Fixed Income Contracts in London

Fixed Income
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fixed Income in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Fixed Income over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 140 155
Rank change year-on-year +41 +15 -24
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 424 516 738
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.39% 1.91% 1.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.25% 5.31% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 441 622
10th Percentile £550 £550 £538
25th Percentile £650 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £850 £850 £800
90th Percentile £900 £950 £888
England median daily rate £750 £725 £700
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £82.75
Median hourly rate - - £83.50
75th Percentile - - £84.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £83.50

All Generic Skills
London

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 contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,852 9,722 14,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.04% 35.90% 36.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,137 6,983 10,364
10th Percentile £300 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +10.34%
75th Percentile £725 £745 £700
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 113 196
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.93 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.93 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £44.15
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -20.72% +35.85%
75th Percentile £46.86 £64.50 £53.16
90th Percentile £67.00 £83.60 £71.55
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +1.24%

Fixed Income
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Fixed Income in London

Fixed Income
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fixed Income in London.

Daily rate trend for Fixed Income in London

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fixed Income in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Fixed Income in London

Fixed Income
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fixed Income in London.

Hourly rate trend for Fixed Income in London

Fixed Income
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fixed Income within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -3 18 £825 +10.00% 5
South London +9 1 £800 +36.17%
East London -7 1 £850 -10.53% 2
Fixed Income
England

