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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 100 110
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 -1
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 24 20 25
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.10% 0.98% 0.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.13% 3.07% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 16 23
10th Percentile £521 £541 £680
25th Percentile £566 £613 £733
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £700 £825
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -15.15% +10.00%
75th Percentile £788 £772 £997
90th Percentile £936 £869 £1,050
London median daily rate £750 £725 £750
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -

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 766 651 780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 35.03% 31.90% 30.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 428 546
10th Percentile £350 £371 £263
25th Percentile £440 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
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 1 13
10th Percentile £20.82 - £13.60
25th Percentile £26.11 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +63.16% -45.71%
75th Percentile £50.43 - £27.50
90th Percentile £59.72 - £49.55
London median hourly rate £29.02 £37.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -21.57% +42.31% -25.71%

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 4 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 4 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 -2 24 £725 +7.41% 15
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 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) ION MarketView
2 2 (8.33%) Aladdin
3 1 (4.17%) Loan IQ
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) SaaS
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (8.33%) Snowflake
4 1 (4.17%) Azure
4 1 (4.17%) Collibra
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) KDB
1 2 (8.33%) Kdb+
1 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.17%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) QUnit
General
1 21 (87.50%) Finance
2 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
3 8 (33.33%) Front Office
4 7 (29.17%) Banking
5 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (16.67%) Financial Institution
7 3 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (8.33%) Investment Banking
8 2 (8.33%) Legal
8 2 (8.33%) Marketing
9 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (4.17%) General Ledger
9 1 (4.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Analyst
1 7 (29.17%) Business Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Senior
3 3 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) Configuration Specialist
4 2 (8.33%) Platform Specialist
4 2 (8.33%) Python Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Functional Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Implementation Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Murex Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Project Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Financial Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) CSS
1 1 (4.17%) HTML
1 1 (4.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Derivative
2 9 (37.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (33.33%) Equities
4 3 (12.50%) Algorithms
4 3 (12.50%) Data Structures
4 3 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
6 1 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (4.17%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Unix
2 3 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 6 (25.00%) Electronic Trading
2 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (20.83%) Agile
3 5 (20.83%) Analytics
3 5 (20.83%) Data Analysis
3 5 (20.83%) Low Latency
4 4 (16.67%) Asset Management
4 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (16.67%) DevOps
4 4 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 4 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 3 (12.50%) Data Governance
5 3 (12.50%) Data Migration
5 3 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) SQL
2 6 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) Perl
4 1 (4.17%) C++
4 1 (4.17%) Java
4 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) IFRS
2 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.33%) GDPR
3 1 (4.17%) Basel III
3 1 (4.17%) GAAP
3 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (8.33%) Ansible
2 2 (8.33%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) ION Trading
2 3 (12.50%) Bloomberg
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) SimCorp
3 2 (8.33%) AppDynamics
3 2 (8.33%) MarketAxess
3 2 (8.33%) Murex
3 2 (8.33%) Splunk
3 2 (8.33%) Tradeweb
3 2 (8.33%) Vermilion
4 1 (4.17%) Charles River
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) Reuters