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 12 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 135 231
Rank change year-on-year -202 +96 +45
Permanent jobs citing Fixed Income 66 388 433
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.36% 2.67% 1.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.05% 6.01% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 58 381 406
10th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £76,250
25th Percentile £127,500 £98,750 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £115,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% - +6.98%
75th Percentile £142,500 £137,500 £148,125
90th Percentile £150,000 £152,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £112,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% +4.65%

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 6,277 6,458 11,785
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.00% 44.40% 36.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,981 3,667 9,292
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.04% -8.46%
75th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 12 May 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.52%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 45 (68.18%) AWS
2 16 (24.24%) GCP
3 8 (12.12%) Azure
4 3 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (4.55%) GitHub
4 3 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.52%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (1.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.61%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.55%) Flink
3 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (10.61%) JIRA
General
1 61 (92.42%) Finance
2 54 (81.82%) Front Office
3 9 (13.64%) Banking
4 8 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (9.09%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.52%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 43 (65.15%) Developer
3 40 (60.61%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 34 (51.52%) Lead
5 28 (42.42%) Lead Developer
5 28 (42.42%) Lead Software Developer
5 28 (42.42%) Lead Software Engineer
6 12 (18.18%) React Developer
7 9 (13.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 9 (13.64%) Java Developer
8 8 (12.12%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (12.12%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 8 (12.12%) Java Engineer
8 8 (12.12%) Java Software Developer
8 8 (12.12%) Java Software Engineer
9 7 (10.61%) Platform Specialist
9 7 (10.61%) Python Engineer
10 5 (7.58%) Python Developer
10 5 (7.58%) Technical Leader
11 4 (6.06%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (60.61%) Node.js
1 40 (60.61%) React
1 40 (60.61%) Redux
2 36 (54.55%) Kafka
3 32 (48.48%) GraphQL
4 8 (12.12%) AngularJS
4 8 (12.12%) Vue
5 7 (10.61%) FIX Protocol
6 6 (9.09%) .NET
7 1 (1.52%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.52%) Java Concurrency
7 1 (1.52%) LlamaIndex
7 1 (1.52%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.52%) REST
7 1 (1.52%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 21 (31.82%) Equities
2 14 (21.21%) Derivative
3 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.52%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.61%) Windows
1 7 (10.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (75.76%) Investment Management
2 45 (68.18%) Software Engineering
3 44 (66.67%) Agile
4 40 (60.61%) Portfolio Management
5 39 (59.09%) Order Management
6 30 (45.45%) Full-Stack Development
7 16 (24.24%) Asset Management
8 8 (12.12%) Fintech
8 8 (12.12%) Line Management
8 8 (12.12%) Mentoring
9 7 (10.61%) Coaching
9 7 (10.61%) ITIL
10 5 (7.58%) Regulatory Compliance
11 4 (6.06%) CI/CD
12 3 (4.55%) DevOps
12 3 (4.55%) Front End Development
12 3 (4.55%) Platform Engineering
12 3 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 2 (3.03%) Process Improvement
14 1 (1.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 40 (60.61%) JavaScript
1 40 (60.61%) TypeScript
2 37 (56.06%) Java
2 37 (56.06%) Python
3 32 (48.48%) Go
4 14 (21.21%) SQL
5 7 (10.61%) PowerShell
6 6 (9.09%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (1.52%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.58%) EMIR
1 5 (7.58%) MiFID
2 1 (1.52%) GAAP
2 1 (1.52%) IFRS
System Software
1 1 (1.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.58%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.55%) Argo
Vendors
1 7 (10.61%) Charles River
2 1 (1.52%) Bloomberg
2 1 (1.52%) ION Trading
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.52%) Solace