Fixed Income
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fixed Income in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Fixed Income over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 442 506
Rank change year-on-year +65 +64 -85
Permanent jobs citing Fixed Income 696 725 1,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 0.70% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.99% 1.64% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 647 673 994
10th Percentile £77,500 £69,000 £71,250
25th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £107,500 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -6.52% +17.95%
75th Percentile £146,250 £143,750 £138,750
90th Percentile £165,000 £160,000 £171,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +33.33% +14.29%

All Generic Skills
UK

Fixed Income is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,988 44,314 74,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 42.70% 47.35%
Number of salaries quoted 23,043 23,940 34,254
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Fixed Income
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Fixed Income as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Fixed Income in the UK

Fixed Income
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Fixed Income.

Salary trend for Fixed Income in the UK

Fixed Income
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Fixed Income over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Fixed Income in the UK

Fixed Income
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Fixed Income within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +61 683 £115,000 +6.98% 127
London +77 675 £115,000 +6.98% 122
Work from Home +40 403 £115,000 +6.98% 37
UK excluding London +34 18 £75,000 -6.25% 11
Scotland - 7 - - 2
South West - 6 - -
Northern Ireland - 3 £105,000 - 3
West Midlands +17 1 £44,700 -44.13% 2
Midlands +14 1 £44,700 -44.13% 2
North West - 1 £42,500 - 2
North of England - 1 £42,500 - 3

