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

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 104 302
Rank change year-on-year -131 +198 +199
Permanent jobs citing Fixed Income 195 560 206
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.19% 2.81% 0.92%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.94% 7.98% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 191 556 186
10th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £74,750
25th Percentile £105,000 £85,000 £83,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £115,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +6.98% -6.52%
75th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £165,000 £150,000
UK median annual salary £127,500 £112,500 £110,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% +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 6,623 7,019 9,040
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.34% 35.20% 40.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,496 3,954 7,115
10th Percentile £28,750 £36,250 £38,175
25th Percentile £38,750 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - -
75th Percentile £81,250 £88,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £53,750 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.42% -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 1 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
1 134 (68.72%) Apache Airflow
2 69 (35.38%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (4.62%) Aladdin
1 9 (4.62%) thinkFolio
2 1 (0.51%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 173 (88.72%) AWS
2 134 (68.72%) dbt
3 83 (42.56%) GCP
4 69 (35.38%) Snowflake
5 7 (3.59%) Azure
6 2 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.03%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (1.03%) GitHub
6 2 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.51%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (68.72%) Amazon Athena
1 134 (68.72%) Apache Arrow
1 134 (68.72%) Apache Iceberg
1 134 (68.72%) Dremio
2 71 (36.41%) PostgreSQL
3 69 (35.38%) Apache Ignite
3 69 (35.38%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.03%) Flink
4 2 (1.03%) SAP BW
4 2 (1.03%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
General
1 193 (98.97%) Finance
2 190 (97.44%) Front Office
3 80 (41.03%) Banking
4 69 (35.38%) Investment Banking
5 7 (3.59%) Social Skills
6 2 (1.03%) Legal
7 1 (0.51%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.51%) Back Office
7 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 170 (87.18%) Software Engineer
2 136 (69.74%) AWS Engineer
3 134 (68.72%) AWS Software Engineer
4 124 (63.59%) Python Engineer
5 122 (62.56%) Python Software Engineer
6 106 (54.36%) Developer
7 101 (51.79%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 87 (44.62%) Java Engineer
8 87 (44.62%) Java Software Engineer
9 69 (35.38%) Senior
10 67 (34.36%) Senior Java Engineer
10 67 (34.36%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 67 (34.36%) Senior Software Engineer
11 65 (33.33%) AWS Developer
12 54 (27.69%) Python Developer
13 20 (10.26%) Lead
14 18 (9.23%) Java Developer
14 18 (9.23%) Java Software Developer
15 16 (8.21%) Lead Developer
16 15 (7.69%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (68.72%) NumPy
1 134 (68.72%) Pandas
1 134 (68.72%) SciPy
2 101 (51.79%) React
3 95 (48.72%) Node.js
4 77 (39.49%) AngularJS
4 77 (39.49%) Vue
5 69 (35.38%) gRPC
5 69 (35.38%) Protocol Buffers
6 36 (18.46%) Redux
7 26 (13.33%) Kafka
8 24 (12.31%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.54%) .NET
9 3 (1.54%) .NET Core
10 1 (0.51%) MDX
10 1 (0.51%) PyXLL
10 1 (0.51%) WinForms
10 1 (0.51%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 152 (77.95%) Equities
2 151 (77.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 87 (44.62%) Derivative
4 84 (43.08%) Hedge funds
5 69 (35.38%) Pricing Data
6 9 (4.62%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.03%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (1.03%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.51%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.51%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (94.36%) Agile
2 183 (93.85%) Investment Management
3 171 (87.69%) Software Engineering
4 155 (79.49%) Asset Management
5 89 (45.64%) Order Management
6 78 (40.00%) Fintech
7 66 (33.85%) Risk Management
8 65 (33.33%) Performance Attribution
9 33 (16.92%) Portfolio Management
10 25 (12.82%) Full-Stack Development
11 10 (5.13%) Business Analysis
12 9 (4.62%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (4.62%) Data Mapping
13 7 (3.59%) Analytics
14 6 (3.08%) TDD
14 6 (3.08%) User Experience
15 4 (2.05%) Business Strategy
15 4 (2.05%) People Management
15 4 (2.05%) Stakeholder Management
16 3 (1.54%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 170 (87.18%) JavaScript
1 170 (87.18%) TypeScript
2 166 (85.13%) Python
3 111 (56.92%) Java
4 24 (12.31%) Go
5 11 (5.64%) SQL
6 6 (3.08%) C#
7 2 (1.03%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (2.05%) Degree
2 2 (1.03%) ACCA
2 2 (1.03%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.03%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (1.03%) Argo
1 2 (1.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (5.13%) Calypso
2 9 (4.62%) BISAM
2 9 (4.62%) Charles River
2 9 (4.62%) SimCorp
3 2 (1.03%) SAP
4 1 (0.51%) ION Trading
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft