Fixed Income Contract Job Trends in Central London

Fixed Income
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fixed Income in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fixed Income over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 114 123
Rank change year-on-year +16 +9 -29
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 29 16 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.49% 0.70% 1.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.99% 2.26% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 14 30
10th Percentile £598 £593 £425
25th Percentile £623 £672 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £798 £725
Median % change year-on-year -12.23% +10.00% -3.33%
75th Percentile £925 £856 £850
90th Percentile £1,090 £1,025 £909
London median daily rate £750 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -3.45%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Fixed Income falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 726 708 1,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 37.29% 30.78% 33.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 449 728
10th Percentile £350 £359 £313
25th Percentile £446 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £589 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -1.92% +2.56%
75th Percentile £689 £719 £730
90th Percentile £800 £838 £838
London median daily rate £556 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -3.26% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 10
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.60 £16.96
25th Percentile £20.89 £22.90 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.45 £25.79 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -17.47% -36.22%
75th Percentile £50.79 £27.00 £40.87
90th Percentile £88.75 £53.20 £54.58
London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.31 £29.75
% change year-on-year -12.17% +5.24% -2.46%

Fixed Income
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Fixed Income in Central London

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Fixed Income.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Fixed Income

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fixed Income in Central London over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fixed Income in Central London

Fixed Income
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Fixed Income.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Fixed Income

Fixed Income
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. 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
City of London +21 25 £700 -12.23% 13
West End of London - 3 £700 -
City of Westminster -3 1 £625 -35.90%
Fixed Income
London

Fixed Income
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 3 (10.34%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (13.79%) ION Anvil
2 2 (6.90%) Aladdin
3 1 (3.45%) Fidessa
3 1 (3.45%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.34%) AWS
2 2 (6.90%) Azure
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.45%) Lucidchart
3 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.45%) PowerApps
3 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Ethernet
1 1 (3.45%) Firewall
1 1 (3.45%) HTTP
1 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.34%) KDB
4 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.45%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
2 4 (13.79%) JIRA
3 2 (6.90%) Git
4 1 (3.45%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (3.45%) GitLab
4 1 (3.45%) JUnit
4 1 (3.45%) QUnit
General
1 22 (75.86%) Finance
2 15 (51.72%) Banking
3 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
4 12 (41.38%) Investment Banking
5 10 (34.48%) Front Office
6 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (17.24%) Financial Institution
8 1 (3.45%) Advertising
8 1 (3.45%) Back Office
8 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Analyst
2 8 (27.59%) Business Analyst
3 6 (20.69%) Senior
4 5 (17.24%) Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Product Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) Java Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Product Business Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Applications Specialist
7 2 (6.90%) Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Project Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Risk Business Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.90%) UI Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Front Office Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Senior Manager
8 1 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (17.24%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (6.90%) React
3 2 (6.90%) Spring
4 1 (3.45%) .NET
4 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.45%) NumPy
4 1 (3.45%) Pandas
4 1 (3.45%) Polars
4 1 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.45%) REST
4 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (37.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (20.69%) Cloud Native
2 6 (20.69%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (13.79%) Derivative
3 4 (13.79%) Equities
4 3 (10.34%) Algorithms
5 2 (6.90%) Credit Risk
5 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
5 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.45%) Hedge funds
6 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
6 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
6 1 (3.45%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (41.38%) Linux
2 3 (10.34%) Unix
3 1 (3.45%) Windows
3 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) Low Latency
2 8 (27.59%) Electronic Trading
3 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (20.69%) Algorithmic Trading
4 6 (20.69%) Asset Management
4 6 (20.69%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (20.69%) DevOps
4 6 (20.69%) Project Management
4 6 (20.69%) Risk Management
4 6 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (17.24%) Agile
5 5 (17.24%) Data Science
5 5 (17.24%) Event-Driven
5 5 (17.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 5 (17.24%) High-Frequency Trading
5 5 (17.24%) Machine Learning
5 5 (17.24%) Observability
5 5 (17.24%) RBAC
5 5 (17.24%) Time Management
5 5 (17.24%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) Python
2 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
3 5 (17.24%) Java
4 2 (6.90%) C#
5 1 (3.45%) Bash
5 1 (3.45%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) CFA
2 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) MiFID
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (17.24%) Kibana
2 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 5 (17.24%) logstash
3 1 (3.45%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) ION Trading
2 5 (17.24%) Solace
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.45%) Bloomberg
4 1 (3.45%) Databricks
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) Portware
4 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow