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 7 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 157 322
Rank change year-on-year -140 +165 +132
Permanent jobs citing Fixed Income 79 346 157
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.52% 2.08% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.51% 5.27% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 70 343 132
10th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £105,000 £85,000 £84,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £110,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £137,500 £138,750 £142,500
90th Percentile £143,250 £151,750 £150,000
UK median annual salary £112,500 £110,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% - -

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 5,248 6,564 8,048
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.60% 39.44% 38.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,358 3,638 6,307
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 7 January 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 59 (74.68%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (41.77%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 66 (83.54%) AWS
2 59 (74.68%) dbt
3 33 (41.77%) Snowflake
4 26 (32.91%) GCP
5 6 (7.59%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (7.59%) Amazon Kinesis
5 6 (7.59%) GitHub
5 6 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.27%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.13%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (74.68%) Amazon Athena
1 59 (74.68%) Apache Arrow
1 59 (74.68%) Apache Iceberg
1 59 (74.68%) Dremio
2 33 (41.77%) Apache Ignite
2 33 (41.77%) Data Lake
3 26 (32.91%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (7.59%) Flink
5 2 (2.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (10.13%) JIRA
General
1 78 (98.73%) Front Office
2 77 (97.47%) Finance
3 41 (51.90%) Banking
4 33 (41.77%) Investment Banking
5 8 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 65 (82.28%) AWS Engineer
1 65 (82.28%) Python Engineer
2 59 (74.68%) AWS Software Engineer
2 59 (74.68%) Python Software Engineer
2 59 (74.68%) Software Engineer
3 33 (41.77%) Java Engineer
3 33 (41.77%) Java Software Engineer
4 32 (40.51%) Senior
5 31 (39.24%) Developer
5 31 (39.24%) Senior Java Engineer
5 31 (39.24%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 31 (39.24%) Senior Software Engineer
6 27 (34.18%) Python Developer
7 26 (32.91%) AWS Developer
7 26 (32.91%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 8 (10.13%) Platform Specialist
9 6 (7.59%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (7.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 6 (7.59%) Kafka Engineer
9 6 (7.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (74.68%) NumPy
1 59 (74.68%) Pandas
1 59 (74.68%) SciPy
2 33 (41.77%) gRPC
2 33 (41.77%) Protocol Buffers
3 26 (32.91%) AngularJS
3 26 (32.91%) Node.js
3 26 (32.91%) React
3 26 (32.91%) Vue
4 8 (10.13%) FIX Protocol
5 6 (7.59%) Kafka
6 3 (3.80%) .NET
6 3 (3.80%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.27%) PyXLL
7 1 (1.27%) WinForms
7 1 (1.27%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 68 (86.08%) Equities
2 60 (75.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 35 (44.30%) Derivative
4 33 (41.77%) Hedge funds
4 33 (41.77%) Pricing Data
5 1 (1.27%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.13%) Windows
1 8 (10.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (92.41%) Investment Management
2 68 (86.08%) Agile
3 67 (84.81%) Asset Management
4 60 (75.95%) Software Engineering
5 34 (43.04%) Order Management
6 27 (34.18%) Risk Management
7 26 (32.91%) Fintech
7 26 (32.91%) Performance Attribution
8 8 (10.13%) Coaching
8 8 (10.13%) ITIL
9 7 (8.86%) CI/CD
9 7 (8.86%) DevOps
10 6 (7.59%) Front End Development
10 6 (7.59%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (7.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 2 (2.53%) Collaborative Culture
11 2 (2.53%) SDLC
12 1 (1.27%) Analytics
12 1 (1.27%) Technology Strategy
12 1 (1.27%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 67 (84.81%) Python
2 59 (74.68%) JavaScript
2 59 (74.68%) TypeScript
3 39 (49.37%) Java
4 9 (11.39%) SQL
5 8 (10.13%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.33%) C#
7 2 (2.53%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (2.53%) Degree
Systems Management
1 6 (7.59%) Argo
1 6 (7.59%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (10.13%) Charles River
2 2 (2.53%) ION Trading
3 1 (1.27%) Calypso