permanent jobs citing Fixed Income 163 512 178
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.07% 2.54% 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.97% 7.07% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 157 508 154
10th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £68,275
25th Percentile £105,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £137,500 £146,563 £142,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £148,750 £150,000
UK median annual salary £125,000 £112,500 £110,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +2.27% -2.22%

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 5,490 7,238 8,403
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.90% 35.88% 39.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,566 4,153 6,595
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,713 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.00% -

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 22 November 2025.

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
1 112 (68.71%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (34.97%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 150 (92.02%) AWS
2 112 (68.71%) dbt
3 69 (42.33%) GCP
4 57 (34.97%) Snowflake
5 5 (3.07%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (3.07%) Amazon Kinesis
5 5 (3.07%) Azure
5 5 (3.07%) GitHub
5 5 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.84%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (68.71%) Amazon Athena
1 112 (68.71%) Apache Arrow
1 112 (68.71%) Apache Iceberg
1 112 (68.71%) Dremio
2 59 (36.20%) PostgreSQL
3 57 (34.97%) Apache Ignite
3 57 (34.97%) Data Lake
4 5 (3.07%) Flink
5 2 (1.23%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.61%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 3 (1.84%) JIRA
General
1 161 (98.77%) Finance
2 160 (98.16%) Front Office
3 69 (42.33%) Banking
4 57 (34.97%) Investment Banking
5 4 (2.45%) Social Skills
6 3 (1.84%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.61%) Back Office
7 1 (0.61%) Legal
Job Titles
1 144 (88.34%) Software Engineer
2 117 (71.78%) AWS Engineer
3 112 (68.71%) AWS Software Engineer
4 109 (66.87%) Python Engineer
5 104 (63.80%) Python Software Engineer
6 92 (56.44%) Developer
7 87 (53.37%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 71 (43.56%) Java Engineer
8 71 (43.56%) Java Software Engineer
9 57 (34.97%) Senior
10 55 (33.74%) AWS Developer
10 55 (33.74%) Senior Java Engineer
10 55 (33.74%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 55 (33.74%) Senior Software Engineer
11 48 (29.45%) Python Developer
12 19 (11.66%) Lead
13 16 (9.82%) Lead Developer
14 15 (9.20%) Lead Software Developer
14 15 (9.20%) Lead Software Engineer
15 14 (8.59%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (68.71%) NumPy
1 112 (68.71%) Pandas
1 112 (68.71%) SciPy
2 87 (53.37%) React
3 83 (50.92%) Node.js
4 65 (39.88%) AngularJS
4 65 (39.88%) Vue
5 57 (34.97%) gRPC
5 57 (34.97%) Protocol Buffers
6 32 (19.63%) Redux
7 29 (17.79%) Kafka
8 24 (14.72%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.84%) .NET
9 3 (1.84%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.84%) FIX Protocol
10 1 (0.61%) MDX
10 1 (0.61%) PyXLL
10 1 (0.61%) WinForms
10 1 (0.61%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 128 (78.53%) Equities
2 124 (76.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 64 (39.26%) Derivative
4 61 (37.42%) Hedge funds
5 57 (34.97%) Pricing Data
6 2 (1.23%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.61%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.61%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.61%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.84%) Windows
1 3 (1.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (93.87%) Investment Management
2 152 (93.25%) Agile
3 145 (88.96%) Software Engineering
4 123 (75.46%) Asset Management
5 82 (50.31%) Order Management
6 63 (38.65%) Fintech
7 56 (34.36%) Risk Management
8 55 (33.74%) Performance Attribution
9 24 (14.72%) Portfolio Management
10 23 (14.11%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (3.68%) CI/CD
11 6 (3.68%) DevOps
12 5 (3.07%) Analytics
12 5 (3.07%) Front End Development
12 5 (3.07%) Platform Engineering
12 5 (3.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 4 (2.45%) TDD
13 4 (2.45%) User Experience
14 3 (1.84%) ITIL
14 3 (1.84%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 144 (88.34%) JavaScript
1 144 (88.34%) TypeScript
2 138 (84.66%) Python
3 97 (59.51%) Java
4 24 (14.72%) Go
5 5 (3.07%) C#
5 5 (3.07%) SQL
6 3 (1.84%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.23%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (1.84%) Degree
2 1 (0.61%) ACCA
2 1 (0.61%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 5 (3.07%) Argo
1 5 (3.07%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (1.84%) Charles River
2 1 (0.61%) Calypso
2 1 (0.61%) ION Trading
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.61%) SAP