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 27 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 119 105
Rank change year-on-year +11 -14 -16
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 27 15 30
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.33% 0.65% 1.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.51% 2.07% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 12 25
10th Percentile £504 £633 £625
25th Percentile £617 - £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +12.28%
75th Percentile £788 £838 £900
90th Percentile £960 - £1,050
London median daily rate £750 £725 £725
% change year-on-year +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 770 724 864
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 37.91% 31.30% 32.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 465 588
10th Percentile £350 £363 £300
25th Percentile £441 £474 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £688 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £817 £835
London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 12
10th Percentile £20.72 £30.61 £17.00
25th Percentile £26.11 £38.42 £18.45
Median hourly rate £26.81 £55.40 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.61% +130.81% -44.19%
75th Percentile £34.38 £75.92 £30.69
90th Percentile £41.77 £85.87 £45.73
London median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £29.86
% change year-on-year -24.86% +17.21% -14.69%

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 27 December 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 27 December 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 +10 24 £700 -15.15% 34
West End of London - 3 £700 -
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 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) ION MarketView
2 2 (7.41%) Aladdin
3 1 (3.70%) Fidessa
3 1 (3.70%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) AWS
2 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (7.41%) Azure
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (3.70%) GCP
3 1 (3.70%) Lucidchart
3 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) KDB
2 3 (11.11%) Kdb+
2 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.70%) Big Data
4 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Git
1 4 (14.81%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.41%) JIRA
2 2 (7.41%) QUnit
3 1 (3.70%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.70%) GitLab
General
1 23 (85.19%) Finance
2 11 (40.74%) Banking
2 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
3 8 (29.63%) Front Office
4 6 (22.22%) Financial Institution
5 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (18.52%) Investment Banking
6 2 (7.41%) Legal
7 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.70%) Law
7 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Business Analyst
2 5 (18.52%) Senior
3 4 (14.81%) Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Project Manager
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Configuration Specialist
5 2 (7.41%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) KDB Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Platform Specialist
5 2 (7.41%) Python Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Risk Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Project Manager
5 2 (7.41%) UI Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Python Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) FIX Protocol
1 3 (11.11%) React
2 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.70%) .NET
3 1 (3.70%) .NET Core
3 1 (3.70%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.70%) CSS
3 1 (3.70%) HTML
3 1 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.70%) REST
3 1 (3.70%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (33.33%) Derivative
3 5 (18.52%) Algorithms
4 4 (14.81%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (14.81%) Equities
5 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
5 3 (11.11%) Data Structures
6 2 (7.41%) Credit Risk
7 1 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Linux
2 5 (18.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) Electronic Trading
1 8 (29.63%) Low Latency
2 7 (25.93%) DevOps
2 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (25.93%) Risk Management
3 5 (18.52%) Agile
3 5 (18.52%) Computer Science
3 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (14.81%) Algorithmic Trading
4 4 (14.81%) Asset Management
4 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
4 4 (14.81%) Project Delivery
5 3 (11.11%) API Development
5 3 (11.11%) Design Patterns
5 3 (11.11%) Mathematics
5 3 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (11.11%) Process Improvement
6 2 (7.41%) Flow Trading
6 2 (7.41%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (7.41%) Resilience Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) Python
2 6 (22.22%) SQL
3 2 (7.41%) Java
3 2 (7.41%) Perl
3 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.70%) C#
4 1 (3.70%) C++
4 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Degree
2 4 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.70%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (3.70%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Basel III
1 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.70%) MiFID
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) ITRS Geneos
2 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.41%) Ansible
3 2 (7.41%) Kibana
3 2 (7.41%) logstash
3 2 (7.41%) Terraform
4 1 (3.70%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) ION Trading
2 3 (11.11%) Bloomberg
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.41%) AppDynamics
3 2 (7.41%) MarketAxess
3 2 (7.41%) Solace
3 2 (7.41%) Splunk
3 2 (7.41%) Tradeweb
4 1 (3.70%) Portware