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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 137 152
Rank change year-on-year +53 +15 -11
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 483 500 761
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.77% 1.94% 1.96%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.27% 5.41% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 430 648
10th Percentile £550 £550 £538
25th Percentile £650 £563 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £725 £725
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% - +11.54%
75th Percentile £863 £850 £825
90th Percentile £900 £938 £888
England median daily rate £775 £725 £725
% change year-on-year +6.90% - +11.54%
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 5,837 9,249 14,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.47% 35.90% 36.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,127 6,679 10,344
10th Percentile £313 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £713
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 111 201
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.93 £17.99
25th Percentile £18.41 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -19.54% +33.85%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.50 £85.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +52.15% -15.15% +1.09%

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 21 May 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 21 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +9 15 £834 +11.23% 5
East London -6 2 £850 -10.53% 1
South London +2 1 £800 +36.17%
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
1 192 (39.75%) Apache Airflow
2 186 (38.51%) Apache
3 13 (2.69%) Confluence
4 7 (1.45%) SAS
5 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 23 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.28%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (3.31%) ION MarketView
2 15 (3.11%) ION Anvil
3 13 (2.69%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.83%) Loan IQ
4 4 (0.83%) Markit EDM
4 4 (0.83%) thinkFolio
5 3 (0.62%) IntelliMatch
5 3 (0.62%) Orchestrade
5 3 (0.62%) RMDS
6 1 (0.21%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 281 (58.18%) AWS
2 197 (40.79%) GCP
3 119 (24.64%) Azure
4 115 (23.81%) dbt
5 92 (19.05%) Snowflake
6 6 (1.24%) npm
7 4 (0.83%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (0.83%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.41%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.41%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.69%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (37.89%) Apache Ignite
2 115 (23.81%) Apache Arrow
2 115 (23.81%) Dremio
3 113 (23.40%) Amazon Athena
4 94 (19.46%) Data Lake
5 69 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
6 23 (4.76%) KDB
6 23 (4.76%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.86%) SQL Server
8 4 (0.83%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.62%) Data Mart
9 3 (0.62%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.41%) Big Data
10 2 (0.41%) Power BI
10 2 (0.41%) Tableau
11 1 (0.21%) Hazelcast
11 1 (0.21%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 50 (10.35%) Cypress.io
2 32 (6.63%) JIRA
3 22 (4.55%) TeamCity
4 20 (4.14%) Git
5 10 (2.07%) git-flow
6 7 (1.45%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.24%) Visual Studio
7 6 (1.24%) webpack
8 4 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.83%) JUnit
8 4 (0.83%) Mockito
8 4 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.41%) Babel
9 2 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.41%) Gradle
9 2 (0.41%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.41%) Moq
9 2 (0.41%) NUnit
9 2 (0.41%) Selenium
9 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 370 (76.60%) Finance
2 361 (74.74%) Front Office
3 276 (57.14%) Banking
4 176 (36.44%) Investment Banking
5 48 (9.94%) Social Skills
6 35 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (2.90%) Financial Institution
8 9 (1.86%) Back Office
8 9 (1.86%) Marketing
9 3 (0.62%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.41%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.41%) Retail
11 1 (0.21%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.21%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.21%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.21%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 283 (58.59%) Developer
2 178 (36.85%) Software Engineer
3 147 (30.43%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 116 (24.02%) Python Engineer
4 116 (24.02%) Python Software Engineer
5 115 (23.81%) Python Developer
6 95 (19.67%) React Developer
7 80 (16.56%) Senior
8 61 (12.63%) Analyst
9 59 (12.22%) Java Developer
10 58 (12.01%) Finance Manager
10 58 (12.01%) Lead
11 57 (11.80%) Business Analyst
12 45 (9.32%) Full Stack Developer
13 41 (8.49%) AWS Engineer
13 41 (8.49%) AWS Software Engineer
14 40 (8.28%) Full Stack Engineer
14 40 (8.28%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 39 (8.07%) Senior Software Engineer
16 35 (7.25%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (39.54%) gRPC
1 191 (39.54%) Protocol Buffers
2 172 (35.61%) React
3 126 (26.09%) Redux
4 117 (24.22%) Pandas
5 110 (22.77%) NumPy
5 110 (22.77%) SciPy
6 89 (18.43%) Material-UI
7 44 (9.11%) .NET
8 43 (8.90%) FIX Protocol
9 34 (7.04%) AngularJS
10 33 (6.83%) Node.js
11 26 (5.38%) .NET Core
11 26 (5.38%) CSS
12 21 (4.35%) Vue
13 20 (4.14%) WPF
14 19 (3.93%) WebSockets
15 17 (3.52%) HTML
16 15 (3.11%) ASP.NET
17 14 (2.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 249 (51.55%) Equities
2 246 (50.93%) Hedge funds
3 238 (49.28%) Derivative
4 202 (41.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 39 (8.07%) Product Ownership
6 23 (4.76%) Algorithms
7 18 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (2.48%) Data Structures
10 10 (2.07%) Pricing Data
11 6 (1.24%) Credit Derivative
11 6 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
13 4 (0.83%) Equity Derivative
13 4 (0.83%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.83%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.83%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.83%) Wiki
14 2 (0.41%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 32 (6.63%) Unix
2 25 (5.18%) Linux
3 9 (1.86%) Windows
4 4 (0.83%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (65.63%) Agile
2 286 (59.21%) Asset Management
3 256 (53.00%) Software Engineering
4 245 (50.72%) Investment Management
5 108 (22.36%) Full Stack Development
6 95 (19.67%) Artificial Intelligence
6 95 (19.67%) Machine Learning
7 91 (18.84%) Electronic Trading
8 70 (14.49%) Automated Trading
9 65 (13.46%) Analytics
10 58 (12.01%) Fintech
11 51 (10.56%) TDD
12 48 (9.94%) Line Management
13 36 (7.45%) DevOps
14 34 (7.04%) Greeks
15 32 (6.63%) User Experience
16 31 (6.42%) Front End Development
17 30 (6.21%) Computer Science
18 27 (5.59%) Roadmaps
19 25 (5.18%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 272 (56.31%) Python
2 242 (50.10%) TypeScript
3 199 (41.20%) Java
4 190 (39.34%) JavaScript
5 99 (20.50%) SQL
6 83 (17.18%) C#
7 15 (3.11%) R
8 13 (2.69%) C++
9 10 (2.07%) Scala
10 8 (1.66%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.24%) Ruby
11 6 (1.24%) VBA
12 5 (1.04%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.83%) Perl
14 2 (0.41%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (8.70%) Degree
2 14 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.28%) Numerate Degree
4 5 (1.04%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.62%) APMP
6 2 (0.41%) CIMA
7 1 (0.21%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.66%) Data Quality
1 37 (7.66%) QA
2 12 (2.48%) MiFID
3 8 (1.66%) EMIR
4 7 (1.45%) Dodd-Frank
5 4 (0.83%) PMO
6 2 (0.41%) GAAP
System Software
1 8 (1.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (1.24%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.83%) Control-M
3 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 66 (13.66%) Google
2 44 (9.11%) Bloomberg
3 43 (8.90%) ION Trading
4 12 (2.48%) BISAM
4 12 (2.48%) MarketAxess
4 12 (2.48%) Tradeweb
5 10 (2.07%) Oracle
6 5 (1.04%) Microsoft
6 5 (1.04%) Murex
7 4 (0.83%) Solace
8 2 (0.41%) Charles River
8 2 (0.41%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.41%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.21%) HP
9 1 (0.21%) SimCorp