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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 105 111
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 +11
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 27 20 25
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.18% 1.01% 0.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.45% 2.99% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 23
10th Percentile £524 £541 £700
25th Percentile £559 £613 £743
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £700 £825
Median % change year-on-year -12.93% -15.15% +10.00%
75th Percentile £803 £791 £997
90th Percentile £930 £913 £1,080
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 782 670 796
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 34.31% 33.79% 30.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 444 560
10th Percentile £350 £363 £263
25th Percentile £454 £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 £784 £764 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 9
10th Percentile £19.49 £26.97 £12.75
25th Percentile £24.79 £27.76 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.06 £29.07 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% +53.00% -45.71%
75th Percentile £46.19 £30.04 £27.50
90th Percentile £59.64 £30.61 £54.95
London median hourly rate £33.12 £35.45 £29.36
% change year-on-year -6.56% +20.73% -16.11%

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 26 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 26 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 -5 27 £610 -12.93% 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 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Aladdin
2 2 (7.41%) ION MarketView
3 1 (3.70%) Loan IQ
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 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
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) Relational Database
2 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.70%) Big Data
3 1 (3.70%) KDB
3 1 (3.70%) Kdb+
3 1 (3.70%) Metadata
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Jenkins
2 3 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) Maven
3 1 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (77.78%) Finance
2 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
3 9 (33.33%) Banking
3 9 (33.33%) Front Office
4 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (14.81%) Financial Institution
6 3 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (11.11%) Investment Banking
7 2 (7.41%) Legal
7 2 (7.41%) Marketing
8 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (3.70%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Analyst
1 8 (29.63%) Business Analyst
2 7 (25.93%) Senior
3 6 (22.22%) Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Lead
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Python Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Business Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Data Business Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Electronic Trading Support
7 1 (3.70%) Finance Business Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Functional Business Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) KDB Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) .NET
1 1 (3.70%) Java Concurrency
1 1 (3.70%) Node.js
1 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) Derivative
2 9 (33.33%) Equities
2 9 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 3 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
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%) Electronic Trading
1 8 (29.63%) Low Latency
2 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (25.93%) Risk Management
3 6 (22.22%) DevOps
4 5 (18.52%) Analytics
4 5 (18.52%) Asset Management
4 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
4 5 (18.52%) Data Analysis
4 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (14.81%) Process Improvement
5 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (14.81%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (11.11%) Agile
6 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 3 (11.11%) Data Governance
6 3 (11.11%) Data Migration
6 3 (11.11%) Migration
6 3 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) SQL
2 7 (25.93%) Python
3 5 (18.52%) Java
4 2 (7.41%) Perl
5 1 (3.70%) C++
5 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) IFRS
2 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.41%) GDPR
2 2 (7.41%) QA
3 1 (3.70%) Basel III
3 1 (3.70%) GAAP
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Terraform
2 2 (7.41%) Ansible
2 2 (7.41%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Bloomberg
2 3 (11.11%) ION Trading
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) SimCorp
3 2 (7.41%) AppDynamics
3 2 (7.41%) MarketAxess
3 2 (7.41%) Murex
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
4 1 (3.70%) Solace
4 1 (3.70%) Sybase