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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 115 126
Rank change year-on-year +14 +11 -21
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 31 18 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.51% 0.78% 1.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.10% 2.46% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 16 37
10th Percentile £613 £599 £545
25th Percentile £623 £709 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £813 £750
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £938 £899 £875
90th Percentile £1,085 £1,059 £1,019
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 756 733 1,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 36.77% 31.68% 34.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 490 815
10th Percentile £356 £350 £286
25th Percentile £452 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £579 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.67% -3.54% +4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £710 £738
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 9
10th Percentile £17.62 £19.60 £24.32
25th Percentile £22.00 £22.90 -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £25.79 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% -26.31% -28.57%
75th Percentile £36.00 £27.00 £53.00
90th Percentile £84.11 £53.20 £71.75
London median hourly rate £27.50 £30.12 £34.81
% change year-on-year -8.70% -13.47% +3.69%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +4 27 £700 -12.50% 10
West End of London - 3 £700 -
City of Westminster -4 1 £625 -35.90%
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 3 (9.68%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 4 (12.90%) ION Anvil
2 2 (6.45%) Aladdin
2 2 (6.45%) Fidessa
3 1 (3.23%) Murex MxG2000
3 1 (3.23%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.90%) AWS
1 4 (12.90%) Azure
2 1 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (3.23%) Lucidchart
2 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.23%) PowerApps
2 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Ethernet
1 1 (3.23%) Firewall
1 1 (3.23%) HTTP
1 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.13%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (12.90%) KDB
3 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.45%) Kdb+
4 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.90%) JIRA
3 2 (6.45%) Git
4 1 (3.23%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (3.23%) GitLab
4 1 (3.23%) JUnit
4 1 (3.23%) QUnit
4 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (77.42%) Finance
2 14 (45.16%) Banking
2 14 (45.16%) Front Office
3 12 (38.71%) Investment Banking
3 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
4 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (16.13%) Financial Institution
6 2 (6.45%) Back Office
7 1 (3.23%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Analyst
2 8 (25.81%) Developer
3 6 (19.35%) Business Analyst
4 5 (16.13%) Senior
5 4 (12.90%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Product Analyst
6 3 (9.68%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
6 3 (9.68%) Java Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Product Business Analyst
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (6.45%) Applications Specialist
7 2 (6.45%) Architect
7 2 (6.45%) C++ Developer
7 2 (6.45%) C++ Quantitative Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Quantitative Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Software Developer
7 2 (6.45%) UI Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Senior Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.81%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (16.13%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (6.45%) .NET
3 2 (6.45%) React
3 2 (6.45%) REST
3 2 (6.45%) Spring
4 1 (3.23%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (3.23%) Kafka
4 1 (3.23%) NumPy
4 1 (3.23%) Pandas
4 1 (3.23%) Polars
4 1 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (38.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (22.58%) Equities
3 6 (19.35%) Cloud Native
3 6 (19.35%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (12.90%) Derivative
5 3 (9.68%) Algorithms
6 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
6 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
7 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
7 1 (3.23%) Hedge funds
7 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
7 1 (3.23%) Market Risk
7 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 1 (3.23%) Reference Data
7 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
7 1 (3.23%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (38.71%) Linux
2 3 (9.68%) Unix
3 1 (3.23%) Windows
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Low Latency
2 8 (25.81%) DevOps
2 8 (25.81%) Electronic Trading
2 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (22.58%) Project Management
3 7 (22.58%) Risk Management
4 6 (19.35%) Agile
4 6 (19.35%) Algorithmic Trading
4 6 (19.35%) Asset Management
4 6 (19.35%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (19.35%) Event-Driven
5 5 (16.13%) CI/CD
5 5 (16.13%) Data Science
5 5 (16.13%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 5 (16.13%) High-Frequency Trading
5 5 (16.13%) Machine Learning
5 5 (16.13%) Observability
5 5 (16.13%) RBAC
5 5 (16.13%) Time Management
6 4 (12.90%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) Python
2 7 (22.58%) PowerShell
3 5 (16.13%) Java
4 3 (9.68%) C#
5 2 (6.45%) C++
6 1 (3.23%) Bash
6 1 (3.23%) C
6 1 (3.23%) Ruby
6 1 (3.23%) SQL
6 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) CFA
2 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.23%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) MiFID
3 1 (3.23%) EMIR
System Software
1 6 (19.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) ITRS Geneos
1 6 (19.35%) Kubernetes
2 5 (16.13%) Kibana
2 5 (16.13%) logstash
3 1 (3.23%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) ION Trading
2 5 (16.13%) Solace
3 2 (6.45%) Bloomberg
4 1 (3.23%) CQG
4 1 (3.23%) Databricks
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.23%) Murex
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle
4 1 (3.23%) Portware
4 1 (3.23%) Reuters
4 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow