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 20 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 112 225
Rank change year-on-year -60 +113 +265
Permanent jobs citing Fixed Income 283 665 368
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.74% 2.84% 1.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.13% 8.42% 3.57%
Number of salaries quoted 279 659 349
10th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £75,000
25th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £127,500 £115,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.87% +6.98% -6.52%
75th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £143,750
90th Percentile £142,500 £165,000 £151,250
UK median annual salary £127,500 £115,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year +10.87% +4.55% -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 6,855 7,897 10,315
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 42.14% 33.78% 41.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,526 4,751 8,347
10th Percentile £30,500 £35,000 £39,294
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £49,381
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £106,289
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -

Fixed Income
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Fixed Income as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Fixed Income trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Fixed Income
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

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

Fixed Income
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Fixed Income over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Fixed Income salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Fixed Income
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 186 (65.72%) Apache Airflow
2 89 (31.45%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 33 (11.66%) Aladdin
1 33 (11.66%) thinkFolio
2 1 (0.35%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 236 (83.39%) AWS
2 186 (65.72%) dbt
3 128 (45.23%) GCP
4 89 (31.45%) Snowflake
5 10 (3.53%) Azure
6 3 (1.06%) Figma
7 1 (0.35%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (65.72%) Amazon Athena
1 186 (65.72%) Apache Arrow
1 186 (65.72%) Apache Iceberg
1 186 (65.72%) Dremio
2 110 (38.87%) PostgreSQL
3 89 (31.45%) Apache Ignite
3 89 (31.45%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.06%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.71%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
General
1 279 (98.59%) Finance
2 278 (98.23%) Front Office
3 109 (38.52%) Banking
4 89 (31.45%) Investment Banking
5 7 (2.47%) Social Skills
6 2 (0.71%) Legal
7 1 (0.35%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.35%) Back Office
7 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 235 (83.04%) Software Engineer
2 186 (65.72%) AWS Engineer
2 186 (65.72%) AWS Software Engineer
3 162 (57.24%) Python Engineer
3 162 (57.24%) Python Software Engineer
4 152 (53.71%) Developer
5 146 (51.59%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 119 (42.05%) Java Engineer
6 119 (42.05%) Java Software Engineer
7 97 (34.28%) AWS Developer
8 93 (32.86%) Senior
9 89 (31.45%) Senior Java Engineer
9 89 (31.45%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 89 (31.45%) Senior Software Engineer
10 74 (26.15%) Python Developer
11 39 (13.78%) Analyst
12 36 (12.72%) Business Analyst
13 33 (11.66%) Business Manager
13 33 (11.66%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
14 30 (10.60%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (65.72%) NumPy
1 186 (65.72%) Pandas
1 186 (65.72%) SciPy
2 146 (51.59%) React
3 134 (47.35%) Node.js
4 112 (39.58%) AngularJS
4 112 (39.58%) Vue
5 89 (31.45%) gRPC
5 89 (31.45%) Protocol Buffers
6 49 (17.31%) Redux
7 24 (8.48%) GraphQL
7 24 (8.48%) Kafka
8 4 (1.41%) .NET
8 4 (1.41%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.06%) OpenFin
10 1 (0.35%) MDX
10 1 (0.35%) PyXLL
10 1 (0.35%) WinForms
10 1 (0.35%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 210 (74.20%) Equities
2 209 (73.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 131 (46.29%) Derivative
3 131 (46.29%) Hedge funds
4 89 (31.45%) Pricing Data
5 33 (11.66%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.12%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.71%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (0.35%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.35%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (96.11%) Agile
2 270 (95.41%) Investment Management
3 241 (85.16%) Asset Management
4 238 (84.10%) Software Engineering
5 121 (42.76%) Order Management
6 120 (42.40%) Fintech
7 98 (34.63%) Risk Management
8 97 (34.28%) Performance Attribution
9 57 (20.14%) Portfolio Management
10 34 (12.01%) Business Analysis
11 33 (11.66%) Business Intelligence
11 33 (11.66%) Data Mapping
12 28 (9.89%) Full-Stack Development
13 16 (5.65%) User Experience
14 10 (3.53%) Analytics
15 9 (3.18%) TDD
16 4 (1.41%) Business Strategy
16 4 (1.41%) People Management
16 4 (1.41%) Stakeholder Management
17 3 (1.06%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 239 (84.45%) Python
2 235 (83.04%) JavaScript
2 235 (83.04%) TypeScript
3 142 (50.18%) Java
4 35 (12.37%) SQL
5 24 (8.48%) Go
6 7 (2.47%) C#
7 2 (0.71%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (1.41%) Degree
2 2 (0.71%) ACCA
2 2 (0.71%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 34 (12.01%) Calypso
2 33 (11.66%) BISAM
2 33 (11.66%) Charles River
2 33 (11.66%) SimCorp
3 2 (0.71%) SAP
4 1 (0.35%) ION Trading
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft