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 2 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 106 109
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +19
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 28 23 21
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.21% 1.17% 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.57% 3.46% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 18 19
10th Percentile £525 £550 £695
25th Percentile £566 £613 £733
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £700 £825
Median % change year-on-year -10.04% -15.15% +10.00%
75th Percentile £833 £822 £931
90th Percentile £936 £933 £1,050
London median daily rate £750 £725 £750
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +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 785 664 779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 33.95% 33.71% 30.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 548 439 544
10th Percentile £350 £363 £263
25th Percentile £459 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £763 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 9
10th Percentile £19.64 £26.97 £12.75
25th Percentile £26.11 £27.76 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £29.07 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% +53.00% -45.71%
75th Percentile £41.94 £30.04 £27.50
90th Percentile £59.56 £30.61 £54.95
London median hourly rate £33.12 £34.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +27.78% -22.86%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -8 28 £630 -13.14% 17
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:

Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Aladdin
2 1 (3.57%) ION MarketView
2 1 (3.57%) Loan IQ
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (3.57%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) AWS
2 4 (14.29%) SaaS
3 3 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (10.71%) Snowflake
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.57%) Azure
5 1 (3.57%) Collibra
5 1 (3.57%) GCP
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.57%) Big Data
3 1 (3.57%) KDB
3 1 (3.57%) Kdb+
3 1 (3.57%) Metadata
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.71%) Git
3 1 (3.57%) Maven
3 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (75.00%) Finance
2 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 10 (35.71%) Banking
3 10 (35.71%) Front Office
4 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (17.86%) Financial Institution
5 4 (14.29%) Investment Banking
6 3 (10.71%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (7.14%) Legal
7 2 (7.14%) Marketing
8 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (3.57%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Analyst
1 9 (32.14%) Business Analyst
2 8 (28.57%) Senior
3 7 (25.00%) Developer
4 5 (17.86%) Senior Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Lead
5 4 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Functional Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) Functional Business Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) Python Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Business Analyst
8 1 (3.57%) Architect
8 1 (3.57%) Senior Manager
8 1 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.57%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) .NET
1 1 (3.57%) Java Concurrency
1 1 (3.57%) Node.js
1 1 (3.57%) React
1 1 (3.57%) Redux
1 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (35.71%) Derivative
1 10 (35.71%) Equities
1 10 (35.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.14%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.57%) Credit Risk
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.57%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Unix
2 3 (10.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Low Latency
2 8 (28.57%) Electronic Trading
3 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 6 (21.43%) DevOps
4 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (17.86%) Analytics
5 5 (17.86%) Asset Management
5 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
5 5 (17.86%) Data Analysis
6 4 (14.29%) Agile
6 4 (14.29%) Process Improvement
6 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (10.71%) Computer Science
7 3 (10.71%) Data Governance
7 3 (10.71%) Data Migration
7 3 (10.71%) Data Modelling
7 3 (10.71%) Migration
7 3 (10.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) SQL
2 7 (25.00%) Python
3 6 (21.43%) Java
4 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.14%) Perl
5 1 (3.57%) C#
5 1 (3.57%) C++
5 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) IFRS
2 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) GDPR
2 2 (7.14%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) Basel III
3 1 (3.57%) GAAP
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Terraform
2 2 (7.14%) Ansible
2 2 (7.14%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Bloomberg
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle
2 3 (10.71%) SimCorp
3 2 (7.14%) AppDynamics
3 2 (7.14%) ION Trading
3 2 (7.14%) MarketAxess
3 2 (7.14%) Murex
3 2 (7.14%) Splunk
3 2 (7.14%) Tradeweb
3 2 (7.14%) Vermilion
4 1 (3.57%) Charles River
4 1 (3.57%) Reuters
4 1 (3.57%) Solace
4 1 (3.57%) Sybase