Fixed Income
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 299 (42.96%) Apache Airflow
2 278 (39.94%) Apache
3 4 (0.57%) Confluence
4 3 (0.43%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
Applications
1 15 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 29 (4.17%) Aladdin
2 15 (2.16%) thinkFolio
3 3 (0.43%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.29%) ION Anvil
4 2 (0.29%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.14%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 504 (72.41%) AWS
2 368 (52.87%) GCP
3 251 (36.06%) Azure
4 197 (28.30%) dbt
5 159 (22.84%) Snowflake
6 4 (0.57%) GitHub
6 4 (0.57%) Serverless
7 3 (0.43%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (0.43%) Amazon S3
7 3 (0.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (0.43%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (0.43%) SaaS
8 2 (0.29%) WeChat
9 1 (0.14%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.14%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (0.14%) IaaS
9 1 (0.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.86%) Internet
2 3 (0.43%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 278 (39.94%) Apache Ignite
2 197 (28.30%) Amazon Athena
2 197 (28.30%) Apache Arrow
2 197 (28.30%) Dremio
3 158 (22.70%) Data Lake
4 80 (11.49%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (2.01%) SQL Server
6 11 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (1.29%) KDB
8 5 (0.72%) Kdb+
9 3 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.43%) MySQL
9 3 (0.43%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.29%) Big Data
10 2 (0.29%) Data Mart
10 2 (0.29%) SQLPlus
11 1 (0.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 48 (6.90%) Cypress.io
2 12 (1.72%) Git
3 10 (1.44%) JIRA
4 8 (1.15%) Maven
5 4 (0.57%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.43%) GitLab
6 3 (0.43%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.14%) GDB
7 1 (0.14%) Gradle
7 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 592 (85.06%) Finance
2 587 (84.34%) Front Office
3 346 (49.71%) Banking
4 245 (35.20%) Investment Banking
5 67 (9.63%) Back Office
6 40 (5.75%) Social Skills
7 30 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.87%) Law
10 11 (1.58%) Billing
11 9 (1.29%) Legal
12 7 (1.01%) Marketing
12 7 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.57%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.29%) Mandarin Language
15 1 (0.14%) French Language
Job Titles
1 393 (56.47%) Developer
2 332 (47.70%) Software Engineer
3 265 (38.07%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 186 (26.72%) Python Developer
5 172 (24.71%) Python Engineer
6 169 (24.28%) Python Software Engineer
7 118 (16.95%) Analyst
8 117 (16.81%) Senior
9 114 (16.38%) Lead
10 113 (16.24%) React Developer
11 106 (15.23%) Senior Software Engineer
12 103 (14.80%) Finance Manager
13 96 (13.79%) .NET Developer
14 84 (12.07%) .NET Software Developer
14 84 (12.07%) .NET Software Engineer
15 75 (10.78%) Business Analyst
16 73 (10.49%) Quantitative Developer
17 72 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
18 68 (9.77%) AWS Software Engineer
19 66 (9.48%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 297 (42.67%) gRPC
1 297 (42.67%) Protocol Buffers
2 246 (35.34%) React
3 211 (30.32%) Redux
4 200 (28.74%) Pandas
5 186 (26.72%) NumPy
5 186 (26.72%) SciPy
6 110 (15.80%) Material-UI
7 109 (15.66%) AngularJS
8 106 (15.23%) .NET
8 106 (15.23%) Vue
9 57 (8.19%) .NET Core
10 48 (6.90%) ASP.NET
10 48 (6.90%) ASP.NET Core
11 38 (5.46%) Node.js
12 20 (2.87%) FIX Protocol
13 18 (2.59%) GraphQL
14 11 (1.58%) Spring
15 7 (1.01%) Spring Boot
16 4 (0.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 489 (70.26%) Hedge funds
2 448 (64.37%) Equities
3 394 (56.61%) Derivative
4 374 (53.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 53 (7.61%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
7 18 (2.59%) Pricing Data
8 13 (1.87%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.72%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.58%) Credit Derivative
11 8 (1.15%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.01%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 4 (0.57%) Algorithms
14 2 (0.29%) Data Structures
14 2 (0.29%) Distributed Applications
14 2 (0.29%) Equity Derivative
14 2 (0.29%) FPGA
14 2 (0.29%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.72%) Linux
2 8 (1.15%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.57%) Windows
4 3 (0.43%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.29%) Unix
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 543 (78.02%) Asset Management
2 512 (73.56%) Agile
3 472 (67.82%) Software Engineering
4 470 (67.53%) Investment Management
5 150 (21.55%) Full Stack Development
6 130 (18.68%) Artificial Intelligence
6 130 (18.68%) Machine Learning
7 108 (15.52%) Fintech
8 101 (14.51%) Analytics
9 89 (12.79%) Automated Trading
10 73 (10.49%) TDD
11 72 (10.34%) Line Management
12 69 (9.91%) Greeks
13 48 (6.90%) DevOps
14 47 (6.75%) Electronic Trading
15 46 (6.61%) Quantitative Research
16 42 (6.03%) Problem-Solving
17 41 (5.89%) Roadmaps
18 38 (5.46%) Performance Attribution
18 38 (5.46%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 516 (74.14%) Python
2 401 (57.61%) TypeScript
3 328 (47.13%) JavaScript
4 250 (35.92%) Java
5 160 (22.99%) SQL
6 110 (15.80%) C#
7 44 (6.32%) R
8 18 (2.59%) Kotlin
9 16 (2.30%) C++
10 14 (2.01%) Scala
11 12 (1.72%) Ruby
12 8 (1.15%) VBA
13 3 (0.43%) Bash
13 3 (0.43%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 44 (6.32%) Degree
2 23 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (1.01%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.43%) AWS Certification
4 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (0.43%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (9.91%) Data Quality
2 46 (6.61%) QA
3 3 (0.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (0.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.43%) Ansible
1 3 (0.43%) Control-M
1 3 (0.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 80 (11.49%) Bloomberg
1 80 (11.49%) Google
2 25 (3.59%) Charles River
3 15 (2.16%) Oracle
4 14 (2.01%) BISAM
5 10 (1.44%) ION Trading
6 6 (0.86%) Microsoft
7 5 (0.72%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.57%) Calypso
8 4 (0.57%) SAP
9 3 (0.43%) Solace
9 3 (0.43%) TIBCO
10 2 (0.29%) Murex
11 1 (0.14%) FactSet
11 1 (0.14%) Progress
11 1 (0.14%) Refinitiv
11 1 (0.14%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.14%) Sybase
11 1 (0.14%) Vertica