Fixed Income Contracts 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 121 123
Rank change year-on-year +25 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 32 16 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.59% 0.67% 1.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.56% 2.12% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 13 50
10th Percentile £578 £623 £425
25th Percentile £613 £725 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £800 £750
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £913 £963 £897
90th Percentile £1,085 £1,076 £1,004
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 701 754 1,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 34.88% 31.76% 34.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 512 879
10th Percentile £352 £313 £313
25th Percentile £469 £444 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -6.12% +6.52%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £800 £850 £850
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 17
10th Percentile £17.08 £12.75 £18.78
25th Percentile £23.52 £15.19 £35.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £23.40 £39.83
Median % change year-on-year +24.23% -41.25% -14.34%
75th Percentile £50.79 £27.00 £83.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £33.98 £88.30
London median hourly rate £30.00 £28.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% -20.00% -13.58%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Fixed Income in Central London

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fixed Income in Central London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fixed Income in Central London

Fixed Income
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Fixed Income in Central London

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 5 July 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 +23 28 £700 -12.23% 75
West End of London - 3 £700 - 3
City of Westminster 0 1 £625 -35.90% 3
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 2 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (12.50%) ION Anvil
2 2 (6.25%) Aladdin
2 2 (6.25%) Fidessa
3 1 (3.13%) Murex MxG2000
3 1 (3.13%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.50%) Azure
2 3 (9.38%) AWS
3 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.13%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.13%) Prefect
4 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Ethernet
1 1 (3.13%) Firewall
1 1 (3.13%) HTTP
1 1 (3.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) KDB
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.13%) Data Hub
3 1 (3.13%) Kdb+
3 1 (3.13%) Power BI
3 1 (3.13%) Power Query
3 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.50%) JIRA
3 3 (9.38%) Git
4 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (3.13%) JUnit
4 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (71.88%) Finance
2 15 (46.88%) Banking
3 13 (40.63%) Front Office
3 13 (40.63%) Investment Banking
4 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
5 9 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (12.50%) Financial Institution
7 2 (6.25%) Back Office
8 1 (3.13%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 13 (40.63%) Analyst
2 8 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 8 (25.00%) Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Product Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Senior
4 3 (9.38%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Data Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Product Business Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Applications Specialist
5 2 (6.25%) Architect
5 2 (6.25%) C++ Developer
5 2 (6.25%) C++ Quantitative Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Front Office Business Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Python Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Quantitative Developer
5 2 (6.25%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (6.25%) .NET
3 2 (6.25%) React
3 2 (6.25%) REST
4 1 (3.13%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.13%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (3.13%) Kafka
4 1 (3.13%) NumPy
4 1 (3.13%) Pandas
4 1 (3.13%) Polars
4 1 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.13%) Spring
4 1 (3.13%) WPF
4 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (37.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (21.88%) Equities
3 5 (15.63%) Cloud Native
3 5 (15.63%) Derivative
3 5 (15.63%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.25%) Market Risk
4 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.13%) Hedge funds
5 1 (3.13%) Reference Data
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
5 1 (3.13%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 10 (31.25%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Unix
3 1 (3.13%) Windows
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (25.00%) DevOps
3 7 (21.88%) Asset Management
3 7 (21.88%) Low Latency
3 7 (21.88%) Project Management
4 6 (18.75%) Electronic Trading
5 5 (15.63%) Agile
5 5 (15.63%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (15.63%) Event-Driven
5 5 (15.63%) Risk Management
6 4 (12.50%) Algorithmic Trading
6 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 4 (12.50%) Data Science
6 4 (12.50%) High-Frequency Trading
6 4 (12.50%) Machine Learning
6 4 (12.50%) Observability
6 4 (12.50%) RBAC
6 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 4 (12.50%) Time Management
6 4 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) Python
2 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 5 (15.63%) Java
4 4 (12.50%) C#
4 4 (12.50%) SQL
5 2 (6.25%) C++
6 1 (3.13%) Bash
6 1 (3.13%) C
6 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.13%) Ruby
6 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) CFA
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) QA
2 3 (9.38%) MiFID
3 2 (6.25%) EMIR
4 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.13%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) ITRS Geneos
1 5 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.50%) Kibana
2 4 (12.50%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) ION Trading
2 4 (12.50%) Solace
3 1 (3.13%) Bloomberg
3 1 (3.13%) CQG
3 1 (3.13%) Databricks
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.13%) Murex
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle
3 1 (3.13%) Portware
3 1 (3.13%) Reuters
3 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow