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 24 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 102 112
Rank change year-on-year -13 +10 +19
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 33 28 17
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.31% 1.38% 0.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.68% 3.71% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 24 15
10th Percentile £556 £613 £596
25th Percentile £605 £623 £694
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £700 £800
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -12.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £938 £942 £870
90th Percentile - £1,093 £1,038
London median daily rate £750 £750 £800
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +14.29%

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 897 755 720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 35.54% 37.30% 31.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 519 475
10th Percentile £363 £359 £350
25th Percentile £463 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £713
90th Percentile £775 £803 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 7
10th Percentile £19.44 £17.35 £19.60
25th Percentile £23.16 £21.45 £22.90
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.98 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year +29.75% +4.59% -26.31%
75th Percentile £54.50 £43.39 £27.00
90th Percentile £69.70 £86.43 £53.20
London median hourly rate £33.12 £27.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +20.44% -11.29% -11.43%

Fixed Income
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Fixed Income relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Fixed Income job vacancy trend 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 24 August 2026.

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 24 August 2026. 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 -4 31 £710 -2.07% 9
City of Westminster -7 2 £875 +40.00%
Southwark - 1 £875 -
Camden - 1 £875 -
Fixed Income
London

Fixed Income
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Aladdin
1 1 (3.03%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.12%) Snowflake
2 3 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (3.03%) Dagster
3 1 (3.03%) GitHub
3 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.03%) Prefect
3 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.15%) Multicast
2 4 (12.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.06%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.03%) Metadata
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.03%) Power BI
3 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.03%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) Maven
2 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (63.64%) Front Office
2 19 (57.58%) Banking
2 19 (57.58%) Finance
3 15 (45.45%) Investment Banking
4 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
5 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (9.09%) Financial Institution
7 2 (6.06%) Law
8 1 (3.03%) General Ledger
8 1 (3.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (42.42%) Developer
2 12 (36.36%) Java Developer
2 12 (36.36%) Senior
2 12 (36.36%) Senior Developer
2 12 (36.36%) Senior Java Developer
3 9 (27.27%) React Developer
3 9 (27.27%) Senior React Developer
3 9 (27.27%) Senior UI Developer
3 9 (27.27%) UI Developer
4 6 (18.18%) Business Analyst
5 5 (15.15%) Analyst
5 5 (15.15%) Middleware Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
7 2 (6.06%) C# Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Implementation Consultant
8 1 (3.03%) Programme Office Manager
8 1 (3.03%) Quantitative Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (33.33%) React
2 9 (27.27%) Redux
3 5 (15.15%) Middleware
4 2 (6.06%) .NET
5 1 (3.03%) CSS
5 1 (3.03%) HTML
5 1 (3.03%) Java Concurrency
5 1 (3.03%) Kafka
5 1 (3.03%) Node.js
5 1 (3.03%) Terraform
5 1 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (60.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 11 (33.33%) Equities
3 9 (27.27%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (15.15%) Derivative
5 3 (9.09%) Data Centre
5 3 (9.09%) Replication
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
6 2 (6.06%) Hedge funds
7 1 (3.03%) Credit Risk
7 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (3.03%) Market Risk
7 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
7 1 (3.03%) Pricing Data
7 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
7 1 (3.03%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.15%) Linux
1 5 (15.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (57.58%) Low Latency
2 17 (51.52%) Electronic Trading
3 6 (18.18%) Ultra-Low Latency
4 5 (15.15%) Agile
4 5 (15.15%) Asset Management
4 5 (15.15%) Kalman Filter
4 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (15.15%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (12.12%) Analytics
5 4 (12.12%) CI/CD
5 4 (12.12%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (12.12%) Software Engineering
6 3 (9.09%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (9.09%) Data Analysis
6 3 (9.09%) Event-Driven
6 3 (9.09%) High Availability
6 3 (9.09%) Performance Management
6 3 (9.09%) Project Management
6 3 (9.09%) Validation
7 2 (6.06%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 14 (42.42%) Java
2 11 (33.33%) C#
2 11 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 11 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 10 (30.30%) SQL
4 9 (27.27%) Python
5 4 (12.12%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.03%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.03%) GAAP
2 1 (3.03%) IFRS
2 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Solace
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle
4 1 (3.03%) Bloomberg
4 1 (3.03%) Murex
4 1 (3.03%) Refinitiv
4 1 (3.03%) Sybase
4 1 (3.03%) TIBCO