Fixed Income
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 129 (30.42%) Apache Airflow
2 120 (28.30%) Apache
3 15 (3.54%) Confluence
4 5 (1.18%) SAS
5 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 27 (6.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.59%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (4.01%) ION MarketView
2 15 (3.54%) ION Anvil
3 12 (2.83%) Aladdin
4 6 (1.42%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.71%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.24%) Actimize
6 1 (0.24%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.24%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.24%) RMDS
6 1 (0.24%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 226 (53.30%) AWS
2 163 (38.44%) GCP
3 105 (24.76%) Azure
4 76 (17.92%) dbt
5 58 (13.68%) Snowflake
6 7 (1.65%) npm
7 4 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (0.94%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.47%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.07%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (28.07%) Apache Ignite
2 76 (17.92%) Amazon Athena
2 76 (17.92%) Apache Arrow
2 76 (17.92%) Dremio
3 58 (13.68%) Data Lake
4 45 (10.61%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (5.66%) Relational Database
6 19 (4.48%) KDB
7 9 (2.12%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.18%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.94%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.71%) Data Mart
11 2 (0.47%) Hazelcast
12 1 (0.24%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 34 (8.02%) JIRA
2 30 (7.08%) Cypress.io
3 23 (5.42%) TeamCity
4 18 (4.25%) Git
5 9 (2.12%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.65%) git-flow
6 7 (1.65%) webpack
7 6 (1.42%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.94%) JUnit
8 4 (0.94%) Mockito
8 4 (0.94%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.71%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.47%) Babel
10 2 (0.47%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.47%) Moq
10 2 (0.47%) NUnit
10 2 (0.47%) Selenium
10 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.24%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.24%) JMeter
General
1 313 (73.82%) Finance
2 302 (71.23%) Front Office
3 222 (52.36%) Banking
4 146 (34.43%) Investment Banking
5 57 (13.44%) Social Skills
6 38 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (3.77%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.42%) Back Office
8 6 (1.42%) Marketing
9 4 (0.94%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.71%) Retail
11 2 (0.47%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.24%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.24%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.24%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.24%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 255 (60.14%) Developer
2 134 (31.60%) Software Engineer
3 117 (27.59%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 89 (20.99%) Python Developer
5 76 (17.92%) Python Engineer
5 76 (17.92%) Python Software Engineer
6 73 (17.22%) React Developer
7 61 (14.39%) Finance Manager
8 59 (13.92%) Senior
9 55 (12.97%) Business Analyst
9 55 (12.97%) Java Developer
10 54 (12.74%) Analyst
11 47 (11.08%) Lead
12 36 (8.49%) .NET Developer
12 36 (8.49%) Full Stack Developer
13 35 (8.25%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 35 (8.25%) Quantitative Developer
14 33 (7.78%) C# Developer
15 31 (7.31%) Full Stack Engineer
15 31 (7.31%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (35.14%) React
2 128 (30.19%) gRPC
2 128 (30.19%) Protocol Buffers
3 102 (24.06%) Redux
4 81 (19.10%) Pandas
5 73 (17.22%) NumPy
5 73 (17.22%) SciPy
6 66 (15.57%) Material-UI
7 49 (11.56%) .NET
8 45 (10.61%) FIX Protocol
9 36 (8.49%) AngularJS
10 30 (7.08%) Node.js
11 27 (6.37%) .NET Core
12 25 (5.90%) CSS
13 23 (5.42%) Vue
14 22 (5.19%) WPF
15 19 (4.48%) ASP.NET
16 17 (4.01%) WebSockets
17 16 (3.77%) HTML
18 14 (3.30%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 205 (48.35%) Derivative
2 197 (46.46%) Equities
3 187 (44.10%) Hedge funds
4 166 (39.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 33 (7.78%) Product Ownership
6 19 (4.48%) Algorithms
6 19 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.36%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.89%) Credit Derivative
10 6 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.18%) Wiki
12 4 (0.94%) Equity Derivative
12 4 (0.94%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.94%) Pricing Data
12 4 (0.94%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.71%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
14 2 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (8.02%) Unix
2 25 (5.90%) Linux
3 11 (2.59%) Windows
4 4 (0.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (62.26%) Agile
2 223 (52.59%) Asset Management
3 203 (47.88%) Software Engineering
4 197 (46.46%) Investment Management
5 89 (20.99%) Electronic Trading
6 87 (20.52%) Full Stack Development
7 68 (16.04%) Artificial Intelligence
7 68 (16.04%) Machine Learning
8 62 (14.62%) Analytics
9 58 (13.68%) Fintech
10 53 (12.50%) TDD
11 44 (10.38%) Automated Trading
12 43 (10.14%) DevOps
13 32 (7.55%) Line Management
14 29 (6.84%) Front End Development
15 28 (6.60%) User Experience
16 27 (6.37%) CI/CD
16 27 (6.37%) Computer Science
17 25 (5.90%) Roadmaps
18 23 (5.42%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 207 (48.82%) Python
2 186 (43.87%) TypeScript
3 165 (38.92%) Java
4 158 (37.26%) JavaScript
5 91 (21.46%) SQL
6 90 (21.23%) C#
7 18 (4.25%) R
8 12 (2.83%) C++
9 10 (2.36%) Kotlin
10 8 (1.89%) Scala
11 7 (1.65%) VBA
12 6 (1.42%) Ruby
12 6 (1.42%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.94%) Perl
14 2 (0.47%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (9.67%) Degree
2 14 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (2.83%) Numerate Degree
4 5 (1.18%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.94%) APMP
6 2 (0.47%) CIMA
7 1 (0.24%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (9.91%) QA
2 22 (5.19%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.83%) MiFID
4 8 (1.89%) EMIR
5 7 (1.65%) Dodd-Frank
6 6 (1.42%) PMO
7 2 (0.47%) GAAP
System Software
1 8 (1.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (1.42%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.24%) BladeLogic
3 1 (0.24%) Control-M
3 1 (0.24%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 43 (10.14%) Google
2 42 (9.91%) Bloomberg
3 39 (9.20%) ION Trading
4 12 (2.83%) MarketAxess
4 12 (2.83%) Tradeweb
5 11 (2.59%) BISAM
6 10 (2.36%) Oracle
7 7 (1.65%) Microsoft
8 5 (1.18%) Murex
9 3 (0.71%) Solace
9 3 (0.71%) TIBCO
10 2 (0.47%) Charles River
10 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.24%) HP
11 1 (0.24%) Reuters
11 1 (0.24%) SimCorp