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 18 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 107 106
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +16
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 27 21 26
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.20% 1.04% 1.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.48% 3.12% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 17 24
10th Percentile £523 £546 £683
25th Percentile £556 £613 £734
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £825
Median % change year-on-year - -15.15% +10.00%
75th Percentile £818 £775 £980
90th Percentile £935 £863 £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 776 674 788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 34.58% 33.33% 30.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 445 552
10th Percentile £350 £375 £263
25th Percentile £450 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £711
90th Percentile £788 £775 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 10
10th Percentile £20.82 £29.26 £12.75
25th Percentile £26.11 £29.55 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.04 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +43.02% -40.00%
75th Percentile £50.43 £30.52 £41.94
90th Percentile £59.72 £30.81 £52.60
London median hourly rate £30.35 £35.70 £28.38
% change year-on-year -14.99% +25.80% -18.93%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -1 27 £700 - 10
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 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Aladdin
1 3 (11.11%) ION MarketView
2 1 (3.70%) Loan IQ
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (3.70%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 6 (22.22%) AWS
2 4 (14.81%) SaaS
3 3 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (11.11%) Snowflake
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.70%) Azure
5 1 (3.70%) Collibra
5 1 (3.70%) GCP
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 2 (7.41%) KDB
2 2 (7.41%) Kdb+
2 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.70%) Big Data
3 1 (3.70%) Metadata
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Git
1 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.70%) QUnit
General
1 23 (85.19%) Finance
2 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
3 10 (37.04%) Front Office
4 8 (29.63%) Banking
5 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (14.81%) Financial Institution
7 3 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (11.11%) Investment Banking
8 2 (7.41%) Legal
8 2 (7.41%) Marketing
9 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (3.70%) General Ledger
9 1 (3.70%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Analyst
1 8 (29.63%) Business Analyst
2 5 (18.52%) Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Senior
3 4 (14.81%) Lead
4 2 (7.41%) Configuration Specialist
4 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Platform Specialist
4 2 (7.41%) Python Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Functional Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Implementation Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Murex Business Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Financial Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Summit Business Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) .NET
1 1 (3.70%) CSS
1 1 (3.70%) HTML
1 1 (3.70%) Node.js
1 1 (3.70%) React
1 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (40.74%) Derivative
2 10 (37.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (33.33%) Equities
4 3 (11.11%) Algorithms
4 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 3 (11.11%) Data Structures
4 3 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.70%) Credit Risk
5 1 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.70%) Market Risk
5 1 (3.70%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Unix
2 3 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (29.63%) Risk Management
2 6 (22.22%) Electronic Trading
2 6 (22.22%) Low Latency
3 5 (18.52%) Analytics
3 5 (18.52%) Asset Management
3 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
3 5 (18.52%) Data Analysis
3 5 (18.52%) DevOps
3 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (14.81%) Agile
4 4 (14.81%) Computer Science
4 4 (14.81%) Process Improvement
4 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (14.81%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (11.11%) Data Governance
5 3 (11.11%) Data Migration
5 3 (11.11%) Migration
5 3 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) SQL
2 7 (25.93%) Python
3 2 (7.41%) Java
3 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.41%) Perl
4 1 (3.70%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) IFRS
2 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.41%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) Basel III
3 1 (3.70%) GAAP
3 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Terraform
2 2 (7.41%) Ansible
2 2 (7.41%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) ION Trading
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Bloomberg
2 3 (11.11%) SimCorp
3 2 (7.41%) AppDynamics
3 2 (7.41%) MarketAxess
3 2 (7.41%) Murex
3 2 (7.41%) Oracle
3 2 (7.41%) Splunk
3 2 (7.41%) Tradeweb
3 2 (7.41%) Vermilion
4 1 (3.70%) Charles River
4 1 (3.70%) Reuters